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Paperback. Condition: Good. Gratitude, it's simple right? But what if I forget? Or if I'm sad? What if I don't feel like being grateful? Is gratitude really that important? Today is a great day for gratitude and Grace and Graham have an idea They have a very important role for Gobble to play in their plan, but he's not sure he shares their excitement. What do magically changing feathers, science experiments, pancakes, and a boomerang have to do with gratitude and will Gobble change his mind? Join Grace, Graham, and Gobble on a heart-warming journey about gratitude, friendship, and a mission to make this the best Thanksgiving ever.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Robles, Tajín; Kessler, Susan (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Make Your Escape Explore sublime beaches, wander idyllic valleys, and admire the fiery power of the volcanoes. See the heart of Hawaii with Moon Big Island of Hawai'i, the travel guide preferred by locals. What You'll Find in Moon Big Island of Hawai'i Local author Bree Kessler's expert wisdom on the spirit of her island homeFull-color guides with vibrant, helpful photos, all in an easy-to-navigate formatDetailed directions and over 20 maps for exploring on your ownItineraries for every trip and budget with options for rainy days, including: A Week on the Big Island, Best Beaches, Outdoor Adventures, Hotspots for Honeymooners, Historical Sites, Underwater Exploration, Best for FamiliesIn-depth, focused coverage for Kona, Kohala, Ka'u, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Puna, Hilo, Hamakua Coast, Waimea, and the Saddle RoadHonest advice on finding the best accommodations, accessible transportation, and navigating the island like a localActivities and ideas for every traveler snorkel the coral reefs or surf the waves. Traverse the lush island trails by bicycle or horseback, or hike a volcano by lava light. Attend a traditional luau and sample Polynesian cuisine, or find the best spot for dining, dancing, and sunset romance.Nuanced information including background on the landscape, plants and animals, history, and cultureHandy tools such as detailed lodging information and suggestions on LGBT+ travel and eco-tourism, all in a book light enough for your beach bagWith Moon Big Island of Hawai'i's practical tips, myriad activities, and local insight on the best things to do and see, you can plan your trip your way.Interested in island hopping? Check out Moon Honolulu & O'ahu, Moon Kaua'i, and Moon Maui. Visiting all the islands? Check out Moon Hawaiian Islands.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. This was a beautiful friendship A once-in-a-lifetime friendship Would their cultures, African, and American, so different, tear them apart? We were walking single file to the rice field three mornings later. As we went, Khadi tried to explain to me the secrecy surrounding Sande, but it was difficult. I watched her muscles tense as we walked along, the strange sight of a big bra crossing her usually empty back. She was strutting, and had little patience for my questions. She had never questioned the Secret Society. It was something she learned from her grand-mother and would pass onto her granddaughters. Completely forgetting my promise of months before to not be a know-it-all, I blurted out But you can't just believe it all. Just because they tell you to? You've got to ask some questions and get some answers. In America--. Khadi stopped on the trail, and I crashed into her. Turning back to face me, she cut right in, something she'd never done before. Dis no be America. In an unforgettable novel that teems with details of African culture and life, Cristina Kessler heroically tackles one of the most important, most controversial issues for women of our time.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Emily is delighted when her family returns to Brightport, but their attempts to follow Neptune's orders to bring humans and merfolk together seem doomed. Thrown out of mermaid school and scorned by her old enemy, Mandy Rushton, Emily goes in search of the lost sirens who were banished by Neptune to a top secret undersea cavern. Only when she uncovers the sirens' true story can she put the pieces of her own life back together.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. _______?An excellent book.? Martin Wolf, Financial Times Books of the Year_______The full-time job is disappearing. Today more workers than ever are going freelance ? driving for Uber or cycling for Deliveroo, developing software or consulting for investment banks. Welcome to the gig economy.In Gigged, Sarah Kessler meets the people forging this new world of unorthodox employment: from the computer programmer who chooses exactly which hours he works each week, via the Uber driver who is trying to convince his peers to unionise, to the charity worker who thinks freelance gigs might just transform the fortunes of a declining rural town.Their stories raise crucial questions about the future of work. What happens when job security, holidays and benefits become a thing of the past? How can freelancers find meaningful, well-paid employment? And could the gig economy really change the world of work for ever?*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award*Praise for Gigged?Essential reading for anyone who is interested in understanding the future of our economy and society.? Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don?t Tell You About Capitalism?Sarah Kessler?s wonderful book offers unprecedented illumination of the promise, and the peril, of the gig economy.? Martin Ford, author of The Rise of the Robots?Well crafted . . . a multitude of anecdotes supported by data and extensive reporting.? Forbes?If you want to know how work is changing and how you too must change to keep up, you must read this book.? Dan Lyons, author of Disrupted?Kessler?s timely book explores the personal, corporate and societal stories behind a massive tech-driven shift away from permanent office-based employment.? Books of the Month, Financial Times?Deep reporting and graceful storytelling . . . Kessler?s analysis is both astute and nuanced.? Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. As the sole survivor of an IED blast in Iraq in 2006, Larry Perry I learned to rely on his faith in God to overcome adversity during his recovery from thirty surgeries. A Doc's Testimony: From Injury to Ironman is one man's story to overcome tremendous obstacles to live another day. Larry will take you through his thirty surgeries, struggles to find God, and the amazing moment when he crossed the finish line to be called an Ironman. In this book, Larry will share the 4 steps he used to overcome the adversity he faced in his life to help others get through difficulties in their own lives.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A young girl learns she's half mermaid and plunges into a scheme to reunite with her father in this entrancing, satisfying tale that beckons readers far below the waves. For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep Emily away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery -- about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water's surface. With a sure sense of suspense and richly imaginative details, first-time author Liz Kessler lures us into a glorious undersea world where mermaids study shipwrecks at school and Neptune rules with an iron trident -- an enchanting fantasy about family secrets, loyal friendship, and the convention-defying power of love.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Marcos Castillo (illustrator).

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Jason Pedersen; Anthony A. Black; Jeff Pina; Justin Miller; Ernie Najera; Sam Laggren; Troy Zurel; Jenn Fuguet; Christian Vilaire; Tara Abbamondi; Nathan Girten; Eric Schock; Jenn Corella; Russ Kazmierczak; Joshua Green; Nicolai Green; Matt Goodall; Madame M; JP Manzanares (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's the ultimate battle of good versus good. They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code name Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her Shadow power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery of light, runs the city's underworld. For the past five years the two have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse. But now playtime's over. Separately Jet and Iridium uncover clues that point to a looming evil, one that is entwined within the Academy. As Jet works with Bruce Hunter--a normal man with an extraordinary ability to make her weak in the knees--she becomes convinced that Iridium is involved in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers an insidious plot that's been a decade in the making.a plot in which Jet is key. They're both right. And they're both wrong. Because nothing is as simple as Black and White.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Emily is delighted when her family returns to Brightport, but their attempts to follow Neptune's orders to bring humans and merfolk together seem doomed. Thrown out of mermaid school and scorned by her old enemy, Mandy Rushton, Emily goes in search of the lost sirens who were banished by Neptune to a top secret undersea cavern. Only when she uncovers the sirens' true story can she put the pieces of her own life back together.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A pair of strangers has twelve hours to relish the night of their lives in a novel that has taken the anonymous one-night-stand relationship into the realm of art (Publishers Weekly) from New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey. On a cold and rainy night during the Christmas season, a woman who has suffered great personal loss and a successful businessman from Orange County meet by chance at a gas station in Los Angeles County. They have nothing in common, but as they engage in conversation and move from con games to assault to robberies, within hours they end up sequestered in an upscale hotel room. During intimacy, they continue to confide in each other and try to come to grips with their problems and their seasonal loneliness. For one night, their passion is boundless, but with every tick of the clock, their separate pasts close in. They push the limits of time, devotion, and even the law as they attempt to catch a glimpse of the future. They need each other for a lifetime but will have only one night.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Emily is delighted when her family returns to Brightport, but their attempts to follow Neptune's orders to bring humans and merfolk together seem doomed. Thrown out of mermaid school and scorned by her old enemy, Mandy Rushton, Emily goes in search of the lost sirens who were banished by Neptune to a top secret undersea cavern. Only when she uncovers the sirens' true story can she put the pieces of her own life back together.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A young girl learns she's half mermaid and plunges into a scheme to reunite with her father in this entrancing, satisfying tale that beckons readers far below the waves. For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep Emily away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery -- about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water's surface. With a sure sense of suspense and richly imaginative details, first-time author Liz Kessler lures us into a glorious undersea world where mermaids study shipwrecks at school and Neptune rules with an iron trident -- an enchanting fantasy about family secrets, loyal friendship, and the convention-defying power of love.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.--Slate As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation's leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remain hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. Crammed with new headline-making revelations, The First Family Detail by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler tells that eye-opening, uncensored story. The First Family Detail reveals: - Vice President Joe Biden regularly orders the Secret Service to keep his military aide with the nuclear football a mile behind his motorcade, potentially leaving the country unable to retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack. - Secret Service agents discovered that former president Bill Clinton has a blond mistress--code-named Energizer by agents--who lives near the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York. - The Secret Service covered up the fact that President Ronald Reagan's White House staff overruled the agency to let unscreened spectators get close to Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton, allowing John W. Hinckley Jr. to shoot the president. - Because Hillary Clinton is so nasty to agents, being assigned to her protective detail is considered a form of punishment and the worst assignment in the Secret Service. Kessler's such a skilled storyteller, you almost forget this is dead-serious nonfiction.--Newsweek.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.--Slate As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation's leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remain hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. Crammed with new headline-making revelations, The First Family Detail by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler tells that eye-opening, uncensored story. The First Family Detail reveals: - Vice President Joe Biden regularly orders the Secret Service to keep his military aide with the nuclear football a mile behind his motorcade, potentially leaving the country unable to retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack. - Secret Service agents discovered that former president Bill Clinton has a blond mistress--code-named Energizer by agents--who lives near the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York. - The Secret Service covered up the fact that President Ronald Reagan's White House staff overruled the agency to let unscreened spectators get close to Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton, allowing John W. Hinckley Jr. to shoot the president. - Because Hillary Clinton is so nasty to agents, being assigned to her protective detail is considered a form of punishment and the worst assignment in the Secret Service. Kessler's such a skilled storyteller, you almost forget this is dead-serious nonfiction.--Newsweek.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.--Slate As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation's leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remain hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. Crammed with new headline-making revelations, The First Family Detail by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler tells that eye-opening, uncensored story. The First Family Detail reveals: - Vice President Joe Biden regularly orders the Secret Service to keep his military aide with the nuclear football a mile behind his motorcade, potentially leaving the country unable to retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack. - Secret Service agents discovered that former president Bill Clinton has a blond mistress--code-named Energizer by agents--who lives near the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York. - The Secret Service covered up the fact that President Ronald Reagan's White House staff overruled the agency to let unscreened spectators get close to Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton, allowing John W. Hinckley Jr. to shoot the president. - Because Hillary Clinton is so nasty to agents, being assigned to her protective detail is considered a form of punishment and the worst assignment in the Secret Service. Kessler's such a skilled storyteller, you almost forget this is dead-serious nonfiction.--Newsweek.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. "A successful mix of fantasy, mystery, adventure, and a touch of romance." -- Kirkus Reviews  The New York Times best-selling series continues with half-mermaids Emily and Aaron embarking on an icy and perilous journey to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Deep within an alpine lake where magical reflections show what could be rather than what is, the two discover a trove of stolen memories and Neptune's darkest secret. Double-crosses and double-takes abound in Liz Kessler's fifth magical mermaid adventure. Ledwidge, Natacha (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. "A successful mix of fantasy, mystery, adventure, and a touch of romance." -- Kirkus Reviews  The New York Times best-selling series continues with half-mermaids Emily and Aaron embarking on an icy and perilous journey to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Deep within an alpine lake where magical reflections show what could be rather than what is, the two discover a trove of stolen memories and Neptune's darkest secret. Double-crosses and double-takes abound in Liz Kessler's fifth magical mermaid adventure. Ledwidge, Natacha (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. "A successful mix of fantasy, mystery, adventure, and a touch of romance." -- Kirkus Reviews  The New York Times best-selling series continues with half-mermaids Emily and Aaron embarking on an icy and perilous journey to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Deep within an alpine lake where magical reflections show what could be rather than what is, the two discover a trove of stolen memories and Neptune's darkest secret. Double-crosses and double-takes abound in Liz Kessler's fifth magical mermaid adventure. Ledwidge, Natacha (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. High-action adventure, a plucky protagonist, and whimsical illustrations enliven this sea fantasy, which will be most thoroughly appreciated by series followers. -- Booklist Picture an island set in a glittering blue sea, sparkling with white sand and palm trees, a secret place where humans and merfolk live together. To Emily Windsnap -- half mermaid, half human -- her new home is perfect. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the kraken from its hundred-year sleep. . . . An enchanting tale with a fabulous monster, engaging characters, and plenty of mermaid magic, this second fantasy about Emily Windsnap is filled with charm and warmth. Gibb, Sarah (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. High-action adventure, a plucky protagonist, and whimsical illustrations enliven this sea fantasy, which will be most thoroughly appreciated by series followers. -- Booklist Picture an island set in a glittering blue sea, sparkling with white sand and palm trees, a secret place where humans and merfolk live together. To Emily Windsnap -- half mermaid, half human -- her new home is perfect. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the kraken from its hundred-year sleep. . . . An enchanting tale with a fabulous monster, engaging characters, and plenty of mermaid magic, this second fantasy about Emily Windsnap is filled with charm and warmth. Gibb, Sarah (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. High-action adventure, a plucky protagonist, and whimsical illustrations enliven this sea fantasy, which will be most thoroughly appreciated by series followers. -- Booklist Picture an island set in a glittering blue sea, sparkling with white sand and palm trees, a secret place where humans and merfolk live together. To Emily Windsnap -- half mermaid, half human -- her new home is perfect. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the kraken from its hundred-year sleep. . . . An enchanting tale with a fabulous monster, engaging characters, and plenty of mermaid magic, this second fantasy about Emily Windsnap is filled with charm and warmth. Gibb, Sarah (illustrator).…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gibb, Sarah (illustrator).