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Look: Poems

Solmaz Sharif · Graywolf Press
Pages: 98
Format: Print book

Daily I sitwith the languagethey've madeof our languageto NEUTRALIZEthe CAPABILITY of LOW DOLLAR VALUE ITEMslike you.You are what is referred to asa "CASUALTY."--from "Personal Effects"Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable...
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The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age

Al Hirschfeld · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

I am down to a pencil, a pen, and a bottle of ink. I hope one day to eliminate the pencil. Al Hirschfeld redefined caricature and exemplified Broadway and Hollywood, enchanting generations with his mastery of line. His art appeared in every major publication during nine decades of the twentieth...
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The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health

Justin Sonnenburg · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The groundbreaking science behind the surprising source of good health Stanford University's Justin and Erica Sonnenburg are pioneers in the most exciting and potentially transformative field in the entire realm of human health and wellness, the study of the relationship between our bodies...
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Emma's Chance

Greer Grammer · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

While volunteering at a horse rescue, Emma forms an unlikely bond with an abused horse that won't let anyone else ride him. Gaining new skills and confidence, Emma hatches a plan to redeem herself and ultimately save the ranch she's grown to love.
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Everything Under: A Novel

DAISY JOHNSON · Graywolf Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of FenThe dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking...
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The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

Arbinger Institute · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute's first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because readers have enthusiastically recommended it to colleagues,...
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The Pursuit: A Fox and O'Hare Novel

Janet Evanovich · Bantam Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again in their rollicking, New York Times bestselling Fox and O'Hare series!Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI's...
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The Dream Daughter

DIANE CHAMBERLAIN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a thrilling, mind-bending novel about one mother's journey to save her child.When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970,...
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Circling the Sun: A Novel

Paula McLain · Random House Large Print
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling the Sun, which . . . is both beautifully written and utterly engrossing." - Ann Patchett, Country LivingPaula...
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography

Laura Ingalls Wilder · South Dakota Historical Society Press; annotated edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Follow the real Laura Ingalls and her family as they make their way west and discover that truth is as remarkable as fiction. Hidden away since the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder s never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Some of her experiences...
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Bull Mountain

Brian Panowich · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

"[Panowich] pulls off [a] daunting undertaking with astounding success . . . The storytelling is mesmerizing, with virtually every chapter set in a different timeline and focused on a single character, but the sense of immediacy carries over into each era. And while the violence...
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The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities to Nurture Developing Minds

Daniel J Siegel · PESI Publishing & Media; Workbook edition
Format: Print book

Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson speak to audiences all over the world about their immensely popular best-sellers, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. The message Dan and Tina continually receive from their audiences, whether live or virtual, is that people are hungry...
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Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Kaveh Akbar · Alice James Books
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." --Fanny Howe
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Love Can Be: A Literary Collection about Our Animals

Louisa McCune · Kirkpatrick Foundation
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

"Love can be, and sure enough is, moving in all things, in all places, in all forms of life at the same snap of your finger." - Woody Guthrie Oklahoma native Woody Guthrie said it first and best. This new anthology of poems and prose, Love Can Be: A Literary Collection About Our Animals,...
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Miles Ahead

Don Cheadle · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

MILES AHEAD is a wildly entertaining exploration of one of 20th century music's creative geniuses, Miles Davis, featuring a career defining performance by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle in the title role. In the midst of a prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz, Miles Davis (Cheadle)...
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