Wednesday Martin

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Washington

A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do

Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. And what woman with stepchildren has not-in order to defuse the often overwhelming challenges and anxieties she experiences-referred to herself as a "stepmonster"? What Hope Edelman's book has done for motherless daughters, Wednesday Martin's empowering and original Stepmonster does for stepmothers: unlocks the emotional mysteries of why they think and feel and act the way they do. Martin draws on her own experience as a stepmother, interviews many stepmothers and stepchildren, and gathers insights from literature, psychology, and evolutionary biology to reveal the little-understood realities of this demanding role. Stepmonster illuminates the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, exposes the myths and realities of being married to a man with children, counteracts the prevailing notion that stepmothers are solely responsible for the problems they encounter, identifies the five "step-dilemmas" that create conflict, and considers the emotional and social challenges men with children face when they remarry. Stepmonster also sheds light on the history of stepmothering and the previously overlooked legacy of women with stepchildren everywhere. Finally, in an unexpected twist, Martin shows why the myth of the Wicked Stepmother is at once an elaborate cultural fiction and our single best tool for understanding who real stepmothers are and how they feel.

Stepmonster

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John Grisham

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The best-selling author of The Confession and The Appeal presents a latest legal thriller in which high-stakes courtroom tensions lead up to an explosive, unorthodox conclusion.

The Litigators

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Book 3 in the chronicles Of Narnia

The Voyage Of The “Dawn Treader”

Douglas Niles

Book three of the watershed trilogy 

The Watershed Trilogycomes to an end. As the human and Faery alliance make their final stand against the Dark Lord's armies, the Man and Woman of Three Waters set out to fulfill their destiny beyond the Watershed where only they can vanquish the heart of evil.

War of Three Waters

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Treasure hunters chase Dhalvad, an orphan, into one of the planet Ver-Draak's large forests in search of riches left behind by the planet's original inhabitants

Where The No-Lach 

Ed Greenwood

Although the Shadowmasters are finally on the run, the evil ones have no plans to relinquish their dreams of conquest, even if it means total anhilation, and it is up to Elminster, Khelben, and Alustriel to end the reign of terror forever. Original. 75,000 first printing.

All Shadows Fled

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June Casagrande

English

A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

A hilarious compilation of witty anecdotes and trenchant essays on the mysteries of grammar and punctuation takes a poke at self-appointed language experts as it discusses such topics as predicate nominatives, colons and semicolons, quotation marks, prepositions, hyphens, and more. Original.

Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies

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Karen Haber

Kayla, an extraordinarily gifted young telepath, is on the run, after challenging the control of the most powerful of the psi families on her home planet. Soon, she is caught in a planets-spanning struggle between two equally deadly forces ready to use any weapon--even Kayla's mind--to secure total victory.

Woman Without a Shadow

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Mission Earth Series Vol 2

Black Genesis

Elizabeth H. Turner

This lavish book gathers work from the Stieglitz circle as acquired by Duncan Phillips: paintings by Dove, Hartley, Marin, and OKeeffe, and Stieglitzs own photographic Equivalents. These artists defied European tradition, exhibiting a bold, original style that signaled arts coming of age in America. The text includes a selection of letters between Phillips and Stieglitz.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe, and Stieglitz

That Stieglitz and Phillips would meet was destiny. Their long friendship, sometimes an uneasy alliance, brought forth a reevaluation of art in American culture. Their combined vision and resources invigorated a movement and prepared the way for public acceptance of American modernism.

In the American Grain

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

100 Things You Should Know About Cats & Kittens 

Publications International Ltd. Staff

Muscle Cars: Kings of the Street from the Golden Era has more than 90 cars that are profiled, including their mechanical and design highlights and their place in the muscle car pecking order.
Insightful descriptions from the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide and photographs on every page.
Exclusive specifications charts detail each car's vital statistics -- how much it cost, how many were built, how fast it went and many more details.
Genuine muscle cars like the many Dodge Charger versions issued during the 1960s and early 1970s--a true classic.
Car luxury makers' attempts at muscle car stardom, like the 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass 4-4-2 W-30 and the 1969 Buick GS 400.
The icons, like the Pontiac GTO, Chevrolet Camaro, Chevrolet Nova, Chevrolet Chevelle, and Dodge Challenger T/A.
The 1964 Pontiac Tempest GTO--what some consider the quintessential muscle car.
Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac GTO, Dodge Charger, Ford Mustang, these names evoke memories of aggressively styled, amply powered kings of the road from the decade of the 1960s and the early 1970s, when Detroit was king, oil was cheap, and cars rumbled when you told them to. The focus is not on highly modified, professionally raced versions of these iconic machines; instead, the focus is on prime examples of the cars you or your dads drove during this exciting decade.

It's all here, in the best muscle-car read you'll find anywhere: Muscle Cars: Kings of the Street from the Golden Era. Take a trip down memory lane, a loud one.

Muscle Cars: Kings of the Street from the Golden Era has more than 90 cars that are profiled, including their mechanical and design highlights and their place in the muscle car pecking order.
 * Insightful descriptions from the Auto Editors of Consumer Guideand photographs on every page.
 * Exclusive specifications charts detail each car's vital statistics--how much it cost, how many were built, how fast it went and many more details.
 * Genuine muscle cars like the many Dodge Charger versions issued during the 1960s and early 1970s--a true classic.
 * Car luxury makers' attempts at muscle car stardom, like the 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass 4-4-2 W-30 and the 1969 Buick GS 400.
 * The icons, like the Pontiac GTO, Chevrolet Camaro, Chevrolet Nova, Chevrolet Chevelle, and Dodge Challenger T/A.
 * The 1964 Pontiac Tempest GTO--what some consider the quintessential muscle car.

Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac GTO, Dodge Charger, Ford Mustang. These names evoke memories of aggressively styled, amply powered kings of the road from the decade of the 1960s and the early 1970s, when Detroit was king, oil was cheap, and cars rumbled when you told them to. The focus is not on highly modified, professionally raced versions of these iconic machines; instead, the focus is on prime examples of the cars you or your dads drove during this exciting decade.



It's all here, in the best muscle-car read you'll find anywhere: Muscle Cars: Kings of the Street from the Golden Era. Take a trip down memory lane--a loud one.

Muscle Car Landscape BK

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Suzanne McNeill

Lani Stiles

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Capturing the Best Memories with Photos, Albums and Journals

"Hundreds of ideas and patterns show how to organize, arrange, write and decorate pages. You will discover creative ways to showcase favorite photos from school, holidays, weddings, baby, birthdays and vacations. In addition, learn about archival precautions to keep photos safe from fading and deterioration"--Back cover

Family Memories

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Susan Milord

Explores styles of art through the ages with over 200 artistic adventures including paints, pastels, ethnic and recycled art, sculpture, still life, batik, silkscreen, and more

Arts & Crafts Experiences for 8- To 13-Year-Olds

For ages 9 to 12 years. This classic for the older child opens a diverse world of artistic expression and varied mediums. Here children take over 200 artistic adventures into paints, pastels, ethnic and recycled art, sculpture, 3-dimensional art, still life, perspective, charcoal, landscapes, batik, silkscreen and much more. In this revised edition, children meet the likes of Henri Matisse, Grandma Moses, and Diego Rivera, applying the artists' styles to their own art -- while broadening their view of what art can be.

Adventures in Art

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A history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century.

A history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century

Hypatia’s Heritage

Joseph Mazur

Like Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski’s A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore
logic—the one indispensable tool in man’s quest to understand the world. Underpinning both math and science, it is the foundation of every major advancement in knowledge since the time of the ancient Greeks. Through adventure stories and historical narratives populated with a rich and quirky cast of characters, Mazur artfully reveals the less-than-airtight nature of logic and the muddled relationship between math and the real world. Ultimately, Mazur argues, logical reasoning is not purely robotic. At its most basic level, it is a creative process guided by our intuitions and beliefs about the world.

Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math

Like Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach and David Berlinski's A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore logic - the one indispensable tool in man's quest to understand the world. Through adventure stories and historical narratives populated with a rich and quirky cast of characters, Mazur artfully reveals the less-than-airtight nature of logic and the muddled relationship between maths and the real world.

Euclid in the Rainforest

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Molly expects Lindy's vacation to be fun and exciting and even convinces her to join at as Scottish dancing class. It gets off to a bad start when Lindy spots an old foe who thinks should be dead.

A Reel Threat 

Stuart Woods

Stone Barrington returns in the new action-packed thriller from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author. 
It's a time of unexpected change for Stone Barrington. A recent venture has achieved a great victory, but is immediately faced with a new challenge: an underhanded foe who's determined to wreak havoc at any cost. Meanwhile, when Stone finds himself responsible for distributing the estate of a respected friend and mentor, the process unearths secrets that range from merely surprising to outright alarming. And when a lethal beauty from Stone's past resurfaces, there's no telling what chaos will follow in her wake . . . 
Ever a master of keeping cool under pressure, even Stone might have his work cut out for him this time . . . because when grand ambitions collide with criminal inclinations, the results may be more deadly than he could have anticipated.

A Stone Barrington Novel

Secrets and seduction are temptations Stone Barrington can’t resist, and in this action-packed thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, he encounters plenty of both... It’s a time of unexpected change for Stone Barrington. A recent venture has achieved a great victory, but is immediately faced with a new challenge: an underhanded foe who’s determined to wreak havoc at any cost. Meanwhile, when Stone finds himself responsible for distributing the estate of a respected friend and mentor, the process unearths secrets that range from merely surprising to outright alarming. And when a lethal beauty from Stone’s past resurfaces, there’s no telling what chaos will follow in her wake...

Insatiable Appetites

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Sark

LIVING JUICY is jumping for joy on the inside. Sark gives us the juice to nourish our creative souls with this map and miniature guidebook. Weekly topics include "procrastinating," "energizing," "adventuring," "aging," and "shouting." Each daily affirmation is designed to stop those dry and cracked feelings and give us those sweet, wild moments we crave.

Daily Morsels for Your Creative Soul

LIVING JUICY is a jump for joy from the inside out, where Sark feeds her readers the juice to nourish their creative souls in the form of daily affirmations under weekly topics like Procrastination, Energizing, Adventuring, Aging, and Shouting. Sark's positive and creative affirmations are designed to stop those dry asnd cracked feelings and give us those sweet, wild moments we crave.

Living Juicy

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Proud to be one of the poets who contributed to this anthology. My poem Two Girls was the first thing I ever tried to get published. I wonder if I just got lucky. I wrote it in a way, you can't read it fast or it may sound confusing or incorrect. I'm a lover of language, and phrasing things in ways people aren't used to hearing them phrased. Never thought it would even get in the book, bringing up homosexuality and all. It even looks atheist if read the wrong way, and without thinking about it what it really means. That... was the sign I needed to keep going with writing. There are so, so many different kinds of poems in this book. Going through this for the first time, I kept ripping off parts of a tissue and sticking them in the pages, cause I didn't have a bookmark, so I could come back to the poems... well I ran out of tissue, so there are a lot of great poems in there! What I like about it is that I'm in the same book with people who have contrasting, or slightly different views/beleifs. (obvious by the poems) Diversity is a good thing in an anthology. I can recal a *hilarious* poem, and a poem that makes you want to just curl up and cry in a corner for days... in a good way. Theres poems that make you want to praise and celebrate, and there are poems that make you really need to think. I couldn't dream of a better anthology that I would want my first published thing in. I didn't even think I'd get in this one. You never know. Anyhow this would make a great holiday gift for any lover of modern poetry. There's a poem in this book for anything you can imagine. It's just a beautiful display of self-expression, wisdom, rhythem, and pure emotion. Definately add this to the collection.

Forever Spoken 

Diane Schoemperlen

One Monday morning in April, a middle-aged writer walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman standing beside her potted fig tree. Dressed in a navy blue trench coat and white Nikes, the woman introduces herself as "Mary. Mother of God.... You know. Mary." Instead of a golden robe or a crown, she arrives bearing a practical wheeled suitcase. Weary after two thousand years of adoration and petition, Mary is looking for a little R & R. She's asked in for lunch, and decides to stay a week. As the story of their visit unfolds, so does the story of Mary-one of the most complex and powerful female figures of our time-and her changing image in culture, art, history, as well as the thousands of recorded sightings that have placed her everywhere from a privet hedge to the dented bumper of a Camaro.

As this Everywoman and Mary become friends, their conversations, both profound and intimate, touch upon Mary's significance and enduring relevance. Told with humor and grace, Our Lady of the Lost and Found is an absorbing tour through Mary's history and a thoughtful meditation on spirituality, our need for faith, and our desire to believe in something larger than ourselves.

A Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship

Our Lady of the Lost and Found

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Tamar Kasriel

Futurescaping is an engaging guide to making better life decisions by adapting the best elements of business planning for personal success.

So many people manage brilliantly at work, making smart and accountable decisions, yet let their personal lives slide into gentle chaos. Futurescaping reveals the truths of corporate future planning, outlining the importance and benefit of accountability and a clear bottom line. It focuses on the enigmatic technique of scenario planning which enables organisations to plan decades in advance, and shows how individuals can use the same technique to plan for their own futures.

Building on interviews with business leaders, life coaches and behavioural economists, this engaging, clear-sighted book will allow you to build a model of your future to help you make smarter choices in your career, family life, health and personal finances. Presented with a dry wit, not only will Futurescaping help you to organise your life, it will help you free yourself from entrenched thinking patterns by getting you to think in a whole new way. If you've never believed planning could be liberating, prepare to be wrong.

Using Business Insight to Plan Your Life

Futurescaping is an engaging guide to making better life decisions by adapting the best elements of business planning for personal success.So many people manage brilliantly at work, making smart and accountable decisions, yet let their personal lives slide into gentle chaos. Futurescaping reveals the truths of corporate future planning, outlining the importance and benefit of accountability and a clear bottom line. It focuses on the enigmatic technique of scenario planning which enables organisations to plan decades in advance, and shows how individuals can use the same technique to plan for their own futures.Building on interviews with business leaders, life coaches and behavioural economists, this engaging, clear-sighted book will allow you to build a model of your future to help you make smarter choices in your career, family life, health and personal finances. Presented with a dry wit, not only will Futurescaping help you to organise your life, it will help you free yourself from entrenched thinking patterns by getting you to think in a whole new way. If you've never believed planning could be liberating, prepare to be wrong.

Futurescaping

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Carl E. Olson

Sandra Miesel

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's best selling novel, purports to be more than fiction: it claims to be based on fact and scholarly research. Brown wants his readers to believe that he is revealing the long-concealed truth about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and early Christianity, a truth that he says has been suppressed by the malevolent and conspiratorial forces of the Catholic Church. The novel alleges that there has been throughout history a secret group of true followers of a Gnostic Jesus and his wife, Mary Magdalene, the true "Holy Grail". Almost everything most Christians and non-Christians think they know about Jesus, according to Dan Brown, is completely wrong, the result of Catholic propaganda designed to hide the truth from the world.

But are The Da Vinci Code's claims fact or just plain fiction? Is the novel well-researched as claimed? What is the truth about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the early Church? Has the Catholic Church distorted the real Jesus? Why is the novel so popular? What about the anti-Catholic, anti-Christian agenda behind the novel?

Best selling author Carl Olson and journalist Sandra Miesel answer these and other important questions. Their painstaking research intoThe Da Vinci Code and its sources reveals some surprising truths. No one who has read or heard about The Da Vinci Code should miss this provocative and illuminating book.

Exposing the Errors in the Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's best selling novel, purports to be more than fiction: it claims to be based on fact and scholarly research. Brown wants his readers to believe that he is revealing the long-concealed truth about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and early Christianity, a truth that he says has been suppressed by the malevolent and conspiratorial forces of the Catholic Church. The novel alleges that there has been throughout history a secret group of true followers of a Gnostic Jesus and his wife, Mary Magdalene, the true "Holy Grail". Almost everything most Christians and non-Christians think they know about Jesus, according to Dan Brown, is completely wrong, the result of Catholic propaganda designed to hide the truth from the world.

But are The Da Vinci Code's claims fact or just plain fiction? Is the novel well-researched as claimed? What is the truth about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the early Church? Has the Catholic Church distorted the real Jesus? Why is the novel so popular? What about the anti-Catholic, anti-Christian agenda behind the novel?

Best selling author Carl Olson and journalist Sandra Miesel answer these and other important questions. Their painstaking research intoThe Da Vinci Code and its sources reveals some surprising truths. No one who has read or heard about The Da Vinci Code should miss this provocative and illuminating book.

The Da Vinci Hoax

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Elizabeth Strout

A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “What truly makes Strout exceptional . . . is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides of story and depths of feeling.”—Chicago Tribune This edition includes an original essay by Elizabeth Strout about the origins of The Burgess Boys. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Good Housekeeping Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has gotten himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. With a rare combination of brilliant storytelling, exquisite prose, and remarkable insight into character, Elizabeth Strout has brought to life two deeply human protagonists whose struggles and triumphs will resonate with readers long after they turn the final page. Tender, tough-minded, loving, and deeply illuminating about the ties that bind us to family and home, The Burgess Boys is perhaps Elizabeth Strout’s most astonishing work of literary art.

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