Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Iowa

The Very Noisy Night

R. J. Palacio

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Auggie knows he is a wonder, but he wants everybody to realize they are all wonders, too.

We're All Wonders

3932fc9d-6379-4f23-94a2-5f07f88761bc

Jon Gordon

Lauren M. Gallagher

A Story about 10 Ways to Be a Great Teammate

An inspiring story with lessons on teamwork—written for kids, but valuable to everyone Adapted from Jon Gordon’s bestseller The Hard Hat, The Hard Hat for Kids is an inspiring story that teaches children how to be a great teammate. An engaging tale that resonates with all children, the 10 Ways to be a Great Teammate and the “We before Me” philosophy, make this book an enjoyable read and an invaluable teaching tool for coaches, teachers, and parents. The Hard Hat for Kids presents practical insights and life-changing lessons that are immediately applicable to everyday situations, giving kids—and adults—a new outlook on cooperation, friendship, and the selfless nature of true teamwork. Mickey is a spunky talented basketball lover who has always dreamed about playing on her school’s team. On the first day of practice, she learns of a special award given to the best teammate—and soon discovers that there is a big difference between being the best player and being the best teammate. What follows is an unforgettable story about selflessness, loyalty, hard work, and compassion, and a clear lesson on putting the team first. Author Jon Gordon is a renowned storyteller with a knack for making life lessons stick. For this book he has teamed up with Dr. Lauren Gallagher, a school psychologist and mental skills coach who shares her passion for bringing valuable lessons to children in a way that is fun and educational. Fittingly, Dr. Gallagher is also the wife of Jon’s college lacrosse teammate at Cornell University where the Hard Hat tradition began. This book continues Jon’s unique way of merging everyday wisdom with practical advice to make you better at everything that you do. The Hard Hat for Kids tells a moving story of teamwork and friendship which is sure to be enjoyed by families, sports teams, and classrooms of children everywhere.

The Hard Hat for Kids

dde11bab-e805-4cd0-ad27-c0deffe70f92-0

Star Wars BB-8 On The Run

Sue F. Cornelison

Butterflies, hot-air balloons, Madison Countys famous covered bridges, and the "field of dreams:" thats only some of the fun Iowa has to offer! Jacob is enjoying every moment there with his cousin Olivia, from a lesson in "mutton busting" to the winter kite festival.   

The Twelve Days of Christmas in Iowa

ee420c38-13a7-494c-b34c-5eeac2456568-1

Jean Reagan

A little girl provides instructions for properly babysitting one's grandmother, such as taking trips to the park and singing duets.

How to Babysit a Grandma

762a75ef-cccf-444d-b0c1-2770f55abf71-1

A little boy provides instructions for properly babysitting one's grandfather, such as offering him tasty treats and entertaining him with special games.

How to Babysit a Grandpa

07892c30-4988-47ff-b024-ff4920e90f43-1

It's Christmas time and Santa is almost here... IF you know how to catch him! From the creators of the New York Times bestsellers How to Babysit a Grandpa and How to Babysit a Grandma comes an equally charming and hilarious holiday must-read!
 
After waiting for days and days and days, it's finally Christmas Eve. And that's when you can try to catch Santa. . . . but only if you know the right tricks! 
 
Pay attention to these clever tips for "catching" Santa (be crafty! be clever! be gentle!) on Christmas Eve. Santa can't resist cookies...or riddles! And don't forget to leave the Christmas tree lights on so Santa can see his way around!
 
Filled with humor and holiday warmth, this is a jolly read-aloud for the whole family to enjoy! From Jean Reagan and Lee Wildish, creators of the bestselling HOW TO... series, comes a delightful new offering, written again in a hilarious instructional style. 
 
"A new hit this year is How to Catch Santa. . . . The picture book offers lighthearted tips on how kids can steal a glimpse of Mr. Elusive, aka Santa. . . ." --USA Today

The fun doesn't stop! Check out all of the HOW TO... picture books:
 
How to Babysit a Grandma
How to Catch a Santa
How to Get Your Teacher Ready
How to Raise a Mom
How to Surprise a Dad

How to Catch Santa

25508613-dea9-4eac-baee-154c868bb044-1

Megan Cullis

With the exception of the damaged corner (see photo), this book is in great condition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A fantastic book crammed with the world's biggest and best trains. Young train enthusiasts will love learning about record-breaking trains, mountain trains, luxury travel, diesel power, steam giants and high speed electric and lots more featured in this great big book packed with stats and facts. Includes four gatefold spreads which open out to reveal the truly stunning types of the world's trains.

Big Book of Big Trains

ede2c000-4b20-496a-9cf0-7aa932043aac-1

Buddy the Elf is here to bring you Christmas cheer!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Sarah Mlynowski

Lauren Myracle

Emily Jenkins

With their magic being unpredictable, Nory, Elliott, Andres, and Bax are sent to the upside-down magic room at Dunwiddle Magic School.

Upside-Down Magic

906fea0c-ebcc-43a9-9049-d5f3cae38835-1

Award-winning author Candace Fleming sets her gaze on the mystery at Roswell, New Mexico and the purported UFO crash that set the US on edge for decades.

Crash From Outer Space

From the harrowing world of Minecraft, join Steve as he tries to save his village!

An Unofficial Minecrafter’s Novel

The Quest for the Diamond Sword

Tui T. Sutherland

An ancient evil, a terrible prophecy -- and five dragonets who could save the world...Don't miss the most thrilling adventure yet in the New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series!

Darkness of Dragons

d2368746-c866-40f1-a649-7eb49a8742e1-1

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to even greater heights in the ultimate battle between good and evil.

Talons of Power

a3bd8672-6bc0-48ad-9e4a-066587d17cd3-1

Lynn Vincent

Sara Vladic

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U. S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” —USA TODAY * “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” —Christian Science Monitor * “ENTHRALLING.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * “A MUST-READ.” —Booklist (starred review) A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history. Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, nearly nine hundred men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. For the first time Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own in “a wonderful book…that features grievous mistakes, extraordinary courage, unimaginable horror, and a cover-up…as complete an account of this tragic tale as we are likely to have” (The Christian Science Monitor). It begins in 1932, when Indianapolis is christened and continues through World War II, when the ship embarks on her final world-changing mission: delivering the core of the atomic bomb to the Pacific for the strike on Hiroshima. “Simply outstanding…Indianapolis is a must-read…a tour de force of true human drama” (Booklist, starred review) that goes beyond the men’s rescue to chronicle the survivors’ fifty-year fight for justice on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. “Enthralling…A gripping study of the greatest sea disaster in the history of the US Navy and its aftermath” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Indianapolis stands as both groundbreaking naval history and spellbinding narrative—and brings the ship and her heroic crew back to full, vivid, unforgettable life. “Vincent and Vladic have delivered an account that stands out through its crisp writing and superb research…Indianapolis is sure to hold its own for a long time” (USA TODAY).

Indianapolis

a3388492-79c9-4b28-8e68-d64fa1e95bc1-1

Fun, Fabulous Layouts For Every Scrapbooker

Imagine

Becky Fleck

More Sketches for Creative Layouts and Cards

' More PageMaps to Kick-Start Your Creativity! Even the most imaginative people get stumped sometimes. Author and artist Becky Fleck’s easy-to-use sketches will help get you over the hurdle with 92 brand new sketches for traditional and digital layouts, greeting cards, mini albums and home décor items. In addition, you’ll find new artwork for over 140 incredible layouts and projects in a variety of sizes that will inspire your own artistic creations. - Discover new layout sketches and artwork from the author of Scrapbook PageMaps, including a full chapter devoted to greeting cards. - Learn to use sketches to focus and coordinate your ideas whenever you’re feeling overwhelmed by materials, photos and journaling. - Take your favorite sketches along with you! Included are 64 travel-size sketch cards for easy planning wherever you get inspired. - Learn new techniques and methods with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. - Find “Eye Spy” tips from the author that point out the unique, unusual and unexpected elements you can use to make any page even more special. If you’re feeling stumped with how to use that special photo, or if you just can’t decide how to use those beautiful supplies, Scrapbook PageMaps 2 will help you tell your story!

Scrapbook Page Maps 2

e1eea348-ca08-49d3-9e41-c33569b92488-0

Sketches for Creative Layouts

Scrapbook Page Maps takes the guesswork out of where to begin by giving plenty of design ideas for their scrapbook layouts! By referring to the sketches in the book, you can select photos, papers and embellishments and then bring the page together quickly and easily. Helpful resource information such as a supply list and photo sizes are included on each card, along with page information cross-referencing the sketch back to the book. Scrapbook Page Maps is the essential book for beginning scrapbookers as well as those short on time. And you get more than just an inspiring, design-filled idea book! Also included is a deck of laminated cards that includes a thumbnail of many of the sketches in the book along with corresponding finished layouts.

Scrapbook Page Maps

a59564f7-e5db-47e5-b011-0f8424acd402-0

Donald L. Miller

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV, Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller. The Masters of the Air miniseries will be the companion to Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's Band of Brothers and The Pacific.

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people.

Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear. Unlike infantrymen, bomber boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of Glenn Miller's Air Force band, which toured US air bases in England. But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers.

The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who were a microcosm of America--white America, anyway. The actor Jimmy Stewart was a bomber boy, and so was the "King of Hollywood," Clark Gable. And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all of whom flew combat missions with the men. The Anglo-American bombing campaign against Nazi Germany was the longest military campaign of World War II, a war within a war. Until Allied soldiers crossed into Germany in the final months of the war, it was the only battle fought inside the German homeland.

Masters of the Air is a story of life in wartime England and in the German prison camps, where tens of thousands of airmen spent part of the war. It ends with a vivid description of the grisly hunger marches captured airmen were forced to make near the end of the war through the country their bombs destroyed.

Drawn from recent interviews, oral histories, and American, British, German, and other archives, Masters of the Air is an authoritative, deeply moving account of the world's first and only bomber war.

Masters of the Air

e8fd36df-c561-4838-8554-351220ef98b8-1

Leo Janos

Ben R. Rich

A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review).
 
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds.
 
Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned. Filled with telling personal anecdotes and high adventure, with narratives from the CIA and from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the twentieth century.
 
"Thoroughly engrossing." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

Skunk Works

768bb2ce-01b7-4767-bfaf-d67a8a79d125-1

Ginni Rometty

Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a powerful combination of memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how we can all drive meaningful change.

Ginni Rometty led one of the world's most iconic companies, and in Good Power she recounts her groundbreaking path from a challenging childhood to becoming the CEO of IBM and one of the world's most influential business leaders. With candor and depth, Rometty shares milestones from her life and career while redefining power as a way to drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few--a concept she calls "good power."

Rometty's "memoir with purpose" combines the experiences that defined her life--personal hurdles, high-stakes decisions, passionate advocacy--with the actionable advice of a coaching session to highlight lessons that shape authentic leadership. Behind-the-scenes stories and practical guidance offer us a blueprint for how we can all use good power to advance our careers, inspire our teams, improve our companies, and create healthier societies.

The book begins with raw, vivid memories from Rometty's youth and early professional years as she recalls the trauma and the role models that formed her belief that how we lead is as important as what we achieve. She learns early on that good power is a choice available to everyone, even to those without money, status, or impressive titles.

Rometty then shows us how her concept of good power evolved as she grew from a first-time manager to a transformative CEO. Stories told through the lens of five principles--be in service of others; build belief; know what must change and what must endure; steward good tech; be resilient--reveal tools that anyone can apply to achieve real change at any stage of their life and work.

Rometty also encourages us to use good power at scale to bring about urgent societal change. She shares insights from her own journey to create a more equitable world by leading the SkillsFirst movement, which connects underserved populations with family-sustaining jobs by transforming hiring, education, and training.

With heart, humility, and conviction, Good Power offers an inspiring, compelling guide to creating meaningful change in our lives.

Good Power

15e5ac7d-d082-4c3b-a694-996c6aae86e1-1

Leigh Duncan

Based on a Hallmark Channel Original Movie

In the 1940s, and in modern times...

The true meaning of Christmas never changes.

 

WWII is finally over, but Hanna's husband, Chet, didn't return home. She puts on a brave smile during the day while nursing her hospital patients, but at night, she grieves the loss of her love.

Then the Christmas Comet appears for the first time in over seventy years, and Hanna's caught in a snowstorm and knocked unconscious. She wakes up in modern times, and much to her confusion, her small town has changed. A local cop takes pity on her and invites her to stay with his family over the holiday.

As she searches for her place in this familiar yet different town, Hanna discovers that even small acts of kindness impact lives...and that the true meaning of Christmas is timeless. Now, she hopes to find her way back to her own time...and this year's comet may lead her to a Christmas miracle.

This sweet holiday story includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Gingerbread Cupcakes with Christmas Comet Cookies.

Journey Back to Christmas

0899c059-386b-4f25-9524-640a6f19fb3c-1

Jodi Picoult

A Love Story

"Engrossing...The Pact is compelling reading."--People

In this heart-rending tale of love and friendship, Jodi Picoult brings to life a familiar world, and in a single terrifying moment awakens every parent's worst fear: We think we know our children . . . but do we ever really know them at all?

The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years, have always been inseparable. So have their children--and it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. But the bonds of family, friendship, and passion--which had seemed so indestructible--suddenly threaten to unravel in the wake of unimaginable tragedy.

When midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the truth. Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris pilfered from his father's cabinet--a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris describes.

This extraordinary, poignant novel paints an indelible portrait of two families in anguish . . . and creates an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama as Chris is put on trial for murder.



Browse by categories

Diana Hendry, Jane Chapman

The Very Noisy Night

R. J. Palacio

We're All Wonders

Jon Gordon; Lauren M. Gallagher

The Hard Hat for Kids

Drew Daywalt

Star Wars BB-8 On The Run

Sue F. Cornelison

The Twelve Days of Christmas in Iowa

Jean Reagan

How to Babysit a Grandma

Jean Reagan

How to Babysit a Grandpa

Jean Reagan

How to Catch Santa

Megan Cullis

Big Book of Big Trains

David Berenbaum

Elf

Sarah Mlynowski; Lauren Myracle; Emily Jenkins

Upside-Down Magic

Candace Fleming

Crash From Outer Space

Winter Morgan

The Quest for the Diamond Sword

Tui T. Sutherland

Darkness of Dragons

Tui T. Sutherland

Talons of Power

Lynn Vincent; Sara Vladic

Indianapolis

Jeanette R. Lynton

Imagine

Becky Fleck

Scrapbook Page Maps 2

Becky Fleck

Scrapbook Page Maps

Donald L. Miller

Masters of the Air

Leo Janos; Ben R. Rich

Skunk Works

Ginni Rometty

Good Power

Leigh Duncan

Journey Back to Christmas

Jodi Picoult

The Pact

Get The App