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1501) Rebel Reinvented
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Jesse Ziegfeld lives in a world of pain. The piece of shrapnel lodged against his spine put an end to his career as a Navy SEAL, and left him with no idea how to move on. For now he manages his brother's fitness center until he can find a 'real' job. Life throws him a curve ball when a young teenager tries to rob him as he's leaving the gym. Remembering his own adolescence as the black sheep of his family, he decides not to call the cops but instead...
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Winner, 2018 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section
Winner, 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociology Association
Honorable Mention, 2017 ESS Mirra Komarovsky Book Award presented by the Eastern Sociological Society
Outstanding Book Award for the Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity presented by the American Sociological Association
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1503) An Unsolved Proof
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Hidden cameras, secret operations, and new math concepts await in the Math Kids' ninth adventure!
Justin has been accused of stealing from the comic book shop! To earn back the trust of his parents and the store manager, he'll have to work at the shop for four whole weekends. And that puts a damper on his plans to play video games and hang out with fellow Math Kids, Jordan, Catherine, and Stephanie.
With the end of summer approaching, the four...
1504) Fallen Into Austen
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Emma Woods is a community college adjunct who floats wherever the current of her life takes her. The only real fire in Emma's life is her yearly trek to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, the matchstick being Mark Landen, a British bookseller and academic with whom Emma has had a long-standing flirtation neither have pursued due to distance and being in and out of other relationships. However, Mark has written to Emma prior to the upcoming festival...
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Your Ultimate Guide On How To Quickly Analyze People Do you ever wish you could guess what the person next to you is thinking? Perhaps read people's minds?
Are you tired of people lying, deceiving and manipulating you? What if you could learn how to spot and identify these threats? This book will teach how to analyze people quickly and accurately!
Sounds like something out of a science fiction movie right? Now this book will not make you a "mind...
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One of "The 17 Best Summer Reads of 2019" by Harper's Bazaar!
Set in the summer of 1968, a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent history-a timely and poignant story that reverberates with the power of Alice Walker's Meridian and Ntozake Shange's Betsey Browne.
At the end of a sweltering summer shaped by the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, race riots, political...
1507) Belva Lockwood
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Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A legal historian recounts the influential life of women's rights activist Belva Lockwood, the first woman to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court
In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rights....
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My future used to look so promising. I graduated from high school at the top of my class and got into Princeton. But then I flunked out of the Ivy League school. Now I'm prancing around in a skimpy French maid outfit while waiting on sleazy rich guys at Parisian Dream. Ag, more like Parisian Nightmare.I don't think things could get any worse until I find myself waiting on Gerald Holland, my former best friend. And it turns out he's still a little-okay,...
1509) Rating the Hockey Player
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What if you could go back in time...for a one night do-over with the one that got away? Would history repeat itself, or be forever changed?When sleeping with these high-profile men had already blown Jada's world apart, would she risk losing it all to up the score? We went to preschool school together.To the same elite elementary and high schools.Even the same exclusive college.As the girls with the least powerful families, (and the smallest bank...
1510) Braving the Blaze
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He's a wildfire volunteer. She's petrified of fires. Will the flames consume them or will they find a burning love? Single-minded Dean Harward is going to become a veterinarian if it kills him. He's worked summers as a volunteer wildfire fighter to earn big cash for college. Just his luck, a pyrophobic woman gets assigned to his team. He's certain she'll get him killed before he can graduate. Terrified Ginger Warby never dreamed she...
1511) New Old World
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Ticonderoga Fox had three wishes as a child: to live on an Indian reservation, to publish a book, and to see Paris. Now almost forty, the restless photojournalist has bagged the first two and is on her way to fulfilling the third. Beyond that, Ti's future is out of focus.NEW OLD WORLD is a late bloomer's coming-of-age story that pits one headstrong woman against two continents. Motherless almost since birth and independent to a fault, Ti Fox has become...
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2023 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History Winner
The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX
"Every girl in Little League, every woman playing college sports, and every parent-including Michelle and myself-who watches their daughter on a field or in the classroom is forever grateful to the late Patsy Takemoto Mink."-President Barack Obama, on posthumously...
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Echoes of Tomorrow: Awakening of the Extraordinary - A Mystery of Superpowers and Secrets in an Urban University Town by S.B. Fates OverviewIn "Echoes of Tomorrow: Awakening of the Extraordinary," S.B. Fates crafts a gripping tale of mystery and wonder set against the vibrant backdrop of a bustling university town. This first book in a thrilling series weaves a complex narrative where modern architecture meets hidden powers, and the ordinary intersects...
1514) Conquering Your Child's Chronic Pain: A Pediatrician's Guide for Reclaiming a Normal Childhood
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"An important, compassionate book." - Deepak Chopra
"Parents! If you hava child in pain, read this book. There is hope." - James Campbell, M.D., Professor of Jeurological Surgery and Director, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Founder and President, American Pain Foundation
"An outstanding book for parents of children and adolescents with chronic pain. I recommend it highly." - Charles Berde, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Division of Pain Medicine,...
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Martin Liebscher is lecturer at the School of European Languages, Culture, and Society at University College London and editor and translator at the Philemon Foundation. His books include Psychology of Yoga and Meditation: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 6: 1938–1940 and Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann (both Princeton).
Jung's lectures on the psychology of Jesuit spiritual practice-unabridged...
1516) Until Never
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Cashier Trainer Keva Taylor never thought she'd see the end of her twenty year marriage. True, it was over at the altar, but still. She'd thought she'd never get her twenty-year-old daughter to attend college. She'd thought she'd never have to say goodbye to her boss. And she'd never thought she'd find love at work of all places. On each count she was wrong. Dead wrong.After her divorce is final, Keva doesn't have time to wallow in her new single...
1517) Like Father, Like Son
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For fathers and sons everywhere, Like Father, Like Son is a warm, universal picture book from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning team celebrates everything that makes dads special.
My daddy teaches me each day,
To be strong in a gentle way.
And every single day I'm glad
That I'm his son and he's my dad.
From award-winning author Lesléa Newman, known for her groundbreaking children's book Heather Has Two Mommies, and...
1518) Fame and Fortune
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Victor Dimir moved to America with his traditional Romanian parents when he was just a child. His Romani parents taught him their traditions and how to be a shrewd business man, but it was the attention of a classmate at school that taught teenage Victor about his sexuality. When he came out to his parents he knew it would be difficult for them to understand, but he never expected them to disown him.Andrew Jones grew up with a single mom and his grandmother...
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From a brilliant young investigative journalist, an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life, tracing a multi-million-dollar drug ring that ended in a chain of betrayals and a murder.
When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a murder, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South....
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Part of the nonfiction Orca Timeline series, with photographs and illustrations throughout, this book explores why and how people have built walls all over the world throughout the course of human history. Build them up. Break them down.
Building walls that separate us from others is as old as humanity.
People have built walls to keep others out for thousands of years, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to security fences along the...
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