Tao-Chung Yao

Wear and tear on cover and pages but no marks 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

World Languages

Cheng & Tsui's best-loved Chinese textbook series is new, revised, and better than ever!

Integrated Chinese 1/2 Textbook Simplified Characters

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Chuck Palahniuk

Wear and tear on cover but the pages are intact and like new

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Working as a hotel maid despite her dreams of being an artist, Misty keeps a diary as she sits by the side of her husband, comatose after a suicide attempt, which unlocks Misty's creative energies and causes her to paint compulsively.

Diary

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Angela Kelly

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

In The Other Side of the Coin, The Queen has personally given Angela her blessing to share their extraordinary bond with the world. Whether it's preparing for a formal occasion or brightening Her Majesty's day with a playful joke, Angela's priority is to serve and support. Sharing never-before-seen photographs - many from Angela's own private collection - and charming anecdotes of their time spent together, this revealing book provides memorable insights into what it's like to work closely with The Queen, to curate her wardrobe and to discover a true and lasting connection along the way.

The Other Side of the Coin

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Grace Coddington

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A Memoir

Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the acclaimed 2009 documentary that turned publicity-averse Grace into a sudden, reluctant celebrity. Grace’s palpable engagement with her work brought a rare insight into the passion that produces many of the magazine’s most memorable shoots. With the witty, forthright voice that has endeared her to her colleagues and peers for more than forty years, Grace now creatively directs the reader through the storied narrative of her life so far. Evoking the time when models had to tote their own bags and props to shoots, Grace describes her early career as a model, working with such world-class photographers as David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to become a fashion editor at British Vogue in the late 1960s. Here she began creating the fantasy “travelogues” that would become her trademark. In 1988 she joined American Vogue, where her breathtakingly romantic and imaginative fashion features, a sampling of which appear in this book, have become instant classics. Delightfully underscored by Grace’s pen-and-ink illustrations, Grace will introduce readers to the colorful designers, hairstylists, makeup artists, photographers, models, and celebrities with whom Grace has created her signature images. Grace reveals her private world with equal candor—the car accident that almost derailed her modeling career, her two marriages, the untimely death of her sister, Rosemary, her friendship with Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis, and her thirty-year romance with Didier Malige. Finally, Grace describes her abiding relationship with Anna Wintour, and the evolving mastery by which she has come to define the height of fashion. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES “If Wintour is the Pope . . . Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel twelve times a year.”—Time

Grace

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Carley Roney

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Worksheets, Checklists, Etiquette, Timelines, and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

From the #1 wedding brand, the bestselling wedding book, updated with all-new budget ideas, online tools, and event planning and personalizing trends First comes love, then comes . . . planning! Before a fabulous celebration, there are vendors to hire, budgets to calculate, decisions galore to make. Packed with The Knot's top tips and worksheets, checklists, and contact sheets for you to fill in, this book is the one-stop resource that keeps brides focused but stress-free. The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner paperback takes you through the process step by easy-to-follow step, with: · Budget worksheets (and all the latest digital tools for keeping track of costs) as well as hundreds of invisible ways to cut costs when selecting everything from flowers to the venue and menu · Wedding planning timelines (including a brand-new express timeline for couples getting married in 3 months or fewer) · Guest list and invitation worksheets (with guidance on what you can now do online) · Vendor contract checklists (and tons of new online resources for finding the pros you need) · Fun ideas for personalizing your reception, from photo booths to signature cocktails in any color your heart desires · Web links and other useful resources for planning on the go (including recommended apps to download and up-to-the-minute advice on building your wedding website)

The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner [Revised Edition]

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Denise Kiernan

The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.

The Girls of Atomic City

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible. For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women--known as "human computers"--who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading.

Rise of the Rocket Girls

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How It Was Built - and How It Fell

The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark.  The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of the inhabitants of small island kingdom off the European mainland.  Beginning in the 17th century with a few colonial settlements and trading posts clinging like barnacles to alien shores, and expanding dramatically thereafter by occupation and conquest, they created the greatest empire that the world had ever seen.  In its Victorian heyday, when Britannia ruled the waves, it consisted of 58 countries with a population of 400 million.  Covering 14 million square miles, or about a quarter of the earth's surface, it was seven times larger than the territories of Rome at their greatest extent. By then it was a far-flung but loosely-amalgamated assortment of dominions and dependencies that dwarfed its tiny base.  As early as 1810, one writer described it as an "oak planted in a flower-pot". In a book full of telling anecdotes and colourful characters Piers Brendon tells the story of this extraordinary empire, from its adolescence to its maturity to its demise and, with the benefit of hindsight, assesses its pros and cons.

All You Need to Know… The British Empire

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World War I has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi's. (His very first(rejected) comics story dealt with the subject, as does his most recent work,the two-volume Putain de Guerre.) But It Was the War of theTrenches is Tardi's defining, masterful statement on the subject. Tardi isnot interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles: hefocuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, and, with icy,controlled fury and disgust, with sardonic yet deeply sympathetic narration, hebrings that existence alive as no one has before or since. Yet he also delvesdeeply into the underlying causes of the war, the madness, the cynical politicalexploitation of patriotism. And in a final, heartbreaking coda, Tardi grimlyitemizes the ghastly human cost of the war, and lays out the future 20th centuryconflicts, all of which seem to spring from this global burst of insanity.Trenches features some of Tardi's most stunning artwork. Rendered in alush illustrative style, inspired both by abundant photographic documentationand classic American war comics, augmented by a sophisticated, gorgeous use ofCraftint tones, Trenches is somehow simultaneously atypical for theartist and a perfect encapsulation of Tardi's mature style. It is theindisputable centerpiece of Tardi's oeuvre.



It Was the War of the Trenches

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George Gerfaut, aimless young executive and desultory family man, witnesses a murder and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. Adapting to the exigencies of his new life on the run with shocking ease, Gerfaut abandons his comfortable middle-class life for several months, including a sojourn in the countryside, until, joined by a new ally, he finally returns to settle all accounts - with brutal, bloody interest.

West Coast Blues

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Bone Parish

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A reimagining of Batman's beginnings sheds new light on how Bruce Wayne became the Dark Knight, as he seeks revenge on his parents' killers.

Batman Earth One

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Deluxe Edition

New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman's rare tales of DC's greatest super heroes are collected in a single volume. Gaiman, co-creator of THE SANDMAN and author of American Gods, teams with superstar artist Andy Kubert to tell the story that truly defines the years of Batman's life in the epic "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" Also included in this title are the team-up tale GREEN LANTERN/SUPERMAN- LEGEND OF THE GREEN FLAME, and short stories starring Batman, Poison Ivy, The Riddler and others. Collects Neil Gaiman's DC Universe stories, including "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" and GREEN LANTERN/SUPERMAN- LEGEND OF THE GREEN FLAME, plus short stories starring Batman, Poison Ivy and The Riddler

DC Universe by Neil Gaiman

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The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes. The music?s rhythms are designed to galvanize the group effort of heaving, pushing, and pulling to weigh anchor, wind rope around a capstan, or set sail.

Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each shanty alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated upon with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and nonfictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig.

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