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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Ross W Greene - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover

In Raising Human Beings, the renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important...
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The Mission: A True Story

David W Brown
Format: Hardcover

A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep-space mission to Europa - the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system - powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.When scientists discovered...
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Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House

Alex Prud'homme - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump's fast-food burgers and Biden's ice cream - what they ate, why they ate it, and what it tells us about the state of the nation...
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Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

Selma Blair - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Selma Blair has played many archetypal roles: Gullible ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Fire-starter in Hellboy. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Face of Chanel. Cover model. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best...
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The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey - Andy Cohen Books
Format: Hardcover

It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout...
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

Margalit Fox - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones...
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Homegrown: Cooking from My New England Roots

Matthew Jennings - Artisan
Format: Hardcover

IACP and James Beard Award Finalist Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Rachael Ray Every Day, and Fine CookingA Game-Changing Chef Redefines a Classic American Cuisine In his debut cookbook, chef Matt...
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The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History

NICK OFFERMAN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

At last, the full story behind Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, including stories, portraits, and the occasional puzzle, all telling the smoldering tale that has fascinated Hollywood for over a decade.The year: 2000. The setting: Los Angeles. A gorgeous virtuoso of an actress...
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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA

Doug Mack - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening journey to the most overlooked parts of America.Everyone knows that America is 50 states and ... some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states -- American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin...
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Like Brothers

Mark Duplass - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The multitalented writers, directors, producers, and actors (as seen on The League, Transparent, and The Mindy Project) share the secrets of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir. Whether producing, writing, directing, or acting, the Duplass Brothers...
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