Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

Windfall

Michelle Paver

"Fantasy adventure on a grand scale, with a wealth of wilderness lore and convincing characterizations." --Booklist

Fans of Fablehaven and City of Ember will devour Michelle Paver's bestselling fantasy series about one boy's epic fight against evil and the wolf who guides him.

Six thousand years ago. Powerful mages stalk the land, threatening to destroy all the forest clans. According to legend, only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat them. Their journey together takes them through perilous terrain and into dangers they never imagined. Torak and Wolf are terrified of their mission. But if they do not battle to save their world, who will?

"Torak's coming-of-age tale will keep the pages turning." --Publishers Weekly

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #1: Wolf Brother

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E. B. White

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The delightful classic by E. B. White, author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, about overcoming obstacles and the joy of music. This edition features Fred Marcellino's gorgeous illustrations in full color!

Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.

Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection--he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a real brass trumpet. Is a musical instrument the key to winning Louis his love?

"We, and our children, are lucky to have this book." --John Updike

The Trumpet of the Swan joins E. B. White favorites Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little as classic illustrated novels that continue to speak to today's readers. Whether you curl up with your young reader to share these books or hand them off for independent reading, you are helping to create what are likely to be all-time favorite reading memories.

The Trumpet of the Swan: Full Color Edition

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Melissa de la Cruz

Masquerade (Blue Bloods, Vol. 2)

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Lisa Klein

Raised by three strange sisters, Albia has never known the secrets of her parentage. But when Macbeth seeks out the weird sisters to foretell his fate, his life is entangled with his unknown daughter's. When Albia foresees the terrible future, she becomes determined to save Macbeth's rival--and the man she loves--from her murderous father. Klein's seamlessly drawn tale makes it seem impossible that Albia was not part of Shakespeare's original play.

Lady Macbeth's Daughter

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Robin Wasserman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

When three brilliant nerds--Max Kim, Eric Roth, and Isaac "The Professor" Schwarzbaum--bet $20,000 that they can get anyone into Harvard, they take on the Ivy League in their quest for popularity, money, and the love of a beauty queen valedictorian. Original.

Hacking Harvard

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Stephanie Shulman

Book has some scratches on back cover. See photos.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet

Mice are an inexpensive, popular pocket-pet, especially for families with young children. This guide will provide everything the new owner needs to care for pet mice, as well as insight into (and great photos of) the many varieties of mice available.

The Mouse

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Lisa See

A Novel

Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). Some girls were paired with laotongs, “old sames,” in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed and they become “old sames” at the tender age of seven. As the years pass, through famine and rebellion, they reflect upon their arranged marriages, loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their lifelong friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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Suzanne Somers

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Discover the Hormone Connection - The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health, and Vitality, for Women and Men

Encourages women to explore options in natural hormone replacement in order to bolster health, sex drive, weight loss, and vitality in the second half of life, and offers insight into the concept of male menopause.

The Sexy Years

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Answers from the Other Side

After Life

Susan Gabriel

Sequel to Temple Secrets (Southern Fiction)

A family legacy in danger. A stranger in their midst. Do they have the strength to survive the gathering storm of secrets?For the Temple women, the winds of change are blowing. And if they're not careful, it could sweep them all away¿After rising from Temple servant to tea shop owner, Violet finally feels in charge of her destiny. While learning Gullah folk magic from her aging grandmother, she worries much of her cultural heritage will be lost to the grave. Is there enough time for Old Sally to pass down all her special wisdom? Bride-to-be Queenie has never felt younger at heart. Engaged to the man of her dreams, the feisty sixty-year-old won't let anything ruin her big day-not even ancestral ghosts or a mysterious wedding crasher.Rose's southern roots run deep. Even after three decades away, she can still feel the shadow of her deceased high-society mother watching her every move. Can she shake her ghost and find a place among her family? With a storm of trouble brewing across the island, the Temple women will have to survive more than a force of nature to put their ghosts to rest¿Gullah Secrets is the sequel to the bestselling novel Temple Secrets. If you like Southern gothic literature, characters you won't want to close the cover on, and locations steeped in history, then you'll love this hilarious and warmhearted saga. Buy Gullah Secrets today to unlock a compelling tale of family ties and tempests!

Gullah Secrets

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Ruined

Terry L. Taylor

The Angels' Guide to Personal Growth

An angel-oriented collection of over 60 self-help practices based on the idea that angels can add a sense of fun, love, and adventure to even the most stressful and fast-paced lifestyle. Angels create miracles, make us happy, enhance our creativity, and bring lightness to life's heavy and difficult problems. Line drawings.

Guardians of Hope

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Carrie Arcos

Mark grapples with the loss of his twin sister in this heart-wrenching novel of grief and resilience from National Book Award finalist Carrie Arcos.

Mark knows grief. Ever since the accident that killed his twin sister, Grace, the only time he feels at peace is when he visits the bridge on which she died. Comfort is fleeting, but it's almost within reach when he's standing on the wrong side of the suicide bars. Almost.

Grace's best friend, Hanna, says she understands what he's going through. But she doesn't. She can't. It's not just the enormity of his loss. As her twin, Mark should have known Grace as well as he knows himself. Yet when he reads her journal, it's as if he didn't know her at all.

As a way to remember Grace, Hanna convinces Mark to complete Grace's bucket list from her journal. Mark's sadness, anger, and his growing feelings for Hanna threaten to overwhelm him. But Mark can't back out. He made a promise to honor Grace--and it's his one chance to set things right.

There Will Come a Time

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Dan Millman

Doug Childers

True Stories of Mystery and Miracles That Change Lives

Dan Millman, the best-selling author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior, now brings his unique and heartfelt approach to a collection of stories, from around the world and throughout time, to comfort, inspire, and intrigue. Written with colleague and friend Doug Childers, Divine Interventions--a "spiitual X-Files" of 50 documented stories--provides compelling evidence that our world is far more mysterious than it appears.

Divine Interventions

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Fairest 

Patrice Kindl

Anna is nearly invisible. At seven, terrified of school, shy little Anna retreats within the walls of her family's enormous house, and builds a world of passageways and hidden rooms. As the years go by, people forget she ever existed. Then a mysterious note is thrust through a crack in the wall, and Anna must decide whether or not to come out of hiding. Blending fantasy and reality, this is a novel readers will not forget. An ALA Best Book for Your Adults.

The Woman in the Wall

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Betty J. Eadie

Melvin Morse

Relates the near-death experience of Betty Eadie, and recounts the events that followed

Embraced by the Light

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Sierra Simone

There are many rules a priest can't break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God.I've always been good at following rules.Until she came. Then I learned new rules.My name is Tyler Anselm Bell. I'm twenty-nine years old. Six months ago, I broke my vow of celibacy on the altar of my own church, and God help me, I would do it again.I am a priest and this is my confession.

Priest

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Colleen Hoover

A "sublimely creepy" psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover (Tarryn Fisher, New York Times bestselling author). Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.

Verity

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First, Family & Place Names

Book of Irish Names

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Karen Anderson

A Collection of Curious Kitty Quirks

A celebration of feline idiosyncrasies shares lighthearted explanations of such perplexing behaviors as getting stuck in trees, delivering kills to the doorstep and landing on their feet, in a volume complemented by evocative black-and-white pencil illustrations.

Why Cats Do That

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Dragon’s Egg

Esther Friesner

Helen of Sparta, a beautiful princess, makes friends with huntress Atalanta and the young priestess who is the Oracle of Delphi when she sets out to define who she is and what she can accomplish. Reprint.

Nobody's Princess

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