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Author
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Marriage is a mysterious, often irrational business. Making it work till death do you part--or just till the end of the week--isn't always easy. And no one ever handed you a user's manual. Until now. Here, Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson offer something new: a clear-eyed, rational route to demystifying your disagreements and improving your relationship. The key, they propose, is to think like an economist. Economics is the study of resource allocation,...
206023) Watching you without me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After her mother's sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli, who was born with a developmental disability, Karen begins to feel consumed by the isolation of her new role. On top of that, she's weighed down with guilt over her years spent keeping Kelli and their independent-to-a-fault...
Author
Publisher
Moon Shower, an imprint of Bushel & Peck books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Author Jacqueline Jules, who was a school librarian in Arlington, Virginia on 9/11, tells the story of that day through a tapestry of poems. These poems tell the stories of young people from all aspects of the Arlington and Pentagon communities and are composites drawn from personal experiences with students and friends residing in Northern Virginia at the time of the attack." --Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From an award-winning journalist covering gender and politics comes an inside look at the female candidates fighting back and winning elections in the crucial 2018 midterms. Beyond the 2018 victories, Moscatello speaks with leaders of organizations training female candidates, researchers, and successful strategists who helped women triumph--emphasizing authenticity and passion. After November 8, 2016, first came the sadness; then came the rage, the...
Publisher
Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
ASA has built a reputation for providing the aviation community with the most accurate and reliable FAR/AIM products available. The 2024 FAR/AIM book continues this tradition, containing complete and up-to-date information from Titles 14 and 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 and 49 CFR) pertinent to general aviation, pilots, flight instructors, and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators, combined with the Aeronautical Information Manual...
206028) Madrid: a culinary history
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
206029) The perfect shot
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Revealing the best of Lonely Planet’s travel photography from across the globe, this pictorial does more than display beautiful photographs of classic scenes and locations. Our photographers – in their words – share the backstories of how they got the perfect shot, making this an inspirational and illuminating photography book for every kind of traveller. Featuring over 200 photographs from renowned photographers such as Philip Lee Harvey and...
206030) Distilled knowledge: the science behind drinking's greatest myths, legends, and unanswered questions
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone has questions about drinking, but it can seem like every bartender (and bargoer) has different answers. Between the old wives' tales, half-truths, and whiskey-soaked conjectures, it's hard to know what to believe-until now. Armed with cutting-edge research and a barfly's thirst for the truth, cocktail instructor Brian D. Hoefling tackles the most burning questions and longest-held myths surrounding that most ancient of human pastimes-with...
206031) Un juego para toda la familia
Author
Publisher
Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando revisa los deberes que ha realizado su hija Ellen, Justine se encuentra leyendo una historia escalofriante articulada en torno a una serie de siniestros asesinatos. ¿Puede ser la propia Ellen quien haya cometido esa atrocidad? ¿Puede ser culpable de esos asesinatos, tal y como ella parece asegurar en su redacción escolar? ¿Cómo si no iba a inventar algo tan grotesco? Justine entra en pánico cuando descubre que Ellen también ha inventado...
206032) Mao's last dancer
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"From a desperately poor village in northeast China, to a career that took him across the world, this is the incredible story of Li Cunxin -- a story that almost vanished, like so many other peasants' lives, amid revolution and chaos. At age eleven, Li was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange,...
206036) Seasons of war
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 13
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before ... War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest - not only against the...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Self-criticism and self-blame are often at the root of depression, anxiety, and addiction. These toxic forms of emotional self-harm can lead to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, and interfere with day-to-day functioning. From an expert on self-forgiveness therapy, this workbook teaches proven-effective skills readers can use to develop the ability to forgive themselves, quiet their critical inner voice, and begin to build a life of meaning...
206039) My beliefs
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A belief is something that we accept as being true or something that we can trust. Children will learn about the different beliefs held by people around the world with respect to religion, culture, and family. They will also learn how to respect and value others beliefs.
206040) The not-so-itsy-bitsy spider
Author
Series
Night frights volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Adults are always telling kids that spiders are more afraid of them than they are of the spider. But what about when that spider is the size of a dog? And your parents are out? And you just saw it scuttle past the open doorway to the living room? You know it's waiting to jump out and eat you. You have no choice ... you have to find it before it finds you!"--
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