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The Official Guide to the HiSET® Exam

Educational Testing Service · McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The one and only official guide to the ETS HiSET Exam High School Equivalency Test now used in more than 12 states This one and only Official Guide to the HiSET Exam is the best, most reliable guide to the exam that is now used in more than 12 states to test students seeking to earn...
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Modern Brides & Modern Grooms: A Guide to Planning Straight, Gay, and Other Nontraditional Twenty-First-Century Weddings

Mark O'Connell · W W Norton
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

This book is for any couple - same or opposite sex - seeking a personalized wedding that dignifies the relationship and the individual self. No "new normal" here - this guide emboldens you to harness your unique, brazen, queer truth; to be creative; and to plan your wedding your...
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toughLove: Eighteen Top Experts Share Proven Strategies for Raising Confident, Kind, Resilient Kids

Lisa Stiepock · Simon & Schuster
Format: Kindle Edition

From toughLOVE, a unique online community: balanced, practical advice for parents of school-age children from child psychology experts on how to handle everything from picky eating to media consumption to the homework wars.The challenges of parenting evolve as the world becomes more complex....
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The Days of Anna Madrigal: A Novel

Armistead Maupin · Harper
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover

The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters - Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary...
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Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band...
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Lying in Wait: Ann Rule's Crime Files: Vol.17

Ann Rule · Pocket Books
Format: Book

Ann Rule presents another collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories - drawn from her real-life personal files - in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series.MOVING IN FOR THE KILL In this all-new collection of investigative accounts...
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The Chia Cookbook: Inventive, Delicious Recipes Featuring Nature's Superfood

Janie Hoffman · Ten Speed Press; 1 edition
Format: eBook

Mamma Chia founder Janie Hoffman presents recipes for incorporating superfood chia seeds into flavorful smoothies, snacks, meals, and desserts.    Chia is a powerful little seed with incredible health benefits. In this mouthwatering recipe collection, Mamma Chia founder Janie...
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Steampunk Tea Party: Cakes & Toffees to Jams & Teas - 30 Neo-Victorian Steampunk Recipes from Far-Flung Galaxies, Underwater Worlds & Airborne Excursions

Jema 'Emilly Ladybird' Hewitt · David & Charles
Format: Paperback

Experience the most decadent and delectable treats in Steampunk Tea Party! Join Miss Emilly Ladybird on a delicious adventure as she travels to fascinating destinations--just in time for tea! Whether enjoying a relaxing tea ceremony in Shangri-La or protecting Her Majesty's tea and cake...
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12 Days of Christmas With Six Sisters' Stuff: Recipes, Traditions, Homemade Gifts, and So Much More

Six Sisters' Stuff · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 150
Format: Book

Overflowing with creative ideas for the holidays, 12 Days of Christmas with Six Sisters Stuff includes dozens of recipes, projects, and ideas for bringing the excitement of the season into your home. With full-color photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, you will find 12 Family Traditions,...
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Route 66: A Road to America's Landscape, History, and Culture

Markku Henriksson · Texas Tech University Press
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover

When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" was one of only two he could recognize - in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would catch his first glimpse of the legendary highway. It was enough to lure Henriksson...
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Ketchup Is a Vegetable: And Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves

Robin O'Bryant · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback

If you don't have anything nice to say about motherhood, then ... read this book. Robin O'Bryant offers a no holds barred look at the day to day life of being a mother to three, running a household and the everyday monotony of parenting. It's not always pretty but it's...
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God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath

Malcolm Lambert · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

With ramifications on geopolitics today, a vivid chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin:...
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Food, Health and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life

Oprah Winfrey · Flatiron Books
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover

Oprah Winfrey will be the first to tell you, she has had a complicated relationship with food. It's been both a source of delight and comfort for her, but also the cause of an ongoing struggle with her weight. In Food, Health, and Happiness, Oprah shares the recipes that have allowed eating...
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 362
Format: Print book

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...
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