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For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country's leading death doula, she's spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death, whether imminent or not, will breathe wild, new potential into your life. Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels. The business matters, medical directives, memorial planning; but also honoring the quiet...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighbors credit cards. Lara is convicted of thirty-two felonies and becomes inmate S32179. She learns that jail is a class system with a power structure that is somewhere between an adolescent sleepover party and Lord of the...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and thats what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world of illegal poachers in the Florida Everglades in order to protect the natural world. A head-spinning adventure soon unfolds. Jeff deals with glow-in-the-dark alligators and high-speed airboat rides, but quickly learns that not all poachers...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"This book would be great if you are interested in philosophy, politics, history, and literature or would like to broaden your understanding of philosophy. Philosophers Who Changed History places well-known philosophers in their historical and cultural context, allowing you to see how they came to influence philosophy"--
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Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"In this . . . memoir, Hannah [Pick-Goslar] shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a . . . look at what countless children endured...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology. The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books tell all kinds of stories-romances, tragedies, comedies-but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture's most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it. Books have transformed humankind...
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SFWP
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[2024]
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English
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"When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman's door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could her husband, a devoted father and robotics professor at MIT, have committed such a violent act? How would she explain this to her young daughters? And could she have stopped him? A longtime journalist, she probed obsessively, believing answers would help...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Foreword by Debbie Harry "A Downtown Memory" by Romy Ashby Debbie Harry defined iconic band Blondie's look. Chris Stein-her performing partner, lover, and lifelong friend-was its architect and defined its sound. "Parallel Lines", their third album, catapulted to #1, sold 20 million copies, and launched singles like "Heart of Glass", "Rapture," and "One Way or Another", providing the beat when Bianca Jagger and Halston danced at Studio 54 and the...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The definitive, authorized, deep-dive biography into the life and work of legendary country singer-songwriter and acclaimed visual artist Terry Allen. Terry Allen is an internationally recognized visual artist and songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music."--
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B
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Lionel Messi ha vuelto a ser feliz. Y para qu jugar al ftbol si no es para ser feliz? Con cuatro Champions League, la Copa Amrica 2021, el rcord de goles de un jugador para una seleccin sudamericana y el pase al PSG, el mejor futbolista del planeta ya le haba insuflado nueva vida a su carrera, pero ahora adems ha conquistado el nico gran trofeo que le faltaba: la Copa del Mundo.Para conocer y comprender a esta figura extraordinaria, Sebastin Fest...
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Mcgraw-Hill
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[2009]
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English
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Following the success of "Life Without Ed," comes an inspiring book that shows readers how to fully recover from their eating disorder, or Ed, by moving beyond divorce with Ed and creating a stronger, more loving relationship with themselves.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The story of one man's quest to become the first person to play each of America's 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face with the gulf between his impoverished childhood in the Jim Crow South and the successful executive he became"--
"The story of one man's quest to become the first person to play each of America's 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face with...
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Fox News Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can't save the meritocracy of our military, we're definitely going to lose everywhere...
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