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  How to Be a Good Creature - A...

  Sy Montgomery

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  Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and is informed by the creatures she meets.This restorative memoir reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals — Sy's friends — and the truths revealed by their grace. It also explores vast themes: the otherness and sameness of people and animals; the various ways we learn to love and become empathetic; how we find our passion; how we create our families; coping with loss and despair; gratitude; forgiveness; and most of all, how to be a good creature in the world.

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  Keys to the Kitchen - The...

  Aida Mollenkamp

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  Sharpen your skills and build your culinary confidence with this illustrated guide that includes more than three hundred recipes. 
   
  Food Network and Cooking Channel star Aida Mollenkamp lays an invaluable foundation for cooks in Keys to the Kitchen. This comprehensive manual collects more than three-hundred innovative, contemporary recipes as well as color photographs, plenty of informative illustrations, a substantial technique primer, and helpful how-to information on subjects as wide-ranging as equipment, food storage, rust removal, throwing a cocktail party, and knife skills.  
   
  For those who can’t cook but want to, this essential reference guide makes an ideal starting place—and for those already at ease in the kitchen it’s full of “who knew” moments for expanding their repertoire of great recipes.

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  Granny Square Flower Garden -...

  international Creative Publishing

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  Watch your crocheting skills bloom with this step-by-step guide to crafting a beautiful botanical blanket. 
   
  A granny square is a piece of square fabric produced in crochet by working in rounds from the center outward. Granny squares are made separately and then assembled to create a blanket. Since you work on small pieces one at a time, this technique is perfect for those who are new to crocheting. 
   
  A crocheting basics section provides techniques, abbreviations, and the instructions needed to make the twelve granny square projects included in this step-by-step booklet. 
   
  “An affordably priced booklet with several tutorials, so it would be a great gift for a patient beginner crocheter, or for a crocheter that is a bit rusty and would like a skills review.” —Underground Crafter

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  The Big Bad Book of Beasts - The...

  Michael Largo

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  The world's wildest collection of animal knowledge and lore!Lions, and tigers, and bears . . . and dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters. Oh my!For hundreds of years, the most popular books in the Western world next to the Bible were "bestiaries," fanciful encyclopedias collecting all of human knowledge and mythology about the animal kingdom. In these pages, eagles and elephants lived next to griffins and sea monsters. Now, in The Big, Bad Book of Beasts, award-winning author Michael Largo has updated the medieval bestsellers for the twenty-first century, illuminating little-known facts, astonishing secrets, and bizarre superstitions about the beasts that inhabit our world—and haunt our imaginations. You'll learn about the biggest bug ever, the smallest animal in the world, and the real creatures that inspired the fabled unicorns. You'll discover how birds learned to fly, why cats rub against your legs, and a thousand other facts that will make you look at nature in a wonderfully new way.Did you know?The fastest animal in the world is the peregrine falcon, which reaches speeds of over 200 miles per hours.Circus ringmaster P.T. Barnum fooled many when he displayed a "mermaid" carcass that was later proved to be monkey bones sewed together with the body of a fish.Discovered in a remote volcanic crater in New Guinea, the Bosavi wolly rat grows to the size of a cat.President Andrew Jackson bought an African gray parrot to keep his wife company. The bird outlived them both and was removed from Jackson's funeral for cussing in both English and Spanish.A to Z: From Aardvark to Zooplankton!For all ages!Includes 289 illustrations!

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  The Big Book of Spy Trivia - Spy...

  Bernadette Johnson

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  Discover the fascinating true stories of spies and secret agents throughout history in this ultimate collection of espionage trivia. 
   
  Whether you’re a wannabe 007 or just a fan of subterfuge, the fun facts and legendary stories in this big book of spy trivia are sure to shock and fascinate. Discover how the most infamous spy organizations like the CIA and MI6 came began, how they recruit agents, and how they have helped shape world events. You’ll even learn real tactics that spies use on missions, from escaping zip ties to reading the body language. This collection spans centuries and countries, including:  
   
  • One of history’s first spy operations: the Trojan Horse in ancient Greece 
   
  • America’s first spy organization: George Washington’s Culper Ring  
   
  • Real KGB spies from the Cold War era: American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg 
   
  • And much more! 
   
  This fact-packed book quizzes readers on their spy knowledge, from pop culture icons to unsung heroes that history books have forgotten.

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  Classic Book of Rude Jokes -...

  Scott McNeely

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  A compendium of the best of the most offensive humor out there, from the author of Ultimate Book of Jokes. 
   
  For jokesters who like their humor on the dark side, this Classic Book of Rude Jokes compiles the most hilariously crass jokes out there in one compact volume. Scott McNeely, author of Ultimate Book of Jokes, has mined decades of rude joke history in search of the best of the worst jokes that were too shocking to include in his first collection. From dirty blonde jokes and tasteless religious jokes to the just plain sick and twisted, no one escapes offense in this collection of gags that is sure to please even the crudest comedian.

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