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Paracord!: How to Make the Best Bracelets, Lanyards, Key Chains, Buckles, and More

Todd Mikkelsen · W W Norton
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Todd Mikkelsen's Paracord! offers a diverse collection of projects that utilize parachute cords - known around the world as paracord. Used by paratroopers and other military personnel during World War II, this lightweight nylon rope is now one of the most sought-after materials by crafters.Its...
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The Storm and the Tide: Tragedy, Hope and Triumph in Tuscaloosa

Lars Anderson · Time Inc
Pages: 229
Format: Print book

THE MOVING STORY OF HOW A SHARED TRAGEDY INSPIRED A COLLEGE FOOTBALL DYNASTY On April 27, 2011, a powerful tornado ripped through the heart of Tuscaloosa, Ala., leaving 53 dead and a path of unimaginable devastation. In the aftermath, Alabama coach Nick Saban and his football team went...
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Butter Baked Goods: Nostalgic Recipes From a Little Neighborhood Bakery

Rosie Daykin · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Butter Baked Goods began as a tiny bakery in Vancouver. Opened in 2007 by Rosie Daykin, the bakery is a pink-and-pistachio slice of heaven, its counters overflowing with irresistible treats. Not long after opening, word got out about the bakerys marshmallows, and Butter Baked Goods soon...
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Popular Sheet Music - 30 Hits from 2010-2013

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

A concise collection of 30 big hits, including: Call Me Maybe * Girl on Fire * Home * If I Die Young * Just Give Me a Reason * Little Talks * Next to Me * Radioactive * Royals * Some Nights * Stay * Titanium * and more.
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Origins of the Sphinx: Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization

Robert M Schoch · Inner Traditions
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback

New research and evidence that the Sphinx is thousands of years older than previously thought* Contrasts what Egyptologists claim about the Sphinx with historical accounts and new research including reanalysis of seismic studies and updates to Schoch's water weathering research and Bauval's...
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The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking

Brooke Borel · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 174
Format: Print book

"A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation 'funded a study on Jell-O wrestling at the South Pole.' That is incorrect. The event took place during off-duty hours without NSF permission and did not involve taxpayer funds." Corrections...
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Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul

Andrew Schulman · Picador
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

For millennia, music has been known to have a powerful role in the healing process. This moving and inspiring book tells the tale of a man pulled from the brink of death by music who, in turn, uses music as medicine to help heal others. Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year-old professional...
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The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time

Jonathan Kozol · Crown
Format: Hardcover

A Library Journal Best Book of 2015National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally...
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Healthy Habits: 52 Ways to Better Health

Cris Beer · Rockpool Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Healthy Habits: 52 Ways to Better Health is an easy-to-read book offering an effective "habit-a-week" approach. Incorporate one new habit per week into your lifestyle across an entire year (52 weeks) . By following the week-by-week advice within these pages you will start to regain...
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It

Jennifer Mueller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive...
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The Cold War: A World History

Odd Arne Westad · Basic Books
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming...
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Get the Truth: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Persuade Anyone to Tell All

Michael Floyd · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Getting someone to tell the truth is an essential skill that very few people possess. In the boardroom, classroom, or our own homes, every day we interact with others and try to get the truth from them. This book will show you how to do it, and do it well!...
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Every Frenchman Has One

Olivia De Havilland · Crown
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Back in print for the first time in decades, the delectable escapades of Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland, who fell in love with a Frenchman - and then became a Parisian In 1953, Olivia de Havilland - already an Academy Award-winning actress for her roles in To Each His Own and The Heiress...
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Bare Bones: I'm Not Lonely If You're Reading This Book

Bobby Bones · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A touching, funny, heart-wrenching, and triumphant memoir from one of the biggest names in radio, the host of The Bobby Bones Show, one of the most listened-to drive time morning radio shows in the nation.Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell...
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Whole New You: How Real Food Transforms Your Life, for a Healthier, More Gorgeous You

Tia Mowry · Ballantine
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the star of the Cooking Channel's Tia Mowry at Home comes a timely clean-eating cookbook that will change the way you think about what you eat and jump-start your journey to a healthier, more gorgeous you. When actress Tia Mowry landed her breakthrough role on the sitcom Sister,...
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