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WECK Small-Batch Preserving: Year-Round Recipes for Canning, Fermenting, Pickling, and More

STEPHANIE WECK THUROW · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Preserve the harvest with WECK, the company that introduced preserving in glass jars. Food preservationist Stephanie Thurow has teamed up with the canning experts at WECK to show readers how to preserve throughout the year with WECK jars. The J. WECK Company has made aesthetically beautiful...
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Nobody Cares: Essays

Anne T. Donahue · ECW Press
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

"The internet's best friend." -- Flare From the author of the popular newsletter That's What She Said, Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, feminism, and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties. As she shares...
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Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy

John Wood · Viking
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive's quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of booksWhat's happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty-five,...
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Thinner in 30: Small Changes That Add Up to Big Weight Loss in Just 30 Days

Jenna Wolfe · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

A month from now, you'll wish you had started today. Yes, a month is all it takes to see long-term results. And seriously-even YOU can lose that weight Food and exercise fads come and go, mainly because they just aren't sustainable. After a few days, you're hungry, bored, or hungry AND bored....
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap

Gish Jen · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another....
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Abby Norman · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issuesIn the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly...
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Out of the Box Holiday Baking: Gingerbread Cupcakes, Peppermint Cheesecake, and More Festive Semi-Homemade Sweets

HAYLEY PARKER · Countryman Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

By starting with cake or brownie mixes, ready-made dough and crusts, and other make- it- simple head starts, Hayley Parker makes holiday baking a breeze. She transforms everyday ingredients into one- of- a- kind desserts and puts new twists on flavors like spicy gingerbread, cool peppermint,...
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Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths

Nancy Marie Brown · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

An Indie Next pick for December 2012, Song of the Vikings brings to life Snorri Sturluson, wealthy chieftain, wily politician, witty storyteller, and the sole source of Viking lore for all of Western literature. Tales of one-eyed Odin, Thor and his mighty hammer, the trickster Loki, and the beautiful...
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Selected Poems 1968-2014

Paul Muldoon · Farrar
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war." -- The Times Literary SupplementSelected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-six years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who "began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso"...
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Code Name: Johnny Walker: The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi Who Risked Everything to Fight with the U.S. Navy SEALs

Johnny Walker · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover

In this unforgettable memoir, the Navy SEALs' most trusted translator - a man who is credited with saving countless American lives and became a legend in the special-ops community - tells his inspiring story for the first time.As the insurgency in Iraq intensified following the American...
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I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford

Richard Snow · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who writes with verve and a keen eye The New York Times Book Review, comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T—the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America. Every...
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The Second-Chance Dog: A Love Story

Jon Katz · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz comes a wise, uplifting, and poignant memoir of finding love against all odds, and the power of second chances for both people and dogs.   “I had no idea that Frieda would enter my life and alter it in the most profound way, but that’s...
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J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2015: Your Complete Guide to a Better Bottom Line

Barbara Weltman · Wiley; 5 edition
Format: Book

Eliminate confusion, maximize deductions, reduce payments, and conquer your small business taxes with ease In J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2015, the most trusted name in tax guidance helps small business owners maximize their bottom line. Fully updated for 2014 tax returns and 2015...
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Beyond Buggies and Bonnets: Seven true stories of former Amish

Brenda Nixon · Living Parables, Incorporated.
Format: Print book

Rare, compelling accounts of seven Amish who ventured beyond their strict Swartzentruber or conservative Old Order, to join the "forbidden" English - non-Amish - world. Get authentic insights inside their fiercely private sects. Learn, laugh, be astonished, and awed as you read...
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We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir

Kelly Grey Carlisle · Sourcebooks
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Moving and complex, this is an exquisitely written tale of perseverance and unconditional love. A worthwhile addition to any collection." -- Library Journal, STARRED ReviewA mother's murder. Her daughter's redemption. And the complicated past that belongs to them both.Kelly...
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