Kristeen Griffin-Grimes

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Iowa

Innovative Techniques, Romantic Details and Feminine Designs

Superbly fitted and fashioned in luxurious yarns, these imaginative patterns follow four thematic vignettes inspired by French daily life, film, and history. Each section features dramatically different types of yarns, colors, and stitch patterns combined with timeless, figure flattering silhouettes that are suitable for knitters of all skill levels. Using innovative seamless construction methods, the need for sewing seams has been nearly eliminated by fashioning patterns in one piece from start to finish, easily allowing for adjustments for a custom fit. A handy design workshop features in-depth tutorials that teach seamless construction methods and provide valuable technical information for both beginning and seasoned knitters. Perfect for all body types, the designs are figure flattering with curve friendly waist shaping, empire waist detailing, and stitch details such as lacing, openwork, lace edgings, and bell sleeves that highlight the silhouette.

French Girl Knits

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Michael H. Weisman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ankylosing Spondylitis is an inflammatory arthritis that affects the spine and sacroiliac joints as well as other parts of the body, and that can eventually lead, in some patients, to complete fusion of the vertebrae and total rigidity. AS is not a rare health problem, but is in fact found in almost one percent of the US population, typically strikes young people and young families, and in its various forms is probably more common than rheumatoid arthritis.In this invaluable guide, Dr. Michael H. Weisman, one of America's leading authorities on AS, provides a down-to-earth, crystal-clear guide that is ideal for patients and their family. Dr. Weisman explains what AS is, discusses the genetic background to the disease (including the genes that researchers think may predispose some people to AS), explains how to diagnose the disease early and possibly prevent the later development of debilitating rigidity, the use of MRI for early detection, and much more. The book outlines which medications (such as TNF inhibitors) seem the most promising right now, the various drug side effects, the value of physical therapy, other treatment approaches, and whether surgery can be used to manage the complications of the disease.AS can lead to severe disability, but even those who have a milder form will experience painful "flares" alternating with periods of remission. Since it is a progressive disease in many patients, it is very important to reach patients as early as possible. This book will arm patients with the vital information they need to combat the disease.Laurie M. Savage, the Executive Director of the Spondylitis Association of America (SSA), the main patient support group world-wide, has written a foreword to the book. In addition, SSA will endorse the book and their logo will appear on the cover.

Ankylosing Spondylitis

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Scott Johnson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

An essential guide for AS patients, their loved ones, and physicians who want to discover the research and evidence-based natural options to beat ankylosing spondylitis naturally. Explore the intricacies of ankylosing spondylitis and how it affects the body with someone who actually has AS-bestselling author, naturopath, and natural health expert Dr. Scott A. Johnson.~ Learn the connection linking AS, eating, and gut health and how being armed with this knowledge may help you reduce AS symptoms. ~ Examine evidence-based natural remedies to quiet inflammation, soothe pain, and manage the various complications associated with AS. ~ Discover lifestyle modifications that can ease your suffering. ~ Investigate exercises to preserve back flexibility, strengthen the core, and reduce pain. ~ Realize how you can enjoy a fulfilling and satisfying life despite having AS.

Beating Ankylosing Spondylitis Naturally

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Judith Johnson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Essential Guide to the Most Important Part of Your Wedding Day

The Wedding Ceremony Planner is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide that covers everything you need to know to create a beautiful ceremony text and to anticipate and address all the profound and mundane logistics with ease, grace and fun.

The Wedding Ceremony Planner

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Wendy Paris

Andrew Chesler

Creative Ideas for Personalizing Your Vows, Toasts, Invitations, and More

"Come live with me and be my love..." Nothing personalizes a wedding more than using the right words. Brides- and grooms-to-be looking for unique, inspiring ways to celebrate their special day will find the best words of love in this practical guide. Romantic and witty, classic and contemporary, multicultural, pop-cultural, and just plain fun-if it's been said about love, it's in this book. Covering everything from invitations and wedding websites to readings, programs, party favors, and more, Words for the Wedding presents hundreds of classic and contemporary poems, quotes, quips, and blessings-from the Buddha to Bono-along with advice on how to use them most memorably. Whether you're planning a traditional nuptial or a do-it-yourself celebration on a shoestring, this useful and inspiring book will help you find all the right words to go along with "I do."

Words for the Wedding

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Soho Publishing

Easy crochet for beginners 

My First Afghan

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Janet Rehfeldt

26 patterns to crochet for comfort, gratitude, and charity 

Quick-to-crochet accessories, including super soft hats, shawls, socks, mittens, and more.

Crochet Pink

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Sian Gilbert

A Novel

For fans of Lucy Foley and Liane Moriarty, She Started It is a hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a group of young women whose Caribbean bachelorette party takes a sinister turn. It's Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends--or were, as children. Despite drifting apart in adulthood, shared secrets have kept them bonded for better or worse, even as their childhood dreams haven't quite turned out as they'd hoped. Then one day they receive a wholly unexpected--but not entirely unwelcome--invitation from another old friend. Poppy Greer has invited them all to her extravagant bachelorette party: a first-class plane ticket to three days of white sand, cocktails, and relaxation on a luxe private island in the Bahamas. None of them has spoken to Poppy in years. But Poppy's Instagram pics shows that the girl they used to consider the weakest link in their group has definitely made good--and made money. Curiosity gets the better of them. Besides, who can turn down a posh all-expenses-paid vacation on a Caribbean island? The first-class flight and the island's accommodations are just as opulent as expected...even if the scenic island proves more remote than they'd anticipated. Quite remote, in fact, with no cell service, and no other guests. The women quickly discover they've underestimated Poppy, and each other. As their darkest secrets are revealed, the tropical adventure morphs into a terrifying nightmare. Endlessly twisty, sharply observant, and deliciously catty, She Started It is sure to shock readers until the very end.

She Started It

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Oxmoor House Staff

Designs for all major holidays and seasons. Photos are a few samples. 

Cross-Stitch Collection

A collection of more than 40 cross-stitch projects, with colour photographs, graphs and concise instructions. They include designs for Easter, Hallowe'en and Thanksgiving, samplers, birth announcements, sweet sayings and a series of seven Father Christmases.

The Best of Vanessa-Ann's Cross-Stitch Collection

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Book of crafts and gift ideas that an average person (150 stitches/hour) can make. Designs include button covers, bookmarks, tea towels and more! Photos are only a sample of designs!

In just one hour you can create one of over 150 cross-stitch projects designed for your home, the holidays, and all those special people in your life. You'll find projects for both beginners and experienced stitchers, with emphasis given to stitching on ready-made garments and household items. 117 color photos.

One-Hour Cross Stitch

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Barbara Finwall

Nancy Javier

Hardcover book with some great weekend cross stitch patterns, some excellent gift ideas! Photos are just a sample of the designs!

Offers patterns for a variety of cross-stitch projects including T-shirts, place mats, towels, decorations, gift bags, photo frames, pillows, and pot holders.

One Hundred Weekend Cross Stitch Gifts

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A suburban mom, Emily Hudson begins to fantasize about her boyfriend from her teenage years, Jimmy Moran, and ends up in his arms again thirty years later.

Jimmy's Girl

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America Divided or United

When former Ohio governor John Kasich ran for president, his powerful message of hope and togetherness struck a chord with American voters. InTwo Paths: America Divided or United, he carries that message forward by reflecting on the tumultuous 2016 campaign, sharing his concerns for America and his hopes for our future, and sounding a clarion call to reason and purpose, humility and dignity, righteousness and calm.

"The country never looked so grand and magnificent as it did from ten thousand feet," he writes of his time on the campaign trail, "and it was always a thrilling, faith-affirming thing to look out our window and see the sun splashing across Bryce Canyon in Utah, or the lights of the New York skyline at night as we flew past the Statue of Liberty, or an open field in the heartland that ran as far as our eyes could see.... I'd look out and think what an honor it would be to lead this great nation, what a blessing."

To be sure, the full story of the 2016 Presidential race will be written over time, but to understand what it was to be on the front lines of one of the most divisive and corrosive campaign battlegrounds in history, readers won't find a richer, more thoughtful firsthand account than this one--a frank, refreshing assessment of the American dynamic and a clear path we might follow toward a more promising tomorrow.

As former governor Kasich reminds us in these pages, America is great because America is good--and because Americans have stayed true to who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible.

Two Paths

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Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home
 
Humans are tribal.  We need to belong to groups.  In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter most - the ones that people will kill and die for - are ethnic, religious, sectarian, or clan-based.  But because America tends to see the world in terms of nation-states engaged in great ideological battles - Capitalism vs. Communism, Democracy vs. Authoritarianism, the "Free World" vs. the "Axis of Evil" - we are often spectacularly blind to the power of tribal politics.  Time and again this blindness has undermined American foreign policy. 
 
In the Vietnam War, viewing the conflict through Cold War blinders, we never saw that most of Vietnam's "capitalists" were members of the hated Chinese minority. Every pro-free-market move we made helped turn the Vietnamese people against us. In Iraq, we were stunningly dismissive of the hatred between that country's Sunnis and Shias.  If we want to get our foreign policy right - so as to not be perpetually caught off guard and fighting unwinnable wars - the United States has to come to grips with political tribalism abroad.
 
Just as Washington's foreign policy establishment has been blind to the power of tribal politics outside the country, so too have American political elites been oblivious to the group identities that matter most to ordinary Americans - and that are tearing the United States apart.  As the stunning rise of Donald Trump laid bare, identity politics have seized both the American left and right in an especially dangerous, racially inflected way.  In America today, every group feels threatened: whites and blacks, Latinos and Asians, men and women, liberals and conservatives, and so on. There is a pervasive sense of collective persecution and discrimination.  On the left, this has given rise to increasingly radical and exclusionary rhetoric of privilege and cultural appropriation. On the right, it has fueled a disturbing rise in xenophobia and white nationalism.
 
In characteristically persuasive style, Amy Chua argues that America must rediscover a national identity that transcends our political tribes.  Enough false slogans of unity, which are just another form of divisiveness. It is time for a more difficult unity that acknowledges the reality of group differences and fights the deep inequities that divide us.

Political Tribes

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The Girl on the Train

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How a Street Cat Helped One Man Learn the Meaning of Christmas

In this poignant new story, A Gift from Bob, James Bowen recalls the last Christmas he was to spend on the streets, busking and selling the Big Issue with his cat Bob.

In 2010, the weather was as bleak as his prospects. Christmas had always been the time he dreaded. Now at least he had Bob by his side, but his health was poor, and he had no money for food or warmth. There was no choice but to venture out onto the frozen streets to earn enough to pay for his electricity and--with luck--to afford some small treats for Christmas as well.

What James learned through this toughest of times was to give his new life with Bob--and Christmas--a meaning it had never had before.

A Gift from Bob

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A Novel for Humans

Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray and shares a loving bond with young Ethan before he again dies and starts over.

A Dog's Purpose

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The Legendary Charm and Love of a Domestic Short-Haired Tabby Cat

Buttercup

A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat

A pet rescue volunteer and literacy outreach coordinator describes her relationship with a three-pound blind cat whose daredevil character and affectionate personality saw the author through six moves, a burglary and the healing of her broken heart. Reprint. A best-selling book.

Homer's Odyssey

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The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions

Vicki Myron follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller Dewey with stories of cats who inspire their owners and includes two brand-new Dewey stories! Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats--all told from the perspective of "Dewey's Mom," librarian Vicki Myron.

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World was a blockbuster bestseller and a publishing phenomenon. It has sold nearly a million copies, spawned three children's books, and will be the basis for an upcoming movie. No doubt about it, Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere, who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem, or how ordinary their talents, they can-and should-make a positive difference to those around them. Now, Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share.

The amazing felines in this book include Dewey, of course, whose further never-before-told adventures are shared, and several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki learned, through extensive interviews and story sharing, what made these cats special, and how they fit into Dewey's community of perseverance and love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a troubled Vietnam veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat, these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh, cry, care, and, most importantly, believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives.

Dewey's Nine Lives

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The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa. Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility (for a cat), and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most. As his fame grew from town to town, then state to state, and finally, amazingly, worldwide, Dewey became more than just a friend; he became a source of pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming town pulling its way slowly back from the greatest crisis in its long history.

Dewey

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Not a Happy Family

"The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages." --People

"I read this novel at one sitting, absolutely riveted by the storyline.  The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!" --Sue Grafton

It all started at a dinner party. . .

A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors--a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives. . .

Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story.

Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years. 

What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family--a chilling tale of  deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist.

The Couple Next Door

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The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Blending modern neuroscience with ancient Buddhist teaching, explains how elements of psychological well-being and spiritual awareness are based in the core functions of the brain and offers exercises to help rewire the brain to achieve peace, happiness,and wisdom.

Buddha's Brain

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A Daybook of Touchstones for Busy Lives

Following in the tradition of her bestselling LIFE IS A VERB -- a guide to living life more consciously -- Patti Digh returns with this deceptively simple gathering of touchstones, Your Daily Rock. With her signature gift of presenting truths in concise heartspeak, she provides short meditations to ground each day in more mindful and intentional living. The three hundred and sixty-six reflections (one for each date, including February 29th), lead readers to open space in their lives in order to love well, live fully, let go deeply, and make a difference. The visual impact of a physical rock brings home the metaphor that these words are something for people to carry around with them throughout their overscheduled day.


Christian publishers have long known success with religious daily devotionals. This new book will appeal both to the general, non-religious audience as well as those who understand the strength of a daily practice.


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Kristeen Griffin-Grimes

French Girl Knits

Michael H. Weisman

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Beating Ankylosing Spondylitis Naturally

Judith Johnson

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Wendy Paris; Andrew Chesler

Words for the Wedding

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My First Afghan

Janet Rehfeldt

Crochet Pink

Sian Gilbert

She Started It

Oxmoor House Staff

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One Hundred Weekend Cross Stitch Gifts

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Jimmy's Girl

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Two Paths

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Political Tribes

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The Girl on the Train

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A Gift from Bob

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A Dog's Purpose

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Buttercup

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Homer's Odyssey

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Dewey's Nine Lives

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Dewey

Shari Lapena

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Patti Digh; Kim deBroin Mailhot (Illustrator)

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