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Garden Bugs & Insects of the Northeast: Identify Pollinators, Pests, and Other Garden Visitors (Adventure Quick Guides)

Jaret C. Daniels - Adventure Publications
Format: Pocket Book

Get this tabbed booklet to garden insects and bugs, and learn how to identify and attract (or repel!) them. Brightly colored flowers, rich soil, and delicious nectar, the garden landscape is a bug's paradise. It attracts the ones we want to see - like bees, butterflies, and lady beetles...
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The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers

ANDREW T CRUZBARBARA C HOUCKJEFF HUSE - ‎University Press of Florida; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

A delicious, multilayered tale of a legendary sandwich   How did the Cuban sandwich become a symbol for a displaced people, win the hearts and bellies of America, and claim a spot on menus around the world? The odyssey of the Cubano begins with its hazy origins in the midnight cafés...
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A "thrilling" (The New York Times) , "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science...
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Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution

Yasmin El-Rifae - Verso
Format: Hardcover

A haunting, intimate account of the women and men who built a feminist revolution in the middle of the Arab Spring.In 2012, the joyful hopes of the democratic Egyptian Revolution were tempered by revelations of mass sexual assault in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the revolution's symbolic...
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

Sean Carroll - Dutton
Format: eBook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Most appealing... technical accuracy and lightness of tone... Impeccable." - Wall Street Journal"A porthole into another world." - Scientific American"Brings science dissemination to a new level." - ScienceThe most trusted...
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The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

David K. Randall - ‎W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2022. A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record.In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with...
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Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Beverly Lowry - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author's life and perception of home.In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least...
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How to Raise an Antiracist

Ibram X Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the author of How to Be an Antiracist and recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Grant. "Kendi's latest . . . combines his personal...
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I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Barbara Rae-Venter - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The amateur DNA sleuth who cracked the most infamous cold case in American history -- that of the Golden State Killer - tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have changed the course of criminal investigations forever.For twelve years he terrorized...
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The Fresh Prince Project: How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America

Chris Palmer - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

A "thorough, thoughtful, and immensely entertaining"(Jemele Hill, author of Uphill) cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardom - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - in the vein of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest Regards.. More than...
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