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Zero Footprint: The True Story of a Private Military Contractor's Covert Assignments in Syria, Libya, And the World's Most Dangerous Places

Simon Chase · Little, Brown, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting.

Armored cars, burner phones, top-notch weaponry and top-secret missions--this is the life of today's private military contractor. Like author Simon Chase, many PMCs were once the world's...
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Catholic Trails West. the Founding Catholic Families of Pennsylvania

Edmund Adams · Clearfield
Format: Paperback

Long out of print, this book identifies the families who settled the largest of the six pioneer Catholic parishes of Pennsylvania, that of St. Joseph's, which extended from Philadelphia up and down the Delaware, west into Berks County, north into New York, and east throughout New Jersey....
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Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic

Kent Brantly · Waterbrook Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"Kent, bud. We got your test result. And I'm really sorry to tell you that it is positive for Ebola."

Dr. Kent and Amber Brantly moved with their children to war-torn Liberia in the fall of 2013 to provide medical care for people in great need - to help replace...
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Love Real Food: More Than 100 Feel-Good Vegetarian Favorites to Delight the Senses and Nourish the Body

KATHRYNE TAYLOR · Rodale Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The path to a healthy body and happy belly is paved with real food -- fresh, wholesome, sustainable food -- and it doesn't need to be so difficult. No one knows this more than Kathryne Taylor of America's most popular vegetarian food blog, Cookie and Kate. With Love Real Food,...

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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue
Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So Far
Real Simple's Best New Books

"The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding."
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Weaving: Contemporary Makers

Katie Treggiden · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Weaving is an ancient craft with a fascinating history, and one that keeps evolving. Today it is being adopted and reinvented by makers in cities all over the world. From rugs and wall hangings to artistic installations and subversive interventions, contemporary expressions of the craft...
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Dimestore: A Writer's Life

Lee Smith · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story.

Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith's youth...
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The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001 - 2019: Every Recipe from the Hit TV Show with Product Ratings and a Look Behind the Scenes

AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN. · America's Test Kitchen
Pages: 1040
Format: Hardcover

This lively collection includes every recipe from all 19 seasons of the hit TV show with more than 1,200 foolproof recipes and dozens of tips and techniques. Learn what happens in the test kitchen before and during filming the show.All your new favorites are here--from Chinese Pork Dumplings...
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Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories

NAZ DERAVIAN · Flatiron Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Naz Deravian lays out the multi-hued canvas of a Persian meal, with 100+ recipes adapted to an American home kitchen and interspersed with Naz's celebrated essays exploring the idea of home.
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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

John Brockman · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means...
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

Judith Grisel · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, this is the authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction that we've been waiting for: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories combine to reveal how addiction happens and what can be done...
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs

RACHEL JEFFS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.

Born into the Fundamentalist...

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Lighthouse Faith: God as a Living Reality in a World Immersed in Fog

Lauren Green · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Is God Just a Distant Concept? An Award-Winning Religion Correspondent is Convinced the Answer is No and Explores the Possible Relationship with Our Creator Fox News Religion Correspondent Lauren Green uses her wealth of stories, vast network of contacts, and her own extensive study of theology...
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