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Losing Baidu

by d'Artanyan Terry

Published: 2016-08-23

Kindle Edition: 23 pages

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Man's Best Friend. A boy and his dog. How else can you describe the strong bond between yourself and a very special canine friend?This is the story of Baidu the Rottweiler. Baidu was losing his home due to a relatives failing health. He was on his way to the local shelter, where he undoub...

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The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe

by John D. Barrow

Published: 2002-08-13

Paperback: 384 pages

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What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary ...

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Magic's Pawn (Last Herald-Mage Book 1)

by Mercedes Lackey

Published: 1989-06-06

Kindle Edition: 349 pages

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Groundbreaking epic fantasy series in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar universe • Lambda-Award winning novels with heartfelt high adventure and magic     Though Vanyel has been born with near-legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wasn’t no part in such things. Nor do...

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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table

by Ellen Wayland-Smith

Published: 2016-05-03

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion?only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propri...

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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

Published: 2017-10-17

Hardcover: 368 pages

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The instant New York Times bestseller!A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship i...

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Beautiful You

by Chuck Palahniuk

Published: 2015-07-21

Paperback: 240 pages

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Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm. She has an apartment, but no love life. When C. Linus Maxwell, a mega-billionaire and international playboy, invites her to dinner and then whisks her off to a hotel in Paris, where he brings her to undreamed-of heights o...

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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

by Caroline Fraser

Published: 2018-08-07

Paperback: 656 pages

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAROne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearThe first comprehensive...

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The Other Mother: A Novel

by Carol Goodman

Published: 2018-03-27

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From the author of the internationally bestselling The Lake of Dead Languages comes a gripping novel about madness, motherhood, love, and trust.When Daphne Marist and her infant daughter, Chloe, pull up the gravel drive to the home of Daphne’s new employer, it feels like they’ve entere...

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Published: 2006-10-15

Hardcover: 408 pages

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The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europ...

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He's Always Been My Son: A Mother’s Story about Raising Her Transgender Son

by Janna Barkin

Published: 2017-08-21

Paperback: 320 pages

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This inspiring and moving story, told from the heart of an extraordinary family, recounts the emotional and uplifting journey of raising a transgender son.Janna Barkin's family has come a long way since their child, Amaya, first told them he was a boy and not a girl and this captivating me...