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Dog Hiking Northern California: 42 Unmissable Dog-Friendly Trails
The Ultimate Guide to Exploring the Golden State with Your Four-Legged FriendExplore Northern California's most beautiful trails with your dog by your side. From the urban paths of the Bay Area to the rugged North Coast and the Sierra Nevada wilderness, this guide features routes for every level of hiker and every breed -- including hidden trails, secret swimming holes, and off-leash adventures. Includes:- Detailed trail guides with clear directions and difficulty ratings
- Full-color photos and easy-to-follow maps
- Downloadable GPX files for navigation
- Expert tips from a Bay Area local
- Charming illustrations throughout
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Social media helps us stay connected with friends and family. But how do we use it safely and wisely? Learn about keeping your personal information private and how your digital footprint can affect your future. Get ready to explore social media responsibly and spread kindness in the digital world!
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Women's Professional Golf
In 1950, 13 women golfers started the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). Since it began, the league has grown to include golfers who compete at tournaments all over the world. Learn about the history of the LPGA, including some of its greatest moments. Then explore the careers of the record-breaking women and highest-ranked golfers on the LPGA Tour, such as Lorena Ochoa, Kathy Whitworth, and Lydia Ko.
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Christian McCaffrey vs. Ladainian Tomlinson: Who Would Win?
LaDainian Tomlinson and Christian McCaffrey are star running backs. Born 17 years apart, they never played at the same time but both broke records in college and in the NFL. McCaffrey is a touchdown-scoring machine for the San Francisco 49ers. Tomlinson ranks second in NFL career rushing touchdowns. Their ability to run the field while also catching passes makes them great football players. But who would win if they faced each other?
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Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language Protector
Ella Cara Deloria loved to listen to her family tell stories in the Dakota language. She recorded many American Indian peoples' stories and languages and shared them with everyone. She helped protect her people's language for future generations. She also wrote many stories of her own. Her story is a Minnesota Native American life.
The Minnesota Native American Lives Series includes biographies of Charles Albert Bender, Ella Cara Deloria, and Peggy Flanagan. Read all three to learn about Minnesota Native American lives!
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Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success
Do you have a nagging fear that your work isn't truly important? Or that your potential greatness will wither, unrealized?
Most people never feel purpose in their work. They never bring their full energy to a meaningful mission.
Purpose and intensity are Elon Musk's superpowers. He chooses colossal missions. Then he is maniacal, creative, and relentless in pursuit of success. It's not charm, luck, or genius that made him the wealthiest person on Earth. It's his mindset.
Musk's mindset is laid out clearly in this book, the result of five years of work, distilling millions of words into an easy read.
Eric Jorgenson also wrote The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, a word-of-mouth phenomenon with millions of readers in 40+ languages.
This isn't a biography or a cheesy self-help book. Instead, through Musk's own words, you will feel personally mentored to lead a rich life full of purpose, passion, and prosperity.
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Firestorm America: A True Account of the Blaze That Consumed Los Angeles - From the Reports of Jacob Soboroff
Firestorm America is not just the story of a wildfire. It is the story of a country crossing a threshold.
In January 2025, Los Angeles burned in winter. Neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades and Altadena were consumed by wind driven flames under conditions once thought impossible for that time of year. Evacuations unfolded in real time. Smoke choked the region. And one of America's most iconic cities was forced to confront a terrifying question: if this can happen here, what comes next.
Drawing from the on the ground reporting of Jacob Soboroff, Firestorm America delivers a gripping, deeply human account of the blaze that reshaped Los Angeles and signaled a new era of disaster. Moving from the first frantic evacuation texts to the front lines of live reporting, from charred neighborhoods to halls of power, this book blends firsthand storytelling with investigative depth and scientific clarity.
This is a narrative about fire, but also about systems. About how climate change, land use, infrastructure, policy failures, and human decisions converged into a single catastrophic moment. It examines why the fires burned so fast and so hot, why preparedness fell short, and why recovery is proving as complex as the disaster itself. Along the way, it amplifies the voices of survivors, firefighters, scientists, and officials grappling with loss, accountability, and an uncertain future.
At its heart, Firestorm America is a love letter to Los Angeles and a warning to the nation. It shows how wildfire has moved from the margins to the center of American life, transforming fire from a seasonal emergency into a permanent condition. The book does not offer easy answers, but it offers something more urgent: clarity about what is at stake if the lessons of this fire are ignored.
Powerful, unflinching, and impossible to dismiss, Firestorm America captures a defining moment when disaster became diagnosis and the future arrived in flames.
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Extra
Ten people head out on a backpacking trip, but the first night eleven set up camp. Everyone remembers everyone else. Who is the extra?
"The Extra is exceptional in every way: Extra unnerving, extra eerie, extra tense. Annie Neugebauer pedals in the same alpine paranoia as John Carpenter's classic The Thing, manifesting a sense of dissociative anxiety that only mounts with every turn of the page." - Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
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Moms Who Work: A Celebratory Anthem for Working Mothers
Moms Who Work is the celebratory anthem for women who both work and juggle motherhood. Perfect for that new mother who is returning to work after her 1st maternity leave or for that seasoned Supermom, who makes you wonder, "How does she do it!?" The thoughtful, hand-drawn illustrations and clever rhymes will keep your kids engaged while highlighting the heroics of motherhood!
This beautifully illustrated book will teach moms and kids alike the importance of working-motherhood. Intended to help moms move beyond their "Mom-Guilt," the book emphasizes just how pivotal a mother's example of dedication, perseverance, selflessness, and hard work is, to the kids in their lives. Buy the physical copy to enjoy the customizable sections in the back to do mother-appreciation-themed art!
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"Filled with emotionally complex characters and riveting, poignant moments, along with plenty of humor, Still Sal is not to be missed." --BookPage (starred review)
Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books of 2024!
A stand-alone companion to two-time Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes's award-winning and acclaimed The Year of Billy Miller. With themes of family, friendship, and resilience, this very funny school story focuses on Billy's little sister, Sal, and her first day of school. For fans of Ramona, Ivy + Bean, and The Penderwicks.
Sal has been looking forward to first grade for a long time. But her excitement quickly turns to disappointment when she learns that her best friend, Griff, is in the other first-grade classroom and has the most popular teacher. Then Sal's name is spelled wrong on her name tag, she trips in front of the cool fifth graders, and her self-portrait doesn't turn out the way she wanted it to. In fact, everything about school is an absolute disaster. Poor Sal!
Luckily for Sal, she has understanding parents, a terrific new teacher, and empathetic friends who remind her that it takes time to adjust to change. And sure enough, after a few days, Sal feels like herself again.
Still Sal highlights themes of family, friendship, social and emotional growth, resilience, and adapting to change. The fourth stand-alone book in the Miller Family sequence includes black-and-white illustrations by Caldecott Medal winner Kevin Henkes on almost every page and is an excellent choice for early elementary grades, for readers ready for a short novel, and for family and classroom sharing.
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Stories from Suffragette City
A collection of short stories from a chorus of bestselling writers all set on the same day, October 23, 1915, in which over a million women marched for the right to vote in New York City, with an introduction by Kristin Hannah
Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories from the leading voices in historical fiction that all take place on a single day: the day one million women marched for the right to vote in New York City in 1915. A day filled with a million different stories, and a million different voices longing to be heard. Taken together, these stories from writers at the top of their bestselling game become a chorus, stitching together a portrait of a country looking for a fight, and echo into a resounding force strong enough to break even the most stubborn of glass ceilings. With stories from:
Lisa Wingate
M. J. Rose
Steve Berry
Paula McLain
Katherine J. Chen
Christina Baker Kline
Jamie Ford
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Megan Chance
Alyson Richman
Chris Bohjalian
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In His Name, She Said
In His Name, She Said is a Gospel-based story addressing the mystery of what Jesus might have written in the sand at his feet as described in the Gospel of John, Chapter 8, verses 2 through 11.
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Bound to the Wolf: A Grimm Love Story
A cunning fox. A silver wolf. In a game of debts and deception, who will be the Hunter and who will be the prey?
Twenty-year-old Ember is ready for a new start but unsure where to land. As she drives through the wooded town of Dayton, she's so distracted by the greenery around her that she completely misses the shiny Porsche parked on the side of the road just around a bend. The now totaled car belongs to Grimm, a devastatingly attractive and terrifying man in his forties. He's furious and demands she repay him for the damages. Ember doesn't have a dollar to her name and now is without her only form of transportation or lodging.
Through his anger, Grimm finds an ounce of empathy, offering her to stay at a cottage on his property and work for him while she repays her debts. She agrees and finds herself thrust into a new and complicated living situation.
Grimm isn't just a charming silver fox. He's the Minister of a werewolf pack. He attempts to hide the truth about himself and his budding feelings for his new houseguest, but nothing can stay in the dark for long.
Ember has some secrets of her own. Maybe her mistakes weren't as accidental as they seemed, and maybe she's not as innocent as she looks.
The two find themselves forced to face their past prejudices, fears, and primal needs, thrusting them closer and closer together until the fire inside burns everything in its path.
Bound to the Wolf can be enjoyed as a continuation of The Wolfish Love Stories or as a stand-alone.
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Green Glow on the Horizon
Lauren Ambrite, the National Association of Tourist Attraction Survivors editor of A Green Glow on the Horizon, is a serial collector who satisfies her greedy soul by collecting the stories of fellow Tourist Attraction Trauma survivors starved of significance in a world that consigns to the shadows individuals who "feel too deeply." Lauren knows that, unlike tourists on summer road trips laughing off and leaving behind mermaid shows, jackalopes, and wax statues of the biblical Job, tourist attraction survivors cannot simply walk away. Instead, they wander troubled through these fabulist tales. Standing behind this earnest but sometimes scary editor is author Dawn Burns, a writer who dares to expose the complicated, often contradictory yearnings and compulsions, griefs and grievous missteps of fellow human beings.