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Sold outSunshine in the Monsoons
With illustrations by Archana Sreenivasan, Tina Athaide's Sunshine in the Monsoons is a moving grandmother/grandchild picture book that reminds us to look for the silver lining in even the biggest storm clouds.
Every year, the rainy season rolls into Mira's town. For days and days during these monsoons, the sun hides behind thick clouds. Thunder booms. Rain pours. The bright and colorful neighborhood turns gray.
With her grandmother, Avó, Mira used to know how to find the sunshine in the monsoons. But this year, Avó has to stay indoors.
With her brother, Pran, Mira goes looking for the sunshine--to find joy on the darkest days and bring it back to Avó.
Tina Athaide's lyrical text and Archana Sreenivasan's illustrations as bright as Fountainhas, the Latin Quarter of Goa, India, come together to reminder us that traditions will change and there will be rainy days, but if you look, a bright pocket of joy is waiting beyond the clouds.
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Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump's Mass Deportation Program
A revealing, news driven account of the Trump Administration's mass deportation program, featuring never-before-told stories and behind-the-scenes reporting from NBC News' Senior Homeland Security Correspondent.
In Undue Process, NBC's Senior Homeland Security correspondent Julia Ainsley takes us inside the Trump White House to show how Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and other anti-immigration hardliners are executing the administration's mass deportation plan, seemingly prioritizing spectacle and punishment over security and legal constraints.
Brimming with revelations from sources within ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, Undue Process is a harrowing chronicle of how the Trump administration aimed to create "the largest deportation force in U.S. history," only to ignite a resistance within the government and across the country as they redefined the limits of executive power.
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Future Me: Vet explores what it takes to become a vet, from the initial spark and playing with toy animals to treating the illnesses of beloved pets. Our young vet loves playing with toy animals and looking after them when they get hurt. Follow along as our budding vet visits the veterinary surgery with their own pet, then works at the surgery checking over new pets, reuniting lost pets with their owners, and diagnosing illnesses. Including an interview with a real life vet, this picture book answers all the questions children have about becoming a vet. Future Me is a strong series, with a great visual identity, exploring different careers.Sold out -
Starfinder Galactic Ancestries (Special Edition, Special)
The cantina is open!
This 224-page rulebook is packed full of playable alien ancestries for Starfinder Second Edition games, including 21 brand new options like the lucky blue worlanisi, sentient rollerball bantrid, or even a blazing miniature sun called a novian. In addition to this intergalactic cast of science-fantasy species are a host of stellar options for familiar ancestries, including Starfinder favorites like reptilian vesk and insectoid shirrens, and fantasy classics like gnomes, elves, and goblins in space! On top of that, the brand-new Gap-touched versatile heritage connects players to the history-breaking event at the heart of the Starfinder setting while giving them special abilities, and the xenometric android allows readers to create robotic versions of any Starfinder alien, not just humans!
As with all Starfinder Second Edition material, Starfinder Galactic Ancestries is fully compatible with Pathfinder Second Edition, allowing players and Game Masters to incorporate interstellar options into their favorite fantasy campaign! What exciting alien character are you going to play first?
Written by Kate Baker, Rigby Bendele, Brent Bowser, Michael Bramnik, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, John Curtin, Anthony Dollinger, Ivis K. Flanagan, John Godek III, Thurston Hillman, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight, Derry Lutrell, Jenny Jarzabski, Linda Zayas-Palmer, Jessica Redekop, Tony Saunders, Abbey Schnell, and Sam W Tennyson.
This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.
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Sold out138 Main
AN ADDRESS TO DIE FOR... There's a killer on the loose. And he's targeting one specific address--138 Main Street. The problem? There are over 7,000 Main Streets in the USA. And the police and FBI have no clue which one will be next. For FBI Special Agent Ben Walker and his rookie colleague, Officer Zoe Hill, the pressure to solve the case is unimaginable. There aren't enough police officers to cover every house, and vigilante residents are attacking anyone who rings their doorbell. Main Street might be one of America's most popular addresses, but for those living at number 138, it comes down to fight or flight. Then a manuscript is sent to the New York Times, purporting to be the manifesto of the "Main Street Killer" and demanding radical social change. As the effect of the terror campaign takes hold across the nation, Walker and Hill find themselves in a race against time to stop the killer. But with their target always several steps ahead, and almost 3,800,000 square miles of ground to cover, they'll have to find him first...Sold out -
Sold outDad, Love, Me: A Memoir
Written in the form of a letter to his ailing father, this debut memoir from the bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook explores the complicated burden of caring for an abusive parent who is dying--here is Matthew Quick's most personal and potent work to date. On the surface, Matthew Quick seemed to have it all--a loving wife, a thriving career as a novelist, and a beautiful home. He'd traveled all over the world advocating for mental health awareness, standing before crowds as a success story. But secretly, he was depressed and some days, he didn't want to live. Years earlier, when he first told his father he wanted to be a novelist, the response was immediate and brutal: "Idiot!" That voice--angry and belittling--would echo through Quick's mind for years. He channeled his pain into his debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, crafting a complex father-son dynamic drawn straight from his own life. The book became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Still, the approval Quick longed for never came. His father remained cold and withholding. The deeper the rift between them grew, the deeper Quick sank into anxiety and addiction. In this book, Quick takes readers deep into his psyche, as he wrestles with both his own mental health and his father's cognitive decline. A health scare finally forces Quick to get sober, but then, overcome by creative paralysis, writer's block threatens to end his career. The blank page is unbearable. As his desperation for healing peaks, Quick turns to a Jungian analyst he nicknames "Zeus." In the safety of analysis, as Quick's repressed pain and shame surface, he finally cracks. Just as he is putting himself back together, his father is diagnosed with dementia. Suddenly, the clock is ticking. If there is ever going to be reconciliation, it has to happen now. Quick and his wife pack up their lives in coastal North Carolina, drive eight hours, and move into a house just around the corner from Quick's parents, on an island right outside of Beaufort, South Carolina. There, as his father slips further and further away, Quick races to make a healing connection. Dad, Love, Me is Quick's raw, vulnerable, and deeply moving account of what it means to forgive a parent who never really knew how to love you. It's about wounds that never fully heal, and the power of showing up anyway. This beautifully brave and life-affirming memoir is a must read for anyone who has been starved of love but wants to keep loving anyway.Sold out -
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New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan is back with an epic romantasy set in the world of A Fire in the Sky, about a girl on the hunt for the witch who cursed her, unaware of her own dormant power...waiting to emerge.
For ten long years, Arden has been invisible, trapped in her village by a spell she cannot break. She listens to friends chatter, watches her family grieve, but can never touch, speak, or be seen. Living like a ghost among those who've forgotten her, she dreams of vengeance against the witch who cursed her.
Until one fateful day, her village is devoured in flame, and everything changes.
From the wreckage rises a pride of dragons that can transform into humans. Their piercing eyes slice through her curse, and for the first time in a decade, Arden can be seen.
Swept off to the Crags by the enigmatic alpha dragon, Tage, Arden is forced into a world of fire and power, where danger lurks in every shadow. Though she plots her escape at every turn, Tage's fiery intensity and undeniable magnetism spark an unwilling response in her.
But Arden's fate is bound to a secret she has yet to uncover, a magic older and more perilous than she could ever imagine. With war on the horizon, Arden must decide whether to trust the dragon she swore to defy, harness the wild magic around her, or risk losing everything.
Sometimes all it takes to break a curse... is to cast another spell.
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- Captor/CaptiveTouch Her and DieExtra SpicyMagic, Dragons & WitchesWorld at War
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Time Travel for Beginners
In her dazzling new novel, award-winning author Jaclyn Moriarty asks the question, if you could revisit one moment in your life, what would it be? On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. Inside, you'll be welcomed by the smell of fresh-brewed coffee, a selection of baked goods...and the question, Where in time do you wish to go? The guidelines are simple: you can go whenever you wish into the past, and there's no fear of altering the present. Have tea with Jane Austen, scream at a Beatles concert, witness the Olympics in ancient Greece. Perhaps a more personal trip? Visit your long-lost grandmother, recapture the heady days of your youth, return to the idyllic time when your teen was a babbling baby--or watch yourself make the one decision that changed everything. Is it a hoax? And if it's real, what's the catch? When single mother Anna is offered a job at the agency, she glimpses the possibility of happiness. Meanwhile, Teddy's a customer hoping to untangle his recently imploded marriage. And Jade, who has a deeply buried secret, despises the agency for offering false hope. In Jaclyn Moriarty's incandescent novel, Anna, Teddy, and Jade leap headlong into time, hurtling on a crash course toward one another. At turns entertaining and illuminating, Time Travel for Beginners explores the moments, big and small, that shape our destiny. -
Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love!
An unconventional, hands-on guide to turning ideas into products that matter--and that people love--from the legendary Silicon Valley pioneer, founder of Zynga, and creator of Stanford Graduate School of Business's product management course.
Mark Pincus has been at the forefront of each iteration of the internet. He built the original app company ahead of the mobile app economy and sold virtual goods to the masses long before in-app purchase generated $85 billion on smartphones. As the founder of Zynga, he brought us FarmVille, CityVille, and Words with Friends, launching eight hit games and reaching more than a billion users in four years.
Pincus has turned hit-making into a repeatable system, birthing one of his favorite guiding principles that "all new fails". Life at the Speed of Play is his framework for moving faster and massively increasing your odds of success. His insights and advice are essential in the new world of AI, where speed of testing and learning defines winners.
Bursting with wit, wisdom, and a core belief in tech's endless capacity, each chapter of Life at the Speed of Play contains actionable takeaways based on Pincus's unorthodox "Mark-isms" including "hire people with broken resumes," "protect investors from themselves," and, paradoxically, to "f*** scale" in favor of quality over quantity.
What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School for the twenty-first century, here is the essential "bible" for entrepreneurs, product managers, innovators, and anyone who has an idea--digital or analog--that they dream of turning into a reality.
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Fit for a King: The Elvis Presley Cookbook
Get ready to rock your kitchen! Here is traditional Southern cooking -- Elvis style! Includes over 300 of "The King's" favorite recipes and over 70 photographs, many published for the first time. Brimming with Elvis facts and trivia throughout, this is a must for any Elvis fan.Sold out -
Sold outBlow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story
From the house authors of the critically acclaimed oral history on Eddie Van Halen, Eruption, a revealing narrative biography of legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck featuring brand new interviews with the icon himself as well as his famous colleagues, collaborators, and loved ones With his shag haircut and white Stratocaster guitar, Jeff Beck was an icon known and loved by millions. Yet somehow, he maintained the ineffable low profile cool of a cult hero as he glided through six decades of musical trends with nary a lapse in taste. Not to say he ever played it safe. What other guitarist can lay claim to performing with opera star Luciano Pavarotti, mainstream television personality Kelly Clarkson, and professional degenerates like Guns N' Roses with equal grace and wit? Or as Beck himself once quipped, "I'm an awkward son of a bitch when it comes to doing the expected." In Blow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story, Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill return to chart the unexplored life of rock's greatest and perhaps most enigmatic instrumentalist. Culled from approximately 30 hours of interviews with the late guitarist himself, numerous conversations with those closest to him, and extensive research, the book sheds new light on the genius that Jimmy Page once said, "shifted the whole sound and face of electric guitar music."Sold out -
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Out of the Dust meets Me and Marvin Gardens in this coming-of-age novel about a young misfit searching for the truth of her family's past, set against the backdrop of an environmental cover-up. Twelve-year-old Xyla is sick of two things: working on her family's sixth-generation Iowa farm and her mother's nagging words, "Pay attention!" But Xyla can't help getting lost in the thoughts that fill her head, which sometimes leaves a wake of costly mistakes. If only her mom would tell her something--anything--about her dad, who left when she was little. Then maybe she could run away to live with him. Xyla's world gets even messier as a new family begins renting a vacant house on the farm, and the daughter is the kind of kid Xyla's mom clearly prefers--focused and motivated. But when the girls stumble across an environmental disaster right next door, Xyla must learn to trust her new friend and her own complicated mother to figure out how to stop it. Told in alternating timelines between the past and present, this heartfelt story brings to life a funny, hopeful, unforgettable narrator as she unravels the mysteries of her family and farm.Sold out -
White Lights (Limited Deluxe Edition)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate's Fallen series has sold over 11 million copies around the world--now she returns to the seductive world of angels with a ruthless romantasy, perfect for both Fallen fans and new readers alike. "Dark, seductive, and original." ―Jennifer L. Armentrout, #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash This is a stunning first-printing deluxe edition with:- Stenciled Edges
- Illustrated Case
- Designed Endpapers
- Foil Jacket
When mysterious Rafe de la Cruz rolls into Desdemona's life to recruit her to the elite film school Acheron, Dez has no reason to trust him--and no other option. A violent attack has just put her brother in the hospital...and Dez is the only suspect. Guilt-ridden and grieving, she finds herself running from the law to chase her longtime dream of making movies, at a school she's never heard of. Soon, she's dropped into Acheron's cutthroat world of seductive intrigue, power on an otherworldly scale, and deadly competition. Acheron may seem like the ticket to a future Dez has always wanted, but as she delves deeper into the secret work being done there, she finds herself trapped in an existential conflict on a cosmic scale--with more than her heart on the line. "The perfect leap into angelic debauchery. White Lights is shrouded with mystique and charged with a delicious dark side. My teenaged obsession with Fallen has grown new wings." ―Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Longings "Fast paced and sexy, this is a world you want to see every corner of." ―Elise Kova, New York Times bestselling author of Arcana Academy "Lauren Kate has created a highly addictive romantasy. White Lights is a must read I devoured in two days." ―Jade Presley, New York Times bestselling author of The Never List "The perfect book for those of us who were raised on the iconic Fallen series!" ―CosmopolitanSold out -
But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition: 40 Love Stories That Inspired Our Favorite Films
For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 40 cinema classics and the enduring love stories that served as their heart-tugging inspiration. What makes a good love story endure? Is it the courtship? The obstacles along the way? The happy endings (or in some cases, heartbreaking conclusions)? Author Kristen Lopez explores 40 beloved screen adaptations of the book world's great romances to reveal what makes these works resonate across decades. From Pride and Prejudice to Twilight, Lopez presents how these classics depict both budding fiery love and unrequited desire on the page and screen, and why each makes for a swoon-worthy adaptation. The essays also unpack how these works serve as time capsules of their respective eras, charting the evolution of gender roles and femininity in adaptations such Breakfast at Tiffany's and Waiting to Exhale. Hearts may break and lovers may part, but these works show how romance carries on forever. Other featured adaptations include:
Anna Karenina - Atonement - The Bishop's Wife - The Bridges of Madison County - Bridget Jones's Diary - Chocolat - Doctor Zhivago - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Jane Eyre - Laura - Like Water for Chocolate - Love Story - The Notebook - A Room With a View - The SheikSold out