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[2020]
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Take the guesswork (and fear) out of fasting with real-life and expert advice.In recent years, intermittent fasting--restricting calorie intake for a set number of hours or days--has become an increasingly popular diet strategy. While some in the medical community initially dismissed the idea as a dangerous fad, recent research not only validates the safety of fasting for weight loss but also offers compelling evidence of wide-ranging health benefits,...
82) Join
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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"What if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? That's the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that experiences the world through multiple bodies. But as two best friends discover, the light of that miracle may be blinding the world to its horrors. Chance and Leap are jolted out of their professional routines...
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c2000
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Under mysterious leadership, local businesses are being bought out, huge warehouses are being built, and infrastructure projects are making the place virtually self-sustaining. When an enormous prison-regulation fence is erected around the 200,000-acre settlement, alarms finally go off in Washington, D.C.
84) Axiomatic
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections-each one built around an axiom about how the past affects the present-Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide, a grandmother's quest to kidnap her grandson to keep him safe, one community lawyer's struggle inside and against...
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Pub. Date
2012
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The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot a half mile away from Milwaukee’s largest public housing project. The area was a food desert with only convenience stores and fast-food restaurants to serve the needs of local residents.
In...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Who are libraries for, how have they evolved, and why do they fill so many roles in our society today? Based on firsthand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, Overdue begins with Oliver's first day at an "unusual" branch: Northwest One. Using her experience at this branch allows Oliver to highlight the national problems that have existed...
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2023.
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In Tonight We Pray for the Momma, bestselling authors and mother-daughter team Becky Thompson and Susan K. Pitts offer encouragement and hope for the hardest days. As leaders of the over 1.8 million praying moms of the Midnight Mom Devotional community, Becky and Susan have gathered their one hundred most beloved prayers and paired them with rich devotional stories and biblical wisdom for every stage of motherhood, including the times when momma:
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Wherever you live - farm, suburb, or even city - The Homesteading Handbook will show you how to embrace a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Learn to plan, plant, and harvest your own organic garden. Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. Build and install alternate energy devices such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps. Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat fresh, homegrown...
91) Forgiven
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Winnie is injured while trying to save animals caught in a barn fire. Englisher Samuel Miller tends to Winnie during her hospital stay and a friendship forms. But as long as he remains part of the outside world, Winnie knows their attraction can never develop into something more. Her brother, meanwhile, has discovered cigarette butts in the remains of the barn and is determined to find out who was responsible for the fire.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"As the world's climate changes, two areas are being significantly affected. Deserts are expanding and becoming even more dry and arid. Forests are disappearing, thanks in part to logging by humans. The Earth doesn't need more deserts, and it desperately needs more forests. Inside, find out more about these vital biomes and how people are working hard to make sure they survive properly"--Back cover.
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[2023]
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"This practical resource examines how colleges and universities foster sustainable faculty involvement in living learning communities (LLCs). This book demonstrates that faculty are key to creating equitable, engaging, and sustainable LLCs in diverse higher education settings"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Make your garden flourish with rich soil you produce yourself! Written in clear and simple terms, understand everything you need to know about compost, how it works, and how you can make it and use it! Whether you have a large backyard, a small garden space, or only a balcony, composting can be customized to fit you and your lifestyle. With detailed chapters on the benefits of composting, getting started, making compost, various methods and techniques,,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, the growing uncertainty of the climate, and few options for health care, farming today is a risky business. For many, simply staying afloat is a constant struggle. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth's eyes as a beginning farmer. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"The world we live in is an unstable one. From natural disasters of biblical proportions to concerns about the economic downturn and government shutdown, the hits just keep on coming. At the same time, the power grid is incredibly fragile. Our dependency on widely distributed long distance systems for power, medicine, and food makes our society susceptible to attack, whether by foreign or domestic enemies, or the weather. No matter the concern, the...
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? How do we create community? When can we say that we truly belong? The issues of place and belonging are the subject of this book. Moving from past to present, the author charts a journey in which she moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where she began in her native place, Kentucky. She explores a geography of the heart,...