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Bicycling the Blue Ridge: A Guide to the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway

Elizabeth Skinner · Menasha Ridge Press; Fifth Edition edition
Format: Book

There is no ribbon of highway more ideal for cycling than the Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway – they both entice the senses and physically challenge the body. This new edition continues as the definitive guide to a cyclist’s dream road, offering completely updated information...
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Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them

Gina Kolata · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw.The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people...
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Grocery guru : shopping guide

Weight Watchers International. · Weight Watchers International
Pages: 640

GROCERY GURU Includes: a general listing of foods, organized alphabetically to make finding what you're looking for simple, thousands of the most popular foods listed by brand name, including beverages, baked goods, entrees, side dishes, desserts, snacks and so much more, an easy-to-use...
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Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body

Alexandra Jamieson · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

A holistic health counselor and co-star of award-winning documentary Super Size Me explores women's cravings - for food, sleep, sex, movement, companionship, inspiration - and teaches them to listen to their bodies for a healthier, fuller life.Transformational health expert Alexandra...
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A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more

Mark Bittman · Pam Krauss Books
Format: Hardcover

Since his New York Times op-ed column debuted in 2011, Mark Bittman has emerged as one of our most impassioned and opinionated observers of the food landscape. The Times' only dedicated opinion columnist covering the food beat, Bittman routinely makes readers think twice about how the food...
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Back from the Brink: True Stories and Practical Help for Overcoming Depression and Bipolar Disorder

Graeme Cowan · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 213
Format: Paperback

On July 24th, 2004, author Graeme Cowan took pen to paper and said goodbye to his family. "I just can't be a burden any longer," he wrote. After four failed suicide attempts, and a five-year episode of depression that his psychiatrist described as the worst he had ever treated,...
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The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman

Shane Niemeyer · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

With troubles beginning as early as childhood, the trajectory of Shane Niemeyer’s life seemed to have only one direction: down. His struggles with heroin addiction led him to jail, and he eventually hit rock bottom. Soon, his two pack a day cigarette habit was the healthiest thing...
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Fix-It and Forget-It Slow Cooker Diabetic Cookbook: 550 Slow Cooker Favorites—to Include Everyone

Phyllis Good · Good Books; Revised Edition edition
Format: Print book

The classic slow cooker cookbook for diabetics--with nearly 600,000 copies sold--now available in a larger format! Millions of home cooks have fallen in love with the Fix-It and Forget-It cookbooks since the first title was released more than a dozen years ago. Now, these same beloved cookbooks...
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You Are a Social Detective

Michelle Garcia Winner · Think Social
Pages: 61
Format: Print book

Every one of us is a Social Detective. We are good Social Detectives when we use our eyes, ears, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or are presently doing and what they mean by their words and deeds. This entertaining comic book offers different ways that can be reviewed...
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This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

Melody Warnick · Viking
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin's megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you liveThe average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move...
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Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy

Joseph Mercola · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

For over a century, we've accepted the scientific consensus that cancer results from genetic disease due to chromosomal damage in cell nuclei. But what if cancer isn't a genetic disease after all? What if scientists are chasing a flawed paradigm, and cancer isn't a disease of damaged DNA but rather...
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The Hot Belly Diet: A 30-Day Ayurvedic Plan to Reset Your Metabolism, Lose Weight, and Restore Your Body's Natural Balance to Heal Itself

Suhas G. Kshirsagar · Atria Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From an internationally recognized physician who combines Eastern and Western medicine, a groundbreaking diet and total body health plan centered on digestive balance and metabolic transformation.The complaints that Dr. Suhas hears on a daily basis, from body weight chaos, low energy, and poor...
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meQuilibrium: 14 Days to Cooler, Calmer, and Happier

Jan Bruce · Harmony
Format: Hardcover

STRESS ISN'T THE PROBLEM. YOUR RESPONSE TO IT IS. You can't annihilate stress. But you can learn to manage it peacefully - and you don't need to radically change your life to do so. The powerful author team who crafted this book has the research to prove it - with more than...
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Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School

Adele Devine · Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1 edition
Format: Book

Children on the autism spectrum are often highly visual learners, making colour a powerful and motivating learning tool. This book explains how colour coding helps young people with autism to generalise lessons already learnt. For example, assigning the colour aqua to all personal care...
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