• 5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) (National Geographic Kids)

    "Filled with photographs, this beautifully designed book is organized into two-page spreads that each focus on a different topic, making it easy and fun to read." --Redding.comPresenting the next must-have, fun-filled gift book from the team that created Ultimate Weird But True, 5,000 Cool Facts About Everything treats kids to brain candy and eye candy all rolled into one treasure trove of high-interest fascinating facts. Lively and information-packed, this book is literally busting its covers with fascinating, fun-tastic facts on super, sensational topics that kids love. Who knew that there ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1426310498
    • ASIN: 1426310498
    • ISBN: 9781426310492
    • Brand: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books

  • National Geographic Kids: Ultimate Weird but True - 1,000 Wild & Wacky Facts and Photos

    Did you know that a great white shark can weigh as much as 15 gorillas, that you drink the same water as the dinosaurs did, or that there’s a car that drives underwater?   This supersized, hardcover addition to the blockbuster Weird But True series, Ultimate Weird But True is packed 1,000 amazing facts and eye-popping photos that prove truth really is stranger than fiction. With a colorful, metallic cover, a kid-friendly design, and a wacky sense of humor, this stunning book will give kids a winning combination of smarts and fun.   Flip through these boldly-designed pages and you’ll find... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1426308647
    • ASIN: 1426308647
    • ISBN: 1426308647
    • Brand: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books

  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland


    • ASIN: 0385521316
    • ASIN: 0385521316
    • ISBN: 0385521316
    • Manufacturer: Doubleday

  • True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: 500 Insane-But-True Facts That Will Shock and Impress Your Friends

    Prove your awesomeness—or bolster your stockpile of conversation starters! Either way, prove you’re the smartest schmuck in the room with over 500 absurdly real facts!With over 500 outrageous and real facts on everything from hippo sweat to stars in the galaxy, you're sure to impress your friends, stump your colleagues, and crush the trivia night competition! Discover insane-but-true factoids and prove you really do know it all! Test out the True or False questions covering the gamut of science, sports, history, pop culture, and a potpourri of others, like: *True or False: A chicken once s... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 160433696X
    • ASIN: 160433696X
    • ISBN: 160433696X
    • Brand: Cider Mill Press
    • Manufacturer: Cider Mill Press

  • The Overstory: A Novel


    • ASIN: B073VX7HT4
    • ASIN: B073VX7HT4
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup


    • ASIN: 152473165X
    • ASIN: 152473165X
    • ISBN: 152473165X
    • Brand: Knopf
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

  • Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

    Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call to social services about the escalating brutality in her home.When they jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home, and she risks losing the support of family, coming to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved.Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, trium... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ISBN: 0615835600
    • Manufacturer: K.L Randis

  • Educated: A Memoir

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S AWARD IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Goo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0807047414
    • ASIN: 0807047414
    • ISBN: 0807047414
    • Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” —USA TODAY * “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” —Christian Science Monitor * “ENTHRALLING.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * “A MUST-READ.” —Booklist (starred review) A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history.Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest lan... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501135953
    • ASIN: 1501135953
    • ISBN: 1501135953
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Before We Were Yours: A Novel

    THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”*Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all tha... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01M14UN1J
    • ASIN: B01M14UN1J
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • National Geographic Kids Why?: Over 1,111 Answers to Everything

    The concept is simple. Got a question? Well now you have an answer! 1,111 of them, in fact. Want to know why your snot is yellow? Flip to the human body chapter. What's on the inside of a turtle shell? The animal section's got you covered. What's in the deepest part of the ocean? Why doesn't Earth just float off into space? Check, check, and check. With hundreds of topics ranging from silly to serious, we've got the expert information you need in a fun and entertaining format that will keep kids digging for answers. Answers include all kinds of fascinating extra info like top ten lists, weird-... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1426320965
    • ASIN: 1426320965
    • ISBN: 9781426320965
    • Brand: National Geographic Kids
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books

  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

    A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and "divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times). Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is her best friend and, simply, Mom.Then Bernadette vanishes. It all began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family tri... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316204269
    • UPC: 710308291412
    • ASIN: 0316204269
    • ISBN: 0316204269
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • The Fantastic Flatulent Fart Brothers' Big Book of Farty Facts: An Illustrated Guide to the Science, History, and Art of Farting (Humorous reference ... Fart Brothers' Fun Facts) (Volume 1)

    How much do you know about farts? Did you know it would take just nine farts from every person on earth to power an atomic bomb? That fish farts nearly triggered a war against Russia? That women's farts smell worse than men's? Pfwoort! It's all in this book. Did you know that inhaling farts is healthy, yet people fart after death? That you can get a job as a professional fart smeller? That farting is illegal in Africa but polite in South America? Heard any ancient Babylonian fart jokes lately? Blorrrk! It's all in this book. Do you know the fartiest animal on earth? The fartiest food? Know how... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 9627866350
    • ASIN: 9627866350
    • ISBN: 9627866350
    • Manufacturer: Top Floor Books

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel


    • ASIN: 0062797158
    • ASIN: 0062797158
    • ISBN: 0062797158
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

  • DOGS OVER THE WATER - True Animal stories about Man's Best Friend - eBook

    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 184In this 184th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates animal stories about dogs. Herein are dog tales from the 18th C. and 19th C from France and

    • UPC: 588312014

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