Susan Choi

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a higly competitive
performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarefied bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When, within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts," two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed - or untoyed with - by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley.
The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school's walls — until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true— though it's not false, either. It takes until the book's stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place-revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence.
As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Indiana

A Novel

WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “Electrifying” (People) • “Masterly” (The Guardian) • “Dramatic and memorable” (The New Yorker) • “Magic” (TIME) • “Ingenious” (The Financial Times) • "A gonzo literary performance” (Entertainment Weekly) • “Rare and splendid” (The Boston Globe) • “Remarkable” (USA Today) • “Delicious” (The New York Times) • “Book groups, meet your next selection" (NPR) In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed—or untoyed with—by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school’s walls—until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true—though it’s not false, either. It takes until the book’s stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place—revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence. As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Susan Choi's Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.

Trust Exercise

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Bridget Morrissey

Out-of-work actress Sloane Ford is in desperate need of something to do after losing her steady TV gig. When her famous family ropes her into working as a producer on their World War Il-era romance, they neglect to mention that the film will be headlined by Joseph Donovan, her least favorite costar of all time. The roguish actor made her life a living hell the last time they worked together, using his movie-star good looks and Irish charm to cover for his erratic professional behavior. On their new film set, he promises he's different now, but Sloane is far from convinced.
As filming gets underway, it becomes clear that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. When the lead actress is abruptly fired, Sloane agrees to step in and take over the role, and she starts to remember why she fell in love with acting in the first place. On-camera, she and Joseph share an electric chemistry. Off-camera, they've been honing their characters and-much to Sloane's surprise- growing closer. But playing the role of a woman in love with Joseph Donovan is a dangerous business, and the more time they spend together, the less Sloane can tell what's real between them and what's just for show.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A BuzzFeed Best Book of June A heart-stirring, tear-inducing read you won't want to put down."--Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read Acting like she's in love with her handsome nightmare of a co-star--in a movie directed and produced by her complicated Hollywood royalty family--is Sloane's job. But what happens when the lines between script and reality get blurred? Out-of-work actress Sloane Ford is in desperate need of something to do after losing her steady TV gig. When her famous family ropes her into working as a producer on their World War II-era romance, they neglect to mention that the film will be headlined by Joseph Donovan, her least favorite former co-star of all time. The roguish actor made her life a living hell the last time they worked together, using his movie star good looks and Irish charm to cover for his erratic professional behavior. On their new film set, he promises he's different now, but Sloane is far from convinced. As filming gets underway, it becomes clear that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. When the lead actress is abruptly fired, Sloane agrees to step in and take over the role, and she starts to remember why she fell in love with acting in the first place. On camera, she and Joseph share an electric chemistry. Off camera, they've been honing their characters and, much to Sloane's surprise, growing closer. But playing the role of a woman in love with Joseph Donovan is a dangerous business, and the more time they spend together, the less Sloane can tell what's real between them, and what's just for show.

Love Scenes

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Eli Brown

Some slight wear on edges.

THE YEAR IS 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by a beautiful yet ruthless pirate. He will be spared, Mad Hannah Mabbot tells him, as long as he can conjure an exquisite meal every Sunday from the ship's meager supplies.
While Wedgwood attempts to satisfy his captor with feats such as tea-smoked eel and pineapple-banana cider, he realizes that Mabbot herself is under siege. Hunted by a deadly privateer and plagued by a saboteur, she pushes her crew past exhaustion in her search for the notorious Brass Fox. But there is a method to Mabbot's madness, and as the Flying Rose races across the ocean, Wedgwood learns to rely on the bizarre crew members he once feared: a formidable giant who loves to knit; a pair of stoic martial arts masters, sworn to defend their captain; and the ship's deaf cabin boy, who becomes the son he never had.
An anarchic tale of love and appetite, Cinnamon and Gunpowder is a wildly original feat of the imagination, deep and startling as the sea itself.

Eli Brown's Cinnamon and Gunpowder is a gripping adventure, a seaborne romance, and a twist on the tale of Scheherazade--with the best food ever served aboard a pirate's ship

The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts exquisite food in front of her every Sunday without fail.

To appease the red-haired captain, Wedgwood gets cracking with the meager supplies on board. His first triumph at sea is actual bread, made from a sourdough starter that he leavens in a tin under his shirt throughout a roaring battle, as men are cutlassed all around him. Soon he's making tea-smoked eel and brewing pineapple-banana cider.

But Mabbot--who exerts a curious draw on the chef--is under siege. Hunted by a deadly privateer and plagued by a saboteur hidden on her ship, she pushes her crew past exhaustion in her search for the notorious Brass Fox. As Wedgwood begins to sense a method to Mabbot's madness, he must rely on the bizarre crewmembers he once feared: Mr. Apples, the fearsome giant who loves to knit; Feng and Bai, martial arts masters sworn to defend their captain; and Joshua, the deaf cabin boy who becomes the son Wedgwood never had.

Cinnamon and Gunpowder is a swashbuckling epicure's adventure simmered over a surprisingly touching love story--with a dash of the strangest, most delightful cookbook never written. Eli Brown has crafted a uniquely entertaining novel full of adventure: the Scheherazade story turned on its head, at sea, with food.

An NPR Best Book of the Year (2013)

Cinnamon and Gunpowder

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Daniel Kahneman

Slight wear on top edge of the spine. Otherwise good condition.

IN THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahne-man, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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J. R. R. Tolkien

There is a crease in the front cover. Good condition otherwise.

75th anniversary edition

The Hobbit

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Brandon Mull

THE DRAGONS ARE NO LONGER OUR ALLIES....
In the hidden dragon sanctuary of Wyrmroost, Celebrant the Just, King of the Dragons, plots his revenge. He has long seen the sanctuaries as prisons, and he wants nothing more than to overthrow his captors and return the world to the Age of Dragons, when he and his kind ruled and reigned without borders.
The only chance of saving the world from destruction is if the ancient order of Dragonwatch gathers once again. But nearly all the original Dragonwatch members are gone.
As Kendra and Seth confront this new danger, they must draw upon all their skills, talents, and knowledge since only they have the ability to function together as a powerful dragon tamer. They must battle against forces with superior supernatural powers and breathtaking magical abilities.
How will the epic dragon showdown end? Will dragons overthrow humans and change the world as we know it? The long-awaited sequel to the Fablehaven series is here at last!

A Fablehaven Adventure

The dragons that have been kept in sanctuaries want their freedom—and their revenge—and the world’s only hope is the reformation of the ancient order of Dragonwatch in this New York Times bestselling first novel of a new sequel series to Fablehaven from author Brandon Mull. In the hidden dragon sanctuary of Wyrmroost, Celebrant the Just, King of the Dragons, plots his revenge. He has long seen the sanctuaries as prisons, and he wants nothing more than to overthrow his captors and return the world to the Age of Dragons, when he and his kind ruled and reigned without borders. The time has come to break free and reclaim his power. No one person is capable of stopping Celebrant and his dragon horde. It will take the ancient order of Dragonwatch to gather again if there is any chance of saving the world from destruction. In ancient times, Dragonwatch was a group of wizards, enchantresses, dragon slayers, and others who originally confined the majority of dragons into sanctuaries. But nearly all of the original Dragonwatch members are gone, and so the wizard Agad reaches out to Grandpa Sorenson for help. As Kendra and Seth confront this new danger, they must draw upon all their skills, talents, and knowledge as only they have the ability to function together as a powerful dragon tamer. Together they must battle against forces with superior supernatural powers and breathtaking magical abilities. How will the epic dragon showdown end? Will dragons overthrow humans and change the world as we know it?

Dragonwatch

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Games Workshop Staff

Cursed and restless spirits, the Nighthaunts rise from the underworlds to unleash terror on all who live.
Once they were content to haunt the periphery of civilisation, but no longer. The Nighthaunts now muster in vast armies, answering the siren call of war issued by their new commander - Lady Olynder, the Mortarch of Grief. It is she who leads the spirit hosts, the vanguard of an undead crusade, the point of the spear in Nagash's Soul Wars. Only the death of all beings can slake their terrible thirst for vengeance.

This book contains:
• An overview of the terrible endings and malicious curses that create the Nighthaunts.
• A brief history of the deeds and infamous battles of the Nighthaunts.
• The horrifying origins of Nagash's latest lieutenant - Lady Olynder, Mortarch of Grief.
• Tips for collecting Nighthaunt Citadel
Miniatures and rules that allow you to fight battles with them on the tabletop.
• A battleplan that recreates the unique fighting methods of the spectral Nighthaunts.
• Allegiance abilities that bestow your Nighthaunt collection with powerful battle traits, command traits and artefacts of power, as well as the Lore of the Underworlds.
• Warscrolls with complete rules for every Nighthaunt model, including endless spells and powerful battalions.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Nighthaunt

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From deathly Shyish come the ethereal Nighthaunt, terrifying spectres who are driven to murder by their intense hatred.
The Nighthaunt are the terror weapon of the Great Necromancer, Nagash. United under the rule of the Mortarch Lady Olynder, these undead rise up into the realms to spread a paralysis of fear amongst those they once called kin. When their foes are unmanned by doubt and hesitation, the Nighthaunt are at their most formidable, for against these bodiless gheists, courage is the only true defence. They are the point of Nagash's spear, and their howling hosts will massacre all before them until only an endless landscape of corpses remains.

This book includes:
• The history of the Nighthaunt, from their sepulchral origins to their ascendancy in the Soul Wars and beyond.
• A detailed painting guide for Nighthaunt miniatures.
• Battle traits, enhancements and battalions, as well as four iconic subfactions for Nighthaunt armies.
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• Path to Glory rules that allow you to haunt the territories you control.
• Grand strategies and battle tactics for use in matched play battles.
• Warscrolls and Pitched Battle profiles for Nighthaunt units and endless spells. 

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Michael Barry Winer

The Collaboration Handbook is your complete
. guide to putting together a collaboration that gets results! You'll see how to get a collaboration going, define the results you're after, determine everyone's roles, create an action plan, and evaluate the results.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Social Studies

Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey

This book provides activities and examples for learning about creating, sustaining, and enjoying new ways of working together. The book helps to develop a new language to deal with complicated situations on the journey to collaboration. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1, "How Do We Begin?" shares a story to develop the scenario. Part 2, "How Do We Set Forth?" suggests a definition of collaboration and the use of the metaphor of a "journey." Part 3, "How Do We Journey Together?" proposes four stages of collaboration. Part 4, "How Do We End?" suggests tools for collaboration. Appendices list 19 factors influencing successful collaboration, annotated resources, and documentation forms and worksheets. (EH)

Collaboration Handbook

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Brandon Schultz

Jacket shows some slight wear and tear on corners/edges, but book is in good condition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Over 100 Traditional and Innovative Recipes to Master America's New Favorite Food

Everything you need to serve the perfect tacos for one, two, or twenty. The Taco Revolution is the ultimate resource for preparing America’s new favorite dish. From the classic American taco and authentic Mexican recipes to the culinary curiosities of taco-stuffed shell pasta and chicken and waffle tacos, this book contains everything for beginners and old pros alike. Contents include: • Classic beef, chicken, pork, and fish favorites • Unique gems like the chicken cacciatore taco • Healthier taco seasoning and sauce recipes • Homemade taco shells finally made easy • How to host a successful taco party • What you should buy versus what you should make • And so much more! Thoroughly researched and beautifully photographed with full-color photos, The Taco Revolution answers every question you ever had about this naturally gluten-free food, and all those you never thought to ask. With the mix-and-match options available between stuffings, seasonings, sauces, shells, and sides, the recipes in this book could provide unique taco dinners every night of the year! Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Taco Revolution

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Lauryn Chun

Olga Massov

60 Traditional and Modern Ways to Make and Eat Kimchi

60 recipes and tips for creating and cooking with kimchi will add a kick of flavor to any plate. Following traditional kimchi-making seasons and focusing on produce at its peak, this bold, colorful cookbook walks you step by step through how to make both robust and lighter kimchi. Lauryn Chun explores a wide variety of flavors and techniques for creating this live-culture food, from long-fermented classic winter kimchi intended to spice up bleak months to easy-to-make summer kimchi that highlights the freshness of produce and is ready to eat in just minutes. Once you have made your own kimchi, using everything from tender and delicate young napa cabbage to stuffed eggplant, you can then use it as a star ingredient in Chun’s inventive recipes for cooking with kimchi. From favorites such as Pan-Fried Kimchi Dumplings and Kimchi Fried Rice to modern dishes like Kimchi Risotto, Skirt Steak Ssam with Kimchi Puree Chimichurri, Kimchi Oven-Baked Baby Back Ribs, and even a Kimchi Grapefruit Margarita, Chun showcases the incredible range of flavor kimchi adds to any plate. With sixty recipes and beautiful photographs that will have you hooked on kimchi's unique crunch and heat, The Kimchi Cookbook takes the champagne of pickles to new heights.

The Kimchi Cookbook

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Abbie Halberstadt

Signed copy!

The narrative around motherhood today can be a real downer.
Instead of rallying to uplift each other or rejoicing in what God has done in their lives, moms often connect over memes about how "kids are the worst."
Mother-of-ten Abbie Halberstadt believes that Christ has so much more to offer you and your family than the empty validation of fist bumps for surviving another day that worldly culture brings to the table. Abbie offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with humor and grace to help you embrace the challenges and see the rewards of Christlike motherhood.
Applying biblical love and wisdom to raising your children won't always be easy. It will take grit and a desire to parent for God's glory. It will also take a willingness to buck the popular trends of mediocre moth-erhood. But here's the good news: When we are not enough, Christ is more than sufficient, and His love for you and your kids is nothing less than revolutionary.
Are you ready to join the rebellion?

A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood

A PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER



Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. 

Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive.                   



As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn't have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God's grace and for His glory. 

M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom.  

Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it's time to start believing you can live up to it.   

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