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  480 Codorus Street Book II -...

  Sandra L. Kearse-Stockton

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  480 Codorus Street Book II, Trials and tribulations is a continuation of 480 Codorus Street Book I - Surviving Unpredictability's. The life of a young Negro girl whose life started in York, Pennsylvania in the 1940s. This book covers the continued challenges that she faces during her life from 1973 to 1988. These years would test Sandra's ability to survive unpredictability's . This book too, is not a book of fiction but, a true mental collage of a 19 year old widowed girl with four children, finding her way through the personal storms that life takes one through.

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  The Best American Science and...

  Amy Stewart

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  This anthology collects some of the year’s best science and nature writing—from climate change to killer beetles, an exposé of nail salons, and more.   As guest editor Amy Stewart says in her introduction, “science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten…But at the end of the day, we’re all writers. We’re just like novelists, memoirists, and poets. We’re entertainers.” The writers in this anthology pull off that wonderful feat of turning hard research into page-turning narrative.   From a Pulitzer Prize–winning essay on the earthquake that could decimate the Pacific Northwest to the astonishing work of investigative journalism that transformed the nail salon industry, this is a collection of hard-hitting and beautifully composed writing on the wonders, dangers, and oddities of scientific innovation and our natural world. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 includes Kathryn Schulz, Sarah Maslin Nir, Charles C. Mann, Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gretel Ehrlich, and others.

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  On the Road to Victory - The...

  Michael Harrison

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  The story of a revolution in moving troops and supplies: “A rare gem that will fill a gap in your World War I library. Highly recommended.” —Indy Squadron Dispatch  
   
  The Great War produced many innovations, in particular the spectacular development by the British and French armies of motor transport. 
   
  The age-old problem of moving soldiers and their supplies was no different in 1914 than it had been some 2,400 years ago, when the great Chinese military thinker Sun Tzu informed his readers that the further an army marched into enemy territory, the more the cost of transport increased, even to the point that more supplies were consumed by the transportation of men and their horses than was delivered to the troops. 
   
  Using many previously unpublished illustrations, including artists’ impressions, this book tells the story of the men and women who made motor transport work for the victorious British Army on the Western Front, so that in 1918, the humble lorry did indeed help propel the British Army forward on the road to victory.

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  What Did We Use Before Toilet...

  Andrew Thompson

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  Answers to the questions that keep you up at night—from Why is bellybutton lint generally blue? to Why does catnip affect cats? 
   
  BAFFLING AND BIZARRE. 
   
  ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING. 
   
  This witty and compulsive collection of trivia will captivate and surprise you with its fun and funky revelations. You’ll learn . . . Why New York is called “the Big Apple”How people count cards at casinosWhat keeps the head on a glass of beerWhy you never see baby pigeonsWhy getting married is called tying the knot 
   
  Praise for Andrew Thompson and his popular trivia books 
   
  “A very handy book that could honestly, save their life—or just answer all those questions they’re maybe too embarrassed to even google.” —Buzzfeed

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  Landscape Art Quilts...

  Ann Loveless

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  The award-winning art quilter shares her free-form technique for capturing the beauty of nature using collage and fusible web in this step-by-step guide. 
   
  Two-time ArtPrize-winner Ann Loveless is known for creating stunning landscape quilts depicting the beautiful natural landscapes of her Lake Michigan home. In Landscape Art Quilts, Step-by-Step, she reveals the creative and technical processes behind some of her best-known designs. 
   
  With step-by-step instructions, Ann demonstrates her free-form method of cutting and placing fabrics on fusible web and finishing with free-motion machine quilting. By learning Ann’s original techniques, you will be able to create your own art quilts based on your favorite landscape photographs.

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  Beaks Bones and Bird Songs - How...

  Roger Lederer

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  When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment. Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs guides the listener through the myriad, and often almost miraculous, things that birds do every day to merely stay alive. Like the goldfinch, which manages extreme weather changes by doubling the density of its plumage in winter. Or urban birds, which navigate traffic through a keen understanding of posted speed limits. In engaging and accessible prose, Roger Lederer shares how and why birds use their sensory abilities to see ultraviolet, find food without seeing it, fly thousands of miles without stopping, change their songs in noisy cities, navigate by smell, and much more.

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