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Consequence: A Memoir
Eric Fair · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A man questions everything--his faith, his morality, his country--as he recounts his experience as an interrogator in Iraq; an unprecedented memoir and "an act of incredible bravery" (Phil Klay) "Remarkable... Both an agonized confession and a chilling expose of one of the darkest... |
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Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains
Sam Weinman · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An engaging, inspiring exploration of the surprising value of setbacks - and how we can use them to succeed As an award-winning sports journalist, Sam Weinman has long studied the ripple effects of losing. But as a father of two competitive boys, he struggled to convince them that failing... |
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Red Flags: Frenemies, Underminers, and Ruthless People
Wendy L Ph D Patrick · Griffin
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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We all wear emotional blinders: keeping society moving smoothly depends on it. But when you absolutely must rely on another person, you have to be able to assess them objectively. Red Flags will train you to spot deceptive or dangerous people.Learn how to:- Avoid selective attention- Observe... |
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
Leigh Fought · Oxford University Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
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In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic... |
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The Story Garden: Cultivating Plants to Nurture Memories
Ellen Sheppard Buchert · Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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Grow stories and cultivate memories with a Story Garden. This charming book of lovely tales is about the magic of self-discovery, memory, and human connections transmitted through botany. The stories are supplemented with simple plant propagation how-tos for the plants that connect to the memories.... |
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Alexa For Dummies
Paul McFedries · For Dummies
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Upgrade your Echo expertise with this Dummies guide to all things AlexaAmazon's hugely popular family of Echo devices has made Alexa a household name. She can answer your questions, entertain you, and even help around the house. Alexa for Dummies is the perfect guide for Alexa users... |
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Winter
Karl Ove Knausgaard · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world... |
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Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History
Molly Schiot · Simon and Schuster
Pages: 309
Format: Print book
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"A thoughtful, exhaustively researched, and long-overdue tribute to the women who have paved the way for the likes of Serena Williams, Abby Wambach, Simone Biles, and more." - espnW "A stirring tribute to the record setters, barrier breakers, and milestone makers who opened... |
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The Chamberlain Key: Unlocking the Biblical Code That Proves the Existence of God
Timothy P Smith · WaterBrook
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine you are a young, ambitious, successful appraiser of artifacts and antiquities - your services in demand by many of the most powerful individuals and branches of government in Washington, D. C. Your future could not seem brighter - except for a troubling dream...with the same mysterious... |
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Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
LEONIE FRIEDA · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch - Francis I - who turned France into a great nation.Catherine de Medici's father-in-law,... |
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Michael Symon's Playing with Fire: BBQ and More from the Grill, Smoker, and Fireplace
Michael Symon · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Cohost of The Chew and celebrated Iron Chef and restaurateur Michael Symon returns to a favorite subject, meat, with his first cookbook focused on barbecue and live-fire grilling, with over 70 recipes inspired by his newest restaurant, Mabel's BBQ, in his hometown of Cleveland.In preparing... |
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Untitled on HRC
Jonathan Allen · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate,... |
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music,... |
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Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856
John Bicknell · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US senator senseless on the floor of the Senate.... |
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