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Life Hacks for Parents: Practical Hints for Making Life with Kids Easier

Dan Marshall - Harper Design
Format: Paperback

More than one hundred simple yet ingenious tricks, shortcuts, and ideas to help parents solve everyday occurrences and annoyances in one convenient, illustrated, flexibound pocket-sized guide.As the father of two children, Dan Marshall knows that just one time-saving tip can save the day for busy...
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The Book Of Separation: A Memoir

Tova Mirvis - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world. Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life....
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SSAT & ISEE 2017 Strategies, Practice, and Review with 6 Practice Tests: For Private and Independent School Admissions

Kaplan - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback

SSAT & ISEE 2017 provides the perfect mix of strategy and review for students looking to ace these important admissions exams. This comprehensive study guide provides students with all of the resources they need for test day preparation.SSAT & ISEE 2017 features: * Six full-length...
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Designing Sustainable Communities

Avi Friedman - Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Format: Paperback

Innovation in planning is essential to dealing with the challenges society currently faces, from urban sprawl to climate change. In this book, Avi Friedman looks at both new and revived sustainable strategies at a neighborhood level to explore options for both rehabilitating older communities...
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The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific

David Bianculli - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time. This new book by one of our finest critics explains - historically, in depth, and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselves - how the art of must-see/binge-watch television evolved....
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A Dog Called Hope: A Wounded Warrior and the Service Dog Who Saved Him

Jason Morgan - Atria Books
Format: Print book

Lone Survivor meets Marley & Me in this inspiring buddy memoir of an extraordinary service dog whose enduring love brought a wounded soldier back to life.A decade ago, Special Forces warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle on an anti-narcotics...
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Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt

Chris Naunton - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

An exciting archeological exploration of ancient Egypt that examines the potential for discovering the remaining "lost" tombs of the pharaohs. Tombs, mummies, and funerary items make up a significant portion of the archeological remains that survive ancient Egypt and have come...
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Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music

Daniel Warner - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover

Sit through any live stage production these days and you're bound to hear the sing-song twerping of a cell phone. We live in an electronic world, saturated with electronic sounds. Yet, electronic sounds aren't a new phenomenon; they have long permeated our sonic landscape. In Live...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide USA

INC DORLING KINDERSLEY - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

Explore the beautiful USA. From the Empire State Building to the Golden Gate bridge, this DK travel guide has you covered and will take you to the best places in the United States.From top restaurants, bars, and clubs to standout scenic sites and walks, our insider tips are sure to make...
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The Ultimate Grain-Free Cookbook: Sugar-Free, Starch-Free, Whole Food Recipes from My California Country Kitchen

ANNABELLE LEE - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

While healthier choices are growing, simply enjoying plenty of real, whole foods in our everyday diet is the frontier. America is sick, confused, and addicted to fake foods, but there's nothing fake in author Annabelle Lee's kitchen. She goes beyond paleo and gluten-free and shows...
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Framework: 10 Architectural Knits

NORAH GAUGHAN - Quince & Co.
Format: Paperback

Inspired by the Sparrow and Kestrel linen yarns made by Quince & Company, this collection uses geometric shapes and unusual construction to provide adventurous knitters with 10 new designs that are perfect for wearing in the warmer months. True to form, the author makes use of her masterful...
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Life in the Garden

PENELOPE LIVELY - Viking
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards...
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

Florence Williams - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An intrepid investigation into nature's restorative benefits by a prize-winning author.For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; and Nikola Tesla...
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Master the GRE 2018

PETERSON'S. - Peterson's

Peterson's Master the GRE? is the most comprehensive resource for students who want to earn top scores on the GRE? General Test. This comprehensive guide offers 4 full-length practice tests with expert test-prep tips on exam questions PLUS access to 3 additional practice tests online....
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Lonely Planet Thai Phrasebook & Dictionary

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's #1 phrasebook publisher* Lonely Planet Thai Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Thai phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Bargain with your samlor driver, find locally...
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The Rough Guide to Southwest USA

Rough Guides. - Rough Guides
Format: Print book

The Rough Guide to Southwest USA is the definitive guidebook to the fabled desert wildernesses of the Wild West.In addition to step-by-step hiking and driving guides to spectacular national parks like Zion, Bryce, and the Grand Canyon, The Rough Guide to Southwest USA provides full coverage...
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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation

MINDY JOHNSON - Disney Editions
Format: Hardcover

From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was created by legions of female artists working on the slick surface of celluloid sheets. With calligraphic precision and Rembrandtesque mastery, these women painstakingly brought pencil drawings...
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Dadland

Keggie Carew - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book

Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. For most of her adult life, Keggie was kept at arm's length from her father's personal history, but when she is invited to join him for the sixtieth anniversary of the Jedburghs...
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Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain-and How to Fight Back

Vivek Wadhwa - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Technology promises to help us achieve our dreams, connect us to everyone, and free up time--so why are we more miserable then ever? Wadhwa and Salkever show that our unhappiness can be traced to a concerted effort by tech companies to mold our thoughts and behavior to accomplish their...
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Raised by Animals: How Dolphins Bond, Why Meerkats Babysit, and Other Lessons from Families in the Wild

Jennifer Verdolin - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

From a leading animal behaviorist, an often humorous look at the many surprising parallels between human and animal parents In Raised by Animals, evolutionary biologist Jennifer L. Verdolin, PhD, invites parents, animal lovers, and science buffs to explore the wild world of parenting...
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Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance

MIKE SCARDINO - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college student's experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City." -- James PattersonBad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account...
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

STACY HORN - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

The gripping voices of the inhabitants of Blackwell's Island make this history come alive. Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years,...
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Insight Guides: Silk Road

Insight Guides - Insight Guides
Format: Paperback

Insight Guide The Silk Road is the complete illustrated guide to one of the world's ultimate travel adventures. Passing right through the heart of Asia, this ancient trade route traverses a quarter of the globe from the heart of China to the Mediterranean via a vast, inhospitable expanse...
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1000 Ideas for Color Schemes: The Ultimate Guide to Making Colors Work

Jennifer Ott - Firefly Books
Format: Print book

This handsome book is about choosing color combinations not necessarily for a specific use. Each spread contains about seven photographs and a color palette, like paint chips. The color palettes provide inspiration and reliable combinations for use in any number of projects: home dcor,...
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Color Design: Transforming Interior Space

Ron Reed - Fairchild Books
Format: Paperback

In this second edition of Color Design: Transforming Interior Space, Ron Reed instructs interior designers how to effectively use color in conjunction with key design principles such as balance, rhythm, emphasis, proportion, scale, unity, harmony, and variety. This new edition expands...
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Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen

Noel Monk - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music.Van Halen's rise in the 1980s was one of the most thrilling the music world...
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Family Table: Farm Cooking from the Elliott Homestead

Shaye Elliott - Lyons Press
Format: Paperback

With more than 70 recipes, Family Table shares Shaye Elliott's bounty of favorite dishes that nourish her hardworking farm family every day. From dry-cured bacon made from pigs raised on the Elliott Homestead to sizzling steak with vinegar and tomato dressing, each recipe is about reviving...
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Animal Illustration: The Essential Reference

Carol Belanger Grafton - Dover Publications
Format: Print book

Comprehensive and entertaining, this volume comprises the greatest works in animal illustration from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. The chronological presentation of hundreds of black-and-white and color images begins with a medieval illuminated manuscript by the Limbourg...
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Josef Albers in Mexico

Lauren Hinkson - Guggenheim Museum Publications
Format: Hardcover

Albers in "the promised land of abstract art": the little-known influence of Mexico"Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art," Josef Albers wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Vasily Kandinsky in 1936. Josef Albers in Mexico reveals the profound link between...
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Now or Never: Create an Epic Life in Five Steps

Preston Smiles - North Star Way
Format: Print book

Alexi Panos and Preston Smiles, the internationally recognized next generation thought leaders, redefine what's possible in relationships, career, and life.Alexi and Preston went through periods in each of their lives where they felt like they were doing all the right things, but never...
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Bridges: A History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans

Judith Dupre - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Skyscrapers comes the much-anticipated revised edition of her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans, now in color and bigger than ever. This visual history of the world''s landmark bridges is thoroughly...
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Smoke and Fire: Recipes and Menus for Entertaining Outdoors

Holly Peterson - Assouline Publishing
Format: Print book

Summer is perfect for entertaining outdoors, with flavors enhanced by grill smoke, sea spray, and camaraderie. In Smoke and Fire, writer Holly Peterson curates themed menus and valuable tips for delightful outdoor gatherings, from a seaside crab boil to a Mexican fiesta. Simple recipes...
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Rumi's Little Book of the Heart

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī Maulana - Hampton Roads
Format: Print book

In this slender volume, Rumi explores the joy of friendship and the agony of loss. These poetic meditations on the most profound of human relationships are like crystals: they sparkle with the many hues of the rainbow and contain worlds within, capturing us with their mystery.Here are poems...
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

TED GENOWAYS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Is there still a place for the farm in today's America?The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a small ranch, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in York County,...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich

Robert Gellately - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the Soviet Union, and in December, the Germans were...
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You Need More Money: Wake Up and Solve Your Financial Problems Once And For All

Matt Manero - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Part-motivational manifesto, part-personal finance strategy, Matt Manero's YOU NEED MORE MONEY pushes you to reclaim your dreams of massive wealth and gives you a roadmap to ramp up your income and savings.Serial entrepreneur and small business expert Matt Manero built his empire starting...
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Edward VII: The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved

Catharine Arnold - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

"Victorian England: We know what that was supposed to mean -- all priggish prudery and "we-are-not-amused" harrumphing. Except now we know it wasnt all that . . . [Catharine Arnolds] new biography focuses -- deliciously -- on the women who shared the scandalously plentiful...
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Wellness Escapes

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Hardcover

Discover the world's most energising, inspiring and relaxing wellbeing retreats. From yoga, t'ai chi and meditation to mindfulness, spa treatments and creative writing, we present our favourite retreats and spas around the world to help replenish the mind, body and soul. Wellness...
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CompTIA Security Study Guide: Exam SY0-501

Emmett A Dulaney - Sybex
Format: Paperback

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Jack's Wife Freda: Cooking From New York's West Village

Maya Jankelowitz - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

"Walking into Jack's Wife Freda feels like a big, warm hug. Maya and Dean serve food you want to eat, anytime, any day. Though I'll never stop parking myself at their restaurants, I can't wait to re-create their favorites (and mine) at home." - Jessica Seinfeld, bestselling...
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Decks 6th edition: Featuring the latest tools, skills, designs, materials & codes

Black & Decker Corporation (Towson - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc.
Format: Print book

Be inspired by new design and follow the latest codes as you custom build the deck of your dreams!Architecture, building codes, and design are not static; they change constantly. That's why there's a new edition of the bestselling Black & Decker: The Complete Guide to Decks,...
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Adventures in Slow Cooking: 120 Slow Cooker Recipes for People Who Love Food

SARAH DIGREGORIO - William Morrow Cookbooks
Format: Hardcover

The James Beard-nominated food writer revamps the slow cooker for the modern home cook, providing ingenious ideas and more than 100 delicious recipes for maximizing this favorite time-saving kitchen appliance and making it easier than ever to use.Sarah DiGregorio shares the nostalgia most...
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GuRu

RuPaul - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the world's most famous shape-shifter RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented career for more than thirty-five years. GuRu is packed with more than 80 beautiful photographs that illustrate the concept of building...
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The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

INC DORLING KINDERSLEY - DK
Format: Hardcover

An essential guide to milestone developments in astronomy, telling the story of our ideas about space, time, and the physics of the cosmos - from ancient times to the present day.From planets and stars to black holes and the Big Bang, take a journey through the wonders of the universe....
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Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp

JOHN MEDINA - Pear Press
Format: Hardcover

How come I can never find my keys? Why don?t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts?and...
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

Patricia Williams - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding LiteratureFinalist for a 2018 Southern Book Prize for Biography and History"An absolute must-read" - Shondaland"[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor" - New York Times "I know a lot of people...
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted

Laura Caldwell - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity....
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Android For Dummies

DAN GOOKIN - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Outsmart your new Android Getting a smartphone or tablet can be intimidating for anyone, but this user-friendly guide is here to help you to get the most out of all your new gadget has to offer! Whether you're upgrading from an older model or totally new to the awesome world of Androids,...
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The Library Book

Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."...
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Polished to Perfection: Japanese Cloisonne from the Collection of Donald K. Gerber and Sueann E. Sherry

Robert T Singer - Prestel
Format: Hardcover

This stunning book features the finest examples of Japanese cloisonn - enameled objects that reflect the exquisite craftsmanship required of the technique as well as the Japanese cultural reverence for meticulous and exacting work. Cloisonn, the art of applying enamel to objects, dates...
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What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology

Nina Lorez Collins - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

When Nina Collins entered her forties she found herself awash in a sea of hormones. As symptoms of perimenopause set in, she began to fear losing her health, looks, sexuality, sense of humor-perhaps all at once. Craving a place to discuss her questions and concerns, and finding none, Nina...
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Flying Too Close to the Sun: Myths in Art from Classical to Contemporary

James Cahill - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover

The first major survey to reveal the ways in which Classical mythology has inspired art throughout the last 2,500 yearsFrom the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers to Margaret Atwood's books and Arcade Fire's songs, Classical Greek and Roman myths continue to be a source...
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Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

Victoria Sweet - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God's Hotel Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at their patients,...
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Essential Eames: Words & Pictures

Ray Eames - Vitra Design Museum
Format: Hardcover

Pairing words of design wisdom with classic works, Essential Eames encapsulates the duo's achievementsCharles and Ray Eames are among the most influential designers of the 20th century. Enthusiastic and tireless experimenters, this beloved husband-and-wife duo moved fluidly between...
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Mirror Touch: Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain

Joel M D Salinas - Harper One
Format: Print book

A doctor with a rare - seemingly superhuman - neurological trait takes us on a compelling tour deep into the human brain in this blend of memoir and scientific exploration that combines the compassionate wisdom of Oliver Sacks and the personal revelations of Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke...
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Imani Perry - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun,...
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The Family Tree Cemetery Field Guide: How to Find, Record, and Preserve Your Ancestor's Grave

JOY NEIGHBORS - Family Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Not all research can be done from home--sometimes you have to head into the field. Cemeteries are crucial for any genealogist's search, and this book will show you how to search for and analyze your ancestors' graves. Discover tools for locating tombstones, tips for traipsing through cemeteries,...
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Brutally Honest

The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl - and the truth behind the headlinesAs one-fifth of the iconic Spice Girls and judge on X Factor and America's Got Talent, Melanie Brown, a.k.a Scary Spice, has been an international star since her twenties. Brutally Honest is an expos...
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better...
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The Schmuck in My Office: How to Deal Effectively with Difficult People at Work

Jody Foster - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"This is a timely must-read for managers and anyone who has ever had to deal with a difficult coworker; it addresses a ubiquitous problem in a proactive, positive manner that should get the desired results." - Publishers Weekly Everyone has a "schmuck" in their...
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Strength Training: Staying Fit and Fabulous

D Cristine Caivano - Ixia Press
Format: Paperback

"A thorough and well-illustrated guide that makes strength training seem (gasp!) fun." - BookpageStrength Training: Staying Fit and Fabulous holds the key to feeling and looking great at every stage in life. Although everyone loses muscle mass with age, much of this decline...
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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

Peter Brooks - Basic Books
Format: Print book

From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its war against Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare that culminated in the crushing of the Paris Commune. In Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, Peter Brooks examines why Flaubert thought his recently...
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150 Best of the Best House Ideas

Francesc Zamora Mola - Harperdesign
Format: Print book

Packed with hundreds of pages of beautiful and inspirational color photographs of homes from around the world, a visually stunning resource and guide - part of the successful 150 Best series - featuring the latest in modern home construction and design.A comprehensive collection of single-family...
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The Hero's Closet: Sewing for Cosplay and Costuming

Gillian Conahan - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Paperback

Cosplayers rejoice! The Hero's Closet is the ultimate DIY guide to creating unique and fantastical homemade costumes This essential handbook offers detailed, step-by-step instructions that cover the basics of sewing costumes (which often require skills not found in standard sewing...
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The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight

SATCHIDANANDA PANDA - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

When we eat may be as important as what we eat. Like most people, you probably wake up, get hungry for meals and doze off in bed around the same time every day. If you've ever experienced jet lag or pulled an all-nighter, you know that this schedule can easily be thrown off kilter....
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The Big Book of Practical Spells: Everyday Magic That Works

Judika Illes - Weiser Books
Format: Print book

Practical, inspirational, and comprehensive, The Big Book of Practical Spells is a useful tool and resource for beginners and experienced devotees of the magical arts. Here in one majestic volume is a basic introduction to magic; a psychic glossary; a primer on the four elements, colors,...
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Country Living Rustic Homes: Barns, Cabins, Cottages & Farmhouses

Country Living - Hearst
Format: Print book

Reclaim, repurpose, refurbish, or restore your way to the country-style home of your dreams! Rustic touches borrowed from barns, cabins, cottages, and farmhouses make even modern homes feel warm and snug. Country Living offers an abundance of inspiring ideas and gorgeous photographs...
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The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

Laurie Nadel - HCI
Format: Paperback

"Once a seasoned journalist but now a distinguished scholar and practicing psychotherapist, Dr. Laurie has immersed herself in the academic study of suffering, in addition to the depth her own life story provides . . . . When it comes to teaching how to get up after being knocked...
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Veranda The Romance of Flowers

Clinton Smith - Hearst
Format: Hardcover

Bring the outdoors in! Beautiful floral arrangements have long been a hallmark of Veranda, and this lavish and luxurious collection offers a stunning presentation of the most exquisite flowers ever featured in the magazine. These unique designs - created by some of the world's leading...
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Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols

Laura Tempest Zakroff - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback

Discover the Power of Line and Symbol Visual Magick for Everyone Sigils are magical symbols that are designed to influence ourselves and the world around us. Tracing through history, art, and culture, this illustrated book offers an innovative and fresh approach to sigil magick that is accessible...
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Contemporary Theatre Songs - Baritone: Songs from the 21st Century

Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard
Format: Musical score

(Vocal Collection) . Contents include: Adrian from Rocky * All That's Known from Spring Awakening * A Chance for Me from Amazing Grace * Come to an Agreement from Honeymoon in Vegas * Everything's Golden from Bright Star * Expectations from Amazing Grace * Fight from the Heart from...
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Pause, Breathe, Smile: Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation Is Not Enough

Gary Gach - Sounds True
Format: Paperback

Pause . . . breathe . . . smile. Three small words, yet each contains a universe of wisdom. Let the title be your guide in this inspiring book on awakening to the full depths of mindful living. The Pause is about setting our intention before we think, speak, or act - the ethical dimension...
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Groundskeeper

Jack Rudman - National Learning Corporation
Format: Paperback

The Groundskeeper Passbook prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: grounds maintenance;...
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Believe It to Achieve It: Overcome Your Doubts, Let Go of the Past, and Unlock Your Full Potential

Brian Tracy - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Eat That Frog!, a motivational guide to using the Psychology of Achievement to banish negative thoughts and behaviors and unlock your full potential for success.Letting go of negative thoughts is one of the most important steps to living a successful, fulfilling...
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Moon Virginia: Including Washington DC

Michaela Riva Gaaserud - Avalon Travel
Format: Paperback

Discover Virginia in a New WayTravel writer and local Michaela Riva Gaaserud shares her expert perspective on Virginia, guiding you on a memorable and unique experience.Whether you're getting some sun on Colonial Beach or seeing the Beauregard Civil War Cemetery, Moon Virginia has activities...
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny

Michael Wallis - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book

Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper...
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Learn More Python 3 the Hard Way: The Next Step for New Python Programmers

Zed A Shaw - Addison-Wesley Professional
Format: Paperback

Written by the world-renowned Zed Shaw, this book of 52 hands-on projects is perfect for everyone who's written Python code but isn't yet comfortable taking new ideas all the way to finished software. The perfect follow-up to Shaw's best-selling Learn Python the Hard Way, this all-new,...
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Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom

Jack Weatherford - Viking
Format: Print book

A landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors...
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Now I Can See The Moon: A Story of a Social Panic, False Memories, and a Life Cut Short

Alice Tallmadge - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

In the 1980s and 1990s, a mind-boggling social panic over child sex abuse swept through the country, landing childcare workers in prison and leading hundreds of women to begin recalling episodes of satanic ritual abuse and childhood abuse by family members. Now I Can See the Moon: A Story...
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Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's #1 phrasebook publisher* Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful French phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask about tucked-away vineyards, bargain...
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Young Leonardo: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist, 1472-1499

JEAN-PIERRE ISBOUTS - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Provocative and original, this fresh look at Leonardo da Vinci's formative years in Florence and Milan provides a radically different scenario of how he created his signature style that would transform Western art forever.The traditional view of Leonardo da Vinci's career is that he enjoyed...
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The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design

Steven Heller - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

In The Moderns, we meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. The book is made up of generously illustrated profiles, many based on interviews, of more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record covers; advertisements and package...
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ReOrg: How to Get It Right

Stephen Heidari-Robinson - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Print book

A Practical Guide in Five StepsMost executives will lead or be a part of a reorganization effort (a reorg) at some point in their careers. And with good reason - reorgs are one of the best ways for companies to unlock latent value, especially in a changing business environment.But everyone...
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Your Best Pregnancy : The Ultimate Guide to Easing the Aches, Pains, and Uncomfortable Side Effects During Each Stage of Your Pregnancy

Jill Hoefs MPT - Demos Health; 1 edition
Format: Book

Have a safe, healthy, and comfortable pregnancy. Written by two physical therapists with over twenty years of combined experience helping women ease sore feet, aching backs, incessant peeing, and many other uncomfortable conditions, Your Best Pregnancy provides simple solutions and easy...
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Card Games All-In-One For Dummies

Consumer Dummies. - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book

Card Games All-In-One For Dummies features a wealth of Dummies content for those seeking information on the most popular card games, including material from: Card Games For Dummies, 2nd Edition Bridge For Dummies, 4th Edition Poker For Dummies Texas Hold'em For Dummies Winning at Internet...
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Foo Fighters: Learning to Fly

Mick Wall - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

There's a reason why Dave Grohl is known, however naively, as "the nicest man in rock." A reason why millions have bought his Foo Fighters albums and DVDs, his concert and festival tickets. A reason why generations have bought into his story, his dream, his self-fulfilling prophecies....
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Natural Wonders of the World

Smithsonian Institution. - DK
Format: Hardcover

Discover Earth's most beautiful and fascinating natural landmarks. From the spectacular granite domes of Yosemite to the reefs of the Bahama Banks and the ice sheets of the Antarctic, this is an unparalleled survey of the world's natural treasures.From the Rocky Mountains to the Great barrier...
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Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

Jake Bernstein - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from...
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Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange

Donald Albrecht - Hirmer Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The 1920s and '30s were a time of incredible creativity and influence for modern Mexican art, as a dynamic cultural exchange between Mexico and the United States - which included artists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Rufino Tamayo; photographers such as Edward Weston, Tina...
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FATAL DISCORD : erasmus, luther, and the rupture of europe

MICHAEL MASSING - Harper

A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history--Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther--whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of philosophical and religious...
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Careers in Criminal Justice

Coy H Johnston - SAGE Publications, Inc
Format: Paperback

Careers in Criminal Justice, Second Edition prepares you to plan, pursue, and realize your career goals -- from conception through the hiring process. Coy H. Johnston's contemporary approach emphasizes self-reflection and pragmatism in the pursuit of self-fulfillment and professionalism....
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Our History Is the Future

Nick Estes
Format: electronic resource

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Clancys of queens

Tara Clancy - Crown
Format: Print book

Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited...
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Pokmon Ultra Sun & Pokmon Ultra Moon Edition: The Official National Pokdex

Jillian Nonaka - The Pokmon Company International
Format: Paperback

Double-sided National Pokdex poster with bonus art!Exclusive interviews with game creators!Data for all known Pokmon species in the National Pokdex, including their different forms!Key info on each Pokmon's Evolutions and how to obtain them - plus Abilities, moves, stats, and more!Lists...
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Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s

NORMAN MAILER - Library of America
Format: Hardcover

Politics, war, sex, boxing, and the art of writing: an era's most controversial writer at his slashing and provocative bestThe electric and fearless essays of Norman Mailer were essential to the intellectual climate of 1960s America. Here, gathered into one volume for the first time...
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Instant Expert: A Visual Guide to the Skills You've Always Wanted

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The follow-up to Lonely Planet's hit The Book of Everything, Instant Expert contains all that a world traveller needs to know. It's witty and full of brilliant illustrations of all types by noted infographics illustrator Nigel Holmes. Want to know how to dive for pearls, cure toothache,...
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The Politics of Punk: Protest and Revolt from the Streets

David Ensminger - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

Punk rock has long been equated with the ever-shifting concepts of dissent, disruption, and counter-cultural activities. As a result, since its 1970s and 1980s incarnations, when bands in Britain - from The Clash and Sex Pistols to Angelic Upstarts, U.K. Subs, and Crass - offered alternative...
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Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy (The American Empire Project)

Noam Chomsky - Metropolitan Books
Format: Paperback

In a compelling new set of interviews, Noam Chomsky identifies the "dry kindling" of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire.. In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the world we are leaving...
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Mama Natural's Week to Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

Genevieve Grace - North Star Way
Format: Paperback

With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fifty-two million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland's (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page,...
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War Animals: The Unsung Heroes of World War II

Robin Hutton - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover

America's highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor, was awarded to four-hundred-forty deserving members of "The Greatest Generation" that served in World War II. But in 1943, before the war was even over, Allied leaders realized they needed another kind of award...
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You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Virgie Tovar - The Feminist Press at CUNY
Format: Paperback

Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it -- and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry...
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The Go For Broke Spirit, Portraits of Courage

Shane Sato - Fugu Publications

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Oneroad - What is the State Korea Edition

Si-min Yu
Format: Paperback

korea edition
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Park Maker: Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

Elizabeth Stevenson - Routledge
Format: Hardcover

On April 28, 1858, municipal officials announced the winner of the design contest for a great new park for the people of New York City--Plan no. 33, "Greensward" by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Though the appropriated ground for what was to become Central Park was nothing...
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Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

Christian Goeschel - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded...
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The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech

Kimberley Strassel - Twelve
Format: Print book

From Kim Strassel-one of the preeminent political columnists writing today and member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board-comes an insightful, alarming look at how the Left, once the champion of civil liberties, is today orchestrating a coordinated campaign to bully Americans out of free...
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The Secret History of Magic: The True Story of the Deceptive Art

Peter Lamont - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

Two renowned historians of stage magic team up to produce this definitive, engaging history of stage magic, from Ancient Egypt to David Copperfield.This is the story of how conjurors managed to survive in a world of modern wonders. It is a history of unbelievable tales. Behind the tall...
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Offal Good: Cooking from the Heart, with Guts

Chris Cosentino - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

The off cuts, the odd bits, the variety meats, the fifth quarter - it seems that offal is always hidden, given a soft-pedaled name, and left for someone else to eat. But it wasn't always this way, and it certainly shouldn't be. Offal - the organs and the under-heralded parts from...
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100 Questions & Answers About Schizophrenia: Painful Minds: Third Edition

Lynn E DeLisi - Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2016.
Format: Print book

When you or a loved one has been diagnosed as one of the millions of American living with Schizophrenia, you may be left with a number of questions. What is Schizophrenia? What are the current medications for it, and what are their side effects? Can it be passed down to children? 100 Questions...
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The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy

Larry J. Sabato - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

John F. Kennedy died almost half a century ago—yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato—himself a teenager in the early...
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Big Dreams, Small Garden: A Guide to Creating Something Extraordinary in Your Ordinary Space

Marianne Willburn - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback

Creating a spectacular garden is challenging when you thought you'd be living somewhere else by now. How do passionate gardeners struggling with limited resources manage to put aside feelings of inadequacy and envy and begin to create an oasis in the midst of numerous obstacles? Why should...
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My Turn: A Life of Total Football

Johan Cruyff - Nation Books
Format: Print book

"Johan Cruyff: Your legacy will live on forever."-- Lionel MessiJohan Cruyff is Europe's greatest ever soccer player, bar none. Brave, competitive, and possessed of such grace that a choreographer declared he was a more natural dancer than Rudolph Nureyev, he embodied and exported...
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50 Successful Harvard Application Essays: What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice

Staff of the Harvard Crimson - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

With talented applicants coming from the top high schools as well as the pressure to succeed from family and friends, it's no wonder that writing college application essays is one of the most stressful tasks high schoolers face. Add in how hard it is to get started or brag about accomplishments...
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Calculus i.

Alpha. - Alpha Books
Format:  Print book : English

Let's face it, most students don't take calculus because they find it intellectually stimulating. It's not . . . at least for those who come up on the wrong side of the bell curve! There they are, minding their own business, working toward some non-science related degree, when . . . BLAM!...
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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

EARL SWIFT - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction from rising sea levels - part natural history of an extraordinary ecosystem, starring the beloved blue crab; part paean to a vanishing way of life;...
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Build Your Own Land Vehicles

Rob Ives - Hungry Tomato
Format: Print book

Make brilliant land vehicles from simple everyday items and discover the engineering behind each model You'll see how some wooden skewers and a soft drink can come together to create an electric car, and how plastic balls, wire, and rubber bands can make a dragster. Get the gear, get in gear,...
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The First Mess Cookbook: Vibrant Plant-Based Recipes to Eat Well Through the Seasons

Laura Wright - Avery Pub Group
Format: Print book

The blogger behind the Saveur award-winning blog The First Mess shares her eagerly anticipated debut cookbook, featuring more than 125 beautifully prepared seasonal whole-food recipes. Home cooks head to The First Mess for Laura Wright's simple-to-prepare seasonal...
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Barrons Police Sergeant Examination, 6th Edition (Barrons Test Prep)

Donald J Schroeder - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback

Revised and updated to reflect current exams, this manual prepares police officers to take any of the various exams given throughout the country that qualify applicants for promotion to the rank and responsibilities of police sergeant. A diagnostic test and three full-length practice exams,...
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Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent

Michael McGowan - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history.Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as "Special" by their titles alone, Michael McGowan is an outlier. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified...
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Faberge in London: The British Branch of the Imperial Russian Goldsmith

Kieran McCarthy - Antique Collectors' Club Ltd. 2016.
Format: Print book

* The first book to be dedicated to the British branch of Faberg, covering its fascinating history from its opening in 1903, to its closure in 1917Royalty, Aristocrats, American heiresses, exiled Russian Grand Dukes, Randlords, Maharajas, Socialites and Financiers with newly made fortunes...
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The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows

David Perlmutter - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Once consigned almost exclusively to Saturday morning fare for young viewers, television animation has evolved over the last several decades as a programming form to be reckoned with. While many animated shows continue to entertain tots, the form also reaches a much wider audience, engaging...
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Every Day Easy Air Fryer: 100 Recipes Bursting with Flavor

Urvashi Pitre - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Paperback

Everybody knows how difficult it can be to get a delicious meal on the table night after night, not to mention a healthy one made from real and readily-available ingredients. Enter the air fryer, the must-have, revolutionary kitchen device. As Urvashi Pitre, the best-selling author of Indian...
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How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

Massimo Pigliucci - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

An engaging guide to how Stoicism--the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius--can provide lessons for living in the modern world
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The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life

ROBIN STERN - Harmony
Format: Paperback

Your husband crosses the line in his flirtations with another woman at a dinner party. When you confront him, he asks you to stop being insecure and controlling. After a long argument, you apologize for giving him a hard time.Your mother belittles your clothes, your job, and your boyfriend....
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House: At Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Linda Deberry - Scala
Format: Print book

A beautiful book that tells the story of an iconic house that has just been opened to the public, after meticulous reconstruction Originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954, the Bachman-Wilson House now resides, fully restored, in the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American...
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Accountant-Auditor

National Learning Corporation. Civil Service Division. - National Learning Corporation
Format: Plastic Comb

The Accountant-Auditor Passbook prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: general accounting;...
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Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill

Deanne Stillman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The little known story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West - Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull - told through their time in Cody's Wild West show in the 1880s.It was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 that William F. Cody - known across the land as Buffalo...
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Music in Vienna

David Wyn Jones - The Boydell Press
Format: Print book

The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family, Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehar, Schoenberg and Webern....
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This Complete Guide to Your First Rental Property: A Step-By-Step Plan from the Experts Who Do It Every Day

Atlantic Publishing Group Inc - Atlantic Publishing
Format: Print book

This revised book covers property/tenant selection, advertising, credit verification, deposits, rent, late notices, and more.-- (3/19/2015 12:00:00 AM)
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Eat, Live, Thrive Diet: A Lifestyle Plan to Rev Up Your Midlife Metabolism

Danna Demetre - WaterBrook
Format: Paperback

From the well-known health and lifestyle coaches of the widely popular website Lean Healthy Ageless (formerly Ageless Woman Living) comes a practical, science-based diet book that unravels the mystery of why women gain weight as they age and includes a sustainable plan to permanently...
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The Baby Sleep Book: Top 250 ESSENTIAL Tips To Get Your Baby To Sleep Through The Night And Find A Solution To Your Child's Sleeping Problems

Sarah Jefferson - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

Does your baby have trouble falling and staying asleep? Do you suffer from lack of sleep because your baby is keeping you up at all hours of the night? Do you feel overwhelmed by the mountain of contradictory information on baby sleep? The Baby Sleep Book helps you find solutions for getting...
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Start Right Where You Are: How Little Changes Can Make a Big Difference for Overwhelmed Procrastinators, Frustrated Overachievers, and Recovering Perfectionists

Sam Bennett - New World Library
Format: Print book

Buoyed by the success of her first book, Get It Done, Sam Bennett offered various online courses and seminars, and, by far, the most sought after and successful was a 12-week course titled "Start Right Where You Are." Based on the course that she taught, and the feedback she received,...
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The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have

Bonnie Rochman - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A sharp-eyed exploration of the promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventionsIs screening for disease in an embryo a humane form of family planning or a slippery slope toward eugenics? Should doctors tell you that your infant daughter is genetically predisposed...
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Lonely Planet Egypt (Travel Guide)

Lonely Planet Publications Staff - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planets Egypt is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wonder at the construction of the Pyramids of Giza, wander through the columned halls of the great...
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Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech Youll Never Hear

Carl Hiaasen - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

This is Oh, the Places Youll Never Go--the ultimate hilarious, cynical, but absolutely realistic view of a college graduates future. And what he or she can or cant do about it."This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement...
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The Simple Living Handbook: Discover the Joy of a De-Cluttered Life

Lorilee Lippincott - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Where did all this stuff come from I dont have time for a life I need to get away Ever feel this way Society is quick to fill our minds and homes with all the latest gadgets tools obligations and entertainment but what happens when it all doesnt fit The Simple Living Handbook is a how-to...
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Where Did You Get This Number?: A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World

Anthony Salvanto - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

CBS News' Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto takes you behind the scenes of polling to show you how to think about who we are and where we're headed as a nation.As Elections and Surveys Director for CBS News, it's Anthony Salvanto's job to understand you - what you think and how you vote....
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

MICHAEL LEWIS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments,...
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Lonely Planet Iceland

LONELY PLANET. - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback

#1 best-selling guide to Iceland * Lonely Planet Iceland is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Splash around in the Blue Lagoon's geothermal water, catch a glimpse of the celestial Northern Lights, or take...
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101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925

Jeff A Menges - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback

"Author Jeff A. Menges has done a superb job of choosing a fantastic array of artists, providing representative and dazzling examples of their work and presenting them with succinct, erudite commentary that introduces you to each artist and puts them in the context of their time."...
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Therefore, God Must Be Armenian!

John M Evans - Gomidas Institute
Format: Print book

Sixteen Talks on Armenian Issues (2007-2012) by John M. Evans, Former U.S. Ambassador to ArmeniaThis publication complements Truth Held Hostage: America and the Armenian Genocide - What then? What Now? (Gomidas Institute, 2016) , the memoir of John Marshall Evans, the former United States...
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North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

SCOTT JUREK - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run, a thrilling new memoir about his grueling, exhilarating, and immensely inspiring 46-day run to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail.Scott Jurek is one of the world's best known and most beloved ultrarunners. Renowned for his remarkable...
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Made in North Korea: Graphics From Everyday Life in the DPRK

Nick Bonner - Phaidon Press
Format: Paperback

North Korea uncensored and unfiltered - ordinary life in the world's most secretive nation, captured in never-before-seen ephemera.Made in North Korea uncovers the fascinating and surprisingly beautiful graphic culture of North Korea - from packaging to hotel brochures, luggage tags...
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Ekho Marselezy. Roman o zamkakh

Bentsoni Zhiuletta - EKSMO, M
Format: Hardcover

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venture of the infinite man

Pablo Neruda - City Lights Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Neruda's long-overlooked third book of poetry, critical in his poetic evolution, now translated into English for the very first time! Over twenty books by Pablo Neruda, the legendary Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate, have been translated into English, a testament to his enormous appeal....
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Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings

LINDA CARROLL - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of the The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time...
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Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life

Laura James - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

A sensory portrait of an autistic mind From childhood, Laura James knew she was different. She struggled to cope in a world that often made no sense to her, as though her brain had its own operating system. It wasn't until she reached her forties that she found out why: Suddenly and surprisingly,...
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The Conductor's Companion: 100 Rehearsal Techniques, Imaginative ideas, Quotes and Facts

Gary Stith - Meredith Music
Format: Paperback

(Meredith Music Resource) . 100 outstanding middle and high school, collegiate and professional band and orchestra conductors passionately and candidly share their most powerful rehearsal techniques and cutting-edge program ideas in this concise and inspirational volume. Also included...
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Your Art Will Save Your Life

Beth Pickens - The Feminist Press at CUNY
Format: Paperback

"A survival guide for the creatives among us." - Nicole Georges, author of Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has dedicated her life to empowering working artists....
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Jazz in Europe: New Music in the Old Continent

Igor Wasserberger - Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Jazz in Europe provides a detailed record of how new (American) music evolved on the old (European) continent. The chroniclers explore the history of jazz in individual European countries from a local perspective, with each author contributing a unique bird's-eye view of their...
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The Official ACT Prep Guide, 2018 Edition

ACT. - Wiley
Format: Paperback

The only guide from the ACT organization, the makers of the exam, revised and updated for 2017 and beyond The Official ACT Prep Guide, 2018 Edition, Revised and Updated is the must-have resource for college bound students. The guide is the go-to handbook for ACT preparation and the only...
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Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture

Joel Waldfogel - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries -- and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries -- music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Sardinia

INC DORLING KINDERSLEY - DK PUBLISHING
Format: Print book

Visit and explore Sardinia, the beautiful island in the Mediterranean, and stop by the Bronze Age Giants' grave tombs, see the different basilicas and churches, and relax on the Costa Smeralda beach.From top restaurants, bars, and clubs to standout scenic sites and walks, our insider...
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

Nicholas Pyenson - Viking
Format: Book

Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and travel entire ocean basins. Whales...
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Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

DANIEL TAMMET - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.Is vocabulary destiny Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue In this...
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Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out--and Never Say Diet Again

Rebecca Scritchfield - Workman
Format: Print book

As practical as it is inspiring, filled with lists, quotes, tips on mindful eating, recipes, and lively infographics, Body Kindness shows you how to create a happier and healthier life by treating yourself with empathy rather than shame. It shows the way to a sense of well-being attained...
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Simple Organizing: 50 Ways to Clear the Clutter

Melissa Michaels - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Bring Order and Purpose to Every Room in Your Home Getting organized can feel like an impossible task. But it doesn't have to be complicated. The things you actually use need a designated home. The rest of the stuff is clutter and needs to be removed. Once you've determined which...
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Modern Crochet Mandalas: 50 Colorful Motifs to Crochet

Interweave Editors - Interweave Pr
Format: Print book

50 mandalas in fresh, modern colors! In Modern Crochet Mandalas, you'll find more than 50 uniquely delightful pieces to stitch up whenever the mood strikes. Bursting with imagination and a playful use of color, these mandalas will keep you happily stitching the day away. Mandalas are the perfect...
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Art: The Definitive Visual Guide, New Edition

Andrew Graham-Dixon - DK
Format: Hardcover

Discover the history of art movements from classical Greek art to the Italian Renaissance, the pre-raphaelites, and the masters of impressionism with this bestselling DK visual guide.Truly comprehensive in scope, this bestselling book explores masterpieces by more than 700 artists, including...
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Iroborin tosi Z

David Grann
Format: Print book


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Kafka: The Early Years

Reiner Stach - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book

How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young...
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나는 나로 살기로 했다 (100만부 기념 클래식 에디션)

Su-hyŏn Kim - 마음의숲
Format: Paperback

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Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone 7: Covers iOS 10 and all models of iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, and iPhone SE

Hart-Davis - Visual
Format: Print book

A visual guide to the latest iPhone technology Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone is the visual guide to mastering the powerful features and functionality of Apple's latest smartphone. Whether you're a newbie or upgrading to the latest model, this easy to navigate guide features visually...
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Rick Steves Ireland 2018

Rick Steves - Rick Steves
Format: Paperback

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Ireland.With this guide, you can explore lively Dublin, quaint Kilkenny, and the moss-draped ruins of the Ring of Kerry. Navigate meandering back roads that lead to windswept crags on the dramatic Dingle...
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Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

Sarah Jaffe - Nation Books
Format: Print book

"Sarah Jaffe marches into the class war, fighting the good fight with a pen as sharp as any sword." - Bill Moyers"The most compelling social and political portrait of our age." - Robin D. G. KelleyWe are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political engagement and social...
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Moon Wisconsin

Thomas Huhti - Moon Travel
Format: Paperback

Discover Wisconsin in a Whole New WayTravel writer and local Thomas Huhti shares his expert perspective on The Badger State, guiding you on a memorable and unique experience.Whether you're looking to sample the bars and pubs of Madison, or swim and camp on the beaches of the Wisconsin...
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Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds

Rachel Levin - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

A humorous and helpful illustrated field guide to fending off 50 of our most feared--or frustrating--wild animals, including survival techniques, wildlife etiquette, and other essential advice.As humans encroach on wild places, encounters with animals--from bears, bison, mountain lions,...
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The Littlest Learners: Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten

DAWN R ROGINSKI - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The Littlest Learners connects the most recent research on emergent literacy, the skills necessary to become a reader and concrete activities that parents and caregivers can do to maximize their child's reading readiness. The book is divided into 5 activities:1) talking with young...
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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution

Todd S. Purdum - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American CenturyThey stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific,...
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Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity

Michael Scott - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

"As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world."Tom Holland, author of Dynasty and RubiconTwenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation...
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Food Freedom Forever: Letting Go of Bad Habits, Guilt, and Anxiety Around Food

Melissa Hartwig - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Letting go of bad habits, guilt, and anxiety around food, by the best-selling co-author of The Whole30 and It Starts with Food Millions of people have successfully completed the groundbreaking Whole30 program and radically transformed their energy, sleep, cravings, waistline,...
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The Nine Old Men: Lessons, Techniques, and Inspiration from Disney's Great Animators

Andreas Deja - Focal Press
Format: Hardcover

Learn from the men who changed animation forever. Walt Disney's team of core animators, who he affectionately call his "Nine Old Men," were known for creating Disney's most famous works, as well as refining the 12 basic principles of animation. Follow master animator and Disney...
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Classic Boxing Stories

Paul D. Staudohar - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Incredible works from the most famous writers about their favorite sport.Boxing has been a part of our history going back centuries. Whether it’s bare knuckle or the pay-per-view fights we see today, it has been a staple in our lives. In Classic Boxing Stories, Paul D. Staudohar has collected...
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Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good

Johanna Burton - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term "public art" is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as "new genre public art," "social practice," or "socially engaged...
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Fabulous Raw Food: Detox, Lose Weight, and Feel Great in Just Three Weeks!

Erica Palmcrantz Aziz - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Who doesn't want to look leaner, feel stronger, and be happier? Few people would doubt that the food we consume plays a major role in our well-being. The raw food movement proclaims that the secret to great health is not just in what we eat, but in how it's prepared - eating raw provides...
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Idaho Off the Beaten Path: Discover Your Fun

Julie Fanselow - Globe Pequot
Format: Print book

Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, Idaho Off the Beaten Path shows you the Gem State with new perspectives on timeless destinations and introduces you to those you never knew existed--from the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden...
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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature

P W Atkins - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants...
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