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New Non-Fiction August 2017
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Jane Austen at home
by Lucy Worsley
A profile of the life and times of Jane Austen by the best-selling author of Courtiers tours the classic author's childhood home, schools, holiday accommodations and grand and small family estates to reveal lesser-known aspects of Austen's character and inspirations.
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Empire made : my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India
by Kief Hillsbery
The author of War Boy describes his search through India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal to discover of the fate of his distant uncle, a 19th-century English clerk who abruptly left his job with the East India Company to pursue a secret life that reflected the hidden gay history of the Middle East. 20,000 first printing.
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Of mess and moxie : Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
by Jen Hatmaker
A guide to self-esteem and resiliency in accordance with Christian principles counsels women of faith to reevaluate their perspectives about the role of pain and failure in life, sharing frank and often riotous stories from the author's own experiences with missteps and setbacks.
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Improbable destinies : fate, chance, and the future of evolution
by Jonathan B. Losos
A Harvard museum curator draws on the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology to challenge popular assumptions about how evolution works, examining how tiny, random convergences, from mutations to butterfly sneezes, have triggered remarkable evolutionary changes.
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Caesar's last breath : decoding the secrets of the air around us
by Sam Kean
An engaging round-the-globe journey through the periodic table explains how the air we breathe reflects the world's history, tracing the origins and ingredients of the atmosphere to explain air's role in reshaping continents, steering human progress and powering revolutions. 75,000 first printing.
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Bali & Lombok
by Kate Morgan
Provides background information on the islands and trip planning tools along with recommendations for accommodations, restaurants, activities, shopping, sights, entertainment, and itineraries
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350+ crochet tips, techniques, and trade secrets
by Jan Eaton
A treasury of tips, techniques, and trade secrets for crocheters provides step-by-step, illustrated instructions that cover everything from choosing the right hook and yarn to setting up a dye studio and managing yard ends
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350+ knitting tips, techniques, and trade secrets
by Betty Barnden
A knitting resource written by an experienced needlecraft designer provides over 350 tips, techniques and secrets for reading patterns and charts, choosing color and yarn, mixing and matching stich patterns, adapting designs for the perfect fit and correcting common knitting errors. Original.
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The women who flew for Hitler : A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry
by Clare Mulley
A dual biography of the first two women flight captains for the Nazis describes how in spite of Hitler's dictates against women in the military, Aryan poster girl Hanna Reitsch and Jewish aeronautical engineer Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenger served on opposing sides before being awarded the Iron Cross. By the award-winning author of The Woman Who Saved the Children.
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Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
by Richard Lourie
The author of The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin and Sakharov: A Biography makes sobering predictions about a collapse of Vladimir Putin's Russia, investigating potential vulnerabilities in the Trump administration that may be providing Russia with dangerous opportunities.
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The way we die now
by Seamus O'Mahony
An insightful report on how the western world addresses death and dying examines how innumerable people currently die in hospitals, often unaware that their time has come and subjected to invasive and unhelpful last-minute interventions, in a call-to-action that urges for a return to practices that enable compassionate and positive death experiences.
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Patient H69 : the story of my second sight
by Vanessa Potter
The author describes how in seventy-two hours she went completely blind, could not walk, and lost her sense of touch, but also how the recovery from that experience changed her life
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What she ate : six remarkable women and the food that tells their stories
by Laura Shapiro
A culinary historian’s short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking explore what these women ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives, in a book that covers Dorothy Wordsworth, Rosa Lewis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, Barbara Pym and Helen Gurley Brown.
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