Helen Gardner

Fred S. Kleiner

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

California

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

A Global History

Gardners Art Through the Ages

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Sophie Lucido Johnson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)

"A fast-paced debut... A candid, modern take on polyamory for fans of memoirs and graphic novels, and anyone interested in stories of dating, love, and romance." --Library Journal

After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents' forty-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that maybe the love she was looking for was down a road less traveled. In this bold, graphic memoir, she explores her sexuality, her values, and the versions of love our society accepts and practices. Along the way, she shares what it's like to play on Tinder side-by-side with your boyfriend, encounter--and surmount--many types of jealousy, learn the power of female friendship, and other amazing things that happened when she stopped looking for "the one."

In a lot of ways, Many Love is Sophie's love letter to everyone she has ever cared for. Witty, insightful, and complete with illustrations, this debut provides a memorable glimpse into an unconventional life.

Many Love

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Rainbow Rowell

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Exclusive Special Edition

"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--

Eleanor and Park

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George B. Bridgman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Shares ideas on perspective, planes, and anatomy as they relate to portrait drawing

Heads, Features and Faces

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Drawings and sketches illustrate the way to capture movement when drawing the human hand

Book of a Hundred Hands

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

El primer caso de Cate Maynes

Jerry Saltz

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Instant New York Times Bestseller

"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." --Steve Martin

Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz, one of the art world's most celebrated and passionate voices, offers an indispensable handbook for creative people of all kinds.

From the first sparks of inspiration--and how to pursue them without giving in to self-doubt--Saltz offers invaluable insight into what really matters to emerging artists: originality, persistence, a balance between knowledge and intuition, and that most precious of qualities, self-belief. Brimming with rules, prompts, and practical tips, How to Be an Artist gives artists new ways to break through creative blocks, get the most from materials, navigate career challenges, and above all find joy in the work.

Teeming with full-color artwork from visionaries ancient and modern, this beautiful and useful book will help artists of all kinds--painters, photographers, writers, performers--realize their dreams.

How to Be an Artist

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Rick Riordan

A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and sarcastic asides--to the classics. He explains how the world was created, then gives readers his personal take on a who's who of ancients, from Apollo to Zeus. Percy does not hold back. "If you like horror shows, blood baths, lying, stealing, backstabbing, and cannibalism, then read on, because it definitely was a Golden Age for all that." This novel-sized paperback, complete with an insert of full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honoree John Rocco, is portable and friendly, and the ideal way to introduce young readers to the classic stories. Praise for Percy Jackson's Greek Gods "Percy's gift, which is no great secret, is to breathe new life into the gods. Closest attention is paid to the Olympians, but Riordan has a sure touch when it comes to fitting much into a small space-as does Rocco's artwork, which smokes and writhes on the page as if hit by lightning. . .The inevitable go-to for Percy's legions of fans who want the stories behind his stories." -Kirkus Reviews "The age-old stories are endlessly strong, resonant, and surprising, while the telling here is fresh, irreverent, and amusing. Percy's voice. . . John Rocco illustrates the myths with drama, verve, and clarity. A must-have addition to the Percy Jackson canon." -Booklist Online "Combining the sarcasm and wit of Percy Jackson with the original Greek myths is a great way to hook tweens and teens on the stories without boring them. The beautiful illustrations by John Rocco enhance each story. . ." -VOYA

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

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Malinda Lo

Winner of the National Book Award "Proof of Malinda Lo's skill at creating darkly romantic tales of love in the face of danger."--O: The Oprah Magazine "The queer romance we've been waiting for."--Ms. Magazine "Restrained yet luscious."--Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Tipping the Velvet A National Bestseller Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root--that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible. But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite his hard-won citizenship--Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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Adam Silvera

Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 * A Bustle Best YA Novel of 2017 * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book of 2017 * A Book Riot Best Queer Book of 2017 * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day. In the tradition of Before I Fall and If I Stay, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut, More Happy Than Not, the New York Times called “profound.”

They Both Die at the End

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Jose Olivarez

Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.

Citizen Illegal

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Jeremy Bolton

Aprende a Percibir Emociones, Entender Emociones, y Dirigir Emociones para Mejorar Su Crecimiento Personal

¿Está buscando agudizar su capacidad para leer cómo se sienten los demás?¿Quieres ser capaz de percibir las emociones de otras personas?Su inteligencia emocional es un factor crucial para clasificar quién es usted como individuo y cómo interpreta el mundo que lo rodea. Con esta guía, Inteligencia Emocional: Aprende a Percibir Emociones, Entender Emociones, y Dirigir Emociones para Mejorar su Crecimiento Personal aprenderá información adicional sobre su inteligencia emocional que respaldará su aprendizaje anterior de la Inteligencia emocional.Encontrará 9 capítulos detallados que servirán como bloques de construcción para ayudarlo a alcanzar sus metas personales. Algunos capítulos incluyen: Una comprensión del 'Modelo de Habilidad'Cómo percibir las emociones.El valor de usar emociones a tu favor.Importancia de interpretar las emociones correctamente.Manejar tus propias emociones.Hay mucho que aprender antes de que podamos considerarnos muy bien al leer las verdaderas emociones de alguien. Este libro lo lleva al siguiente paso necesario para convertirse en un experto en el uso de las emociones en su beneficio.Si ha leído, Inteligencia emocional: una guía paso a paso sobre cómo dominar sus emociones, aumentar su autoconocimiento y mejorar su ecualizador, este libro es para usted, ya que ha comprendido los conceptos básicos de la inteligencia emocional. Sin embargo, la Inteligencia Emocional es un tema que todos los que quieran controlar sus sentimientos deberían leer.¡Busca tu copia ya!

Inteligencia Emocional

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Blair Imani

About Race, Class, Gender, Disability and More

"We live in a time where it has never been more important to be knowledgeable about a host of social issues, and to be confident and appropriate in how to talk about them. What's the best way to ask someone what their pronouns are? How do you talk about racism with someone who doesn't seem to get it? What is intersectionality, and why do you need to understand it? While it can seem intimidating or overwhelming to learn and talk about such issues, it's never been easier thanks to [the author]. Accessible to learners of all levels--from those just getting started on the journey to those already versed in social justice--[this book] covers a range of topics, including race, gender, class, disability, relationships, family, power dynamics, oppression, and beyond. This essential guide is a radical but warm and non-judgmental call to arms, structured in such a way that you can read it cover to cover or start with any topic you want to learn more about."--Provided by publisher.

Read This to Get Smarter

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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

"In this book you will discover the timeless science that great teachers have spoken for millennia. The Science of Self-Realization opens up the secrets of the self within, nature and the universe, and the Supreme Self within and without. Here the world's most distinguished teacher of the science of self-realization talks about meditating and practicing yoga in the modern age, gaining liberation from the law of karma, achieving superconsciousness, and much more. In all the interviews, lectures, essays and letters chosen for this special book, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda speaks with startling clarity and power. He proves just how relevant the science of self-realization is to today's world and your own life"--page 4 of cover.

The Science of Self-Realization

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This invaluable anatomical reference shows important parts of the human body, both in motion and in repose: hand, wrist, fingers, forearm, neck, thigh, leg, and more. Drawings of bone and muscle structure are also covered in detail. Over 500 illustrations. "Best book on artist's anatomy." -- Art Students League News.

Constructive Anatomy

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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The Art of Mystic Meditation, Kirtan, and Bhakti Yoga: Compiled from the Teachings of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Chanting Hare Krishna

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Rachael Lippincott

Alyson Derrick

She's All That meets What If It's Us in this New York Times bestselling hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from the coauthor of Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick.

Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand...not so much. Molly Parker has everything in her life totally in control, except for her complete awkwardness with just about anyone besides her mom. She knows she's in love with the impossibly cool Cora Myers. She just...hasn't actually talked to her yet.

Alex and Molly don't belong on the same planet, let alone the same college campus. But when Alex, fresh off a bad (but hopefully not permanent) breakup, discovers Molly's hidden crush as their paths cross the night before classes start, they realize they might have a common interest after all. Because maybe if Alex volunteers to help Molly learn how to get her dream girl to fall for her, she can prove to her ex that she's not a selfish flirt. That she's ready for an actual commitment. And while Alex is the last person Molly would ever think she could trust, she can't deny Alex knows what she's doing with girls, unlike her.

As the two embark on their five-step plans to get their girls to fall for them, though, they both begin to wonder if maybe they're the ones falling...for each other.

She Gets the Girl

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James Oles

It’s so freaking heavy. I almost knocked out my cousin with this

“A lucid—at times, even poetic—summary of five hundred years of Mexican art. The illustrated works of art are well-chosen and beautifully integrated into Oles’s text. Indeed, it feels as if his words emanate from the art itself.” –Donna Pierce, Denver Art Museum This new interpretive history of Mexican art from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres, offering new readings of painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, and photographs. He interprets major works by such famous artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but also discusses less familiar figures in history and landscape painting, muralism, and conceptual art. The story of Mexican art is set in its rich historical context by the book’s treatment of political and social change. The author draws on recent scholarship to examine crucial issues of race, class, and gender, including the work of indigenous artists during the colonial period, and of women artists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Throughout, Oles shows how Mexican artists participated in local and international developments. He considers both native and foreign-born artists, from Baroque architects to kinetic sculptors, and highlights the important role played by Mexicans in the global art scene of the last five centuries.

Art and Architecture in Mexico

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Jason Reynolds

Brendan Kiely

It has some pages highlighted cause my studies 

When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.

All American Boys

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Ernest Hill

Social Studies

In this novel, Hill chronicles the transformation of an African-American youth--"a long-awaited incarnation of Richard Wright's Bigger Thomas" ("Baltimore Sun")--from a naive athlete to a college football star at a newly integrated college to a hard-driving, cynical adult determined to succeed despite the opposition of whites and the complacency of blacks.

Satisfied with Nothin

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Lisa Congdon

The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Art Book for Artists, Creative Self-Help Book)

An artist's unique voice is their calling card. It's what makes each of their works vital and particular. But developing such singular artistry requires effort and persistence. Bestselling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process of artistic self-discovery. Featuring advice from Congdon herself and interviews with a roster of established artists, illustrators, and creatives, this one-of-a-kind book will show readers how to identify and nurture their own visual identity, navigate the influence of artists they admire, push through fear and insecurity, and appreciate the value of their personal journey.

Find Your Artistic Voice

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Helen Colton

"Ms. Colton’s book is dedicated to the proposition that we are not yet human beings, we are only human becomers. The sexual revolution has suddenly confronted us with new knowledge and a new honesty. No longer can sex education consist of a few embarrassed lectures for the awakening adolescent. We must all become both learners and teachers about the meaning of sex at every stage of life. Among the questions Helen Colton helps the reader explore with honesty and courage are: the meaning of sexual maturity; the cost of being sexually irresponsible; group sex and mate-swapping; how to talk sex with your children; sex problems of the single parent; the sensory human of the future. This is a challenging book. Ms. Colton finds gains in the sexual revolution and she does not hesitate to say so. It is also a rewarding book, for the author believes that sexual freedom--like all freedoms--must enhance rather than demean our essential humanity. In these pages the reader will explore the complexities of sex after the sexual revolution under the guidance of a gifted, articulate and experienced counselor in problems of sex and family living."--Dust jacket.

Sex after the Sexual Revolution

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David Levithan

A bold, timely novel about speaking up and coming out as parents lobby to ban a beloved book from the school curriculum by New York Times-bestselling author David Levithan.

When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius...right?
 
But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school curriculum, and Donovan is caught in the middle.
 
Donovan doesn't really know if the two boys fall in love at the end or not--but he does know this: even if they do, it shouldn't matter. The book should not be banned from school. 
 
Interweaving three connected storylines, David Levithan delivers a bold, fun, and timely story about taking action (whether it's against book censors or deadly alligators...), being brave, and standing up for what's right. 
 






 

Answers in the Pages

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Pandora Sykes

& Other Essays on Modern Life

Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessness; like we're somehow failing to live our best life. What does doing it right even look like? And why do so many women feel like they're getting it wrong? From faster-than-fast fashion to millennial burnout, the explosion of wellness to the rise of cancel culture, Pandora Sykes interrogates the stories we've been sold and the ones we tell ourselves. Wide-ranging, thoughtful and witty, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? explores the anxieties and myths that consume our lives and the tools we use to muddle through. So sit back and take a breath. It's time to stop worrying about the answers and start delighting in the questions.

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Helen Gardner; Fred S. Kleiner

Gardners Art Through the Ages

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Many Love

Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor and Park

George B. Bridgman

Heads, Features and Faces

George B. Bridgman

Book of a Hundred Hands

Clara Asunción García

El primer caso de Cate Maynes

Jerry Saltz

How to Be an Artist

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Adam Silvera

They Both Die at the End

Jose Olivarez

Citizen Illegal

Jeremy Bolton

Inteligencia Emocional

Blair Imani

Read This to Get Smarter

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada

The Science of Self-Realization

George B. Bridgman

Constructive Anatomy

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Chanting Hare Krishna

Rachael Lippincott; Alyson Derrick

She Gets the Girl

James Oles

Art and Architecture in Mexico

Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely

All American Boys

Ernest Hill

Satisfied with Nothin

Lisa Congdon

Find Your Artistic Voice

Helen Colton

Sex after the Sexual Revolution

David Levithan

Answers in the Pages

Pandora Sykes

How Do We Know We're Doing It Right

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