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Science...For Her!

Megan Amram · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Megan Amram, one of Forbes' "30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment," Rolling Stone's "25 Funniest People on Twitter," and a writer for NBC's hit show Parks and Recreation, delivers a politically, scientifically, and anatomically incorrect "textbook"...
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The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany

Donald E. Westlake · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback

Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one but two long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. In the six years since his death, Westlake's reputation has only grown, with...
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When Parents Part: How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce

Penelope Leach · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed, best-selling author of Your Baby & Child and one of the world's leading experts on child development and parenting, a practical, comprehensively researched guide to doing the best for your child during and after separation or divorce. Recent research clarifies...
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Digest

Gregory Pardlo · Four Way; First Edition /First Printing edition

Rich in intertextuality, 'Digest' improvises form and contemplates the canon while pushing us to question the identities we create.
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Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

Judd Apatow · Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years - including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Roseanne Barr,...
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What to Talk About: On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss

Chris Colin · Chronicle Books
Pages: 159
Format: Hardcover

Homo sapiens have been speaking for hundreds of years - and yet basic communication still stymies us. We freeze up in elevators, on dates, at parties, under Dumpsters. We stagger through our exchanges merely hoping not to crash, never considering that we might soar. We go home sweaty and eat a birthday...
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Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?: True Stories and Confessions

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

The unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team presents a new collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to. From identity theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach, Lisa and Francesca tackle the quirks, absurdities,...
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How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

Julie Lythcott-Haims · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Julie Lythcott-Haims is a national treasure. . . . A must-read for every parent who senses that there is a healthier and saner way to raise our children." -Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well"For parents...
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A Progressive Education

Richard Howard · Turtle Point Press

How extraordinary that the only poetry collection devoted to the trials and tribulations of an entire class of sixth graders is written by the eighty-five-year-old MacArthur Grant and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Howard!Although loosely based on the poet's own progressive...
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The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

Harold Bloom · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHailed as "the indispensable critic" by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom - New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University - has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion...
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