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Discover the fundamentals of fungi with this engaging and easy-to-follow book Fungi For Dummies gives you an in-depth view of the wide world of mycology. With this science-focused yet clear and readable book, you'll dig deep into the science of the fascinating organisms that...

Technical Services Quarterly declared that the third edition "must now be considered the essential textbook for collection development and management ... the first place to go for reliable and informative advice." For the fourth edition expert instructor and librarian Johnson has revised and freshened...

Fun and Amazing First Mazes for Kids is packed with mazes to entertain, stimulate, and challenge your kids. Each eye-catching maze is bursting with color.These mazes can help improve fine motor skills, problem-solving skills, and visual perceptual skills. Various types, themes, and shapes ensure...

One of NPR's Best Books of 2019 A second chance doesn't guarantee a touchdown in this new contemporary romance from the author of Intercepted. Single-mother Poppy Patterson moved across the country when she was sixteen and pregnant to find a new normal. After years...

A unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and spices, and their meaning in our lives Ever since Eve plucked a tempting apple in the Garden of Eden, the fruits of the earth...

Many believers aren't living an abundant, Christian life because they don't understand their purpose, position or process. These three key ideas are absolutely essential if you want to experience the fullest life possible. Once you understand these basic, yet powerful teachings in Scripture, everything...

"We're suckers for it." -- Entertainment Weekly Book two in the international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series! Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose... It's winter break at St. Vladimir's, but Rose is feeling anything but...

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. continues the Saga of Recluce, the long-running, best-selling epic fantasy series. In a new story arc, From the Forest follows the early life of a man known by many names depending on who you ask--hero, tyrant, emperor. Alayiakal, who will...

A captivating tour through some of our most cherished marine food traditions, and the danger of extinction that they increasingly face in today's world. In this standalone extract from Eating to Extinction, the distinguished BBC food journalist Dan Saladino travels the world to experience...

Italy, 1943--Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II.As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling...

When Sean Dixon, a young man in Provo, Utah, received a letter from Stephen Anjum, a Pakistani Christian captivated by the Book of Mormon, he had no idea of the chain of miracles that would follow. From a single book passed between continents to...

An inspiring manual full of recipes for artists to create their own pigments, paints, and pastels from botanical sources.Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator known for her explorations of handmade, homegrown pigments. In From Plant to Pigment she invites us into her studio,...

*over 300,000 copies of Jess's books sold worldwide!* "I want to tell you everything I knowcarry you and guide youyet somehow, as your tiny finger pointsto things in wonderand your eyes meet minethe paradigm shiftsI once thought I was to show you the worldwhen...

While searching for the pickpocket girl Mewi Freya's older sister, Beryl and Lucy storm the hideout of Mewi's bandit gang to interrogate its mastermind, Twilight. Although the thieves are dispatched handily, the mystery of Mewi's missing sister remains unsolved. An exhausted and dejected Beryl...

Banks Wales, the once, untouchable patriarch, now rots in the underground fortress he built to cage his family. Power has shifted, and his son Walid Wales rules the empire now.But leadership proves more curse than crown. Heavy is the head that wears the name....

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time THE COMPLETE UNCENSORED EDITION - THE WORLD WAR II MASTERPIECE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE READ - WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt....

Who uses an old word like "Valiant?" VALIANT, a. val'yant. [From Old French vailant, based on Latin valere 'be strong'.] Strong, possessing or showing courage or determination, fearless in danger, brave, heroic.It is an old word for a new life. It is an old...

"A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." -- William Safire, New York TimesHighly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and...

From Chocolate to Morphine is the definitive guide to drugs and drug use from one of America's most respected and best-known doctors. This enormously popular book -- the best and most authoritative resource for unbiased information about how drugs affect the mind and the...

Awaken your child's inner champion--and love of reading--with these motivational sports stories for kids ages 6-9. "From overcoming challenges to advocating for change, this book shows how true champions inspire us both on and off the field."--Allyson Felix, seven-time Olympic gold medalist and founder...