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If you lived here you'd be famous by now : true stories from Calabasas / Via Bleidner. cover

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Seeing ghosts : a memoir / Kat Chow. cover

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Everything I have is yours : a marriage / Eleanor Henderson. cover

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Out of the pocket : football, fatherhood, and College GameDay Saturdays / Kirk Herbstreit ; with Gene Wojciechowski. cover

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Mitka's secret : a true story of child slavery and surviving the Holocaust / Steven W. Brallier with Joel N. Lohr and Lynn G. Beck. cover

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All in : an autobiography / Billie Jean King ; with Johnette Howard and Maryanne Vollers. cover

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Long live the tribe of fatherless girls : a memoir / T Kira Madden. cover

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Willie Nelson's letters to America / Willie Nelson, with Turk Pipkin. cover

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What is a dog? : a memoir / Chloe Shaw. cover

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Dopamine nation : resetting your brain in the age of cheap pleasures / Anna Lembke, M.D. cover

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What do you say? : how to talk with kids to build motivation, stress tolerance, and a happy home / William Stixrud, PhD, and Ned Johnson. cover

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The long slide : thirty years in American journalism / Tucker Carlson. cover

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The authoritarian moment : how the left weaponized America's institutions against dissent / Ben Shapiro. cover

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Dirty work : essential jobs and the hidden toll of inequality in America / Eyal Press. cover

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Pastoral song : a farmer's journey / James Rebanks. cover

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Power play : Tesla, Elon Musk, and the bet of the century / Tim Higgins. cover

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Here, right matters : an American story / Alexander S. Vindman. cover

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Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo / Mansoor AdayfI in collaboration with Antonio Aiello. cover

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Aftershocks : pandemic politics and the end of the old international order / Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright. cover

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Paradise : one town's struggle to survive an American wildfire / Lizzie Johnson. cover

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Play to progress : lead your child to success using the power of sensory play / Allie Ticktin, MA, OTD, OTR/L Founder, Play 2 Progress. cover

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I Left My Homework in the Hamptons : What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent cover

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Get real and get in : how to get into the college of your dreams by being your authentic self / Aviva Legatt. cover

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Valedictorians at the gate : standing out, getting in, and staying sane while applying to college / Becky Munsterer Sabky. cover

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Maiden voyages : magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them / Siân Evans. cover

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A brief history of motion : from the wheel, to the car, to what comes next / Tom Standage. cover

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The slightly greener method : detoxifying your home is easier, faster, and less expensive than you think / Tonya Harris, MSHN BCHN. cover

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We're not broken : changing the autism conversation / Eric Garcia. cover

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Mental wellness / [the authors: Pat Thomas, Inna Duckworth, Victoria Plum, Daphne Lambert]. cover

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How to starve cancer . . . and then kill it with ferroptosis / by Jane McLelland ; [foreword by Dr. George W. Yu]. cover

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Hard landings : looking into the future for a child with autism / Cammie McGovern. cover

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The rested child : why your tired, wired, or irritable child may have a sleep disorder--and how to help / W. Chris Winter, MD. cover

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Five-ingredient dinners : 100+ fast, flavorful meals / America's Test Kitchen. cover

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The weekday vegetarians / Jenny Rosenstrach ; photographs by Christine Han. cover

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No-waste save-the-planet vegan cookbook : 100 plant-based recipes and 100 kitchen-tested tips for waste-free meatless cooking / Celine Steen. cover

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Sumac : recipes and stories from Syria / recipes: Anas Atassi and Ajda Mehmet ; text: Anas Atassi and Suzanne Stougie ; food photography: Jeroen van der Spek ; editors: Yulia Knol and Marte Steendam ; translator, Margie Frazen ; English-language editor, Elena Gomez ; American edition editor, Leyla Moushabeck. cover

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How to talk when kids won't listen : whining, fighting, meltdowns, defiance, and other challenges of childhood / Joanna Faber & Julie King ; illustrated by Emily Wimberly. cover

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Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals / Oliver Burkeman. cover

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Choose possibility : take risks and thrive (even when you fail) / Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. cover

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Surrounded by bad bosses (and lazy employees) : how to stop struggling, start succeeding, and deal with idiots at work / Thomas Erikson. cover

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Becoming Trader Joe : how I did business my way and still beat the big guys / Joe Coulombe with Patty Civalleri. cover

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The gallery of miracles and madness : insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art / Charlie English. cover

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Crochet wizardry : the official Harry Potter crochet pattern book / Lee Sartori ; photography by Ted Thomas. cover

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Playlist for the Apocalypse : poems / Rita Dove. cover

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American estrangement : stories / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh. cover

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What about the baby? : some thoughts on the art of fiction / Alice McDermott. cover

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The American war in Afghanistan : a history / Carter Malkasian. cover

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The Afghanistan papers : a secret history of the war / Craig Whitlock. cover

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On that day : the definitive timeline of 9/11 / William M. Arkin. cover

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I alone can fix it : Donald J. Trump's catastrophic final year / Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. cover

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The reckoning : our nation's trauma and finding a way to heal / Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. cover

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Did you hear what Eddie Gein done? / written by Harold Schecter and Eric Powell ; illustrated by Eric Powell ; designed by Phil Balsman ; edited by Tracy Marsh. cover

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Elizabeth & Margaret the intimate world of the Windsor sisters / by Andrew Morton. cover

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The new retirement savings time bomb how to take financial control, avoid unnecessary taxes, and combat the latest threats to your retirement savings / by Ed Slott. cover

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Killing the mob the fight against organized crime in America / by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard. cover

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A life on our planet my witness statement and a vision for the future / David Attenborough with Jonnie Hughes. cover

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Stories to tell a memoir / Richard Marx. cover

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Seven things I wish Christians knew about the Bible Michael F. Bird. cover

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Love your life not theirs 7 money habits for living the life you want / Rachel Cruze ; foreword by Dave Ramsey. cover

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Becoming Trader Joe how I did business my way & still beat the big guys / Joe Coulombe with Patricia Civalleri. cover

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The reckoning our nation's trauma and finding a way to heal / Mary L. Trump, Ph. D. cover

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