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The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals

Clea Shearer - Clarkson Potter
Format: Paperback

There's decorating, and then there's organizing. From the Instagram-sensation home experts (with a serious fan club that includes Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mindy Kaling) , here is an accessible, room-by-room guide to establishing new order in your home.Believe this: every...
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How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

Heather Havrilesky - Doubleday
Format: Print book

A collection of original, impassioned, and inspiring letters by the author of the popular advice column Ask PollyShould you quit your day job to follow your dreams? How do you rein in an overbearing mother? Will you ever stop dating wishy-washy, noncommittal guys? Should you put off having...
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A House Among the Trees

Julia Glass - Center Point Pub
Format: Library Binding

Childrens book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home and he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant, Tomasina Daulair. She is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will.
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How Technology Works

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

Have you ever asked yourself how the inventions, gadgets, and devices that surround us actually work? Discover the hidden workings of everyday technology with this graphic guide.How Technology Works demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects...
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FRILUFTSLIV : the nordic secret to embracing nature and the open air life every day of the year

LINDA AKESON MCGURK - PENGUIN BOOKS
Format: Hardcover

A complete guide to Friluftsliv, the Nordic secret to unplugging and connecting more deeply with nature.In The Open-Air Life, Swedish-American writer Linda McGurk introduces readers to a wide array of Nordic customs and practices that focus on slowing down and spending more and more of ones'...
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Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

JAMES M SCOTT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

"Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. James Scott deftly employs sharply etched portraits of individuals of all stations and nationalities to survey the global, technological,...
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Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence

Amy Blackstone - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

From Dr. Amy Blackstone, childfree woman, co-creator of the blog we're {not} having a baby, and nationally recognized expert on the childfree choice, comes a definitive investigation into the history and current growing movement of adults choosing to forgo parenthood: what it means...
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Mom Genes: Inside The New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct

Abigail Tucker
Format: Hardcover

Everyone knows how babies are made, but scientists are only just beginning to understand the making of a mother. Mom Genes reveals the hard science behind our tenderest maternal impulses, tackling questions such as whether a new mom's brain ever really bounces back, why mothers are destined...
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Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story

Wolfgang Bauer - The New Press
Format: Print book

One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls,"...
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The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe

Kevin R. C. Gutzman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"A long, insightful look at three Founder presidents. ... Political histories are rarely page-turners, but Gutzman, clearly a scholar who has read everything on his subjects, writes lively prose and displays a refreshingly opinionated eye for a huge cast of characters and their often...
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