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Harry Potter: The Creature Vault: The Creatures and Plants of the Harry Potter Films

Jody Revenson · Harper Design
Pages: 206
Format: Print book

Dementors and House-elves, merpeople and Chinese Fireball Dragons - these are just a few of the magical creatures and frightening monsters populating J. K. Rowling's wizarding world. Harry Potter: The Creature Vault is a fascinating look at how this menagerie was brought to life for the blockbuster...
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Lawnmower Manual: A practical guide to choosing, using and maintaining a lawnmower

Brian Radam · Haynes Publishing UK
Format: Hardcover

If chosen correctly and properly maintained, a high-quality lawnmower should provide many years of trouble-free service. This extensively illustrated, step-by-step practical manual provides the reader with advice on how to choose the best mower for their needs.
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Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son

Anthony Campolo · Harper One
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Bestselling Christian author, activist, and scholar Tony Campolo and his son Bart, an avowed Humanist, debate their spiritual differences and explore similarities involving faith, belief, and hope that they share.Over a Thanksgiving dinner, fifty-year-old Bart Campolo announced to his Evangelical...
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Unshakable: How to Thrive

TONY ROBBINS · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

After interviewing fifty of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom....
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The Steampunk User's Manual: An Illustrated Practical and Whimsical Guide to Creating Retro-futurist Dreams

Jeff VanderMeer · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Steampunk, the retro-futuristic cultural movement, has become a substantial and permanent genre in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. A large part of its appeal is that, at its core, Steampunk is about doing it yourself: building on the past while also innovating and creating something...
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Fu-go : the curious history of Japan's balloon bomb attack on America

Ross Allen Coen · University of Nebraska Press
Format: eBook

Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and high-explosive bombs designed to follow the westerly winds of the upper atmosphere and drift...
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Blind Curves: A Woman, a Motorcycle, and a Journey to Reinvent Herself

Linda Crill · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

After months of following one-size-fits-all advice for a fifty-seven-year-old widow, Linda Crill is still miserable, until she makes a rebellious spur-of-the-moment decision: she trades her corporate suits for motorcycle leathers and commits herself to a 2,500-mile road trip down America's...
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The 10 Best Anxiety Busters: Simple Strategies to Take Control of Your Worry

Margaret Wehrenberg Psy.D. · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Ready-to-use strategies to tame even your most anxiety-inducing moments. Suffer from a fear of flying? Break out in a sweat during presentations? Experience a sudden panic attack when in a confined space, like an elevator? Whether you're struggling with mild anxiety or battling more...
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Watch My Baby Grow

DK · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Lots of books tell you about child development and a baby's first year, but Watch My Baby Grow shows you everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations. Every milestone of baby development, from gurgles to coos to first words, is documented...
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Famous First Facts

Steven Anzovin · H.W. Wilson; 7 edition
Format: Hardcover

For more than half a century, Famous First Facts has earned the accolades of reviewers and a place on library reference shelves nationwide. This new edition of the reference classic is updated and expanded with new entries reflecting the latest developments and discoveries, and newly organized...
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The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned-and Have Still to Learn-from the Financial Crisis

Martin Wolf · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new global economy and its trajectoryThere have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007-8. The Shifts and the Shocks...
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Cooking Allergy-Free: Simple Inspired Meals for Everyone

Jenna Short · Taunton Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Banish boring recipes for the allergy-conscious from your kitchen. Those of us with food allergies often have disappointing dining options. Cooking Allergy-Free is a phenomenal resource for the home cook with 150 delicious recipes for all courses--appetizers, soups and salads, main dishes,...
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Love Me, Feed Me: Sharing with Your Dog the Everyday Good Food You Cook and Enjoy

Judith Jones · Knopf
Format: Kindle Edition

From the esteemed food editor and author Judith Jones, a charming, practical guide to sharing the pleasures of home cooking with your dog. Doesn't man's best friend deserve a little more than cardboard-dry kibble day in and day out? Judith Jones thinks so, and in this delightful new cookbook...
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Artful Christmas: 30 Elegant Craft Projects

Susan Wasinger · Lark Crafts

Celebrate a merry Christmas in an artfully decorated home! Crafters will feel the joy as they make 30 elegant yet incredibly easy projects out of the most affordable and accessible materials. Deck the halls with a lacy air-dried clay wreath, a stamped muslin bag Advent calendar, festive...
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