Benjamin Franklin

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime. This edition provides a new text of the "Autobiography", established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a transcription of the 1726 journal.

Autobiography and Other Writings

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Hilary Mantel

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to the breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies are gathering in the shadows. The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze? Eagerly awaited and eight years in the making, The Mirror & the Light completes Cromwell’s journey from self-made man to one of the most feared, influential figures of his time. Portrayed by Mantel with pathos and terrific energy, Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a husband and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age.

The Mirror and the Light

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Lionel Shriver

American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence—until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant, top-ranked snooker player. Two competing alternate futures hinge on this single kiss, as Irina's decision—to surrender to temptation or to preserve her seemingly safe partnership with Lawrence—will have momentous consequences for her career, her friendships and familial relationships, and the texture of her daily life.

The Post-Birthday World

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Garr Reynolds

Guy. Kawasaki

Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

Provides lessons to help users design and deliver creative presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.

Presentation Zen

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Mikki Brammer

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library.

What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life?

From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying than she has with the living. After the beloved grandfather who raised her dies alone while she is traveling, Clover becomes a death doula in New York City, dedicating her life to ushering people peacefully through their end-of-life process.

Clover spends so much time with the dying that she has no life of her own, until the final wishes of a feisty old woman send Clover on a trip across the country to uncover a forgotten love story--and perhaps, her own happy ending. As she finds herself struggling to navigate the uncharted roads of romance and friendship, Clover is forced to examine what she really wants, and whether she'll have the courage to go after it.

Probing, clever, and hopeful, The Collected Regrets of Clover turns the normally taboo subject of death into a reason to celebrate life.

The Collected Regrets of Clover

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Daniel P. Mannix

We who are not as others

Meet the strangest people who ever lived! Read all about: · the notorious love affairs of midgets · the strange sex lives of Siamese twins · the dwarf clown's wife whose feet grew directly from her body · the mule-faced woman whose son became her manager · the unusual amours of Jolly Daisy, the fat woman · the famous pinhead who inspired Verdi's Rigoletto · the tragedy of Betty Lou Williams and her parasitic twin · the midget, only 34 inches tall, who was happily married to a 264-pound wife · the human torso who could sew, crochet, and type · and bizarre accounts of normal humans turned into freaks-either voluntarily or by evil design! Originally printed in a small edition and withdrawn by the publisher after one month, this book (out of print for nearly 20 years), is brought back to eye-popping life with many new photos. Daniel P. Mannix, now enjoying a cult revival, is the author of noir classics such as Those About to Die, The History of Torture, The Hell-fire Club, Memoirs of a Sword Swallower, The Beast (the first biography of Aleister Crowley to enjoy wide readership), and many others. A former sword-swallower, fire-eater, fakir and world traveler, Mr. Mannix still lives on the family farm with his falcon, miniature horses and reptile collection.

Freaks

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Paul Auster

The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death. In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences—the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.

Burning Boy

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Colson Whitehead

In a series of personal reminiscences, anecdotes, lyrical meditations, and vignettes, the award-winning author of The Intuitionist captures the complex inner and outer landscapes of the city of New York in an intimate portrait of life in the city. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

The Colossus of New York

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Miranda Lundy

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Originally published: Presteigne, Powys, Wales: Wooden Books Ltd., 1998.

Sacred Geometry

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Gregory Maguire

Inside crisp and clean. Easily readable type size and font. Some cover wear. 

Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderella's exquisite looks? Extreme beauty is an affliction Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale? While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household--and the treacherous truth of her former life. God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs.... Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each other's work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes! Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed--and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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Barton Swaim

A Brief Education in Politics

From 2007 to 2010 Swaim worked for Mark Sanford, South Carolina's governor, as a communications officer and speechwriter. Everyone knows this kind of politician: a charismatic maverick who goes up against the system and its ways, but thinks he doesn't have to live by the rules. Swaim tells the story of a band of believers who attach themselves to this sort of ambitious narcissist-- and what happens when it all comes crashing down.

The Speechwriter

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Rodney C. Austin

Embracing Differences for Organizational Success

Diversity of thought is the destination, but you don't get there by accident, happenstance, or as the result of a lucky break. However, organizations that cultivate it will find that it is a driver of innovation and a competitive advantage. This book simplifies the steps your organization can take to make diversity of thought a core strategy. Rodney C. Austin, an accomplished Fortune 500 executive, shares what led him to appreciate what an asset diversity of thought can be at organizations, backing up his view with statistics, quotations, and resources to help others get started. He also answers questions such as: - How has affirmative action affected workplaces? - What are the benefits of cultivating diversity of thought? - How can you make diversity initiatives robust and inclusive? The author emphasizes that it is better to have small successes than to overcommit, underdeliver, and lose credibility. Achieve a culture of diversity of thought by successfully implementing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives with the insights and action steps in Thoughtful Diversity.

Thoughtful Diversity

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Genevieve Davis Ginsburg

Thoughtful, Practical Ideas for Rebuilding Your Life

In this remarkably useful guide, widow, author, and therapist Genevieve Davis Ginsburg offers fellow widows-as well as their family and friends-sage advice for coping with the loss of a husband. From learning to travel and eat alone to creating new routines to surviving the holidays and anniversaries that reopen emotional wounds, Widow to Widow walks readers through the challenges of widowhood and encourages them on their path to building a new life.

Widow to Widow

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Alison Thumel

Poems, lyric essays, visual art and the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright

Winner of the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

"When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life," writes Alison Thumel in Architect, which interweaves poems, lyric essays, and visual art to great emotional effect. In this debut collection, the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright become a blueprint for elegy, as Thumel overlays the language of architecture with the language of grief to raze and reconstruct memories, metaphors, and myths. With obsessive and exacting focus, the poet leads us through room after room in a search to answer whether it is possible to rebuild in the wake of loss. Meanwhile, the midwestern landscape beyond these rooms--the same landscape that infuses the low, horizontal forms of Wright's Prairie Style buildings--shapes the figures in Architect as well as their fates: "For years after my brother's death, I collected news articles on people who died young and tragically in landlocked states. Prairie Style deaths--boys sucked down into grain silos or swept up by tornadoes or fallen through a frozen pond. The boys I didn't know, but the landscape I did. The dread of it. How many miles you can look ahead. For how long you see what is coming."

Architect

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Clement C. Moore

Oversized book; Interior pristine, contains fold-out pages 

The Classic Edition, the New York Times Bestseller (Christmas Book)

Here is the wonderful new version of the classic poem every family should own. This edition of The Night Before Christmas lavishly illustrated by renowned artist Charles Santore, the critically-acclaimed illustrator of The Wizard of Oz, Snow White, The Little Mermaid, and others. This is a hardcover edition of the classic The Night Before Christmas, featuring a four-page gatefold and an embossed and foil-stamped cover. Since it was first published anonymously in 1823, The Night Before Christmas has enchanted children with the story of St. Nicholas climbing down the chimney and filling all the stockings before springing back to his sleigh. Many families read the poem every year, and now they have a beautiful hardcover edition to treasure. The cherished poem, faithfully reproduced here, is accompanied by Charles Santore’s stunning illustrations.

The Night Before Christmas Hardcover

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Alfred W. Crosby

Donald Worster

The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900

The second edition of this classic work that evaluates the ecological reasons for European expansion.

Ecological Imperialism

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Lincoln Peirce

There's never a dull moment in the prank-filled, detention-getting life of Big Nate! Nate Wright and his team are back with a vengeance. And a good thing, too, because the Cream Puffs are facing a lot of heat on the baseball field. Their opponents don't take them seriously. The sports section in the newspaper misprints Nate's name as "Not Wright," which is not right. And now, their star pitcher is sick with the flu, and you won't believe who's pulled from the bullpen. With the odds stacked against them, what are the poor Cream Puffs to do? Revenge is a dish best served with a soft-hearted pitcher who channels his inner panda bear, a side of vengeful girlfriends, and a dash of Big Nate mojo. Smear on your eye-black grease and join the rampage in this newest collection of comic--you don't want to miss this epic grudge match.

Big Nate:m set: Revenge of the Cream Puffs / Welcome to my World

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Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: the Vile Village

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Annie Barrows

Seven-year-old Bean is too young to go to the camp her sister Nancy is attending, so she and her best friend Ivy decide to create their own camp.

Ivy and Bean Make the Rules

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Mary Pope Osborne

This series sparked my child’s love of history and interest in travel…

Three book set from
Magic Tree House series:
#33: Carnival at Candlelight 
#37: Dragon of the Red Dawn 
#38: Monday with a Mad Genius 


Magic Tree House 

While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from a disastrous flood. Reprint.

Magic Treehouse: Carnival at Candlelight (3 book set)

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Liz Kessler

Follow the siren call to Emily's magical adventure! Can the spunky half-mer girl pass Neptune's test--and help humans and merpeople get along?

Emily Windsnap is finally enjoying a swimmingly peaceful life on Allpoints Island, hanging out with her mermaid BFF, Shona, and her new friend Aaron (half-merperson like herself ). But their idyll is cut short when Emily learns that the Windsnaps and friends must return to their old home in Brightport, where construction projects are threatening a secret mermaid community under the sea. Neptune's mandate? No less than an interspecies intervention to bring merpeople and humans together, a task the imperious god feels the mixed Windsnap family is well suited for. There are just a few snags for Emily, however, like dealing with old nemeses Mandy and Mr. Beeston, figuring out her feelings toward Aaron, and untangling a high-suspense mystery related to a group of legendary lost sirens. Everyone's favorite half-mermaid is back with a splash in a sparkling adventure her fans will be eager to get their fins on.

Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret

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An enchanting tale with a fabulous monster, engaging characters, plenty of mermaid magic, and a page-turning story, Kessler's new middle-grade fantasy has all the charm and warmth of its predecessor, The Tail of Emily Windsnap.

Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep

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Suzanne Nelson

Reading level grade 5 (appeals to 4th-6th graders) 

A Poison Apple Book

Dead in the Water & At First Bite (2 book set)  

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Raina Telgemeier

Jennifloure

An autobiography in graphic novel format describes how the author lost two of her front teeth in an accident when she was twelve, and her subsequent struggles with various corrective dental techniques throughout adolescence.

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Autobiography and Other Writings

Hilary Mantel

The Mirror and the Light

Lionel Shriver

The Post-Birthday World

Garr Reynolds; Guy. Kawasaki

Presentation Zen

Mikki Brammer

The Collected Regrets of Clover

Daniel P. Mannix

Freaks

Paul Auster

Burning Boy

Colson Whitehead

The Colossus of New York

Miranda Lundy

Sacred Geometry

Gregory Maguire

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Barton Swaim

The Speechwriter

Rodney C. Austin

Thoughtful Diversity

Genevieve Davis Ginsburg

Widow to Widow

Alison Thumel

Architect

Clement C. Moore

The Night Before Christmas Hardcover

Alfred W. Crosby; Donald Worster

Ecological Imperialism

Lincoln Peirce

Big Nate:m set: Revenge of the Cream Puffs / Welcome to my World

Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: the Vile Village

Annie Barrows

Ivy and Bean Make the Rules

Mary Pope Osborne

Magic Treehouse: Carnival at Candlelight (3 book set)

Liz Kessler

Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret

Liz Kessler

Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep

Suzanne Nelson

Dead in the Water & At First Bite (2 book set)

Raina Telgemeier

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