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Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

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The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better or Worse

The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better or Worse

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A Stranger in Tibet: Adventures of a Zen Monk - Life of Kawaguchi Ekai (Flamingo)

A Stranger in Tibet: Adventures of a Zen Monk - Life of Kawaguchi Ekai (Flamingo)

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Saving Baby: How One Woman's Love for a Racehorse Led to Her Redemption

Saving Baby: How One Woman's Love for a Racehorse Led to Her Redemption

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The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

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The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship (Dave Pelzer)

The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship (Dave Pelzer)

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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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One Writer's Beginnings (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization, 1983)

One Writer's Beginnings (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization, 1983)

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Two Lives

Two Lives

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Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman

Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman

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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

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Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

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Pope Francis

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The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

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My Body

My Body

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Animals Christopher Columbus Saw by Markle, Sandra (2008) Paperback

Animals Christopher Columbus Saw by Markle, Sandra (2008) Paperback

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The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

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The Blue and the Gray: Volume 2: From the Battle of Gettysburg to Appomattox, Revised and Abridged (The Classic History of the Civil War , Vol 2)

The Blue and the Gray: Volume 2: From the Battle of Gettysburg to Appomattox, Revised and Abridged (The Classic History of the Civil War , Vol 2)

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Remembering Whitney

Remembering Whitney

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Ike and Monty: Generals at War

Ike and Monty: Generals at War

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Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President

Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President

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The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors

The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors

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Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son's Life

Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son's Life

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Unprotected: A Memoir

Unprotected: A Memoir

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Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics by Parris, Matthew

Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics by Parris, Matthew

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Diary of Latoya Hunter: My First Year in Junior High

Diary of Latoya Hunter: My First Year in Junior High

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Single State of Mind

Single State of Mind

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Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution

Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution

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Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner

Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner

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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

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The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly

The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly

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Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back

Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back

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Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

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Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

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