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  BOOKAll New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space! Mr. Mel Bartholomew $9.58
About this product: Sure, there are ten new features in this all-new, updated book. Sure, it's even simpler than it was before. Of course, you don't have to worry about fertilizer or poor soil ever again because you'll be growing above the ground. But, the best feature is that "anyone," "anywhere" can enjoy a Square Foot garden. Children, adults with limited mobility, even complete novices can achieve spectacular results. But, let's get back to the ten improvements. You're going to love them. 1) New Location - Move your garden closer to your house by eliminating single-row gardening. Square Foot Garden needs just "twenty percent" of the space of a traditional garden. 2) New Direction - Locate your garden "on top" of existing soil. Forget about pH soil tests, double-digging (who enjoys that?), or the never-ending soil improvements. 3) New Soil - The new "Mel's Mix" is the perfect growing mix. Why, we even give you the recipe. Best of all, you can even "buy" the different types of compost needed. 4) New Depth - You only need to prepare a SFG box to a depth of 6 inches! It's true--the majority of plants develop just fine when grown at this depth. 5) No Fertilizer - The all new SFG does not need any fertilizer-ever! If you start with the perfect soil mix, then you don't need to add fertilizer. 6) New Boxes - The new method uses bottomless boxes placed aboveground. We show you how to build your own (with step-by-step photos). 7) New Aisles - The ideal gardening aisle width is about three to four feet. That makes it even easier to kneel, work, and harvest. 8)New Grids - Prominent and permanent grids added to your SFG box help you visualize the planting squares and know how to space for maximum harvest. 9)New Seed Saving Idea - The old-fashioned way advocates planting many seeds and then thinning the extras (that means pulling them up). The new method means planting a pinch- literally two or three seeds--per planting hole. 10) Tabletop Gardens - The new boxes are so much smaller and lighter (only 6 inches of soil, remember?), you can add a plywood bottom to make them portable. Of course, that's not all. We've also included simple, easy-to-follow instructions using lots of photos and illustrations. You're going to love it! BOOKWhen You Reach Me Rebecca Stead $42.25
About this product: Amazon Exclusive: A Q&A with Rebecca Stead  We had the opportunity to chat with Rebecca Stead over e-mail about her second novel, When You Reach Me. Hereâs what Rebecca had to say about growing up in New York City, meeting Madeleine LâEngle, and how writing a novel is a lot like solving a puzzle.Amazon.com: When You Reach Me captures Manhattan in the late 70s perfectly. Why did you choose to set a book for young readers today in the not-too-distant (but very different) past? Rebecca Stead: I grew up in New York in the seventies and eighties. When I was in elementary school, I became acquainted with a mysterious sort of character, who I wanted to use for this story. When I began to write about him, I was suddenly remembering all kinds of details and moments and places from my own childhood and happily writing them into the book. And in this way the bookâs setting sort of rose up around the plot. Thereâs another reason I set the story in the past, which is that I wanted to show a world of kids with a great deal of autonomy, and I wasnât sure that it would ring true in a modern New York setting. For better or for worse, life is different now. Amazon.com: Madeleine L'Engleâs classic A Wrinkle in Time plays an important role in When You Reach Me. Why did you choose pay homage to this particular classic in your own book? Rebecca Stead: I loved A Wrinkle in Time as a child. I didnât know why I loved it, and I didnât want to know why. I remember meeting Madeleine LâEngle once at a bookstore and just staring at her as if she were a magical person. What I love about LâEngleâs book now is how it deals with so much fragile inner-human stuff at the same time that it takes on lifeâs big questions. Thereâs something fearless about this book. It started out as a small detail in Mirandaâs story, a sort of talisman, and one I thought I would eventually jettison, because you canât just toss A Wrinkle in Time in there casually. But as my story went deeper, I saw that I didnât want to let the book go. I talked about it with my editor, Wendy Lamb, and to others close to the story. And what we decided was that if we were going to bring LâEngleâs story in, we needed to make the bookâs relationship to Mirandaâs story stronger. So I went back to A Wrinkle in Time and read it again and again, trying to see it as different characters in my own story might (sounds crazy, but itâs possible!). And those readings led to new connections. Amazon.com: I love the way you incorporate hints of science fiction into the ordinary events of Mirandaâs life. What scientific possibilities (or realities) did you find most interesting growing up? Rebecca Stead: I thought about time a lot when I was a kid. Not in a mystical way--it was just the passing of time, the idea of time stretching out forever, that interested me. I used to wonder, "What will my room look like on my thirtieth birthday? What will be the first words I say in the year 2000? When Iâm forty, will I remember the âmeâ I am now? Will I remember this moment?" I guess part of it was thinking about how we leave ourselves behind in a way, which I think we do, throughout our lives. I was also really interested in what is "knowable." Thereâs a certain number of people alive on this planet right now, and itâs a simple number that anyone could write down or say aloud, and so in some sense that number exists as a truth, yet we canât know it. Thatâs the kind of thing I thought about when I was Mirandaâs age. Amazon.com: Each of the bookâs chapters is just a few pages in length, but each scene is fully drawn. Why did you decide to write the story in this way? And why do most of the chapters begin with the words "Things That..." or "Things On..."? Rebecca Stead: A lot of my writing is fragmented for some reason. It must be something about the way my brain works. I used to write short stories, and this was the form they frequently took. When I started writing my first novel, First Light, a lot of the raw material was also fragmented, and I had to sort of develop them into traditional chapters, which was what worked best for that story. But When You Reach Me is a little like a puzzle, and I loved the challenge of smoothing these small pieces until the whole thing fit together just right. The chapter names are (mostly) the names of categories inspired by a game show called The $20,000 Pyramid. As she tells her story, Miranda is helping her mother get ready to be a contestant on the show. They practice every night, and the game sort of seeps into her general thinking. The book is about all sorts of assumptions and categories we carry in our heads, so it felt right on that level, too. Amazon.com: At the very beginning of the novel, we learn that Mirandaâs mom is going to be a contestant on the 1970âs TV game show The $20,000 Pyramid. Without giving away the ending, why is this opportunity so important for them as a family? Rebecca Stead: They need the money! Part of whatâs happening for Miranda during this year is that she gets pushed outside of her formerly tiny world. Not far, but enough for her to start thinking about class, and the way other people live. She starts to see the way she lives in a new way, and has to deal with that. Itâs the beginning of that kind of awareness for her, and so the money they hope to win has a lot of meaning for her, but itâs a meaning that changes. Amazon.com: Is there some significance to the way that Miranda, her mom, and her momâs boyfriend Richard all prepare for the big event? Rebecca Stead: They have a pretty nice system, which starts with their neighbor, Louisa, who scribbles down each dayâs Pyramid clues at her nursing job because sheâs the only one with access to a television at lunchtime. After her shift, she leaves the clues with Miranda, who copies them down on cards. Miranda and Richard take turns feeding clues to Mirandaâs mom while the other one keeps time. They operate as one kind of New York City family, which is probably the important thing. Amazon.com: Why do Miranda and her friends Annemarie and Colin like working in Jimmyâs sandwich shop during lunch hour? Especially since he doesnât pay them. Why donât they hang out at school instead? Rebecca Stead: It doesnât feel like work to them. They are twelve, and all they want to do is see what itâs like to be out in the world together. Itâs the most exciting thing ever, except when itâs boring. Hanging out at school means sitting in the lunchroom, which is not fun. They couldnât even sit together there, because Colin would always be sitting with the boys. Amazon.com: Do you think latch-key kids like Miranda are any different today than they were back in the 70s? How about city kids versus suburban kids? Rebecca Stead: Iâm now raising two kids of my own in New York City, and I think a lot about the differences between todayâs "preteen experience" and the one I had. Kids are generally less independent now, I think. My friends and I had a lot more freedom than I let my own kids have. The community just doesnât support it anymore. Now we have 24-hour-a-day news and twenty-two different police dramas that make constant fear seem kind of reasonable. And the internet has changed everything, obviously. Kids socialize in cyberspace now. Iâve heard that the suburban experience has also changed a lot. My husband grew up in the suburbs and his parents hardly ever knew where he was at age twelve. Those days are gone, I think.  BOOKFrom Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time Sean Carroll $14.73
About this product:  BOOKLord Sunday (The Keys To The Kingdom) Garth Nix $8.00
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In this thrilling conclusion to Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series, Arthur Penhaligon must complete his quest to save the Kingdom he is heir to...and Arthur's world.
 BOOKA Mighty Fortress (Safehold Book 4) David Weber $18.47
About this product: Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, heâs won the most crushing naval victories in human history. Heâs smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and theyâve turned Charis into a place of refuge for all who treasure freedom. Their success may prove short-lived. The Church of God Awaiting, which controls most of Safehold, has decreed their destruction. Mother Churchâs entire purpose is to prevent the very things to which Charis is committed. Since the first attempt to crush the heretics failed, the Church has no choice but to adopt some of the hated Charisian innovations for themselves. Soon a mighty fleet will sail against Cayleb, destroying everything in its path. But there are still matters about which the Church knows nothing, including Cayleb and Sharleyanâs adviser, friend, and guardianâ the mystic warrior-monk named Merlin Athrawes. Merlin knows all about battles against impossible odds, because he is in fact the cybernetic avatar of a young woman named Nimue Alban, who died a thousand years before. As Nimue, Merlin saw the entire Terran Federation go down in fire and slaughter at the hands of a foe it could not defeat. He knows that Safehold is the last human planet in existence, and that the stasis the Church was created to enforce will be the human raceâs death sentence if it is allowed to stand. The juggernaut is rumbling down on Charis, but Merlin Athrawes and a handful of extraordinary human beings stand in its path. The Church is about to discover just how potent the power of human freedom truly is.  BOOKEarth Strike: Star Carrier: Book One Ian Douglas $4.28
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To the Sh'daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universeâalong with those who would employ them. As their great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray. There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometer-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind's greatest conflictâand quite possibly its last.  BOOKVictorious (The Lost Fleet, Book 6 of 6) Jack Campbell $7.99
About this product:  BOOKBlue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant Renée Mauborgne $15.50
About this product: Winning by Not Competing: A Fresh Approach to Strategy
Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation. Yet these hallmarks of competitive strategy are not the way to create profitable growth in the future.
In a book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne argue that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors, but from creating "blue oceans": untapped new market spaces ripe for growth. Such strategic moves-which the authors call "value innovation"- create powerful leaps in value that often render rivals obsolete for more than a decade.
Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any company can use to create and capture blue oceans. A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this book charts a bold new path to winning the future.
W. Chan Kim is the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD. Renée Mauborgne is the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Strategy and Management.
 BOOKGrow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces Gayla Trail $13.30
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