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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns
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Ray Bradbury
In this classic of dystopian science fiction, censorship is so prevalent that "firemen" are entrusted with the task of burning books to keep the citizenry away from anything that might cause dissent. Suicides are commonplace, and people drug themselves with pills, thrills, and the meaningless programming that pours from four-wall television. Guy ...
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Moonwalk
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Michael Jackson
The pop singer Michael Jackson breaks the barrier of silence that has surrounded his private life. He recalls a childhood that was both harsh and joyful, the transformation of the Jackson Five into worldwide stardom, his sometimes difficult relationships with his family, and the inspiration and drive behind his music. He also talks about show ...
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems & Drawings
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Shel Silverstein
By the early 1970s, the outlandish, outrageous Shel Silverstein was already a prolific folksinger/songwriter, cartoonist, and author of a widely known, much discussed classic children's book, THE GIVING TREE. His popular 1973 album, FREAKIN' AT THE FREAKERS BALL, with Dr. Hook and the Medicine Band, contained a song about Sarah Cynthia Sylvia ...
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
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Crockett Johnson
"An ingenious and original picture story in which a small boy out for a walk--happily with crayon in hand--draws himself some wonderful adventures. A little book that will be loved".--The Horn Book. Full-color illustrations.
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How to Stop Worrying & Start Living
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Dale Carnegie
Great American motivator and early pioneer in the self-help movement Dale Carnegie offers calming wisdom and practical advice for helping people deal with the affliction of worry, which gets in the way at work and in life. One of the interesting parts of the book is the last chapter comprised of brief anecdotes from great people of the time on how ...
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 2
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Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (Photographer)
The only cookbook that explains how to create authentic French dishes in American kitchens with American foods. Teaches the key techniques of French cooking, permitting many variations on a theme. Over 100 instructive drawings.
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Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
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Richard Scarry
On their way to the beach for a picnic the Pig family encounters almost every kind of transportation vehicle imaginable--and imaginary.
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Moo, baa, la la la
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Sandra Boynton
Various humourously drawn animals demonstrate the very different, and often amusing sounds they make.
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The going to bed book
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Sandra Boynton
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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
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Susan Jeffers, PH.D
The author asserts that people's lack of decisiveness, whether in respect of work, relationships, money or life in general, is attributable mainly to fear. She claims that fear prevents them from doing what they really want and need to do in order to grow and achieve a sense of well-being, and that holding back through fear causes feelings of ...
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French Chef Cookbook
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Julia Child
Based on Julia Child's original television program from the 1960s, the recipes in this cookbook illustrate her simple and commonsense approach to French cuisine that made it accessible to millions of home cooks.
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Five Dialogues
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Plato
This second edition of 'Five Dialogues' presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato: Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Neil Postman
A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
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Pat the Bunny
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Dorothy Kunhardt
In this classic book, readers can play along as Paul and Judy pat their stuffed bunny, look in the mirror, play peek-a-boo, touch their daddy's rough whiskers, and try on their mother's wedding ring. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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The Complete Stories
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Flannery O'Connor
Thirty-one stories are in this volume, including 12 that never appeared in collections published during her lifetime. The stories are arranged chronologically, beginning with her first published story, "The Geranium" and ending with her last one, "Judgement Day."
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Shogun: A Novel of Japan
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James Clavell
A saga of Japan in the 1570s featuring a love triangle composed of the English adventurer John Blackthorne, a Japanese warlord, and a woman caught between two cultures.
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Nausea
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Jean Paul Sartre
"Nausea" is both Sartre's first published novel and first extended essay on the existential philosophy. In it, Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present and without lies.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Thomas S Kuhn
Thomas S. Kuhn's work explaining the process of scientific discovery. This text is the third edition and incorporates a new index.
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D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
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Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
A large format reprint of an introduction to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece includes all of the D'Aulaires' original, detailed illustrations.
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How to lie with statistics
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Darrell Huff
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than inform.
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Garden of Shadows
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V C Andrews
In this prequel to the Dollanger series, Olivia comes to Foxworth Hall as Malcom Foxworth's happy new bride. But secrets are lurking in the shadows of the family mansion, and Olivia is powerless to stop the evil that is breeding before her eyes.
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
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David McCullough
"Mornings on Horseback" is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, "Newsday" ), it is the winner of the "Los Angeles Times" 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. Written by David McCullough, the author of "Truman," this is the story of a remarkable little ...
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The Marx-Engels Reader
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Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C Tucker (Editor)
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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
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Michael E Porter
This book transformed the process by which business strategy is conceived. Porter unravels the rules that govern competition and turns them into useful planning tools to help management interpret market signals, forecast the direction of industry development, and position any company to compete successfully in the long run.
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River Why
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David James Duncan
Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature and a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation. This is the funny, sensitive, very special story of one man's search for meaning, ...
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