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""Book Title of the Year," as selected for Curbed.com's Architecture in 2015: A Year in Review" Nicholas Dagen Bloom is professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College, City University of New York. His books include Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Matthew Gordon Lasner is associate professor of urban studies and planning at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of High Life: Condo Living...
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Celebrate Jewish culture with this fun collection of facts and stories!
Jewish traditions aren't just something they sing about in Fiddler on the Roof. Explore them all with this delightful book of essential Jewish foods, philosophers, pop culture, and more. It's sure to be way more satisfying than the typical encyclopedia-but probably not as exciting as finding the perfect bagel.
• Discover cultural touchstones-From babka to Mel Brooks, learn...
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The Christmas season has been so distorted by man-made traditions and commercialization that we are losing sight of the gritty and miraculous truth of that first Christmas-and wonder is being replaced with want.
Weaving beautiful storytelling with forgotten and overlooked biblical truth, bestselling author Angela Hunt takes your family on a visceral journey to learn more about the places, people, prophecies, and purpose of Christmas. Each of the...
5) Faces 2024
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Cobblestone Publishing Company
Pub. Date
1984-
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volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Love walked in volume 5
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm.
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Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xiii, 270 pages ; 22 cm
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"From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity-thin skin-Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she becomes aware of the impacts her tiniest choices have on...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xiii, 226 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"Through memoir essays and magical practices, Grimoire Girl connects us to the enchantment that exists inside us all. Since childhood, Hilarie Burton Morgan has felt the call to record, keep, and catalogue life in all its strange wonder. It was a whimsical habit, with no clear goal. And then, when she became a mother, the importance of all that collecting snapped into focus. In an effort to patchwork together an anthology of traditions, curiosity,...
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Out of the Box Pub
Pub. Date
©2005.
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1 game (1 rules sheet, red apple cards, and green apple cards) : cardboard, plastic, col. ; in box, 26 x 26 x 9 cm..
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Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. Everyone gets a chance to be the judge. Each round is filled with surprising and outrageous comparisons from a wide range of people, places, things and events.
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Mattel, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 game (1 rule book, red apple cards, and green apple cards) : cardboard, color ; in box 20 x 27 x 4 cm.
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Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. Everyone gets a chance to be the judge. Each round is filled with surprising and outrageous comparisons from a wide range of people, places, things and events.
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