• The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

    A New York Times BestsellerStonewall Book Award Winner―Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature AwardYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private sch... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0374303231
    • ASIN: 0374303231
    • ISBN: 0374303231
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

  • A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead. December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt figh... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0425255735
    • UPC: 884836574146
    • ASIN: 0425255735
    • ISBN: 0425255735
    • Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

  • The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story

    A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and survival“Cinematically gripping.”—Kirkus ReviewsGrowing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies—even murder.A shrewd con artist with a genius IQ, Thurston intimidated David with beat... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07P1J7P71
    • ASIN: B07P1J7P71
    • Manufacturer: Sandra Jonas Publishing

  • The Overstory: A Novel

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeNew York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018 "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." ―Ann PatchettThe Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard P... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 039335668X
    • ASIN: 039335668X
    • ISBN: 039335668X
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals o... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812993268
    • ASIN: 0812993268
    • ISBN: 0812993268
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Best Stories Will Rule the Future

    Trying to get your message heard? Build an iconic brand?Welcome to the battlefield.The story wars are all around us. They are the struggle to be heard in a world of media noise and clamor. Today, most brand messages and mass appeals for causes are drowned out before they even reach us. But a few consistently break through the din, using the only tool that has ever moved minds and changed behavior—great stories.With insights from mythology, advertising history, evolutionary biology, and psychology, viral storyteller and advertising expert Jonah Sachs takes readers into a fascinating world of s... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1422143562
    • ASIN: 1422143562
    • ISBN: 9781422143568
    • Brand: Harvard Business School Press
    • Manufacturer: Harvard Business Review Press

  • Man's Search for Meaning

    Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0807014273
    • UPC: 046442014274
    • ASIN: 0807014273
    • ISBN: 9780807014271
    • Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Lord of the Flies

    Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.   This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begin... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0399501487
    • ASIN: 0399501487
    • ISBN: 0399501487
    • Brand: Golding, William/ Epstein, E. L. (CON)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Call Me Tuesday: Based on a True Story (Call Me Tuesday Series Book 1)

    TOP 100 KINDLE BESTSELLER LIST (2014, 2015)When Tuesday Storm is eight years old she does something so horrible her mother can't even bring herself to say what it is. Tuesday's punishment for the mysterious "bad thing" is to be isolated from her father and siblings and to stand with her face turned to a wall. Food is withheld, as well as sleep, she's forced to wear a mask so the rest of the family won't have to see her ugly face, and most painful of all, her mother stops calling her Tuesday. Instead she's known as "Horse Face" or "Weasel". Day after day, the punishment continues until Tuesday'... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B007I5PYJ2
    • ASIN: B007I5PYJ2

  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.      What does the nervous system of the ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0345816021
    • ASIN: 0345816021
    • ISBN: 0345816021
    • Brand: Random House Canada
    • Manufacturer: Random House Canada

  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune, now in paperback with a new reading group guideMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, bat... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250076226
    • ASIN: 1250076226
    • ISBN: 1250076226
    • Manufacturer: Picador

  • Long Way Down

    “An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1481438263
    • ASIN: 1481438263
    • ISBN: 1481438263
    • Brand: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

  • The Storyteller

    An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from the “amazingly talented writer” (Huffington Post) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult.Some stories live forever . . . Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1439102775
    • ASIN: 1439102775
    • ISBN: 1439102775
    • Brand: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria/Emily Bestler Books

  • A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

    The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought. A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 154169936X
    • ASIN: 154169936X
    • ISBN: 154169936X
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

  • Heart Most Certain (Teaville Moral Society)

    A Fresh Voice in Historical Romance!While Lydia King's reasons for joining the Teaville Moral Society might be suspect to some members, her heart is in the right place. Because of her father's debts and her mother's persistent illness, her best chance at a secure future and curing her mother is to impress the politician courting her. Her first task--to ask the town's wealthiest man to donate--seems simple enough . . . until he refuses.Despite appearances, Nicholas Lowe wants to help others, but prefers to keep his charity private. When Lydia proves persistent, they agree to a bargain, but Nich... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0764217518
    • ASIN: 0764217518
    • ISBN: 0764217518
    • Brand: Baker Pub Group/Baker Books
    • Manufacturer: Bethany House Publishers

  • The Hypnotist's Love Story

    From the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Big Little Lies, " the basis for the acclaimed HBO] Limited Series. Hypnotherapist Ellen O'Farrell is finally optimistic about the man in her life. There's just one

    • UPC: 120315280
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Believe in You: Big Sister Stories and Advice on Living Your Best Life (Hardcover)

    Growing up can be tough, and sometimes you just need a big sister to help you through it. In Believe in You, the six Cimorelli sisters share their experiences and accumulated wisdom on everything from

    • UPC: 357373798

  • The Book of Virtues for Young People : A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

    Well-known works by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and

    • UPC: 368552
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Best Gay Stories 2016

    Editor Steve Berman delivers another fine volume in the Best Gay Stories series. As the rights and privileges of gay men expand with each passing year, the demand for stories grows--stories that rouse the reader

    • UPC: 53257423
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Tending the Heart of Virtue : How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination

    As the popularity of William Bennett's Book of Virtues attests, parents are turning more and more to children's literature to help instill values in their kids. Now, in this elegantly written and passionate book, Vigen

    • UPC: 26584953

  • Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends : Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story

    Tom Hanks introduces the rousing story of two inseparable friends and World War II soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers," in this work that is a tribute to the lasting bond forged

    • UPC: 10178445
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Best Worst American : Stories

    Imaginary countries. Real countries. The best and worst of both in short, cutting, refreshing

    • UPC: 54293636
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs : Heartwarming and Humorous Stories about our Companions and Best Friends

    Readers will revel in this collection of heartwarming stories about man's best friend.

    • UPC: 10156430
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Making of a Navy SEAL : My Story of Surviving the Toughest Challenge and Training the Best

    BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS... HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF.Adapted from Webb's Adult Bestseller The Red Circle for a Young Adult AudienceBrandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper

    • UPC: 55861899
    • Rating: 3.5

  • Wilde Stories 2011 : The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

    Celebrate a decade of gay speculative fiction with Wilde Stories 2011! This expanded volume from Lethe Press brings stories of undead lovers, stranded astronauts, ghosts and phantom reflections, men lost in an inhospitable wilderness, and

    • UPC: 19482625
    • Rating: 4.0

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