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This charming and critically acclaimed early chapter book series follows the everyday adventures of siblings Stella and Marigold. In this second book, Stella and Marigold receive a purple present—a book for them to list all their friends. That’s when they discover they need to make more friends! But how? With magical recipes to make snow fall? With lots of nice Band-Aids? How about a mermaid candleholder? The two sisters are full of ideas and plans.

Single mom and newly minted private investigator Prairie Nightingale has opened the doors of her Green Bay, Wisconsin, agency and is ready for work. She and her crew aren’t quite prepared for their first client, though: Bernie Dubicki, a notorious online journalist and not-altogether-reliable provocateur, who claims the idyllic vacation destination of nearby Door County is home to a serial killer. She’s pinpointed four seemingly unrelated deaths that haven’t raised suspicions for anyone else.

The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most revered spiritual and philosophical texts in Hindu tradition, forming a part of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata. It is presented as a dialogue between Lord Krishna and the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, moments before the start of a great war. Arjuna, faced with the dilemma of fighting against his own relatives and teachers, is overcome by doubt and despair. Seeking guidance, he turns to Krishna, who serves as his charioteer and divine teacher.

A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard’s poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.

Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences, happily wears Cammy’s expensive cast off clothes, and is transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she returns a changed person.

Annie Proulx, ganadora del premio Pulitzer, nos narra esta estremecedora historia de amor entre dos vaqueros, una historia capaz de sobrevivir a todo excepto a la salvaje intolerancia del mundo que los rodea. Ennis del Mar y Jack Twist son dos rancheros que se conocen cuando aceptan un trabajo para apacentar juntos un rebaño por encima de la zona arbolada en Brokeback Mountain. Ese verano surgirá entre ellos una intensa historia de amor.

Der Osterhase wacht voller Vorfreude auf und ist bereit für das perfekte Osterfest – doch schon bald merkt er, dass dieser Tag ein richtig schlechter Tag zu werden droht. Eier zerbrechen, Farbe verschüttet sich, Körbe kippen um, und drei freche kleine Küken verwandeln einen winzigen Fehler in ein riesiges, kunterbuntes Chaos.

Now a mini-series on National Geographic! A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book From the Pulitzer Prize–­­winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests...

2009 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx, an "unforgettable" (Miami Herald) and "vivid" (Oprah Daily) collection of stories set in Wyoming. Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major...

Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News and Barkskins, showcases her “gritty and gleaming” (The New York Times Book Review) writing in Close Range, one of the most celebrated story collections of all time—includes “Brokeback Mountain.” Annie Proulx’s...

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion. E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and "a rare creation, a lyric page-turner" (Chicago Tribune). At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world...

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of the American West landscape and building a home there by Annie Proulx, winner of a PEN/Faulker Award, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award and author of the short story “Brokeback Mountain.” “Bird Cloud” is...

After a quick jaunt to the Fae realm, I’ve come home to find my city on fire, my mate nowhere to be found, and demons running in the streets. Now, I have to help close a portal to Hell while also trying to figure out why my wonky powers are destroying reality as I know it.

Tuffati nel mondo magico dell'oceano con "Meraviglie dell'Oceano: Incontra le Creature Marine!" Questo incantevole libro per bambini porta i giovani lettori in un'avventura sottomarina, presentando loro deliziose creature marine. Dalla giocosa Dolly il Delfino alla maestosa Bella la Balena Blu, ogni pagina è piena di illustrazioni vivaci e curiosità divertenti che danno vita all'oceano. Perfetto per bambini di età compresa tra 3 e 5 anni, questo libro è progettato per stimolare la curiosità e favorire l'amore per la vita marina.

Unisciti a Babbo, alla Signora Claus e alla loro squadra di elfi ridacchiosi mentre cercano dappertutto al Polo Nord—dalla cucina dei biscotti alle stalle delle renne, fino alla magica lavanderia! Ci sono calzini sulle corna, calzini nei barattoli dei biscotti e calzini con campanellini che tintinnano nei momenti peggiori… ma riusciranno a trovare la coppia giusta prima del decollo?

A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.

"Gifted storyteller" (RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times bestselling author) Annie Rains invites you to Sweetwater Springs for a wedding with all the feels! Event planner Claire Donovan loves giving clients the weddings of their dreams. But that gets tricky when she has to work with the man who...

Ruby is done with jerks, dead-end jobs, and eviction notices. Everyone else she knows is finding ways out of this crappy neighborhood, so why can’t she? Since opportunities refuse to fall from the sky, Ruby makes her own. To hell with the little voice in her heart whispering about love. She never met a man she wanted to keep...then she met a gargoyle. Men were boring after all. Nick was a con, a thief, and a rogue. He couldn’t keep a dime in his pocket even if it was glued. Then, he met a ruby. Not one from the earth, but one of flesh and blood.