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Harriet Fish Backus
Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
A Colorado favorite, Tomboy Bride presents the first-hand account of a young pioneer woman and her life in a rough and tumble mining town of the Old West. In 1906 at the age of twenty, Harriet Fish hopped on a train from Oakland, California, to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in search of a new...
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Joseph A. Skloot
Communities of Meaning: Conversations on Modern Jewish Life Inspired by Rabbi Larry Hoffman: Conversations on Modern Jewish Life Inspired by Rabbi
"Brisk yet meditative . . .Rabbis and others active in Jewish worship communities will be inspired." --Publishers Weekly Few people have had a greater impact on modern Jewish worship and life than Rabbi Larry Hoffman. "From Larry Hoffman, we learn how to pray with consequence." --Janet Walton, ...
$8.58
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Emilio Parga
Kids Can Cope
The Solace Tree is excited to announce the arrival of our latest book, Kids Can Cope. Kids Can Cope is an activity book from children for children who are living with change and loss. Written by Solace Tree Founder Emilio Parga, the book features more than 60 pages of text offering numerous opportun...
$8.15
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Sean DeLear
I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear
A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA’s most influential artists of subsequent decades. When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends discovered—among other treasures—an extensive diary kept at the age of fourteen....
$14.81
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Jonathan Bayliss
Prologos (Gloucesterman series)
Prologos is Jonathan Bayliss's sparkling, complex, experimental, playful, serious, richly detailed literary masterpiece of the 20th century whose protagonist, Michael Chapman, is the "author" or "controller" of the other three novels in Bayliss's GLOUCESTERMAN tetralogy. The foreground is Californi...
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Ernest Poole
His Family
His Family is a novel by Ernest Poole published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.His Family tells the story of a middle-class family in New York City in the 1910s. The family's patriarch, wid...
$8.19
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Barbara Oakley PhD
Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens
A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject—based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learn...
$11.52
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Jose Hobday
Stories of Awe and Abundance
Sister Jose Hobday is one of America's most popular speakers on prayer and spirituality. Her stories, drawn from her own experience growing up as a Native American Catholic in the American Southwest, eloquently communicate her relationship with and commitment to God, family, and community. In Storie...
$10.33
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Bob Klapisch
Inside The Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world   Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives readers the real, unvarnished “st...
$11.97
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Dylin Redling
Personal Finance Workbook for Beginners: Practical Exercises for Smarter Money Management and Financial Empowerment
The practical way to financial empowerment   Personal finances are an essential element of life, but many of us avoid dealing with them because we don't feel well-informed. Overcome any doubts you may have about your financial literacy with this financial workbook for beginners. You will learn key...
$9.99
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Greil Marcus
Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
An "astute, challenging, and far-reaching” look ( Kirkus Reviews , starred) at how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive   “I found great pleasure in . . . Under the Red White and Blue . . .  about the idea ...
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Michelle Gerster
Travesía: A Migrant Girl’s Cross-Border Journey/El viaje de una joven migrante
This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who attempts to cross the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey, filled with both heartbreak and hope...
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Scott Camp
A Primer On Pain: Discover How Suffering Shapes Our Lives
Suffering Shapes Our Lives Pain will make a difference in your life, like it or not. Suffering squeezes and shapes us for better or worse. Why, Do We Need A Primer On Pain ? “ A Primer On Pain is an important book, which I believe will stand the test of time. Drawing on both scholarly and popula...
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Mariko Tamaki
Future State Batman: Dark Detective
New York Times bestselling and Eisner-winning author Mariko Tamaki reveals a potential future state of Gotham, a militaristic reality that rivals 1984 . Welcome to the possible future state of Gotham. The Magistrate, a freelance military and surveillance corporation, has been hired by Gotham's l...
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Doreen Rappaport
The Secret Seder
Jacques and his parents are hiding in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, pretending to be Catholics. On the first night of Passover, Jacques and his father elude Nazi soldiers to gather with other Jews and celebrate the Seder in secret. For this book, Doreen Rappaport researched the lives of ...
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Dennis McNally
On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture l...
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Bob Klapisch
Inside The Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees – The NYT Bestseller: Unvarnished Truth About Baseball's Most Storied Franchise
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world   Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives readers the real, unvarnished “st...
$13.59
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Michael Mechanic
Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live―and How Their Wealth Harms Us All
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilie...
$14.30
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Greg Trine
Terror in Tights (Melvin Beederman, Superhero, 4)
Is Melvin Beederman DOOMED? Mysterious threatening e-mails, a sad sidekick, and . . . country music? Melvin Beederman and his partner in uncrime, Candace, are really in trouble. Once again someone is out to get them, and this time not even the Superhero's Code can save Melvin from a terrible bolog...
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Tram Nguyen
We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11
In an ironic reversal of the American dream, a staggering 20,000 members of the immigrant community of Midwood, Brooklyn (known as Little Pakistan), voluntarily left the United States after 9/11. Tram Nguyen reveals the human cost of the domestic war on terror and examines the impact of post-9/11 po...
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