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Last-Minute Kitchen Secrets
128 Ingenious Tips to Survive Lumpy Gravy, Wilted Lettuce, Crumbling Cake, and Other Cooking Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Your guests are arriving in a half hour, and your dinner has taken a turn for the worse. The lettuce has wilted, the gravy's lumpy, and the pie crust has burned! Time for takeout? Not if you have Joey Green's Last-Minute Kitchen Secrets. This book contains more than a hundred helpful hacks to avoid...
Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste
The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A Selection of the Scientific American Book Club
Explaining why antifreeze is a component of toothpaste and how salt works in shampoo, this fascinating handbook delves into the chemistry of everyday household products. Decoding more than 150 cryptic ingredients, the guide explains each component's...
Redefining Girly
How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Containing practical, specific parenting advice; strategies for effecting change with educators, store managers, corporations, and more; and tips for challenging and changing the media, this essential guide gives parents the tools they need to fight back against the modern stereotyping and sexualization...
In Plain Sight
The Startling Truth behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. The firsthand account of Tom Smart, Elizabeth's uncle and one-time suspect, reveals the details of the flawed police investigation,...
by Edith Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
As a writer, E. Nesbit understood that the stories are the least part of Shakespeare, but as a mother she also understood the need for simplicity. Envisioning this simplified introduction to works such as The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew --...
by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky, Andrew Bromfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, who persuade him to come work with them at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and...
Zombie Movies
The Ultimate Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Featuring chronological reviews of more than 300 zombie films—from 1932's White Zombie to the AMC series *The Walking Dead—*this thorough, uproarious guide traces the evolution of one of horror cinema’s most popular and terrifying creations. Fans will learn exactly what makes a zombie a...
Why Is Milk White?
& 200 Other Curious Chemistry Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
When it comes to chemistry, most kids have more questions than answers. Why do you get cavities when you eat too much sugar? How does sun block protect your skin from getting a sunburn? What makes soda so fizzy? And why do you need antifreeze in your car? Teenager Alexa Coelho quizzed her neighbor,...
Blood Plagues and Endless Raids
A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In 2005, the video game World of Warcraft struck the cultural landscape with tidal force. One hundred million people have played WoW in the twelve years since.
But those people did more than play. They worked, they fought, they triumphed, they held entire game servers hostage, they even married...
The Last Warlord
The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Re
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Chronicling the spectacular rise to power of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, this is an intimate profile of the one of the most powerful warlords to have dominated Afghanistan in the years since the Soviet withdrawal in the late 1980s. His rise from simple peasant villager to warrior against the repressive...
Riding with George
Sportsmanship & Chivalry in the Making of America's First President
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Long before George Washington was a president or general, he was a sportsman. Born in 1732, he had a physique and aspirations that were tailor made for his age, one in which displays of physical prowess were essential to recognition in society. At six feet two inches and with a penchant for rambunctious...
Five Smooth Stones
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who achieves great success and then sacrifices everything to lead his people in the difficult, day-by-day struggle of the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the beloved and vital white girl who loved David from the moment...
Snake Hips
Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This hilariously uplifting memoir follows an Arab American woman’s merry life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo-artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. Feeling lost and heartbroken, Anne Thomas Soffee moves back home to Richmond, Virginia. Against...
Style Me Vintage: Weddings
An Inspirational Guide to Styling the Perfect Vintage Wedding
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Overflowing with ideas for creating truly memorable vintage-themed weddings, this beautiful and comprehensive guide delivers fabulous styles for modern brides with retro-glam sensibilities. From the bridal attire to accessories, flowers, makeup, and hair, this fun and accessible book demonstrates...