Walter Isaacson

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Tennessee

Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.

Steve Jobs

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Jojo Moyes

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

More than forty years after a car accident causes Jennifer Stirling to lose her memory on the day she planned to leave her husband for a mysterious lover, journalist Ellie becomes obsessed by the story and seeks the truth in the hopes of revitalizing hercareer.

The Last Letter from Your Lover

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Roxanna Elden

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A workplace novel that captures teaching with insight, humor, and heart. This perspective-hopping debut follows teachers at an urban high school as their professional lives impact their personal lives and vice versa.

Adequate Yearly Progress

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Plains of Passage 

Captain X

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A commercial pilot with twenty years experience describes the state of the airline industry in the wake of deregulation.

Unfriendly Skies

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Discover Press

How to Effectively Raise High Spirited Children or Toddlers

How Do You Make Sure You Raise Your Strong-Willed Child to Become the Best Version of Themselves? You Can Start by Getting This Deeply Insightful Guide!

Children are both mesmerizing and frustrating creatures. Raising them requires a patience and resolve that can only be equated to, well, parenting a child. There is nothing quite like it.

You look into the round, tear-filled eyes of a child and you become at a loss for words and ideas on what to do.

You can read every book you could get your hands on in the nine months leading up to their birth. But nothing will prepare you for the reality of overnight feedings, constant diaper changes, and the protective urge that dominates every second of every day.

Parenting a strong-willed child, most especially, makes it all the more difficult and confusing. No two children are the same and no self-help parenting book will ever be comprehensive enough to cover every inch of the child-raising terrain.

Yet, there are resources where you can get targeted, highly effective tips and tricks on how to raise a happy, healthy, strong-willed child.

"Parenting a Strong-Willed Child: How to Effectively Raise High Spirited Children or Toddlers" is such a resource. And it is a treasure trove of everything you need to learn in order to give your strong-willed child the best life.




Parenting a Strong-Willed Child

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Sarah Morgan

See photo for description on back of book. Such a good light read!

"Sarah Morgan is a master storyteller"--Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop Get swept into a summer of sunshine, soul-searching and shameless matchmaking with this delightfully bighearted road-trip adventure by USA TODAY bestselling author Sarah Morgan! Kathleen is eighty years old. After she has a run-in with an intruder, her daughter wants her to move into a residential home. But she's not having any of it. What she craves--what she needs--is adventure. Liza is drowning in the daily stress of family life. The last thing she needs is her mother jetting off on a wild holiday, making Liza long for a solo summer of her own. Martha is having a quarter-life crisis. Unemployed, unloved and uninspired, she just can't get her life together. But she knows something has to change. When Martha sees Kathleen's advertisement for a driver and companion to share an epic road trip across America with, she decides this job might be the answer to her prayers. She's not the world's best driver, but anything has to be better than living with her parents. And traveling with a stranger? No problem. Anyway, how much trouble can one eighty-year-old woman be? As these women embark on the journey of a lifetime, they all discover it's never too late to start over...

The Summer Seekers

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The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous -- and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it. Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes -- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from. In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his 18-year-old boy Ned starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well.... From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.

From a Buick

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From international bestseller Stephen King, a classic story that engages our emotions on the most primal level, a fairy tale grimmer than Grimm but aglow with a girl’s indomitable spirit. What if the woods were full of them? And of course they were, the woods were full of everything you didn’t like, everything you were afraid of and instinctively loathed, everything that tried to overwhelm you with nasty, no-brain panic. The brochure promised a “moderate-to-difficult” six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, where nine-year-old Trisha McFarland was to spend Saturday with her older brother Pete and her recently divorced mother. When she wanders off to escape their constant bickering, then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut through the woods, Trisha strays deeper into a wilderness full of peril and terror. Especially when night falls. Trisha has only her wits for navigation, only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fear. For solace she tunes her Walkman to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox games and the gritty performances of her hero, number thirty-six, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when her radio’s reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her—her key to surviving an enemy known only by the slaughtered animals and mangled trees in its wake.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations. 1,750,000 first printing. BOMC Main.

Bag of Bones

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Discover this "evocative celebration of the life, career, friendships, concerns, and vision" of Ansel Adams, America's greatest photographer (New York Times)


"No lover of Ansel Adams' photographs can afford to miss this book." - Wallace Stegner


In this bestselling autobiography, completed shortly before his death in 1984, Ansel Adams looks back at his legendary six-decade career as a conservationist, teacher, musician, and, above all, photographer.
Illustrated with eight pages of Adams' gorgeous black-and-white photographs, this book brings readers behind the images into the stories and circumstances of their creation. Written with characteristic warmth, vigor, and wit, this fascinating account brings to life the infectious enthusiasms, fervent battles, and bountiful friendships of a truly American original.


"A warm, discursive, and salty document." - New Yorker

Ansel Adams: an Autobiography

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The Gunslinger Born

Roland, an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, powers his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic, and now, his past is finally revealed.

Dark Tower

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The Screenplay

The screenplay of the film The Green Mile, based on Stephen King's novel. Cold Mountain Penitentiary houses convicted killers awaiting their turn to walk the Green Mile to the electric chair. But there's never been anyone like John Coffey, with the body of a giant and the mind of a child.

The Green Mile

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The Complete Serial Novel

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In a chilling novel by the author of Carrie and The Stand, a new prisoner at Cold Mountain Penitentiary presents an unusual dilemma for jaded prison guard Paul Edgecombe. Reprint. Movie tie-in.

Peggy Taft

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