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Justin James
Don Bacon biography: A Life of Duty, Defiance, and Doing What’s Right
What does it take to stay true when everyone around you folds? From the farm fields of Illinois to the battlefield skies of Iraq and then to the bitter halls of Congress Don Bacon’s story is one of courage, character, and conviction. In an age where politics rewards rage and conformity, Bacon ch...
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Allison Batty-Capps
The Divine Within: Healing Ourselves to Heal the World
Selected as one of the Top Spirituality Books Released in November 2025 by Balanced Achievement. What if the very sensations, emotions, and experiences we've been taught to suppress or ignore are actually doorways to the divine? What if your biggest fears could become your greatest source of healing...
$18.63
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Lama Dalai
Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart : Core Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism
The second volume in the landmark Library of Tibet series, Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart examines the next step of the Path: Compassion. Based on a classic fourteenth-century Tibetan poem famous for its ability to awaken compassion in the human heart, this elegant primer combines the mi...
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Professor Ellen Carr
Undiversified: The Big Gender Short in Investment Management (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
Diversification is a core principle of investing. Yet money managers have not applied it to their own ranks. Only around 10 percent of portfolio managers―the people most directly responsible for investing your money―are female, and the numbers are even worse at the ownership level. What are the ...
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Robert A. Birmingham
Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes (Wisconsin Land and Life)
Between A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds—including the world’s largest known bird effigy—at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison, Wisconsin. These huge earthworks,...
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Elizabeth Tucker
Campus Legends: A Handbook (Greenwood Folklore Handbooks)
Since the earliest days of universities, students have told stories about their daily lives, often emphasizing extraordinary, surprising, and baffling events. This book examines the fascinating world of college and university legends. While it primarily looks at legends, it also gives some attention...
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Pam Conrad
Zoe Rising
Zoe, traveling back to the time when her mother was a child, intervenes in the past in order to save the future Grade 5-8-As she did in Stonewords (HarperCollins, 1990), Zoe slips through the cracks of time to prevent a disaster, this time involving her fragile and estranged mother. Zoe, 14, is off ...
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Christine DeSmet
First-Degree Fudge: A Fudge Shop Mystery
First in a new mystery series--includes fudge recipes! New candy store owner Ava Oosterling specializes in making heavenly homemade fudge and fresh starts. But she’s just found out that her newest flavor is to die for….   Between getting her store up and running and uneasily settling back i...
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David A. Vise
The Google Story (2018 Updated Edition): Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time
The definitive, bestselling account of the company that changed the way we work and live, updated for the twentieth anniversary of Google’s founding with analysis of its most recent bold moves to redefine the world—and its even more ambitious plans for the future. Moscow-born Sergey Brin and ...
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F. Paul Wilson
Infernal: A Repairman Jack Novel
The ninth Repairman Jack novel brims with murder, international terrorism, sibling rivalry, and a truly infernal device. A mutual tragedy throws Jack together with his brother Tom, a judge from Philadelphia. They've never been close, and it doesn't take Jack long realize that's a good thing. Tom and...
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Charlotte Carter
Rhode Island Red (A Nanette Hayes Mystery)
A New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year • The first book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series introduces us to jazz-loving, street busker Nanette, whose love life leads her into some very hot water. Nan's day is not off to a good start. Her on-again, off-again relationship with Walter i...
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Cheryl L. Neely
No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
An urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers as “N.H.I.” – “No Humans Invo...
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Norman H. Finkelstein
American Jewish History: A JPS Guide
Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: JPS Board of Trustees . This JPS Guide chronicles the extraordinary history of American Jewry. Finkelstein tells the dramatic 350-year story of the people and events that shaped the lives of today’s American Jews. D...
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Della Gray Barthelmas
The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference
A biography and genealogical history of each of the 56 signers are presented in this unique reference work. The biography focuses on his education, political career and the events that led him to advocate for independence. The narrative genealogical history provides names, birth and death dates, mar...
$247.80
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Charles G. Spencer
Roadside Geology of Missouri
The Show-Me State has plenty of geology to show, including the biggest entry room of any cave in North America, the largest lead deposit in the United States, and the only exposures in the Midwest of a large province of 1.48-billion-year-old granite and rhyolite. Geologic history is still being made...
$22.37
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Emily Blejwas
The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods
Alabama’s history and culture revealed through fourteen iconic foods, dishes, and beverages. The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods explores well-known Alabama  food traditions to reveal salient histories of the state in a new way. In this book that is part history, part travelogue, and part coo...
$37.24
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David W. Tollen
The Jericho River
A spellbinding young adult fantasy teaching world history! Jason discovers a magical world shaped by the past and haunted by creatures of legend. WINNER of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the London Book Festival. BRONZE MEDALIST in the Readers' Favorite Book Reviews & Awards Contest. ...
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Patrice M. Dabrowski
Poland: The First Thousand Years
Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew to be the largest in continental Europe, only to be later wiped off the map fo...
$29.82
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Sutton Bishop
Afraid to Fall (Ancient Passages)
Guatemala—a country rife with civil unrest, human and narco-trafficking, and looters of antiquity is the perfect backdrop for AFRAID TO FALL—a steamy story of romance, adventure, and suspense. Needing a break from both her personal and professional life, forensic anthropologist Ariana Antony mak...
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Jess Nevins
The Victorian Bookshelf: An Introduction to 61 Essential Novels
This introductory guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. Brief critical essays describe what each book is about and argue for its cultural, historical and literary importance. Literary canons remain a subject of debate but critics, read...
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