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Film Mavericks | Exploring the Work of Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola

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American Thunder: U.S. Army Tank Design, Development, and Doctrine in World War II

Detailed, lengthy, and of primary interest to armor historians, serious enthusiasts, and libraries that support military students.
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Venture Meets Mission: Aligning People, Purpose, and Profit to Innovate and Transform Society

For a specific business-minded audience that will find information on leveraging public/private alliances toward fulfilling an organization’s mission.
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Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)

This mesmerizing history of stargazing looks both back into the past and forward. An excellent recommendation for thoughtful and curious readers.
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Old Age and American Slavery

This engaging and vast range of historiography exposes fresh layers of the complex, conditional, and contested interactions that differentiated the lived experiences of enslavers vs. the enslaved. An essential read for all students of the history of enslavement in the United States.

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Wertz’s immersive and sometimes very funny tale hardly fits the “completely average” subtitle, yet nearly everyone can see themselves somewhere in her story, cheer her on, and enjoy the surprise ending.

The Woman in Me

Silenced for years, Spears uses this memoir to tell the world the truth about her life and to celebrate her newfound freedom. It is a must-purchase for all collections.
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Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

Engelhardt expertly invokes the spirit of boardinghouse keepers in modern cultural phenomena, such as pop-up kitchens and assisted living facilities. Highly recommended for all history and women’s studies collections.
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The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

A timely addition. Cane covers a lot of ground in this title about several politicians, especially Black Republicans, and makes an enormous effort to cite multiple resources, which lean toward popular versus academic sources, such as encyclopedias, websites, and newspapers. But some readers may believe he falls short of substantiating all his claims and may disagree with the labels that he applies to those with opposing views.
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Music in the Halls: The Heart and Heartbreak of Teaching at a High-Poverty School in Washington, DC

This short, thought-provoking work packs a punch. It sheds light on an education system that seemingly seeks to place its and societal failures on the backs of overburdened teachers and their vulnerable students.

Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness

An accessible and convincing deep dive into live Dead and the ways in which their music continues to resonate in many nonmusical ways.
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Rowing to Baikal

This overflowing travelogue may appeal to readers of National Geographic, fishing enthusiasts, and others willing to take this highly detailed journey.
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Behind the Mask: A Revealing Look at Twelve of the Greatest Goalies in Hockey History

With information and interviews culled from magazine articles and other works, this book does a nice job of capturing the character of each player and divulging what enticed them to become hockey goalies in the first place. An insightful exploration of the psyches of 12 accomplished goalies.
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Finding Waypoints: A Warrior’s Journey Toward Peace and Purpose

A must for readers interested in stories about overcoming adversity and learning about the power of faith and perseverance.

How Migration Really Works: The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics

Essential reading, given the current climate of misinformation around immigration.

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She Sings the Songs | Women Pop Singers of the 1950s

Transgender Memoirs | Graphic Novels

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Mickey and the Teamsters: A Fight for Fair Unions at Disney

This timely, well-researched, well-reported volume explores what happens when a union becomes undemocratic. Good for libraries with strong economic or labor collections. Will appeal to readers interested in union politics, Disney history, or nonfiction books that take a deep dive into their subjects.
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In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb

A brilliant analysis of suburban poverty.
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Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons

A readable, accessible, comprehensive account of the stories of defunct factories, grain silos, and train stations that focuses on their possibility and promise as postindustrial sites.
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Brazil: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

A recommended purchase for its abundance of knowledge about Brazil, its people, and its customs.
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How To Draw a Novel

Most reminiscent of William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain or Charles Olson’s Call Me Ishmael, Solares’s book feels fresh and vital, unencumbered by rectitude or solemnity, proposing and digressing with abandon, because, as he reminds readers, in the end, the digressions are the point.

Transitions: A Mother’s Journey

Anne’s family and acquaintances model a range of responses to a trans relative’s coming out, illustrating common difficulties while showing that acceptance and joy become possible with care and diligence. An excellent graphic novel and resource for families and others who experience the unexpected transition of a loved one.
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Seeing One Thing Through: The Zen Life and Teachings of Sojun Mel Weitsman

An interesting tribute to a man that shared the essence of Buddhist practice with others for more than five decades. Readers interested in Buddhist practice will find his writings and teachings approachable and inspiring.
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Us

This charming, even humorous chronicle of a journey fraught with immense complications will be welcomed by romance lovers as well as those looking for information about trans matters. An empathic adventure for teens and adults.

The Epic Saga Behind ‘Frankenstein: The True Story’

A hefty treat for film buffs, horror enthusiasts, and fans of hidden gay Hollywood history.
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I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand

This poignant meditation on a body that seems difficult to understand or love, but all too easily exploited, challenges readers to contemplate the complexity of human selves, including their own.
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Organs of Little Importance

An engrossing blend of the contemporary and classical, laced with irony, humor, and a deep sense of the now.

Fashioned by Sargent: Painting Fashion

With gorgeous images and accessible text, this exhibition catalogue is highly recommended for audiences interested in fine art in relation to fashion.
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Movies That Made Me Gay

Immensely readable and entertaining, this is a treat for movie lovers. It will hopefully also bring some forgotten films to light.
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My Kaddish: A Child Speaks from the Warsaw Ghetto

A brief, rare, and powerful testimony that offers a firsthand account from a survivor who was a child when she experienced the horrors inside the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Everyday Something Has Tried To Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America

Concise essays that clearly convey that the fight for racial justice must continue in the face of backlash. A must-purchase for all collections.
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Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan: A Journey by Train from Hokkaido to Kyushu

This travel narrative that is also part memoir seeks out and succeeds in spotlighting areas of Japan that few tourists will have known about.
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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

This memoir by a white historian is a necessary addition to collections. She come to terms with her racial past and learns how to affect change.
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An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith

An important contribution to Civil War discourse, women’s studies, and Black history.
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Spin: How the World (and Almost Everything in It) Turns

An accessible and rewarding exploration of the physics of circular motion in everyday life.

Ăn Chua?: Simple Vietnamese Recipes That Taste Like Home

Step-by-step recipes and beautiful photos pair with Trân’s engaging teaching style to make delicious Vietnamese cuisine easy for even beginner home cooks.
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Grizzly Bear Science and the Art of a Wilderness Life: Forty Years of Research in the Flathead Valley

Wildlife enthusiasts will get a front-row seat to the adventure and science of studying grizzly bears, while learning a great deal along the way.

Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water

A concise, imperative primer on the science and politics of the United States’ fresh-water crisis.
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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

Provocative, in-depth, and scholarly. For readers interested in the history of adoption.
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Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History

Historians and biologists will enjoy this thoughtful history of how the animal kingdom was mapped out and how people are still discovering their place within it.
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Weapons, Warfare, and Military Technology, 3rd Ed.: Vols. 1–3

Best for general readers, instead of professional military researchers. However, this work could be a useful starting point for research in public and undergraduate libraries.
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Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right To Farm

An academic yet accessible book that rural advocates and foes of inequality will appreciate.
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Audiences of all types will appreciate this easy-to-read narrative as well as Renner’s knowledge of the area, her academic ability, her candor, and her insights into human nature. Recommended for all libraries, especially academic ones and those in and around South Florida.
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Battle for the Island Kingdom: England’s Destiny 1000–1066

A deeply researched must-read for anyone interested in this contested era. Readers will be enthralled with quotations from period accounts and insights into the harsh reality of the violent, often short lives of Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Norman nobility.
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Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up in the Royal Family, from the Tudors to the Cambridges

Scholarly in tone, yet gossipy at times. A solid but lackluster history of childrearing in the royal family over the centuries.

Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

A book to read, reread, use as a reference, share, explain, and inspire the continuing struggles of Black women to achieve wholeness for themselves, their communities, and their society.
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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations

Montero persuasively argues that profitable businesses owe reparations to people who continue to suffer from historic injustices.
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Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

A new piece of the Holocaust story will be of interest to readers of Jewish studies, women’s history, and Holocaust studies.

After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?

Highly recommended and thought-provoking, with practical and well-informed ideas.

The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy—A Retelling for Our Times

Essential for anyone interested in an introductory overview of India’s long history. Readers seeking 17th-century English accounts of India’s Mughal Empire may want to also consider Nandini Das’s Courting India.
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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading

The writing is brisk, the scholarship formidable. This is an eminently approachable study that opens a new way of making sense of World Wars I and II.
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If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence

A much-needed corrective to stereotypes about the reasons behind some women’s acts of violence. This title spotlights highly personal stories of trauma, while signaling the need for systemic change.
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Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

True-crime fans will savor this inside look.
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13 Things Mentally Strong Couples Don’t Do: Fix What’s Broken, Develop Healthier Patterns, and Grow Stronger Together

Clear, supportive guidance, coupled with the book’s logical structure, will make this a title that couples return to whenever they need a relationship tune-up. An excellent work for newlyweds.
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Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Parts of this book stretch the story longer than necessary. But this is still an important title for community college or university libraries since it offers difficult-to-find details about the culture and history of fraternities.
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Holy American Burnout!: Essays

An important and compelling voice. Readers will appreciate this distinctive take on burnout.
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Negative Thoughts Happen: How To Find Your Inner Ally When Your Inner Critic Shows Up

This is a good book for those interested in self-help, psychology, and guided exercises to gain new insights about themselves.
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The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

Readers interested in World War II history, especially the Mediterranean campaign, will enjoy this title.
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Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea

Sweeping and discerning. This book about equality rewards readers comfortable with a dense academic style.

Spectral Evidence: Poems

Complex, linguistically rich, and unsparing in its analysis of both the current national psyche as well as the poet’s own, Pardlo’s poetry dares to ask: “What if we didn’t define ourselves according to our ability to know ourselves, but by our capacity to relate to others?”

Paper Banners

Miller is able to go inside her subjects and draw readers with her. That experience makes this collection one for all libraries.
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Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars

A comprehensive, meticulously researched, generally left-of-center work about how industries intended to entertain were and remain cultural battlefields.
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Scratchin’ and Survivin’: Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions

An excellent resource for media or African American studies scholars who want to delve deeper into how these landmark sitcoms broke barriers for other Black artists.
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The Writer as Illusionist: Uncollected & Unpublished Work

A guaranteed delight for fans of Maxwell’s and New Yorker–style writing, but may be a bit too fragmented for neophytes.

Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being—and Sang Back to Them Ever After

An academic analysis of the Beatles as products and producers of music performed by Black musicians. This deep dive into music will entertain and influence listeners.
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The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

This demanding book might appeal more to screenwriters and producers than to serendipitous consumers of film culture.

Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews

A magnificent oral history of the healing power of blues music.

Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground

An informed narrative interspersed with quotes, this book paints a page-turning picture of the legendary Velvet Underground. Will appeal to general readers and rock aficionados.

What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music

Balancing the biographical and the historical, this informative and stylishly written work illuminates the lives and contributions of these gifted performers. For popular-music lovers.

All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s

Enjoyable and educational. Will appeal to a wide range of popular-musical enthusiasts, including those who remember the era well and those eager to learn more about it.
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Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

This biography will renew an interest in Poe’s life and writings and is an excellent addition to the vast collection of Poe scholarship.
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Steven Spielberg, All the Films: The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short

Despite some repetitiveness, this well-illustrated book is certain to appeal to admirers of Spielberg’s oeuvre.

Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV

A fascinating topic that the author handles well. The depiction of cable executives is blistering.

Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History

A compelling examination of punk rock and the history of modern music.

The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film

This stellar book is about how filmmakers simplify the bloody business of war and why audiences buy into it. Readers who enjoy vigorous arguments and good writing will love this book.
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Beyond Ridiculous: Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York

Might be perfect to assign to a class of theater students. The lengthy appendix and niche subject matter may weaken its appeal for general collections.
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The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison’s Legacy Goes on Trial

Music-fan readers are given a true warts-and-all look inside a legendary band and their shortcomings.
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Apocalypse Television: How ‘The Day After’ Helped End the Cold War

This study for both general and academic readers makes the case for the cultural influence of television in altering attitudes toward war, albeit at a fortunate time in history before the dispersive effects of cable television.
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Yoga Life: Habits, Poses, and Breathwork To Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos

For all skill levels. Readers will gain strategies to disrupt boundaries between their mats and their lives.

Maydān: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond

Adventurous home cooks will enjoy the plethora of enticing, cross-cultural delights dished up in this engagingly and gracefully written culinary guide.

Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

Requisite reading. A no-nonsense, educational, science-backed, in-depth title about menstruation and the impact it can have on one’s body. This title will empower readers to better understand their bodies and to advocate for themselves in medical situations.

Every Cocktail Has a Twist: Master 25 Classic Drinks and Craft More Than 200 Variations

The perfectly crafted cocktail construction instruction provided in this book and way it teaches readers to riff on flavors will transform any home bartender into a mixologist, making this a sure-to-be-loved addition to entertaining and mixology shelves.

The Cookie That Changed My Life: And More Than 100 Other Classic Cakes, Cookies, Muffins, and Pies That Will Change Yours

There’s no shortage of excellent baking books available, including Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie and Rose Levy Beranbaum’s The Baking Bible, but home bakers trying to up their dessert game will find that Silverton’s superbly written guide hits the sweet spot.
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The TMJ Handbook: A Therapeutic Guide to Relieving Jaw Tension and Pain with Yoga and Mindfulness

A solid how-to guide for readers interested in alleviating physical or mental stress via a yoga or mindfulness practice. This book is also a thought-provoking reminder of how interconnected the parts of the body are.
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The Natural Remedies Guide

A good, reasonably priced resource for consumer health collections. With continuing interest in natural medicine, this volume on the topic is welcome.
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Sam’s Eats: Let’s Do Some Cooking

Way serves up a solid selection of tasty recipes, delivered in an engaging Jamie Oliver style, for fans of Nick DiGiovanni’s Knife Drop or millennial and Gen Z cooks starting out in the kitchen.
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One Pan Chicken: 70 All-in-One Chicken Recipes for Simple Meals, Every Day

Purchase where one-pot cookbooks are popular.
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Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner To Solve the Freshwater Crisis

Written with clarity and focus, this book tackles the water crisis from the novel perspective of private industry. A highly recommended addition to collections focused on business and the environment.

Danni’s Juke Joint Comfort Food Cookbook: Modern-Day Recipes, Ole Skool Flavas

This is a splendid collection of recipes for truly flavorful, down-home Southern cooking.
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Frontières: The Food of France’s Borderlands

Home cooks probably won’t turn to this for an easy dinner (the pasta and chickpea soup calls for first making homemade pasta), and vegans will find little they can adapt (seek out the minestrone al pesto). But those who love to read cookbooks, even armchair travelers, will find a treasure here, spiked with Jackson’s evocative writing.

Oodles and Oodles of Vegan Noodles: Soba, Ramen, Udon & More

Khachame successfully creates delicious vegan versions of Asian noodle favorites, but ultimately, she reminds readers that cooking is fun and inspires them to enjoy time in the kitchen.
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Bruno’s Cookbook: Recipes and Traditions from a French Country Kitchen

Written with a generous measure of culinary joie de vivre and a keen appreciation for the people and culture of Périgord, this captivating cookbook will charm fans of Walker’s long-running series as well as any cook wishing to explore the bountiful riches of French country cooking.

Snacking Bakes: Simple Recipes for Cookies, Bars, Brownies, Cakes, and More

With tantalizing, approachable recipes that are often quick and use the minimum of bowls, this will be a go-to book for bakers of all levels.
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Black Writers of the Founding Era: A Library of America Anthology

Adding to Library of America’s exemplary offerings, Slave Narratives (LOA 114), American Antislavery Writings (LOA 233), and Reconstruction (LOA 303), this extraordinary and unrivalled anthology of compelling primary sources (LOA 366) adds vital and necessary background for the lay reader, recovering an often overlooked early era of the long arc of Black United States history. An essential purchase.
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Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can’t Stop Eating Food That Isn’t Food

Although the audio quality may be distracting for some, those interested in nutrition, climate change, and human health should find this a well-researched and compelling work.
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The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey into the Old West

This exciting and informative account of the storied West is recommended for historians, travelers, and anyone who loves the outdoors.
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Tiny Humans, Big Emotions: How To Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance To Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

This practical volume encourages parents to look inward for solutions to help their children deal with overwhelming emotions.
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