Chanda A. Bell

Carol V. Aebersold

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A Birthday Tradition

In Santa's Christmas village at the North Pole, the elves celebrate special days all year round. Apart from Christmas, though, nothing is more exciting to a scout elf than a birthday--and elves celebrate birthdays with a tradition that goes back thousands of years. Now, at the request of children from around the world, Santa has given his scout elves special permission to share that birthday tradition with the families they love. An elf cannot come to a celebration, though, unless it is invited.

The Elf on the Shelf

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Workman Publishing

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Art, Inspiration, Joy

The gift of art, the gift of inspiration, the gift of joy. This dynamic illustrated book is brimming over with encouragement and wisdom and delivered with a fresh, modern twist. Pairing quotes with original graphic art that brings the words to life, Think Happy, Be Happy is a gallery of beauty and cheer inspired by the letterpress and screenprint art that’s hot on Etsy and pinned and re-pinned by Pinterest’s millions of fans. The artwork is by more than twenty popular illustrators and designers, who transform simple but smart mottoes—from the contemplative “Find beauty in rain” to the upbeat “I make my own sunshine!” to the empowering “Don’t shush your inner voice. It’s who you are” to the joyful “Live every day like it’s your birthday”—into bold and visually dynamic statements. This book is a delightful pick-me-up that can be read over and over again and bring comfort and affirmation every time. Paired randomly throughout is unexpected, complementary text—themed play-lists, top-ten lists, and simple recipes. Because what’s better to lift the spirits than a Watermelon Mint Ice Pop?

Think Happy, Be Happy

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I know why the caged bird sings

Bridge to Terabithia

Alexander McCall Smith

After the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is firmly established, founder Precious Ramotswe faces new challenges at home and at work, from problems with her adopted son to an assistant who dreams of opening a typing school for men.

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

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Jodi Picoult

Plain Truth

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Rachael Ray

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes

The host of Food Network's "30 Minute Meals" presents an array of recipes that are nutritionally balanced, light on carbohydrates, and can be prepared in thirty minutes or less.

Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals

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Lifetime Television

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes

Lose weight without losing your mind! Cook Yourself Thin is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without all the gimmicks. The ladies of "Cook Yourself Thin," a new Lifetime reality show, offer 80 easy, accessible recipes in this companion cookbook that teaches readers how to cut calories without compromising taste. For some of us, losing weight has always been a struggle. The challenge: figuring out how to cook healthy, low-fat foods that won't leave you hungry, bored, or running for a gallon of ice cream! Cook Yourself Thin shows how to cut calories, change diets, and improve health without sacrificing the foods we love. Cook Yourself Thin is not a fad diet. It gives skinny alternatives to your cravings. You can't live without your chocolate cake or mac 'n' cheese You don't have to! (See Deep Dark Chocolate Cake, page 197.) There's never enough time to cook Cook Yourself Thin keeps it simplewith easy instructions and fun recipes you'll want to make again and again. What are you waiting for? Cook Yourself Thin!

Cook Yourself Thin

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Jennie Brand-Miller

Kaye Foster-Powell

Gretchen Becker

Discusses the glycemic index and the benefits of low-G.I. foods and offers dietary guidelines, a comprehensive table of glycemic index values, and fifty recipes.

The Glucose Revolution Life Plan

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Benson Shum

Walt Disney Animation Studios Artist Showcase

Holly's Day at the Pool

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Brian Greene

Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

A foremost string theorist discusses such topics as Newton's perspectives on space, Einstein's fusion of space and time, and recent breakthroughs on multidimensional universe theory.

The Fabric of the Cosmos

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Lemony Snicket

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Baudelaires need a safe place to stay - somewhere far away from terrible villains and local police. A quiet refuge where misfortune never visits. Might Heimlich Hospital be just the place? In Lemony Snicket′s eighth ghastly instalment in A Series of Unfortunate Events, I′m sorry to say that the Baudelaire Orphans will spend time in a hospital where they risk encountering a misleading newspaper headline, unnecessary surgery, an intercom system, anesthesia, heart-shaped balloons, and some very startling news about a fire. Ages 10+

A Series of Unfortunate Events #8: the Hostile Hospital

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Thyra Heder

A Picture Book

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Shawnda Walker

Peanut, the Guinea Pig

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David McPhail

Something Special

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Anthony Doerr

Stories

Explores the variety of the human condition in a collection of short stories about love, relationships, grief, and hardship.

The Shell Collector

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The right hand top corner of the front cover is slightly bent as pictured.

Oliver Twist

Eugene O'Neill

There is very slight wear on the cover as pictured.

Desire under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra

Winner of the Nobel Prize

These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences' hearts.

Three Plays

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The Valley of Horses

Peter H. Fogtdal

Tiina Nunnally

There is slight damage on the top left back cover as pictured.

A tale by the Francophonian Literature Prize-winning author of Le Front Chantilly finds female dwarf Soerine given as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great and taken against her will to St. Petersburg to become a court jester, an appointment that sparks her relationship with a fellow dwarf and the judgmental attentions of an ignorant priest. Original.

The Tsar's Dwarf

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Abrams Noterie

Original French Edition by Marabout

Vive le Color! Flowers (Adult Coloring Book)

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Isak Dinesen

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.

The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few books on the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, 'I've got the name for our publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House.' Donald liked the idea, and Rockwell Kent said, 'That's a great name. I'll draw your trademark.' So, sitting at my desk, he took a piece of paper and in five minutes drew Random House, which has been our colophon ever since." Throughout the years, the mission of Random House has remained consistent: to publish books of the highest quality, at random. We are proud to continue this tradition today.

This edition is set from the first American edition of 1937 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.

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Chanda A. Bell; Carol V. Aebersold