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Crimes That Changed Our World: Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform

Paul H Robinson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity's wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes "trigger" improvement in our lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes...
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National Geographic Traveler: Ireland 5th Edition

Christopher Somerville - National Geographic
Format: Paperback

The National Geographic Traveler guidebooks are in tune with the growing trend toward experiential travel. Each book provides inspiring photography, insider tips, and expert advice for a more authentic, enriching experience of the destination. These books serve a readership of active, discerning...
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Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

ALLISON PATAKI - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched...
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Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy

Rachel Ricketts
Format: Hardcover

Heart-centered and spirit-based practices are the missing but vital piece to achieving racial justice. Do Better is a revolutionary offering that addresses anti-racism from a comprehensive, intersectional, and spiritually-aligned perspective. This actionable guidebook illustrates how to engage...
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way....
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Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir About What Happens After a Miracle

Douglas Michael Day - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

The incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq's Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group of Iraqi scouts were on the hunt for a high-level...
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F**k Plastic: 101 Ways to Free Yourself from Plastic and Save the World

Rodale Sustainability - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

The Zero-Waste Guide to Life!Is the thought of the 51 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans keeping you up at night? Don't panic! The war on plastic has begun and you can help. In this book you'll find 101 little things you as an individual can do to avoid single-use plastics...
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Intermittent Fasting Basics: Your Guide to the Essentials of Intermittent Fasting--and How It Can Work for You!

Lindsay Boyers - Adams Media
Format: Paperback

Quick and easy tips to simplify intermittent fasting to fit better into your daily life!Intermittent fasting has been taking the world by storm with its unique approach to health and weight loss. But with so many rules and restrictions, how do you know where to begin - and how to fast safely?...
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Bell, Janet Dewart

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Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

Ariel Sabar - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ariel Sabar, the gripping true story of a sensational Christian forgery and the scandal that engulfed Harvard.In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference...
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