The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage
By: Mark Lester , Larry Beason
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Those pesky dangling modifiers, split infinitives, and comma splices--they infect our spoken and wr…
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1. The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology
By: Pascal Denault , None , Mac &. Elizabeth Wigfield
4.45
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Pascal Denault's careful labors over the theological texts of both Baptist and Pedobaptists of the … read more
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2. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.95
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more
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"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
3. The Chicago Manual of Style
By: University of Chicago Press
4.30
Format: 956 pages, Hardcover
The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been superseded by the 17th edition.In the 1890… read more
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4. Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
By: Jim Butcher
4.41
Format: 517 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full o… read more
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"What's with that?"-Jim Butcher, Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
"Polka will never die."-Jim Butcher, Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar"-Jim Butcher, Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
"When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic,"-Jim Butcher, Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
5. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
By: Mary Roach
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh … read more
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6. Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
By: Jack Kornfield , Daniel J. Siegel , Rick Hanson , Richard Mendius
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like any… read more
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7. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more
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8. Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
By: Jim Butcher
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the Whit… read more
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9. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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10. The Time Traders (Time Traders/ Ross Murdock, #1)
By: Andre Norton , Mark Nelson
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Audiobook
DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIMEIntelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief… read more
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11. The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage
By: Mark Lester , Larry Beason
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Those pesky dangling modifiers, split infinitives, and comma splices--they infect our spoken and wr… read more
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12. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
By: Mortimer J. Adler , Charles van Doren
3.98
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. I… read more
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"In short, we can only learn from our "betters"."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"A good rule always describes the ideal performance."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
13. The Elements of Style
By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.
4.18
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more
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"He owned"-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
14. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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15. Through the Woods
By: Emily Carroll
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more
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"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
16. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
By: Kate DiCamillo , K.G. Campbell
3.88
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequence… read more
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"So many miracles have not yet happened."-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
"She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble"-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
"I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry."-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
"He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true."-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
17. The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment
By: None
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Needis the ideal resource for everyone who wants to produce writi… read more
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18. The Jungle Book
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.90
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more
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"Mark my trail..."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"Each dog barks in its own yard."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
19. The Jungle Book (A Little Golden Book)
By: Walt Disney Company
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
YOUNG MOWGLI LOVES growing up in the jungle with his animal friends. But what happens when he is to… read more
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20. The Bone Witch (The Bone Witch, #1)
By: Rin Chupeco
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
The beast raged; it punctured the air with its spite. But the girl was fiercer. Tea is different fr… read more
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21. The Enchanted Hacienda
By: J.C. Cervantes
3.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her… read more
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22. Poster Girl
By: Veronica Roth
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For… read more
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"Trades rely on trust, the belief that if you give what you agree to give, you will receive what is promised."-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl
"If your every choice is in defiance of a system, you are as much a servant of that system as someone who obeys it."-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl
"It is the symptom of a disease that still infects our population--the desire to make everything easy, to sacrifice autonomy and privacy for convenience. That's what technology is, Ms. Kantor. A conce…"-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl
"Just because you're not committing a crime now, by going where you go, by seeing who you see, doesn't mean that another government, another set of people with another set of priorities, won't come al…"-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl
23. Providence
By: John Piper
4.70
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
New from Bestselling Author John Piper From Genesis to Revelation, the providence of God directs th… read more
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24. Immortality: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #2)
By: Dana Schwartz
3.92
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
Hazel Sinnett is alone and half convinced the events of the year before—the immortality, Beecham’s … read more
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"Your success is their success, and your failure their failure."-Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #2)
25. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
By: Julia Shaw
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more
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"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
26. The Fatal Flaw of the Theology Behind Infant Baptism
By: Jeffrey D. Johnson
4.18
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
The Fatal Flaw of the Theology Behind Infant Baptism & Covenantal Dichotomism. This book deals with… read more
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27. True Crime
By: Samantha Kolesnik
3.62
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Suzy and her brother, Lim, live with their abusive mother in a town where the stars don’t shine at … read more
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"That will be your punishment—to see a Paradise you cannot ruin."-Samantha Kolesnik, True Crime
"I was the black sheep, the sheep with teeth, the sheep even the wolf wouldn’t eat."-Samantha Kolesnik, True Crime
"There was something gratifying about people’s hesitations and concerns when around me."-Samantha Kolesnik, True Crime
"To come in as a murderer and to murder is one thing. To come in as a friend, but to be a foe is another. Deceit is really the true crime of humanity."-Samantha Kolesnik, True Crime
28. Talk Santa to Me
By: Linda Urban
3.21
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A teen girl gets the perfect second try at a first kiss in this young adult romantic comedy.Francie… read more
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29. Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
By: Owen Strachan
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“White people should be less white.” “Whiteness is white supremacy.” “Silence is violence.” “You ca… read more
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