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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

Martin Dugard · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of one of history's greatest adventures - and a study of the seven character traits all great explorers share.In 1856, two intrepid adventurers, Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, set off to unravel a geographical unknown:...
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Asian Pickles: India: Recipes for Indian Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Cured Pickles and Chutneys
Asian Pickles: India: Recipes for Indian Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Cured Pickles and Chutneys

Karen Solomon · Ten Speed Press
Format: Book

A DIY guide to making the tangy pickles of India, featuring recipes ranging from traditional chutney and achar to new combinations using innovative ingredients and techniques. For Asian food aficionados as well as preservers and picklers looking for new frontiers, India's diverse...
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Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Extraordinary Buildings -- Revised and Updated
Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Extraordinary Buildings -- Revised and Updated

Judith Dupr? · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Rev Upd edition
Format: Book

Now, bigger than ever, this long-awaited revised edition of Judith Dupré's best-selling Skyscrapers is a giant celebration of today's most significant superstructures. It features an all-new design with full-color photographs, 10 new buildings, and informative updates...
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings · Vintage; 1st edition
Format: Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles - the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg - that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914,...
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

Michael A. Ross · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down:...
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Back to Butter: A Traditional Foods Cookbook - Nourishing Recipes Inspired by Our Ancestors
Back to Butter: A Traditional Foods Cookbook - Nourishing Recipes Inspired by Our Ancestors

Molly Chester · Fair Winds Press
Format: Paperback

Welcome (Back) to Traditional Foods!What if butter and other “banished” foods like eggs, cream, and bacon had the inherent potential to restore our health and well-being—and that of future generations? It’s a pretty good question, isn’t it?Traditional foods...
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Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville

Michael Streissguth · It Books
Format: Hardcover

Outlaw by acclaimed author Michael Streissguth follows the stories of three legends as they redefined country music Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.Streissguth delves into the country music scene in the late 60s and early 70s, when these rebels found themselves in Music...
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Everybody's Got Something
Everybody's Got Something

Robin Roberts · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover

"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's...
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When Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Hit Puberty: A Parents' Q&A Guide to Health, Sexuality and Relationships
When Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Hit Puberty: A Parents' Q&A Guide to Health, Sexuality and Relationships

Freddy Jackson Brown · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Puberty, personal hygiene and sex can be difficult topics to broach with your child, especially when they have an intellectual disability or autism. The authors of this guide provide honest answers to challenging questions and provide solutions to the dilemmas that many parents face on a daily...
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How to Have the Wedding You Want
How to Have the Wedding You Want

Christine Egan · Berkley Books
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback

The updated edition of the only wedding guide that's on your side!Figure out what you want. Who to invite. Where to celebrate. What to wear. And those are just the big issues. You've got flowers, showers, music, and more ... and you're wondering if you can get it done by your...
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The Exercise Ball Bible: Over 200 Exercises to Help You Lose Weight and Improve Your Fitness, Strength, Flexibility, and Posture
The Exercise Ball Bible: Over 200 Exercises to Help You Lose Weight and Improve Your Fitness, Strength, Flexibility, and Posture

Lucy Knight · Fair Winds Press
Format: Print book

The Exercise Ball Bible is the most up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive guide to maximizing the use of this ever-popular exercise equipment. Whether your goal is to stay trim and toned or you need to correct your posture, professional dancer and fitness trainer Lucy Knight offers...
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Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her

Maxwell Taylor Kennedy · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the closing months of World War II Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon kamikazes -- the first men to use airplanes as suicide weaponsBy the beginning of American pilots were shooting down Japanese planes more than ten to one The Japanese had so few metals left...
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Alton Brown: EveryDayCook
Alton Brown: EveryDayCook

Alton Brown · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

My name is Alton Brown, and I wrote this book. It's my first in a few years because I've been a little busy with TV stuff and interwebs stuff and live stage show stuff. Sure, I've been cooking, but it's been mostly to feed myself and people in my immediate vicinity - which is really what...
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