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Voices from Bears Ears: Seeking Common Ground on Sacred Land

Rebecca Robinson · University of Arizona Press
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback

In late 2016, President Barack Obama designated 1.35 million acres of public lands in southeastern Utah as Bears Ears National Monument. On December 4, 2017, President Donald Trump shrank the monument by 85 percent. A land rich in human history and unsurpassed in natural beauty, Bears Ears...
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The Power of Sprinkles: A Cake Book by the Founder of Flour Shop

Amirah Kassem · Abrams
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Flour Shop's rainbow explosion cakes have become an international sensation! And now, with The Power of Sprinkles, Flour Shop Founder Amirah Kassem reveals the secrets to making her magical cakes at home. Amirah Kassem preaches the power of sprinkles in her wildly creative first book....
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Lonely Planet Pacific Northwest's Best Trips

Lonely Planet. · Lonely Planet Pubns
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet Pacific Northwest's Best Trips. Featuring 33 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures, you can cruise...
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Honey, I Sold the Red Cadillac: Learning to Cope With Lewy Body Dementia

Bob Wolf · BookBaby
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback

Carol developed the first typical symptoms of Parkinson's disease in 2011, but the diagnosis was soon changed to Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) . The first physical symptoms were quickly followed by hallucinations, which at first were benign, but quickly became quite scary. While caring...
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Familia

Laura Rojas-Marcos · Grijalbo
Format: Print book

Vivir plenamente en familia es un proceso que todos podemos aprender y llevar a la práctica. Para la mayoría de las personas todo sucede y se experimenta por primera vez en la familia: las primeras emociones positivas y negativas, los primeros aprendizajes y las primeras relaciones...
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The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback

Nigel Travis · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The charismatic, accessible, and down-to-earth CEO of Dunkin' Brands (Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins) shows how positive pushback--the discipline of "questioning everything without trashing anyone"--provides a unique results-oriented way to lead an organization to prosperity....
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Railroads and the American People

H Roger Grant · Indiana University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback

In this engaging social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant explores the railroad's "golden age" of 1830-1930. To capture the essence of the nation's railroad experience, Grant looks at four fundamental topics -- trains and travel, train...
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Now Say This: The Right Words to Solve Every Parenting Dilemma

HEATHER TURGEON · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

A powerful new parenting book that gives flustered parents the exact words to use to solve any sticky parenting situation!Language is powerful and the exact words, tone, and non-verbal communication parents use when trying to move through a stuck moment with their child means everything....
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

Jason Fried · HarperBusiness
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today.In Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson introduced...
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A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State

James D. Wright · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A witty history of the state that's always in the news, for everything from alligator attacks to zany crimes.There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent -- and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida,...
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

Joe Biden · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what...
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Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It

Brian Murphy · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of bestsellers such as Dead Wake and In the Heart of the Sea, Adrift tells of thirteen victims and a tragedy at sea where every desperate act could mean life or deathThe small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods,...
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Iron Curtain Journals: January–May 1965

Allen Ginsberg · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The first of three in a series of Ginsberg's unpublished travel journals A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation - distinctly not destroyed by madness - Allen Ginsberg's journals are more tour de force than simple diaries, charting his poetry, political...
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300

Jason Berry · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured...
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Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

Rachel Hollis · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media...
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