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What Light By Jay Asher
Sierra’s family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon—it’s a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season.
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A Girl Like That
“Fascinating and disturbing.” ―Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Small Great Things and Leaving Time
Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk taker. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from: a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school. You don’t want to get involved with a girl like that, they say. So how is it that eighteen-year-old Porus Dumasia has only ever had eyes for her? And how did Zarin and Porus end up dead in a car together, crashed on the side of a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive on the scene, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is questioned. And as her story is pieced together, told through multiple perspectives, it becomes clear that she was far more than just a girl like that.
- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (February 27, 2018)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0374305447
- ISBN-13: 978-0374305444
- Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 8.4 inches
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Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
By Yanis Varoufakis
What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in the Room, the renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full, blistering account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth.
After being swept into power with the left-wing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempts to renegotiate Greece’s relationship with the EU―and sparks a spectacular battle with global implications. Varoufakis’s new position sends him ricocheting between mass demonstrations in Athens, closed-door negotiations in drab EU and IMF offices, and furtive meetings with power brokers in Washington, D.C. He consults and quarrels with Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Christine Lagarde, the economists Larry Summers and Jeffrey Sachs, and others, as he struggles to resolve Greece’s debt crisis without resorting to punishing austerity measures. But despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of Varoufakis’s arguments, he succeeds only in provoking the fury of Europe’s elite.
- Hardcover: 560 pages
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First American Edition edition (October 3, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780374101008
- ISBN-13: 978-0374101008
- ASIN: 0374101000
- Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.7 x 9.3 inches
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Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
By Tony Wagner
Harvard education expert Tony Wagner explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Play, passion, and purpose: These are the forces that drive young innovators.
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (February 10, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 145161151X
- ISBN-13: 978-1451611519
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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The Quran & Modern Science By Dr. Zakir Naik
Dr. Zakir Naik
Ever since the dawn of human life on this planet, Man has always sought to understand Nature, his own place in the scheme of Creation and the purpose of Life itself. In this quest for Truth, spanning many centuries and diverse civilizations, organized religion has shaped human life and determined to a large extent, the course of history. While some religions have been based on books, claimed by their adherents to be divinely inspired, others have relied solely on human experience.
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In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want
By Iyanla Vanzant
You know where you want to be, but you have no clue how to get there. You know exactly what you want in life, but what you want is nowhere in sight. Perhaps your vision is unclear, your purpose still undefined. On top of it all, your relationships, particularly your romantic relationships, are failing. If these scenarios feel familiar way down in the deepest part of your gut—then you, my dear, are smack dab in the middle of the meantime.
- Paperback: 326 pages
- Publisher: Atria Books; First Edition, 1st Printing Underlining edition (September 14, 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684848066
- ISBN-13: 978-0684848068
- Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches
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Mr. Memory & Other Poems By Phillis Levin
By Phillis Levin
An intimate, richly textured new collection from Phillis Levin, a poet whose work “shimmers with gracefulness” (David Baker)
Phillis Levin’s fifth collection of poems encompasses a wide array of styles and voices while staying true to a visionary impulse sparked as much by the smallest detail as the most sublime landscape. From expansive meditation to haiku, in ode and epistle, dream sequence and elegy, Levin’s new poems explore motifs deeply social and historical, personal and metaphysical.
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books (March 29, 2016)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0143128116
- ISBN-13: 978-0143128113
- Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches
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The Breakdown By B.A Paris [Behind Closed Doors]
By B.A Paris
If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?
Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods. It was on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, and a woman was sitting inside—the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm, and she probably would have been hurt herself if she’d stopped. Not only that, her husband would be furious if he knew she’d broken her promise not to take that shortcut home.
But since then, she’s been forgetting every little thing. Where she left the car; if she took her pills; even the alarm code.
The only thing she can’t forget is that woman, the woman she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt.
And the silent calls she’s receiving, or the feeling that someone’s watching her…
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Disney Zootopia (over 50 Stickers)
A colorful sticker book with more than 60 reusable stickers. Ultimate Sticker Book: Disney Zootopia is the perfect partner to Disney’s humorous new action-comedy, set in an animal world where humans never existed!
DK’s Ultimate Sticker Book will feature Nick Wilde, Judy Hopps and other memorable new characters, plus key locations and iconic moments from this uniquely-set movie.
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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013
Tap Dancing to Work compiles six decades of writing on legendary investor Warren Buffett, from Carol Loomis, the reporter who knows him best.
Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into something remarkable – and Fortune had a front-row seat
When Fortune writer Carole Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge fund manager in a 1966 article, she didn’t dream that Warren Buffett would become the world’s greatest investor. Nor did she imagine that she and Buffett would be close friends.
As Buffett’s fortune and reputation grew, Loomis used her unique insight into his thinking to chronicle his work, writing scores of stories that tracked his many accomplishments – and his occasional mistakes.
Now Loomis has collected and updated the best Buffett articles from Fortune, including cover stories and pieces by Buffett himself. Readers will gain fresh insights into Buffett’s investment strategies and his thinking on management, philanthropy, public policy, and even parenting.
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Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature’s Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future Hardcover
Amina Khan believes that nature does it best In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money. Humans are animals too, and animals are incredibly good at doing more with less. If a fly’s eye can see without hundreds of fancy lenses, and termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning, it stands to reason that nature can teach us a thing or two about sustainable technology and innovation. In Khan’s accessible voice, these complex concepts are made simple. There is so much we humans can learn from nature’s billions of years of productive and efficient evolutionary experience. This field is growing rapidly and everyone from architects to biologists to nano-technicians to engineers are paying attention. Results from the simplest tasks, creating velcro to mimic the sticking power of a burr, to the more complex like maximising wind power by arranging farms to imitate schools of fish can make a difference and inspire future technological breakthroughs. Adapt shares the weird and wonderful ways that nature has been working smarter and not harder, and how we can too to make billion dollar cross-industrial advances in the very near future.