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The Adoptee's Guide to DNA Testing: How to Use Genetic Genealogy to Discover Your Long-Lost Family

TAMAR WEINBERG · Family Tree Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Reconnect with your roots! Adoptees, foundlings, and others with unknown parentage face unique challenges in researching their ancestors. Enter this book: a comprehensive guide to adoption genealogy that has the resources you need to find your family through genetic testing.Inside, you'll...
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2: Bake from Scratch: Volume Two: Artisan Recipes for the Home Baker

Brian Hart Hoffman · 83 Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

This collection of recipes from the second year of Bake from Scratch magazine (named Hottest New Launch by min, The Community for Smart Media Leaders) features endless inspiration for home bakers. From the essential hot cross buns and coffee cakes to grilled South African breads and seasonal...
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Basketball: A Love Story

DAN KLORES · Crown Archetype
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, celebrated journalists...
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy in the Americas. Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising...
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

JONATHAN HAIDT · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A timely investigation into the new "safety culture" on campus and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental health, education, and ultimately democracyThe generation now coming of age has been taught three Great Untruths: their feelings are always right; they should avoid pain...
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Dead Serious: Breaking the Cycle of Teen Suicide

Jane Mersky Leder · Bublish, Incorporated
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback

My brother took his own life on his thirtieth birthday. My life has never been the same. Thirty plus years after publishing the first edition of Dead Serious, this second completely revised and updated edition covers new ground: bullying, social media, LGBTQ teens, suicide prevention programs,...
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Fight Like A Girl

Clementine Ford · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Through a mixture of memoir, opinion and investigative journalism, Clementine Ford exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women. An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised that will...
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Food52 Genius Desserts: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Bake

Kristen Miglore · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this follow-up to the IACP award-winning, New York Times best-selling cookbook Genius Recipes, Food52 is back with the most beloved and talked-about desserts of our time (and the under-the-radar gems that will soon join their ranks) - in a collection that will make you a local legend,...
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The Gifts of Acceptance: Embracing People And Things as They Are

DANIEL A MILLER · Ebb and Flow Press
Pages: 258
Format: eBook

What Would Your Life Be Like If You Accepted People and Things as They Are?Do you wish your parents had been more nurturing and supportive? Are you wondering if you'll ever find your perfect soul mate and dream boss? Do you wish you had "perfect" children, relatives who never...
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Handmade Houseplants: Remarkably Realistic Plants You Can Make with Paper

Corrie Beth Hogg · Timber Press
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

Houseplants are everywhere - on Instagram, in the media, and in trendy homes all over the world. In Handmade Houseplants, expert crafter and tastemaker Corrie Beth Hogg offers a no-water necessary alternative: plants made from paper! This stylish guide includes step-by-step instructions...
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Homespun: Amish and Mennonite Women in Their Own Words

Lorilee Craker · Herald Press
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

Straight from the pens of Amish and Mennonite women . . . Ever wish you could visit with a group of Amish or Mennonite women over a cup of coffee? In the pages of Homespun, Amish and Plain Mennonite women swap stories and spin yarns while we listen in. Lorilee Craker, bestselling author...
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The Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire

Frank Tallis · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Writer and subject were rarely better matched. This is a brilliant, compelling book."--Ian McEwanIn The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: a woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist...
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Kids Love Indiana, 5th Edition: Your Family Travel Guide to Exploring Kid-Friendly Indiana. 500 Fun Stops & Unique Spots

Michele Darrall Zavatsky · Kids Love Publications, LLC
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback

KIDS LOVE INDIANA, 5th Edition: Your Family Travel Guide to Exploring Kid-Friendly Indiana - 500 Fun Stops & Unique Spots Discover places where you can co-star in a cartoon, howl at the moon, or climb a giant sand dune. KIDS LOVE INDIANA lists and reviews hundreds of kid-tested attractions...
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Live Long And . . .: What I Learned Along the Way

William Shatner · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Star Trek legend and veteran author William Shatner discusses the meaning of life, finding value in work, and living well whatever your age."I have always felt," William Shatner says early in his newest memoir, that "like the great comedian George Burns, who lived to 100,...
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The New Organic Grower, 3rd Edition: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 30th Anniversary Edition

ELIOT COLEMAN · CHELSEA GREEN
Format: Paperback

The Book that Started the Organic Farming Revolution Since its original publication in 1989, The New Organic Grower has been one of the most important farming books available, with pioneer Eliot Coleman leading the charge in the organic movement in the United States. Now fully illustrated...
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Positive Discipline for Today's Busy

Jane Nelsen · Harmony
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Jane Nelsen, coauthor of the popular Positive Discipline series, along with Positive Discipline Educators Joy Marchese and Kristina Bill, put forth a new volume for parents looking to make their overburdened lives a little easier.With the increasing pressure to excel at parenting, work,...
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Reagan: An American Journey

Bob Spitz · Penguin Press
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents,...
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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump

GREGG JARRETT · Broadside Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton's deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election.The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama's Justice Department worked...
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These Truths: A History of the United States

JILL LEPORE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -- "these truths," Jefferson called them -- political equality,...
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Think Again: How to Reason and Argue

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · Oxford University Press
Pages: 256
Format: eBook

Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the opposition is epidemic today, from countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians pandering to their base. Social media has produced...
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Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God

· Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Is what you're anchored to stronger than what you're going through? The answer to that question changes everything. In Unshakable Hope, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado offers encouraging, practical guidance for overcoming difficult circumstances, renewing inner peace,...
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Women & Money

Suze Orman · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The million-copy #1 New York Times bestseller, revised and updated with a whole new financial plan for 2018, for women who want short-term clarity and long-term security.The message of Suze Orman's phenomenal bestseller Women & Money resonates as deeply today as it did when it was first...
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