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Fresh Eggs Daily: Raising Happy, Healthy Chickens...Naturally

Lisa Steele · St. Lynn's Press; General edition
Format: Book

More than ever, Americans care about the quality and safety of the food they eat. They're bringing back an American tradition: raising their own backyard chickens for eggs and companionship. And they care about the quality of life of their chickens. Fresh Eggs Daily is an authoritative,...
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U.S. Women's History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

Leslie Brown · Rutgers University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed Sisterhood is powerful, and women s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach acknowledging that no woman...
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Sacred Space Turning Your Home into a Sanctuary

Jill Angelo · Kion Yamaguchi Press
Pages: 158
Format: Print book

SACRED SPACE Sacred Space offers a range of practical and spiritual tools to help you create your own personal sacred space starting today. Let Angelo be your gentle guide as you discover the simple, easy-to-implement steps to transforming your home into a harmonious refuge. Create the sacred...
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Code Check Electrical: An Illustrated Guide to Wiring a Safe House

Redwood Kardon · Taunton Press; 2nd Spiral ed. edition
Format: Print book

This volume picks up where the original Code Check leaves off and expands on the electrical code section. Code Check Electrical clarifies the principles behind the electrical codes to ensure safety and prevent unnecessary violations. It also explains why electrical codes call for certain...
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Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them

Isaac Fitzgerald · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearers true self or the accidental consequence of a bender. These most permanent and intimate of body adornments are hidden by pants legs and shirttails,...
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The Beader's Guide to Jewelry Design: A Beautiful Exploration of Unity, Balance, Color & More

Margie Deeb · Lark Crafts
Format: Book

"Once beaders have mastered the basics and enjoyed bringing others' patterns to life, they're ready and eager to take the next step: creating their own original pieces. Here, finally, is their must-have guidebook to the fundamental principles of visual design. Focusing on jewelry,...
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Strange Material: Storytelling through Textiles

Leanne Prain · Arsenal Pulp Press
Format: Print book

Strange Material explores the relationship between handmade textiles and storytelling.Through text, the act of weaving a tale or dropping a thread takes on new meaning for those who previously have seen textiles - quilts, blankets, articles of clothing, and more - only as functional objects....
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@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex

Shane Harris · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A surprising, page-turning account of how the wars of the future are already being fought today
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On My Own Two Feet: From Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life

Amy Purdy · William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder.In this poignant and uplifting memoir, Dancing With the Stars...
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Takedown: A Small-Town Cop's Battle Against the Hells Angels and the Nation's Biggest Drug Gang

Jeff Buck · Forge, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Jeff Buck thought he'd seen it all. Twenty years working undercover in the netherworld of drugs had left him burned out and grateful to assume the quiet job of police chief in the small town of Reminderville, Ohio. That is, until a simple domestic assault case turns out to have links...
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The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime

Imogen Lloyd Webber · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Have you ever been at a cocktail party when all of a sudden you feel like an outsider in the conversation because you have absolutely no idea what the person is talking about? You're standing around with a glass of wine and someone starts talking about how the stock market did that day leading...
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Swim, Bike, Run, Eat: The Complete Guide to Fueling Your Triathlon

Tom Holland · Fair Winds Press
Format: Book

Its race day and you have your quick-closure running shoes sleek suits bikes goggles and watches but if you havent been training with the proper nutrition youll be left in the dust in the third mile Enter Swim Bike Run--Eat to guide you from day one of training to the finish line and help...
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Shock Factor: American Snipers in the War on Terror

Jack Coughlin · St. Martin's Press; First Editon: November 2014 edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Shooter, comes a riveting narrative of how snipers have changed the course of America's war on al Qaida in the Middle East and Africa.Retired Marine sniper Jack Coughlin (Shooter) and John Bruning pull back the curtain of secrecy...
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How to bake everything

Mark Bittman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 703
Format: Print book

In the most comprehensive book of its kind, Mark Bittman offers the ultimate baker's resource. Finally, here is the simplest way to bake everything, from American favorites (Crunchy Toffee Cookies, Baked Alaska) to of-the-moment updates (Gingerbread Whoopie Pies) . It explores global...
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The Church of Mercy

Pope Francis · Loyola Press
Format: Hardcover

"A magnificent book, bursting with profound spiritual insights, from a man who has quickly become one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our time." --James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A PilgrimageIn the year since he was elected, Pope Francis's simple message of mercy,...
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