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Blue Ribbon Preserves: Secrets to Award-Winning Jams, Jellies, Marmalades and More

Linda J. Amendt · HP Trade
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Blue Ribbon Preserves features the award-winning recipes, canning tips, and methods for making preserves that have made Linda J. Amendt one of the top prize-winning cooks in the nation. This handy and helpful volume explains how to make the finest jams, jellies, marmalades, preserves, conserves,...
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Mindful Moments: 30 Day Plan for Supercharged Results

Louise Adams · Wilkinson Press
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Most books focus on "surface level" mindfulness and basic skills: breathing exercises, being present, seeing things as they are, and acceptance. These skills are very important and often life-changing; many people report better stress management and a greater sense of peace once...
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Lonely Planet Pocket Chicago

Karla Zimmerman · Oakland
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Pocket Chicago is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gaze out over the city from the heights of the Willis Tower, chow down on local...
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The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" Changed Presidential Elections Forever

Ronald G Shafer · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 279
Format: Print book

Americans have come to expect that the nation's presidential campaigns will be characterized by a carnival atmosphere emphasizing style over substance. But this fascinating account of the pivotal 1840 election reveals how the now-unavoidable traditions of big money, big rallies, shameless...
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All Aboard: The Complete North American Train Travel Guide

Jim Loomis · Chicago Review Pr
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

"This comprehensive guide will assist the traveler in planning an excursion and executing it with minimum effort and maximum pleasure" -Library Journal All Aboard-first published in 1995, and here completely revised and updated-is much more than just a mile-by-mile scenery guide...
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Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran

Barry Meier · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help...
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Some Say: Poems

MAUREEN N MCLANE · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our momentMaureen N. McLane's Some Say revolves around a dazzling "old sun." Here are poems on sex and death; here are poems testing the "bankrupt idea / of nature." Some Say offers an erotics of attention;...
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The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster

Chris Adams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover

In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record "Purple Haze"...
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The Natural Eclectic: A Design Aesthetic Inspired by Nature

Heather Ross · Figure.1
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

The Natural Eclectic offers a glimpse into the inspiring world of West-Coast artist, photographer and stylist Heather Ross. Through her stunning images and philosophical musings on beauty, nature and design, Heather shows how to bring a nature-inspired aesthetic to life. With the same artist's...
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family

Arabella Carter-Johnson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,...
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland

Rory Stewart · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of The Places in Between, "a flat-out masterpiece" (New York Times Book Review) , an exploration of the Marches - the borderland between England and Scotland - and the people, history, and conflicts that have shaped it In The Places in Between Rory...
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Encyclopedia of Warrior Peoples & Fighting Groups, Third Edition

Paul K Davis · Grey House Publishing
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

From ferocious tribes to charismatic leaders and daring militias, this edition of The Encyclopedia of Historical Warrior Peoples & Fighting Groups explores the origins and leadership of these powerful combat forces, chronicles their conquests and accomplishments, examines the circumstances...
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Bridge Across My Sorrows

Christina Noble · John Murray Publishers
Format: Paperback

Christina Nobles story is one of bravery and resilience in the face of deprivation and abuse on a scale that most would find unimaginable. Her childhood in the Dublin slums barely merits the name after the early death of her mother, her family was split apart, her alcoholic father unable...
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The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design: Simple Stitches, Stunning Results

Sharon Boggon · C&T Publishing
Pages: 143
Format: Paperback

Tell a unique story with fabric! Embrace crazy quilting with 35 must-know stitches and endless variations, shown in clear, step-by-step photographs for both right- and left-handed stitchers. Learn design fundamentals to guide you in your process, so you can sew thoughtful, visually appealing...
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Disaster Falls: A Family Story

Stephane Gerson · Crown
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stéphane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stéphane huddled...
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