Kristine Kathryn Rusch


HALF THE WORLD. NOW THE REST IS WITHIN THEIR GRASP.... 

Legendary for their bloodlust, sorcery, and fierce, dark beauty, the Fey have swept across three continents and never faced defeat. But now, in defiance of their Black King, the warrior-prince Rugar and his fearless daughter, Jewel, have marshaled an invasion force to meet its ultimate challenge: Blue Isle, glistening beyond impregnable rocks and raging waters. A people of simplicity and faith, untainted by intrigue, enchantment, or war, the Blue Islanders have never before been invaded. But their young prince, Nicholas, dreams of battle and will rally his countrymen against the onslaught of the Fey, even as the Islanders discover a deadly, undreamed-of power of their own. So begins a conflict that must ultimately destroy one race or the other—or both.

A UNION MADE IN THE NAME OF PEACE WILL SHATTER IN BETRAYAL AND DEATH...AND BLUE ISLE MAY ONCE AGAIN ERUPT IN WAR

In the years following the invasion of the Fey, Blue Isle has maintained an uneasy peace. But the marriage between the Islander prince, Nicholas, and the Fey king's granddaughter, Jewel, has not brought their peoples together in true unity, as they had hoped. And worse, the firstborn son that Nicholas and Jewel had hoped would bring the Fey and the Islanders alike to accept their union has proven to be an empty husk of a child, seen by both races as an ill omen. But Jewel's Vision has not shown her the truth: that Sebastian is not her child but a changeling, and that her true son was spirited away by her own father to the enchanted fortress of gray mist called the Shadowlands. There Rugar hopes to • use the boy's magic to consolidate his power among the Fey and finish the conquest he began. His theft of his grandson is only the first betrayal that will weaken the fragile alliance between races; soon an assassination will touch off an explosive chain of events that will threaten the survival of both peoples. Continuing the brilliant epic begun in The Sacrifice, The Changeling weaves a compelling story peopled with vibrant characters into a glorious tapestry of enchantment and betrayal. 

WITHOUT MERCY Twenty years after their first attempt, a new Fey invasion threatens Blue Isle, headed by the ruthless Black King Rugad. The island is more than a stepping-stone to conquest of the great-grandchildren, weis nare pethe future hope of the Fey. But Arianna and Sebastian are as much Islander as Fey, and will stand with their father, Nicholas, Blue Isle's king. As he prepares for a devastating new kind of war, Nicholas learns a stunning truth: Sebastian is not his son. The true prince was spirited away in infancy by the Fey, raised in the enchanted Shadowlands. Now, as the prince comes of age and Blue Isle stands on the brink of war, the future of two races hangs in the balance.

FOR A CONQUERED PEOPLE, A LONG-FORGOTTEN MAGIC HOLDS THEIR ONLY HOPE Blue Isle's capital lies in ruins, leveled by the new invasion force of Fey. But to hold his conquest, Black King Rugad must capture his two half-islander, half-Fey great-grandchildren: the fiery Arianna and the gentle Gift. For one of them will inherit the Black Throne, and Rugad will not rest until he owns them both, body and soul. Yet, in the wily and courageous Arianna, this legendary warrior may have met his match. Fugitives in a wasted land, she and her father, Blue Isle's King Nicholas, plan the destruction of her ruthless great-grandfather. Drawn to a forgotten sacred place in the shimmering Cliffs of Blood, they will find Arianna's long-lost brother, Gift. But an old enmity stands between Arianna and the reluctant warrior Gift, and an hey darkens their future-and that of the world 

Hidden in the Cliffs of Blood lies a cavern that pulses with long-lost power. Here King Nicholas and his children, Gift and Arianna, have taken refuge from Black King Rugad and his Fey invasion. Rugad's goal is to capture his great-grandchildren-in whom mingled Fey and Islander bloodlines spark unimagined powers, marking them his heirs to the Black Throne. As Nicholas and his family desperately seek to understand the cavern's mysteries, they must forge unforeseen alliances: with Nicholas's greatest ally, who appears to them from beyond the grave-and with Nicholas's greatest enemy, who holds the key to the Fey's defeat. But the supernatural weapons they uncover are double-edged swords. For the same magic that can kill the invaders may destroy Gift and Arianna...and shatter the kingdom. The magnificent epic of the Fey reaches its stunning conclusion in a tale of disaster and triumphs, brutality and enchantment. 

New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.

Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award.

She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson.

She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith.

To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com, fictionriver.com, pulphousemagazine.com).


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Illinois

Epic of Fey   … series  

All five THE FEY books:The Sacrifice, The Changrling, The Rival, The Resistance, & Victory, 

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Tate Hallaway

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A book with bite and "a gem of a heroine"-- third in the series from the author of Dead Sexy.

It's been one heck of a week for Garnet Lacey. The Vatican witch hunters finally think she's dead, the FBI has closed their file on her, she's co-founding a new coven--and the gorgeous vampire she loves has just asked her to marry him. How lucky can one girl get?

Then, her fiancé goes missing and Garnet's worried sick. Has he been kidnapped? Or could he have run off with that blonde from the coven? Now Garnet will have to seek the help of her future stepson--the same brat who turned her over to the witch hunters for a brand-new Jaguar. But there's more bad news: the Goddess Lilith, who camps out in her body, has been making embarrassing appearances. And on top of that, some killer's on her tail...



Romancing the Dead

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Alexandra Robbins

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins.
 
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom. She follows Penny, a southern middle school math teacher who grappled with a toxic staff clique at the big school in a small town; Miguel, a special ed teacher in the western United States who fought for his students both as an educator and as an activist; and Rebecca, an East Coast elementary school teacher who struggled to schedule and define a life outside of school. Robbins also interviewed hundreds of other teachers nationwide who share their secrets, dramas, and joys.
 
Interspersed among the teachers' stories--a seeming scandal, a fourth-grade whodunit, and teacher confessions--are hard-hitting essays featuring cutting-edge reporting on the biggest issues facing teachers today, such as school violence; outrageous parent behavior; inadequate support, staffing, and resources coupled with unrealistic mounting demands; the "myth" of teacher burnout; the COVID-19 pandemic; and ways all of us can help the professionals who are central both to the lives of our children and the heart of our communities.

The Teachers

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Stanley Tucci

FROM STANLEY TUCCI, AWARD-WINNING ACTOR AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, A DELICIOUSLY UNIQUE MEMOIR CHRONICLING A YEAR'S WORTH OF MEALS

 "Sharing food is one of the purest human acts." Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci's life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between rehearsals and costume fittings, to homemade pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year, Tucci records twelve months of eating-in restaurants and kitchens, on film sets and press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. 

Ranging from the mouthwateringly memo grable, to the comfortingly demestic, to the infuriatingly inedible, the meats memorial. ized in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life and his family are cons stantly evolving. Through food, he marks- and mourns the passing of time and the loss of loved ones, and prepares himself for what is to come.  


(and Related Thoughts)

From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year’s worth of meals. “Sharing food is one of the purest human acts.” Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating—in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks—and mourns—the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come. Whether it’s duck a l’orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbequed at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days. What I Ate in One Year is a funny, poignant, heartfelt, and deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals and an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food plays in all our lives.

What I Ate in One Year

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Robert Muchamore

7 The Fall.   SEEING RED

CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented-and all under the age of seventeen. For offielal purposes, these agents do not exist. They are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists, hack into critical documents, and gather. : Intel on global threats-all without gadgets or weapons. It is an extremely dangerous job, but these agents have one crucial advantage: Adults never suspect that teens are spying on them. In his new mission, James is sent to Russia to Infiltrate the home of an international weapons dealer. But when the related  MIS operation goes disastrously wrong, James needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive. Meanwhile, Lauren is on her first solo mission.  

8: Mad Dog.  FIGHT OR FLIGHT 

CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented-and all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do not exist. They are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists, hack into critical documents, and gather intel on global threats-all without gadgets or weapons. It is an extremely dangerous job, but these agents have one crucial advantage: Adulte never

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Mission 7 and 8

When an M15 operation goes wrong, James Adams needs to use all of his skills to get out of Russia alive, while his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation.

Two titles: CHERUB The Fall and Mad Dog

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Carolyn Keene

Nancy Drew is a fictional 18-year-old amateur sleuth, living in the town of River Heights with her father, attorney Carson Drew, and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen. Nancy spends her time solving mysteries, some of which she stumbles upon and some of which begin as cases of her father's. Nancy is often assisted in solving mysteries by her two closest friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne, and also occasionally by her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson. Ned is a college student at Emerson College.

Many ghostwriters penned the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, respectively. Both series were created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm, in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet, and syndicate writer Mildred Wirt Benson were the two people primarily responsible for bringing the iconic character of Nancy Drew to life in the minds and hearts of millions of readers around the world. 



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This specially priced starter set includes six Nancy Drew favorites: "The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase, The Bungalow Mystery, The Mystery at Lilac Inn, The Secret of Shadow Ranch" and "The Secret of Red Gate Farm."

Nancy Drew Starter Kit …6 books

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Sara Paretsky

"WHO IS AMERICA'S MOST CONVINCING AND ENGAGING PROFESSIONAL FEMALE PRIVATE EYE? V. I. WARSHAWSKI, the star of Sara Paretsky's series about white-collar crime and wall-to-wall corruption in Chicago, now clearly leads the growing field." -Entertainment Weekly

A V. I. Warshawski Novel

Indemnity Only

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Mary Gabriel

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).

Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come.

Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life.

Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.

Ninth Street Women

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Anna Dewdney

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A young llama follows the same bedtime routine every night.

Two books: Llama Llama Nighty-Night and Llama Llama wakey-wake

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Michelle Bright

If you reading this, somewhere within you, there's a spark. A nucleus of sacred light that holds the resolute impression that there is more in there than meets the eye. In this book, you and I are going to explore this too often overlooked part, your psychic empath powerful gifts.

Psychics and Their Powers Psychics and empaths do have some crossover, but contrary to popular belef, they are not the same, which is why it is essential to define what it means to be a psychic, an empath, and a psychic empath. Once you understand the key differences and similarities, you can begin training your psychic empath skills. 


While the media often sensationalizes psychics and their gifts, psychic powers and aptitude are both common. Psychics have extrasensory perceptions (ESP) that they can use to obtain information beyond what can be sensed by ordinary perceptions. They can use their minds to look beyond the physical world's sensations and gather information from more spiritual realms. For example, if one look outside, he will see that the grass is green, but psychics can see beyond the concreteness of the physical world, and they can become more aware of what they can sense that is not at surface level.

Among psychics, there are several methods of tapping into extra sense and learning about the future, the past, or communicating with the dead, among other skills. They have unique gifts that allow them to see beyond the physical world. Each psychic will have different aptitudes, and you need to become aware of what your skills are and what methods you are drawn to, which you will explore throughout this book in detail. Of course, while there is some degree to which your skills are inherent in you.  



The Highly Sensitive People Practical Guide to Enhance Your Psychic Intuition, Expand Your Mind and Awaken Your Hidden Inner Powers

Empath and Psychic Abilities

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Bill Watterson

A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Cartoons follow the adventures of imaginative young Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, as they cope with bullies, babysitters, and the other everyday problems of growing up

Scientific Progress Goes Boink

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Rob Valois

The Star Wars: The Clone Wars action springs to life in this amazing pop-up storyb Follow the adventures of all of your favorite Clone Wars heroes with nine three-dimensional pop-ups and fifteen different comic-book-style stories. This por storybook is sure to make the Star Wars: The Clone Wars action jump off of the page 

A Pop-up Storybook

Anakin Skywalker must defend the Republic against the forces of the Separatists, and Yoda assigns a Padawan leader, Ahoska, to assist him, as Rex, head of the clone troopers, patrols the feared Outer Rim, in a text with pop-up illustrations.

Star Wars: the Heroes, The Clone Wars

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Genevieve Helsby

Each section in the book has a 'music bird' - here he is: He tells you about the music on the CD. You will see that each piece of music has its own name, just like people do. Then we can talk about them and know which one is which.

Sometimes the music bird will tell you to listen for something. And sometimes he will ask you a question.



Includes CD with music

My First Classical Music Book is a delightfully colorful introduction to classical music, designed to fire the imagination of children aged 5-7 years. Readers are asked to think about the different places in which we might hear music. Then, each of the major composers and musical instrument families are introduced and brought to life in a vivid and enchanting way. Throughout the book, children are referred to the accompanying audio CD so that they can hear examples as they read. This is the most exceptional book of its kind, providing an absorbing experience for both eyes and ears.

My First Classical Music Book

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Kerry Washington

While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send her on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. In an instant, her very identity was torn apart, with everything she thought she knew about herself thrown into question. 

In Thicker than Water, Washington gives readers an intimate view into both her public and private worlds— as a mother, daughter, wife, artist, advocate, and trailblazer. Chronicling her upbringing and life's journey thus far, she reveals how she faced a series of challenges and setbacks, effectively hid childhood traumas, met extraordinary mentors, managed to grow her ad the threshold into stardom and political advocacy, ultimately discovering her truest self and with it, a deeper sense of belonging.  

A Memoir

Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the bravely intimate story of discovering her truth. While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send her on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. In an instant, her very identity was torn apart, with everything she thought she knew about herself thrown into question. In Thicker than Water, Washington gives readers an intimate view into both her public and private worlds--as an artist, an advocate, an entrepreneur, a mother, a daughter, a wife, a Black woman. Chronicling her upbringing and life's journey thus far, she reveals how she faced a series of challenges and setbacks, effectively hid childhood traumas, met extraordinary mentors, managed to grow her career, and crossed the threshold into stardom and political advocacy, ultimately discovering her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging. Throughout this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir, Washington attempts to answer the questions so many have struggled with: Who am I? What is my truest and most authentic self? How do I find a deeper sense of connection and belonging? With grace and honesty, Washington inspires readers to search for--and find--themselves.

Thicker Than Water

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Glenn Stout

Dick Johnson

Richard A. Johnson

The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball

The definitive narrative history of the Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs have won the hearts of generations of fans, even if they haven’t always won those pivotal games. They were America’s most successful baseball club at the turn of the twentieth century, but by the turn of the twenty-first, things had changed. The Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908, and the last time they clinched the National League Pennant was in 1945. Yet the Cubs have some of the most devoted fans in all of sport. As Glenn Stout writes in the introduction, "They are the game’s last unsolved mystery, the final conundrum, a historical enigma, baseball’s oldest story, with an ending that has yet to be written.” The Cubs chronicles the long, rich, counterintuitive history of this team in all its depth, nuance, and color. We catch a rare glimpse of the early days of Chicago baseball in the 1860s and 1870s and witness the magical 1906 season, with its 116 wins, still the most in major league history. Ernie Banks’s legendary career is covered in detail, as are decisive seasons, such as 1969’s heartbreaking loss to the Amazin’ Mets. Sammy Sosa’s sixty-plus home runs are here too -- together with later allegations regarding corked bats and steroids. The authors cast an analytical eye on the tumultuous reign of chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley and his son Philip, as well as the Tribune Company's planned sale of the Cubs. And we hear the true story behind the "Curse of the Billy Goat” -- what has really "cursed” the Cubs all these years.
A must-have for Cubs fans past and present, The Cubs tells the complete story in a single narrative for the first time since 1945.

The Cubs

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Tom Verducci

ow did a team of untested young players and carefully selected veterans come together to break the longest championship drought in professional sports? With exclusive interviews with all of the people integral to the World Series victory, The Cubs Way chronicles the Chicago Cubs' transformation from perennial underachievers to the best team in baseball, revealing the keys to this incredible achievement. 

Beginning with Theo Epstein's first season with the team in 2012, Tom Verducci shows how Epstein went beyond "Moneyball" thinking when planning, step-by-step, the path to a championship. Leading the organization with a manual he helped develop called "The Cubs Way," Epstein focused on the mental side of the game as much as the physical, emphasizing chemistry and character as well as statistics.


To accomplish his goal, Epstein needed manager Joe Maddon, an eccentric innovator, as his counterweight on the Cubs bench. A man who encourages themed road trips and a lack of rules to keep his team loose, Maddon mixed New Age thinking with aid-school leadership to help his players find their edge. The Cubs Way tracks the untold stories of  key players such as Rizzo, Bryant, Schwarber, Rus-sell, Arrieta, and Lester were deftly brought into the organization by Epstein, and guided by Maddon to outperform expectations. 

Capoing off the epic tale, The Cubs Way relives the magnificent highs and the precarious lows of the instant-classic seven-game World Series. From Maddon's game plans to rain-delay pep talks, Verducci provides a previously unseen view from the bench, inside the locker room, and even in the rid Series unveiled.

The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

The New York Times Bestseller

With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become World Series champions.

It took 108 years, but it really happened. The Chicago Cubs are once again World Series champions. 

How did a team composed of unknown, young players and supposedly washed-up veterans come together to break the Curse of the Billy Goat? Tom Verducci, twice named National Sportswriter of the Year and co-writer of The Yankee Years with Joe Torre, will have full access to team president Theo Epstein, manager Joe Maddon, and the players to tell the story of the Cubs' transformation from perennial underachievers to the best team in baseball. 

Beginning with Epstein's first year with the team in 2011, Verducci will show how Epstein went beyond "Moneyball" thinking to turn around the franchise. Leading the organization with a manual called "The Cubs Way," he focused on the mental side of the game as much as the physical, emphasizing chemistry as well as statistics. 

To accomplish his goal, Epstein needed manager Joe Maddon, an eccentric innovator, as his counterweight on the Cubs' bench.  A man who encourages themed road trips and late-arrival game days to loosen up his team, Maddon mixed New Age thinking with Old School leadership to help his players find their edge.  

The Cubs Way takes readers behind the scenes, chronicling how key players like Rizzo, Russell, Lester, and Arrieta were deftly brought into the organization by Epstein and coached by Maddon to outperform expectations. Together, Epstein and Maddon proved that clubhouse culture is as important as on-base-percentage, and that intangible components like personality, vibe, and positive energy are necessary for a team to perform to their fullest potential. 

Verducci chronicles the playoff run that culminated in an instant classic Game Seven. He takes a broader look at the history of baseball in Chicago and the almost supernatural element to the team's repeated loses that kept fans suffering, but also served to strengthen their loyalty.  

The Cubs Way is a celebration of an iconic team and its journey to a World Championship that fans and readers will cherish for years to come.

The Cubs Way   -signed by author 

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Chris Roberson

Her name is Gwen Dylan, and she's not the girl she used to be. She's a zombie. And just because she eats brains doesn't mean she can't still lose her mind. When a wave of dead-body disappearances hits the mortuary where she usually gets the meals that keep her from becoming a brainless mon-ster, Gwen's memories of her old life start fading away. fortunately, the memories she's absorbed by eating the brain of someone she was once very close to offer tantalizing clues to the life she left behind.

Gwen's memories of her old life start fading away. Fortunately, the memories But while Gwen tries to put the pieces of her past back together, her present's growing grimmer by the day. A mad scientist with a sinister scheme has forged an alliance with a vengeful vampire. A debonair mummy is offering Gwen and her ghost friend Ellie a devil's bargain to get their lives -or, undeaths-back on track. And o bloodsucking menace is about to take a bite out of Gwen's monster-hunter crush. 

Can Gwen solve the mystery before she goes mindless, or is she just digging her own grave? 

Writer Chris Roberson (SUPERMAN. CINDERELLA), artist Michael Allred (WEDNESDAY COMICS, Madman) and guest artist Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets) continue the New York Times-bestselling series in IZOMBIE: UVAMPIRE- 

Vol. 2 and 3

Told from a female zombie's perspective, this smart, witty detective series mixes urban fantasy and romantic dramedy.

Gwendolyn "Gwen" Dylan is a 20-something gravedigger in an eco-friendly cemetery. Once a month she must eat a human brain to keep from losing her memories, but in the process she becomes consumed with the thoughts and personality of the dead person - until she eats her next brain. She sets out to fulfill the dead person's last request, solve a crime or right a wrong.

In uVAMPIRE, Gwen dines on the grey matter of a person who knew her as a child - and things quickly get complicated. Meanwhile, ghost-girl Ellie learns a few tricks from Amon the mummy; Spot the were-terrier goes to the comics shop and meets someone from Gwen's past, the mad scientist Galatea engages in a bit of grave-robbing; and the monster-hunters tackle the town's vampire problem once and for all.

Two volumes of izombie Vol. 2 and vol. 3: Six Feet Under and Rising 

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What do you do with a degree in art? Sling coffee, move to the city and - importantly - grow a beard. 

Join Beardo in his pursuit of that most elusive of beasts - a career in Published daily in the Southtown Star and the University of Illinois' Da: Illini newspaper, over 300 strips have been collected to tell the story and his facial hair. Written and illustrated by Dan Dougherty (Cyclone' the Tall Tales), this book is a must have for anyone who's ever dreamed things from behind the espresso machine.

Bop comics 

Beardo

Archie digest library 

2 titles: Betty and Veronica no. 19 double digest and no. 32

Dustin Brady

1: Jesse Rigsby hates video games-and for good reason. You see, a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked into the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of vaporizing man-size praying mantis aliens while cruising around by jet pack. But pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they can't leave the game. If they don't figure out what's going on fast, they'll be trapped for good!

3:  The robots are here, and they're not happy. At all. After accidently releasing the robot villains from Super Bot World 3 into the real world, Jesse Rigsby's got to figure out a way to make everything right before anyone gets hurt. He'd usually rely on his friend Eric Conrad to help with this sort of thing, but Eric's gone missing. To find Eric, Jesse will have to survive rickety mine carts, sewer piranhas, mysterious men in suits, and a 100-foot-tall robot named Goliatron. This is Jesse's most dangerous adventure yet because this time the video game is real. And in the real world, there are no extra lives. 

4. Alistair Gregory, the man who figured out how to put people into video games, is not what he seems. Jesse Rigsby is sure of that. Jesse's sure of something else, too-he's being watched. To unravel the mystery, Jesse's going to have to transform himself into a superspy with serious retro-gaming skills. He'll need to outsmart a hyperintelligent android, outlast a tireless drone, and outswim an 8-bit shark. And if he can somehow pull all that off, Jesse will discover that he hasn't even gotten to the scary part yet. The real danger is just beginning.





Initial volume, 3-Robots Revolt, and 4-Return to Doom Island

The robots are here and they're not happy, at all. After accidentally releasing the robot villains from Super Bot World 3 into the real world, Jesse Rigsby's got to figure out a way to make everything right before anyone gets hurt. He's usually rely on his friend Eric to help him with this sort of thing, but he's gone missing. To find Eric, Jesse will have to survive rickety minecarts, sewer piranhas, mysterious men in suits and a 100-foot tall robot named Goliatron. This is Jesse's most dangerous adventure yet because this time the video game is real. And in the real world, there are no extra lives.

Bundle: 1, 3, and 4 of Trapped in a Video Game

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George O'Connor

NOTHING EVER CHANGES IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD. Deep in this hidden kingdom beneath the earth, countless spirits await the end of time. Hades, the lord of this dire realm, waits with them. until one day, the Lord of the Dead takes a wife. Or tries to, anyway.

Lord of the Dead

An illustrated retelling of the Greek myth that details the story of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war.

Olympians: Hades

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Leoncavallo Pagliacci Opera Vocal Score Hardcover published by G. Schirmer 206 pages

Hardcover piano vocal score of the opera Les Contes D`Hoffman. (The Tales of Hoffmann) By Offenbach. Published by G. Schirmer. 245 pages. 

Both green cover cloth bound. Clean. No markings. 

Published by G  Schirmer 

Two music vocal scores: Pagliacci and Lea Contes D’Hoffmann

Jon Lee Anderson

Biography, History (Latin America) CHE GUEVARA A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE JON LEE ANDERSON A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE VILLAGE VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'S 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEA A BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE OF THE YEAR ONE OF NEWSDAY'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 


Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Ch le Guevara, the dan rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world the armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, from his comfortable Arge upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's governm failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian junge. 

Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's widow and ca guarded Cuban government documents. He has conducted extensive interviews with Che's comrades-s whom speak here for the first time—-and with the CIA men and Bolivian officers who hunted him Anderson broke the story of where Guevara's body was buried, which led to the exhumation : the bones. Many of the details of Che's life have long been cloaked in secrecy and intrigue.

A Revolutionary Life

Making use of unprecedented access to Guevara's personal archives, his guerrilla cohorts, and Cuban government archives, an exhaustive biography traces the life of the Latin American communist revolutionary

Che Guevara

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Osamu Tezuka

The Eisner and Harvey Winner Ancient India vividly comes to life in this multiple award-winning series that has convinced American readers Osamu Tezuka is indeed one of the world's greatest comic masters.

In Volume 2: The Four Encounters, the life of young Siddhartha unfolds before our eyes. When the prince comes of age, he will quit his aristrocratic life of ease. 

Away from Kapilavastu, and down the river...

Osamu Tezuka’s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha’s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha’s ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices such as ascetic self-mutilation and caste oppression. Rather than recommend resignation and impassivity, Tezuka’s Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering one’s life sensibly. Philosophical segments are threaded into interpersonal situations with ground-breaking visual dynamism by an artist who makes sure never to lose his readers’ attention. Tezuka himself was a humanist rather than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus is not an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesse’s novel or Bertolucci’s film is comparable in this regard; in fact, Tezuka’s approach is slightly irreverent in that it incorporates something that Western commentators often eschew, namely, humor.

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