Edward Gorey

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A happy, naive family enters the Evil Garden (free admission!) to spend a sunny afternoon in its inviting landscape, lush with exotic trees and flowers. They soon realize their mistake, as harrowing sounds and evidence of foul play emerge. When humongous hairy bugs, famished carnivorous plants, ferocious fruit-guarding bears, and a sinister strangling snake take charge, the family¿s ominous feelings turn to full-on panic¿but where¿s the exit?Edward Gorey leads us through this nefarious garden with a light step. His unmistakable drawings paired with engaging couplets produce giggles, not gasps. Perhaps The Evil Garden is a morality ta≤ perhaps it¿s simply an enigmatic entertainment. Whatever the interpretation, it¿s a prime example of the iconic storytelling genius that is Edward Gorey.

The Evil Garden

fce45d70-7d62-4001-8b94-f3a486c62843-1

William Bay

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Guitar Capo Chords Made Easy

69ed0798-27f5-466e-ba5b-0abfa0ed8523-0

Hal Leonard Corp. Staff

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

"Simply arranged, must-know collection of solos by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, and more!"--Cover.

First 50 Classical Pieces You Should Play on the Piano

bb8deddf-1bcd-4f1f-a3ae-e4997c8e9971-0

Elton John

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Elton John - Rocket Man: Number Ones

bfa20576-5e55-4d50-8159-e3e9e15fc1af-0

Guitar Head

How to Solo Effortlessly and Create Your Own Music Even If You Don't Know What a Scale Is: Secrets to Your Very First Scale

Break Through the Boxes and Get Soloing! Master Your Very First Guitar Scale and Change the Course of Your Musical Journey! Scales! The single most quoted technique of any successful musician! Yet many of us just can't make sense of these patterns! Your Most Frustrating Guitar Lesson! I vividly remember the frustration I went through while learning scales. "What patterns should I learn? Do I just learn all the patterns? How do I make music out of these patterns? How do I connect these patterns? Do I need to learn the theory? Are the patterns useful? WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE SCALES?" While learning scales can be a creative breakthrough for any guitarist, all of us can agree that it can be a pain in all the wrong places! Yet we need to scale this monstrous mountain to experience the view on the other side. Is there a solution to this? Let Me Help! While I was not lucky enough to learn the scales without going through the frustration, I have created a method to remove the frustration and teach you to solo and create music in a step by step manner. With the right guidance, anyone, just ANYONE can learn guitar scales and become the guitarist of their dreams. But such guidance is hard to come by! But you, my friend, have just struck gold! Your search ends here! Through this book, I intend to solve the problem every guitarist has to go through - mastering guitar scales! The Secret Method! Why is this method a secret, you ask? Well, I created it, no one else knows! So.... Isn't that a secret? Jokes aside, in this book, I teach you one scale - just one scale! But I teach you the way and method to learn every other scale you find in the future! I teach you the secret method to mastering scales as you start your journey to map out the fretboard. Create A Fretboard Map Wouldn't it be nice if you had a mental map of what notes to play on the fretboard to create good music? In this book, I give you all the tools you require to make sense of the boxes and help you stitch them together to make a colorful map of notes on the fretboard which you can navigate elegantly to create the music of your dreams! A Quick Summary of What You'll Find Inside: A good mix of theory and simplicity! The secret method to mastering your very first scale and every other scale thereafter Tips to help you create your very own fretboard map Simplified theory on how scales are formed and how they work Exercises to get you playing immediately Tons of lick ideas to put the theory to practice Audio tracks for the licks and backing tracks for you to jam along And a lot more..... If you are struggling to make sense of scales and want to learn it in the easiest possible way. I don't see why you would skip this book. Scroll Up Click the Buy Now Button to Grab Your Copy Today! Let's Make Some Music and Get You Soloing!

Guitar Scales for Beginners

3cbce963-88b8-4f03-94c4-98e883e3c05a-0

Memorize the Fretboard in Less Than 24 Hours: 35+ Tips and Exercises Included

Learning all the notes on the fretboard taking too long? Or worse - seems impossible? This book will unlock all the notes in 5 Simple steps! Why Should I learn the Fretboard? Throughout my years of experience with the guitar, I have come across multiple "pro guitarists" who cannot name the note they just played. Learning guitar theory with no knowledge about the names of the fretboard is comparable to learning complex arithmetic equations without knowing numbers! This book will make sure you don't end up like one of those guitarists! Here is why you should learn the fretboard: Understand how notes are arranged on the fretboard Create a mind map to navigate through the fretboard Communicate the ideas you have in your head to written format or to other musicians Create various visual references to make the fretboard less daunting And lots more Why Should I buy this book? It's only fair to ask yourself this question before spending your hard-earned money on anything. Here is what you'll find inside: The whole process of learning the fretboard simplified into 5 easy steps A step by step approach which will give you results even if you are a complete beginner 35+ exercises and tips to make sure you get results as fast as humanly possible The theory behind every concept for those who need it Countless memory techniques to make the process as simple as possible Beginner friendly - no prior music experience required All this taught in less than a day! Why this book from among the 100 others? I know there are multiple books out there that teaches you the exact same things. They have a lot more reviews and have been out for longer than this book. But here is how this book is different: Unique memory techniques which cannot be found elsewhere High quality pictures and diagrams to give you the whole picture Free bonus material including fretboard diagrams, Flash cards, Reference material and lots more! Gives you results faster than any book out there! I hope that was enough reasons to make you jump onto the book! So, what are you waiting for? Scroll up and click the BUY NOW button to get access to such a goldmine!

Guitar Fretboard

c0b2d3f8-79d0-4f90-9a60-16c9a70b5d97-0

An Encyclopedia of 30+ Unique Scales and Modes: 125+ Practice Licks

Change the Course of Your Guitar Journey! - With Over 30 Scales And 125 Lick Ideas! You've got to learn your scales! - The advice that changed the course of my guitar journey! Guitar scales is the single most important thing that you can learn on the guitar. It can quickly elevate your guitar playing from a "person who plays guitar" to a "musician". A good understanding of scales and the fretboard is all it takes to become the guitarist of your dreams. Exploring Scales can be a daunting task! With all the confusing music theory behind scales and weird boxes patterns, it'll take you years if not "forever" to master and explore all the scales out there! A lot of potential musicians get caught up in these box patterns and never get to explore their true potential! Being able to create music and soloing up and down the fretboard remains a distant dream! But with a little help....... A little help is all it takes! You'll soon see yourself crushing the fretboard and exploring territories of unheard emotion and music! With the right guidance, you can easily go from "a person who plays guitar" to "musician" who can create magic at his will. A musician who can solo all over the fretboard without getting lost! A skillful guitarist with bubbling licks under his fingers! You too can become that guitarist! Discover the world of guitar scales! Music can be easy if you know your scales and can navigate the fretboard effortlessly! That's precisely what you'll find inside this monstrous encyclopedia of scales! Explore the world of guitar scales and discover musical treasures you never knew existed! Here's a summary of what you'll find inside: Explanations for each of the 30+ scales and modes Whole neck and pattern diagrams for each scale A "Take Action" section with lick ideas to make sure the theory hits practical playing skills! Free audio tracks for every lick in the book All the theory you need - construction, formulas, notes and sprinkled secrets to get the best out of the scales And a lot more..... Let's dive deep into the world of scales and music - together! I can't wait to see you on the inside! Unleash Your Creativity and Let's Create Some Music! Scroll Up and Click the Buy Now Button to Grab Your Copy!

Guitar Scales Bible

006fcd36-b32e-4f2d-8275-67c1748085f4-0

Isabel Wilkerson

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Origins of Our Discontents

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. NAMED THE #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People • The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Bloomberg • Christian Science Monitor • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Fortune • Smithsonian Magazine • Marie Claire • Town & Country • Slate • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

f5eb827a-e9d1-4341-bd77-3f4f0a753cab-1

Scott Anderson

Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia--the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War--and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world. 

"Enthralling ... captivating reading." --The New York Times Book Review

At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear--to some--that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA. Chronicling the fascinating lives of four agents, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies: Michael Burke, who organized parachute commandos from an Italian villa; Frank Wisner, an ingenious spymaster who directed actions around the world; Peter Sichel, a German Jew who outwitted the ruthless KGB in Berlin; and Edward Lansdale, a mastermind of psychological warfare in the Far East. But despite their lofty ambitions, time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by a combination of ham-fisted politicking and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government.

The Quiet Americans

e5477792-aa1f-4452-b757-421b72773ebf-1

Alan Allport

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941

A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were permanently transformed by the Second World War.

Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British live up to their own values? What difference did the war make in the end to the fate of the nation?

In answering these and other essential questions he focuses on the human contingencies of the war, weighing directly at the roles of individuals and the outcomes determined by luck or chance. Moreover, he looks intimately at the changes in wartime British society and culture. Britain at Bay draws on a large cast of characters--from the leading statesmen and military commanders who made the decisions, to the ordinary men, women, and children who carried them out and lived through their consequences--in a comprehensible and compelling single history of forty-six million people. For better or worse, much of Britain today is ultimately the product of the experiences of 1938-1941.

Britain at Bay

ba5c2ea7-6c97-4067-8dbe-6af0ca0ae039-1

Gary J. Bass

World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST • 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER • 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND AIR MAIL • 10 ESSENTIAL BOOKS BY THE TELEGRAPH • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • THE OBSERVER AND THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK • A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg “Nothing less than a masterpiece. With epic research and mesmerizing narrative power, Judgment at Tokyo has the makings of an instant classic.” —Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against civilians in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of prisoners of war in notorious incidents such as the Bataan death march. For the Allied powers, the trial was an opportunity to render judgment on their vanquished foes, but also to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war, building a more peaceful world under international law and American hegemony. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was victors’ justice. For more than two years, lawyers for both sides presented their cases before a panel of clashing judges from China, India, the Philippines, and Australia, as well as the United States and European powers. The testimony ran from horrific accounts of brutality and the secret plans to attack Pearl Harbor to the Japanese military’s threats to subvert the government if it sued for peace. Yet rather than clarity and unanimity, the trial brought complexity, dissents, and divisions that provoke international discord between China, Japan, and Korea to this day. Those courtroom tensions and contradictions could also be seen playing out across Asia as the trial unfolded in the crucial early years of the Cold War, from China’s descent into civil war to Japan’s successful postwar democratic elections to India’s independence and partition. From the author of the acclaimed The Blood Telegram, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, this magnificent history is the product of a decade of research and writing. Judgment at Tokyo is a riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles, and the epic formative years that set the stage for the Asian postwar era.

Judgment at Tokyo

137ce0dc-31b9-43d8-95c3-ef15911b69fd-0

Catherine Grace Katz

The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a Story of Love and War

The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II Tensions at Yalta threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days. Kathleen Harriman, daughter of U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman, was a war correspondent and champion skier. Sarah Churchill, an actress-turned-RAF officer, was devoted to her brilliant father, who depended on her astute political mind. Roosevelt's only daughter, Anna, chosen instead of her mother, Eleanor, to accompany the president to Yalta, arrived there as keeper of her father's most damaging secrets. Situated in the political maelstrom that marked the transition to the postwar world, The Daughters of Yalta is a remarkable story of fathers and daughters whose relationships were tested and strengthened by the history they witnessed and the future they crafted together.

The Daughters of Yalta

b21c41dd-d194-4a5e-850f-0d1201e8eb78-1

Erik Larson

A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.

Thunderstruck

25d51a0c-deae-44b2-8c70-ac210f67eeee-1

Yuval Noah Harari

A Brief History of Humankind

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where weâe(tm)re going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankindâe(tm)s extraordinary history âe" from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age âe" and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world âe~It tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language. You will love it!âe(tm) Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel For more, visit www.ynharari.com

Sapiens

DvMoowEnja3LANUKHyr4

Ronald J. Sider

Moving from Affluence to Generosity

Do you want to make a true difference in the world? Dr. Ron Sider does. He has, since before he first published Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger in 1978. Despite a dramatic reduction in world hunger since then, 34,000 children still die daily of starvation and preventable disease, and 1.3 billion people, worldwide, remain in abject poverty. So, the professor of theology went back to re-examine the issues by twenty-first century standards. Finding that Conservatives blame morally reprehensible individual choices, and Liberals blame constrictive social and economic policy, Dr. Sider finds himself agreeing with both sides. In this new look at an age-old problem, he offers not only a detailed explanation of the causes, but also a comprehensive series of practical solutions, in the hopes that Christians like him will choose to make a difference.

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

e26d3195-5cc2-4c3f-ad5c-545316515a5e-1

James Patterson

Bill Clinton

A Thriller

A new thriller coming from #1 bestselling author James Patterson in Summer 2021.

The President's Daughter

7cb18206-9622-415c-af39-50fbcef8491b-1

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

David Remnick

Jamie Raskin

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

NOTE:
The January 6th Report appendices on pages 693-716 can be accessed via the QR code below, along with the hyperlinks from the chapter endnotes and witness testimony transcripts.

Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report by the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.

On January 6, 2021, insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol, an act of domestic terror without parallel in American history, designed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. In a resolution six months later, the House of Representatives called it "one of the darkest days of our democracy," and established a special committee to investigate how and why the attack happened.

Celadon Books, in collaboration with The New Yorker, presents the committee's final report, the definitive account of January 6th and what led up to it, based on more than a year of investigation by nine members of Congress and committee staff, with a preface by David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and an epilogue by Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a member of the committee.

The January 6th Report

e950bf83-af6e-44ea-93fc-48f7da353bdc-1

Thomas E. Ricks

The Fight for Freedom

A New York Times bestseller!

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017

A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.

Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north.

It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini "men we could do business with," if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom--that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted.

In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin.

Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift for the holidays!

Churchill and Orwell

74790243-b4a2-42f4-82aa-e2eb07d2f94d-1

Shuter

Browse by categories

Edward Gorey

The Evil Garden

William Bay

Guitar Capo Chords Made Easy

Hal Leonard Corp. Staff

First 50 Classical Pieces You Should Play on the Piano

Elton John

Elton John - Rocket Man: Number Ones

Guitar Head

Guitar Scales for Beginners

Guitar Head

Guitar Fretboard

Guitar Head

Guitar Scales Bible

Isabel Wilkerson

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

Scott Anderson

The Quiet Americans

Alan Allport

Britain at Bay

Gary J. Bass

Judgment at Tokyo

Catherine Grace Katz

The Daughters of Yalta

Erik Larson

Thunderstruck

Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens

Ronald J. Sider

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

James Patterson; Bill Clinton

The President's Daughter

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol; David Remnick; Jamie Raskin

The January 6th Report

Thomas E. Ricks

Churchill and Orwell

Get The App