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It Was Me All Along: A Memoir

by Andie Mitchell

Published: 2015-01-06

Hardcover: 240 pages

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A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her con...

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Sisters Between: A Novel of the Beguines

by Molly Connally

Published: 2013-11-20

Paperback: 182 pages

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Book Summary In 14th century Flanders, a beguine Sister is assaulted while sleeping in her room in the walled compound. The intruder is driven off before she is harmed, but the consequences of the attempted rape are great. The beguines, a religious community of women, teach young children and many are...

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Miramont's Ghost

by Elizabeth Hall

Published: 2015-02-01

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Miramont Castle, built in 1897 and mysteriously abandoned three years later, is home to many secrets. Only one person knows the truth: Adrienne Beauvier, granddaughter of the Comte de Challembelles and cousin to the man who built the castle.Clairvoyant from the time she could talk, Adrienn...

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And the Dark Sacred Night

by Julia Glass

Published: 2015-01-06

Paperback: 400 pages

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Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to support, a mortgage to pay, and a frustrated wife who insists that, to move forward, Kit must first confront a crucial mystery about his past. Born to a single teenage mother, he has never known the identity of his biological father.�...

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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

by Dan Jurafsky

Published: 2014-09-15

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you fi...

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

Published: 2014-09-16

Hardcover: 224 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIf you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can f...

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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

Published: 2014-04-08

Hardcover: 368 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Huffington Post • Financial Times • Success • Inc. • Library JournalFrom Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, the Academy Award–winning studio behind I...

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Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum

by Jason Felch, Ralph Frammolino

Published: 2011-05-24

Hardcover: 384 pages

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In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. The monetary value is estimated at over half a billion dollars. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The ans...

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Almost Famous Women: Stories

by Megan Mayhew Bergman

Published: 2015-01-06

Hardcover: 256 pages

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From the acclaimed author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, a dazzling new collection that explores the lives of unforgettable women in history.The fascinating characters in Megan Mayhew Bergman’s new stories are defined by their creative impulses, fierce independence, and sometimes reckles...

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Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

Published: 2000-01-01

Paperback: 424 pages

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Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God Is Change". But in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns a blind eye to violent bigots who consider the mere existence...