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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them

Ben Holden · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal).Grown men aren’t...
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Medicare For Dummies

Patricia Barry · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The fast and easy way to get up to speed on Medicare Since the creation of Medicare in 1965, significant changes have affected the legislation. With 77 million baby boomers entering the program, questions about what Medicare is and how it affects seniors are certain to arise. Medicare For Dummies...
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Ted Williams, My Father: A Memoir

Claudia Williams · Ecco; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Claudia Williams, the last surviving child of legendary Boston Red Sox great and Hall of Famer Ted Williams, tells her father’s story, including never-before-told anecdotes about his life on and off the field that reveal the flesh and blood man behind “The...
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Two Boys Kissing

Bill Konigsberg · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

A 2014 Lambda Literary Award Winner A 2014 Stonewall Honor BookNamed to the 2013 National Book Award Longlist "You have to read this." - Rainbow Rowell, author of Eleanor & Park In his follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Every Day, David Levithan, coauthor of bestsellers...
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The Healthiest Diet on the Planet: Why the Foods You Love-Pizza, Pancakes, Potatoes, Pasta, and More-Are the Solution to Preventing Disease and Looking and Feeling Your Best

John McDougall · HarperOne
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The bestselling author and internationally celebrated physician and expert on nutrition offers an appealing, approachable health solution - eat the foods you love to lose weight and get healthy.For years, we've been told that a healthy diet is heavy on meat, poultry, and fish, and avoids...
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Jennifer A Doudna · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use....
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution

Jonathan B Losos · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point...
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50 Things to Do with a Penknife

COLLINS MATT · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Whether you're a beginner or seasoned whittler, this practical guide to the age old yet newly popular art of whittling will delight, inspire, and instruct you. Featuring projects that cater to a range of skill levels - including a pen/pencil holder, chess pieces, a slingshot, spoon,...
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Sweet & Simple Needle Felted Animals: A Step-By-Step Visual Guide

SACHIKO SUSA · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Sweet & Simple Needle Felted Animals provides detailed instructions to create your own cute and cuddly collection of needle felted pets, barnyard buddies and mascots.These adorable furry figurines make wonderful gifts and accessories that you can carry around or wear. This DIY felting...
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The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

Jonathan F P Rose · Harper Wave
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose - a visionary in urban development and renewal - champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first...
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Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

Diana Butler Bass · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The author of the multiple award-winning Grounded and leading trend spotter in contemporary Christianity explores why gratitude is missing as a modern spiritual practice, offers practical suggestions for reclaiming it, and illuminates how the shared practice of gratitude can lead to greater...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann · Doubleday
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - AMAZON EDITORS' PICK FOR THE BEST BOOK OF 2017 "Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." - Dave Eggers, New York Times Book ReviewFrom New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling...
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Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century

Daniel Oppenheimer · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures - from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens - who abandoned the left and joined the right.In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political...
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Fodor's Montreal and Quebec City

Fodor's Travel Publications · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.Montréal and Québec City are treasured destinations for American travelers: a corner of France in North America. This guide,...
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Fodor's Washington, D.C. 2014: with Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Annapolis

Fodor's · Fodor's; Pap/Map edition
Format: Hardcover

With history around every corner, Washington, D.C. is a city that magically blends yesterday and today. This updated guide----often among our top domestic best-sellers ---lets travelers discover the myriad, charms of the nations capital, from its stately monuments to the trendiest restaurants....
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