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Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living

Liz O'Donnell - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover‏

Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who's caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying...
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Biochemistry For Dummies

John T. Moore - For Dummies; 3rd edition
Format: Paperback‏


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Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

David George Haskell - ‎Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A symphony, filled with the music of life."  - Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth ExtinctionA lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now facesWe live on a planet alive...
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The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

Chloe Hooper - Seven Stories Press
Format: Kindle Edition

The true story of one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history and the search for the man who started it.On the scorching February day in 2009, a man lit two fires in the Australian state of Victoria, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. What came to be known...
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

Matt Ridley - ‎Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature."...
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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet

John W. Reid - ‎W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover‏


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Visual Learning: Chemistry: An illustrated guide for all ages (Barron's Visual Learning)

Ali O Sezer
Format: Paperback

Barron's new Visual Learning series breaks down complex science concepts into clear, captivating illustrations for the visual learner! With large, colorful graphics, including maps, diagrams, and labeled illustrations and clear supporting text, Visual Learning: Chemistry is an invaluable...
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Genius Kitchen: Over 100 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Make Your Brain Sharp, Body Strong, and Taste Buds Happy

Max Lugavere - ‎Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

Combining the dietary recommendations in his bestselling Genius Foods and the lifestyle recommendations of The Genius Life, Genius Kitchen features shockingly delicious, nutrient-packed recipes that will energize your mind, strengthen your body, and pave a path to health that you'll...
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Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

Matti Friedman - ‎Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

The little-known story of Leonard Cohen's concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographsIn October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen - thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy,...
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Astronomical Mindfulness: Your Cosmic Guide to Reconnecting with the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets

Christopher G De Pree - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with engaging exercises that deepen your knowledge of the solar system, help you take necessary pauses every day, and foster a renewed sense of presence in the universe.Thousands of years ago,...
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