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Seasonal Flower Arranging: Fill Your Home with Blooms, Branches, and Foraged Materials All Year Round

Ariella Chezar · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

This lavishly photographed book from renowned floral designer Ariella Chezar provides step-by-step instructions for 39 seasonal floral arrangements and projects that celebrate the splendor of flowers, the bounty of the changing seasons, and the wild beauty of nature in your home.Just as fruits...
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100 Dives of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Underwater Destinations

Carrie Miller · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Explore 100 breathtaking scuba diving sites around the world--from the cenotes of Mexico to the best wreck in Micronesia--through stunning National Geographic photography, expert tips, and cutting-edge travel advice.Filled with more than 350 images from National Geographic, 100 Dives of a Lifetime...
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Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

RACHEL HOLLIS · HarperCollins Leadership
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Rachel Hollis, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and host of the top-rated Rise podcast, urges women to stop apologizing for their desires, hopes, and dreams and instead to go after them with passion and confidence.Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: women being...
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The Clean Plate: Eat, Reset, Heal

GWYNETH PALTROW · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Delicious food can heal the body. Reset and rebalance with clean recipes that are flexible and easy for busy weeknight meals or lunches on the go, and healthy enough for more intensive, doctor-supported cleanses. Gwyneth Paltrow gets the power of simple, quality food. Her recipes focus...
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Healthy, Happy Pregnancy Cookbook: 130 Delicious Recipes to Satisfy You, Nourish Baby, and Combat Common Pregnancy Discomforts

Stephanie Clarke · Atria Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Everybody tells pregnant women what they can't eat. Now, certified nutritionists and registered dietitians Stephanie Clarke and Willow Jarosh are here to tell them what they should! Featuring recipes for wholesome, unprocessed meals and snacks, accompanied by nutritional breakdowns...
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The Healthy Smoothie Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long

Farnoosh Brock · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Whatever your fitness regimen, health goals, or daily routine--this massive book of 100 smoothie recipes has a recipe for every occasion. Potassium-rich bananas, free radical-fighting blueberries, nutrient-rich spinach, succulent mango, or light and sweet almond milk, every delicious natural...
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Vietnamese Food Any Day: Simple Recipes for True, Fresh Flavors

Andrea Nguyen · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Delicious, fresh Vietnamese food is at your fingertips any night of the week thanks to the 80 accessible, easy recipes in Vietnamese Food Any Day. Drawing upon decades of experience, as well as the cooking hacks her own mom used after emigrating from Vietnam to America, award-winning author...
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Copycat Cooking With Six Sisters' Stuff: 100 Popular Restaurant Meals You Can Make at Home

SIX SISTERS' STUFF. · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

According to the Harvard Business Review, 90% of Americans don't like to cook at home with 45% saying they hate it and 45% saying they're lukewarm about it. Americans are spending up to 44% of their total food budget on eating out, not counting the money spent on food apps for takeout....
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Healthy Smoothie Recipe Book: Easy Mix-and-Match Smoothie Recipes for a Healthier You

Jennifer Koslo RD CSSD · Rockridge Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Healthy Smoothie Recipe Book: Easy Mix-and-Match Smoothie Recipes for a Healthier You From registered dietician Jennifer Koslo, Author of The 21-Day Healthy Smoothie Plan Enjoy nearly endless options for imaginative and healthy smoothies with more than 100 nutritious, easy-to-make...
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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

Steffanie Strathdee · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A riveting memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more.Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came...
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National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky, 2nd Edition

Andrew Fazekas · National Geographic
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Explore the star-studded cosmos with this fully updated, user-friendly skywatcher's guide, filled with charts, graphics, photographs, and expert tips for viewing -- and understanding -- the wonders of space.Stargazing's too much fun to leave to astronomers. In these inviting pages, "Night...
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The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery

Mary Cregan · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A fearless, candid memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.At the age of twenty-seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But it's...
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The Whole 9 Months A Week-by-week Pregnancy Nutritional Guide

Jennifer Lang · Sonoma Press
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

"I'm thrilled that Dr. Lang has put her valuable knowledge into these pages. With this book in your hand, you are on your way to putting your health first and setting your baby up for lifelong wellness." -JESSICA ALBA, co-founder of The Honest Company Good For Baby, Good For You Dr. Jennifer...
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The Inspired Houseplant: Transform Your Home with Indoor Plants from Kokedama to Terrariums and Water Gardens to Edibles

Jen Stearns · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate go-to guide for aspiring indoor gardeners, this book offers inspiration and instruction to envision and create your own gorgeous in-home garden spaces.With plentiful images and a distinctly modern and sophisticated feel, this book imparts both easy-to-follow advice and creative...
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine

Barry Strauss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.Barry Strauss's Ten Caesars is the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from...
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Christina Thompson · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than...
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Lynne Olson · Random House
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege...
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A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin

Simon Jenkins · PublicAffairs
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe---a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great. Studded with infamous figures---from Julius Caesar to Charlemagne, and Machiavelli to Marx---Simon...
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The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life

Mark Synnott · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"One of the most compelling accounts of a climb and the climbing ethos that I've ever read." --Sebastian JungerThe Impossible Climb climaxes with Alex Honnold's unprecedented, almost unimaginable feat: a 3,000-foot vertical climb up El Capitan in Yosemite, without a rope. Mark...
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Tell Me More: And 11 Other Important Things I'm Learning to Say

KELLY CORRIGAN · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place "Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth...
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe · Doubleday
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime, history, and tragedy...
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Leaders Who Changed History

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Explore the lives of more than 85 of the world's most transformational and influential leaders in politics, business, religion, humanitarianism, and the military with this innovative and boldly graphic book.Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leaders Who Changed...
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Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

Matt Fitzgerald · Lifelong Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attempts it--and how it has helped his own family cope with serious adversityStep after step for 26.2 miles, hundreds of thousands of people run marathons. But why--what compels people past pain,...
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor

Evan Thomas · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's a hero for our time,...
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The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

DK · DK
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change.Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that...
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Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children with the Natural World

Nancy Striniste · Timber Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

"A magnificent resource for transforming backyards into stimulating environments which enhance children's creativity, learning, and fun." - Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N Access to technology has created a generation of children...
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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Clive Thompson · Penguin Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Hello, world.Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological...
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Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London

Claire Harman · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: Can a novel kill?In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest...
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