Kahn, Mattie

Summary: "The untold history of the people who helped spark America's most important social movements from the Revolutionary War to today: teenage girls. Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1912, women's rights activists organized a massive march in support of women's suffrage, led up...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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Hellmich, Mittie

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2006

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Whittekin, Martie

Summary: The Probiotic Cure, a guide to overcoming many of our most common health issues. The Probiotic Cure is divided into two parts. Part One is designed to explain what our internal flora is and how it works in our gut. It examines what comprises this living community, specifically focusing on the natural balance of bad and good bacteria. It details how this community can become unbalanced from a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Square One Publishers 2016

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Friedman, Matti

Summary: "Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East,"--NoveList.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016

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Selecman, Mattie Jackson

Summary: "After being married for less than a year, country music legend Alan Jackson's daughter Mattie was faced with navigating a future that didn't include her young husband and their lifelong plans. In Lemons on Friday, readers walk with Mattie Jackson Selecman during the first years of grief following Ben's tragic death as she grapples with her loss and leans on a steadfast God. Based on Selecman's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2021

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Friedman, Matti

Summary: The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs. In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and bloodshed of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2022

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Mattis, James N.

Summary: "Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis's storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has learned about the nature of warfighting and peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the strategic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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Garlick, Hattie

Summary: HOBBIES. Want to save cash, your child's imagination and possibly even the planet? This is the book you need. Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions for activities that require nothing more sophisticated than a small person's imagination and access to a little outdoor space. Organized seasonally and then by material, it...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016

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Ellis, Hattie.

Summary: Integrating popular science and social history, a global history of honeybees examines the hive society of the bee, as well as the influence of bees and honey on diverse cultures around the world and throughout history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2004

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Boström, Mattias

Summary: "Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017

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Murphy, Mannie

Summary: "What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of Mannie Murphy's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix--specifically his role in Gus Van Sant's classic film, My Own Private Idaho--slowly transforms into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's long and shameful history of white nationalism. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2021

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Sattin, Anthony

Summary: "The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization....

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022

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Jocelyn, Marthe

Summary: "A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020

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Ricard, Matthieu.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2003

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Pelletier, Cathie

Summary: Tells the story of the winter storm that significantly impacted the New England region in 1952.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023

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Haselton, Martie Gail

Summary: Identifies the sources of behavioral and physiological changes attributed to a woman's hormone cycles, revealing a hidden adaptive intelligence in the body's hormones and how an awareness of protective hormonal activity can help women to make better-informed decisions.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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Desmet, Mattias

Summary: "Occasionally, there are books that try to make sense of a key moment in history - and become an indispensable guide to the times we live in. This book is one of them. In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective psychosis to take hold. By analysing our current global situation and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2022

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Mattlin, Ben

Summary: "An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022

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Sattin, Samuel

Summary: "An accessible, inclusive guide aimed at helping young fans celebrate their okatu spirit by sharing the history of anime and manga while giving young readers advice on how to explore and interact with this fandom. Whether they're watching anime on Netflix and Crunchyroll or bringing home stacks of manga from the library or bookstore, there is no denying that young fans need a guidebook to help...

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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2023

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Beattie, Melody.

Summary: We've all had situations in our lives that seem beyond our control or that have no clear remedy. In this concise, inspirational guide, bestselling self-help guru Melody Beattie shows us that we have the ability to make a miracle for almost any circumstance we're facing. She offers a distillation of what she knows about gratitude, surrender, and connecting with our essential power. She...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

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Massie, Allan

Summary: Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011

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Ricard, Matthieu

Summary: "The author of the international bestseller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism--and why we need it now more than ever,"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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Ricard, Matthieu.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2007

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