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How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

by Sy Montgomery

Published: 2018-09-25

Hardcover: 208 pages

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A New York Times bestseller! National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals—her friends—who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green. Understanding som...

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Doesn't She Look Natural (The Fairlawn Series) (Volume 1)

by Angela Hunt

Published: 2013-05-25

Paperback: 298 pages

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How do you cope when God asks you to bury a dream? In this new series by best-selling author Angela Hunt, readers will meet Jennifer Graham, the no-nonsense chief of staff for a Virginia senator who quits her job after a divorce and finds herself an unemployed single mom. Forced to live with her mother...

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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin

by Lindsey Hilsum

Published: 2018-11-06

Hardcover: 400 pages

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Named a Best Book of 2018 by Esquire and Foreign Policy. An Amazon Best Book of November, the Guardian Bookshop Book of November, and one of the Evening Standard's Books to Read in Novem...

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Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War

by Deborah Copaken Kogan

Published: 2002-01-08

Paperback: 336 pages

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Fresh out of college and passionate about photography, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris in 1988 and began knocking on photo agency doors, begging to be given a photojournalism assignment. Within weeks she was on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, the only woman—and the only journali...

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Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All

by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, Jamia Wilson

Published: 2018-09-18

Paperback: 208 pages

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A handbook for effective activism, advocacy, and social justice for people of all ages and backgrounds. Are you ready to take action and make your voice heard, but don't know how to go about it? This hands-on, hit-the-ground-running guide delivers lessons on practical tactics for navigatin...

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Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

by Wendell Berry

Published: 2009-08-18

Paperback: 256 pages

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Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. A progenitor of the slow food movement, Wendell Berry reminds us all to take the time to understand the basics of what we ingest....

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Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Port William)

by Wendell Berry

Published: 2007-11-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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Nine-year-old Andy Catlett embarks on a trip going alone by bus to visit his grandparents. It is Christmas 1943 and?as he sees modern life crowding out the old ways?those he meets become touchstones for his understanding of a precious and imperiled world. This beautiful short novel is a pe...

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Geeky Fab 5 vol. 1: It's Not Rocket Science (Geeky Fab Five)

by Liz Lareau, Lucy Lareau

Published: 2018-07-31

Hardcover: 64 pages

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Lucy Monroe’s first day at Earhart Elementary is one for the yearbook: By recess she has launched herself off the rusty monkey bars and ended up face down onto the blacktop. The principal closes the rickety playground, and now the whole school is mad! What’s a new girl to do? Create a ...

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House of Sand and Fog: A Novel

by Andre Dubus III

Published: 2011-03-31

Kindle Edition: 380 pages

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The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion pictureA recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—yearns to restore his family’s dignity in California. A recoverin...

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The Red Word

by Sarah Henstra

Published: 2018-03-13

Paperback: 352 pages

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“Sarah Henstra’s The Red Word will get you fuming, laughing, cheering, and most of all, thinking.”?CosmopolitanA smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her sophomore year begi...