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Abused, Confused & Misused Words

A Writer's Guide to Usage, Spelling, Grammar, and Sentence Structure

by Mary Embree
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012

The English language can be tricky—discover (and avoid) these common mistakes! Is incorrect spelling starting to have a negative affect on your term papers? Do you wonder what someone is inferring when they tell you to pick up a dictionary? Have you been putting bullion in your soup? These...

Happy Pretty Messy

Cultivating Beauty and Bravery When Life Gets Tough

by Natalie Wise
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

Ever felt like you needed a refresher course on how to be happy in life? Happy Pretty Messy is a modern-day inspirational guidebook for women of all ages seeking to live with beauty and bravery. As a modern lifestyle philosopher, Natalie Wise brings her trademark poetic prose to finding and...

Napoleon's Hemorrhoids

And Other Small Events That Changed History

by Phil Mason
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009

Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon’s Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs. In one of Phil Mason’s many revelations, you’ll learn that Communist jets were two minutes away from opening fire on American...

Make Space

A Minimalist's Guide to the Good and the Extraordinary

by Regina Wong
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

We simply have too much stuff in our lives. Burdened by our heavy consumerist culture to continually own and consume without purpose, we lose ourselves to debt, dissatisfaction, and despair. If having more, doing more, and being more does not allow us to live abundantly, what can? Minimalism...

Bucket List Adventures

10 Incredible Journeys to Experience Before You Die

by Annette White
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017

A wide-ranging travel memoir and inspiring guide by a woman who overcome her fears and set out for her dream destinations. Writing down the things you’d like to see and do before you die is one thing—actually doing them is another. After years of allowing her anxieties to keep her from...

Plants You Can't Kill

101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners

by Stacy Tornio
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

"I kill everything I plant." Does this sound like you or someone you know? Give yourself a pat on the back because admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. And lucky for you, you can easily turn your brown thumb into a green one with the help of Plants You Can’t Kill. Seriously-it...

Kitty Genovese

A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences

by Catherine Pelonero
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

A New York Times bestseller! Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens,...

Framed

Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016

The New York Times bestseller – now in paperback, with a new afterword “A must-read for those who care about justice and integrity in our public institutions.” —Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq. The Definitive Story of One of the Most Infamous Murders of the Twentieth Century and the Heartbreaking...

A Good Man with a Dog

A Retired Game Warden's 25 Years in the Maine Woods

by Roger Guay, Kate Clark Flora
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

A game warden’s gripping account of his career protecting wildlife—and people—in New England and in New Orleans. When Roger Guay’s father died in a tragic accident during a fishing excursion, a kind game warden helped him through the loss. Inspired by this experience, as well as his...

This Victorian Life

Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology

by Sarah A. Chrisman
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015

A unique memoir about a modern couple living the lifestyle of another era—and what it teaches them about history and human nature. We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it’s spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history?...

The Crime of the Century

Richard Speck and the Murders That Shocked a Nation

by Dennis L. Breo, William J. Martin, Bill Kunkle
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

The story behind the attack that shocked a nation and opened a new chapter in the history of American crime. On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through several student nurses’ townhouse like a summer tornado and changed the landscape of American crime. He broke in as his helpless...

Kiss the Boys Goodbye

How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam

by Monika Jensen-Stevenson, William Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

A damning account of how the United States government abandoned American prisoners of war in Vietnam—and the cover-up that continues to this day.   It is a story often seen in movies and tv shows—POWs from the Vietnam war left behind to suffer in enemy hands, only to be later rescued through...

The Family Tree Toolkit

A Comprehensive Guide to Uncovering Your Ancestry and Researching Genealogy

by Kenyatta D. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

The popularity of Family History has increased over the past five years due to TV shows like Genealogy Roadshow, Finding Your Roots, and Who Do You Think You Are? The ability to access records online has opened up the one time hobby for genealogy enthusiasts to the mainstream. Companies like Ancestry.com,...

The Gestapo

A History of Horror

by Jacques Delarue
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008

From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art. The Gestapo: A History of Horror draws...
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