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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park,... |
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their... |
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The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948
Laila Parsons - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the military leader who stood at the center of Arab politics for four decadesRevered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman... |
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The Moon Before Morning
W S Merwin - Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Format: Hardcover
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"Merwin's masterfully refined, meditative poems stem from his dwelling mindfully in one beloved place and handling words as though they are seeds, flowers, stones, and water ... Merwin has attained a transcendent and transformative elevation of beaming perception, exquisite balance,... |
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Scribe: My Life in Sports
Bob Ryan - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the quintessential American sportswriter. For the past twenty-five years, he has also been a regular on various... |
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Crochet One-Skein Wonders® for Babies: 101 Projects for Infants & Toddlers
Judith Durant - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Irresistible! This collection of 101 projects makes it easy and fun to crochet adorable clothes, toys, and accessories for the babies and toddlers you love. Each project uses just one skein of yarn, many take just a few hours to complete, and plenty are suitable for beginners. Hats and caps,... |
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Fascinators: 25 Stylish Accessories to Top Off Your Look
Hannah Scheidig - Running Press Adult
Format: Paperback
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Make a statement with this stylish, DIY accessory!. A fascinator is a chic little adornment, not quite a traditional hat but more than a headband, that suits any occasion and any time of day. Style mavens in England are credited with setting off an international fascination with fascinators;... |
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Naked and Marooned: One Man. One Island.
Ed Stafford - Plume
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What do you do after you walk the Amazon? Ed Stafford - adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River - likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford... |
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What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
Lynne Tillman - Red Lemonade
Format: Paperback
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Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches limits of genre and category, reconfiguring the world with the turn of a sentence. Like other... |
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Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis
Charlotte Mcdonald-Gibson - New Press
Format: Print book
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In 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees, most fleeing war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, attempted to make the perilous journey into Europe. Around three thousand lost their lives as they crossed the Mediterranean and Aegean in rickety boats provided by unscrupulous... |
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Brigid Schulte - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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Can working parents in America or anywhere ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity. " If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little... |
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Joe Gould's Teeth
Jill Lepore - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most... |
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3 Skeins or Less - Fresh Knitted Accessories
Tanis Gray - Interweave
Format: Book
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A collection of fun knitting projects--all in three skeins or less!In 3 Skeins or Less: Fresh Knitted Accessories, knitters will find 25 accessories that take no more than 1, 2, or 3 skeins of yarn. They will delight in knitting patterns for ever-so-popular shawls, socks, hats/berets, mittens,... |
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The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
James Grant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the publisher of the prestigious Grants Interest Rate Observer, an account of the deep economic slump of 192021 that proposes, with respect to federal intervention, less is more. This is a free-market rejoinder to the Keynesian stimulus applied by Bush and Obama to the 200709 recession,... |
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Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
Thomas Page McBee - City Lights Publishers
Format: Book
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"Thomas Page McBee's Man Alive hurtled through my life. I read it in a matter of hours. It's a confession, it's a poem, it's a time warp, it's a brilliant work of art. I bow down to McBee - his humility, his sense of humor, his insightfulness, his structural deftness,... |
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Pivot Points: Five Decisions Every Successful Leader Must Make
Julia Tang Peters - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Book
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A Roadmap for Transforming Ambition into AchievementIn the sea of thrown-together, stereotypical leadership advice, Julia Tang Peters’ Pivot Points stands out like a beacon. This book is not the result of trite 10-step recipes or unstudied observations. Instead, its source is in-depth... |
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Alamo Theory
Josh Bell - Copper Canyon Press
Format: Print book
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"Bell's work is a concoction of the surreal and the hyper-real, the hilarious and the devastating." - The New Yorker"One of the most tonally versatile young poets working today." - Boston Review"In poems that look dense but read in a fluid, easy tumble, Bell... |
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Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape
Keenan Norris - Scarecrow Press
Format: Print book
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Over the last few decades, the genre of urban fiction - or street lit - has become increasingly popular as more novels secure a place on bestseller lists that were once the domain of mainstream authors. In the 1970s, pioneers such as Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, and Claude Brown paved the way for today's... |
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Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood
Nicholas Schou - Hot Books
Format: Print book
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The American people depend on a free press to keep a close and impartial watch on the national security operations that are carried out in our name. But in many cases, this trust is sadly misplaced, as leading journalists are seduced and manipulated by the secretive agencies they cover.While... |
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Location Is
David R. Bell - New Harvest
Format: Book
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Conventional wisdom holds that the Internet makes the world flat and reduces friction by erasing the impact of the physical world on our buying habits. But Wharton professor and marketing expert David R. Bell argues that the way we use the Internet is still largely shaped by the physical... |
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The Agile Startup: Quick and Dirty Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know
Matt Richter-Sand - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Book
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An inspiring and impactful compilation of the most important lessons of entrepreneurshipThe tools of a digital age make it easier than ever to start a new business. And with billion-dollar IPOs and acquisitions making weekly headlines, the potential rewards are enormous. But even with all of the advantages... |
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The Search for Anne Perry: The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer
Joanne Drayton - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the movie Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. The movie launched Jackson’s international career. It also forever changed the life of Anne... |
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WordPress For Dummies
Lisa Sabin-Wilson - For Dummies; 6 edition
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling WordPress guide, fully updated to cover the 2013 enhancements WordPress has millions of users, and this popular guide has sold more than 105,000 copies in its previous editions. With the newest releases of WordPress, author and WordPress expert Lisa Sabin-Wilson has completely... |
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Another Reason
Carl Dennis - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize The poems in Carl Dennis’s new collection Another Reason assume that our efforts to reason with ourselves and with others about what matters to us are necessary to escape the purely private point of view, to provide the houses... |
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Roget's Illusion
Linda Bierds - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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"Her poems, with their constantly surprising delicacy and their language rich with insight and a sensuous music, radiate real power and authority and animal presence." - W. S. Merwin (U.S. Poet Laureate, 2010-2011) He is best known for his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases,... |
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Morning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode
Arif Gamal - McSweeney's Books
Format: Hardcover
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A mosaic of interrelated stories exploding with personality, myth, and geohistorical weight, Morning in Serra Mattu is a profound, joyful meditation on life in modern Sudan. Arif Gamal seamlessly blends large-scale political realities with the local and the traditional: "old villages/whose... |
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The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading
Phyllis Rose - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Phyllis Rose, after a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, decided to read like an explorer. She "wanted to sample, more democratically, the actual ground of literature." Casting herself into the untracked wilderness of the New York Society Librarys... |
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Naturally Sweet: Bake All Your Favorites with 30% to 50% Less Sugar
America's Test Kitchen - America's Test Kitchen
Format: Print book
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In this timely, unique cookbook, America's Test Kitchen tackles the monumental challenge of creating foolproof, great-tasting baked goods that contain less sugar and rely only on natural alternatives to white sugar. White sugar is one of the most widely demonized health threats out there,... |
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Markets of Provence: Food, Antiques, Crafts, and More
Marjorie R Williams - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book
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Provence, France, is justly famous for its dazzling light, vibrant colors, rich history, and flavorful foods and wines. And its markets have been the beating heart of Provenal life since the Middle Ages. In Markets of Provence, Marjorie R. Williams whisks you away to 30 of the best. This... |
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Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen
Arin Andrews - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Paperback
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Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning first-of-its-kind memoir. Now with a reading group guide and an all-new afterword from the author! In this revolutionary first-of-its-kind... |
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
Aude Grouard de Tocqueville - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book
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Like humans, cities are mortal. They are born, they thrive, and they eventually die. In Atlas of Lost Cities, Aude de Tocqueville tells the compelling narrative of the rise and fall of such notable places as Pompeii, Teotihuacn, and Angkor. She also details the less well known places, including... |
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How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading too Much
Samantha Ellis - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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While debating literature's greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation - her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre. With this discovery, she embarks... |
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Ctrl Z: The Right to Be Forgotten
Meg Leta Jones - New York University Press
Format: Print book
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This is going on your permanent record is a threat that has never held more weight than it does in the Internet Age, when information lasts indefinitely. The ability to make good on that threat is as democratized as posting a Tweet or making blog. Data about us is created, shared, collected,... |
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A Progressive Education
Richard Howard - Turtle Point Press
Format: Print book
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How extraordinary that the only poetry collection devoted to the trials and tribulations of an entire class of sixth graders is written by the eighty-five-year-old MacArthur Grant and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Howard!Although loosely based on the poet's own progressive... |
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Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADD/ADHD
David A Greenwood - Sterling
Format: Print book
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We know that Attention Deficit Disorder makes it tough for children to focus in school. But what happens when those kids grow up? How can they make the transition to a successful professional life? And how can newly diagnosed adults meet the challenges of the workplace? David Greenwood,... |
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Ani's Raw Food Essentials: Recipes and Techniques for Mastering the Art of Live Food
Ani Phyo - Da Capo Lifelong Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Chef Ani Phyo is back with Ani’s Raw Food Essentials, full of everything you need to know to master the art of live food. Phyo shows you how to whip up simple, fresh recipes using what you’ve already got in your kitchen while also offering tips on dehyrating and more sophisticated... |
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Marina Warner - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories... |
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A Story Larger than My Own: Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers
Janet Burroway - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Book
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In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. “Lines on a Half-Painted House” made it into the magazine—but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband’s employer, verification that the poem was her original work. Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer... |
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Once Upon a Playground: A Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1920-1975
Brenda Biondo - University Press of New England
Format: Book
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Before today's safety-minded structures of wood and plastic, America's playgrounds were full of tottering seesaws, dizzying merry-go-rounds, and towering metal slides.Documenting the evolution of American playgrounds between 1920 and 1975, Once Upon a Playground is a visual tribute to these... |
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This Blue: Poems
Maureen N McLane - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist A vital, exhilarating new collection of poems from the National Book Critics Circle nominee From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it's "another day in this here cosmos," in Maureen N. McLane's stunning third poetry collection, "This... |
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Garfield Makes It Big
Jim Davis - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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This is his tenth book--and Garfield and the gang want to celebrate. Millions of fans just can't get enough of Garfield and company, so join them for an old-fashioned hoe-down and then sit down so you can read all about the fun! |
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The Caregiving Season: Finding Grace to Honor Your Aging Parents
Jane Daly - Focus On The Family Pub
Format: Print book
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Caring for elderly parents is challenging. It's a season of life that requires grace and strength that can only come from God. In The Caregiving Season, Jane Daly shares personal caregiving stories, offering practical advice to help you honor your aging parents well and deepen your... |
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Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World
Maurice Walsh - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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"Sets Ireland's post-1916 history in its global and human context, to brilliant effect." -- Neil Hegarty, Irish Times Books of the Year 2015The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. Too often, the story of Irish independence and its grinding... |
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High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
Audrey Petty - McSweeney's
Format: Book
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In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have... |
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Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness
Tal Ben-Shahar PhD - The Experiment; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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What kind of life do you want for yourself? What choices will create this kind of life?In his New York Times bestseller Happier, positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar taught us how to become happier through simple exercises.Now, in Choose the Life You Want, he has a new, life-changing... |
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Obama Power
Jeffrey C Alexander; Bernadette N Jaworsky - Polity Press
Format: Hardcover
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What is the source of Obama’s power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn the situation around, deftly outmaneuvering his opponent and achieving a decisive victory in the November 2012 presidential election? In this... |
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A Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe
Irving Howe - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America’s most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe’s work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and political, have had a vigorous... |
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Sylph: Poems
Abigail Cloud - Pleiades Press, 2014. 2014
Format: Print book
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In her first collection of poems, Abigail Cloud draws inspiration from nineteenth-century European Romantic ballets, which often portrayed scorned females as mystical spirits such as sylphs, shades, and wilis. Some of these creatures seduced men into dancing until they died -- punishment... |
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Will & I: A Memoir
Clay Byars - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Clay Byars was recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash when he suffered a massive stroke. He was just eighteen years old. He awoke, back in the hospital, and was told he would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of his life. Determined to defy the odds, Clay quickly and miraculously... |
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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
John Bloom - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan's... |
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A History of War in 100 Battles
R J Overy - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Their very names--Gettysburg, Waterloo, Stalingrad--evoke images of great triumph and equally great suffering, moments when history seemed to hang in the balance. Considered in relation to each other, such battles--and others of less immediate renown--offer insight into the changing nature... |
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Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics
David L Bosco - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Ten years ago, in the wake of massive crimes in central Africa and the Balkans, the first permanent international criminal court was established in The Hague despite resistance from some of the world's most powerful states. In the past decade, the court has grown from a few staff in an empty... |
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Fodor's Bermuda
Fodor's - Fodor's; 32 edition
Format: Paperback
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Fodor’s correspondents highlight the best of Bermuda, including historic St. George's, the south shore's stunning beaches, and Hamilton's posh boutiques. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it’s your first... |
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Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems
Kevin Powers - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.. National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting... |
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The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation
Dave Revsine - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller and Boston Globe Bestseller! It’s America’s most popular sport, played by thousands, watched by millions, and generating billions in revenues every year. It’s also America’s most controversial sport, haunted by the specter of life-threatening... |
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Lonely Planet The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet
Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Every country in the world, in one guidebook Lonely Planet delivers the first guide to The World. Weve taken the highlights from the worlds best guidebooks and put them together into one 960-page whopper to create the ultimate guide to Earth. This user-friendly A-Z gives a flavour of each... |
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James Joyce: Portrait of a DublinerA Graphic Biography
Alfonso Zapico - Arcade Publishing
Format: Print book
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A dazzling, prize-winning graphic biography of one of the world's most revered writers.Winner of Spain's National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life. With evocative anecdotes... |
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Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
Cass R. Sunstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The nation's most-cited legal scholar who for decades has been at the forefront of applied behavioral economics, and the bestselling author of Nudge and Simpler, Cass Sunstein is one of the world's most innovative thinkers in the academy and the world of practical politics.... |
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Miracle Dogs: Rescue Stories
Liz Stavrinides - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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78 million dogs live as pets in the USA. These are the lucky ones. Five to seven million companion animals enter shelters every year, and more than half are euthanized due to the lack of space. Miracle Dogs celebrates and honors the rescuers and the dogs whose lives they've saved. It features... |
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A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works -- and really doesn't -- in A Fighting ChanceAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become... |
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Science...For Her!
Megan Amram - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Megan Amram, one of Forbes' "30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment," Rolling Stone's "25 Funniest People on Twitter," and a writer for NBC's hit show Parks and Recreation, delivers a politically, scientifically, and anatomically incorrect "textbook"... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai - Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
James L. Haley - St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific.... |
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
David Foster Wallace - Little, Brown and Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling,... |
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One Thousand Things Worth Knowing: Poems
Paul Muldoon - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prize-winning poetSmuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace's original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna's Gaelic translation); a real trip to Havana; an imaginary trip to the Château... |
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You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
James Duane - Little A
Format: Paperback
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An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police.Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police... |
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To Keep Time
Joseph Massey - Omnidawn
Format: Book
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Joseph Massey’s third collection, To Keep Time, limns the microclimate of coastal Humboldt County, California. These poems live where modern life—radio static, a space heater, traffic—collides with the so-called natural world. With spare, vivid imagery, Massey builds brilliantly... |
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The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers
Leerom Segal - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful guide to building a data-centric corporate culture that unleashes talent and improves engagement Amazon delights customers with recommendations that are spot on. Google amazes us by generating answers before we've even finished asking a question. These companies know who we are and what... |
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Flyover Lives: A Memoir
Diane Johnson - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Smart . . . perceptive . . . Flyover Lives is a memoir of the Midwest sure to charm readers." - Maureen Corrigan, NPRFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape... |
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Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki
Martin Cate
Format: Print book
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Cast aside your cares and worries. Make yourself a Mai Tai, put your favorite exotica record on the hi-fi, and prepare to lose yourself in the fantastical world of tiki, one of the most alluring - and often misunderstood - movements in American cultural history. Martin and |
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Essays After Eighty
Donald Hall - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From a former Poet Laureate, a new collection of essays delivering agloriously unexpectedview from the vantage point ofvery old age Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the unknown, unanticipated... |
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The Second Sex
Michael Robbins - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A second collection from a poet of "sheer joy and dizzy command" (The New York Times)SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Slate * Flavorwire * First Things * Coldfront * Books & Culture * The National Post * Lit Genius * Vol. 1 BrooklynUpon its publication in 2012, Alien vs. Predator,... |
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Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck
Jamie George - David C. Cook
Format: Book
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Do you feel stuck? There is a way to get moving again. A path to a life of grace, peace, and deeper faith is up ahead.Many people have been manipulated and abused by religion. Many have been hurt and ignored in relationships. In Love Well, you will discover how to get unstuck. You will... |
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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Carlos Santana - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legendIn 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years... |
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Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems
J.D. McClatchy - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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At last, a definitive selection of the elegant work by a poet at the forefront of American poetry for more than three decades. With his first several books, J. D. McClatchy established himself as a poet of urbanity, intellect, and prismatic emotion, in the tradition of James Merrill, W. H. Auden,... |
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Food and the City: New York's Professional Chefs, Restaurateurs, Line Cooks, Street Vendors, and Purveyors Talk About What They Do and Why They Do It
Ina Yalof - Putnam, 2016.
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented behind-the-scenes tour of New York City's dynamic food culture, as told through the voices of the chefs, line cooks, restaurateurs, waiters, and street vendors who have made this industry their lives. In Food and the City, Ina Yalof takes us on an insider's journey... |
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Fire and Movement: The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914
Peter Hart - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended. The British Expeditionary Force fought a mesmerizing campaign, outnumbered and outflanked but courageous and skillful, holding the line against impossible odds, sacrificing themselves to stop... |
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The wilderness : poems
Sandra Lim - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book : Poetry : English : First edition
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Moving through myths of the American landscape, the fatalism of American Puritanism, family history, New England winters, aesthetic theory, and the suavities and anxieties of contemporary life, the poems in this astonishing collection ultimately speak about the individual soul's struggle... |
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The Onion Magazine: The Iconic Covers that Transformed an Undeserving World
The Onion - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Covers That Matter For People Who Don'tFrom America's Finest News Source comes a compilation of the most important, most influential, and glossiest magazine covers ever produced by the hand of humankind. Seen by tens of billions worldwide, these are the unforgettable Onion Magazine... |
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Ways of Curating
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover
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Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Since then he has staged more than 250 shows internationally, many of them among the most influential exhibits of our age. Ways of Curating is a compendium of the insights Obrist has gained from... |
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Social Media Design For Dummies
Janine Warner - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Learn to design professional and effective social media profiles! Whether you're trying to attract a new employer or get new fans to notice your brand, your social media profiles need to distinguish you from the masses. Packed with the secrets behind the hottest Facebook timelines,... |
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You Can, You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner
Joel Osteen - Faithwords
Format: Print book
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In YOU CAN, YOU WILL, Joel Osteen shares eight undeniable qualities of winners that can help you to reach your potential and achieve new levels of success in your life. You are created to be a winner. Get these eight principles deep down on the inside and boldly go in the direction of your... |
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Land and Wine: The French Terroir
Charles Frankel - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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For centuries, France has long been the world’s greatest wine-producing country. Its wines are the global gold standard, prized by collectors, and its winemaking regions each offer unique tasting experiences, from the spice of Bordeaux to the berry notes of the Loire Valley. Although... |
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Proposal Planning & Writing
Jeremy T. Miner - Greenwood; 5 edition
Format: Paperback
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In a world of limited funding, grantseeking is extremely competitive. The fifth edition of Proposal Planning & Writing will lead even those new to the process through a step-by-step consideration of best practices to help them come out on top. The book is packed with the most up-to-date... |
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Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Linda Bender - North Atlantic Books
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How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to know an earthquake... |
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W Tuchman - Random House
Format: Paperback
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Barbara W. Tuchman - the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August - once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe. The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images:... |
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The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov - New Directions; 1 edition
Format: Book
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The landmark collected work of one of the greatest poets of the 20th centuryHow splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and unobstructed view of Denise Levertov at last. Covering more than six decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever published, Levertov’s... |
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Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
Dan Zak - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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On a tranquil summer night in July 2012, a trio of elderly peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the ''Fort Knox of Uranium,'' Y-12 was reputedly one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world, a bastion... |
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101 Two-Letter Words
Stephin Merritt - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A one-of-a-kind celebration of the 101 two-letter words allowed in Scrabble.Rolling Stone has called singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields the Cole Porter of his generation O, The Oprah Magazine has hailed cartoonist Roz Chast as the wryest pen since Dorothy Parkers.... |
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Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War
Ian Buruma - New York Review Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, “by what makes the human species behave atrociously.” In Theater of Cruelty the acclaimed author of The Wages of Guilt and Year Zero: A History of 1945 once again turns to World War II to explore that question—to the Nazi occupation... |
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Shock Factor: American Snipers in the War on Terror
Jack Coughlin - St. Martin's Press; First Editon: November 2014 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Shooter, comes a riveting narrative of how snipers have changed the course of America's war on al Qaida in the Middle East and Africa.Retired Marine sniper Jack Coughlin (Shooter) and John Bruning pull back the curtain of secrecy... |
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My Badass Book of Saints: Courageous Women Who Showed Me How to Live
Maria Morera Johnson - Ave Maria Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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In this edgy, honest, and often audacious book of Catholic spirituality, blogger and popular podcaster Maria Morera Johnson explores the qualities of twenty-four holy women who lived lives of virtue in unexpected and often difficult circumstances.In My Badass Book of Saints, Johnson shares... |
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A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Stanley Weintraub - Da Capo Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by Maos Chinese troops. Marching north in plunging temperatures,... |
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The Nordic Kitchen: One year of family cooking
Claus Meyer - Mitchell Beazley
Format: Print book
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In this book, Claus Meyer brings the ethos that built Noma into the world's best restaurant into the home with easy-going, accessible dishes that will fit seamlessly into family life. The book is divided into four seasonal chapters so that you can get the most from the food and flavors... |
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If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?: Poems and Artwork
Matthea Harvey - Graywolf Press
Format: Book
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A brilliant combination of poetry and visual artwork by Matthea Harvey, whose vision is “nothing short of blazingly original” (Time Out New York)She didn’t even know she had a name until one day she heard the human explaining to another one, “Oh that’s just... |
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Flies
Michael Dickman - Copper Canyon Press
Format: Paperback
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"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone - Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating." - James Laughlin Award citation"Reading... |
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Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created
Laura Miller - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms. Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans... |
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Aging Wisely: Strategies for Baby Boomers and Seniors
Robert A. Levine M.D. - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone ages. Not everyone ages well. Aging Wisely explains that much of what happens to our minds and bodies as we grow older depends on our approach to life and our attitudes and feelings about ourselves. Though there are elements beyond our control, we must take advantage of those things... |
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Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Jason Padgett - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal... |
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