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  Looking for Votes in All the...

  Rick Ridder

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  The veteran presidential campaign manager recounts his many adventures, travesties, triumphs, and lessons from more than forty years on the trail.   Over his long and legendary career, campaign strategist Rick Ridder has been at the center of everything from presidential death matches to the legalization of marijuana. In this lively memoir, he recounts his life on the trail from the McGovern campaign to more recent candidates and causes. Along the way, he reveals his “twenty-two rules of campaign management”―each one illustrated by entertaining, instructive, and mostly true stories from his own experiences.   Rick offers an unsparing, often hilarious self-portrait of the political guru as a young man, criss-crossing the country from one drafty campaign headquarters to the next, making mistakes and pulling rabbits out of hats, wrangling temperamental celebrities, winning some elections and losing others.   Through his stories, you’ll meet the state legislature candidate who said he’d win thanks to his reputation as a judge in cat competitions; the US Senate candidate who told the Southern press, “I hate southern accents”; a young Senator Al Gore who campaigned for President in 1988 by eating his way through New York City alongside Mayor Koch; Leonard Nimoy, good-naturedly trekking through rural Wisconsin in Rick’s own Jeep because Rick was too young to rent a more appropriate vehicle; and many other colorful characters.

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  Canada Weird Strange and True

  Lisa Wojna

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  This book takes you deep inside the weirdest and most peculiar aspects of our country:
  		 
  Yes, there is a lighthouse in Saskatchewan!! Climb 153 steps to the top.
  		 
  The Diefenbunker is a relic of the Cold War that was built just outside Ottawa to house essential government and military personnel in the event of a nuclear attack; it is now a museum.
  		 
  The Brussel Sprouts Festival is held yearly in the village of Rogersville, NB.
  		 
  Lake Okanagan’s Ogopogo is one of Canada’s most well known monsters, but the weird thing is that at least 14 other unknown, cryptid lake creatures are said to swim this country’s waters.
  		 
  The Old Sow tidal whirlpool, located in Passamaquoddy Bay, is the largest in the Western Hemisphere at 75 metres in diameter with a current speed of 28 kilometres an hour.
  		 
  Over seven years 14 severed feet have washed up on the Pacific Coastline; some have been identified through DNA testing but the identity of most, and the reason for their find, remains a mystery.
  		 
  The largest beaver dam in the world is 850 metres wide and is located in a remote corner of Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta.
  		 
  The Hôtel de Glace in Québec City is sculpted from 500 tonnes of ice and 15,000 tonnes of snow.
  		 
  Now, that’s just weird!
  		 
  And there are hundreds more strange things about our country that you will learn about in Canada Weird, Strange and True!

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  Food Men Love - All-Time...

  Margie Lapanja

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  This collection of recipes, stories and food trivia explores favorite dishes from celebrity chefs, sports heroes, local grill legends and more. 
   
  From seasoned chefs to barbecue-happy bachelors and loving husbands, men are taking up the tongs and giving the salad spinner a whirl in increasing numbers. Kitchen Goddess Margie Lapanja interviewed hundreds of men—from movie stars to neighborhood gourmands—for this one-of-a-kind cookbook filled with favorite recipes, fascinating food trivia, and fun stories from the kitchen. 
   
  Food Men Love features Tom Cruise's favorite Linguini dish, quarterback John Elway's Hamburger Soup, basketball legend Michael Jordan's 23 Peekytoe Crab Sandwich, and former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir's Peanut Satay Sauce. Dishes are organized by course in chapters including “Warming Up His Appetite”; “Seeking Thrills with the G-r-r-rill”; and “How Sweet It Is: Treat Him to His Just Desserts.”

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  The New Plant Parent - Develop...

  Darryl Cheng

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  The creator of Instagram’s House Plant Journal mixes love with scientific logic in this beautifully photographed guide for indoor gardeners.   For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. With this book, indoor gardeners can be less a passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on observation and insight. And in the process, the plant owner becomes a plant lover, bonded to these beautiful living things by a simple love and appreciation of nature.   The New Plant Parent covers all of the basics of growing house plants, from finding the right light, to everyday care like watering and fertilizing, to containers, to recommended species. Cheng’s friendly tone, personal stories, and accessible photographs fill his book with the same generous spirit that has made @houseplantjournal, his Instagram account, a popular source of advice and inspiration for over half a million indoor gardeners.

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  Faces and Sounds

  Pete Holmes

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  Comedian Pete Holmes brings his unique brand of happy-go-lucky humor to his first HBO stand-up comedy special, sharing hilarious and relatable insights on the absurdity of society.

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  Shrubs Large and Small - Natives...

  Moya L. Andrews, Gillian Harris

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  A charming and colorful guide to the hardy, low-maintenance plants that serve as essential elements of the architecture of our gardens. 
   
  This beautifully illustrated book on landscape gardening addresses shrubs and how to determine which you should plant among your perennials and where. Shrubs provide the foundation for a pleasing, yet low-maintenance garden. They are long-lived, have the ornamental appeal of perennials, and provide variety in color, size, shape, and texture, as well as shelter and berries for birds. Shrubs can make attractive arrangements indoors and provide seasonal variation through the entire year. 
   
  In addition to the useful information for gardeners of any skill level, Shrubs Large and Small includes Gillian Harris’s irresistible illustrations—botanically correct works of art that will delight and inspire.

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