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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
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Michael J Fox
The beloved actor--and #1 bestselling author--writes about the personal philosophy that has carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare.
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1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die
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Patricia Schultz
Now, for the first time from the best selling travel author, Patricia Schultz, comes "1000 Places To See In The U.S.A. and Canada Before You Die". Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska's Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas City - from Arthur ...
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The Outlander
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Gil Adamson
With the stunning prose and captivating mood of great works like Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain" or early Cormac McCarthy, Adamson's intoxicating debut novel weds a brilliant literary style to the gripping tale of one woman's desperate escape.
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Bones to Ashes
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Kathy Reichs
In her most riveting thriller yet, Reichs--bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the television hit "Bones," based on her Temperance Brennan books--pits Brennan against an enigma out of her own past.
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
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Gary H Lincoff
762 full color identification photos show mushrooms as they appear in their natural habitat. 703 species are covered in detail with notes on hundreds of lookalikes. Includes common edible and poisonous species.
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A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America
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Roger Tory Peterson (Illustrator), Lee Allen Peterson (Photographer)
This time-tested guide to wild plants, released with a colorful new jacket, uses detailed illustrations to pinpoint key field marks for quick species identification.
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Champlain's Dream
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David Hackett Fischer
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brings to life one of the great figures in North American history, Samuel de Champlain, who founded Quebec 400 years ago and established a colony where respect for the native people and religious tolerance were practiced. B&w illustrations throughout.
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Elijah of Buxton
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Christopher Paul Curtis
Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. He's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy who's scared of snakes and talks too much. But everything changes when a former slave steals ...
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A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Of Eastern and Central North America
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Steven Foster, James A Duke, Roger Tory Peterson (Editor)
At a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. 300+ color photos.
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
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A N Roquelaure
When Sleeping Beauty awakes at the Prince's kiss, it is the beginning of this story, not the end. Once the prisoner of a spell, locked in the sleep of innocence, she is now the prisoner of sensual love, held fast by the magic of desire. She becomes the slave of the Prince's passions.
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Stalking the wild asparagus.
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Euell Gibbons
Euell Gibbons was one of the few people in this country to devote a considerable part of his life to the adventure of "living off the land." He sought out wild plants all over North America and made them into delicious dishes. His book includes recipes for vegetable and casserole dishes, breads, cakes, muffins and twenty different pies. He also ...
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
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Paul Tough
Geoffrey Canada is a driven, brilliant crusader for children who argues that to change the lives of poor children, everything has to change--their schools, their families, their neighborhoods--all at once. Tough offers a behind-the-scenes look at Canada's Harlem Children's Zone organization.
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Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier
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Wallace Earle Stegner
In this recreation of southern Saskatchewan from 1914 to 1920, Wallace Stegner combines his own memories with history and fictional techniques to create a community, a landscape, and an unforgettable childhood.
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When Comes the Spring
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Janette Oke
Elizabeth, the cultured young schoolteacher from the East, has braved the western frontier and spent a year teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. How she and Wynn are planning their wedding and their new life together at his outpost in the far north. While Wynn is accustomed to life in the north, Elizabeth is not. Can their love for each other ...
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970
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Lex Williford (Editor), Professor Michael Martone (From an idea by)
Stories by the famous and the emerging: Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Junot Diaz, Melanie Rae Thon, Jamaica Kincaid, Reginald McNight, Amy Tan, and more.
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Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling
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Bret Hart
Written without collaborators and based on decades of tape recordings he made throughout his career, "Hitman" is Hart's brutally honest, perceptive, and startling account of his life in and out of the WWE ring.
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Cabal
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Clive Barker
A collection of short stories by horror master Clive Barker, including the title story and "The Last Illusion", which were both made into successful movies: "Nightbreed" and "Lord of Illusions", respectively.
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Stalking the Healthful Herbs
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Euell Gibbons
In conjuction with his passion for wild foods. Euell Gibbons gathered and used wild herbs for both culinary and medicinal purposes. In this book he describes how to identify and use the wealth of herbs that thrive in the wild.
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
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Alice Munro
Alice Munro's 10th collection includes "Floating Bridge," about a woman with cancer who tires of her husband's solicitude; "Nettles," about an unexpected meeting between two former lovers; and "Comfort," about a difficult marriage that has managed to endure. A New York Times "Editor's Choice" for 2001.
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A Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest
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Roger Tory Peterson (Editor), Mariner Books, George A Petrides
Features detailed descriptions of 455 species of trees native to eastern North America, including the Midwest and South.
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Very Last First Time
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Jan Andrews, Ian Wallace (Illustrator)
Eva, an Inuit girl, goes searching for shellfish under the ice, but she lingers too long and barely avoids disaster.
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Corporate Finance
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Stephen A Ross
"Corporate Finance", by Ross, Westerfield, and Jaffe is a popular textbook that emphasizes the modern fundamentals of the theory of finance, while providing contemporary examples to make the theory come to life. The authors aim to present corporate finance as the working of a small number of integrated and powerful intuitions, rather than a ...
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White Fang
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Jack London
WHITE FANG is London's classic adventure novel centering on a ferocious and magnificent creature, half dog, half wolf, through whose experiences we feel the essential savagery of wilderness life among animals and men.
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Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood writes about a notorious Canadian murder case of the 1840s in this historical novel. She takes the facts of the Grace Marks case and uses them to delve into the psyche of the convicted murderer and the social milieu that she lived in. The stations of women, immigrants, and the poor are examined in detail through the psychological ...
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A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and North-Central United States and in Southeastern and South-Central Canada
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George A Petrides
All the wild trees, shrubs, and woody vines in the area north to Newfoundland, south to North Carolina and Tennessee, and west to the Dakotas and Kansas are described in detail. Accounts of 646 species include shape and arrangement of leaves, height, color, bark texture, flowering season, and fruit. Clear, accurate drawings illustrate leaves, ...
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