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Michael J. Mooney
Little, Brown and Company
A New York Times bestseller: The life story of Chris Kyle, the American Sniper. A brutal warrior but a gentle father and husband, Chris Kyle led the life of an American hero. His renowned courage and skill in military service …
Josiah Bancroft
Orbit
Senlin continues his ascent up the tower in the word-of-mouth phenomenon fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world. "One of my favorite books of all time" -- Mark Lawrence on Senlin AscendsThe Tower of Babel is …
Sebastien de Castell
Orbit
A failed mage learns that just because he's not the chosen one it doesn't mean he can't be a hero in the third book of an exciting adventure fantasy series from Sebastien de Castell.Kellen's life as an outlaw spellslinger is …

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Where They Are, How To Get Them
Nina Segal, Eric Kocher
Basic Books
From teaching English to analyzing intelligence for the federal government, the international field offers a broad spectrum of exciting job opportunities. For over twenty years, International Jobs has been the authoritative guide for researching and launching an international career. In …

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The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
Peter Gosselin
Basic Books
The U.S. economy is wrapping up twenty-five years of some of the strongest, smoothest growth in its history-a performance so sweet economists have given it a name: "the Great Moderation." So why have so many of us, even those making …

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The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
William F. Stark, Peter Stark
Basic Books
In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia …

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The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East
Clyde V Prestowitz
Basic Books
By the beginning of this century it was already commonplace to speak of the U.S. as a "hyperpower," to talk of its military, political, and economic clout as unprecedented in world history, and to assume that American dominance would continue …

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The Lost Victory of World War I
Nick Lloyd
Basic Books
The definitive account of Passchendaele, the months-long battle that epitomizes the immense tragedy of the First World War Passchendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized …
Ian Stewart
Basic Books
Acclaimed writer and mathematician Ian Stewart's third miscellany of mathematical curios and conundrums. In Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart presents an enticing collection of mathematical curios and conundrums. With a new puzzle on each page, …
Devra Lee Davis
Basic Books
Why has the "War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer's basic causes -- tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the general environment? This war has targeted the …

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The Revolutionary Method for Better Sex Through Exercise
Debby Herbenick
Da Capo Press
The Coregasm Workout is a revolutionary new book that provides natural, safe, and effective techniques for enhancing sex through fitness. Developed by leading sex researcher, educator, and columnist Dr. Debby Herbenick, The Coregasm Workout introduces simple, science-backed exercises to make …

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The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge
Dan O'Neill
Basic Books
The intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated since Jose de Acosta, a Spanish missionary working in Mexico and Peru, first proposed the idea …

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The Last of the Old Media Empires
David Folkenflik
PublicAffairs
Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. No one before him has trafficked in media influence across those nations so effectively, nor has anyone else so singularly redefined the culture of news and …
Bruce Lansky
Da Capo Press
An expanded edition of 55,000+ Baby Names with over 60,000 names and 200 fun, helpful lists of names to consider. It also has the latest rankings for the top 100 boys' and girls' names and 1,500 names used for both …

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Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
Jason Sokol
Basic Books
The Northeastern United States -- home to abolitionism and a refuge for blacks fleeing the Jim Crow South -- has had a long and celebrated history of racial equality and political liberalism. After World War II, the region appeared poised …
Andre Gerolymatos
Basic Books
When it comes to the Balkans, most people quickly become lost in the quagmire of struggle and intractable hatred that consumes that ancient land today. Many assume that the genesis of the past ten years of atrocity in the region …

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Women Write About Leaving Men for Women
Candace Walsh, Laura André, Lisa Diamond
Da Capo Press
The new buzzword in female sexuality is "sexual fluidity: the idea that for many women, sexual identity can shift over time, often in the direction of same-sex relationships.Examples abound in popular culture, from actress Cynthia Nixon, who left her male …

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Behind the Scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the Present
Yevgeny Primakov
Basic Books
Part memoir, part history, Russia and the Arabs reveals the past half-century in the Middle East from a viewpoint seldom seen by Westerners. Yevgeny Primakov, formerly the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister of …
Andy Rooney
PublicAffairs
My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naive correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the …

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Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity
James Lovelock
Basic Books
In The Revenge of Gaia , bestselling author James Lovelock- father of climate studies and originator of the influential Gaia theory which views the entire earth as a living meta-organism-provides a definitive look at our imminent global crisis. In this …

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Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business
Emira Mears, Lauren Bacon
Da Capo Press
Female entrepreneurs are a growing force to be reckoned with. Each year, more and more women take the initiative and start their own business ventures-at twice the rate of men. Women continue to reshape the business world with innovative models, …
Calvin C. Clawson
Basic Books
There are two kinds of people: those who can do mathematics, and then there's the rest of us. Math is boring. Females have no facility for mathematics (and really don't need it, anyway).For many people who do not like math, …
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Open Textbook
College Success is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by …
Jan Suzukawa
Dreamspinner Press
Kaminishi: Book OneMichael Holden wakes up in an impossible reality: mid-nineteenth-century Japan, face to face with Shinjiro Kaminishi, a samurai warlord Michael has seen in a dream. Imprisoned by the warlord and interrogated about the future, Michael has no idea …
James Patterson, Brendan DuBois
Little, Brown and Company
When Captain Amy Cornwall's family goes missing, the Army Ranger will do whatever it takes to bring them home in this cinematic thriller that begins with a mysterious phone call and ends with a twist you'll never see coming.In her …
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