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Post Grad: Five Women and Their First Year Out of College

Caroline Kitchener · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

What really happens in the first year out of college? When Caroline Kitchener graduated from Princeton, she began shadowing four of her female classmates, interviewing them as they started to navigate the murky waters of post-collegiate life. Weaving together her own experience as a writer...
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A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

Ayelet Waldman · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day. When a small vial arrives in her mailbox...
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A Guide Book of United States Coins 2017: The Official Red Book, Hardcover Edition

R S Yeoman · Whitman Publishing
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

The Official Red Book® A Guide Book of United States Coins is 70 years young and going strong. Collectors around the country love the book s grade-by-grade values, auction records, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data. How rare...
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Florida's Seashells: A Beachcomber's Guide

Blair Witherington · Pineapple Press
Pages: 83
Format: Paperback

Florida's Seashells, the bestselling guide for beachcombers, is now updated and expanded in a new edition. This new volume has more shells identified and explained, with 287 species represented by over 400 full-color images and 175 range maps.This book showcases the diversity of Florida's...
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Paul McCartney: The Life

Philip Norman · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 853
Format: Hardcover

The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman.Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost...
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The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

Justin Spring · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France During les trente glorieuses -- a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis -- Paris was not only the world's most delicious, stylish,...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Stockholm

DK Travel · DK Eyewitness Travel
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

Filled with beautiful illustrations, useful maps, and colorful images, this guide will help you find your way effortlessly around Stockholm.Covering the city center out to Blasieholmen, Skeppsholmen, Gamla Stan, and beyond to Djurgården, this travel guide is packed with itinerary suggestions,...
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My Squirrel Days

ELLIE KEMPER · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naïf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker.There comes a time in every sitcom...
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The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS

ROBERT SPENCER · Bombardier Books
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover

The comprehensive history of the role of war and terror in the spread of Islam. It is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally peaceful religion and that Islamic jihad terrorism is something relatively new, a product of the economic and political...
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James Patterson's Murder Is Forever: Volume 3

James Patterson · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback

Two true crime thrillers that inspired the Investigation Discovery series!
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Imani Perry · Beacon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short...
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Inside the Star Wars Empire: A Memoir

BILL KIMBERLIN · Lyons Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Bill Kimberlin may refer to himself as "one of those names on the endless list of credits at the close of blockbuster movies." In reality though, he's a true insider on some of the most celebrated and popular movies and franchises of the past century. Jurassic Park. Star Trek....
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Llewellyn's 2018 Sun Sign Book: Horoscopes for Everyone

KIM ROGERS-GALLAGHER · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Find out what big opportunities are waiting for you in the coming year with Llewellyn's 2018 Sun Sign Book. With it, you'll gain amazing insights into the months ahead and make use of practical planetary wisdom. This easy-to-use guide will answer your questions about money, success,...
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Rick Steves Germany 2018

RICK STEVES · Rick Steves
Pages: 944
Format: Paperback

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Germany.This guidebook takes you from fairy-tale castles, alpine forests, and quaint villages to the energetic Germany of today. Get the details on cruising the romantic Rhine or summiting the Zugspitze....
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Guide Book of United States Currency, 7th Edition

Kenneth E Bressett · Whitman Publishing, LLC
Pages: 339
Format: Paperback

Hobby legend Kenneth Bressett covers large-size, small-size, and fractional paper money in the newly revised and updated 7th edition of the Guide Book of United States Currency, one of the best-selling paper-money books of all time. A perennial favorite among hobbyists, United States Currency...
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