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"For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother...
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DK Publishing
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant helps you create an oasis of happy, flourishing houseplants.--COVER.
Do you have a "black thumb? Does just looking at plants cause them to wither and die? Peerless offers advice on keeping houseplants alive, even if you're horticulturally challenged. She shows you how to create an oasis of happy flourishing houseplants, and even give suggestions for different areas of your house.
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Oxford University Press
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Contains the full text of the New Revised Standard Version Bible and the Apocrypha with annotations.
"The new Annotated is a complete revision of Oxford's classic study Bible, and the first such resource to incorporate the full text of the acclaimed New Revised Standard Version Bible. The features of this enhanced resource include: expanded notes and essays compiled by top scholars, including seven new essays on major subdivisions, a new introductory...
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2023.
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We don't need Big Pharma to keep us feeling young: we already have the tools. Greger breaks down the science of aging and chronic illness, and explains how to help avoid the diseases most commonly encountered in our journeys through life. Physicians have long treated aging as a malady, but getting older does not have to mean getting sicker: there are eleven pathways for aging in our bodies' cells and we can disrupt each of them. Greger presents simple,...
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"Following the success of Plants You Can't Kill, Tornio now takes a look at those plants that can actually kill you if you're not careful. This book will offer up information to gardening enthusiasts of all levels about common plants that are toxic, poisonous, and even deadly. While the level of toxicity varies from each plant, all are considered deadly in one way or another to wild animals, family pets, and even humans. With its colorful, easy-to-read...
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Oxford University Press
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In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers who wrote and reworked them, and the artists who illustrated them. It also covers numerous related topics such as the fairy tale and film, television,...
11) Trees
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This field guide highlights 100 trees found throughout the world. Readers will gain a greater understanding about the appearance of each tree and will be able to identify these plants after seeing the vivid photographs and useful labels within the book. Features include a helpful introduction to the topic, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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"Journey to Launch podcaster Souffrant debuts with a sound program for achieving financial independence, which she defines as being able to live on the "money you've accumulated in your investment accounts... indefinitely." Her five-step program involves figuring out "what your bills and liabilities are in comparison to what you're earning," paying off most debts, establishing an emergency fund, "investing consistently and growing your assets," and...
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The second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, "Critique of Practical Reason", published in 1788, is considered by many to be one of the most important works on the subject of moral philosophy ever written. Written several years after his first critique, "Critique of Pure Reason", this work addresses Kant's views on moral philosophy and what it means to be good and ethical. In this work, Kant explores his philosophy of the categorical imperative,...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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Learn the stages of a reference interview and the behaviors necessary to conduct a successful reference interview. Produced with a content committee of reference librarians and trainers. The program also discusses the unique challenges of online reference interviews. "Although an online reference interview is a lot like that done in-person, the librarian needs to be also be able to emulate the unseen visual cues while conveying a sense of personality,"...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2019.
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A quick-reference guide to attracting birds and butterflies for gardeners with little experience and time. In the eye of a bird or butterfly, the typical suburban landscape resembles an unfriendly desert. Closely mowed lawns, tightly clipped shrubs, raked-up borders, and deadheaded flowers mean no place to nest, no food to eat, and nowhere to hide. To the humans who live there, this means no bird songs, no colorful butterflies, no dazzling hummingbirds,...
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