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The Smoking Cure: How To Quit Smoking Without Feeling Like Sh*t

Caroline Cranshaw · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

The Smoking Cure - How to Quit Smoking Without Feeling Like Sh*t Comes with Bonus: Workbook and Stop Smoking Relaxation Download Let's be honest. When it comes to quitting smoking, going cold turkey is not only hell but most of the time, it doesn't work. We start out with the best...
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Moon Asheville & Great Smoky Mountains

Jason Frye · Avalon Travel
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Moon Spotlight Asheville & the Great Smoky Mountains offers focused travel information and the unique perspectives of Travel Writer Jason Frye. In this easy-to-carry guide, you'll find sightseeing highlights, handy maps, and shopping, restaurant, and hotel recommendations. Packed...
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The Yellow Table: A Celebration of Everyday Gatherings: 110 Simple & Seasonal Recipes

Anna Watson Carl · Sterling Publishing (NY)
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Something magical happens when people come together to share a meal - and this cookbook, named for the beloved wooden table in Anna Watson Carl 's childhood kitchen, celebrates that joy and conviviality. Featuring delicious seasonal recipes just right for feeding the people you love,...
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books
Pages: 86
Format: Print book

Look out for Carlo Rovelli's next book, Reality Is Not What It Seems.Instant New York Times Bestseller"One of the year's most entrancing books about science." - The Wall Street Journal"Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics." - The New York...
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Viking Patterns for Knitting: Inspiration and Projects for Today's Knitter

Elsebeth Lavold
Format: Print book

Viking Patterns for Knitting is the result of years of research by Swedish knitwear designer Elsebeth Lavold, who explored patterns of ornamentation found on Viking artifacts, such as swords, buckles, combs, and rune stones. Now, by means of clever knitting innovation which makes it possible...
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Your Child in the Hospital: A Practical Guide for Parents

Nancy Keene · Childhood Cancer Guides; Third Edition, Third edition edition
Format: Print book

Millions of parents take their child to the hospital each year for stitches, outpatient surgery, or longer stays for serious illnesses. Your Child in the Hospital A Practical Guide for Parents is packed with sensible tips and home-grown wisdom that will make any visit to the hospital easier....
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How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight

Julian Guthrie · Penguin Books
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back...
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

Tom Burgis · PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply...
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The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir

Maxine Kumin · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin comes a timeless memoir of life, love, and poetry.Maxine Kumin left an unrivaled legacy as a pioneering poet and feminist. The Pawnbroker's Daughter charts her journey from a childhood in a Jewish community in Depression-era Philadelphia,...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Mallorca, Menorca & Ibiza

Dk Publishing. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Mallorca, Menorca & Ibiza will lead you straight to the best attractions the Balearic Islands have to offer. Explore Palma, the bustling capital city of Mallorca, enjoy the pristine beaches of Menorca, and experience the extraordinary nightlife scene of Ibiza.Discover...
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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

Edmund Gordon · Oxford University Press
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter's work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range.Her life was as vigorously modern...
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Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives

Autumn Whitefield-Madrano · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A thought-provoking examination of how we think and talk about beauty today - and the unexpected and often positive ways that beauty shapes our lives.For decades, we've discussed our insecurities in the face of idealized, retouched, impossibly perfect images. We've worried primping and preening...
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Ink: The Art of Tattoo

Victor Cheung · viction
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

The ultimate in fashion accessories, tattoos are capable of reflecting both their owner's style and interests as well as advertising the talent of the artist involved. With tremendous skill and vision they are able to transform skin into canvas, working with their clients to produce...
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The Complete Guide to Interpreting You Own Dreams and What They Mean to You

K O Morgan · Atlantic Publishing Group
Format: Book

Dreams are powerful concepts. They contain our subconscious wishes, desires, and fears, and the average person will spend approximately six years of their life dreaming. Each of us has four to seven dreams a night, which can add up to approximately 116,800 to 204,400 dreams in a lifetime....
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