Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Grandma’s Favorites 

Taste of Home

Lauren Graham

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

In her first work of nonfiction, the star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood recounts her experiences on Gilmore Girls, the first and second time, and shares stories about life, love, and working in Hollywood.

Talking As Fast As I Can

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Gretchen Davis

Mindy Hall

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Techniques for Film, Television, Photography, and Theatre

This new edition of The Makeup Artist Handbook offers even more illustrations to demonstrate techniques visually; fundamentals on topics such as beauty, time periods, black and white film; and up-to-date information on cutting-edge techniques like air brushing makeup for computer-generated movies, makeup effects, mold-making, lighting, and lots of information on how to work effectively in HD. --from publisher description

The Makeup Artist Handbook

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Tosca Reno

Lose Weight - Get Healthy - One Mouthwatering Meal at a Time!

With The Eat-Clean Diet® Vegetarian Cookbook, New York Times best-selling author and health and fitness authority Tosca Reno shows us that it is possible to make meatless meals that are fresh, flavorful and most of all – Clean! Whether you follow a strict plant-based diet or you’ve just started participating in the “Meatless Mondays” movement, this collection has got you covered with: -150 brand-new, delicious and doable recipes that will keep you looking and feeling your best -Protein-rich meatless meals for all tastes and occasions – including family-friendly classics, globally inspired delights and irresistible desserts -Helpful icons to make it easy to get the exact recipe you want – gluten free, vegan, kid friendly and more -Plenty of tips, techniques and advice for everyone from seasoned vegetarians to those who are new to the lifestyle

The Eat-Clean Diet Vegetarian Cookbook

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Barbara Burg

Whether you're celebrating graduation from "puppy kindergarten", a clean bill of health from the vet, or your pet's first birthday, there are plenty of great reasons to throw a dog "pawty". And this book has everything you need for pulling off the perfect dog bash, from tasty, easy to assemble, crowd pleasing treats, snacks, and cakes to ides for fun and stylish party themes, activities, and games to play, plus tips for smooth canine social interactions.

Good Treats Cookbook for Dogs

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Andy Cohen

A Deep Look at a Shallow Year

The host of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise, chronicles a year of his whirlwind life in his own cheeky, candid and irreverent words.

The Andy Cohen Diaries

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Joseph Prince

The Secret to Effortless Success, Wholeness and Victorious Living

Teaches that God's definition of success can be very different from what humans expect, and that Christ will help those who believe to succeed in their own lives and in furthering the kingdom of God.

Destined to Reign

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Holly Madison

Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion—and, finally, the secret truth about the man who holds the key—from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef’s former #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door A spontaneous decision at age twenty-one transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner’s #1 girlfriend. But like Alice’s journey into Wonderland, after Holly plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion—including A-list celebrity parties and her own #1-rated television show for four years—quickly devolved into an oppressive routine of strict rules, manipulation, and battles with ambitious, backstabbing bunnies. Life inside the notorious Mansion wasn’t a dream at all—and quickly became her nightmare. After losing her identity, her sense of self-worth, and her hope for the future, Holly found herself sitting alone in a bathtub contemplating suicide. But instead of ending her life, Holly chose to take charge of it. In this shockingly candid and surprisingly moving memoir, this thoughtful and introspective woman opens up about life inside the Mansion, the drugs, the sex, the abuse, the infamous parties, and her real behind-the-scenes life with Bridget, Kendra, and, of course, Mr. Playboy himself. With great courage, Holly shares the details of her subsequent troubled relationship, landing her own successful television series, and the hard work of healing, including her turn on Dancing with the Stars. A cautionary tale and a celebration of personal empowerment, Down the Rabbit Hole reminds us of the importance of fighting for our dreams—and finding the life we deserve.

Down the Rabbit Hole

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Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hansen

Amy Newmark

The Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories That Changed Your Lives

This special anniversary collection has a double dose of inspiration--new stories from our readers paired with the Chicken Soup for the Soul story that changed their lives!

We're 20! And as part of our 20th-anniversary celebration, we asked our readers to tell us how their favorite Chicken Soup for the Soul stories affected them. You'll find the stories in pairs in this volume--a new story written just for this book, followed by the story or poem that the reader found so inspiring in one of our past 250+ titles.

You'll read about the military wife who was mentally prepared for "the phone call" the morning after she read a story about a soldier who lost his limbs. You'll read about the Vietnam vet who discovered that one of the soldiers he rescued went on to win the Super Bowl four times, which he learned decades later in a Chicken Soup for the Soul story. You'll read about a birth mother whose 23-year-old found her through one of our stories.

All in all, you'll read 100 stories about epiphanies, attitude adjustments, great advice, motivational tips, doing good, and the amazing connections that people made as a result of these stories.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reader's Choice 20th Anniversary Edition

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Julian Barnes

Stories

After the bestselling "Arthur & George" and "Nothing to Be Frightened Of," Barnes returns with 14 stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye.

Pulse

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Maria Semple

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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E. L. James

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

Fifty Shades of Grey

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Charles Kipps

Former FBI and Secret Service agent Kevin Maher describes the intervention that prevented him from following a life of crime and recounts his dangerous career in which he solved homicides, targeted the mafia, and fought in the drug war.

Cop Without Badge

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Charlotte Cho

A couple of scratch marks on the front cover but otherwise excellent condition 

Korean Beauty Secrets for Healthy, Glowing Skin

The secrets behind the world’s most beautiful skin! It all starts with your skin! In Korea, healthy, glowing skin is the ideal form of beauty, achievable by anyone—and this skin-first philosophy has taken the world by storm. In The Little Book of Skin Care, Charlotte Cho of leading beauty and lifestyle website Soko Glam guides you through the celebrated Korean ten-step skin-care routine—and far beyond—for the clearest and most radiant skin of your life, with step-by-step tutorials, skin-care tips, advice on products at all price levels, and exclusive interviews with beauty experts around the world. You’ll love pampering your skin at home and learning the secrets behind the “no-makeup makeup” look we’ve seen and admired on women in the streets of Seoul. With the knowledge of an expert and voice of a trusted friend, Charlotte’s personal tour through Korean beauty culture will help you find joy in the everyday beauty routines that will transform your skin.

The Little Book of Skin Care

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Mariah Carey

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it’s been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article or a ten-minute television interview. And even then, my words were filtered through someone else’s lens, largely satisfying someone else’s assignment to define me. This book is composed of my memories, my mishaps, my struggles, my survival and my songs. Unfiltered. I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice. I let the abandoned and ambitious adolescent have her say, and the betrayed and triumphant woman I became tell her side. Writing this memoir was incredibly hard, humbling and healing. My sincere hope is that you are moved to a new understanding, not only about me, but also about the resilience of the human spirit. Love, Mariah

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

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Maxwell Neely-Cohen

Efram gets kicked out of every school in the known universe.

Molly is raised in total isolation by survivalists.

Steven grows up globetrotting with his ex-spy father.

Chloe rules three thousand students with an iron fist.

A frenetic journey through contemporary youth culture,Echo of the Boom follows the lives of these four characters as their narratives orbit and intertwine. They wage personal wars, grapple for power, and attempt to understand their roles in the future of society--or their destiny in hastening its destruction. The result is a mesmerizing collection of triumphs and calamities, a chronicle brimming with the language of music, social networking, and video games.

Equal partsGossip Girl andGravity's Rainbow,Echo of the Boom is a generation defining novel, a new kind of literature explicitly suited to the twenty-first century.

Echo of the Boom

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Mandy Len Catron

A Memoir in Essays

“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

How to Fall in Love with Anyone

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Andrea Fazzari

Marisa Huff

Joe Bastianich

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Cocktail Culture of Italy

Kick off the evening as the Italians do, with these recipes for drinks and small dishes from the best bars and restaurants of Venice, Milan, Turin, and beyond. Aperitivo takes the reader on a spirited ride through this cocktail culture, covering variations on all the classics including the Negroni, the Bellini, and the spritz and stopping at the chicest bars that have elevated this ritual to an art form. Many of the drinks are structured around vermouths and other botanical-infused liqueurs, which offer a new world of complex flavors. They yield enticingly simple cocktails that refresh—without stunning the palate (thanks to a lighter alcohol content). But Aperitivo is just as much about the food because in Italy, drinking and eating go hand in hand. Recipes feature fried sage leaves, oven-roasted eggplant, and carbonara tramezzini, as well as many delicious riffs on crostini, frittata, and focaccia. Whether planning a party or just having a friend over for a quick drink, Aperitivo brings a whole new spirit of conviviality and true Italian style to the occasion.

Aperitivo

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Kara Newman

Teri Lyn Fisher

More Than 40 Recipes for Making Popular Drinks in Party-Pleasing Batches

Shares recipes and advice for preparing cocktails in large batches, including punches, pitcher drinks, tiki and tropical drinks, and classic drinks, and offers lessons on balancing flavors as well as presentation ideas.

Cocktails for a Crowd

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Catherine Grace Katz

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a Story of Love and War

The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II Tensions at Yalta threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days. Kathleen Harriman, daughter of U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman, was a war correspondent and champion skier. Sarah Churchill, an actress-turned-RAF officer, was devoted to her brilliant father, who depended on her astute political mind. Roosevelt's only daughter, Anna, chosen instead of her mother, Eleanor, to accompany the president to Yalta, arrived there as keeper of her father's most damaging secrets. Situated in the political maelstrom that marked the transition to the postwar world, The Daughters of Yalta is a remarkable story of fathers and daughters whose relationships were tested and strengthened by the history they witnessed and the future they crafted together.

The Daughters of Yalta

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Bonnie Garmus

"Set in 1960s California, this ... debut is the ... story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show"--

Lessons in Chemistry

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David West Reynolds

An exhaustively researched, definitive reference for Star Wars® fans of all ages brings the world-renowned DK cross-sections illustration techniques to the Star Wars universe. The main ships are explored and cutaway to reveal the armaments, propulsion systems, armor, control systems, and other key aspects of each vehicle, from Han Solo's Millennium Falcon to Darth Vader's TIE fighter. Special features and hidden mechanisms, never before revealed, are described and illustrated in graphic detail. Together with Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary, these books comprise a definitive classic Star Wars reference library.

© 1998 Lucasfilm Ltd. ® & TM

Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections

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Henry Winkler

The Fonz ... and Beyond

A forthcoming memoir published by Celadon Books.

Being Henry

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Simon Dunstan

Gerrard Williams

The Escape of Adolf Hitler

DID HITLER--CODE NAME "GREY WOLF"--REALLY DIE IN 1945?
 
In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international journalist Gerrard Williams and military historian Simon Dunstan make a powerful case for the Führers escape to a remote enclave in Argentina-along with other key Nazis--where he is believed to have lived comfortably until 1962. Following years of meticulous research, the authors reconstruct the dramatic plot-including astonishing evidence and compelling testimony, some only recently declassified. Impossible to put down, Grey Wolf unravels an extraordinary story that flies in the face of history.
 
 

Grey Wolf

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Rei Tiru

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