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The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life

Sarah L. Kaufman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning dance critic teaches us to appreciate -- and enact -- grace in every dimension, from the physical to the emotional.Grace has long been taught as essential to civilized living. The Three Graces -- goddesses of charm, beauty, and creativity -- exemplify ease and harmony...
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Easy Soups from Scratch with Quick Breads to Match: 70 Recipes to Pair and Share

IVY MANNING · Chronicle Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Nothing is more comforting at the end of the day than a hearty bowl of homemade soup accompanied by freshly baked bread, and this book shows home cooks how to do it in under an hour. Easy Soups from Scratch with Quick Breads to Match makes it simple to create delicious, nourishing soups...
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Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman

Tammy Mal · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest...
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Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels

Marie D Jones · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

The devil goes by many names, and his tribe is legion. Throughout human history, we have been obsessed with the dark opposites of God and angels, light, and mercy. Whether it is our religious and sacred texts, folklore and myths of old, legends, fairy tales, novels, or the movies and television...
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You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want

JESSE MECHAM · HarperBusiness
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Discover four simple rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money faster! The You Need A Budget (YNAB) Method has helped tens of thousands of people to turn their financial lives around. It can certainly help you! Whether you're looking to right...
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Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)...
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Leases & Rental Agreements

Marcia Stewart · NOLO
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Gordon S Wood · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course.Thomas...
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The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own

MARY SCOTT HUFF · Abrams
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

For years, students have asked knitting instructor Mary Scott Huff for a book on their favorite topic - knitting mittens - but one that empowers them to create their own mittens their own way. This is that book. The Mitten Handbook is much more than an instruction book - it provides a list...
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Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids--and How to Break the Trance

Nicholas Kardaras · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

We've all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friend's houses -- and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces -- the Glow Kids -- are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence...
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A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease

Carolyn Thomas · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women worldwide. Yet most people are still unaware that heart disease is not just a man's problem. Carolyn Thomas, a heart attack survivor herself, is on a mission to educate women about their heart health. Based on her popular Heart Sisters...
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Moving Forward in Mid-Career: A Guide to Rebuilding Your Career after Being Fired or Laid Off

John Weiss · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

Losing a job is one of the most devastating events one can experience. For trauma, it ranks up there with divorce, loss of a loved one, or permanent personal injury, and it happens more often that one would think. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 50,000 workers...
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Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything

ALY RAISMAN · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Discover Aly Raisman's inspiring story of dedication, perseverance, and learning to think positive even in the toughest times on her path to gold medal success in two Olympic Games--and beyond. Aly Raisman first stepped onto a gymnastics mat as a toddler in a "mommy & me"...
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The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion?Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

PETER WOHLLEBEN · Greystone Books
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

"Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do--and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours...
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

Kurt Andersen · Random House
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest...
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The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully

AARON CARROLL · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Physician and popular New York Times Upshot contributor Aaron Carroll mines the latest evidence to show that many "bad" ingredients actually aren't unhealthy, and in some cases are essential to our well-being. Advice about food can be confusing. There's usually only one thing...
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Aging with Care: Your Guide to Hiring and Managing Caregivers at Home

Amanda Lambert · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover

Finding the right fit to match aging adults with the best caregiver to assist them in their home can be fraught with challenge. In today's pressurized world, the process involves overstressed family members and a shortage of great caregivers. So many adult children are seeking a helping...
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DIY Temporary Tattoo Art: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Watercolor, Henna, Flash Tattoos, and More!

K L CAO · Adams Media
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

From YouTube personality KL Cao (IamKayElle) comes the first step-by-step temporary tattoo book to help you rock a variety of on-trend tattoo styles for any occasion.Free spirits can now match their body art to their mood - and be ready to accessorize for the moment, no matter where,...
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