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Not Your Mother's Midlife : A Ten-step Guide To Fearless Aging A Passion For Life [CD Book] The Longevity Book : The Science Of Aging, The Biology Of Strength, And The Privilege Of Time Healthy Aging : A Lifelong Guide To Your Physical And Spiritual Well-being Spring Chicken : Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)

Healthy Aging

Books on aging well with physical, mental social and financial health.

The Girl Who Fell From The Sky : A Novel Dare To Disappoint : Growing Up In Turkey Pride [DVD] Monstress. Book 1, Awakening The Book Of Harlan

We're All in this Together

Stories ranging from fantasy to literary fiction to compelling nonfiction, these titles illuminate hidden figures and reveal compelling new voices across the spectrum of experiences and perspectives.

The Shining The Husband's Secret The Silkworm The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao This Is How You Lose Her

Staff Picks: Erika

Erika's Eclectic Collection

Hostage Stitches : A Memoir-- Rolling Blackouts : Dispatches From Turkey, Syria, And Iraq March. Book One Vinland Saga. Book 1, For Honor And Vengeance

Staff Picks: Rod

Rod's top 21 graphic novels for adults.

Fed Up With Lunch [downloadable Ebook] Double Delicious! : Good, Simple Food For Busy, Complicated Lives The Kids' Multicultural Cookbook : Food & Fun Around The World Taste Of Home Kid Approved Cookbook. Awesome Foods For Active Kids : The ABCs Of Eating For Energy And Health

School Lunch

Quick, easy and delish food to fuel the kiddos during the school year

Vinegar Girl : The Taming Of The Shrew Retold Toads And Diamonds Ronit & Jamil The Skystone : The Camulod Chronicles Romeo & Juliet [DVD]

Retold Fairytales

Novels & Films that are a New Twist on a Familiar Story

The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook : A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes For Perfect-every-time Bread, From Every Kind Of Machine Grill This, Not That! : Backyard Survival Guide The Complete Homebrew Beer Book : 200 Easy Recipes From Ales & Lagers To Extreme Beers & International Favorites Maida Heatter's Pies & Tarts Perfect Pies : The Best Sweet And Savory Recipes From America's Pie-baking Champion

Fun on a Stick

State Fair & Fair Foods

The Big Book Of Torch Songs. Come By Me [music CD] The Shape Of Jazz To Come [sound Recording] Spiritual Unity [sound Recording] Best Of The Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings [sound Recording]

Jazzy

Jazz classics and new fan favorites

The Girls Of Mischief Bay You Don't Look Your Age ... : And Other Fairy Tales The Island House : A Novel A Hundred Summers Here's To Us : A Novel

Vacation Reads

Beachy Reads perfect for the sand, the sun, or your living room.

Eco-craft : Recycle, Recraft, Restyle Ready, Set, Green : Eight Weeks To Modern Eco-living From The Experts At TreeHugger.com A New Vision For Iowa Food And Agriculture The Natural & Handmade Soap Book : 20 Delightful And Delicate Soap Recipes For Bath, Kids And Home The Best Natural Homemade Soaps : 40 Recipes For Moisturizing Olive Oil-based Soaps

Think Green

Angels And Alcohol [sound Recording] On Purpose [sound Recording] Backlands : A Novel Of The American West Mr. Misunderstood [sound Recording] The Colonel And Little Missie : Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, And The Beginnings Of Superstardom In America

Giddy Up

Books, movies, and music with a western twang.

Rendezvous With Rama Hellhole The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet Dune The Book Of Strange New Things : A Novel

Out of This World

Books & Movies about Space Travel, the Cosmos, and All Things Extraterrestrial

In The Blood Kitty Genovese : The Murder, The Bystanders, The Crime That Changed America The Accident : A Novel Restless In The Grave Luckiest Girl Alive

Whodunit

Mysteries, Detective Stories & Crime Novels

Looking For Alaska Infinite Jest : A Novel Gilead American Pastoral Riders Of The Purple Sage [CD Book] By Zane Grey.

Literary Road Trip

Travel the US through stories: 50 novels, 50 states

Shackleton's Forgotten Men : The Untold Tragedy Of The Endurance Epic The Sun Also Rises Cross Country : Fifteen Years And Ninety Thousand Miles On The Roads And Interstates Of America With Lewis And Clark, A Lot Of Bad Motels, A Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in Law, Two Kids, And Enough Coffee To Kill An Elephant Running With The Kenyans : Passion, Adventure, And The Secrets Of The Fastest People On Earth Hothouse Flower And The Nine Plants Of Desire

There and Back Again

Travel fiction. Audiobooks for the open road. Travelogues.

Starin' At A Green Light [music CD] Tedesco, Dan Picaresque [music CD] Pleasure [music CD] Salutations [music CD] Sparkle Sparkle [music CD]

80/35 Fantastical Music Wonderland

2017 marks the 10th anniversary of this Des Moines live music spectacular.

The Wonder : A Novel The Unreal Life Of Sergey Nabokov : A Novel Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe Unbecoming Saving Montgomery Sole

LGBTQ Book List

A nationwide celebration of the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.

March. Book Three The Arab Of The Future 2 : A Graphic Memoir : A Childhood In The Middle East (1984-1985) The Photographer The Hypo Marbles : Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, And Me : A Graphic Memoir

Adult Storytelling: Graphic Memoirs

The Alchemist The Time Traveler's Wife The Memory Keeper's Daughter The Nightingale The Lovely Bones

Everyone's read it but me!

Books you've heard about but never picked up. It's time!

Shotgun Lovesongs Etta And Otto And Russell And James The One-in-a-million Boy The Supremes At Earl's All-you-can-eat The Homecoming Of Samuel Lake : A Novel

A Man Called Ove Read-a-Likes

Books written with themes and characters similar to the popular novel "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman.

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