Gilda Radner

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

"I had wanted to wrap this book up in a neat little package. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end." The world fondly remembers the many faces of Gilda Radner: the adamant but misinformed Emily Litella; the hyperkinetic Girl Scout Judy Miller; the irrepressibly nerdy Lisa Loopner; the gross-out queen of local network news, Rosanne Rosannadanna. A supremely funny performer, Gilda lost a long and painful struggle in May 1989 to "the most unfunny thing in the world"--cancer. But the face she showed the world during this dark time was one of great courage and hope. It's Always Something is the story of her struggle told in Gilda's own remarkable words--a personal chronicle of strength and indomitable spirit and love undiminished by the cruel ravages of disease. This is Gilda, with whom we laughed on Saturday Night Live: warm, big-hearted, outrageous, and real. This is Gilda's last gift to us: the magnificent final performance of an incomparable entertainer whose life, though tragically brief, enriched our own lives beyond measure.

It's Always Something

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David A. Hollinger

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

History

A Sourcebook: 1865 to the Present

The American Intellectual Tradition

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CFP® Martin V. Higgins, CFP®

A Retiree's Survival Manual for Transitioning to a World of New Rules and Unexpected Dangers

If you're retired or on the way, meet Marty Higgins-- your guide for the journey through what he calls DistributionLand, a place of lovely landscape but undeniable dangers. He'll show you how to enjoy this new world--but he wants you to be well-armed. As founder of Family Wealth Management LLC, Higgins is a specialist in helping families to build and preserve their savings to last the rest of their lives and beyond. In DistributionLand, he takes you into retirement territory, where you distribute the gains of your working years. Be warned: You need to adjust to a new set of rules here, or you may not make it, as many have sadly learned. This isn't Accumulation Land anymore, that youthful place where you built for a future far away. You need new strategies to fend off the beasts that lie in wait--among them, taxation, inflation, the cost of medical and long-term care, and an unpredictable market. You need not live in fear. Higgins has the tools that can help you do far more than survive in DistributionLand. He can show you how to create an income that will endure as long as you do, supporting the retirement of your dreams. An important first step is to define those dreams. Marty Higgins has the answers to the questions that he has heard retirees ask during his many years of practice. If you are to sleep well, you need to be confident that your money is secure and that you will be all right, no matter what. But he knows that you want and deserve more than that. You want to explore these new vistas and enjoy this new phase of life to the utmost. With Higgins at your side, you're in for a joyous journey. "We are entering unchartered waters and fortunately Marty Higgins has done the work of a cartographer in Distribution Land that will enable you to both survive and thrive in the times ahead." --Mitch Anthony, Author, The New Retirementality "Kudos to Martin Higgins for creating a guidebook to help boomers navigate the largely unchartered territory of Distribution Land. A readable, fun and informative book." --Moshe A. Milevsky, The IFID Centre, York University, Toronto "A must read for anyone within 10 years of retirement or recently retired. I've been a financial advisor for more than twenty-nine years, and I found the content of this book invaluable even at this stage of my career." --Jay Van Beusekom, RHU, LUTCF; President &CEO of Jay Van Beusekom Financial Advisor, LLC

DistributionLand

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Peter Morgan Kash

Jay Lombard

Tom Monte

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Breakthrough Approach to Preventing Cancer, Heart Disease, Alzheimer's, and Depression by Controlling Insulin

Freedom from Disease

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Joan Mickelson

A Tour Through Place and Time

A Guide to Historic Hollywood

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Marion Debruyne

Customer-Centric Strategy for Enduring Growth

A new set of organizations has discovered a new formula: they combine customer-centricity with innovative power. These organizations have created a completely outside-in approach to the market. Not driven by what they're good at, they start with the market and design their strategy around it, replacing practices of the past with a new set of capabilities which enable them to be ahead of the curve in discovering new market opportunities. Whereas the traditional value chain model regards the market as the end-outcome of the efforts of the organization, the reversed value chain model starts there. The customer is the starting point and the value chain is the result of understanding customer needs and requirements. Customer Innovation presents this unique case for developing the outside-in organization to drive your business success, combining market orientation with innovation to enable actionable positive change in the way your company does business.Winner of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship category of the 2015 CMI Management Book of the Year Awards, Customer Innovation provides every business with the framework it needs to combine customer focus with innovation to achieve success. It is packed with real world examples from a range of leading global companies including Disney, Coca-Cola, LEGO, Eurex, Netflix, KLM, Carglass, Komatsu, Callebaut and more to help you put market awareness at the heart of your business.

Customer Innovation

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Eric Van Lustbader

Jason Bourne

Once, Jason Bourne was notorious in the clandestine world of covert-ops as one of the CIA's most expert international killers for hire. Out of the ashes of his violent past he's emerged today as a Georgetown professor, living a quiet life, retired from danger--until he narrowly escapes the bullet of a faceless assassin. And when two of Bourne's closest associates are murdered, Bourne knows that his legacy has followed him--and set him up as the prime suspect for the brutal crimes.

The quicksand of lies and betrayals is deeper than Bourne ever imagined. Hunted by the CIA as a dangerous rogue agent, he has only one option to stay alive--and one last chance to stay one step ahead of an unseen assailant whose vengeance is personal. Pursued across the globe, Bourne's on the run, and on the edge of discovering the truth--that he's become the expendable pawn in an international terrorist plot. One that's taking every living witness with it and plunging Bourne one step closer to the world-shattering consequences of...the Bourne Legacy.

Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Legacy

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Rhonda Abrams

Scott Cook

7 Steps to Discovering the Ideal Business for You

America's foremost small-business advice guru offers readers seven steps to identify the right business for them--from determining one's entrepreneurial type to exploring the wide range of business options with 25 in-depth analyses and over 200 at-a-glance evaluations.

What Business Should I Start?

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Donald Harington

The curator of a Boston antiques foundation leaves Boston and his icy wife to return to his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. In a series of libidinous, murderous, comic, and anxious adventures, he renews old friendships and makes new enemies, eventually concluding his stay with a sense of restoration.

The Cherry Pit

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L. L. Raand

A world of violent passions and inhuman hungers explodes as ancient taboos and primal desires collide. Wolf Were Alpha Sylvan Mir wants nothing more than to keep her pregnant mate Drake safe in their secluded stronghold, deep in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, but enemies, political and praetern, force her into battle. Sylvan must confront the Vampire Chancellor Francesca, a one-time lover, about her part in a recent attack on Mir Laboratories--a confrontation that will test Sylvan's alliance with the Vampires and lead to war. Francesca's enforcer Michel, with a secretsexual conquest in Sylvan's Pack and a Were centuri newly-turned Vampire, Lara under her command, may have divided loyalties, too. Lara, born to fight in service to the Were alpha, finds herself caught between two worlds, belonging to neither, and her unexpected obsession with an enemy Alpha puts ancient loyalties to the test. In a world where humans and praeterns conspire for the ultimate power, violence is a way of life...and death.

The Lone Hunt

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John Harsen Rhoades

Some in Prose and Some in Rhyme

Random Thoughts of a Man at Fifty

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Robert Burnham

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System

Burnham's Celestial Handbook

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Brian MacArthur

Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45

During World War II, there were few fates that could befall a soldier so hellish as internment in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. To this day, many survivors–most of whom are in their eighties–still cannot talk about their experiences without unearthing terrible memories. Surviving the Sword gives voice to these tens of thousands of Allied POWs and offers us a powerful reminder of the terror and depravations of war and the resilience of the human spirit. In this important book, Brian MacArthur draws on the diaries of American, British, Dutch, and Australian Fepows (Far Eastern prisoners of war), some of whose recollections are published here for the first time. These soldiers wrote and kept their diaries, in secret, because they were determined that to record for posterity how they were starved and beaten, marched almost to death, or transported on “hellships”; how their fellows were summarily executed by guards or felled by the thousands by tropical diseases; and how they were used as slave labor–most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway, as depicted in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The diaries excerpted in this book make plain why the Fepows believed that their brutal treatment by Japanese and Korean guards was, literally, incomprehensible to those who did not live it. The prisoners whose stories appear here risked torture and execution to keep diaries and make sketches and drawings that they hid from the guards wherever they could, sometimes burying them in the graves of lost comrades. The survivors’ narratives reveal not just a litany of horrors, but are a moving testament to the nobler instincts of humanity as well, detailing how the POWs prevailed over horrible conditions, even finding or creating a precious few creature comforts and sustaining the rudiments of culture, learning, and play. Forced into solidarity by inhuman conditions, the soldiers showed incredible compassion for one another, improvising ingenious ways to care for the sick, boost morale by subtly mocking their jailers’ authority, or even turn meager rations into the occasional feast. Countless thousands died in Japanese prison camps during World War II. Those fortunate enough to emerge from their ordeal were never the same again.Surviving the Swordat last fills a notable historical gap in our understanding, while also commemorating and memorializing the Fepows’ struggle and sacrifice.

Surviving the Sword

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Teresa A. Meade

Provides an overview of the history of Brazil from ancient times to the present.

A Brief History of Brazil

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Mariah Stewart

Dear Reader: I can hardly believe that A Different Light, one of my earliest novels, is available again at long last! And while the story is still the same, I've added new scenes and fleshed out the characters, making the novel richer and more contemporary. I've written twenty-three novels since A Different Light was first published, and I like to think I've brought the experience of the years to make this sparkling new edition even more compelling than before. Throughout these years, the character of Athena Moran has stayed with me. In her New Jersey town, beautiful, vibrant Athena is well known as the young widow of a police officer slain in the line of duty and as the daughter of a beloved former city councilman. But when she meets Quentin Forbes, a tough newspaper reporter, emotions that she believed died along with her husband start to stir again. Then she is asked to run for mayor, and the political contest that follows will test her newfound feelings to the breaking point, teaching her that things are not always as they appear, and much of what she's believed is more smoke than substance. The new direction Athena chooses tests her strength and courage, and ultimately leads her to see herself and everyone she knows in a totally new and different light. Best, Mariah Stewart

A Different Light

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Kenneth H. Cooper

From the groundbreaker in preventive medicine and father of the worldwide aerobics movement, Dr. Cooper takes the latest scientific antioxidant search from around the world and brings you a simple four step life plan that will revolutionize your health. It's the simplest plan yet to build you own personal defense system for a longer, healthier life!

Antioxidant Revolution

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Michael Buckley

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Book Three: the Cheerleaders of Doom

When a former member of NERDS turns into a villainous cheerleader, Matilda "Wheezer" Choi and the rest of the NERDS must infiltrate the cheerleader squad and save the world from a machine that wreaks havoc by entering other dimensions.

Nerds

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Jaro Stacul

Social Studies

Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories

Drawing upon ethnographic information from diverse European settings, this volume points to the contradictions that the project of a 'Europe without boundaries' involves.

Crossing European Boundaries

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Kim Simpson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The American Format Revolution

Early '70s Radio

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Michael Spring

Confessions of a Medieval Grave Robber

Sacred Bones is based on the true story of Deusdona ("God's gift"), a ninth-century Roman deacon who worked in the catacombs, digging up worthless bones and selling them off as the holy remains of saints and martyrs. Deusdona thanked God for his worldly success, but he was also a clever businessman who knew how to strike deals with abbots and kings. It didn't hurt that no church could be sanctified without a relic in residence, and that the more relics a church displayed, the morepilgrims came to visit with their coins and their prayers. Deusdona was a Willy Loman of the Dark Ages, trafficking in bones. Every spring, when the snows melted from the Alpine passes, he traveled north with his "samples" - arms, cheek bones, toes - filling orders from the previous summer and drumming up business for the year to come. Whether he is floating in the buff in Charlemagne's baths or gathering body parts in Rome's underground City of the Dead, Deusdona offers us a vivid portrait of daily life in the early Middle Ages at an early stage in the transformation of ancient Rome into the City of God. Sacred Bones is both a medieval whodunit and a wry portrait of an age that has seldom been brought to life in such detail. Readers will relish the chance to immerse themselves in this oddly contemporary world.

Sacred Bones

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Tom Carson

Ellyn Gillespie

Bill E. Jordan

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Math

Third Edition 

The Carson algebra series addresses two fundamental issues—individual learning styles and comprehension of key mathematical concepts—to meet the needs of today's readers. Carson's Study System, presented in the To the Student section at the front of the text, adapts to the way each reader learns to ensure their success in this and future courses. The consistent emphasis on the big picture of algebra, with pedagogy and support that helps readers put each new concept into proper context, encourages conceptual understanding.

Elementary Algebra

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Jim Stratton

Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Houston/Galveston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Portland (Maine) San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington D.C., New York

Pioneering in the Urban Wilderness

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Robert Scarola

Make Mine Medium Rare

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Hallie Lord

Beloved speaker and radio host Hallie Lord shows how to use unexpected hardships and challenges to build a life that will make you more secure and grounded than ever before. Hallie Lord understands the upheaval life can bring. From her parents' divorce when she was a tween to moving eleven times in fifteen years with her husband and eight children, the radical changes she faced relentlessly pushed her toward fear and helplessness. Yet by digging into her faith and through much self-reflection, she realized that even though those challenges had left her a bit battered and bruised, they had also equipped her for any difficulty that may arise. In Falling Home, she describes the four interconnected foundations that now give her strength and security during life's upheavals: committed, supportive friendships, healthy family relationships, an intimate love affair with God, and a compassionate sense of self. Inviting readers into her hard-fought journey, Lord shows them how they, too, can embrace whatever life brings their way. With lyrical prose and a tender, inviting voice, she shares how hurts and sacrifices are also the groundwork for creating a beautiful life that can catch them whenever they fall.

Falling Home: Creating a Life That Catches You When You Fall

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