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  Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Cat...

  Institute Bathroom Readers'

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  A compendium of funny feline facts and strange stories even more entertaining than a stuffed mouse on a stick!   The relationship between cats and us lower animals cannot be summed up in mere words, but leave it to Uncle John to try anyway. Curl up with the Cat Lover’s Companion, and you’ll explore the unique, amusing, and mysterious side of the common housecat (Felis domesticus).   Read about the origins of your favorite breeds, meet some kitty movie stars, and decipher those strange feline mannerisms. Then take a catnap. Then run wildly around your house for no apparent reason. Then read about a cat raised by a gorilla, a cat that uses the toilet (for its intended purpose), and much, much more!

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  News from Lake Wobegon: Winter -...

  Garrison Keillor

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  Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the winter season.Includes: Guys on IceJames Lundeen's ChristmasThe Christmas Story Re-toldNew Year's from New YorkStorm Home

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  From Baghdad to America - Life...

  Jay Kopelman

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  Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman won the hearts of readers with his moving story of adopting an abandoned puppy named Lava in a hellish corner of Iraq. For this Marine and his comrades, the puppy served as an important emotional touchstone in a grim and seemingly endless war.Kopelman now writes about what it's like to be home. He credits his canine best friend with finding his wife-in the park, Lava began playing with her dog and the two owners met-and for keeping him sane as he readjusted. With the same intelligence and insight he showed in From Baghdad, With Love, Kopelman sets forth more than a dozen lessons, including: Life can change in an instant, but you'll be able to handle it; passion for something can help you tap into your most powerful reserve of energy; have a standard operating procedure for everything; and never forget who you are or how you got here. Active and retired troops, soldiers' friends and families, and everyone who has ever loved a dog will embrace this book.

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  Trip to Russia

  Stefan Zweig

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  "What journey within our immediate world today would be remotely as interesting, enchanting, instructive and exciting as that to Russia? While our Europe, and especially the capitals, are subject to the inexorably contemporary process of mutual assimilation and resemblance, Russia remains utterly unparalleled." Stephen Zweig, 1928. After Stefan Zweig's bourgeois world collapsed with the First World War, he went searching for alternative forms of society, which culminated in a journey through the at that time still young Soviet Union. His perceptions and impressions during the trip remained ambivalent and moved between the generally prevailing glorification of the USSR by parts of the Western European intelligentsia and the harsh reality of life among the population. Stefan Zweig's non-political trip to the USSR is probably one of the most extraordinary travelogues of the 1920s and appears today almost 90 years later as a kaleidoscope into a past that is once again up-to-date.

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  Tracking Giants - Big Trees Tiny...

  Amanda Lewis, Dr. Diana...

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  Amanda Lewis was an overachieving, burned-out book editor most familiar with trees as dead blocks of paper. A dedicated "indoorswoman," she could barely tell a birch from a beech. But that didn't stop her from pledging to visit all of the biggest trees in British Columbia, a Canadian province known for its rugged terrain and gigantic trees.The "Champion" trees on Lewis's ambitious list ranged from mighty Western red cedars to towering arbutus. The only problem? Well, there were many . . .Climate change and a pandemic aside, Lewis's lack of wilderness experience, the upsetting reality of old-growth logging, the ever-changing nature of trees, and the pressures of her one-year time frame complicated her quest. Burned out again—and realizing that her "checklist" approach to life might be the problem—she reframed her search for trees to something humbler and more meaningful: getting to know forests in an interconnected way.Weaving in insights from writers and artists, Lewis uncovers what we're really after when we pursue the big things—revealing that sometimes it's the smaller joys, the mindsets we have, and the companions we're with that make us feel more connected to the natural world.

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  Simple Pleasures of the Kitchen...

  Susannah Seton

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  A collection of recipes, crafts, and activities to bring your family together in the kitchen, from the author of Simple Pleasures of the Garden. The kitchen really is the heart of the home. It’s the first place family and friends gather, not only to prepare and eat food, but to chat, sip tea, snack on home-baked cookies, unwind after a tough day, and reconnect with loved ones. The latest in the Simple Pleasures series of books, Simple Pleasures of the Kitchen captures the essence of the kitchen. It offers a cornucopia of recipes, food-based crafts, food facts and tips, and family activities, as well as stories from kitchens around the world sure to warm anyone’s heart, no matter what the weather. Organized by season, the book offers: Spring Flings, The Savor of Summer, Autumn’s Abundance, and Cozying Up in Winter. Recipes include comforting mashed potatoes, fresh summer risotto, delicious meatloaf, and heart-warming brownies and popovers. The super-simple jam recipe will go great with popovers, or as a gift in jars you’ve decorated yourself. You can satisfy your sweet tooth and your soul at the same time! Susannah Seton’s Simple Pleasures books continually delight readers with their down-home recipes, crafts, and activities that bring the whole family together. Don’t miss this one.“This enchanting and entertaining book reminds us of the importance of these times, how the simplest of events and day-to-day activities all blend to create cherished memories.”—Jonathon King, cofounder of Stonewall Kitchen, from the Introduction

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