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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

Ruth Reichl · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during...
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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

WILLIAM MCRAVEN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Should be read by every leader in America...a book to inspire your children and grandchildren to become everything that they can." --Wall Street Journal"Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national...
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The Yass Method for Pain-Free Movement: A Guide to Easing through Your Day without Aches and Pains

Mitchell T Yass · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Chronic pain has become an international epidemic - an estimated one billion people across the world suffer from it every day. Many people attribute their pain to a cause that can only be fixed with surgery or medication, but what if the most common cause was one that did not require such...
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The Compatibility Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves

Daniel M Davis · Oxford University Press
Pages: 231
Format: Print book

This is the story of a few human genes and how we discovered what these genes do. We each have around 25,000 genes, but the genes in this story are those that vary the most from person to person. These genes--called compatibility genes--are, in effect, a molecular signature that distinguishes...
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Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II

Wil S. Hylton · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

 Praised by Robert Kurson, Philipp Meyer, Hampton Sides, Michael Paterniti, and many others "A powerful story, masterfully told."—GQ"[A] deeply textured, propulsive new book...a phenomenal writer."—TIME.com"Marries an almost cinematically well-paced...
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Decorating Cakes: Beautifully Decorated Cakes from Easy to Experienced to Expert

Pamela Clark · Sterling
Format: Hardcover

Turn a homemade cake into a work of art This elegant triple-tested collection of confections has something for decorators of all levels from those who just want to make beautiful monogrammed cupcakes to experts eager to bake a traditional wedding cake or to adorn their creations with elaborate...
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Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth

James Lawrence Powell · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced...
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Lidia's Celebrate Like an Italian: 220 Foolproof Recipes That Make Every Meal a Party

Lidia Bastianich · Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The beloved TV chef offers the only cookbook you'll need to give any gathering--from a dinner for two to a wedding--a delectable, welcoming Italian flavor. No one throws a party like Lidia Bastianich! And now, in this delightful new cookbook, she gives us 220 fantastic recipes for entertaining...
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The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

Ben Coates · Nicholas Brealey
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The Rhine is one of the world's greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through the industrial and political powerhouses of Germany and France, to the wealthy mountain fortresses of Switzerland...
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Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper

LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO · Greenhill Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America.In June 1941, when Hitler...
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Big Data: Does Size Matter?

Timandra Harkness · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently than ever before, from tracking wolves...
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Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Guide to Living with the Challenges Associated with Post Concussion Syndrome and Brain Trauma

Diane Roberts Stoler · Avery; 1 edition
Format: Book

Endorsed by the leading professional experts in the field of brain injury, Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, is a must-have guide for managing life in the aftermath of concussion. Often presenting itself after a head trauma, concussion-- or mild traumatic brain injury...
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Don't Bullsh*t Yourself!: Crush the Excuses That Are Holding You Back

Jon Taffer · Portfolio
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"Frustrated that nothing is going your way and it feels like there's nothing you can do about it? You might be making excuses and not even realize it. I reject excuses and embrace solutions. When I'm done with you, you will too."During his many years as an entrepreneur,...
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

Ben Carson · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's...
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Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How To Stay Sane, Calm the Chaos, and Live One Step Ahead of Your Most Inconvenient Symptoms

Ilana Jacqueline · New Harbinger Pubns Inc
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Popular blogger Ilana Jacqueline writes poignantly about living with two debilitating autoimmune diseases and presents advice and practical tips for living with an invisible chronic illness.Do you live with a chronic, debilitating, yet invisible condition? You may feel isolated, out of step,...
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