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Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

Perdita Finn - Running Press Adult
Format: Hardcover

Renowned spiritual teacher and co-founder of The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn teaches the art and healing power of connecting with the dead, as she guides readers through the magical process of conversing with the unseen world.. "Finn weaves a spellbinding meditation . . . an affecting...
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So Long as It's Wild: Standing Strong After My Famous Walk Across America

Barbara Jenkins - Dexterity
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Walk West comes Barbara Jenkins's long-awaited tale of her walk across America, an adventure that once captured the national media spotlight. From the untold narrative of her impoverished hillbilly upbringing, to the crushing aftermath...
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Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life - distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone. The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie...
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Omega Farm: A Memoir

Martha McPhee - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist - a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother.. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey,...
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Counting the Cost

Jill Duggar - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC's hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and intimidation...
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I - this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. . September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden...
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

Anderson Cooper - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story - of ambition, invention, destruction,...
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No Time to Panic: How I Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks by Crying with Strangers, Bear-Hugging My Fears, and Dialing Down My Anxiety

Matt Gutman - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

By ABC News's chief national correspondent, an unflinching look at panic attacks by a reporter whose career was nearly derailed by them, offering readers a guide to making a truce with their warring minds. Matt Gutman can tell you the precise moment that his life was upended, even if he can't...
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Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

Shane McCrae - Scribner
Format: Audio CD

An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black,...
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Zelenskii: Un retrato al natural del hombre que se enfrentó a Putin (Spanish Edition)

Serhii Rudenko - Editorial Pinolia, S.l.
Format: Paperback

Hace tres años Volodymyr Zelenskii arrasó en las elecciones presidenciales de Ucrania siendo el unico candidato cuya unica experiencia política había sido en la pequeña pantalla. Durante las tres temporadas de la serie El servidor del pueblo, este carismático actor interpretó a un profesor...
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