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"In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe's cleverness and generosity to resolve. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm seems interested only in...
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Running Press
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2011
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English
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"Feed Me Bubbe" is all about taking you into Bubbe's kitchen. Based upon the popular online and televised kosher cooking show seen all over the world, this book includes all of Bubbe's classic recipes, insights, and stories that are sure to touch the heart. Her voice and wisdom come across each page through a format that makes cooking fun and comfortable for any skill level. Discover Bubbe's favorite Yiddish songs and create menus that will be sure...
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Wipf and Stock Publishers
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2023
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English
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The manner in which we chart our lives is less a straight line on a calendar of days and more a song cycle moving upward into the future, circles growing closer as we move towards the center, where God is. Ecclesiastes declares we are made for a longing towards heaven, our true home, and so we journey, often in the dark. Signposts offer safety and comfort, from the miraculous and mundane--birdsong; the somnolence of creation's winter and the surprise...
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GR "Scott" Cundiff
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2014
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English
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This book is part of Pastor Scott's Coffee Break Devotionals series. This portion of our journey through the Bible begins with the accounts of the kings of Judah and Israel. Some names are quite familiar to those who love the Bible. There's Solomon and Jehoshaphat and Hezekiah. Many of the kings are pitiful failures who find plenty of opposition from prophets like Elijah and Jeremiah and Isaiah. With accounts of the Lord dealing with so much humanity...
10. Can't and won't
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A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," in which a professor is stymied by her choices.
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Sarabande Books
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2013
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English
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Jeff Dolven's poems take the guise of fables, parables, allegories, jokes, riddles, and other familiar forms. So, there is an initial comfort: I remember this, the reader thinks, from the stories of But wait, something is off. In each poem, an uncanny conceit surprises the form, a highway paved with highwaymen, a school for shame, a family of chairs. Dolven makes these strange wagers with the grace and edgy precision of a metaphysical poet, and there...
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David DeRosa
Pub. Date:
2010
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English
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Two children (Theo and Kynthia) on a journey to become the heroes of prophecy, find that even characters out of a legend need help to become heroes. Out of a land ruled by a tyrant, they are propelled toward a destiny that has been predicted. Predictions, however, are a funny thing. They never unfold quite the way you'd expect. About the authorStorytelling has always been among my favorite pastimes. Movies, Stage plays, songs and fairytales; I love...
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Anaxiunara volume 2
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2023
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English
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A war in the past where powerful human wizards fought for control of their race had drawn the attention of other more powerful races. Only Jo Lee Validad stands, now, between those greater powers and the total annihilation of his race.When he disappears so completely that even his lover, Anaxiunara, cannot find him, the rulers of the human realms are threatened by those who would oppose the rule of the commoner, Jo Lee.The most powerful wizards could...
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David DeRosa
Pub. Date:
2010
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English
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Jake's life is a merry jaunt around a militant mindset of misusing impossible science.He's a seven thousand year old teenager, an extraterrestrial marooned since the Bronze Age, waiting patiently for us to advance in science and social graces. A few unsavory characters know what he is and want what he knows. They have their eyes on him.At the dawn of the twenty-first century human science is close to offering The Immortal Jake what he needs to get...
15. Frog on a log?
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2015
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In rhyming text, cat explains why frog has to sit on a log, even if he finds it uncomfortable.
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Princeton University Press
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2018
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English
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Joel Waldfogel holds the Frederick R. Kappel Chair at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. His previous books include Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays (Princeton). He lives in Minneapolis. How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries-and why that might be a good thing The digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries-music, publishing, television,...
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David DeRosa
Pub. Date:
2010
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English
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On a tiny globe near the edge of her galaxy Anaxiunara seeks a place to bear her young; an island group far from occupied land. She nestles there and sleeps awhile until her babies mature.Two hundred years later the mother of dragons awakes to find her island nest overrun by humans. One of her offspring has befriended a child of this race. Anaxiunara teaches the girl to wield powerful magic. But when the Great Dragon meets the girl's father (Capt....