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Woodswoman II, Paperback - Anne Labastille

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The Book of Poetry for Hard Times: An Anthology, Paperback - Robert Pinsky

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Writing a Woman's Life, Paperback - Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, Paperback - Eric Foner

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The Odyssey, Paperback - Homer

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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, Paperback - Anand Giridharadas

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Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World, Paperback - James Thomas

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Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians, Paperback - James Welch

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Agents of Innocence, Paperback - David Ignatius

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Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published, Paperback - Susan Rabiner

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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia, Paperback - David Greene

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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up to, Paperback - Dean Burnett

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Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang, America's Horse, Paperback - David Philipps

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Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education, Paperback - Susan Wise Bauer

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How to Read Wittgenstein, Paperback - Ray Monk

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No Bones, Paperback - Anna Burns

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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Paperback - Tim Parks

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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military, Paperback - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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In this far- reaching foray into the millennia- long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and author of Astrop...

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The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers, Paperback - Martin Doyle

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The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, Paperback - Galen Cranz

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Perhaps no other object of our daily environment has had the enduring cultural significance of the ever-present chair, unconsciously yet forcefully...

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Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

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Reducere. On three or four occasions in his career as a psychoanalytic theoretician, Freud changed his mind on fundamental issues. Setting forth in rich deta...

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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, Paperback - Olivia Laing

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How to Treat People: A Nurse's Notes, Paperback - Molly Case

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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes, Paperback - David Robson

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Climbing Mount Improbable, Paperback - Richard Dawkins

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Desolation Island, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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Slowly, Slowly in the Wind, Paperback - Patricia Highsmith

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The Beauty of Your Face, Paperback - Sahar Mustafah

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Uncle Tom's Cabin, Paperback - Harriet Beecher Stowe

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``Elizabeth Ammons has produced a first-rate Norton Critical Edition with Uncle Tom's Cabin.`` --Mason I. Lowance, Jr., University of Massachusetts...

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The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, Paperback - Kim Addonizio

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An Autobiographical Study, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, Paperback - Janice P. Nimura

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Reducere. In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a...

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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier, Paperback - Neil Degrasse Tyson

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Psycho-Analysis for Teachers and Parents - Anna Freud

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Fools, Paperback - Joan Silber

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Tremor of Intent, Paperback - Anthony Burgess

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Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe - Stephen E. Ambrose

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Reducere. Behind this decision lay another. Whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Britis...

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Adhocracy: The Power to Change - Robert H. Waterman

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Toxic Flora: Poems, Paperback - Kimiko Hahn

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The Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day, Hardcover - Mikael Krogerus

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, Paperback - Saidiya Hartman

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1 Henry IV, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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The Advanced Prism Workbook, Paperback - David B. Wexler

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Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing., Paperback - Robert Paul Smith

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Felt: Poems, Paperback - Alice Fulton

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Overcoming Math Anxiety, Paperback - Sheila Tobias

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What remains unchanged is the author's politics. She sees "math anxiety" as a political issue. So long as people themselves to be disabled in mathe...

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Jesus: A Life, Paperback - A. N. Wilson

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What are the facts about the life of Jesus, as opposed to the myths, or unprovable tenets of faith surrounding the miracles, death, and resurrectio...

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How to Read Sartre, Paperback - Robert Bernasconi

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Paperback - Madeleine Thien

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Hardcover - Neil Degrasse Tyson

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Dry Bones in the Valley, Paperback - Tom Bouman

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Brewster, Paperback - Mark Slouka

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Norse Mythology, Hardcover - Neil Gaiman

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A Little More about Me - Pam Houston

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Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, Paperback - Anthony Burgess

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Love, Hate and Reparation, Paperback - Melanie Klein

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How to Read Nietzsche, Paperback - Keith Ansell Pearson

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The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, Paperback - Wole Soyinka

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In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan, Paperback - Seth G. Jones

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Gun Dealers' Daughter, Paperback - Gina Apostol

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How to Read the Bible, Paperback - Richard Holloway

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The Narrow Road to the Interior, Paperback - Kimiko Hahn

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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome, Paperback - Douglas Boin

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Hoops, Paperback - Major Jackson

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Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy, Paperback - Christopher Phillips

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The Second Circle: Using Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation, Paperback - Patsy Rodenburg

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Contents May Have Shifted, Paperback - Pam Houston

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The Lifespan of a Fact, Paperback - John D'Agata

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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood, Paperback - David R. Montgomery

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Reducere. In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah's Flood. Intrigued, Montgom...

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