A Summer of Sundays
Written by Lindsay Eland
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.99
Fans of The Mother Daughter Book Club (Heather Vogel Fredericks) and The Wedding Planner's Daughter (Coleen Paratore) series will fall in love with the humor, classic charm, and very determined heronine of Lindsay Eland's sophomore novel.
When you're the third of six kids, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle, but...
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An Afghanistan Picture Show
Or, How I Saved the World
Written by William T. Vollmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.
In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted...
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Amelia Earhart
A Biography
Written by Doris L. Rich
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a...
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The Apple Orchard Riddle
Written by Margaret McNamara
Illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $15.99
Mr. Tiffin and his students from the perenially popular
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? are back in this picture book about a school trip to an apple orchard! In this playful, humorous, and child-friendly classroom story, the students learn a lot about apples and apple orchards—including how apples are harvested...
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The Apple Orchard Riddle
Written by Margaret McNamara
Illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $10.99
Mr. Tiffin and his students from the perenially popular
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? are back in this picture book about a school trip to an apple orchard! In this playful, humorous, and child-friendly classroom story, the students learn a lot about apples and apple orchards—including how apples are harvested...
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The Apple Orchard Riddle
Written by Margaret McNamara
Illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $18.99
Mr. Tiffin and his students from the perenially popular
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? are back in this picture book about a school trip to an apple orchard! In this playful, humorous, and child-friendly classroom story, the students learn a lot about apples and apple orchards—including how apples are harvested...
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The Berenstain Bears Happy Halloween!
Written by Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $9.99
It's the best Halloween treat ever—a collection of three Berenstain Bears Halloween books in one! Included are
The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat, The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest, and
The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin, sweet and spooky tales that are the perfect ingredients for a...
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The Best of Connie Willis
Award-Winning Stories
Written by Connie Willis
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. Her smart, heartfelt fiction runs the gamut from screwball...
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The Best of Connie Willis
Award-Winning Stories
Written by Connie Willis
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $28.00
Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. Her smart, heartfelt fiction runs the gamut from screwball...
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eBook.
Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of...
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Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of...
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Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Read by Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of...
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The Book of Blood and Shadow
Written by Robin Wasserman
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $10.99
One night. One body, broken in a pool of blood.
One killer, lost in the shadows.
One girl, left behind.
Left alone, to face the consequences.
To find the truth.
To avenge the dead.
One night is all it takes to change Nora Kane's life forever. Her best friend is dead; her boyfriend has...
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A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
Written by Dave Shelton
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $6.99
A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book, and a ukulele. The bear assures the boy that they are traveling a short distance and it really shouldn't take very long. But then they encounter "unforeseeable anomalies": turbulent stormy seas! a terrifying sea monster! and...
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Butterfly
Written by Sonya Hartnett
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $7.99
In masterful prose, the author of SURRENDER tells a quiet but powerful tale about the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence.Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful...
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The Cookie Dough Lover's Cookbook
Cookies, Cakes, Candies, and More
Written by Lindsay Landis
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Food blogger Lindsay Landis has invented the perfect cookie dough. It tastes great. It’s egg free (and thus safe to eat raw). You can whip it up in minutes. And, best of all, you can use it to make dozens of delicious cookie dough creations, from cakes, custards, and pies to...
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Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters
Written by Jane Yolen
Illustrated by Kelly Murphy
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $5.99
Beloved author Jane Yolen scares up a new rhyming read-aloud about the snarfing, growling, snoring way that monsters go to bed.Creep, gurgle, crawl, tumble! Meet two young monsters who are far from scary - they’re too busy having fun. They go to school, play outside with their friends, and eat after-school...
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Crow
Written by Barbara Wright
Read by J.D. Jackson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $23.00
The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching...
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Crucible: Star Wars
Written by Troy Denning
Read by Marc Thompson
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $40.00
Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and Luke Skywalker return in an all-new Star Wars adventure, which will challenge them in ways they never expected—and forever alter their understanding of life and the Force. When Han and Leia Solo arrive at Lando Calrissian’s Outer Rim mining operation to help him thwart...
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Crucible: Star Wars
Written by Troy Denning
Read by Marc Thompson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $22.50
Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and Luke Skywalker return in an all-new Star Wars adventure, which will challenge them in ways they never expected—and forever alter their understanding of life and the Force. When Han and Leia Solo arrive at Lando Calrissian’s Outer Rim mining operation to help him thwart...
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The DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics
Written by Mark Chiarello and Todd Klein
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $11.99
Acclaimed artists Mark Chiarello and Todd Klein demystify these essential steps in traditional graphic storytelling. Chiarello explains the entire coloring process, from computer and software choice to creating color effects that give the action its maximum impact. Klein discusses whether to letter by hand or by computer—a hotly debated topic among...
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