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The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure

SHOBA NARAYAN · Algonquin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different backgrounds bond over not only cows, considered holy...
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Cycling Workout Handbook: Improve Fitness with 100 of the Best Cycling Workouts

Terri Schneider · Hatherleigh Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

A workout collection for both fitness cyclists and multi-sport athletes.Whether cycling for fun and fitness or training for a century ride, The Cycling Workout Handbook is your comprehensive training resource from top multi-sport athlete and coach Terri Schneider. The Cycling Workout Handbook...
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Stronger

Jeff Bauman · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAALThe New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor. When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs,...
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

Jeffrey Toobin · Doubleday
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress...
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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

PRIYA PARKER · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A bold new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together--at work, at home, in our communities, and beyond.In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely...
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The Big Thing: How to Complete Your Creative Project Even if You're a Lazy, Self-Doubting Procrastinator Like Me

Phyllis Korkki · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A New York Times business journalist explains why it's important for people to pursue big creative projects, and identifies both the obstacles and the productive habits that emerge on the path to completion - including her own experience writing this book.Whether it's the Great...
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Hair Therapy: Cures For Growing Your Beautiful Natural Hair

Tiffany Anderson · Wahida Clark Presents Publishing, LLC
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback

Tiffany Anderson "Leading Natural Hair Expert...." -- Reader's DigestWomen always want to look good. And looking good starts with a fresh face and slayed hair. Whether it be straight or natural, no woman wants to have a bad hair day. If only there was a guide to help women...
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Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones

Dee Dee Ramone · Da Capo Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight...
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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

Katha Pollitt · Picador
Format: Hardcover

A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATIONForty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three...
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Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems

James Baldwin · Beacon Press,
Pages: 94
Format: Print book

All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread praise....
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Unseen London

Mark Daly · Frances Lincoln Publisher
Pages: 304
Format: Book

Peter Dazeley has gained access to the hidden interiors of some of London's most iconic buildings, from Tower Bridge to Battersea Power Station, Big Ben to the Old Bailey. His photographs of these buildings - some derelict, but many still working - are astonishing. Here is a collection...
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The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution: Proven Strategies to End Overeating, Satisfy Your Hunger, and Savor Your Life

Lynn Rossy · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

What are you really hungry for? Is it food, happiness, or something else? In this unique book, mindfulness expert Lynn Rossy offers a proven-effective, whole-body approach to help you discover the real reasons why you're overeating. In The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution, Rossy provides...
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Legends & Lore of Cape Cod

Robin Smith-Johnson · The History Press
Pages: 139
Format: Print book

Cape Cod has a rich tradition of local lore, stretching back to a time before the Pilgrims arrived. Ancient Wampanoag legends like Granny Squannit and Princess Scargo are as familiar as tales of pirates and explorers, including "Black Sam" Bellamy and Donald Baxter Macmillan....
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The Up South Cookbook: Chasing Dixie in a Brooklyn Kitchen

Nicole A. Taylor · Countryman Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Southern cooking meets the Brooklyn foodie scene, keeping charm (and grits) intactGeorgia native Nicole Taylor spent her early twenties trying to distance herself from her southern cooking roots--a move "up" to Brooklyn gave her a fresh appreciation for the bread and biscuits,...
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

Dean Burnett · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know...
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