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Nancy Coco
Fudge Bites (A Candy-coated Mystery)
Halloween on Mackinac Island is a season of fun tricks, but finding a corpse is no treat for fudge shop owner Allie McMurphy . . .   NIGHT OF THE REALLY DEAD   It’s late October, off-season for tourists, but locals are up and lurching for the annual zombie walk charity event. Though every...
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Myronn Hardy
Kingdom (Green Rose Prize)
Kingdom is a book of poems influenced by six years of living in Morocco, where the book is primarily set. It interrogates notions of subtle, day-to-day changes as well as those promulgated by sweeping social and political movements. It is a book influenced by the natural world and our everyday conne...
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Brian Barth
Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia
"This heartfelt debut study from journalist Barth offers a window into Silicon Valley’s homeless encampments . . . [An] up-close, multifaceted representation of an unhoused community." — Publishers Weekly In his first book, award-winning investigative journalist Brian Barth takes us on an imme...
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Jeffrey Toobin
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
A National Bestseller From  New Yorker  staff writer and bestselling author of  The Nine  and  The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson , the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore...
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Bill Koch
I Can't Believe I Got Paid For This: My Life as a Cincinnati Sportswriter
Bill Koch grew up on the West Side of Cincinnati competing against his two brothers in sports and following the Reds, the University of Cincinnati Bearcats, and the Bengals when they made their debut in 1968. He never dreamed that one day he would get to his earn his living writing about the teams h...
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Zeese Papanikolas
American Silence
In American Silence , a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams , Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams...
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Louis Henry Mitchell
Qreative Evolution: How to Question Everything to Find Your Creative Fulfillment
From Louis Henry Mitchell--the creative director of character design for Sesame Workshop-- Qreative Evolution: How to Question Everything to Find Your Creative Fulfillment is here to help you discover your creative gifts and use them to create the life you are meant to live. When he was six years ...
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Paul Ortiz
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was cruci...
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Terry Bryant
Inspired Vegan
From the James Beard Award-winning author of  Afro-Vegan and Vegan Soul Kitchen : ingredients that inspire, unique recipes, and menus for everyday feasts. Marking his 10-year anniversary working to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system, Bryant Terry offers more than just a collect...
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Richard J Kelly
Rancho to Ranch Homes: Mapping the Evolution of Castro Valley, California
A New History of Castro Valley, California: This new book details the evolution of Castro Valley from a Native American territory to a modern commuter suburb. The author took advantage of the vast wealth of information available on the modern internet--e.g., ancestry.com, newspapers.com, archive.or...
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Jerry Dennis
A Walk in the Animal Kingdom: Essays on Animals Wild and Tame (The Wonders of Nature)
ANIMALS ARE EVERYWHERE IN OUR LIVES. We follow them into the wild, we invite them into our homes, they inhabit our dreams, mythologies, folklores, and popular cultures. What is this powerful bond? Why are we so fascinated with animals of every kind? And why has our relationship with them always been...
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Andrew Ramer
Ever After: The Extended Lives and Work of Eleven Famous Writers
Imagine an alternate reality--where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka--all lived longer lives--wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school--one of which changed hi...
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George Munson
More Than Conquerors
Compelled by a religious revival that was sweeping across America, Samuel Munson and his young bride set sail from New England in 1833, bound for the Islands of Indonesia. Samuel and Abigail prayerfully made the decision to dedicate their lives to preaching the gospel among the natives of Sumatra. W...
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Jenny Hale
Out of the Blue: An Incredible, Uplifting Love Story
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Magic of Sea Glass , with over one million copies of her books sold, comes a heartwarming beach read, perfect for fans of Sheila Roberts, Jill Shalvis, and Debbie Macomber. High school guidance counselor Nora Jenkins has her hands full. Her new stu...
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Helen Brunet
Nellie and Charlie: A Family Memoir of the Gilded Age
When Nellie Smith from Oakland, California met Charlie Tower, a young millionaire from Philadelphia on a cruise to Alaska in l887, it was love at first sight. They soon married and moved to Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square.In 1897, President McKinley appointed Charlie, now called Charlemagne, Minis...
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Paula Abramo
Fiat Lux
Paula Abramo's Fiat Lux evokes the poet's ancestors who were political refugees from Italy and Eastern Europe to Brazil and then from Brazil to Bolivia and finally Mexico. At the same time, it is a meditation on the act of writing poetry and bringing characters to life with fidelity and imagination....
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Judy Kay King
Balls of Fire: a Science of Life and Death
Spanning 5,000 years of history from ancient Egypt to our technoprogressive 21st century, the science reviewed in Balls of Fire builds on The Isis Thesis (2004) and 12 journal articles (2005-2013). The Isis Thesis is a semiotic study of ancient Egyptian literature, artwork, ritual, and architecture,...
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Carolyn McVickar Edwards
The Storyteller's Goddess: Tales of the Goddess and Her Wisdom from Around the World
The Storyteller's Goddess is a collection of more than 30 stories from 20 cultures that celebrate the goddess. They are organized around seven healing goddess principles and are inspired by traditional goddess lore and ancient artifacts. Each one is introduced by placing it in its cultural and hist...
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Pablo Morán
A. Alekhine: Agony of a Chess Genius
The tragic last years of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946), 45 of his match and tournament games in Spain and Portugal from 1943 to 1946, and 100 other late exhibition games are covered. A definitive biographical sketch emerges of Alekhine in his final phase, covering his marriages...
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Michael Lewis
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
By the author of the bestselling Moneyball : in football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. ...
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