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Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

Electric Ben is now a 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award Winner, a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, a Horn Fanfare Book, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor book! “a true standout…bright, witty, informative and cleverly organized as the man himself.” – The New York Times ...

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Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction The award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, a consummate artist of the twentieth century. “Is the story fact? Is it f...

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Electric Pressure Cooker Curry Cookbook: 75 Recipes From India, Thailand, the Caribbean, and Beyond

Curry in a hurry―75 deliciously easy recipes from around the globe If delicious curry dishes are high on your takeout list, discover how an electric pressure cooker and this curry cookbook can bring convenient, cheaper versions than your beloved restaurant alternatives right to your kitchen. With ...

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The Electric Kingdom

New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth. When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are ei...

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Daniel J. Packer

Scranton’s Bygone Department Stores: The Globe and the Dry (Landmarks)

Remembering two palaces of retail For generations, Scranton’s two big department stores, The Globe Store and Oppenheim’s Scranton Dry Goods Company, affectionately known as “the Dry,” dominated retail in the Electric City. Facing each other on Wyoming Avenue, they created special memories...

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The Golden Boys and Their New Electric Cell (Mint Editions (The Children's Library))

The Golden Boys and Their New Electric Cell (1922) is an adventure novel by L.P. Wyman and one of seven books in his vastly underrated―and relatively unknown―Golden Boys series. Each novel follows the adventures of Bob and Jack Golden, brothers from Maine with curious minds and adventurous hear...

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Dust Tea, Dingoes & Dragons: Adventures in culture, cuisine & commerce from a globe-trekking executive.

Jet lag, boardrooms, and high-pressure deals. That’s what international business brings to mind. But R.F. Hemphill makes us think again. Sharing a series of letters sent to his father during his decade of traveling...

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Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy : A Novel

The year is 2023. High above the canyons of Manhattan, a crew of human and android steelworkers is approaching the halfway point in the construction of a new Tower of Babel. The Tower is the brainchild of billionaire Harry Gant, who is building it as a monument to humanity's power to dream. Meanwhil...

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Gus Wagner: Globe Trotter and Hand Tattoo Artist (Last of the Hand Tattoo Artists)

A visual history of the life of Augustus “Gus” Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art history from the 1890s to the 1930s. In 1897, Gus Wagner embarked on a four-year career as a merchant seaman. While traveling the world, he disco...

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The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains

Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Named a Best Book of Summer by The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Publishers Weekly , and Book Riot The Observer (London)’s Summer Reads Select In this collection of medical tales “reminiscent of Oliver Sacks...the be...

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The Science Behind the Electric Bulb: How It Works: From Heat and Filament to Lighting Up the Future (HOW SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING WORKS)

Imagine a world without light after sunset—no glowing cities, no late-night reading, no factories humming through the night, and no dazzling screens illuminating our daily lives. For most of human history, darkness ruled half the day, with only fire, candles, or smoky lamps to push it back. Then c...

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The Master Key: An Electric Fairy Tale (Mint Editions (Fantasy and Fairytale))

The Master Key (1901) is a children’s novel by L. Frank Baum. Published the year after the first installment of his beloved Wizard of Oz series, The Master Key is one of few works by Baum set outside of the magical Land of Oz. This book is a testament to the heartfelt imagination of one of Am...

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Arthur Jay Harris

Until Proven Innocent: Could the real-life Kojak help save a man from the electric chair? (Harris True Crime Collection)

Three years into the investigation of a horrific homicide case, a suburban home invasion murder of a wife and mother and point-blank shootings of her infant, husband, and father-in-law, the prosecutor slowly realizes that he and the police have been totally wrong about one of his capital murder defe...

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Cars Around the World: An Explorer’s Guide to Cool Vehicles from Every Corner of the Globe

Discover the amazing stories behind the world’s most beloved cars — from the classic Volkswagen Beetle to the electric NIO of the future. Cars Around the World takes young readers on an inspiring road trip through 22 countries, where every car has a story to tell — about dreams, innovation, a...

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An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories

Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.”—Kav...

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Business Growth Secrets: Book 2: Secrets to Planning Sales Growth

The Business Growth Secrets Book Series is written to help companies realize continuous, aggressive sales and profit growth. All materials presented in these books have been tested countless times through the author's own growth planning consulting experiences with scores of major firms. (See Author...

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Dr. John A. Weber

Business Growth Secrets: Book 1: Secrets to Long Term Sales Growth

The Business Growth Secrets Book Series is written to help companies realize continuous, aggressive sales and profit growth. All materials presented in these books have been tested countless times through the author's own growth planning consulting experiences with scores of major firms . (See Auth...

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Business Growth Secrets: Book 7: Secrets to Negotiating, Closing and Implementation

The Business Growth Secrets Book Series is written to help companies realize continuous, aggressive sales and profit growth. All materials presented in these books have been tested countless times through the author's own growth planning consulting experiences with scores of major firms. (See Author...

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Business Growth Secrets: Book 6: Secrets to Making the Sale Part 2

The Business Growth Secrets Book Series is written to help companies realize continuous, aggressive sales and profit growth. All materials presented in these books have been tested countless times through the author's own growth planning consulting experiences with scores of major firms. (See Author...

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Business Growth Secrets: Book 3: Secrets to Preparing for Sales Growth Part 1

The Business Growth Secrets Book Series is written to help companies realize continuous, aggressive sales and profit growth. All materials presented in these books have been tested countless times through the author's own growth planning consulting experiences with scores of major firms. (See Author...

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