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Reversing Dyslexia: Your Guide to Helping Children Recover Self-Esteem, Retrain Their Brains & Reclaim Their Ability to Learn

Phyllis Books · Square One

Most people do not realize that dyslexia is more than just a reading problem. It is often accompanied by social, psychological, and even physical issues that can make many everyday tasks seem unmanageable. Whether you suffer from dyslexia yourself or are the parent of a dyslexic child,...
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Better Living Through Origami: 20 Creative Paper Projects for a Beautiful Home

Nellianna van den Baard · SewandSo
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Take papercraft to a new creative level and turn your home into a designer haven with this mindful DIY interiors book by Dutch design duo Studio Snowpuppe. Learn how to create 20 items of functional home decor using simple, origami inspired paper folding and manipulation techniques, and then...
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Jon Ronson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.

'It's about the terror, isn't it?'

'The terror of what?' I said.

'The terror...

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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11

James Donovan · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module...
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Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated

Jack E. Levin · Threshold Editions
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."Long before his conservative manifesto Liberty and Tyranny became a #1 New York Times bestseller, Mark...
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We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir

Jennifer Coburn · Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrow Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's too late....
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Decorating with Plants: What to Choose, Ways to Style, and How to Make Them Thrive

Baylor Chapman · Artisan
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Houseplants are more popular than ever before - especially with millennials, who are setting up their homes for the first time and discovering that nothing can add energy, style, and that essential "lived-in-ness" to their spaces better than a little bit of green. Whether it's...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo · Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai...
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The Quilter's Applique Workshop

Kevin Kosbab · Interweave
Format: Paperback

A fresh take on quilting and appliqué!Kevin Kosbab shows quilters that not only is appliqué fun and easy to do, it can open up a world of design possibilities. The Quilters Appliqué Workshop teaches you everything you need to know to create appliquéboth as embellishment and as the focus...
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Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft

Anthony R. Palumbi · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

In 2005, the video game World of Warcraft struck the cultural landscape with tidal force. One hundred million people have played WoW in the twelve years since. But those people did more than play. They worked, they fought, they triumphed, they held entire game servers hostage, they even...
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The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation

Joe Urschel · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines...
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Stand Up and Garden: The no-digging, no-tilling, no-stooping approach to growing vegetables and herbs

Mary Moss-Sprague · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Focusing on containers, trellises, and raised beds, this book shows how everyone can garden, including those with physical limitations like arthritis or location limitations like apartment-dwellers without backyards. Knowing where our food comes from is a huge issue; food safety and costs...
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Stamp Stencil Paint: Making Extraordinary Patterned Projects by Hand

Anna Joyce · STC Craft, 2015.
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Textile artist Anna Joyce's design process is intuitive, relaxed, and rooted in the belief that we should live with color and pattern every day. Inspired by vintage fabric, folk art, shapes in nature, and exciting new color combinations, Joyce's distinctive projects showcase the beauty...
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

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

The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit. 

Set to star Michael B. Jordan...

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Sapiens : a brief history of humankind - Sept. 13

Yuval Noah Harari · Tantor Media,
Format: Audiobook

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance' Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms' How did we come to believe...

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