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Whether trying to lose weight, save money or get organized, we’re always setting goals and making resolutions but rarely following through on them. SMALL MOVE, BIG CHANGE is Arnold’s guide to turning broad personal goals into meaningful and discrete behavioral changes that lead to permanent improvement. Providing scores of engaging examples from the wide circle of colleagues and friends who practice her microresolution method, Arnold also shows how her system is supported by new willpower and habit science.

On her wildly popular recipe blog, Tess Masters --- aka, The Blender Girl --- shares easy plant-based recipes that anyone can whip up fast in a blender. Tess’s lively, down-to-earth approach has attracted legions of fans looking for quick and fun ways to prepare healthy food. In THE BLENDER GIRL, Tess’s much-anticipated debut cookbook, she offers 100 whole-food recipes that are gluten-free and vegan, and rely on natural flavors and sweeteners. Many are also raw and nut-, soy-, corn-, and sugar-free.

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Kurtz’s novels of the Deryni have been hailed by Anne McCaffrey as “an incredible historical tapestry of a world that never was and of immensely vital people who ought to be.” Now Kurtz weaves a thrilling conclusion to the epic Childe Morgan trilogy, in which bonds of both magic and loyalty will be put to the ultimate test.

Bianca Marshal is looking for a man who can quote both Jesus and Shakespeare. Not surprisingly, that man is hard to find in the small Appalachian town where she lives. Still set on experiencing love, or at least a little adventure, Bianca wins an essay contest that propels her into a whirlwind search for the perfect hero. Via the opulence of London and the mysteries of Palestine, Bianca's true love will be revealed --- but not without a price that might be too heavy to pay.

In this masterful blend of the practical and the spiritual, Robert Benson invites you into the work and rewards of a writer’s life. He helps you choose the ideal audience for your work, commit to it, and overcome the hurdles that inevitably confront both aspiring artists and accomplished professionals. More than a primer on effective writing, DANCING ON THE HEAD OF A PEN is a winsome guide to the place in the heart where the life of the spirit meets the life of art.

A grieving mother draws on her storied heritage to find her daughter in the afterlife

A single day in Amsterdam, 1632. The Surgeons’ Guild has commissioned a young artist named Rembrandt to paint Dr. Nicolaes Tulp as he performs a medical dissection. In the swirl of anticipation and intrigue surrounding the event, we meet an extraordinary constellation of men and women whose lives hinge, in some way, on Dr. Tulp’s anatomy lesson. As the story builds to its dramatic conclusion, circumstances conspire to produce a famous painting --- and an immortal painter.

From the author of THE SUMMER WE FELL APART, THE GROWN UPS is an evocative and emotionally resonant coming-of-age novel involving three friends that explores what it means to be happy, what it means to grow up, and how difficult it is to do both together.

On the day after 9/11, foreign newspapers ran headlines announcing “We Are All Americans Now.” Though the sentiment was not new, it was also not quite the same as when Henry Luce announced in 1941, the inauguration of what he called “the American Century,” during which the US was to raise all men “from the level of the beasts to what the Psalmist calls a little lower than angels.” When America suddenly emerged as a global power in the postwar period, the world --- with pockets of resistance from France, Russia, and Japan in particular --- was happy to be remade in the US image. Fast forward to today and the Chinese state news agency Xinhua, days before a possible financial default by the US government, calling for a de-Americanized world.

In WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE WORLD?, science writer Andrew Lawler takes us on an adventure from prehistory to the modern era with an account of the partnership between human and chicken (the most successful of all cross-species relationships). In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic exploration on four continents, Lawler reframes the way we feel and think about our most important animal partner --- and, by extension, all domesticated animals, and even nature itself.