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What High Schools Don't Tell You: 300+ Secrets to Make Your Kid Irresistible to Colleges by Senior Year מאת Elizabeth Wissner-Gross From the author of What Colleges Don't Tell You, more than 300 secrets for raising the kid colleges will compete to accept The headlines prove it: Competition for admission to America's top colleges is more cutthroat than ever. Gone are the days when parents could afford to...

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Vlad the Impaler מאת Sid Jacobson From the bestselling author illustrator team of the 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation comes the truly gory tale of the historical Dracula The Dracula myth has sparked a legacy of endlessly entertaining creepy tales. The fictional character, originally penned by Bram Stoker, was inspire...

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Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss מאת Danica McKellar From the author of the runaway bestseller Math Doesn’t Suck, the next step in the math curriculum-- pre-Algebra. Last year, actress and math genius Danica McKellar made waves nationwide, challenging the “math nerd” stereotype—and giving girls the tools to ace tests and homework...

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Winging It: Dispatches from an (Almost) Empty Nest מאת Catherine Goldhammer For every woman on the verge of becoming an empty nester, a wry, insightful chronicle of rediscovering oneself at midlife. In her critically acclaimed first book, Still Life with Chickens, Catherine Goldhammer wrote of the six baby chicks that helped to pull her and her daughter forwar...

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Big Sid's Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime מאת Matthew Biberman A father and son build a legendary motorcycle and, along the way, reconstruct their relationship in this moving memoir When his father had a near-fatal heart attack and gave up the will to live, Matthew Biberman panicked. Impulsively, Matthew promised his father, an expert motorcycle mechanic...

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Body with Soul: Slash Sugar, Cut Cholesterol, and Get a Jump on Your Best Health Ever מאת Randy Jackson From beloved American Idol judge Randy Jackson, a complete, inspiring wellness plan for taking control of your health. Mixing memoir, a wellness program, and inspirational advice, Randy Jackson’s book is a work of personal passion. The American Idol judge’s struggles with hi...

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Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet מאת Carla Harris One of Wall Street’s most powerful and lauded women shares her strategies for long-term success in any career While climbing the corporate ladder, Carla Harris sought career advice from her mentors and superiors but found some of the counsel too nonspecific. As Carla’s career advanced, sh...

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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World מאת Dan Koeppel A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world’s most humble fruit To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are wh...

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The Expert's Guide to Weight-Loss Surgery: Is it right for me? What happens during surgery? How do I keep the weight off? מאת Garth Davis From the star of TLC’s Big Medicine, the complete guide to weight loss surgery Today, an estimated forty-four million Americans suffer from obesity. For most, the traditional prescription of “eat less, exercise more” simply doesn’t work. Thankfully, there is another option— a...

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Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival מאת Alison Wright A searing and uplifting account of one woman’s spiritual journey from surviving a terrible accident to a triumphant ascent of Kilimanjaro On the second day of this century, world- renowned photojournalist Alison Wright was traveling on a windy mountain road in Laos when the bus she was rid...

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Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future מאת M.D. Andrew Weil Unabridged CDs, 6 CDs, 7 hours Read by the author A landmark book that shows us exactly how we have let health and medicine become a crisis in our society and what we can all do to resolve it. ...

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Dangerous or Safe?: Which Foods, Medicines, and Chemicals Really Put Your Kids at Risk מאת M.D., Cara Natterson A leading pediatrician answers a question that's on every parent's mind: What's safe for my kids?There is no doubt that children today are living in an increasingly toxic world. Parents are more worried then ever, and conflicting reports in the media and rumors on the playground can cause eve...

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Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World מאת Nancy Carlsson-Paige An innovative road map to help parents bring creative play, quality relationships, and a sense of confidence and personal safety back into their kids’ lives One only need turn on the TV, stroll the aisles of any toy store, or visit any American elementary school to witness the formidable s...

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The Elephant in the Playroom: Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly About the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Raising Kids with Special Needs מאת Denise Brodey Candid, passionate, personal, and heartbreakingly funny, a view from within the whirlwind of parenting a child with special needs Three years ago, magazine editor Denise Brodey’s precocious four-year-old son, Toby, was diagnosed with a combination of sensory integration dysfunct...