Akiko Higashimura

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

New York

The complete hit manga about geek girls in Tokyo in a collector's box set with exclusive keychain and poster. Over 3,000 pages of manga!

Ages 16+

The complete story of Tsukimi, a girl obsessed with jellyfish, and her geeky friends. This massive set includes a bonus "Clara" jellyfish keychain and a huge poster with the Amars' motto, "A Life With No Use for Men," in English on one side and Japanese on the other. The box contains all nine volumes of the Princess Jellyfish manga, including a full-color illustration gallery, author interviews, extensive cultural annotations, and a look inside the creator's studio. Experience the full story that became the hit anime and made Akiko Higashimura the patron saint of modern josei manga!

Princess Jellyfish Complete Manga Box Set

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Walter Dean Myers

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

FADE IN: INTERIOR: Early morning in CELL BLOCK D, MANHATTAN DETENTION CENTER. Steve (Voice-Over) Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady prosecutor called me ... Monster.

Monster

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Leland Gregory

Best-selling humorist Leland Gregory offers a blockbuster collection of more than 200 bizarre, weird, silly, shocking, and downright outrageous true stories about ancient Greek and Roman history.

New York Times best-selling author Leland Gregory is one of Andrews McMeel Publishing's most successful noncartoon humorists. Silly, shocking, weird, hilariously funny--and outrageously true--the short anecdotes inside his anthologies of human stupidity are culled from print, online, and broadcast media from all over the world. Inside Stupid Ancient History, Gregory chronicles Greek philosophers, Roman conquerors, and historic mythconceptions, including:

 
-- To fight off Roman ships in 300 BC, Carthaginians catapulted live snakes at them.
-- The Athenian lawmaker Draco died of suffocation when gifts of cloaks were showered upon him by grateful citizens at an Aegina theater in 620 BC. 
-- In ancient Rome, long before the advent of the Christian Bible, Roman men swore to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" by placing their right hand on their testicles. It is from this ritual that we derived the term "testimony."
--  Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus burned to the ground in 356 BC. The arsonist was executed; and to make sure his wish for everlasting fame wouldn't come true, it was ordered that his name be stricken from all records and never mentioned again. But people will talk. Despite all efforts, his name leaked, and Herostratus is remembered as one of the most notorious firebugs in history. 

Stupid Ancient History

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Stupid American history

Lewis Morris

Learn How To Pass The FDNY Exam! Learn how to pass the New York City Firefighter Exam and become one of New York's Bravest. The New York City Firefighter Exam Review Guide includes practice questions and instruction on how to tackle the specific subject areas on the New York City Firefighter Exam. Network4Learning has found the most up-to-date information to help you succeed in the FDNY Exam. Following a recent lawsuit filed on behalf of minority firefighter candidates, the FDNY was forced to completely change their exam. The new FDNY exam is a perplexing combination of video segments and reading passages unrelated to firefighting. The New York City Firefighter Exam Review Guide helps you prepare for the FDNY Exam by reviewing only the material found on the actual FDNY Exam. By cutting through anything unnecessary and avoiding generic chapters on material not tested, our FDNY Test Prep Guide makes efficient use of your time. Our authors are experienced teachers who are constantly taking civil service exams and researching current methods in assessment. This research and experience allow us to create guides that are current and reflect the actual exam questions on the New York City Firefighter Exam beautifully. This New York City Firefighter Exam Review Guide includes sections on: Insider information about the FDNY Exam An overview of the FDNY Test How to Overcome Test Anxiety Test Preparation Strategies Exam Subareas and Practice Questions Video Segment FDNY Exam Operations Manual Segment Deductive Reasoning Inductive Reasoning Number Facility Mathematical Reasoning "Background Information Survey" (Also known as the psychological portion of the FDNY Test) FDNY Exam specific Glossary Our mission at Network4Learning is to provide the most current and useful information. We tirelessly research and write about exams- providing you with the most useful review material available for the FDNY Firefighter Exam. Best of luck and success on the 2017 FDNY Exam!

New York City Firefighter Exam Review Guide

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Ted Dekker

Play Dead (Paperback)

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Alex Lickerman

On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self

Legions of self-help authors rightly urge personal development as the key to happiness, but they typically fail to focus on its most important objective: hardiness. Though that which doesn't kill us can make us stronger, as Nietzsche tells us, few authors today offer any insight into just how to springboard from adversity to strength. It doesn't just happen automatically, and it takes practice. New scientific research suggests that resilience isn't something with which only a fortunate few of us have been born, but rather something we can all take specific action to develop. To build strength out of adversity, we need a catalyst. What we need, according to Dr. Alex Lickerman, is wisdom—wisdom that adversity has the potential to teach us. Lickerman's underlying premise is that our ability to control what happens to us in life may be limited, but we have the ability to establish a life-state to surmount the suffering life brings us. The Undefeated Mind distills the wisdom we need to create true resilience into nine core principles, including: --A new definition of victory and its relevance to happiness --The concept of the changing of poison into medicine --A way to view prayer as a vow we make to ourselves. --A method of setting expectations that enhances our ability to endure disappointment and minimizes the likelihood of quitting --An approach to taking personal responsibility and moral action that enhances resilience --A process to managing pain—both physical and emotional—that enables us to push through obstacles that might otherwise prevent us from attaining out goals --A method of leveraging our relationships with others that helps us manifest our strongest selves Through stories of patients who have used these principles to overcome suffering caused by unemployment, unwanted weight gain, addiction, rejection, chronic pain, retirement, illness, loss, and even death, Dr. Lickerman shows how we too can make these principles function within our own lives, enabling us to develop for ourselves the resilience we need to achieve indestructible happiness. At its core, The Undefeated Mind urges us to stop hoping for easy lives and focus instead on cultivating the inner strength we need to enjoy the difficult lives we all have.

The Undefeated Mind

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Ernest Cline

A Novel

Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.)

Ready Player One

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Viz Sampler

Haruto Ryo

There's an urban legend that says late at night, sometimes a young girl dressed in gothic lolita clothing will appear by garbage dumps to ask a question. Any who answer will, without fail, die a twisted death. And tonight, another young boy will find himself enveloped by this horror...

Ibitsu

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Liz Braswell

A Twisted Tale

What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? This paperback edition of the first book in the A Twisted Tale line will explore a dark and daring version of Disney's Aladdin. Plus, it includes an excerpt of book two, Once Upon a Dream, a twist on Disney's Sleeping Beauty! When Jafar steals the Genie's lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish.To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. A princess becomes a revolutionary. And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again. Praise for A Whole New World: "A magic carpet ride of a book! A fun and unpredictable retelling of the classic Aladdin story, a must-read for all of us Disney fans!" -Melissa de la Cruz

A Whole New World

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