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Little House Living: The Make-Your-Own Guide to a Frugal, Simple, and Self-Sufficient Life
Merissa Alink · Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015. ©2015
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
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From the immensely popular blogger behind Little House Living comes a motivational homemaking book, inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, featuring creative, fun ways to live your life simply and frugally - perfect for fans of Ree Drummond's The Pioneer Woman.Shortly... |
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The book of speculation
Erika Swyler · St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 339
Format: Print book
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"Dazzling...[a] quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsSimon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made... |
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Ben Montgomery · Chicago Review Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old... |
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The Ship of Brides: A Novel
Jojo Moyes · Penguin Books, 2014.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over... |
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The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades
Gail Boushey · Stenhouse Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher... |
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Ink and Bone: The Great Library
Rachel Caine · New American Library
Pages: 355
Format: Print book
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In an exhilarating new series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time. ... Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city,... |
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Green Room
Anton Yelchin · LIONSGATE
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A down-on-their-luck punk band accept an offer to play a rural Oregon club before calling their failing tour quits. When they arrive at the venue, they're troubled by the large neo-Nazi presence, but go through with their set regardless. They retreat to the backstage room afterward, only... |
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If Someone Says "You Complete Me," RUN!: Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships
Whoopi Goldberg · Hachette Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the provocative and hilarious EGOT winner, bestselling author, and host of The View, Whoopi Goldberg, comes the perfect antidote to all those outdated relationship advice books in the world, weighing in on why marriage isn't for everybody, and how the life you want shouldn't... |
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A Friend of Mr. Lincoln: A novel
Stephen Harrigan · Vintage
Pages: 434
Format: eBook
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The author of the best-selling The Gates of the Alamo now gives us a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of his life, the early Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity and his ethical bearings as he searched for the great destiny he believed... |
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Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Jeff Sutherland · Crown Business
Format: Hardcover
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We live in a world that is broken. For those who believe that there must be a more efficient way for people to get things done, here from Scrum pioneer Jeff Sutherland is a brilliantly discursive, thought-provoking book about the management process that is changing the way we live. ... |
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Face Paint: The Story of Makeup
Lisa Eldridge · Abrams Image
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Makeup, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. In Face Paint, Lisa Eldridge reveals the entire history of the art form, from Egyptian and Classical times up through... |
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My Sunshine Away
M O Walsh · Amy Einhorn Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Instant New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly 'Must List' Pick"The last page is as satisfying as the first." - Kathryn Stockett"I really loved this book... I can't praise it enough." - Anne Rice"It's a book to read and reread, one that... |
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A Moment of Silence: Midnight III
Souljah Sister · Atria, 2015.
Pages: 535
Format: Print book
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In her next heart-pounding novel of passion, danger, temptation, and adventure, New York Times bestselling author Sister Souljah returns to the story of Midnight.Handsome, young, Muslim, and married to two women living in one house along with his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja: can Midnight... |
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel
Salman Rushdie · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months... |
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