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In the Dream House: A Memoir

Carmen Maria Machado · Graywolf Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms...

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Where Do I Begin?: Stories from a Life Lived Out Loud

Elvis Duran · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Elvis Duran, host of one of the nation's top morning shows and the voice millions of Americans wake up to, shares his wildest stories and hardest-learned lessons all with his trademark heart, honesty, and plenty of humor.

Elvis Duran's nationally syndicated radio program, Elvis...
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Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Mary E. Wilson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics. They can be lifesavers -- and they can be useless. What are they? How are they used? And what happens as the effectiveness of antibiotics continues to decline? Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know® examines the personal and societal implications...
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Embers of Childhood: Growing Up a Whitney

Flora Miller Biddle · Arcade
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A Look into the Privileged World of the American Aristocracy of the Early Twentieth Century

Flora Miller Biddle was born a blue-blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded...
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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits

David A Morton · NOLO
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression and anxiety, and 200 more medical conditions.

Learn how to match...
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Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, as Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom

ADAM FISHER · Twelve
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley -- from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way.
Rarely has one economy asserted itself...
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Last Days of the Concorde: The Crash of Flight 4590 and the End of Supersonic Passenger Travel

Samme Chittum · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The gripping true tale of a devastating plane crash, the investigation into its causes, and the race to prevent similar disasters in the future.On July 25, 2000, a Concorde, the world's fastest passenger plane, was taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris when it suddenly...
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Erasing Memory: A MacNeice Mystery

SCOTT THORNLEY · Spiderline
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Detective Superintendent MacNeice is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife's grave when he's called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine summer cottage so that the finger of one hand...
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

Ian Urbina · Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear...
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How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

Cara O'Neill Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

If you're overwhelmed by debt, the bankruptcy system can help. How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy provides the clear information and step-by-step instructions you'll need to get through the entire process without an attorney. The book will help you determine whether you qualify...
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Defying Reality: The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution

David M Ewalt · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, written by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt, stemming from his 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey.

You've...
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Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight

Joe Pappalardo · The Overlook Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Life in space? This timely book shows the current state and future of the space travel industry -- and how this is becoming our future -- at a crucial juncture in the industry's history.The 21st-century space industry is changing drastically, the most dramatic shift happening in the United...
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NASA Skylab Owners' Workshop Manual

David Baker · Haynes Publishing UK
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Skylab has a fascination among space professionals and enthusiasts alike and a book on the engineering and design of this space station has been argued for in blogs and chat rooms for many years. No other book has yet been published which describes the technical, design and engineering...
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Clearing the Air: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019

Tim Smedley · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution."--Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of CaliforniaThe story of what's happened to the air we breathe, the impact it has had on our health and what we can do to fight back.Clearing the Air tells the full story...
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

Alan Stern · Picador
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons' mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.

On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth,...

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