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Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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If it weren't for her mother Emma, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. When Whoopi lost her mother in 2010--and then her older brother, Clyde, five years later--she felt deeply alone. In this memoir, Whoopi shares many deeply personal stories of their lives together for the first time.
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English
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There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his vastly heterogeneous empire not by a cult of personality but by the cult of an idea-"dharma"-which served...
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English
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"Inspired by true figures - real-life pirate Samuel Bellamy and his star-crossed love story with a young woman named Maria - this captivating historical debut, set in the Golden Age of Pirates and in the shadowy aftermath of the Salem witch trials, combines spellbinding storytelling and impeccable research, perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah and Ellen Marie Wiseman. This true forbidden love story set 300 years ago in Cape Cod and the Caribbean is...
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English
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"Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn't know he's her best friend's younger brother. Lucy and Felix's chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again. It's easier said than done. Each year, Lucy escapes to PEI for a big breath of...
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English
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"From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost,...
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Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Menopause and perimenopause are still a black box to most doctors, leaving patients exasperated as they grapple with symptoms ranging from hot flashes to insomnia and brain fog. As a leading neuroscientist and women's brain health specialist, Dr. Lisa Mosconi unravels the mystery by revealing how menopause doesn't just impact the ovaries-but it's a hormonal show in which the brain takes center stage. The decline of the hormone estrogen during menopause...
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
©2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 272 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to boost productivity--what we come to know as habits. Over time, these habits (for example, brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) are done on autopilot. But when a layer of mindfulness accompanies a habit--when we focus on the precise way an act is performed--a ritual has been created. Now, an everyday act goes from black-and-white to technicolor. And as author Michael Norton explains...
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English
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"Complications arise when Marietta's secret love letters are accidentally found by the wrong man. 1828, the London countryside. For years, Marietta Stone has harbored a secret infatuation for the handsome Frederick Finch and has poured out her deepest feelings in a series of passionate love letters that she keeps in a locked drawer. But when Marietta's private letters are accidentally delivered to Frederick's house, she must retrieve them immediately...
10) The rabbit effect: live longer, happier, and healthier with the groundbreaking science of kindness
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Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition
Physical Desc
xxvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Columbia University doctor Kelli Harding never intended to explore the invisible factors behind our health. But then there were the rabbits. In 1978 a seemingly straightforward study designed to establish the relationship between high cholesterol and heart health in rabbits discovered that kindness--in the form of a particularly nurturing researcher--made the difference between a heart attack and a healthy heart. As Dr. Harding reveals in this eye-opening...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 511 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
12) Forged in Love
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English
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When sparks begin to fly, can a friendship cast in iron be shaped into something more?
Mariah Stover is left for dead and with no memory when the Deadeye Gang robs the stagecoach she's riding in, killing both her father and brother. As she takes over her father's blacksmith shop and tries to move forward, she soon finds herself in jeopardy and
wondering-does someone know she witnessed the robbery and is still alive?
Handsome and polished Clint...
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English
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"A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government's alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers, and how their efforts are reshaping surveillance and privacy as we know it. Our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this-ever get the sense that an ad is "following" you around the internet?-but we don't understand the extent to which the technology embedded in our phones, computers, cars, and homes is part of...
Author
Publisher
Greenpeak Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Hormone repair manual is a guide to understanding and overcoming the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. Naturopath Lara Briden's fresh approach aims to overturn the stigma of perimenopause and menopause and show women that: many symptoms are temporary and manageable; emotional challenges can present an opportunity to thrive; a focus on health during this period can bring benefits for years to come. Addressing common symptoms such as hot...
15) Diabetes
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Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
6th edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book helps you, or those you love, achieve the life you want while managing diabetes with lifestyle changes, alternative therapies and the latest medications.
The book that's been helping people with diabetes live their best lives for 20 years. Diabetes For Dummies is a trusted resource that guides those diagnosed with diabetes and pre-diabetes and their caregivers towards optimal health. This book helps you, or those you love, achieve the life...
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English
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"The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas, the first principals in the Dance Theatre of Harlem, who traveled the world as highly celebrated stars in their field and whose legacy was erased from history until now. At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarça was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company-the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She was the first Black ballerina on the cover of Dance...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of illustrations : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet. When factories...
19) Up-Island Harbor
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English
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"A quaint, historic fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha's Vineyard that tourists don't always see. Maddie Clarke's late mother was born on the Vineyard, and Maddie hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy's cottage above Menemsha Harbor. Now divorced with a teenage son, Maddie is awaiting news of a tenurship at her Massachusetts college when a letter arrives that could change everything... It turns out Grandma Nancy didn't...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Librarian Chloe Sampson has been struggling: to take care of her three younger siblings, to find herself, to make ends meet. She's just about at the end of her rope when she stumbles across a rare edition of a book from the 1960s at the local flea market. Deciding it's a sign of her luck turning, she takes it home with her-only to be shocked when her cranky hermit of a neighbor swoops in and offers to buy it for an exorbitant price. Intrigued, Chloe...
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