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  • Becoming

    In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African-American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments.

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  • Gunslinger Girl

    James Patterson presents a bold new heroine—a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow's West.

    Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great....

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  • Fitness Weight Training

    Whether you've been a regular at the gym for years or are just getting started, " Fitness Weight Training" contains proven programs for attaining the body you want!

    Expanded, enhanced, and improved, this new edition of the perennial best-selling guide provides an overview of weight training. From equipment selection to exercise technique, "Fitness Weight Training" has the information you need to get to work quickly, safely, and correctly.

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  • Empire's End


    Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.

    EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING.

    As the final showdown between the New Republic and the Empire draws near, all eyes turn to a once-isolated planet: Jakku.

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  • Felicity

    Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems

    “If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,”

    Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver’s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds.

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  • Dream Work

    Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive-continue in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit-to accepting the truth about one's personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.

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  • Infidel

    Infidel is one of my favorite books of 2019. The story is about a Muslim women and Multi-racial neighbors who must deal with ghost from the apartment building who have a past of hatred (xenophobia). This is a horror story at it's best.

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  • The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic

    Written by Emma, a French blogger about women and the roles placed upon them in society and when I say roles, women are pretty much responsible for every role in society. I like the way the book reads and feels. Emma, is a true feminist and this a good thing and I will read more of her work.

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  • Leaf and the Cloud

    With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, about what passes and what persists. As the U.S. Poet Laureate, Stanley Kunitz, has said: "Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations." The Boston Globe has called Mary Oliver "a great poet . . .

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  • XTC69

    Explorers from an all-women planet have found men to breed with, but have they found studs or duds?

    Commander Jessica Campbell of the planet L8DZ N1T3 and her crew are searching for men to breed with when they discover the last human on Earth, the cryogenically frozen Jessica Campbell. With a new, but familiar crewmember, the search for men continues, but will it be worth it?

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