Rebecca Rather

Alison Oresman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Royally Good Recipes from the Texas Hill Country's Rather Sweet Bakery and Cafe [a Baking Book]

Royally Good Recipes From the Texas Hill Country's Rather Sweet Bakery and Cafe

The Best Little From-Scratch Bakery in TexasThe pastry case in Rebecca Rather's bakery in Fredericksburg is packed with ultra-buttery scones, luscious cakes, cookies the size of saucers, brownies as big as bricks, and fruit pies that look as though they came straight out of Grandma's oven. Since the day Rebecca and her Rather Sweet Bakery and Cafe came to town, life in this Hill Country hamlet has been even sweeter and the townsfolk now know why she is the Pastry Queen. Everything she makes is a lot like her- down-home yet grand, and familiar yet one-of-a-kind.A native Texan, Rather makes the most of her Lone Star state's varied traditions, whether looking to the kitchens of Texas's Mexican and German immigrants or to the cowboy culture of her own forebears. Best of all, her recipes aren't fussy-one of her best-selling cakes stirs together in a single saucepan. Add in a cupful of Texas attitude and her made-from-scratch-with-love philosophy, and you've got an irresistible taste of American baking.What's best at Rather Sweet? Rebecca's customers all have their favorites (and she is happy to cater to their cravings), but here's just a taste of the perennial best sellers-. Apple-Smoked Bacon and Cheddar Scones. Texas Big Hairs Lemon-Lime Tarts (the only big hair Rebecca has ever had!). Fourth of July Fried Pies. Peach Queen Cake with Dulce de Leche Frosting. Turbo-Charged Brownies with Praline Topping. All-Sold-Out Chicken Pot Pies. Kolaches (pillowy yeasted buns with sweet or savory fillings). PB&J CookiesWith over 125 surefire tested recipes and 100 photographs that richly capture small-town life in the Hill Country, The Pastry Queen offers a Texas-size serving of the royal splendor of Rebecca's baked goods-courtesy of the rather sweet gal behind the case.

The Pastry Queen

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Kristin Hannah

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Selena, an amnesiac woman living alone on the Maine coast, meets Ian Carrick, a brilliant, reclusive doctor who is haunted by his telepathic powers

Waiting for the Moon

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Margaret Stohl

Melissa de la Cruz

A surprising and romantic YA retelling-mashup of A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by bestselling authors Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz.

Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll are best friends. And thank goodness, since their boarding school is basically insufferable. When one of the friends suffers a personal tragedy, a plan--and a secret--change everything for the trio . . . for good.  
 
Filled with charm and romance, and inspired by some of classic literature's most beloved characters, The Secret Princess is the perfect blend of A Little Princess and The Secret Garden--and the perfect companion to Jo & Laurie.

A Secret Princess

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Lisa Jackson

Nancy Bush

From the bestselling Sisters of Suspense, the third installment in their New York Times and USA Today bestselling series featuring a cult-like group of women with psychic abilities - reissued for the first time since its original release a decade ago! YOU SENSE HIM Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it's a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live here, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic abilities, don't know all the terrors buried within its walls... YOU FEAR HIM Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department's investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex--and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets... BUT YOU CAN NEVER STOP HIM Death has come to Siren Song before. But this time there will be no refuge and no remorse. For everything born in wickedness must die that way--and a killer will not rest until he has claimed them all...

Something Wicked

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Nancy Thayer

A Nantucket shopkeeper discovers that Christmas is the perfect occasion to make unexpected friendships, to warm the coldest of hearts--and maybe even to find love--in this original holiday story by New York Times-bestselling author Thayer.or Thayer.

Let It Snow

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Juliana Sharaf

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Lessons for Living Like a Hero from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter

This magical book provides readers with insights into handling life's challenges, both big and small, by learning from the examples provided by one of the world's most beloved heroic characters, Harry Potter, and his friends.

What Would Harry Do?

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Jojo Moyes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. “You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.” How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . . For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.

After You

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Meg Wolitzer

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A New York Times Bestseller “A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle “Ultra-readable.” —Vogue From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be. To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world. Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer—madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can’t quite place—feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she’d always imagined. Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. At its heart, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It’s a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time), and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light.

The Female Persuasion

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Ludmila Ulitskaya

Polly Gannon

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

One of Russia’s most renowned literary figures and a Man Booker International Prize nominee, Ludmila Ulitskaya presents what may be her final novel. Jacob’s Ladder is a family saga spanning a century of recent Russian history—and represents the summation of the author’s career, devoted to sharing the absurd and tragic tales of twentieth-century life in her nation. Jumping between the diaries and letters of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and the experiences of his granddaughter Nora in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s and beyond, Jacob’s Ladder guides the reader through some of the most turbulent times in the history of Russia and Ukraine, and draws suggestive parallels between historical events of the early twentieth century and those of more recent memory. Spanning the seeming promise of the prerevolutionary years, to the dark Stalinist era, to the corruption and confusion of the present day, Jacob’s Ladder is a pageant of romance, betrayal, and memory. With a scale worthy of Tolstoy, it asks how much control any of us have over our lives—and how much is in fact determined by history, by chance, or indeed by the genes passed down by the generations that have preceded us into the world.

Jacob's Ladder

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Shaun Whiteside

Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq's Serotonin is a scathing, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, politically incorrect novel about the current state of Europe, Western civilization, and mankind in general. Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is "dying of sadness." His young girlfriend hates him, his career is pretty much over, and he has to keep himself highly medicated to cope with day-to-day city life. Struggling with "sex, male angst, solitude, consumerism, globalisation, urban planning, and more sex" (The Economist), Labrouste decides to head for the hills, returning to Normandy, where he once worked promoting regional cheeses, and where, too, he had once been in love, and even—it now seems—happy. There he finds a countryside devastated by globalization and European agricultural policies, and local farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible return to what they remember as a golden age: the smaller world of the premodern era. As the farmers prepare for what might be an armed insurrection, it becomes clear that the health of one miserable body and a suffering body politic are not so different, in the end, and that all concerned may be rushing toward a catastrophe a whole drugstore's worth of antidepressants won't be enough to make bearable.

Serotonin

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F R I E N D S

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The complete tales of Winnie the Pooh 

Leah Gallo

Tim Burton

Ransom Riggs

Witness the genesis of peculiardom! This visual tour of the movie world of Miss Peregrine s Home for Peculiar Children, created by iconic filmmaker Tim Burton, is sure to be a must-have for fans of the series. A companion book to the film, it features behind-the-scenes images and set information from two of Burton s long-time collaborators, including details on costume design, cinematography, set design, concept art, and more. The beautiful hardback edition makes a perfect gift or collector's item.--

The Art of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Leah Garwood-Gowers

The Hardihood

Daisy Kristiansen

Beautiful, Nutritious and Indulgent Raw Desserts, Treats, Smoothies and Elixirs

Long-time friends Leah and Daisy set up raw superfood confectionery company The Hardihood in early 2015 to prove that eating healthy desserts does not mean compromising taste or beauty. Their range of handcrafted desserts comprise all-natural ingredients and are completely free from refined sugar, gluten, wheat, dairy, and soy. They're also raw, which means the ingredients are not altered by heat and thus maintain their nutritional value and integrity.

Raw Cakeis about making beautiful, raw desserts that appeal to everyone. Using key healthy ingredients like nuts, coconut oil, dates, rice malt, and powdered super foods, these unique flavor combinations will delight your taste buds. You'll find bite-sized raw treats like Caramel Crunch and Carrot Cupcakes, as well as crowd-pleasers such as Pineapple Sorbet, Chocolate Orange Cake, and Banoffee Pie. Complete with 100 recipes, nutritional breakdowns, and food styling techniques,Raw Cake will help you to create sensational-looking and healthy cakes.

Raw Cake

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Stephanie Rohr

40 Bold and Fierce Patterns

Crafty activists will love this snarky book with its 40 irreverent, feminist-themed cross-stitch patterns. Whether you want to proudly announce that you're a nasty woman or remind others that a woman's place is in the revolution, you'll find edgy slogans, sharp one-liners, and cheeky images that make fabulous wall art or gifts. An illustrated basics section provides beginners with information on materials, tools, techniques, and framing your finished pieces.

Feminist Cross-Stitch

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Leila Slimani

Sam Taylor

"Fascinating . . . Adèle has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood--the idea that you can have it all or should at least die trying--and detonated it." --The New York Times Book Review "[A] fierce, uncanny thunderbolt of a book." --Entertainment Weekly From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--as well as Sex and Lies and In the Country of Others, her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making. Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged, Adèle is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.

Adèle

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Mercedes Lackey

The threat of Moriarty is gone - but so is Sherlock Holmes. Even as they mourn the loss of their friend and colleague, psychic Nan Killian, medium Sarah Lyon-White, and Elemental Masters John and Mary Watson must be vigilant, for members of Moriarty's network are still at large. And their troubles are far from over: in a matter of weeks, two headless bodies of young brides wash up in major waterways. A couple who fears for their own recently-wedded daughter hire the group to investigate, but with each new body, the mystery only deepens.

The Bartered Brides

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Rebecca Alexander

"Finely observed beautifully written" Daily Mail on The Secrets of Life and Death

"The victim had been buried in a carved hollow in the grass and shrouded in fallen leaves..."

Archaeologist Sage Westfield has her first forensics case: investigating the murder of a teenage girl. Hidden by holly leaves, the girl's body has been discovered on the grounds of a stately home, where another teenage girl went missing twenty years ago - but her body was never found. The police suspect the reclusive owner, Alistair Chorleigh, who was questioned but never charged. But when Sage investigates a nearby burial mound - and uncovers rumours of an ancient curse - she discovers the story of another mysterious disappearance over a hundred years ago. Sage will need both her modern forensics skills and her archaeological knowledge to unearth the devastating truth.

A Shroud of Leaves

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Willow Creek Press

80 of Your Favorite Fair Foods You Can Make at Home

Ladies and gentlemen, kids of all ages, prepare to be amazed and delighted! This travel-sized cookbook brings the spirit of carnival right to your very own kitchen. Indulgent photography and craving-worthy treats await with recipes that range from classic favorites to side-show amusements. Families and friends alike will love creating delicious fair food that is just as much for show as it is taste.

CarniFood

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Pat Moore

Pirco Wolfframm

Life, Design, and Beauty

Eva Zeisel was one of the twentieth century's most influential ceramicists and designers of modern housewares. Her distinctive take on modern industrial design was inspired by organic form and brought beauty and playfulness to housewares, earning her designs a beloved place in midcentury homes. This richly illustrated volume—the first-ever complete biographical account of Zeisel's life and work—presents an extensive survey of every line she ever created, all captured in gorgeous new photography, plus 28 short essays from scholars, collectors, curators, and designers. The definitive book on the grande dame of twentieth-century ceramics, this is an essential resource for anyone who appreciates modern design.

Eva Zeisel

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Mark Haworth-Booth

Colin Jones

Timeless and beautiful, Grafters is a sympathetic tale of industrial post-war Britain.  Its subjects are people who endure physical hardship with dignity- miners cramped and soaking against a two-foot coal seam, dockets waiting in gangs to work, shipbuilders unaware that they are laboring on the yards last vessel, as well as ballet dancers wrought by the sweat and toil of rehearsals. Grafters is an elegiac poem about a time and a way of life that has passed and we will never experience again.  


Jones' photo subjects are working people--miners, shipbuilders, dockers--and dancers. This is his best work from his career to date. 81 photos.

Colin Jones; Grafters

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Suzaan Boettger

Nedko Solakov

Nedko Solakov; 99 Fears

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Dave McKean

Neil Gaiman

Beyond the Shores of Night

An amazing collection of dark and arresting imagery, DREAM STATE- THE COLLECTED DREAMING COVES presents the haunting artwork of this critically acclaimed and award-winning epic. Through these dynamic pieces, Dave McKean reflected the mesmerizing mythology, adult nature, and imaginative storytelling that made the story of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, such a groundbreaking series. This collection also includes insightful and revealing cover commentaries by THE SANDMAN author Neil Gaiman.

Dream State

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Phil Brotherton

Travis Knight

Anthony Stacchi

LAIKA, the studio behind the hit films Coraline and ParaNorman, introduces audiences to a new breed of family: the Boxtrolls, a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie to devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family. The Art of The Boxtrolls features the amazingly detailed artwork that went into this film's creation, including character sketches, puppets, textiles, set dressing, and 3-D printed facial models, alongside the story of the film's development.

The Art of the Boxtrolls

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