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View book details for Divided We Fail
The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Beacon Press
Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the …
Random House Children's Books
The Katie Lynn Cookie Company is up and running! With the help of her grandmother and her best friend, Tina, Katie Lynn thinks she has everything under total control. But suddenly, the kitchen is feeling a bit overheated, thanks mostly …
View book details for Why Is God Laughing?
The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
In this refreshing new take on spirituality, bestselling author Deepak Chopra uses a fictional tale of a comedian and his unlikely mentor to show us a path back to hope, joy, and even enlightenmentwith a lot of laughter along the …
Parallax Press
Lessons on love and Dharma, with commentaries on 3 essential sutras of Mahayana Buddhismfrom the celebrated monk who introduced mindfulness to the Western world Just might be my favorite book of [Thich Nhat Hanh]. Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down …
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100 Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Pacific Coast
Sasquatch Books
Learn to shop forand cookPacific coast seafood thats good for your health and the planet, with 100 recipes, plus cooking techniques and practical tips for buying. Chef and seafood advocate Becky Selengut helps simplify sustainable seafood choices for consumers in …
McClelland & Stewart
November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man. The preceding summer had been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps …
Random House Children's Books
A beautiful gift edition of the beloved classic about three orphan siblings and their love of music, theater, and dance. When orphans Sorrel, Mark, and Holly are sent to live with their grandmother, a famous English actress, she enrolls them …
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Gretzky: His Game, His Story
McClelland & Stewart
Whether wearing his Edmonton oil-drop, the black and silver colours of L.A., or the famous Rangers sweater from New York, all hockey fans agree that Wayne Gretzky was the best hockey player of all time. His point totals, his puck …
View book details for Salaam, Love
American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy
Beacon Press
From the editors of the groundbreaking anthology Love, InshAllah comes a provocative new exploration of the most intimate parts of Muslim mens lives Muslim men are stereotyped as either oversexed Casanovas willing to die for seventy-two virgins in heaven or …
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And Other American Comedies
Random House Publishing Group
From the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Slate stagger Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely, restoring a cheerful sanity to our deranged lives and times.Every now and then, funny writing somehow manages to retain full possession …
Melville House
...the sin of an old man is equal to about two sins of a young man.The fable-like story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman is a distillation of Italo Svevo's concerns--attraction of an older man to …
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The 7 Traits of Culturally Savvy, Anti-Racist Leaders
Learn to be a leader who is not simply against racism, but who actively advocates for diversity, equity, and inclusion as an anti-racist ally. Its a simple fact that the people who make policy and oversee government, sports, business, and …
View book details for Across an Untried Sea
Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
From the much acclaimed author of Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, a new book that retrieves the lives of Victorian women--writers, actresses, poets, journalists, sculptors, and social reformers--celebrated in their day but forgotten in …
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the authors experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find …
Random House Children's Books
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Search for the Shadowman from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Twelve-year-old Andy Thomas isnt thrilled with his teachers assignment to explore family …
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The Scions of Arrabar Trilogy, Book II
Wizards of the Coast Publishing
Arrabar - a nation of mercenaries at odds with its neighbors and at war with itself...The Scions of Arrabar - heirs to a legacy of blood and steel...Vambran and Emriana have survived assassination attempts, family feuds, arranged marriages, and monster-guarded …
Soho Press
In April 1945, Hitlers Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth. John Russells son Paul is stationed …
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Vegan Meals That Nourish Mind, Body, and Planet
Cooking in a way that's good for you and for the environmentnot to mention deliciousdoesn't have to be a pain; in fact, it can be sheer bliss. In Blissful Bites: Vegan Meals That Nourish Mind, Body, and Planet, Christy Morgan …
View book details for The 10 Big Lies About America
Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
The Crown Publishing Group
It aint so much the things we dont know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. Its the things we know that just aint so. In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael …
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New and Selected Stories
Seven Stories Press
Borrowed Hearts traces the development of Rick DeMarinis's incantatory voice, including newer work as well as stories selected from his three previous, highly acclaimed collections: Under Wheat (1986), the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction; The …
Diane Williams, godmother of flash fiction (The Paris Review), returns with 33 short, brilliant stories.In Williams stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or …
McClelland & Stewart
The ten stories in In the Village of Viger portray the life of a rural village as it faces the darkness of its own future. An established milliner, Madame Laroque, is upset by the advent of a younger, more popular …
View book details for In the Name of the Children
An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
"The voice that narrates In the Name of the Children: An F.B.I. Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators, which Rinek wrote with the journalist Marilee Strong, sounds warm and humane, qualities missing from much crime writing. Their book …
View book details for Let's Pretend We're Normal
Adventures in Rediscovering How to Be a Family
The Crown Publishing Group
Oh, my word, Im living this. Dear friend, If you and I are new to each other, let me start here: This is not how this was supposed to go! In the portrait I had long ago painted of my …
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Hilarious, dark, and thoroughly entertaining, Getting a Life proves Helen Simpson to be one of the finest observers of women on the edge. Set in and around contemporary London, these nine stories explore both the blisses and irritations of domestic …
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