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Mac Barnett
The Ghostwriter Secret (Brixton Brothers)
The adventures of Steve Brixton, America's next great kid detective, continue. When MacArthur Bart, a.k.a. Steve's hero, vanishes, Steve and his reluctant chum Dana must rescue the man from the clutches of a villainous crime syndicate. This thrilling mystery is packed with nail-biting suspense, puls...
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Raya Rashna Rahman
The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya children's story
A thoughtfully illustrated picture book, made in partnership with Save the Children, and based on the real lives of Rohingya children living in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The Rohingya are a Muslim minority of 1.3 million, formerly living in the Rakhine State within Myanmar. In sum...
$20.00
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Carolina De Robertis
Perla (Vintage Contemporaries)
From the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain, comes Perla , a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history. Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of her na...
$9.63
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Mat Schwarzman
Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts , 1st Editon OUT OF STOCK: Ten Graphic Stories about Artists, Educators & Activists Across the U.S.
Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grass-roots social change. It presents proven models of community-based arts programs, plus techniques, discussion ...
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Stella Walthall Patterson
Dear Mad'm (Women of the West)
Dear Mad'm is the autobiographical story of Stella Walthall Patterson of her experience living alone, after age 80, with her dog Vicki on her mining claim on the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountains, near Happy Camp, California. She had until then lived a comfortable life in San Francisco, as a ...
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Walter Bortz
We Live Too Short and Die Too Long: How to Achieve and Enjoy Your Natural 100-Year-Plus Life Span
“Here is a book on health that puts it all together—a book that gives you the feeling that a personal friend is sharing things of great value with you.”—Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an Illness Do you expect to live to be 100— and remain healthy and active throughout your very ...
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Daniel Smith-Christopher
Sacred Scripture: A Catholic Study of God's Word
(©2013) The Subcommittee on the Catechism, United States Catholic Bishops, has found that this catechetical high school text is in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and fulfills the requirements of Elective Course A of the Doctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for the D...
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Christine Blackwell
Bloomfield Hills: Home of Cranbrook (Images of America)
From summer getaway to historic landmark, this history of Bloomfield Hills is a perfect visual history for Detroit and Michigan enthusiasts. Bloomfield Hills is an affluent suburban city located 20 miles north of downtown Detroit. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, much of the area's rol...
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Sonny Barger
Freedom: Credos from the Road
There are few men who are as quintessentially American as Sonny Barger. He is patriotic—a veteran who loves his country. He is independent—choosing his own path on his motorcycle, living life on his own terms. He is outspoken—he has boldly criticized injustices in American law and society desp...
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Jack London
Jack London: The Socialist Writings: The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, Revolution and Other Essays
Jack London's most inspired political texts, collected in one volume. Even a century after his death, Jack London remains one of America's most iconic authors. Born poor, and rising to become America's first millionaire writer, London was the living embodiment of the American Dream. His very life il...
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Zhongxian Wu
The 12 Chinese Animals: Create Harmony in your Daily Life through Ancient Chinese Wisdom
* Silver Medal Winner in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Body, Mind and Spirit Category * The Chinese horoscope holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony. Not just the year of birth, but also the month, day and hour have significance in true Chinese astrology...
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Barbara Jane Reyes
Diwata (American Poets Continuum, 123)
Tagalog is a language spoken by about 22 million people in the Philippines. Diwata is a Tagalog term meaning, “muse.” Diwata is also a term for a mythical figure or being who resides in nature, and whom human communities must acknowledge, respect, and appease, in order to live safely, harmoniou...
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Melanie Abrantes
Carve: A Simple Guide to Whittling
Whittle a beautiful spoon, comb, pair of dice, and more with this fresh introduction to a folksy craft.   Carve modernizes a mindful hobby that people have turned to for generations to help them slow down, relax, and connect with the outdoors. Choose from a dozen projects with bespoke details, al...
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Robert Louis Stevenson
The Silverado Squatters (annotated)
The Silverado Squatters (1883) is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrift (and her son Lloyd Osbourne) to Napa Valley, California, in 1880.In July 1879, Stevenson received word that his future American wife's divorce was almost complete, but that ...
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Bill Nason
The Autism Discussion Page on anxiety, behavior, school, and parenting strategies: A toolbox for helping children with autism feel safe, accepted, and
The Autism Discussion Page green book covers anxiety and stress, challenging behaviors, stretching comfort zones, discipline, and school issues. It also provides more general teaching and mentoring strategies for coaching children on the autism spectrum in basic daily living strategies to improve th...
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Joseph Murphy
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: The Original Classic (Abridged) (The Condensed Classics Library)
The Classic of Empowered Living, Now in a Special Concise Edition! Do you sense the existence of a greater power inside you? You are right. You will discover your true potential in this unique abridgement of the masterwork of higher living: Joseph Murphy’s The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. This...
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Jasmine Guillory
The Proposal: Reese's Book Club
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick “There is so much to relate to and throughout the novel, there is a sharp feminist edge. Loved this one, and you will too.”— New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay The New York Times bestselling auth...
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Katie Hartsock
Wolf Trees: Poems
The forestry term wolf tree for a large specimen with spreading branches-"prominent and self-isolating," just as "[b]eing a good diabetic is lonely work"-is a central conceit in Katie Hartsock's second full-length collection, Wolf Trees . Hartsock muses on classical and modern figures (such as He...
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Evelio Grillo
Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir (Hispanic Civil Rights) (Hispanic Civil Rights (Paperback))
Ybor City, Florida, was once a thriving factory town populated by cigar-makers, mostly emigrants from Cuba and Spain. Growing up in Ybor City (now Tampa) in the early twentieth century, the young Evelio Grillo experienced the complexities of life in a horse-and-buggy society demarcated by both racia...
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Julie P. Baker
Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life (Volume 6) (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series)
"I's born in Palestine Texas. I don't know how old I is. I was 9 years old when freedom cried out." These poignant words begin the memories of a former Texas slave interviewed by W.P.A. field workers in Oklahoma during the 1930s. This account, along with thirty-two additional oral histories record...
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