K's Car Can Go Anywhere!


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"This wild adventure’s plentiful humor...will delight young readers, as will its spirit of inventiveness."–Booklist "This imaginative graphic novel will keep young readers turning pages to find out just where K’s car can go. Highly recommended."–School Library Journal K's Car can go anywhere! Join J and K on a breathtaking adventure as they go on the ultimate road trip in the world's greatest car. Tadpole J is ready for a lazy Saturday in Lilypad City, but his big sister, frog K, has other plans – they're going on a road trip! K built a spectacular car that can go anywhere, so J packs them a picnic lunch and off they go! Beyond the lakeside cliffs, through the Spikey Spike Forest, and past the Domed City of Fafa. But when the road gets blocked at the Waterfall Mountains, they get stopped right in their tracks. Or do they? Because when K says her car can go anywhere, she really means anywhere!




Any Way the Wind Blows


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New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy, concludes with Any Way the Wind Blows. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. Now, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha must decide how to move forward. For Simon, that means choosing whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages — and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough. Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. This book is a finale. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest. The Simon Snow Trilogy was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories; Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings—about catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.




A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold)


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From NYT bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west. A Night Divided joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!With the rise of the Berlin Wall, Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors and friends are prisoners in their own city.But one day on her way to school, Gerta spots her father on a viewing platform on the western side, pantomiming a peculiar dance. Gerta concludes that her father wants her and Fritz to tunnel beneath the wall, out of East Berlin. However, if they are caught, the consequences will be deadly. No one can be trusted. Will Gerta and her family find their way to freedom?




The Billboard


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In Cold Blood


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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.




Cocaine, the Gulf Connection


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Cocaine, the Gulf Connection is not about cocaine gangs and shoot outs in Mexican border towns, but rather it details the complex workings of a sophisticated smuggling operation that has gone unknown to the Mexican and U.S. governments for thirteen years. The success of the smuggling operation comes from a high degree of compartmentalization, which allows no chance for any one piece of the Company to betray another. Yes, the smugglers think of themselves as a Company. Retired FBI agent Nicholas Able is hired to consult in locating the source of Cocaine for what the FBI thanks is a large Houston Texas drug distribution network. The trail starts at a local bar off Galveston Bay and grows to a network that covers all of the Texas Gulf Coast and into Tampico Mexico. Mr. McDonald has produced a plot that is intricate and nonstop. The logic and detailed detective work descriptions are fascinating and an interagency battle for control of the case between the DEA and FBI adds to the drama. The book is not a Who done it, thats known from the outset. Cocaine, The Gulf Connection is about finding the bad guys and then bringing them down.




Kansas Farmer


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Go Cars Go!


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Young children will love exclaiming Go Cars Go! when this delightful book is read aloud. Whether your little one is into cars or not, this sturdy board book is a fun, family-pleasing story. Author Mandi Dow's story is the typical experience of leaving home in the family car for school or work and ending the day back in the car returning home. But before arriving home, there's necessary errands to run, fun with family and friends, and a pizza dinner to go! Each fun stanza ends in the catchy refrain of "Go Cars Go!" that is sure to please young children who love to join in when being read to. Cars - whether a sedan, minivan, SUV, or pickup truck - are part of many families' daily experiences. Getting where they need to go is important. But what also is important is coming back home at the end of the day to our happy home and neighborhood. Go Cars Go! takes us through the day and back again with a special, fun and memorable trip. Go Cars Go! will get placed into the tote bag or backpack and help entertain young children during a car trip. It's also sure to be brought back home to be read at bedtime. Illustrations by Rob Peters are the perfect match for the story with the bright colors, eye-catching detail and all-around happy look. In Go Cars Go! young learners will come along for the ride where there is something for everyone!




Indies Unlimited: Authors' Snarkopaedia


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In Volume One of the Authors' Snarkopaedia, sentences have been painstakingly crafted together using nouns, verbs and other words, bringing you paragraphs of text. These paragraphs flow into pages of expert tips, advice and insight for authors at all levels of the publication food chain. Any book can claim to offer this type of information, but they can't give you what sets the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia above the rest: the "je ne sais squat" of the high decorated staff of the Snarkology Department at the Indies Unlimited Online Academy. Their groundbreaking and empirical research over the years sheds new and snarkified light on subjects ranging from book publishing and marketing to the nuts and bolts of writing and technology. If you like information to grab you by the throat and smack you in the face, the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia is the reference book for you.




Cars & Parts


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