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The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves

Charles Fernyhough - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our headsAt the moment you caught sight of this book, what were you thinking? Was your thought a stream of sensations? Or was it a voice in your head? Did you ask yourself, "I wonder what that's about?"...
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Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It

Seidenberg Mar - Basic Books
Format: Print book

In 2011, when an international survey reported that students in Shanghai dramatically outperformed American students in reading, math, and science, President Obama declared it a "Sputnik moment": a wake-up call about the dismal state of American education. Little has changed,...
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Knowing the Score: What Sports Can Teach Us About Philosophy (And What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Sports)

David Papineau - Basic Books
Format: Print book

In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing...
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE - ALFRED A KNOPF
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise...
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The Rising: Murder, Heartbreak, and the Power of Human Resilience in an American Town

Ryan D'Agostino - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing story of one man's recovery in the face of traumatic loss - and a powerful meditation on the resilience of the soul On July 23, 2007, Dr. William Petit suffered an unimaginable horror: Armed strangers broke into his suburban Connecticut home in the middle of the night,...
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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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Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the Heart

Lynne Cox - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From inspired and inspiring open-water swimmer and supreme athlete, able to endure cold water temperatures that would kill others, author of Swimming to Antarctica ("Riveting" - Sports Illustrated) and Grayson ("Moving, mystical" - People)...
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How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016

P. J. O'Rourke - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

This election cycle was so absurd that celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O'Rourke endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. As P.J. put it, "America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials of 1692....
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Winning the Math Homework Challenge: Insights for Parents to See Math Differently

Catheryne Draper - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

If you've ever been stumped by your child's math homework, this is the book for you. Winning the Math Homework Challenge shares students' reasoning, thinking, and even misunderstandings about mathematics to provide you with the opportunity to see math through their eyes, including...
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To Kingdom Come: An Epic Saga of Survival in the Air War Over Germany

Robert J. Mrazek - NAL Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The breathtaking, never-before-told, true story of a historic air- force bombing mission in 1943 Germany. On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb...
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

Michelle Kuo - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."...
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Ordinary Light: A memoir

Tracy K Smith - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Print book

National Book Award Finalist From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her "extraordinary range and ambition" (The New York Times Book Review) : a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race,...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening

Meg Stout - Alpha Books
Format: Paperback

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening is a comprehensive guide to aquaponic gardening, from choosing a setup to selecting fish and vegetables. In addition to everything one needs to know to run a healthy aquaponic garden and care for both the vegetables and fish, there...
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Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World

Asi Burak - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

The phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception--from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power...
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

Peter Moskowitz - Nation Books
Format: Print book

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Modern Rustic

Emily Henson - Ryland Peters & Small
Format: Hardcover

At its heart, the modern rustic look celebrates the fabric of a home, from the roof beams to the brickwork. This style revels in earthy colours and rich textures; in natural materials such as wood and stone; and the ruggedly handsome bones of a building. In this book, stylist Emily Henson...
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The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living with a Tawny Owl

Martin Windrow - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The story of an odd couple-a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen yearsMartin Windrow was a war historian with little experience with pets when he adopted an owl the size of a corncob. Adorable but with knife-sharp talons, Mumble became Windrow's...
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The Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans

Janelle Moore - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Updated Second Edition edition
Format: Print book

The typical wounded soldier must complete and file twenty-two forms after an active-duty injury. To soldiers and their families coping with the shock and reality of the injuries, figuring out what to do next - even completing tasks that seem easy like submitting paperwork - can be overwhelming...
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Deck Ideas You Can Use - Updated Edition: Stunning Designs & Fantastic Features for Your Dream Deck

Chris Peterson - Cool Springs Press
Format: Print book

This photo-rich book is the tool every DIYer and homeowner needs to plan and design a beautiful custom deck.If you're looking to build a new deck or remodel the one you have, you want to start by spreading some innovative deck designs in front of you. Look no further than Deck Ideas...
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American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

DAVID BARON - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, American Eclipse ultimately depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius.On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American...
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Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home

Amy Haimerl - Running Press
Format: Print book

Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy.As...
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Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History

Megan Smolenyak - ‎Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

There is no such thing as an ordinary family. Each one has its own stories: the black sheep, the Civil War hero, the ancestors who fled to the United States, or the lost family fortune. No matter how plain you think your background is, chances are there...
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Purely Pumpkin: More Than 100 Seasonal Recipes to Share, Savor, and Warm Your Kitchen

Allison Day - W W Norton
Format: Print book

The beginning of fall brings buzz and excitement around all-things pumpkin. From the huggable lattes we eagerly await all year, to the homemade roasted pumpkin seeds whipped up after carving a jack-o-lantern on Halloween, to the first (or third) slice of pie during the holidays, there...
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The 101 Most Unusual Diseases and Disorders

Evelyn B. Kelly Ph.D. - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover

This book explores serious diseases and disorders that most readers have never heard of, ranging from genetic, infectious, and environmental diseases to autoimmune, idiopathic, and mental disorders.* Provides readers with interesting facts and insights into unusual or rarely seen diseases...
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Tokyo Geek's Guide: Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols & More

GIANNI SIMONE - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Paperback

Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's popular "Geek" or otaku culture - a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe.This is the most comprehensive guide ever produced to Tokyo's geeky underworld. It provides a comprehensive run-down on each major Tokyo district where geeks...
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

Ron Powers - Hachette Books
Format: Print book

New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam...
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Growing Self-Sufficiency: Realize Your Dream and Enjoy Producing Your Own Fruit, Vegetables, Eggs and Meat

Sally Nex - UIT Cambridge Ltd.
Format: Paperback

Growing Self-Sufficiency is a practical and inspirational guide for both the beginner and the experienced gardener. It explains how you can enjoy the satisfaction and pride of providing food for yourself and your family, whether you have just a small balcony or back yard, a large garden,...
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You'll Grow Out of It

Jessi Klein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES' NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer,...
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Coming Back Together: A Guide to Successful Reintegration After Your Partner Returns from Military Deployment

Steven L. Sayers PhD - New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition
Format: Book

When a partner or spouse returns from war, it is a time of joy; but it is also a time of transition, challenges, and uncertainty. The truth is that the process of reintegration can last for years, and it can be a particularly difficult time for both returning heroes and their families....
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Building Traditional Kitchen Cabinets

Jim Tolpin - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

This book shows woodworkers how to: choose cabinet designs and use unique style details; design layouts to fit any space; customize doors and drawers; choose the right hardware and countertops; install cabinets quickly and efficiently and adjust hardware for smooth operation.
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Asanas: 608 Yoga Poses

Dharma Mittra - New World Library
Format: Paperback

Asanas: 708 Yoga Postures is the most comprehensive illustrated guide to classic hatha yoga ever published. There is absolutely nothing like it currently available. In 1974, legendary "teacher of teachers" yogi Dharma Mittra created the Ultimate Yoga Chart as an offering to his guru,...
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Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition

Pia de Jong - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Pia de Jongs vivid memoir about her newborn daughters battle with leukemia and the startling decision that led to her recovery.On a still summer night in a seventeenth-century canal house in Amsterdams old quarter, Pia de Jong gives birth to a delicate, bright-eyed baby...
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Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History

Matt Taibbi - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback

A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn't past but prologue. The grifter class - made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their...
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Managing Your Child's Chronic Pain

Tonya M. Palermo - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Paperback

"Madeline is a 15-year-old girl with abdominal pain and headaches that occur most days of the week. Because of her pain, she has missed 99 days of school this year and is no longer able to play volleyball. Her parents have taken her to see a number of specialists and she has tried...
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Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit

Andrew Moore - Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained Native Americans and European...
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The Haven's Kitchen Cooking School: Recipes and Inspiration to Build a Lifetime of Confidence in the Kitchen

Alison Cayne - Artisan
Format: Print book

The Must-Have Manual for Every Aspiring Home Cook Learning to cook has never been simpler - or more delicious - thanks to The Haven's Kitchen Cooking School. Each of the book's nine chapters centers on a key lesson: in the eggs chapter, readers will learn about timing and temperature...
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The Carols of Christmas: A Celebration of the Surprising Stories Behind Your Favorite Holiday Songs

Andrew Gant - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

From Oxford professor and renowned British composer, a joyous account of the history behind our favorite carols. Everyone loves a carol - in the end, even Ebenezer Scrooge. They have the power to summon up a special kind of mid-winter mood, like the aroma of gingerbread or the twinkle of lights...
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The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir

Ariel Levy - Random House
Format: Print book

A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention When thirty-eight-year-old New Yorker writer Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful...
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Living Artfully: Create the Life You Imagine

Sandra Magsamen - Free Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Brilliant, life-changing, beautiful, Living Artfully will instruct and inspire readers to liberate their creativity and transform their daily existence into the life of their dreams. To Magsamen, art is communication; and Living Artfully is connecting with each other in creative ways, through...
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Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football

Gilbert M. Gaul - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A penetrating examination of how the elite college football programs have become 'giant entertainment businesses that happened to do a little education on the side.'" - Mark Kram, The New York TimesTwo-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul offers a riveting...
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow...
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Egg Shop: The Cookbook

Nick Korbee - William Morrow Cookbooks
Format: Hardcover

An appealing, stunningly designed full-color cookbook featuring more than 100 recipes for favorite food and drinks from the Egg Shop, New York City's beloved all-hours brunch-and-cocktails hangout.For first-time restaurateurs Demetri Makoulis and Sarah Schneider and chef/partner Nick Korbee,...
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Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth

Hilary Spurling - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China.
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Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home: 52 Quick Meals to Cook for Family and Friends

Martha Stewart - Clarkson Potter; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Two hundred recipes perfect for dinner when you have a little timebut not all dayto cook. For meals that are meant for sharing with friends and family but created with busy cooks in mind, Martha Stewarts Dinner at Home is a new classic that cooks of all levels will depend on. Whether youre...
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The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Adam Braun - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful...
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Fodor's Essential Ireland

Fodor'S. - Fodor'S
Format: Print book

With an array of dazzling photographs, this book deftly guides the traveler through all the sights and experiences--from Connemara to Georgian Dublin to pub culture to Irish dance--that make the Emerald Isle one of Europe's most popular destinations.
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21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart: Boost Metabolism, Lower Cholesterol, and Dramatically Improve Your Health

Neal D. Barnard - Grand Central Life & Style; 3rd edition
Format: Hardcover

For years, Dr. Neal D. Barnard has been at the forefront of cutting-edge research on what it really takes to lose weight and restore the body to optimal health. Now, with his proven, successful program, in just three short weeks youll get fast results-drop pounds, lower cholesterol and blood...
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Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America

Tom Lutz - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Crying, a witty, wide-ranging cultural history of our attitudes toward work—and getting out of it Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed,...
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One on One: Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game

John Feinstein - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

John Feinsteins illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends. John Feinsteins career is a sports fans dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and behind the scenes with legends like Bob Knight,...
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Basic Illustrated Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms

Jim Meuninck - Falcon Guides; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

For a generation, the Basic Illustrated series has been as much a part of the outdoors experience as backpacks and hiking boots. Information-packed tools for the novice or handy references for the veteran, these volumes distill years of knowledge into affordable and portable books. Whether...
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The Romani Gypsies

Yaron Matras - Belknap Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Gypsies" have lived among Europeans since the Middle Ages. Yet Roms still seem exotic to Westerners, who often rely on fictional depictions for what they know, or think they know, about this much-misunderstood people. The Romani Gypsies challenges stereotypes that have long been...
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Man of the Year: A Memoir

LOU COVE - FLATIRON Books
Format: Print book

For one 1970's family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold.In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem,...
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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Barbara Ehrenreich - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist,...
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Jo Malone: My Story

Jo Malone - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Known around the world for her eponymous brand of fragrances and now her brand-new venture Jo Loves (soon to debut in the US) , Jo Malone tells the remarkable and inspiring story of her rise from humble beginnings to beloved business success.Jo Malone began her international fragrance...
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Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Sara Goldrick-Rab - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book

If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite simply, college is far too expensive...
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Ava Gardner: A Life in Movies

Kendra Bean - Running Press
Format: Hardcover

Still renowned for her sultry screen performances, down-to- earth personality, and famed lifelong love affair with Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner left an indelible mark on Hollywood history and led a life as adventurous as any film script.Ava is an illustrated tribute to a legendary life. Authors...
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1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends: Drinking Urine, Eating Worms, and Other Weird Cures, Cases, and Research from the Annals of Medicine

H Eric Bender - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book

Have you ever wondered what that 1 outlier would say when you see commercials and products boasting that 9 out of 10 doctors recommend something? Well here's your answer... Three doctors explore and explain the least recommended techniques lurking in the darkest corners of medicine through...
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Younger: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock 10 Years

Sara Gottfried - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure and The Hormone Reset Diet shows every woman how to create a lifestyle that will help her look great, feel energized, and slow down the effects of aging.Feel destined for cellulite, saddle bags, and belly fat? Does your family come...
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016 An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016 A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016 An NPR 2016's Great Read A Boston Globe Best Book...
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Wild Drinks & Cocktails: Handcrafted Squashes, Shrubs, Switchels, Tonics, and Infusions to Mix at Home

Emily Han - Fair Winds Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

Create your own handcrafted drinks and cocktails using local, fresh, or foraged ingredients.Tired of boring, artificial, too-sweet drinks? Go wild! It's time to embrace drinks featuring local, fresh, or foraged ingredients. It's easy with Wild Drinks & Cocktails.Using ingredients...
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Rise: How a House Built a Family

Cara Brookins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

If you were inspired by Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, you'll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to heal from the unthinkable. After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn...
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Apples to Cider: How to Make Cider at Home

April White - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback

Make great cider at home with just a few ingredients and minimal equipment--with some help from Stephen Wood and the crew behind Farnum Hill Ciders.In Apples to Cider, these cidermakers and their colleagues share decades of experience and a simple philosophy: Cider is all about the apples....
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir

Joan Juliet Buck - Atria Books
Format: Print book

From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter...
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Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel

Dan Ephron - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory...
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In Gratitude

Jenny Diski - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness ... I got a joke in. "So - we'd better get cooking the meth," I said to the Poet.In...
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home

Jessica Fechtor - Avery
Format: Hardcover

An exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly...
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The Correspondence

J D Daniels - Farrar
Format: Print book

The first collection from a Whiting Writers' Award winner whose work has become a fixture of The Paris Review and n 1Can civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels asks in his first book, a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul. Working...
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Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling - Three Rivers Press (CA)
Format: Print book

From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal. In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey...
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Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company

Kevin Cope - Greenleaf Book Group Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERAn MBA in 180 pages, Seeing the Big Picture simplifies the complexities of businesses large and small and shows you how a deep understanding of your company can help build the credibility and career you want. And it can make your...
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Heart of Glass: A Memoir

Wendy Lawless - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

Author of the New York Times bestseller Chanel Bonfire, Wendy Lawless chronicles her twenties: the darkly funny story of a girl without a roadmap for life who leaves her disastrous past to find herself in the gritty heart of 1980s New York City.Before downtown Manhattan was scrubbed...
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The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost

Donna Freitas - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young peoples lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with...
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Top 10 Rome

INC DORLING KINDERSLEY - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

This newly updated pocket travel guide for Rome will lead you straight to the best attractions the city has to offer, from the iconic Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain to beautiful piazzas and delicious gelato.True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Rome covers all the city's...
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World War I and America: Told By the Americans Who Lived It

A. Scott Berg - Library Of America
Format: Print book

For the centenary of America's entry into World War I, A. Scott Berg presents a landmark anthology of American writing from the cataclysmic conflict that set the course of the 20th century. Few Americans appreciate the significance and intensity of America's experience of World War I, the global...
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It

Jennifer Mueller - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive...
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

LELAND MELVIN - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

In this moving, inspirational memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success.Leland Melvin is the only...
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2015 Poet's Market: The Most Trusted Guide for Publishing Poetry

Robert Lee Brewer - Writer'S Digest
Format: Book

The most trusted guide to getting poetry published!Want to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it happen than the 2015 Poet's Market, which includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for book/chapbook publishers,...
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller.At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems."Patients can save thousands of dollars by purchasing...
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The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work

Christine Carter Phd - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you've glimpsed but can't seem to hold on to - the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease. Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science...
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Uganda Be Kidding Me

Chelsea Handler - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever. On safari in Africa, it's anyone's...
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The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing

Margot Livesey - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback

A masterclass for those who love reading literature and for those who aspire to write it."Read everything that is good for the good of your soul. Then learn to read as a writer, to search out that hidden machinery, which it is the business of art to conceal and the business of the apprentice...
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

Ronald C. White - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of Americas greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant....
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

Maria Konnikova - Penguin Books 2016.
Format: Print book

"It's a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime." - Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and bestselling author of Devil in the White CityThink you can't...
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The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of Americas Highest Office

Jeremi Suri - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every president since JFK, with enormously problematic implications for American politics In The Impossible Presidency, celebrated historian Jeremi Suri...
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ATI TEAS Strategies, Practice & Review with Practice Test: Online Book

Kaplan. - Kaplan Pub
Format: Print book

Fully updated for the new ATI TEAS exam blueprint Schools of nursing and allied health use the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) to assess applicants for admission. This exam will change on August 31, 2016, when the ATI TEAS test is released. This new version of the test will replace...
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It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality

Michelangelo Signorile - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the groundbreaking bestseller Queer in America, a myth-shattering look at the present and future of gay rights Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But as longtime advocate...
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The Secret Life of Your Cat: Unlock the Mysteries of Your Pet's Behavior

Vicky Halls - Firefly Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

A comprehensive illustrated book that reveals why cats behave the way they do. The Secret Life of Your Cat uncovers the biology and physiology behind the uniquely feline approach to life and, in particular, how cats have adapted to living with humans. The book examines the cat inside out,...
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The Friends of Jesus

Karen Kingsbury - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

America's favorite inspirational novelist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a richly told tale about six of Jesus' closest friends and companions, bringing biblical truths to life in this captivating continuation of her Life-Changing Bible Study series.In our everyday...
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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves

Kate T. Parker - Workman Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls...
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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts

RYAN HOLIDAY - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and marketing strategist Ryan Holiday reveals to creatives of all stripes - authors, entrepreneurs, musicians, filmmakers, fine artists - how a classic work is made and marketed.In Hollywood, a movie is given a single weekend to succeed before being written off. In Silicon...
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Crowdsourcing: Uber, Airbnb, Kickstarter, & the Distributed Economy

Lightning Guides - Lightning Guides
Format: Paperback

From investor incentives, to detailed explorations of today's best funded campaigns, to a complete guide for launching your next project, Crowdsourcing: Uber, Airbnb, Kickstarter, & The Distributed Economy provides a current, comprehensive introduction to the art of raising capital...
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Wendy Pearlman - Custom House
Format: Hardcover

LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop...
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Post Office Jobs: The Ultimate 473 Postal Exam Study Guide and Job FInder

Dennis V Damp - Bookhaven Press LLC
Format: Print book

The all-new sixth-edition of Post Office Jobs provides an overview of what jobs are available, including many that don't require written tests and how to apply for them. You will also find a comprehensive 473/473E study guide with helpful test-taking strategies that could dramatically...
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged

DK PUBLISHING. - DK
Format: Hardcover

Can't keep a houseplant alive, no matter how hard you try and how good your intentions are? This is the book for you. You need this book. Give plants a chance.Help your plant live with survival tips and learn the simple ways not to kill your plants.With over 50 different types of popular...
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A People's History of the United States

HOWARD ZINN - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Historians may well view it as a step to a coherent new version of American history." - Eric Foner, New York Times Book ReviewWith an introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book's thirty-five-year history and demonstrates...
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Lonely Planet Scotland

LONELY PLANET. - LONELY PLANET PUBNS
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Scotland is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip the water of life, whisky, in an ancient pub, trace the trails of the clanspeople...
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Our Dreaming Mind

Robert L. Van De Castle - Ballantine Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book

A MASTERPIECE ON DREAMS...This book is a singular resource.... If it inspires you to remember your dreams, this book will change your life. If it inspires you to act on your dreams, this book will change the world.--Henry Reed Author of Getting Help from Your Dreams and Dream SolutionsIn...
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The Essential Poet's Glossary

Edward Hirsch - Mariner Books
Format: Print book

"An instant classic that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious poet and literature student." - Washington Post A Poet's Glossary was an extraordinary achievement, a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Now, The Essential Poet's Glossary gleans the very...
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops

Charles Campisi - Scribner
Format: Print book

This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from...
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The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

Ben Sasse - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents...
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The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

T Colin Campbell - Benbella Books
Format: Print book

The updated and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of livesThe science is clear. The results are unmistakable.You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet.More than thirty years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin...
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2018 Rand McNally Large Scale Road Atlas

Rand McNally - Rand McNally
Format: Spiral-bound

Give road-weary eyes a break with this spiral-bound Large Scale edition featuring all the accuracy you've come to expect from Rand McNally, only bigger. Updated atlas contains maps of every U.S. state that are 35% larger than the standard atlas version plus over 350 detailed city inset...
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The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid

WILL BARDENWERPER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In the haunting tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song, this remarkably insightful and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein lifts away the top layer of a dictator's evil and finds complexity beneath as it invites us to take a journey with twelve...
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Distillery Cats: Profiles in Courage of the World's Most Spirited Mousers

Brad Thomas Parsons - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

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Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

John Stauffer - Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A landmark and collectible volume -- beautifully produced in duotone -- that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with...
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Van Life: Your Home on the Road

Foster Huntington - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

Showcasing hundreds of funky vehicles, awe-inspiring landscapes, and cleverly designed interiors in tiny spaces from around the world, Van Life is perfect for who anyone daydreams about living on the open road.More and more people-from millennials to baby boomers-are taking a break...
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Chia Vitality: 30 Days to Better Health, Greater Vibrancy, and a More Meaningful and Purposeful Life

Janie Hoffman - Harmony Crown
Format: Paperback

For centuries, chia seeds were revered by both the Maya and Aztecs for their amazing energy and natural healing powers. Today, it's no wonder that chia is one of the hottest superfoods around: Gram for gram, it has 70 percent more protein than soybeans, 25 percent more fiber than flaxseed,...
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Dad's Book of Awesome Projects: From Stilts and Super-Hero Capes to Tinker Boxes and Seesaws, 25+ Fun Do-It-Yourself Projects for Families

Mike Adamick - Adams Media
Format: Paperback

Its time for serious family fun!Get ready to take playtime to the next level with Dads Book of Awesome Projects! Inside, youll find step-by-step instructions and photographs detailing projects so imaginative and fun, no one will complain about turning off the TV. From wooden swords to slay...
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The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats

Allen Ginsberg - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouacs seminal book On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching...
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Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court

Jay Wright - Ballantine
Format: Print book

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, the coach of the Villanova University men's basketball team shares his competitive and cooperative philosophy, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success. When Kris Jenkins sank...
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Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War

Nigel Cliff - Harper
Format: Print book

Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall of fear built by the Cold War, won the hearts of the American and Russian people, and eased tensions between two superpowers on the brink of nuclear...
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Fun Science: A Guide To Life, The Universe And Why Science Is So Awesome

Charlie Mcdonnell - Quadrille Pub
Format: Print book

Welcome, fellow humans (and others) , to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I'm Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike.In my book, I'll be taking you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the Solar System and the origins of life...
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

John Waters - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback

Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with Americas most beloved weirdo.John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "Im Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across...
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The Blossom Cookbook: Classic Favorites from the Restaurant that Pioneered a New Vegan Cuisine

Ronen Seri - Avery Pub Group
Format: Print book

The long-awaited cookbook from the duo that brought America a new, craveable vegan cuisine, filled with over 80 recipes for upscale vegan dishes and remakes of classic comfort food fare. Blossom has been changing the face of vegan food for more than a decade with their menus of delicious...
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The Birth Partner, Revised 4th Edition, with New Illustrations: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions

Penny Simkin - Harvard Common Press
Format: Paperback

Since the original publication of The Birth Partner, new mothers' partners, friends, and relatives and doulas (professional birth assistants) have relied on Penny Simkin's guidance in caring for the new mother from the last few weeks of pregnancy through the early postpartum period....
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Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art

Carl Hoffman - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story.Despite exhaustive searches, no trace of Rockefeller...
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Divorce & Money: How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce

Violet Woodhouse - NOLO
Format: Print book

All the information you need to split assets, easily and fairly. Especially in uncertain economic times, divorce isn't simple. Turn to Divorce & Money, the acclaimed guide to evaluating and dividing assets during divorce, to avoid making financial mistakes that could affect you for the rest...
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Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America

Liz Carlisle - Gotham Books
Format: Hardcover

A protg of Michael Pollan shares the story of a little known group of renegade farmers who defied corporate agribusiness by launching a unique sustainable farm-to-table food movement.The story of the Lentil Underground begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America's Great Plains:...
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The Well-Dressed Home: Fashionable Design Inspired by Your Personal Style

Annette Tatum - Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Format: Print book

Create a personalized living space that reflects your fashion and style sensibilities with the help of interior designer Annette Tatum in The Well-Dressed Home. Founder of the popular and successful House and Little House lines of high-end apparel, accessories, bedding, and furniture, Tatum...
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Sowing Beauty: Designing Flowering Meadows from Seed

James Hitchmough - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

"A hopeful and expansive book for the gardener who sees a field as a canvas." - Publishers Weekly James Hitchmough is well-regarded in the design world for his exuberant, colorful, and flower-filled meadows. His signature style can be seen in prominent places like London's...
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon

Larry Tye - Random House
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive...
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All You Delicious on a Dime: 154 Simple, Money-Saving Recipes

Editors of All You - Oxmoor House
Format: Paperback

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Delicious on a Dime CookbookAuthor: All You (COR) Publisher: Little Brown & CoPublication Date: 2012/08/14Number of Pages: 175Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:
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Frommer's Germany

Stephen Brewer - Frommermedia
Format: Print book

Germany has the largest population of any nation in Western Europe, and is the ancestral home of the single largest ethnic group in America. To do justice to this major nation, we have called upon the talents and research abilities of six long-experienced journalists, most of them living...
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

Cathryn Jakobson Ramin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesnt, what may cause harm,...
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Birdwatcher's Daily Companion: 365 Days of Advice, Insight, and Information for Enthusiastic Birders

Tom Warhol - Chartwell Books, Inc.; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Embrace your love of bird watching every day of the year. Birdwatcher’s Daily Companion contains 365 days of advice, insight, and information for enthusiastic birders.By nature, bird lovers are naturalists and collectors, and you know how easy it is to devote hours upon hours of time—a...
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American Coasters 2: Coast to Coast

Thomas Crymes - Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Format: Print book

Thrill-seekers are invited to join a roller-coaster enthusiast's journey across the United States to photograph these marvels of engineering. From Maine to Minnesota to California and points in between, this book contains breath-taking photographs of more than 100 roller coasters in 38 parks...
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H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil

Adam Selzer - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America's...
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St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography

Philip Freeman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Deckle Edge]

Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their supernatural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths. We have no surviving...
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Ohio Indian Trails

Frank N. Wilcox - Kent State Univ Pr; 3 edition
Format: Print book

Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and Mingo tribes great and small, loosely confederated or warring with each other, pushed ever westward by the advancing white settlements these were the native peoples of Ohio. They left behind little but their names, yet the trained...
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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

Joseph Turow - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about...
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Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War

Ron Kaplan - Sports Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Hammerin'" Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where he'd hit 40 home runs and 184 RBIs, becoming only the thirteenth player to ever hit 40 or more homers (and one of only four players to have 40 or more home runs and 175 or more RBIs in a season) . Even with his success...
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The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

Brendon Burchard - Free Press
Format: Hardcover

Since the fateful night of his car accident, Brendon has lived a fully charged life, and he's helped millions of people around the globe transform their lives and feel more alive, engaged, and fulfilled.In The Charge, Brendon argues that the only way to measurably improve the quality...
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Censored 2015: Inspiring We the People; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2013- 2014

Mickey Huff - Seven Stories Press
Format: Book

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group—a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff—has produced...
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Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

Charlamagne Tha God - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

Charlamagne Tha God - the self-proclaimed "Prince of Pissing People Off", cohost of Power 105.1s The Breakfast Club, and "hip-hops Howard Stern" - shares his unlikely success story as well as how embracing ones truths is a fundamental key to success and happiness. In his new book,...
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The Perfect Cookie: Your Ultimate Guide to Foolproof Cookies, Brownies, and Bars

America's Test Kitchen (Firm) - America's Test Kitchen
Format: Hardcover

Portable, fun to make, easy to gift, and open to countless flavor variations, cookies are everyone's favorite sweet treat. America's Test Kitchen has years of experience making the very best cookies; in The Perfect Cookie, the test kitchen has collected all of that knowledge in one place...
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The Workbench Book: A Craftsman's Guide to Workbenches for Every Type of Woodworking

Scott Landis - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Probably more than any other tool in the shop, the custom workbench reflects the personality and experience of its maker. And for the great majority of makers, the construction of the workbench is a labor of love. In The Workbench Book, Scott Landis examines benches for all kinds of woodworking...
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National Geographic Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies: 1,025 Easy Ways to Live Longer, Feel Better, and Enrich Your Life

National Geographic - National Geographic; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Combining science and folklore for health, this book features practical cures, medicinal herbs, healing foods, green housecleaning, sustainable cosmetics, alternative therapies, and lifestyle changes--hundreds of ways to boost your health naturally. Created with a nationally recognized...
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Draw Your Weapons

Sarah Sentilles - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world - and that makes all the difference. "How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect,...
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The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio

Paul G Rodewald - The Pennsylvania State University Press
Format: Print book

Twenty-five years after the publication of the state's first breeding bird atlas, The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio brings our knowledge of the state's bird populations up to date and provides important new information. The Atlas documents the current distribution and changes in status...
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Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and Infamous

Marlene Wagman-Geller - Sourcebooks Inc
Format: Paperback

Who Said Men Get to Monopolize the Glory? Discover the Little Known Women Who Have Put the World's Alpha Males on the Map.From ancient times to the present, men have gotten most of the good ink. Yet standing just outside the spotlight are the extraordinary, and overlooked, wives and companions...
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The Essential Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson - Ecco Press
Format: Print book

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOYCE CAROL OATESBetween them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche....Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects...
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The Little Book of Home Remedies, Mind and Body: Natural Recipes for Peace of Mind

Linda B. White - Fair Winds Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In this giftable mini booklet of The Little Book of Home Remedies, Mind and Body, Barbara H. Seeber and Barbara Brownell Grogan join Dr. Linda White to draw on years of training in the area of natural healing to help you ease your stress and the effects that it has on the body. This handy...
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Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index

Kathy Griffin - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

From #1 NYT bestselling author Kathy Griffin, an A-Z compendium of the celebrities she's met over the years and the outrageous, charming, and sometimes bizarre anecdotes only she can tell about them. Last year, while watching Straight Outta Compton, Kathy Griffin realized that she knew...
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Identifying Trees of the East: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America

Michael D Williams - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback

All-season field guide for identifying common trees of eastern NAThis popular, field-tested guide for identifying trees in any season, not just when they are in full leaf, features 600 color photos and 200 line drawings showing bark, branching patterns, fruits, flowers, nuts, and overall...
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The Sirtfood Diet

AIDAN GOGGINS - North Star Way
Format: Hardcover

Discover the international diet sensation that will help you lose seven pounds in seven days while experiencing lasting energy and eating all the foods you love.Over the past few years, fasting has become a popular diet option. Studies show that fasting - whether through moderate calorie...
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National Geographic The Photo Ark: One Mans Quest to Document the Worlds Animals

Joel Sartore - ‎National Geographic; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

The lush and unique photography in this book represents National Geographics Photo Ark, a major initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the worlds animals - especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion,...
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The Optimistic Leftist: Why the 21st Century Will Be Better Than You Think

Ruy Teixeira - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

The words "optimism" and "the left" do not seem to go together very well these days. The dominant view on the left--reinforced by the election of Donald Trump--is as follows: (1) progress in today's world has largely stopped and in many ways reversed; (2) the left...
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Midwest Foraging: 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Burdock to Wild Peach

Lisa M. Rose - Timber Press
Format: Print book

From fields to woodlands, riverbeds, and lakesides - and even in our own neighborhoods - the beautiful Midwest is rich in delicious wild edibles. Herbalist, forager, and urban farmer Lisa M. Rose helps you find peppery watercress and delectable nettles at a nearby lake in the spring and nutritious...
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Doris Day: The Illustrated Biography

Michael Freedland
Format: Print book

Known as broadly for her incredible acting career as for her astounding voice and such songs as "Secret Love" and "Que Sera, Sera," Doris Daywas an international star and an American icon. She was the idyllic attractive blonde whose swishing skirts were envied by girls and women across...
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"A page turner ... We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it." - The New York Times Book Review "Massively learned and electrifying ... magisterial." - The Christian Science...
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Fine Gardening Pocket Gardens: design ideas for small-space gardening

Editors and Contributors of Fine Gardening - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Love the idea of growing your own fruits, flowers, and vegetables but don’t think you have the space? Don’t worry, let Fine Gardening, America’s most respected gardening magazine, show you how to make your small space work for you and your plants. This inspiring new book...
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Cure : a journey into the science of mind over body

Jo Marchant - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book

"A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's extraordinary ability to heal the body ... While we accept that stress or anxiety can damage our health, the idea of "healing thoughts" was long ago hijacked by New Age gurus and spiritual...
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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus

Lisa Wade - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory account of the new culture of sex that has come to dominate the American college experience.The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers...
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Fodor's Belize: with a Side Trip to Guatemala

Lan Sluder - Fodor's; 6th edition
Format: Book

Belize might just have the greatest variety of flora and fauna of any country of its size in the world. Offshore the Belize Barrier Reef, a great wall of coral, stretches the entire 200-mile-length of the coast. And archaeologists have identified more than 600 significant Mayan sites in Belize....
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Picture Your Prosperity: Smart Money Moves to Turn Your Vision into Reality

Ellen Rogin - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Everyone has a unique vision of a prosperous and secure future. Whats yours?If someone asked you to describe prosperity and security, what would you see in your minds eye? Is it finally taking that trip to Paris? A beautiful beach house? Or maybe making that last mortgage payment and staying...
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My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves

AGNES NIXON - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning creator and writer of All My Children and One Life to Live, a memoir of her trailblazing rise to the top of the television industry, including behind-the-scenes stories from some of the most beloved soaps of all time Before there was Erica Kane, Adam...
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Sunday Sews

Theresa Gonzalez - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

Sunday Sews presents 20 irresistible designs that can be sewn on a weekend and enjoyed for a lifetime. Featuring minimalist style and unfussy lightweight fabrics, they are as functional as they are chic. Think drapey shift dresses, flattering tunics and skirts, tanks and tops perfect for layering,...
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