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Did you know that the first graham crackers were designed to reduce sexual desire? Or that Americans have tried fad diets for almost two hundred years? Why do we say things like "buck" for a dollar and "living high on the hog"? How have economics, technology, and social movements changed our tastes? Uncover these and other fascinating aspects of American food traditions in The American Plate. Dr. Libby H. O'Connell takes readers on a mouth-watering...
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"Millionaire status doesn't require inheriting a bunch of money or having a high-paying job. No. The path to becoming a millionaire is paved with more-ordinary tools--tools that you either already have or that you can learn. If you thought you could never become a millionaire, think again. Listen and learn from over 10,000 everyday millionaires who have done it and believe it's possible for you too."--Jacket flap.
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"Hubert Humphrey, a fallen hero and a dying man, rose on rickety legs to approach the podium of the Philadelphia Convention Hall, his pulpit for the commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania. He clutched a sheaf of paper with his speech for the occasion, typed and double-spaced by an assistant from his extemporaneous dictation, and then marked up in pencil by Humphrey himself. A note on the first page, circled to draw particular attention,...
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 5
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 5
Harry Potter the complete collection volume 5
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 5
Harry Potter the complete collection volume 5
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Harry is in his fifth year at Hogwarts as the adventures continue. There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a defense against the dark arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror...
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"For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are now pre-diabetic, more than a hundred million have high blood pressure, and nearly half now qualify as obese. The harder we try to control what we eat, the more unhealthy we become. Why? Mark Schatzker has spent his career traveling...
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Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
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[2022]
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Three members of Pig Force are on a top-secret mission to deliver the blueprints of a high-tech home base, where at last the Pig Force will be safe from the Wolf Force--but they are being pursued by Lana Wolf, crack pilot and her Wind Turbine Blaster whose powerful wind could knock Hog-25b Jet Fighter out of the sky before the brave members of Pig Force can reach headquarters with the plans.
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Berkley Prime Crime
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1997
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Twenty-two reprints of stories on crime by women. They range from Marcia Muller's All the Lonely People, in which a woman goes to work for an escort service to catch a criminal, to Joyce Carol Oates' Extenuating Circumstances, the confession of a murderess.
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Annick Press
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2015.
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The story of the "Jubilee Singers, [who] traveled from Cincinnati to New York, following the path of the Underground Railroad. With every performance they endangered their lives and those of the people helping them, but they also broke down barriers between blacks and whites, lifted spirits, and even helped influence modern American music: the Jubilees were the first to introduce spirituals outside their black communities [and are still active and...
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