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Mother Teresa: Love Stays

Christian Feldman · The Crossroad Publishing Company
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Mother Teresa's life influenced and inspired a generation. Winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of a worldwide network of more than 4,600 sisters in schools, shelters, clinics, hospitals, leprosia, and hospices, Mother Teresa embodied the compassion and love that Jesus taught....
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Last Chance Mustang: The Story of One Horse, One Horseman, and One Final Shot at Redemption

Mitchell Bornstein · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Last Chance Mustang is the story of Samson, a formerly free-roaming, still wild-at-heart American mustang that was plucked from his mountainous Nevada home and thrown into the domestic horse world where he was brutalized and victimized. After years of abuse, Samson had evolved into a hateful...
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The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan

Jack Fairweather · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph—a “good war”—in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. It has since turned into one of the longest and most costly wars in U.S. history. The story of howthis good war went so bad may well...
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Secret Language of Animals: A Guide to Remarkable Behavior

Janine M Benyus · Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

Unlock the secrets behind the behavior of the world's most fascinating creatures? from the Adélie penguin to the plains zebra to the giant panda?in this wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated book.In The Secret Language of Animals, biologist Janine Benyus takes us inside the animal...
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story

Steven M D Hatch · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished...
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Adrift

Tami Oldham Ashcraft · Dey Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest) .Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue...
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The Breast Cancer Cookbook: Over 100 Easy Recipes to Nourish and Boost Health During and After Treatment

Mohammed Keshtgar · Quadrille Pub
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women during their lifetimes. Research has shown that adopting a healthier diet and lifestyle can reduce the risk of getting the disease and improve the survival of patients who have been diagnosed. Mo Keshtgar discusses the risk factors and foods that can play...
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The 30-Day Ketogenic Cleanse

Maria Emmerich · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

For those who are brand-new to keto and those who are getting back on track after falling off the wagon, the first 30 days on a ketogenic diet can be challenging. As the body adapts to burning fat (ketones) rather than sugar for fuel, cravings can arise, and some people find that they...
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The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen

Sean Sherman · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Here is real food - our indigenous American fruits and vegetables, the wild and foraged ingredients, game and fish. Locally sourced, seasonal, "clean" ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. In his breakout...
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The Energies of Love: Using Energy Medicine to Keep Your Relationship Thriving

Donna Eden · Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling authors of Energy Medicine and Energy Medicine for Women present a complete program for using energy medicine to heal and strengthen romantic relationships.A relationship begins with the meeting of two unique energies. This union of energies, though invisible, determines...
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Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

Laura Miller · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 319
Format: Hardcover

A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms. Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans four thousand...
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Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

Karl Ove Knausgaard · Farrar
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected lettersKarl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skåne with his wife, four small children, and dog. He is watching soccer on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes,...
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Berries

Roger B Yepsen · Countryman Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, and more -- captured in watercolor and accompanied by descriptions and recipesBerries are edible jewels, distillations of sunlight, soil, and floral perfumes. Some offer ambrosial sweetness; others are as assertive as herbs and spices. Roger Yepsen...
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Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration of Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects

David Waltner-Toews · ECW Press
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback

Will eating insects change the world for the better??Meet the beetles: there are millions and millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us - mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy - people...
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Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West: The Life of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Joshua Greene · Mandala Publishing
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

In 1965, a seventy-year-old man set sail from India to America with a few books in his bag, pennies in his pockets, and a message of love in his heart. He landed in New York at the peak of the revolutionary counterculture movement of the '60s, and went on to spark a global spiritual renaissance...
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