Something is not right with Nadia Cara. While spending a year in Florence, Italy, she's become a thief. She has secrets. And when she tries to speak, the words seem far away. Nadia finds herself trapped by her own obsessions and following the trail of an elusive Italian boy whom only she has seen. Can Nadia be rescued or will she simply lose herself altogether? Set against the backdrop of a glimmering city, One Thing Stolen is an exploration of obsession, art, and a rare neurological disorder. It is a celebration of language, beauty, imagination, and the salvation of love.

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Showcase cakes at parties, potlucks, and other gatherings with these gorgeous disposable cake stands. Sturdy and easy to assemble, each stand can display a fully decorated layer cake (not to mention other baked goods), so precious cake stands can stay safely stowed away at home. With graphic stripe and polka-dot designs, the two stands mix and match effortlessly. And they are compostable. That really takes the cake!

Pretty Cake Stands: Stripes & Polka Dots

Sixteen-year-old Beckan and her friends are the only fairies brave enough to stay in Ferrum when war breaks out. Now there is tension between the immortal fairies, the subterranean gnomes, and the mysterious tightropers who arrived to liberate the fairies. But when Beckan's clan is forced to venture into the gnome underworld to survive, they find themselves tentatively forming unlikely friendships and making sacrifices they couldn't have imagined. As danger mounts, Beckan finds herself caught between her loyalty to her friends, her desire for peace, and a love she never expected. This stunning, lyrical fantasy is a powerful exploration of what makes a family, what justifies a war, and what it means to truly love.
Ages 14+

A History Of Glitter And Blood

This new biography—featuring over 150 archival images and full-color photographs printed throughout—introduces Julia Morgan as both a pioneering architect and a captivating individual. Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first licensed to practice architecture in California. Over the first half of the 20th century, she left an indelible mark on the American West. Of her remarkable 700 creations, the most iconic is Hearst Castle. Morgan spent thirty years constructing this opulent estate on the California coast for the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst—forging a lifelong friendship and creative partnership with him. Together, they built a spectacular and unequalled residence that once hosted the biggest stars of Hollywood's golden age, and that now welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. This compelling biography draws on interviews, letters, and Morgan's diaries, including never-before-seen reflections on faith, art, and her life experiences. Morgan's friendship with Hearst, her passion for California's landscape, her struggles with familial dementia, and her devotion to architecture reveal her to have been a singularly brilliant and determined artist. PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED CONTENT: Victoria Kastner has spent years compiling photographs, interviews, letters, drawings, and diaries—including material never published before—to create the first truly comprehensive portrait of this amazing woman. OVER 150 PHOTOGRAPHS: This book features over 150 photographs, printed throughout the text. These include both fascinating archival images and beautiful, full-color contemporary shots of Morgan's buildings. INSPIRING STORY: By exploring both Morgan's work and her life, Kastner weaves a captivating tale about courage, vision, and resilience. Julia Morgan forged a path for herself against the odds, and her story will inspire contemporary women and creatives. ARCHITECTURAL ICON: Julia Morgan created 700 buildings during her career, from hotels to churches to private homes. Born in San Francisco and trained in Paris, she developed a distinctive aesthetic that now defines certain regions of California. But only in the last twenty years has her contribution to architecture been fully recognized and celebrated. In 2014, the American Institute of Architects' posthumously awarded her its Gold Medal; she was the first female recipient. Perfect for: 
- History buffs 
- Students, enthusiasts, and professional architects 
- Aspiring creatives in all fields 
- Feminists seeking role models 
- Visitors to Hearst Castle and Morgan's other buildings 
- Californians and visitors to California

Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography Of The Trailblazing Architect

A glorious celebration of all the reasons to love the rain! Internationally acclaimed writer Kyo Maclear has partnered with printmaker Chris Turnham to create a colorful and lively celebration of rain. Flowers bloom in the garden. Umbrellas bloom on the streets. There are puddles for jumping and, later, a cozy home for hot chocolate and books. There's so much to love about the rain! 
- CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR: Kyo Maclear is an essayist and novelist who has written more than a dozen books for children. 
- GORGEOUS ART: Chris Turnham's print-making expertise—especially his masterful use of color and texture—spills over into the stunning images throughout this book. 
- TALENTED DUO: Publisher's Weekly said Kyo and Chris's debut book The Wish Tree "hums with understated everyday magic," while School Library Connection said it was a "warm and magical tale of friendship and the intrinsic beauty of nature." 
- CELEBRATES NATURE: Whether you love rain or sun, whether you are out-and-about or stuck inside, this book is a great reminder of the natural beauty all around us. 
- PERFECT FOR HOME OR SCHOOL: This book is an ideal fit for a cozy family read at home or school story time reading tied to curriculum about the weather or the seasons. 
- A BOOK TO COME BACK TO: Children will return to this book again and again to discover new details. Perfect for: 
- Parents, caregivers, and grandparents 
- Teachers and librarians 
- Nature-lovers 
- Those who love the rain or anyone living in rainy regions!

Hello, Rain!

Baby & Kids

Yoga 365 presents a year’s worth of daily readings that invite yoga lovers of every skill level to bring the inspiration they experience on their mats into their everyday lives. Each entry explores a mind-body theme such as balance, strength, and resilience in a short, illuminating paragraph that can be enjoyed in the morning or at bedtime, incorporated into a yoga session, or read on the go. Featuring a serenely beautiful hardcover and a spacious, color-washed interior, the package is as calming in the hand as the readings are to the eye. Yogis will find it to be a motivating tool for personal growth and a lighthearted, gift-worthy way to share the joys of their practice with others.

Yoga 365

People are eating more greens and grains and feeling virtuous about the abundant vitamins and minerals and invaluable protein and fiber. Best of all, these foods are utterly delicious! The 45 creative recipes in this book combine greens and grains in dishes for all meal occasions that burst with flavor, color, and lusciousness. These flexible recipes not only make weeknight dinners, many requiring only one pot, but also provide a comprehensive reference of cooking methods for dozens of grains, from quinoa to rye berries. More than 30 mouthwatering photographs convey the beauty of grains and hot greens such as kale, nettles, and collards. This is an indispensable book for the health-conscious home cook.

Greens + Grains Pb

The beloved candy bars of childhood have grown up, but there is no need to go to the French Laundry to get your fix. Candy bar devotees Susie Norris and Susan Heeger show how to reinvent candy bars as they should be– thick and layered with nougat, crisp with toffee, and coated with fine chocolate. Familiar candy-store bars and other nostalgic favorites are re-created using the freshest ingredients, right down to the peanutladen caramel and chocolate-drenched cookie crunch. A mix-and-match flavor chart inspires anyone with a sweet tooth to dream up custom treats of their own, such as covering marshmallows with molten chocolate. From the basics of candy making to tips on dressing up these luscious indulgences as elegant desserts, Hand-Crafted Candy Bars evokes the sweet memory of youth with simple, scrumptious sophistication.

Hand-crafted Candy Bars

Retold in both Spanish and English, the universally loved story Thumbelina will delight early readers and older learners alike. The striking illustrations give a new look to this classic tale, and the bilingual text makes it perfect for both home and classroom libraries.

Thumbelina/pulgarcita

The Art of Coco presents the story behind the making of Pixar’s Academy Award-winning film Coco. Filled with concept art and insights from the creative team who worked on the film, this book overflows with insights into the process behind Pixar's unique and engaging vision.
The Art of Coco explores the behind-the-scenes details about the making of the film and production art that brings the mesmerizing story to life in a brand new way.

- A must-have companion book to the feature film 
- See the world of Coco in detail through intriguing storyboards and spellbinding colorscripts 
- Filled with exclusive interviews with the production team
Packed with colorful artwork and energetic character sketches, this comprehensive volume showcases the stunning artwork from the film’s creation.
The Art of Coco is part of the fan-favorite, collectible Art of series—books that explore production art and exclusive making-of details. 
- A perfect gift for fans of Coco and Pixar, animators, animation and filmmaking students, film buffs, and more 
- Reveals exclusive details and facts that you can’t read anywhere else 
- Add it to the shelf with books like The Art of Zootopia by Jessica Julius, The Art of Moana by Jessica Julius and Maggie Malone, and The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation by Amid Amidi

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The Art Of Coco

The Ultimate Spotlight ™ books have all the fun, facts, and hands-on action of the incredibly successful Ultimate series, but in a focused, more compact, and affordable format. Flaps, pull tabs, and many other moveable parts show young children how these mighty engines have helped people travel and transport goods throughout history. Pull a tab to open train doors, lift flaps to see inside a train car, or turn a wheel to see different types of trains. Chock-full of surprising details and beautiful illustrations, this interactive book is a must-have for young train and transportation enthusiasts.

Ultimate Spotlight: Trains

From the controlled beauty of classical ballet to the vivacity of salsa, dance can be found in nearly every culture on Earth. Shall We Dance is the result of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker's year of travel across the United States, documenting the huge variety of styles (from tap to tango, salsa to swing) and dancers he encountered. What began as a photo-essay for National Geographic soon expanded into a vast documentary project, which includes interviews with dancers from all corners of the globe. Shall We Dance celebrates dance's diversity of culture and capacity to express every emotion imaginable. Featuring a foreword by legendary writer, and former dancer, Maya Angelou, this volume is a treasure trove of dance from around the world.

Shall We Dance

Featuring 200 prompts from books, movies, television shows, and songs, this pocket-size take on classic charades makes for a lively guessing game for friends and family.

After Dinner Amusements: Charades

For the adventure enthusiast or armchair traveler, this delightful journal is the perfect place to jot down favorite recollections from journeys near and far. Just the right size to pack in a carry-on or jacket pocket, when it's filled it becomes a sweet travel keepsake of the happiest memories.

Happiness Is . . . Travel

Bakerella is the force behind the worldwide sensation that is cake pops and now she's back for the holidays. Here, she celebrates the holiday season with more than twenty winter-themed cake pop creations including adorable Christmas trees, sweet Santas, tiny gingerbread houses, snowflakes and many more. These cute and clever designs include step-by-step instructions and plenty of Bakerella's expert guidance, giving you the skills to make and decorate them like a professional. Follow Bakerella's tips for displaying, gifting, boxing and shipping your precious pops and spread lots of smiles this holiday season.

Cake Pops Holidays

This deluxe set of playing cards contains two standard 54-card decks with vibrant, colorful brick designs on the backs. Perfect for group or solo play, these playing cards are sure to inspire countless card games and endless ways to play with friends or family. Housed in a collectible keepsake box, LEGO® Brick Playing Cards are the perfect gift for the LEGO fan who has it all!

MUST-HAVE GIFT: These playing cards are the perfect gift or self-purchase for LEGO® lovers and avid card players alike. Play with LEGO bricks in a fun, new way!
COLORFUL ART: Each set of 54-card decks feature vibrant, colorful LEGO brick designs on one side.
DELUXE PACKAGE: These two playing card decks are set in a beautifully designed, collectible keepsake box, ideal for storing and displaying your cards.
HIGH-QUALITY: These high-quality playing cards allow players to shuffle the deck over and over again with minimal wear and tear.
GREAT FOR GET-TOGETHERS: Enjoy playing card games with family and friends who share a love of LEGO bricks at parties, holidays, and events.

Lego Brick Playing Cards

From autumn’s bursts of orange and red to spring’s lush greens, summer’s long-lasting golden light and winter’s cool whites and grays, the changing seasons provide endless artistic inspiration. In Sewing for All Seasons , author Susan Beal offers 24 beautiful projects imbued with the spirit of each season. Home sewists will enjoy stitching a cozy patchwork throw for autumn, a bright gardening apron to welcome spring, a colorful picnic quilt for summer, and soft woolen slippers for those chilly winter nights. With how-to illustrations, helpful templates and patterns, tons of color, and eye-catching photography, this book will leap off shelves and inspire crafters all year long. ng.

Sewing For All Seasons

The practical, accessible painting and drawing guidance that made The Artist’s Manual and The New Artist’s Manual beloved classics now returns in a refreshed design and compact new package. With the same breadth of content as the originals, this updated version is packed with easy-to- follow instructions, including comprehensive information about all varieties of materials and tools, along with hundreds of critical techniques for mastering composition, color, line, tone, and more. Copiously illustrated in 1,300 color photos and examples from working artists, this new edition is the definitive guide for artists of every skill level looking to begin, develop, and perfect their skills. The Complete Artist’s Manual is today’s essential studio companion.

The Complete Artist's Manual

Kids will go crazy for these quirky books featuring lovable characters, vivid art, rhyming text, and best of all, cute finger puppets! Watch Little Owl snuggle down to sleep in this simple, comforting story. Each book features a permanently attached plush finger puppet and peek-a-boo holes in every page, presenting a super-fun way for parents and children to play and read together.

Little Owl: Finger Puppet Book

Long before their supporting role in Sex and the City, Manolo Blahnik's shoes were legendaryexquisitely detailed, unabashedly luxurious, and impossibly sexy. The epitome of sophistication and taste, they have graced the feet of royalty, supermodels, and movie stars. In these breathtaking pictures by Blahnik's longtime friend, photographer Eric Boman, the shoes take center stage in a dazzling array of intriguing and often lighthearted scenes and settings. A white leather stiletto plays an incriminating role in a suggested crime worthy of Hitchcock. A pale green mule nestles among ferns in homage to Blahnik's recurring botanical themes. The straps of a sandal echo the strands of spaghetti in which it lays entwined. Boman's unerring eye and oddly keen understanding of Blahnik's creations make for spellbinding pictures, full of wit, playfulness, and sole. Elegant allusions to Blahnik's eclectic influences aboundfrom the cinema to history, from the natural world to art and literature. As covetable as a pair of Manolos, this is a book of consummate creativity, addictive power, and unrivaled individuality: a cult object on a cult designer.

Blahnik By Boman

Be the brightest star on the block when holiday season rolls around. In this easy-to-use outdoor decorating guide, "Mr. Christmas" himself helps transform any home into a sparkling winter wonderland. For everyone from electrical project wizards to people who have never used an extension cord, here is a step-by-step guide to planning, shopping for, and installing a dazzling house and yard display for the holidays. This book turns complex technical tasks into easy and affordable do-it-yourself projects that will impress the wife, enchant the kids, and make the neighbors green with envy. With detailedillustrations and handy packing and storage tips, Holiday Hero eliminates the holiday headaches of untangling lights year after year. Things are looking brighter already.

Holiday Hero

When twelve-year-old Izzy spends the summer in her Nana’s remote New Mexico village, she discovers long-buried secrets that come alive in an enchanted landscape of majestic mountains, whispering winds, and tortilla suns. Infused with the flavor of the southwest and sprinkled with just a pinch of magic, readers are sure to find this heartfelt story as rich and satisfying as Nana’s homemade enchiladas.

Tortilla Sun

This is the perfect interactive book to mark the winter season. With the hallmark attached finger puppet that won't get separated from the book, children will delight at the adventures of Little Snowman in verse and interactive play.

Little Snowman: Finger Puppet Book

The adventures of Ivy and Bean continue in the fifth installment from series creators Annie Barrows and Sophie Blackall. In Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad the two girls decide to be so good and kind and pure of thought that wild animals will befriend them. When this doesn't work, they decide that perhaps a little badness can be good.

Ivy And Bean Bound To Be Bad (book 5)

This distinctive notebook collection showcases gorgeous vintage posters, concept art, and promotional artwork from the pivotal film in the original Star Wars trilogy. Each notebook features lightly ruled interiors with quotations from the film, plus additional artwork on the inside and back covers.

© and TM Lucasfilm Ltd. Used Under Authorization

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Notebook Collection

On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland. Nothing will ever be the same. A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira's home. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. As the mysteries deepen, Mira must find the strength to carry on—to somehow hold her memories in place while learning to trust a radically reinvented future. Gripping and poetic, This Is the Story of You is about the beauty of nature and the power of family, about finding hope in the wake of tragedy and recovery in the face of overwhelming loss.

This Is The Story Of You

It is extraordinary for a woman to receive a breast cancer diagnosis, go through treatment, and survive to tell the story. But to then celebrate survival by embarking on a grueling mountain climb? That takes a truly remarkable woman.
Climb Against the Odds documents the inspiring story of a group of such women who joined The Breast Cancer Fund to raise awareness and money for the fight against breast cancer by endeavoring to climb some of the world's most daunting peaks. They climbed Mt. Acongagua (23,000 feet), Mt. McKinley (20,300 feet), and Mt. Fuji (12,389 feet), putting their post-cancer bodies and their indomitable spirits through a journey that changed them all. Featuring compelling interviews, joyful photographs, resources, and information about the struggle against breast cancer, Climb Against the Odds is timed to release with The Breast Cancer Funds fourth mountain climb, held on the 14,162-foot volcanic peak of Mt. Shasta.
The thrill of scaling impossible mountains, the triumph of beating a lethal disease, and the anguish of losing loved ones come together in this amazing journey of grace over mountains metaphoric and real.

Climb Against The Odds

Take a ride—whether it’s on a boat, plane, or on a rocket ship! Kids can use the 45 magnetic pieces included to fill 5 oversized scenes in this Magnetology™ title. The all-in-one play set features fascinating information, just right for its audience, about all types of vehicles: those that travel on the road, on a farm, in space, and even underwater. When play is done, the pieces can be conveniently stored in the handy built-in pocket. A travel-friendly package with exceptional play value!

Magnetology: Vehicles

The Art of Onward presents the story behind the making of Pixar's film Onward. This comprehensive volume showcases stunning artwork from the film's creation, along with behind-the-scenes details that brings this epic story to life in a brand new way. 
- A vibrant companion book to Pixar's feature film Onward 
- Includes character designs, storyboards, colorscripts, and much more 
- Filled with exclusive interviews from the creative team behind it all Set in a suburban fantasy world, Onward introduces two teenage elf brothers who embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there. The Art of Onward is part of the fan-favorite, collectible Art of series—books that explore production art and exclusive making-of details. 
- A perfect gift for Pixar fans, animation and filmmaking students, film buffs, and more 
- Add it to the shelf with books like The Art of Zootopia by Jessica Julius, The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation by Amid Amidi, and The Color of Pixar by Tia Kratter Copyright © 2020 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar. All rights reserved.

The Art Of Onward

Perfect for celebrating joyful occasions large and small, this classic collection of cards showcases Cat Seto's artwork of everyday treasures and French greetings.