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The Bucket List: 1000 Adventures Big & Small

Kath Stathers · Universe
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

With 1,000 adventures for all ages, it's never too soon or too late to begin the things you've only dreamed of doing. We all have things we'd like to do - one day - but work, family, school, money, and responsibilities get in the way. This invaluable guide to fun, fantastic,...
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American English, Italian Chocolate: Small Subjects of Great Importance

Rick Bailey · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback

American English, Italian Chocolate is a memoir in essays beginning in the American Midwest and ending in north central Italy. In sharply rendered vignettes, Rick Bailey reflects on donuts and ducks, horses and car crashes, outhouses and EKGs. He travels all night from Michigan to New Jersey...
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The Good, the Great, and the Unfriendly: A Librarian's Guide to Working with Friends Groups

SALLY GARDNER REED · AMER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Executive Director of United for Libraries and former Executive Director of Friends of Libraries U.S.A., Reed has decades of experience liaising between Friends groups and the libraries that they support, serve, and (sometimes) exasperate. Her new book cuts to chase of building and maintaining...
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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit

Deepak Chopra · Harmony
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The Healing Self offers...
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The Whole30 Fast & Easy Cookbook: 150 Simply Delicious Everyday Recipes for Your Whole30

MELISSA HARTWIG · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Featuring 150 all new, Whole30-compliant recipes - all fast and easy to prepare Millions of people have transformed their lives with Whole30, yet co-creator Melissa Hartwig wants to make it even easier to achieve Whole30 success - with delicious, compliant, fast, and easy recipes. This...
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Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children

Angela J. Hanscom · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children's cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy,...
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The Quiet Maverick

Ilbury Daryl · Penguin Random House South Africa
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

On 5 February 2014, world-renowned scientist Tim Noakes fired off a tweet allegedly dispensing dietary advice to a young mother into a highly volatile media space; the fallout threatened to destroy his career. This is the untold backstory. Veteran journalist and writer Daryl Ilbury unveils,...
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You Can Knit That: Foolproof Instructions for Fabulous Sweaters

Amy Herzog · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

When knitting superstar Amy Herzog gets complimented on her hand-knit sweaters, the compliments are often followed by "but I could never knit that." Now, you can! You Can Knit That is a clear, simple reference book and pattern collection that gives knitters the sweater-making...
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Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments

John Brockman · Harper Perennial
Pages: 573
Format: Paperback

Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience,...
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King Solomon's Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World

Joan Nathan · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From the James Beard Award-winning, much-loved cookbook author and authority: an around-the-world collection of recipes from the global Jewish diaspora--an essential book of cooking and culture. Driven by a passion for discovery, King Solomon is said to have sent ships to all corners of the ancient...
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

ANGELA SAINI · Beacon Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less...
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Secret Plan for America

Nancy Maclean · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right . . ." - The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for America's...
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EMT Basic Exam Secrets Study Guide: EMT-B Test Review for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) Basic Exam

EMT Exam Secrets Test Prep Team · Mometrix Media LLC; 1 Stg edition
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback

This EMT Basic study guide includes EMT Basic practice test questions. Our EMT Basic study guide contains easy-to-read essential summaries that highlight the key areas of the EMT Basic test. Mometrix's EMT Basic test study guide reviews the most important components of the EMT Basic exam....
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The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World

Jenn Granneman · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

An introvert guide and manifesto for all the quiet ones -- and the people who love them. Is there a hidden part of you that no one else sees? Do you have a vivid inner world of thoughts and emotions that your peers and loved ones can't seem to access? Have you ever been told you're...
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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

Fumio Sasaki · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo -- he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided...
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