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Mastering the American Accent

Lisa Mojsin · Barrons Educational Series, Inc.
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback

This combination book and audio instructional program is designed to diminish the accents of men and women who speak English as their second language. It will help them speak standard American English with clarity, confidence, and accuracy. Specific exercises concentrate on vowel sounds,...
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee · Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence....
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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Peter H. Diamandis · Free Press; Reprint edition
Format: Book

The New York Times bestselling “manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world’s most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom” (The Wall Street Journal).Since the dawn of humanity,...
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Calico Joe: A Novel

John Grisham · Dell
Format: Kindle Edition

Grisham knocks it out of the park.—The Washington Post   Its the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago Cubs fans as he hits home run after home run, politely tipping...
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Voyager

Diana Gabaldon · Dell; Reissue edition
Format: eBook

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Diana Gabaldon's Drums of Autumn. From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues. Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took....
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

David Foster Wallace · Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life...
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Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America)

Walt Whitman · Library of America
Pages: 1380
Format: Hardcover

Contains the first and "deathbed" editions of "Leaves of Grass," and virtually all of Whitman's prose, with reminiscences of nineteenth-century New York City, notes on the Civil War, especially his service in Washington hospitals and glimpses of President Lincoln,...
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At Home in Mitford

Jan Karon · Penguin Books
Pages: 446
Format: Paperback

The first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's beloved series set in America's favorite small town: Mitford.

It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable....
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What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting

Heidi Murkoff · Workman Publishing Company; 1 edition
Pages: 470
Format: Paperback

Announcing Eating Well When You're Expecting, providing moms-to-be with a realistic approach to navigating healthily and deliciously through the nine months of pregnancy—at home, in the office, over the holidays, in restaurants. Thorough chapters are devoted to nutrition, weight...
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted

Daniel G. Amen · Harmony; 1st edition
Format: eBook

THE KEY TO A BETTER BODY—in shape, energized, and youthful—is a healthy brain. Based on the latest medical research, as well as on Dr. Amens two decades of clinical practice at the renowned Amen Clinics, where Dr. Amen and his associates pioneered the use of the most advanced brain...
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JJ Virgin's Sugar Impact Diet: Drop 7 Hidden Sugars, Lose Up to 10 Pounds in Just 2 Weeks

J.J. Virgin · Grand Central Life & Style; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of THE VIRGIN DIET comes a groundbreaking program that will revolutionize the way readers think about sugar and help you drop fat fast--up to 10 pounds in just two weeks!
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
If you're eating healthy, but just...
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Cholesterol Down: Ten Simple Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol in Four Weeks--Without Prescription Drugs

Janet Brill · Three Rivers Press; 1 edition
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Take Control of Your Cholesterol— Without DrugsIf you are one of the nearly 100 million Americans struggling with high cholesterol, then Dr. Janet Brill offers you a revolutionary new plan for taking control of your health—without the risks of statin drugs. With Dr. Brill’s...
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides · Random House Inc
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age

In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed...
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The Secret

Rhonda Byrne · Atria Books/Beyond Words; First Edition edition
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this...
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The Black Hills

William W. Johnstone · Pinnacle
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Johnstone Country. Frontier Spirit Lives Here.

Meet Hunter Buchanon, a towering mountain of a man who learned how to track prey in Georgia, kill in the Civil War, and prospect in the Black Hills of Dakota. Now he's trying to live a peaceful gun-free life - but fate has other...
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