Stephen E. Ambrose

This book is new, but does have a bent area on the cover. See picture….

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.

Citizen Soldiers

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Paul Ronning

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

The Design and Composition of Drawings

This is a book about composition in drawings. You can learn how to create your own pictures and how to make impressive picture compositions while drawing. In this book you will learn the basics and the most important rules of image design. You will also learn about psychological backgrounds that influence the way we perceive pictures.Important contents at a glance: -What does image composition in drawing mean? -Organizational principles of picture development -Psychological foundations of image composition -Proper image subdivision -The Golden Section -The Golden Spiral -The Rule of Thirds -Diagonal method -Graphic design elements -Surface and form in design -Contrast for better compositions -How to implement perspective and space -Light and shadow Many paintings from the world of art serve as pictorial examples here, which should contribute to an ideal understanding of the theory. In addition, many of my own drawings and illustrations can be found in the book, with which I describe more precisely the principles that my picture compositions are based on.

Composition in Drawing

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Luna

Kliph Nesteroff

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The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy

A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire

From Kliph Nesteroff, "the human encyclopedia of comedy" (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy.

It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill's stand-up routine: "My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem."

In We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, acclaimed comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy's most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form.

The account begins in the late 1880s, when Native Americans were forced to tour in wild west shows as an alternative to prison. (One modern comedian said it was as "if a Guantanamo detainee suddenly had to appear on X-Factor.") This is followed by a detailed look at the life and work of seminal figures such as Cherokee humorist Will Rogers and Hill, who in the 1970s was the first Native American comedian to appear The Tonight Show.

Also profiled are several contemporary comedians, including Jonny Roberts, a social worker from the Red Lake Nation who drives five hours to the closest comedy club to pursue his stand-up dreams; Kiowa-Apache comic Adrianne Chalepah, who formed the touring group the Native Ladies of Comedy; and the 1491s, a sketch troupe whose satire is smashing stereotypes to critical acclaim. As Ryan Red Corn, the Osage member of the 1491s, says: "The American narrative dictates that Indians are supposed to be sad. It's not really true and it's not indicative of the community experience itself...Laughter and joy is very much a part of Native culture."

Featuring dozens of original interviews and the exhaustive research that is Nesteroff's trademark, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem is a powerful tribute to a neglected legacy.

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

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(Portuguese Edition)

Todo Esse Tempo

Gene Luen Yang

Michael Dante DiMartino

Written and drawn by the team behind the best-selling books Avatar: The Promise (Dark Horse, 2013) and Avatar: The Search (Dark Horse, 2013), this latest volume continues the stories begun in the hit Nickelodeon TV series of 2005-2008.

Set of 2: Avatar: the Last Airbender - the Rift Part 2 and the Rift part 3

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Jessica Neon Dragon Peffer

Art, music, drama/theater

How to Draw Fantastic Dragons & Fantasy Creatures

How to Draw a Dragon: "Cautiously approach the dragon, offer it a piece of candy or a little sister, and draw while it happily munches away."

From the artist behind the wildly popular NeonDragonArt.com, DragonArt will help you create mythical beasts that awe, delight, and disturb the sweet dreams of little ones. Armed only with your trusty pencil and ink pen, you will begin your artistic quest by conquering a super-easy dragon that even the densest of wyvern could draw. With pace quickened by this cool achievement, you shall forge bravely onward to discover simple secrets and spiffy tricks for making your creature friendly or fierce, sorrowful or cynical--drawing them from all different perspectives, in flight or at rest (so vain, those dragons--they love to strike a pose!) and incorporating various styles of heads, limbs, wings, horns, frills, scales, tails and other details to make your particular beast original, believable and so darn groovy.

Because dragons enjoy having others around to terrorize, disembowel and occasionally hang out with, this book will also teach you how you to populate your alternate universe with a whole cast of fantastic creatures, including mythical griffins, guardian gargoyles and deadly basilisks.

All this within the curiously compelling, beautifully beastly, and brightly colored pages you hold in your hands, which by now are no doubt trembling with keen anticipation. So quit dragon your feet! (Ugh, wyrms hate puns!) Buy this book now and make your wildest, wickedest, fire-breathingest fantasies come true!

DragonArt

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Andrea D. Pinkney

The powerful story of one girl's triumphant journey, inspired by true tales of life in Sudan -- now in paperback. Life in Amira's peaceful Sudanese village is shattered when Janjaweed attackers arrive, unleashing unspeakable horrors. After losing nearly everything, Amira needs to find the strength to make the long journey on foot to safety at a refugee camp. She begins to lose hope, until the gift of a simple red pencil opens her mind -- and all kinds of possibilities.

The Red Pencil

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Sungju Lee

Susan Elizabeth McClelland

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

Every Falling Star

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Triumph Books

Seeing Red

Includes: Concert details; romance update; film news; 100+ photographs

Taylor Swift

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Lyndon’s Bridge and the Three Keys

Melissa Albert

A little sticker residue on the front of dust jacket.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

Secrets. Lies. Super-bad choices. Witchcraft. This is Our Crooked Hearts, a darkly gripping contemporary fantasy from Melissa Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood The suburbs, right now . . . Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there's more to her mother than meets the eye. The city, back then . . . Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point. Years after it began, Ivy and Dana's shared story will come down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should’ve messed with.

Our Crooked Hearts

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Todd Rose

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How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness

The rising star and face of the new field “science of the individual” draws from the latest psychological and sociological research to show that success is found in individual strengths and weaknesses that don't fit along any average curve—a powerful manifesto for change in the ranks of Emotional Intelligence and The Power of Habit. Modern science has proven that people behave and learn in distinctive ways. And yet these individual patterns get lost in our institutions of opportunity—from education to the workforce—which remain rooted in the misguided belief that statistical averages are good enough to understand individuals and identify their unique talents. Standardized tests, grading systems, job applicant profiling, performance reviews—they invariably ignore our differences and ultimately fail at measuring our capacity for success. In this first popular book on the science of the individual, Todd Rose, a pioneer in the field draws on the latest research to show how, when we focus on individual findings rather than group findings or averages, we can rethink the world and everyone’s potential in it. By understanding the three “principles of individuality”—the principle of the jagged profile, the principle of context, and the principle of pathways—we can avoid setting up ourselves and those we are tasked with helping succeed (our children, students, employees) for repeated failure and instead find the right path for success. The End of Average reminds us that we are not anything close to average—because the average is a statistical myth—and presents a new way of understanding and maximizing everyone’s potential.

The End of Average

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M. Katherine Clark

Some of the corners of this book are bent, but the book is actually new and never been read.

Star Crossed

The Alpha Couple is a thing of myth and legend... Alasdair MacConchor is journeying back to his Highland home after years fighting Shapeshifting Druids in Erin. Hating the demons who killed his father, Alasdair and his brothers move quickly through Druid lands, but an unexpected runaway makes them reconsider their dislike of Druids. Deena ran from her father's grove after he demanded she marry a man who always scared her. Lucien, the Dark Druid of the grove, helped her escape before anyone realized they did not marry in truth. Racing through the wind, rain and thistle patches of Scotland, she meets three Highlanders and their pet wolf. With her father close behind them, Deena and Alasdair must decide, do they defy the gods will or will they forever be star crossed?

The Wolf's Bane Saga

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Karen White

The Night the Lights Went Out

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Dee Henderson

An Evie Blackwell Cold Case

Dee Henderson Pens Another Compelling Cold Case Mystery Evie Blackwell's reputation as a top investigator for the Illinois State Police has landed her an appointment to the governor's new Missing Persons Task Force. This elite investigative team is launched with plenty of public fanfare. The governor has made this initiative a high priority, so they will have to produce results--and quickly. Evie and her new partner, David Marshal, are assigned to a pair of unrelated cases in suburban Chicago, and while both involve persons now missing for several years, the cases couldn't be more different. While Evie opens old wounds in a close-knit neighborhood to find a missing college student, David searches for a private investigator working for a high-powered client. With a deep conviction that "justice for all" truly matters, Evie and David are unrelenting in their search for the truth. But Evie must also find answers to the questions that lie just beneath the surface in her personal life.

Threads of Suspicion

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This book has not been read, but does have some indentations on the cover and a bent corner on lower right of the front of nook. See pictures.

Timeless Secrets for Millennial Parents

Pillars of Parenting

Jessica Argyle

All Elle wants is a little land to call her own. And she has earned it, finding a measure of peace on a lonely isle near the bottom of the Florida Keys. But others have their own designs, especially Billy, her deadbeat, absent husband who could show up any time to claim her or maliciously destroy what he cannot have.In 1935, as Labor Day approaches, a storm is brewing that will alter Elle's life and the landscape of the Florida Keys forever. How far will Elle go to protect the little that she has? And if she does the unimaginable, can she keep her freedom?In the great depression of the 1930's, No Name Key is still unconnected to the mainland; wild weather, desperate characters and treacherous swamp, a woman has got to use all her strength just to survive.

No Name Key

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Pratima Rao Gluckman

True Stories of Women Leaders in Tech

It is no secret that the technical world is a male-dominated space. From the cultural belief that Computer Science is a “subject for boys”, to the assumptions and discrimination women experience in the field, it can be challenging for women at every stage to thrive in tech careers. Nevertheless, some high-performing women persist and succeed as leaders in tech despite the gender biases pitted against them. Pratima Rao Gluckman—a female leader in tech herself—embarked on a project to collect stories of the leadership journeys of such women. She wanted to know the details of these women’s stories, and how they accomplished their achievements. What influenced them during their childhoods? Who were their mentors? What successes and failures did they experience? What magical ingredients helped them thrive in a male‐dominated industry? These questions and more inspired Gluckman to interview nineteen women leaders in several levels of technology industry, including VPs, CEOs and directors, all of which are collected in this groundbreaking book, Nevertheless, She Persisted. Whether you are a young woman thinking of a career in software, a middle-career or executive woman, a parent, or a man curious about the role gender plays in tech, this book reveals the secrets, successes, and hidden struggles that women have endured to become both highly accomplished in their technical skills and effective senior leaders in their organizations. Their stories are illuminating, intended to inspire generations of women and help free our society from the limiting belief that ability is somehow linked to gender.

Nevertheless, She Persisted

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Kate Knighton

Nancy Leschnikoff

Usborne

This book is all about food - what's good for you, what's bad for you and why.

Why Shouldn't I Eat Junk Food?

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Paul Dowswell

This is a flex book, not a paperback or hardback. It is bound like a hardback and has a semi-hard cover.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Usborne True Stories from the First and Second World Wars

The 20th Century was ravaged by two of the most devastating conflicts in history: the First and Second World Wars. The slaughter and destruction was on such a massive scale it still haunts us today. From zeppelin raids, trench warfare, spies and secret plots, to epic encounters between colossal warships and duels between lone snipers facing almost certain death, this book contains a collection of dramatic and unforgettable tales from both of these terrible wars.

War Stories

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Chris Abani

"A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new."--T. Coraghessan Boyle The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Nuanced, lyrical, and pitch perfect, this is a remarkable story of a son and his father, and an examination of postcolonial Nigeria, where the trappings of American culture reign supreme.

Graceland

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Jordan Stratford

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The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency

A first installment in a series set in an early 19th-century alternate-universe finds brusque 11-year-old genius Ada and romantic 14-year-old Mary forming a detective agency and investigating a stolen heirloom using their math, science and analytic talents. Simultaneous eBook.

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