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Super Fresh Juices and Smoothies

Nicola Graimes · Ryland Peters & Small
Format: Book

Whether you're looking for a potent pick-me-up, an effective detoxifier, a postworkout boost, a weight-loss aid or an anti-ageing rejuvenator, this book shows you how to make flavour-packed juices and smoothies with health-enhancing properties. Along with the nutrients gleaned from...
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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

Sarah Bakewell · Other Press
Pages: 439
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse....
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir

David Kushner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 242
Format: Print book

From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to "Rolling Stone, " "The New Yorker, " "Vanity Fair, " and other premier magazines, "Alligator Candy "is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love....
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Audubon Birdhouse Book: Building, Placing, and Maintaining Great Homes for Great Birds

Margaret A. Barker · Voyageur Press; First edition
Format: Book

A visit to almost any home or garden center presents birders with numerous cute and colorful contraptions that are sold as bird homes. But the fact is, many of these products provide anything but a safe refuge for your feathered friends. Produced in association with the National Audubon...
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The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

Ptolemy Tompkins · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

The author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Proof of Heaven teams up with the sages of times past, modern scientists, and with ordinary people who have had profound spiritual experiences to show the reality of heaven and our true identities as spiritual beings. The Map of Heaven takes...
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The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution

Robert G Parkinson · Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Pages: 768
Format: Print book

When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson...
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Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game

Erica Westly · Touchstone Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A real-life A League of Their Own meets The Girls of Atomic City: the first fascinating history of fastpitch softball from its beginnings as an industrial worker's game to an Olympic sport with millions of fans and players worldwide, and the incredible, larger-than-life women - and men - who popularized...
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111 Places in Paris That You Shouldn't Miss

SYBIL CANAC · Emons Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

* The ultimate insider's guide to Paris* Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides* An extension of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 170 titles and 1 million copies in print worldwide* Appeals to both the local market (over...
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The Devil's Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre

John Henry Browne · Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey,  Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne's memoir, The Devil's Defender, recounts his tortuous education in what it means to be an advocate - and a human being.  For the last four decades,...
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HiSET Secrets Study Guide: HiSET Test Review for the High School Equivalency Test

Mometrix Media LLC · Mometrix Media LLC
Pages: 332
Format: Print book

***Includes Practice Test Questions*** Get the test prep help you need to be successful on the HiSET test. The HiSET is extremely challenging and thorough test preparation is essential for success. HiSET Secrets Study Guide is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass the HiSET...
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The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age

David Biello · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

With the historical perspective of The Song of the Dodo and the urgency of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, a brilliant young environmental journalist argues that we must innovate and adapt to save planet Earth.Civilization is in crisis, facing disasters of our own making on the only...
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Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

Arundhati Roy · Haymarket Books
Pages: 106
Format: Print book

In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg travelled to Moscow to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The result was a series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden.In these provocative and penetrating discussions,...
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Saint Katharine: The Life of Katharine Drexel

Cordelia Frances Biddle · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful and profoundly moving, Saint Katharine is a book of rich and lively scholarship and of deeply felt devotion. You will not be able to put it down." - Donald Spoto, author of Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi When Katharine Drexel was born in 1858, her grandfather,...
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