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A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, v...

This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It is the foremost resource and reference on shamanism. Now, with a new introduction a...

The story of how and why up to three-quarters of the eight hundred ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, hidden for some nineteen centuries, have, until v...

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This epic work—named a ...

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his...

Product Description NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES\Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomf...

Stop Being A People Pleaser! Learn How To Set Boundaries And Say NO - Without Feeling Guilty! Are you fed up with people taking advantage of you? Are you t...

In March of 1992, the highest–ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to break his oath of silence testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salva...

What secrets connect Egypt‘s Great Pyramids, the Freemasons, and the Council on Foreign Relations? In this astonishing book, celebrated journalist Jim Mar...

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well...

Senator Obama Calls For A Different Brand Of Politics--a Politics For Those Weary Of Bitter Partisanship And Alienated By The Endless Clash Of Armies We See...

Alfie Kohn’s landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology, featuring updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the author Our bas...

Collection Of 30 Bite-sized Low-dose Edibles Recipes That Includes Instructions For Creating Master Ingredients Like Canna Butters And Oils, And Detailed In...

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma City-style, and to le...

Populist rage, ideological fractures, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk--...

Ninety-nine percent of the time, the world spins like a top, the skies are clear, and your refrigerator is full of good food. But the world is a volatile p...

Here, from Jay Dobyns, the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, is the inside story of the twenty...

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has h...

The relationship expert from the Ladies' Home Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and Lifetime Television shows how to prevent marriage problems before they s...

We are all aging. We are each a spoke on the great wheel of life, part of the ongoing cycle of growth. In Aging, Henri J.M. Nouwen and Walter J. Gaffney sh...

From The Harvard Negotiation Project, The Organization That Brought Readers Getting To Yes, Difficult Conversations Provides A Step-by-step Approach To Havi...

With vibrant colors and bold geometric forms, Gerald McDermott brilliantly captures the stylized look of Pueblo Indian art in this Caldecott Award-winning r...

Each year, over 40,000 new students enter America's law schools. Each new crop experiences startlingly high rates of depression, anxiety, fatigue, and dissa...

Every aspect of a relationship takes on the nature of a dilemma when one or both partners are alcoholic. Here, the relatives and friends of alcoholics openl...

Collects The Author's Best New Yorker Pieces, Including Essays On Such Topics As Why There Are So Many Kinds Of Mustard But Only One Type Of Ketchup, A Surp...

In this first US edition, the author of the The Map That Changed the World portrays the 19th-century eruption of a Javanese volcano that still has global r...

women And Men Live In Different Worlds...made Of Different Words. spending Nearly Four Years On The new York Times Bestseller List, Including Eight Months...

The First Hispanic American On The U.s. Supreme Court Shares The Story Of Her Life Before Becoming A Judge, Describing Her Youth In A Bronx Housing Project,...

Men are rediscovering the importance of the spiritual life. And Father Larry Richards is helping them do it. While some writers apply a one-size-fits-all a...

#1 Best Seller in Popular Culture, Feminist Theory, Quotations, and Social Science ─ Positive Affirmations for a BadassFans of Rachel Hollis and Girl, Wa...

the Greatest Business Book Of All Time (bloomsbury Uk), in Search Of Excellence Has Long Been A Must-have For The Boardroom, Business School, And Bedside ...

The lawyer had not wanted the case at first -- it was too big, too complicated, too risky. It concerned a cluster of childhood leukemia victims in a small t...

Physical description: 350 p. ; 20 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Feminism. Women - Psychology - History. Women's rights - Social ...

Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out!From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the s...

Breaking night: (Urban slang) staying up through the night, until the sun rises Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen w...

Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, there hasn't been a week Ralph Macchio hasn't heard friendly...

The inspiration for the streaming series The Crowded Room, starring Tom Holland • From the acclaimed author of Flowers for Algernon comes the shocking true...

A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes--and what we can do about it. We are living through the most p...

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York T...

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how the...

Sacred Hoops Revisited -- Foreword / Senator Bill Bradley -- Introduction -- 1. The Second Coming -- 2. A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Starts With One Breath...

Product Description This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time.\If all goes...

Which Is More Dangerous, A Gun Or A Swimming Pool? What Do Schoolteachers And Sumo Wrestlers Have In Common? Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms?...

“If there are shoulders modern African-American women’s literature stands upon they belong to Ntozake Shange, who revolutionized theatre and literature wit...

Completely revised from the previous edition. Increased page count More dictionary entries - 61,000 total 13,000 thesaurus entries 3,000 new dicti...

The Medicine Wheel is a springboard of power that will allow you to link up to all the energies of the universe. -- Sun Bear Millions of people around th...

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in AmericaWidespread reporting on aspects of whi...

"Walk upstairs, open the door, and look in the crib.What do you see: Most of us see a picture of innocence and helplessness, a clean slate. But in fact, wh...