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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Jennifer Wright · Henry Holt
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues -- from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio -- and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon... |
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Terry Bradshaw: From Super Bowl Champion to Television Personality
Brett L Abrams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Terry Bradshaw made a name for himself as the star quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, winning four Super Bowls and twice earning the MVP award. Beyond his athletic success, Bradshaw has established himself as a true cultural icon through his ventures into television, movies, and music.In... |
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Fodor's Seattle
FODOR'S. · Fodor's
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years. Seattle is a city of many personalities: eclectic, urban, outdoorsy, artsy, gritty, down-to-earth, or posh--it's all here, from the quirky character of the Seattle... |
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Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back
Gretchen Carlson · Center Street
Format: Audiobook
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Church of the Small Things: The Million Little Pieces That Make Up a Life
Melanie Shankle · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Is my ordinary, everyday life actually significant? Is it okay to be fulfilled by the simple acts of raising kids, working in an office, and cooking chicken for dinner?It's been said, "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath... |
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Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
DAN ARIELY · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions, and gives them the knowledge they need to make better... |
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The Last Draft: A Novelist's Guide to Revision
Sandra Scofield · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams. A critic, longtime teacher, and award-winning novelist, Sandra Scofield illustrates how to reread a work of fiction... |
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Valerie's Home Cooking: More than 100 Delicious Recipes to Share with Friends and Family
Valerie Bertinelli · Oxmoor House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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As the current star of her Food Network show, Valerie's Home Cooking, and co-host of the network's Kids Baking Championship, as well as having spent years acting on television, Valerie Bertinelli has made a name for herself in households across America. But to really know Valerie, is to spend... |
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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite... |
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
FRANKLIN FOER · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperiled... |
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Stock the Crock: 100 Must-Have Slow-Cooker Recipes, 200 Variations for Every Appetite
Phyllis Good · Oxmoor House
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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The ultimate resource for a new generation of slow-cooker fans from the New York Times bestselling author who has sold 12 million cookbooks!Stock the Crock brings together the expertise of America's most popular slow-cooker authority with a fresh collection of 100 essential, innovative,... |
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Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat
Debora Diniz · Zed Books
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
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The Zika virus has devastated lives and countless communities, leaving children across the Americas with severe disabilities as a result of the epidemic. Nowhere has this devastation been more deeply felt than in Alagoas, a small rural province in northeast Brazil. It was here that the most... |
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing
KRISTEN HADEED · Portfolio
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The inspiring, unlikely, laugh-out-loud story of how one woman learned to lead-and how she ultimately succeeded, not despite her many mistakes, but because of them. This is the story of how Kristen Hadeed built Student Maid, a cleaning company where people are happy, loyal, productive,... |
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Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Michael Kodas · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant exploration of the rising phenomenon of megafires - forest fires of alarming scale, intensity, and devastation - that captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to the most dangerous and remote... |
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