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  100 Things to Hate Before You Die

  Claudia Stavola

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  Comedian Claudia Stavola understands we’re living in sensitive times and the word hate is controversial, so she doesn’t use it loosely. She only uses it for serious infractions like gender reveal parties, guys who wear shorts when it’s forty below, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina candle.  
  You’ll be thoroughly entertained and in awe of how Stavola’s raucous sarcasm mirrors your inner most thoughts in this hilarious collection of easy-to-read essays. With her witty and insightful observations, she’s like a modern-day George Carlin, except hairier. (Hey, she’s Italian. She was born with a mustache). 
  100 Things to Hate Before You Die is astute, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny. Claudia shares her aggravation over a range of topics from mundane things like Fakebook, crappy gift-givers, and ukuleles on talent show auditions, to more thought-provoking topics such as people with no shame, the need for a license to parent, and the death of Eddie Van Halen.  
  Delivered with razor-sharp force, Stavola’s hysterical and unique takes on everyday a**holes makes this not only a great read for comedy lovers, but a must-read.

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  How to Cure Writers Block

  James Rashad Frazier

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  As writers, we’ve all experienced the dread of staring at a blank page for hours- sometimes days on end. You know what you want to say, but just can’t seem to write it the way you imagined. Writer’s block happens to all writers at some point. The difference between those who remain stuck versus those who create freely, is knowing how to navigate it. In “How to Cure Writer’s Block”, author James Frazier guides us through 3 simple steps to shift our perspective and open the pathway to unlimited creative expression. While some may not currently have writer's block, “How to Cure” can help improve your writing process and approach your craft with a fresh perspective.It’s time take control of your writing!

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  Erosion - Essays of Undoing

  Terry Tempest Williams

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  This program is read by the author.Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist 
  Terry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist, fervent activist, and stirring writer, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered, worn, and whittled away through wind, water, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. 
  She looks at the current state of American politics: the dire social and environmental implications of recent choices to gut Bears Ears National Monument, sacred lands to Native People of the American Southwest, and undermine the Endangered Species Act. She testifies that climate change is not an abstraction, citing the drought  outside her door and at times, within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: "oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system." But beautiful moments of relief and refuge, solace and spirituality come—in her conversations with Navajo elders, art, and, always, in the land itself. She asks, urgently: "Is Earth not enough? Can the desert be a prayer?"

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  This Is Going to Hurt - Secret...

  Adam Kay

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  Now an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw  
  The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally ""blisteringly funny"" (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) secret diaries of his years as a young doctor. 
  Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. 
  Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. 
  Hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know—and more than a few things you didn’t—about life on and off the hospital ward. 
  And yes, it may leave a scar.

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  Voyages from the Past - A...

  Simon Wills

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  From the days of sail to the majestic ocean liners of the twentieth century, this is a history of British sea travel from a passenger's point of view. Each chapter narrates one traveller's voyage based on their first-hand description, and the day-to-day details of their experience. Their stories, some previously unpublished, illustrate the evolution of journeys by sea, exploring three and a half centuries of maritime travel. Simon Wills transports readers from Elizabethan times to the eve of the Second World War, on voyages to destinations all over the world. The passengers featured in this book came from all walks of life, and travelled for many different reasons. There were emigrants seeking a new life abroad, such as the pilgrims on the Mayflower, and others hoping to be reunited with their families like Phoebe Amory on the ill-fated Lusitania in 1915. The author Henry Fielding travelled to improve his health, whilst the wealthy George Moore crossed the Atlantic on Brunel's Great Western to do business. Yet, whether travelling in steerage or first class, every passenger could experience trials and tribulations at sea – from delayed sailing schedules and poor diet, to the greater hazards of disease, enemy action, and shipwreck. This engaging collection of stories illustrates the excitements, frustrations, and dangers of sea travel for our forebears. Family historians will perhaps identify with a voyage taken by an ancestor, while those with an interest in maritime or social history can explore how passenger pursuits, facilities, and experiences at sea have developed over time.

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  A New Spin on Drunkard's Path -...

  John Kubiniec

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  “John Kubiniec’s aim is to take the fear and mystery out of creating with curves, and has put together enough intriguing designs to tempt any quilter.” —Down Under Quilts 
   
  Shake up the Drunkard’s Path block with quilting teacher John Kubiniec. Go beyond the basics of curved piecing with twelve innovative projects based on a classic pattern. Discover how sewing pre-pieced units like rail fences, half-square triangles, and sixteen-patches can completely change up the Drunkard’s Path look. Take it a step further with creative sashings and add-ons to alter the finished layout. The end result looks complex but is actually easy to sew! 
   
  “The instructions are foolproof. It is amazing the variety you can create when you start to experiment—these twelve designs are all different and should keep any quilter happy for months. This is a book to ignite your creative imagination.” —yarnsandfabrics.co.uk 
   
  “Many quilters avoid curved piecing, but the projects in this book will make you want to try—and buy in! The quilts look very complicated, but John breaks down the steps to make it easy, and painless.” —Quilter’s Connection 
   
  “A new take on curved piecing. Go beyond the basics with twelve innovative projects based on a classic pattern.” —Today’s Quilter

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