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Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety Is Putting Us All at Risk
Tracey Brown · Sourcebooks
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Can a cell phone cause a major explosion at a gas station? What would happen if the 3 oz rule at airports was abolished? And are all the child protection measures really making children safer? These rules exist in the name of our own protection, but has anyone ever stopped to consider exactly... |
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A Fine Romance
Candice Bergen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the follow-up to Knock Wood - her bestselling "engaging, intelligent, and wittily self-deprecating autobiography" (The New York Times) - Candice Bergen shares the big events: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling... |
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Country Living Salvage Style: Decorate with Vintage Finds
Leslie Linsley · Hearst
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Salvage style - decorating with repurposed and vintage items like wicker furniture, cast-iron tubs, polished marble, industrial pendant lights, and even tractor seats - has become a chic way to create unique, personal rooms. By reclaiming honest materials and collectibles, large and small,... |
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
MICHAEL WOLFF · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling... |
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The New Colored Pencil: Create Luminous Works with Innovative Materials and Techniques
Kristy Ann Kutch · Watson-Guptill Publications
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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Start coloring, relieve stress, and learn to create radiant, original works of art using colored pencils, wax pastels, and watercolor pencils.Add vibrancy to your coloring creations with instruction from best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch as she guides you through recommendations... |
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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2017
Sarah Janssen · World Almanac Education
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book
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Get thousands of facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The World Almanac® and Book of Facts is America's top-selling reference book of all time, with more than 82 million copies sold. Since 1868, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source... |
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The Great Halifax Explosion
JOHN U BACON · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped... |
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Lennyball: A Memoir of Life on the Edge
Lenny Dykstra · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A TOP-TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AN INSTANT CLASSIC OF HUSSLE AND EXCESS ..."Tough, straight, upsetting, and strangely beautiful. ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES I'VE EVER READ. It comes from the heart." - Stephen King"THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BLOW YOUR MIND! Obviously... |
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Homespun: Amish and Mennonite Women in Their Own Words
Lorilee Craker · Herald Press
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
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Straight from the pens of Amish and Mennonite women . . . Ever wish you could visit with a group of Amish or Mennonite women over a cup of coffee? In the pages of Homespun, Amish and Plain Mennonite women swap stories and spin yarns while we listen in. Lorilee Craker, bestselling author... |
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And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit
Tom Lutz · University of Iowa Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. And the Monkey Learned Nothing contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary and without a goal, Lutz explores... |
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So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot
Morgan Ring · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Niece to Henry VIII, heir to the throne, courtier at risk of being killed, spy-mistress, and ambitious political player, Lady Margaret Douglas is a vital new character in the Tudor story.Amidst the Christmas revels of 1530, a fifteen-year-old girl arrived at the court of King Henry VIII.... |
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A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia
Sandra Allen · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Dazzlingly, daringly written, marrying the thoughtful originality of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts with the revelatory power of Neurotribes and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before.Sandra... |
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