Kristin Hannah

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

A Novel

Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals want to help out, especially classmate Matthew Walker, who likes everything about Leni. Yet the harsh conditions bring out the worst in Ernt, whose paranoia takes over their lives and exacerbates what Leni sees as the toxic relationship between her parents. The Allbrights are as green as greenhorns can be, and even first love must endure unimaginable hardship and tragedy as the wilderness tries to claim more victims.

The Great Alone

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Alison Blackman Dunham

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Meet New People and Find Your Perfect Match!

Celebrated life and career expert Alison Blackman Dunham (aka "Advice Sister Alison") gives you the "must-have" basics of modern, adult dating, along with tons of tips and tactics that make dating exciting, safe, and successful! With Alison's advice you will: Set your sights-Define your goals, and chart a personalized course for your most successful dating journey, ever! Make your time count-Discover where all the "good ones" go and find the perfect person for you! Gain confidence-Work what you've got, from making first contact to making a date. Ace the date-Prepare to have fun, make sure you're the one they want to see again and again, and stay out of harm's way-from doorbell to goodnight kiss. Deal with dating downers-Empower yourself to deal with emotional pitfalls and finesse social challenges. With innovative advice on everything from that key first date, to Internet dating, to keeping the fires burning, The Everything Dating Book, 2nd Edition is your one-stop handbook for finding-and keeping-the love you want!

Dating Book

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Pat Pattison

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice

Infuse your lyrics with sensory detail! Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to: • tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details • effectively use metaphor and comparative language • add rhythm to your writing and manage phrasing Songwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, Songwriting Without Boundaries features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets, and prose writers.

Songwriting Without Boundaries

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Kody Keplinger

(Designated Ugly Fat Friend)

The New York Times bestseller is now a major motion picture! Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper may not be the prettiest girl in her high school, but she has a loyal group of friends, a biting wit, and a spot-on BS detector. She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush, who calls Bianca the Duff--the designated ugly fat friend--of her crew. But things aren't so great at home and Bianca, desperate for a distraction, ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with him. Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out Wesley isn't such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she's falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.

The DUFF

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Ton Mak

A beautifully illustrated book of mindfulness that will help readers discover the path to a peaceful phioslothical life.

Follow a serene and smiley sloth through a series of light meditations and daily reflections: An unexpected and snuggable guide, you'll learn that it's OK to slow down. Take a pause and focus on your breath. Let the other animals run around; you do you. Through the guidance of an unlikely-- but very wise--meditation expert, A Sloth's Guide to Mindfulnessreminds you it's okay to go at your own pace.
 * From simple breathing exercises and guided visualizations to the benefits of chewing your leaves slowly and staying present while hanging from a tree, A Sloth's Guide to Meditation will provide you with practical ways to be more present and mindful.
 * Playful advice and charming black and white illustrations guide you through the pages and remind you that simplicity can be beautiful.
 * Author Ton Mak is an artist and meditation enthusiast based in Shanghai. She has created visual arts of all forms including installations in shopping malls, art toy sculptures, and solo exhibitions around the world. She has also successfully collaborated with Nike, Gucci, Swiss Air, Vans and more.

A no-sweat approach to enlightenment that's a sweet reminder to take it slow and smile.
 * A simple, quick read that can be enjoyed by all ages.
 * A 2019 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers

A Sloth's Guide to Mindfulness (Mindfulness Books, Spiritual Self-Help Book, Funny Meditation Books)

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Alison Davies

How to Find Your Inner Magic

Witches have enchanted us throughout the centuries with their darkness, mysticism and individuality. Once persecuted, they have now been adopted by millennials as a symbol of feminine strength. Their belief in magic is increasingly causing people to question the arranged order, break out of pre-defined social norms and look for answers elsewhere in this demanding technological age. Where there's a witch, there's a way! Be More Witch offers a dose of magical escapism that will help you to channel determination and manifest positive change. Soar through the sky with (or without!) a trusty broomstick and let your creative spirit fly! Look to nature, learn from your surroundings, and get in tune with the elements, plants, herbs, flowers and of course, your spirit animals.
With tips, tricks and spells this book will guide you on magical journey to discover the power that's waiting to burst from within. So are you ready to dip your toes into the cauldron? Your fate is at your fingertips...

Be More Witch

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Kim Barnouin

Rory Freedman

A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!

Presents advice on following a vegan diet which eliminates meat, dairy products and eggs, and concentrates on vegetables, fruits and soy products, to promote a healthier body free of toxins and the harmful ingredients present in overly processed foods. Original.

Skinny Bitch

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Josephine McCarthy

"Here you have a book that will help you, and an author whose views you can respect. More than this, you may safely trust her practical guidance, which is drawn from a long and varied experience of working alone and with others. She is a gifted teacher, perceptive and critical: perhaps more important, she is also human . . . there is no question but that the magical path is a hard road that requires dedication, discrimination and a solid dose of common sense . . . if you are determined to follow the magical path, and if you employ these three qualities, you will be hard pressed indeed to find a better guide than Magical Knowledge." RA GilbertMagical Knowledge book I is the first in a series of three that takes the reader through the bends and twists of serious magical study. This book tackles some of the more pressing issues surrounding the early quest for knowledge from the world of magic, along with techniques, exercises and warnings for those ready to dip their toe in the scalding hot water of power. Using her usual no nonsense down to earth approach, McCarthy outlines in depth some of the rarely tackled issues and problems that face a serious modern magician, offering advice and reflections based on 30 years of practical work.The book follows no specific magical path; rather it takes the reader to the layers of consciousness beneath such paths and shows us the various techniques, powers and dynamics that underpin most Western Mystery schools and lodges. The reader is shown how ritual actually works, what an inner contact actually is, how to make visions work, how to turn an object into a magically charged implement, how to read tarot, how to clean and protect yourself, and most importantly of all, how to spot the bullshit. Josephine McCarthy is a seasoned occultist and author living in the Dartmoor National Park in the UK. She has taught and led magical groups in the USA and UK for many years, and has written a variety of magical fiction and non fiction. Her more recent publications include 'The Work of the Hierophant' and 'The Exorcist's Handbook'.

(WITH ANNOTATIONS) Magical Knowledge - Foundations 

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Melissa Cynova

Pull up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let's Talk Tarot

"In this book, Melissa Cynova shares her down-to earth advice on all things tarot. For years, Melissa has been sitting down with friends and neighbours who are curious about the cards. She s heard all the questions and misconceptions that can confuse newcomers (and sometimes more experienced readers, too). Kitchen Table Tarot was written as a guide for anyone looking for no-nonsense lessons with a warm, friendly, and knowledgeable teacher. Join Melissa as she shares straightforward guidance on decks, spreads, card meanings, and symbols. Get all your questions answered, discover how to have conversations with the cards, and learn to read with your own voice. Filled with real-life examples and personal explanations of what it s like to read the cards, this book tells it like it is and provides the information you need to read with confidence."--Bookdepository.com.

Kitchen Table Tarot

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Jane Buckingham

A stylishly smart collection of practical advice for the busy modern woman With information on entertaining, etiquette, housekeeping, basic home repair, decorating, sex, and beauty, this indispensable book has everything today's young woman should know-but may not! The Modern Girl's Guide to Life is a collection of all the helpful tips and secrets that get passed on from generation to generation, but many of us have somehow missed. It's full of practical, definitive advice on the basics -- the day-to-day necessities like finding a bra that fits, balancing a checkbook, making a decent cup of coffee, and hemming a pair of pants. Modern Girl guru Jane Buckingham includes loads of savvy counsel to help us feel more refined, in charge, and together as we navigate the rocky terrain that is twenty-first-century womanhood.

The Modern Girl's Guide to Life

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Note To Self

Carol Weston

All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You

Upbeat and up-to-date, thoughtful and entertaining, Girltalk is one source book for girls ages eleven to eighteen. This third edition is now better than ever, with new information and letters from teens. here's the scoop on Body --Looking and feeling you best Friendship --You don't like everybody why should everybody like you? Love --Falling in, falling out Sex --What you should know before saying yes Family --Making the best of your nest Money --The buck starts here Education --Getting though high school, getting into college Smoking, Drinking, and Drugs --Advice without lectures Quizzes --Getting to know you "Wise, warm, witty...Girltalk is a must for every young woman's library." --Phyllis Schneider, former Editor in Chief, YM Magazine "The newest fem-teen bible." --Buzz Magazine "A bestselling guide to facing nearly every adolescent problem, from acne to AIDS." --Ladies' Home Journal Parents' Digest Best of the Best

Girltalk

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Lisa R. Young

Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss

Would you ever consider going to the kitchen in the morning and grabbing five slices of bread for breakfast? No? Just one bagel or perhaps a bran muffin is more like it, right? Well, think again. Your morning bagel or muffin is probably equivalent to eating five slices of bread, maybe more. That’s most of your grain servings for the day. And, that steak you ate last night? For all the calories and protein you consumed, you might as well have eaten 18 eggs. More than double the amount of protein you need in a day. Surprised at just how much you are eating? Dr. Lisa Young isn’t. She has been studying how Americans eat for more than a decade, and what she found is astonishing. Portion sizes have subtly and steadily increased over the past thirty years and are now two to five times larger than they were in the past. Even the average dinner plate has grown several inches to accommodate more food. The portions we’re served are getting bigger and we keep eating. The end result? That’s right. Americans are getting fatter. So what should you do about it? You may think that counting calories, fat grams, or even eliminating entire food groups such as grains is the way to keep this trend toward colossal cuisine from making you fat. The problem is, you don’t know how many calories, fat, and carbs are in your favorite foods. No one does, not even the experts. When nutritionists were shown several restaurant meals in a survey, not one person was able to accurately guess the calorie or fat content of the meals. InThe Portion Teller, you’ll develop portion-size awareness and learn how to lose weight without weighing food or counting calories. Using simple visuals such as a deck of cards, a yo-yo, a baseball, and even your own hand, you’ll find out what a serving size is supposed to look like and how many servings you can eat per day from each food group. The visuals are easy to use: If your piece of salmon at dinner is about the size of three decks of cards, you’ve eaten all your meat and fish servings for the day. The plan is easy. You’ll keep a food diary for a short time to get you started. Once you learn how to size-up your favorite foods with the visuals, Lisa’s Portion Personalities show you how stumbling blocks can be easily overcome. Are you a See Food Eater who can’t stop yourself at the sight of food or a Special Occasion Victim who can’t resist that cake at an office party or a Volume Eater who always wants her plate to be full? As a long-time nutrition counselor, Young gives real-world solutions for tackling your bad habits. There’s a cheater’s guide, for those who must satisfy that late-night chocolate craving, as well as a survival guide for eating out and daily meal plans. No forbidden foods, no calorie counting, no food weighing.The Portion Tellerisn’t a diet—it’s a sensible eating plan and the end of diet deprivation. Welcome to diet liberation.

The Portion Teller

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All The Days of Summer

Summer Unscripted

E. K. Johnston

In 1830 Queen Victoria defied her guardians' efforts to make her weak and easily controlled. Two centuries later, another teenage Victoria is preparing to take the throne and shake the globe once more in this novel of speculative fiction from #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Johnston ("Exit, Pursued by a Bear").

That Inevitable Victorian Thing

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Elizabeth Chandler

When a car crash ends Ivy's life, her great love Tristan, who died last year and became an angel, breathes life back into her with a passionate kiss, but love may not be enough to save her.

Evercrossed

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Bella Thorne

"We promise you're going to love it." --Teen Vogue.com on Autumn Falls
 
Autumn's Wish--book three in the AUTUMN FALLS series by Bella Thorne--is perfect for fans of Descendants and Lisa Greenwald and Jessica Brody's books--and anyone looking for a sweet, silly, and fun read with just a touch of magic!
 
Senior year is here, and everyone has a plan--except Autumn Falls. So many crazy-important decisions lie ahead, and she's scared to make the wrong one. So when she receives a magical locket that enables her to travel through time (!!!), Autumn hopes she can correct all her past mistakes--with her friends, with boys--and maybe even prevent her dad from dying. But the locket doesn't work that way. Instead, Autumn discovers that she's only able to visit the future--and she doesn't like what she sees. Autumn can change her destiny . . . but what does she really want?
 
 
Praise for book 1 in the AUTUMN FALLS series:

"Sweetly adorkable Autumn is the best friend we've all been looking for . . . a fun, escapist read." --Justine
 
"A brilliant debut from Bella Thorne!" --Girls' Life
 
"You'll be obsessed with Autumn Falls. It has basically everything you could ever want: a lovable klutz for a main character, a total heartthrob, and just a touch of magic." --Seventeen.com 
"We personally loved the book. . . . The main character is a fiery, redheaded girl who captures your heart."--Latina.com

Autumn's Wish

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Lisa Jewell

The smash-hit romantic comedy from the author of The Girls and Then She Was Gone

Six people, one big house and the party that brings it all down . . .

Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates. Nothing can come between them - until the gorgeous Jemima moves in. They're both falling for her, but which one of them does she want?

Upstairs, Karl and Siobhan are happily unmarried and have been for fifteen years - until Cheri moves into the flat above, and fixes her sights on Karl. Why should a little problem like his girlfriend get in her way?

Sooner or later this house is bound to implode.

So when Ralph throws a party and invites the whole house, what could possibly go wrong?

If you like Marian Keyes, Jane Fallon, and Sophie Kinsella, you'll love this.

'Addictively readable' The Times

'A joy . . . a fun summer read' Guardian

Ralph's Party

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Jenny Han

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

It's Not Summer Without You

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Julie Fison

Realistic, appealing characters. Engaging story lines. Interactive choose your way format. As many as eight different stories to follow. Positive friend/family relationships. Explore consequences of decisions.This pick-a-path series gives the reader the chance to make the decisions, and choose how the story goes! Phoebe Wright and her besties, Annabel and Kimmi, have been invited to the coolest party of the year! But when Phoebe realizes it's the same night has her Wild Club's fundraiser, she totally torn about what to do. Until ... Phoebe and her friends decided to help out with the fundraiser, which is great until Annabel starts hanging out with Phoebe's friend Liam. OR ... Phoebe decides she can't abandon her friends, who are desperate to go the party. Follow your heart right to the end, or go back and choose all over again.

The Call of the Wild

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Jerry Spinelli

Although Stargirl is shunned by many at school for her unique presence, Leo Borlock, a fellow classmate, finds her inspiring and soon finds himself head-over-heels in love. Reprint.

Stargirl

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Nicole Krauss

ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE.

A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.

Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book...Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).

History of Love

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Marlena de Blasi

Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four Italian rural women gather in a stone house in the hills above Italy's Orvieto. There--along with their friend, Marlena--they cook together, sit down to a beautiful supper, drink their beloved local wines, and talk. Surrounded by candlelight, good food and friendship, Miranda, Ninucia, Paolina, and Gilda tell their life stories of loves lost and found, of ageing and abandonment, of mafia grudges and family feuds, and of cherished ingredients and recipes whose secrets have been passed down through generations. For fans of all things Italian, and the thousands of readers who loved The Kabul Beauty School; Eat, Pray, Love; and Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; this book is a culmination of de Blasi's 20 years spent living, traveling, cooking, eating, and drinking in Italy, and of course it includes recipes for the most mouthwatering Umbrian dishes.

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