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Apologies to My Censor

The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China

by Mitch Moxley
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

The story of a young man's outrageous adventures in China and his search for identity in the most unexpected of places. Mitch Moxley came to Beijing in the spring of 2007 to take a job as a writer and editor for China Daily, the country's only English-language national newspaper. The Chinese...
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Permission to Parent

How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits

by Robin Berman, MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children. Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers....
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by Kaje Harper
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017

Four years ago, Ryan and John decided they'd wait to get married until it came with full legal equality. Now, thanks to the Supreme Court, that historic moment has finally arrived. But three hundred miles separate Ryan's hectic residency from John's busy campus job. With a son in college, a daughter...
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The Myth of Moral Justice

Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right

by Thane Rosenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

We are obsessed with watching television shows and feature films about lawyers, reading legal thrillers, and following real-life trials. Yet, at the same time, most of us don't trust lawyers and hold them and the legal system in very low esteem. In The Myth of Moral Justice, law professor and...
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Hummingbirds

A Guide to Every Species

by Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor, Sheri L. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014

Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity, jewel-like color, and remarkably small size. This is the first book to profile all 338 known species, from the Saw-billed Hermit to the Scintillant Hummingbird. Every bird is shown...
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by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the...
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The Mirage

A Novel

by Matt Ruff
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012

A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the...
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Your Struggling Child

A Guide to Diagnosing, Understanding, and Advocating for Your Child with Learning, Behavior, or Emotional Problems

by Lynn Sonberg, Robert F. Newby PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011

Here is a practical, compassionate book parents can turn to when they first recognize that their child has a "problem" –– but aren't sure what it is or where to seek help. At this very moment, millions of children across the U.S. are falling behind in school, acting out impulsively...
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Mornings Like This

Found Poems

by Annie Dillard
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011

In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old--and often odd--books, and composes ironic poems--some serious, some light--on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new.
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Beggar's Garden

Stories

by Michael Christie
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

Longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Critically lauded, The Beggar’s Garden is a brilliantly surefooted, strikingly original collection of nine linked short stories that will delight as well as disturb. The stories follow a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters, from...
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Marrow

A Love Story

by Elizabeth Lesser
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant—one the donor and one the recipient—begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love. A mesmerizing and courageous...
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How to Live Between Office Visits

A Guide to Life, Love and Health

by Bernie S. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011

In this compassionate and powerful healing guide, Dr. Bernie Siegel, the author of the triumphant bestsellers Love, Medicine & Miracles and Peace, Love & Healing, provides readers with healthy ways to respond to life's adversities.
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Unlatched

The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy

by Jennifer Grayson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

From an environmental journalist and mother of two young breast-fed children comes this searing, insightful look into the breastfeeding controversy and puts “common knowledge” about this most natural of processes to the test by breaking down the complex cultural, corporate, political, and technological...
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The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans

How to Decode Their Behavior, Develop Unshakable Trust, and Raise a Respectable Adult

by Josh Shipp
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

Nautilus Gold Award Winner: Parenting & Family A practical guide to understanding teens from bestselling author and global youth advocate Josh Shipp. In 2015, Harvard researchers found that every child who does well in the face of adversity has had at least one stable and committed...
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