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Love to host but short on time? So many of us enjoy having friends over for dinner, but too often social occasions turn into fussy affairs, leaving you frazzled even before the first guest arrives. This book offers a hassle-free approach to entertaining, championing...

Eight years ago, tragedy struck. Eight years ago, Lucy Michaels' life changed forever. But under the surface of her small town lies a secret that could pull her under.No one expected it to rain that much. But the rain kept coming, the dam broke,...

Hard on the brain, easy on the eyes! Challenging, baffling, and absorbing, these cryptograms are easy to read in large-size print. The strings of seemingly meaningless letters are actually carefully coded messages that will test and stimulate your wordplay skills. You don't have to...

Landscapesin Watercolour breaksdown ten progressively more challenging paintings into easy-to-achieve steps for theabsolute beginner. A variety of landscape paintings, from a midwinter farm and a sunny woodland to acoastal waterfront and boats in an estuary are featured. Each watercolor isbroken down into four or...

Woven into a northland year are food rituals that sustain us and connect us to our region, our climate, and one another. Meat raffles. Fish frys. Pizza farms. Booya. As surely as winter changes to spring to summer to autumn in Minnesota, highly anticipated...

This book is formatted to replicate, as much as possible, how the author would teach these topics in person, one on one, or in a classroom environment. The information is purposely designed to be quick to find, simple to understand, and easy to teach...

A celestial overseer observes--and is continually confounded by--a young woman's path into adulthood in this uncanny and darkly humorous novel, unpublished until now and accompanied by a selection of the author's stories. Susan Taubes's novella "Lament for Julia" is the story of a young...

Lamb of the Free analyzes the different sacrificial imagery applied to Jesus in the NT in light of the facts that (a) there is no such thing as substitutionary death sacrifice in the Torah--neither death nor suffering nor punishment of the animal has any...

La Luna's Gift: The Tale of Sofía and Ollie is a heartwarming and beautifully illustrated picture book that celebrates the magic of nature, the power of community, and the courage of one young girl to make a difference. Set in the lush, vibrant landscape...

Pamela Gullard is generous and tough with her characters, making them carry the sometimes violent, sometimes neglectful burden of their histories but giving them as well the sense to walk inward. The pull of heart is at the center of these stories. A relationship...

Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation--a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David...

A spicy standalone novel from New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy!Three is definitely not a crowd...Claire McKinley has just experienced every bride's nightmare: the groom is a no-show, and now she must face five hundred guests alone. Furious and humiliated, she seeks help...

L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught...

Seirin High's greatest basketball superstar was the one no one literally saw coming--the invisible Kuroko! Aiming for the finals league, Seirin takes on Shutoku and their Miracle Generation ace, Midorima. The team's fired up thanks to Kagami, but how will this battle end?! Meanwhile,...

National Outdoor Book Awards Winner Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award"A thrilling and harrowing story. If it's a cliche to say I couldn't put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn't put this book down." --Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins...

Seirin High's greatest basketball superstar was the one no one literally saw coming--the invisible Kuroko! Seirin High is smashing its way through the Inter-High qualifiers. But to make it to the Finals League, they'll have to win twice in one day! First up is...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An exciting and unexpected collection of 100 recipes that re-examines Chinese American food "The recipes in Kung Food are so vibrant and bursting with flavor that you'll want to scrape your plates clean."--Andy Baraghani, author of The Cook You Want to...

Studies show that it's important for children to engage in educational activities even when school is out. That's why we developed our Summer Review & Prep series. Each book includes engaging math and reading activities that review concepts from the previous year and introduce...

Studies show that it's important for children to engage in educational activities even when school is out. That's why we developed our Summer Review & Prep series. Each book includes engaging math and reading activities that review concepts from the previous year and introduce...

WINNER 2025 Eisner Award for Best Writer/ArtistMaster cartoonist Charles Burns has never hidden his passion for comic books and pop culture from the 1950 and 1960s. Inspired by the romance, horror, and sci-fi comics of his youth, as well as the 1960s American underground,...