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2022 Audie Awards
Black History Month: Exploring Musical Roots
Music as Community: Marginalized Voices
Rogue Reads 2022-23 Selections
Black History Month: Exploring Musical Roots
Music as Community: Marginalized Voices
Rogue Reads 2022-23 Selections
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New York Times bestselling Music Is History combines Questloveâs deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty yearsânow in paperback
Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach...
Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach...
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World Almanac Books
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[2021]
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English
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"The 2022 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2021 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific and educational statistics and information" by The Wall Street Journal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts will answer all of your trivia needs effortlessly"--
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World Almanac Books
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2022.
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English
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The World Almanac is America's bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2023 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2022 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a treasure trove of political, economic, scientific...
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"From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds." -- Container.
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"There are plenty of books about unusual animals. This is a book about fourteen well-known animals--kangaroos, hippos, giraffes--who all have unusual characteristics. For instance, did you know that a kangaroo's kick can be deadly, that a giraffe can clean its own ears with its tongue, or that a hippo has teeth as long as a child's arm? This accessible book, full of amazing photographs and easy-to-digest factoids, is perfect for animal lovers of all...
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Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Sharpen your knives and culinary instincts with Molly Baz's no-nonsense maximalist approach to making delicious food. In her debut cookbook, Cook This Book, Molly inspired home chefs to get comfortable with the essentials; and in More Is More, she offers an indispensable guide to encouraging cooks to take more risks and cook with abandon"--
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Take a journey back in time to discover the incredible plants and animals of prehistoric Earth. It s the ultimate first dinosaur book for young readers! From the first living cells to fearsome dinosaurs and giant mammals, this children s book brings your budding paleontologist face-to-face with these awe-inspiring creatures! Little dinosaur lovers will be captivated by the amazing range of prehistoric beasts on display! Detailed artworks bring the...
13) Space
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Ready to go on an out-of-this world adventure? Travel across the Milky Way and into new galaxies to explore every corner of space so YOU can become an absolute expert. Get up close to the sun and moon, asteroids and comets. Learn about the Oort Cloud, supernovas, black holes, and rockets and other spacecraft. Discover the incredible work of astronauts, astronomers, physicists, and other cool space scientists. On this journey across the universe,...
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Michael Wiese Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"There are many challenges and pitfalls to writing great dialogue. Many inexperienced writers create wooden dialogue, on-the-nose dialogue, awkward expositional dialogue, dialogue that cannot be easily spoken, or same-sounding dialogue that fails to differentiate characters. In this book, each chapter will look at a different issue, will analyze the issue, and give examples of great dialogue from films and novels. Also, we will use dialogue from adaptations...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Discover the thousands of animals that call Earth home in this new edition of National Geographic's best-selling Animal Encyclopedia. Updated and reviewed by experts in the field for the most accurate, up-to-date information, this comprehensive reference book features 2,500 species, 1,000 stunning photos, and more than a dozen engaging maps. Jam-packed with fun facts--such as the world's tallest animal, the longest living animal on Earth, and even...
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"Discover how to identify and gather more than 100 of the most nutritious wild plants and useful herbs in the contiguous United States, prepare delicious recipes using your wild harvest, determine the identity of poisonous plants and poisonous look-alikes, and take charge of your personal health by making wild plants and herbs a part of your diet"--
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A practical yet humorous guide to aging solo gracefully and achieving a happy retirement.
In Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers, certified retirement coach Sara Zeff Geber coins the term "Solo Ager" to refer to the segment of society that either does not have adult children or is single and believes they will be on their own, as they grow older. This book explores the path ahead for this group. That includes choices in housing, relationships,...
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In the most comprehensive book of its kind, Mark Bittman offers the ultimate baker's resource. Finally, here is the simplest way to bake everything, from American favorites (Crunchy Toffee Cookies, Baked Alaska) to of-the-moment updates (Gingerbread Whoopie Pies). It explores global baking, too: Nordic ruis, New Orleans beignets, Afghan snowshoe naan. The recipes satisfy every flavor craving thanks to more than 2,000 recipes and variations: a pound...
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