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AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip

Jean Chatzky · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings.All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that way if we're...
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Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love

Jillian Keenan · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spankingWhen it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her - until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's language flowing through her blood for the first...
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Voices of Cherokee Women (Real Voices, Real History)

Carolyn Ross Johnston · John F. Blair, Publisher
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Voices of Cherokee Women is a compelling collection of first-person accounts by Cherokee women. It includes letters, diaries, newspaper articles, oral histories, ancient myths, and accounts by travelers, traders, and missionaries who encountered the Cherokees from the 16th century to the present.Among...
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Where Now: New and Selected Poems

Laura Kasischke · Copper Canyon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power." - Publishers Weekly"Every poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles." - The Washington Post"For Kasischke ... poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits...
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Queen's Corsair: Drake's Journey to Circumnavigation, 1577-1580

Alexander McKee · Stein & Day Pub
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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How Do I Explain This to My Kids?: Parenting in the Age of Trump

Sarah Swong · The New Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

The day after the 2016 presidential election, filmmaker Carlos Sandoval found Ku Klux Klan fliers on the seats of the Long Island Railroad and recounts how his Cuban American niece Lexi's world was "shattered" by the election - she is one of thousands of children wondering if they...
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The Galápagos: A Natural History

Henry Nicholls · Basic Books
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover

Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas" - the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galápagos is the most pristine archipelago...
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I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the Music That Shaped the Civil Rights Era

Greg Kot · Scribner, 2014.
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback

"A biography that will send readers back to the music of Mavis and the Staple Singers with deepened appreciation and a renewed spirit of discovery" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) - from an acclaimed music journalist and author.This is the untold story of living legend Mavis...
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Planting Design for Dry Gardens: Beautiful, Resilient Groundcovers for Terraces, Paved Areas, Gravel and Other Alternatives to the Lawn

Olivier Filippi · Filbert Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Green lawns are restful to the eye, provide an excellent backdrop to plants and trees and keep the weeds down, but in low-rainfall regions they often end up looking scrappy and brown. This book offers low-level planting designs that are ecofriendly and so beautiful they redefine the conventional...
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The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea

Paul Ryan · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the intellectual leader of the Republican party, an unvarnished look into the state of the conservative movement today and a clear plan for what needs to be done to save the American Idea.THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond,...
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Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans

Simon Head · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) - the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide...
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A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg

Tim Cahill · Vintage Books
Pages: 302
Format: Book

Cahill is great! He is the P.J. O'Rourke of the outdoors! Fearless and hell-bent on overcoming all obstacles in his path, Cahill takes us to the oddest and scariest adventures nature has to offer.
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