Lois Lowry

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

Gathering Blue

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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

Messenger

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Carl Greer

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Memoir to Help You Change Your Story and Find Fulfillment

"The Necktie and the Jaguar is an interactive memoir-the story of Carl Greer reinventing his life as a result of honoring his longings for meaning and purpose. As you read his story, you might wonder how you would tell yours and how those who know you would tell it. You might never have asked yourself, "What is my story, really, if I'm honest about it?" or "How did that story-my thoughts and perceptions about what I have experienced-come about?" Answering these questions can help you acknowledge your truth and begin to break out of old, constricting patterns and live according to your soul's needs. You might well find yourself listening to the call of the jaguar-the call to let go of any fears of transformation and step into the unknown as you begin to change your life"--

The Necktie and the Jaguar

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Ann Rinaldi

The Feud Between the Hatfields and the Mccoys

In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.

The Coffin Quilt

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Elizabeth Weil

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried to Make It Better

Written with charm and wit, "No Cheating, No Dying" investigates one of the most universal human institutions--marriage. In this book, Weil examines the major universal marriage issues--sex, money, mental health, in-laws, children--through bravely recounting her own hilarious, messy, and sometimes difficult relationship.

No Cheating, No Dying

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Jay Asher

When Sierra falls for Caleb, a boy who made a terrible mistake years before, she is determined to help him find forgiveness, despite the disapproval and suspicions they meet.

What Light

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Holly Goldberg Sloan

Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

Counting By 7s

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Jenny Han

In Jenny Han's follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly finds out what comes after falling in love. Now available in paperback!

It's Not Summer Without You

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George Mayfield

Ieshea Hollins

Paul Feather

Jolene Risch

Chris Honeycutt

Jeff Sandene

Susan Bryant

Eric Harrison

Bill Burkhalter

Charles Shoultz

Scary Stories to Tell in the Boardroom, Vol I is a unique project sponsored by Frameworks Consortium and written by experienced business professionals. It serves as both a source of imaginative entertainment as well as an educational resource for business owners, managers, and leaders looking to make informed decisions at work. This compilation book features vivid, fictionalized horror stories that are used as case studies on common but critical issues businesses face today. Through these narrative-style scenarios, readers learn how to better understand the risks associated with their operations while also arming themselves with resources they can use to protect their businesses from catastrophic failure. This comprehensive knowledge can help entrepreneurs manage more profitable companies and avoid costly mistakes. The authors include George Mayfield from Frameworks Consulting; Jeff Sandene from Sandene Strategies; Susan Bryant from MB Group; Paul Feather from Compunetics; Eric Harrison from 4Impact Data; Charles Shoultz from C.A Shoultz ; Ieshea Hollins form Direnzic, and Bill Burkhalter of Salesxceleration-all experts in strategies for success in the boardroom!Learn how to make smarter decisions that will drive success for your company - get Scary Stories to Tell in the Boardroom today!

Scary Stories to Tell in the Boardroom

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Gary Moses

The Chohish Wars

Ambush

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"Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent"--

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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Sarah Pearse

A Novel

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium, a Reese’s Book Club pick, here, Detective Elin Warner uncovers the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway “Devilish and deliciously twisty.” —People “The suspense inexorably builds to a stunning climax.” —David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Shadows They couldn’t wait to stay here. An idyllic wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation—but the island itself, known locally as Reaper’s Rock, has a dark past. Once the playground of a serial killer, it’s rumored to be cursed. But now they can’t leave. A young woman is found dead below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But Detective Elin Warner soon learns the victim wasn’t a guest—she wasn’t meant to be on the island at all. And they would do anything to escape. The longer Elin stays, the more secrets she uncovers. And when someone else drowns in a diving incident, Elin begins to suspect that there’s nothing accidental about these deaths. But why would someone target the guests at this luxury resort? Elin must find the killer—before the island’s history starts to repeat itself. Most came to recharge and refresh. But someone’s here for revenge.

The Retreat

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Lisa Scottoline

From #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a pulse-pounding new novel.

Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same.
Now you have to choose between law...and justice.

     Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever.
 
Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them that the carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization--and now Jason and his family are in their crosshairs.
 
The agents advise the Bennetts to enter the witness protection program right away, and they have no choice but to agree. But WITSEC was designed to protect criminal informants, not law-abiding families. Taken from all they know, trapped in an unfamiliar life, the Bennetts begin to fall apart at the seams. Then Jason learns a shocking truth and realizes that he has to take matters into his own hands.
 
Sometimes justice is a one-man show.

What Happened to the Bennetts

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Chuck Palahniuk

As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.

Damned

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Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

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Markus Zusak

Book is in great condition with the exception of the name inscription on the first page (pictured). 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.

Bridge of Clay

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Dyna Moe

The Illustrated World

By turns fun, sophisticated, and celebratory, this eye-popping tie-in to the hit AMC series "Mad Men" is inspired by the artistic styles that defined the 1960s, and explores such topics as the office culture and the cocktail craze. Includes a Joan Holloway paper doll.

Mad Men

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Eliza Jane Brazier

"This new novel has more twists and fakeouts than an episode of Serial." --Rolling Stone "An eerie, twisted thriller sure to shake up the most seasoned true crime die-hard. --Harper's Bazaar A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Rolling Stone - CNN - E! Online - Buzzfeed - New York Post - Popsugar - Woman's Day - Crime Reads - Hello Giggles When her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman sets out to investigate and plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession. Sera loves true crime podcasts. They give her a sense of control in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She's sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes missing, Sera knows it's time to act. Rachel has always taught her to trust her instincts. Sera follows the clues hidden in the episodes to an isolated ranch outside Rachel's small hometown to begin her search. She's convinced her investigation will make Rachel so proud. But the more Sera digs into this unfamiliar world, the more off things start to feel. Because Rachel is not the first woman to vanish from the ranch, and she won't be the last... Rachel did try to warn her.

If I Disappear

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Ruta Sepetys

Between Shades of Gray

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Lauren Groff

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “A relentless exhibition of Groff’s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell .” – USA Today “An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable.” – O, The Oprah Magazine “Thrilling and heartbreaking.” –Time Magazine “[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her.” –New York Times One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

Matrix

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Jerry Craft

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft. Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds—and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?

New Kid

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Fawxie is torn, like most kids. Although he tries to be and do his best, he doesn't always succeed and is oft inclined to mischief. Outside of being a normal, mixed up littlun, he is also mixed himself. His color is not dark like his father nor light like his mother, it is somewhere betwixt: alike and unalike to both. In more ways than one, Fawxie is a link between opposites. And as he seeks to unearth a family secret, soon the boy will discover just how caught between worlds he actually is.Fawxie Finds the Bravery is an Action Adventure Children's Novel, crafted for family and set during the holidays in a fictionalized and futuristic Kentucky. It takes a great deal of influence, much of which is nodded to, from Sci-Fi, Westerns, Sci-Fi-Westerns, Classic British Literature, Tall American Tales, and Ancient Myth.Word Count: 176,000+*This edition includes the Fawxie Finds the Bravery Visual Appendices - containing over 50 paintings of characters, gadgets, and maps of locations in the story.

The TALES of FAWXIE : Fawxie Finds the Bravery

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy

In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be heard and read in this deluxe, illustrated book and 8-CD set. Shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband’s legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President as well as the recollections of those closest to him throughout his extraordinary political career. For the rest of her life, the famously private Jacqueline Kennedy steadfastly refused to discuss her memories of those years, but beginning that March, she fulfilled her obligation to future generations of Americans by sitting down with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and recording an astonishingly detailed and unvarnished account of her experiences and impressions as the wife and confidante of John F. Kennedy. The tapes of those sessions were then sealed and later deposited in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum upon its completion, in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy’s wishes. The resulting eight and a half hours of material comprises a unique and compelling record of a tumultuous era, providing fresh insights on the many significant people and events that shaped JFK’s presidency but also shedding new light on the man behind the momentous decisions. Here are JFK’s unscripted opinions on a host of revealing subjects, including his thoughts and feelings about his brothers Robert and Ted, and his take on world leaders past and present, giving us perhaps the most informed, genuine, and immediate portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy we shall ever have. Mrs. Kennedy’s urbane perspective, her candor, and her flashes of wit also give us our clearest glimpse into the active mind of a remarkable First Lady. In conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy’s Inauguration, Caroline Kennedy and the Kennedy family are now releasing these beautifully restored recordings on CDs with accompanying transcripts. Introduced and annotated by renowned presidential historian Michael Beschloss, these interviews will add an exciting new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of President Kennedy and his time and make the past come alive through the words and voice of an eloquent eyewitness to history.

Jacqueline Kennedy

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#paperback #painlessperformanceconversations

A Practical Approach to Critical Day-To-Day Workplace Discussions

Actionable communication and management strategies for tackling difficult workplace discussions

Delivering the uncomfortable news that an employee is not stacking up can be stressful, and managers often have difficulties finding the right words to get their message across. Painless Performance Conversations presents actionable and practical communication and management strategies for any manager looking to effectively influence employee performance. Learn how to focus these conversations for maximum impact on performance, crystallize expectations for what success looks like, and engage employees in solution-finding.

Presenting four key mindsets and an easy to use conversation model, this book offers the tangible solutions managers need to tackle critical workplace discussions with poise and professionalism, as well as the tools needed to stay focused in otherwise difficult conversations.

 * Eliminates the pain and fear that leads to procrastination of tough workplace conversations.
 * Reduces the harmful impacts of judgment in performance conversation
 * Helps managers create a culture of ownership and accountability
 * Author Marnie E. Green is a featured blogger for Jobing.com and shares her popular and practical management perspectives in keynotes, webinars, and workshops with thousands of leaders in organizations worldwide

Painless Performance Conversations will help you to lead performance-related conversations with confidence and create a culture of workplace accountability.

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Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry

Messenger

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The Necktie and the Jaguar

Ann Rinaldi

The Coffin Quilt

Elizabeth Weil

No Cheating, No Dying

Jay Asher

What Light

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Counting By 7s

Jenny Han

It's Not Summer Without You

George Mayfield; Ieshea Hollins; Paul Feather; Jolene Risch; Chris Honeycutt; Jeff Sandene; Susan Bryant; Eric Harrison; Bill Burkhalter; Charles Shoultz

Scary Stories to Tell in the Boardroom

Gary Moses

Ambush

Jenny Han

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Sarah Pearse

The Retreat

Lisa Scottoline

What Happened to the Bennetts

Chuck Palahniuk

Damned

Jenny Han

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Markus Zusak

Bridge of Clay

Dyna Moe

Mad Men

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If I Disappear

Ruta Sepetys

Between Shades of Gray

Lauren Groff

Matrix

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New Kid

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Caroline Kennedy (Foreword by); Michael Beschloss (Introduction by)

Jacqueline Kennedy

Marnie E. Green

Painless Performance Conversations

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