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Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul, and Get Strong with the Fit52 Life

Carrie Underwood · Dey Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"I want to be healthy and fit 52 weeks of the year, but that doesn't mean I have to be perfect every day. This philosophy is a year-round common-sense approach to health and fitness that involves doing your best most of the time - and by that I don't mean being naughty for three...

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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

Anne Glenconner · Hachette Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

**International Bestseller**

An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Lady Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The Crown.
Lady Anne Glenconner has been at the center...
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More Myself: A Journey

Alicia Keys · Flatiron Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expression

As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away...

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Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission

Stephen Puleo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world

More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s,...

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Pearls of Wisdom: Little Pieces of Advice

Barbara Bush · Twelve
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The best advice First Lady Barbara Bush offered her family, staff, and close friends.
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Point of View: A Fresh Look at Work, Faith, and Freedom

Elisabeth Hasselbeck · WaterBrook
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Recognized from her roles on Survivor, The View, and FOX & Friends, celebrity Elisabeth Hasselbeck presents a deeply intimate journey of faith, told through the important moments in her life.

"Point of view," by definition, is a particular attitude or way of considering...
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Brother & Sister: A Memoir

Diane Keaton · Knopf
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved film star and best-selling author of Then Again--a heartfelt memoir about Diane Keaton's relationship with her younger brother, and a poignant exploration of the divergent paths siblings' lives can take.

When they were children in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s,...
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father, Survival and What Remains

Neumann, Ariana · SCRIBNER BOOKS CO

In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.

In 1941, the first Neumann family...

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Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2020: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published

Amy Jones · Writer's Digest Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

If you're a writer or an illustrator for young readers and your goal is to get published, Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2020 is the resource you need. The 32nd edition of CWIM is the definitive and trusted guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate...
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Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2020: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published

Jones, Amy

The best resource for getting your fiction published!

Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2020 is the go-to resource you need to get your short stories, novellas, and novels published. The 39th edition of NSSWM features hundreds of updated listings for boo
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller | Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times * The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * The Seattle Times * Esquire * Time

Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction | Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction...
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The Twenty-ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

Alex Messenger · Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive.This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter...
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The Impossible First

Colin O'Brady

Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir recounts his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident and his gripping 932-mile crossing of the landmass of Antarctica solo, unsupported, and human powered - the first to accomplish this extraordinary feat.

Prior to December 2018, no
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The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom · Grove Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant -- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed,...

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The Family Tree Scandinavian Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Ancestors in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark

David A. Fryxell · Family Tree Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Trace your Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish ancestors! This convenient guide will help you discover your Northern European family history while optimizing your research time. Highlights include: Strategies for identifying immigrant Scandinavian ancestors, plus how to trace them back to Europe...
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How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records: A Genealogist's Guide: With Specific Resources for Major Christian Denominations before 1900

Harold A. Henderson · Genealogical Publishing Company
Pages: 154
Format: Paperback


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Criminal Law Handbook, The: Know Your Rights, Survive the System

Paul Bergman J.D.

The criminal justice system is complicated, understand it and your rights



Criminal law is full of complex rules and procedures, but this book demystifies them. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and what suspects,

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Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover

Introducing an instant classic -- master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.

Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting...

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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

Jerry Mitchell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases - decades after they had gotten away with murder.

On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers....
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The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird

Joshua Hammer · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs - and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel...
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The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

Mara Hvistendahl · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near...
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Praxis Core For Dummies, with Online Practice

Carla C. Kirkland · For Dummies
Pages: 468
Format: Paperback

Score high on the Praxis Core and jumpstart the teaching career of your dreams!

Praxis Core For Dummies is a must-have resource for preparing for -- and passing -- the Praxis® Core Academic Skills for Educators Exam. The best way to succeed on any exam is to prepare...

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Rebel Poet: More Stories from a 21st Century Indian

Louis V. Clark (Two Shoes) · Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

This eagerly anticipated follow-up to the breakout memoir How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century delves more deeply into the themes of family, community, grief, and the struggle to make a place in the world when your very identity is considered suspect. In Rebel Poet: More Stories from...
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The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir

Roman Dial · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out." - Jon Krakauer

In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National...

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This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

Jeff Sharlet · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A visionary work of radical empathy.Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us.This work began when his father...
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The Double Dangerous Book for Boys

Conn Iggulden · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Dangerous Book for Boys took readers by storm and became an instant classic, selling nearly two million copies. Packed with charming illustrations, it is a treasure trove of the essential activities and skills that have defined generations of boyhoods, from building a treehouse to fishing...

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The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross

Jon Meacham · Convergent Books
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham explores the seven last sayings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, combining rich historical and theological insights to reflect on the true heart of the Christian story.

For Jon Meacham, as for believers worldwide, the events of Good...
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The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

Janice Kaplan · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses are almost always men? New York Times bestselling journalist Janice Kaplan explores the powerful forces that have rigged the system - and celebrates the women geniuses past and present...
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Where Your House Is Now: New and Selected Prose Poems

Louis Jenkins · Nodin Press
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback

Louis Jenkins has been charming readers with his subtle, curious, cantankerous, and Quixotic prose poems for decades. It might be late-night ruminations about the plumbing, a bear wandering aimlessly downtown, a fishing lure so grotesque it couldn't possibly attract a fish, a row of spindly...
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