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George Koval was born in Iowa. In 1932, his parents, Russian Jews who had emigrated because of anti-Semitism, decided to return home to live out their socialist ideals. George, who was as committed to socialism as they were, went with them. It was there that he was recruited by the Soviet Army as a spy and returned to the US in 1940. A gifted science student, he enrolled at Columbia University, where he knew scientists soon to join the Manhattan Project,...
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Publisher
Holt Paperbacks/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Cry it out or co-sleep? Bassinet or swing? White noise machine or Bach? How many hours anyway? For something so important, there's too much conflicting information about how best to get your baby to sleep through the night and nap successfully during the day. This book is a straightforward, no-nonsense answer to one of the biggest challenges new parents face when they welcome a brand new baby home. This book is written for exhausted parents, giving...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Spies have long been a source of great fascination in the world of fiction, but sometimes the best spy stories happen in real life. Russians Among Us tells the full story of Putin's escalating espionage campaign in the West, the Russian 'deep cover' spies who penetrated the US and the years-long FBI hunt to capture them. This book also details the recruitment, running, and escape of one of the most important spies of modern times, a man who worked...
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Publisher
Tiller Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Sleep is not only crucial to our overall health, but it also serves as the backbone of coping mechanisms in our restless, modern world. Now, with many of us feeling over-tired and under pressure, it's more important than ever to get a good night's sleep, and The Natural Sleeper offers a comprehensive collection of therapeutic solutions to improve sleep using natural remedies. Combining self-help approaches and therapies, this practical book explores...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The FastDiet and "one of the world's leading journalists covering nutrition and health" (Dr. Valter Longo, director of the University of Southern California Longevity Institute) presents a science-based sleep program designed to improve brain function, support weight loss, boost your mood, and reduce stress. Also includes 50 recipes developed by Dr. Clare Bailey and Justine Pattinson."--
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Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent message for all sleep-deprived parents: You don't have to suffer through stressful strategies such as "cry-it-out" to get your child's sleep schedule on track. There's another way! Parents spend a great deal of energy coaxing, singing, and swinging their children to sleep. Yet over time, all that cajoling can actually have the opposite of its desired effect. Most parents do what works today but don't notice when it's no longer needed tomorrow,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A memoir and elegy to the author's deceased dog, The Speckled Beauty"--
"Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and a screen-door muncher who spends his days playing chicken with the FedEx man, picking up livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house....
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse...
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Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Frank Huyler was just starting out in the medical profession in the late 1990s, he published a collection of medical vignettes detailing his encounters in the highly charged world of an emergency room. The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic, praised for Huyler's poetic prose and his ability to probe beneath the surface of his patient encounters-revealing the hard truths of life in the medical field. Now, over twenty years later, Huyler...
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English
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A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program
A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.
This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,”...
A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.
This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,”...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Will we ever get tired of watching Cher navigate Beverly Hills high school and discover true love in the movie Clueless? As if! Written by Amy Heckerling and starring Alicia Silverstone, Clueless is an enduring comedy classic that remains one of the most streamed movies on Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes even twenty years after its release. Inspired by Jane Austen's Emma, Clueless is an everlasting pop culture staple. In the first book of its kind, Jen...
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Publisher
Triumph Books LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Simon Waterson's job is to turn actors into athletes. Now you can learn how to transform your fitness and wellbeing with the film industry's most in-demand trainer. Simon's client list reads like a who's who of A-list actors. He has transformed Daniel Craig into the formidable James Bond for five blockbuster films, shaped Chris Evans into superhero Captain America, trained Chris Pratt for Guardians of the Galaxy and prepared actors such as Thandiwe...
17) The cataracts
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Poetry as Escher: shifting perspective, a landscape that doesn't stand still, and questions that fold in on themselves.
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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