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Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand: How to Create a Culture That Cares for Kids
James Vollbracht
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• Author(s): James Vollbracht • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Children's StudiesChildren's lives today are complex, stressful, and dangerous. Kids are overscheduled, come home to empty houses and...
View full detailsReign of Snakes
Robert Wrigley
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• Author(s): Robert Wrigley • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralDescribed by the late James Dickey as "one of the finest new poets to come along in years," Robert Wrigley ...
View full detailsRavelstein
Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: PsychologicalAbe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the ...
View full detailsOvertime: Selected Poems
Philip Whalen
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• Author(s): Philip Whalen • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralLike his college roommate Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends w...
View full detailsMysteries of Small Houses: Poems
Alice Notley
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• Author(s): Alice Notley • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralA Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the Los Angeles Time Book Prize Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the myst...
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Amy Gerstler
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• Author(s): Amy Gerstler • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralAmy Gerstler has won acclaim for complex yet accessible poetry that is by turns extravagant, subversive, surr...
View full detailsBasic Ballet: The Steps Defined
Joyce MacKie
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• Author(s): Joyce MacKie • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Genres & Styles - BalletAll the basic movements in classical ballet, illustrated with 275 detailed photographs. This unique handbook ...
View full detailsThe Price
Arthur Miller
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• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn a building slated for imminent demolition, two brothers, long estranged, reunite to se...
View full detailsThe Competitive Runner's Handbook: The Bestselling Guide to Running 5Ks through Marathons
Bob Glover
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• Author(s): Bob Glover • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Running & JoggingFor both runners entering that first neighborhood race and elite marathoners, trainers Bob and Shelly-lynn F...
View full detailsKill or Cure
Anne Waldman
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• Author(s): Anne Waldman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralFrom the Back Cover'Kill Or Cure', a bold prescriptive for these apocalyptic days, brings together substantia...
View full detailsMind Over Labor
Carl Jones
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• Author(s): Carl Jones • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Pregnancy & ChildbirthThe fear and pain most women expect from pregnancy can at last be overcome. Carl Jones, a certified childbirth ed...
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Jean Racine
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• Author(s): Jean Racine • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalRacine's play Phèdre--which draws on Euripides' tragedy Hippolytus--is the supreme achievement of French ...
View full detailsThe Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings
Bret Harte
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• Author(s): Bret Harte • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryBret Harte was at the forefront of western American literature, paving the way for other writers, including Mark Twain. F...
View full detailsA Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
Charles A. Siringo
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• Author(s): Charles A. Siringo • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyAfter a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas ...
View full detailsA New England Nun: And Other Stories
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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• Author(s): Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)A collection that shows Freeman's many modes - romantic, gothic, and psychologically sy...
View full detailsThe Emigrants
Gilbert Imlay
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• Author(s): Gilbert Imlay • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ClassicsImlay's delightful epistolary adventure of 1793, set on the American frontier, was one of the first American novels. T...
View full detailsThe Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
George Washington Cable
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• Author(s): George Washington Cable • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ClassicsSetting forth formidable arguments for racial equality, Cable's novel of feuding Creole families in early ni...
View full detailsRiver-Horse: Across America by Boat
William Least Heat Moon
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• Author(s): William Least Heat Moon • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, in...
View full detailsHiss and Tell: True Stories from the Files of a Cat Shrink
Pam Johnson-Bennett
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• Author(s): Pam Johnson-Bennett • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Cats - General"Pam Johnson-Bennett is the queen of cat behavior!" -- Steve Dale, author of My Pet World The author of Catwise, Thi...
View full detailsForever Liesl: A Memoir of The Sound of Music
Charmian Carr
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• Author(s): Charmian Carr • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe magic of The Sound of Music lives on in the minds and hearts of everyone it has touched. Now...
View full detailsS.: A Novel about the Balkans
Slavenka Drakulic
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• Author(s): Slavenka Drakulic • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Political"S. may very well be one of the strongest books about war you will ever read. . . The writing is taut, precise, and masterf...
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Carl Djerassi
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• Author(s): Carl Djerassi • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MedicalA compelling novel based on the high-stakes biotech industry and the science behind Viagra from the internationally known "Father...
View full detailsWaterloo
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralJune 1815: The Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Napoleon will meet on the battlefield--and...
View full detailsSharpe's Revenge: Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralWhen his honor and reputation are at stake, Sharpe seeks revenge--at any cost. It is 1814, and the defe...
View full detailsSharpe's Siege
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralSharpe's mission has seemed simple: capture a small unguarded French coastal fort, cripple Napoleon's s...
View full detailsSharpe's Regiment: Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of France, June to November 1813
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - General"Apart from the rousing battle scenes, the author is at his best, evoking a long-gone era through cleve...
View full detailsSharpe's Honor: Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June, 1813
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralAn unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprison...
View full detailsSharpe's Enemy (#6)
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: War & MilitaryA band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French...
View full detailsSharpe's Sword: Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: War & MilitaryA gripping tale of espionage, survival, and the complexities of human relationships set against the backdrop of one of history'...
View full detailsSharpe's Company: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: War & MilitaryTo stem the Napoleonic tide, Sharpe must capture a fortress--where his wife and infant daughter are trapped--while ...
View full detailsSharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign July 1809
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: War & MilitaryThe first book in Bernard Cornwell's epic Sharpe series, which completely transports the reader to an unforgettable...
View full detailsThe Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist
Mary H. Manhein
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• Author(s): Mary H. Manhein • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Forensic ScienceFrom the Back CoverTHE RIVETING TALE OF A TRUE-LIFE CRIME-FIGHTING SCIENTIFIC SLEUTHWhen a skeleton is all t...
View full detailsSharpe's Gold: Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: War & MilitaryAn action-packed historical adventure from Bernard Cornwell's enthralling series on the Napoleonic Wars. A daring, ...
View full detailsSharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809
Bernard Cornwell
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• Author(s): Bernard Cornwell • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: War & MilitaryIn the heart of war-torn Spain during the Napoleonic era, Lieutenant Richard Sharpe assumes command of the 95th Rifles, a demor...
View full detailsBefore the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
Charles Tyng
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• Author(s): Charles Tyng • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: HistoricalCharles Tyng's quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times at the begining of the ninetee...
View full detailsManhattan Memoir: American Girl/Manhattan, When I Was Young/Speaking with Strangers
Mary Cantwell
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• Author(s): Mary Cantwell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: WomenThe New York Times said that Mary Cantwell, in telling the story of her life, "Makes you discover yourself." Now, gathere...
View full detailsMotherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past
Fern Schumer Chapman
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• Author(s): Fern Schumer Chapman • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MemoirsA moving account of a mother and daughter who visit Germany to face the Holocaust tragedy that has caused their family dec...
View full detailsThe Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It Doesn't
Susan Maushart
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• Author(s): Susan Maushart • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralBecoming a mother is filled with the extremes of emotion --the highest highs and the lowest lows. But wome...
View full detailsThe Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
Richard Ellis
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• Author(s): Richard Ellis • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Animals - Marine LifeThe most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid--at least sixty feet long and weigh...
View full detailsShadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam
Robert Templer
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• Author(s): Robert Templer • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaIn Shadows and Wind, Robert Templer paints a fascinating and fresh picture of a country usually viewed with hazy n...
View full detailsMinor Characters: A Beat Memoir
Joyce Johnson
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• Author(s): Joyce Johnson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary FiguresNamed one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times Winner of the National Book Critic...
View full detailsAn Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England
Venetia Murray
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• Author(s): Venetia Murray • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFrom the Back CoverTHE REGENCY was one of the most romantic and turbulent ages in British history. Span...
View full detailsHeading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
Ariel Dorfman
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• Author(s): Ariel Dorfman • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresIn this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish he...
View full detailsA Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
Marilee Strong
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• Author(s): Marilee Strong • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverMeet Daphne, age sixteen. There are times when she hurts so bad, "too deep for tears", that...
View full detailsThe Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
Sebastian Barry
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• Author(s): Sebastian Barry • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Historical - GeneralHailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Whereabouts of Ene...
View full detailsT.C. Boyle Stories
T. C. Boyle
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• Author(s): T. C. Boyle • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - The first volume of collected short fiction from the award-winning ...
View full detailsThe Faith Factor: Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer
Dale A. Matthews
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• Author(s): Dale A. Matthews • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: HealingDrawing from the latest scientific research, as well as numerous illustrative case studies, The Faith Factor offers convincing...
View full detailsCactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy
Baxter F. Black
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• Author(s): Baxter F. Black • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Form - EssaysDescribed by The Washington Post as being able "to make a dead man sit up and laugh," Baxter Black--veterinarian/doctor t...
View full detailsDaughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir
Jacki Lyden
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• Author(s): Jacki Lyden • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Medical (Incl. Patients)As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some...
View full detailsFive against One: The Pearl Jam Story
Kim Neely
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• Author(s): Kim Neely • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MusicMore than any other band, Pearl Jam embodies the alternative style that dominates rock today. From their early days as fame-d...
View full detailsDo the Windows Open?
Julie Hecht
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• Author(s): Julie Hecht • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)Do the Windows Open? is a series of hilarious linked tales documenting the mania of the modern day in devasta...
View full detailsTasting Pleasure: Confessions of a Wine Lover
Jancis Robinson
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• Author(s): Jancis Robinson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Beverages - Alcoholic- GeneralA classic book about the pleasures of wine by the editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine Even ...
View full detailsIn the Memory of the Forest
Charles Powers
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• Author(s): Charles Powers • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryWhen the body of Tomek, a young distillery worker, is found brutally murdered in the forest outside Jadowia in Poland, his boyh...
View full detailsThe Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings
Wei Jingsheng
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• Author(s): Wei Jingsheng • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: PoliticalInternationally recognized as a major publishing event, The Courage to Stand Alone is a collection of prison writings...
View full detailsMiriam's Kitchen: A Memoir
Elizabeth Ehrlich
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Ehrlich • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ReligiousLike many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cul...
View full detailsA Field Guide to Cows: How to Identify and Appreciate America's 52 Breeds
John Pukite
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• Author(s): John Pukite • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Agriculture - Animal HusbandryIn A Field Guide to Cows, John Pukite provides all the facts-so even the novice can identify and g...
View full detailsIdentity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
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• Author(s): Maria Mazziotti Gillan • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)In stories and poems that explore how our society shapes us, Identity Lessons features a wide arr...
View full detailsEight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values that Build Strong Families and Communities
Clifton L. Taulbert
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• Author(s): Clifton L. Taulbert • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: InspirationalThe acclaimed speaker and author of Once Upon a Time We Were Colored shares his timeless "front porch wisdom" of his ...
View full detailsWobegon Boy
Garrison Keillor
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• Author(s): Garrison Keillor • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralJohn Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academic...
View full detailsA Lover's Almanac
Maureen Howard
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• Author(s): Maureen Howard • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryOne of the preeminent novelists of our time, Maureen Howard dazzles us with a love story of radiant intelligence and ...
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