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002.068 BUZ Lewis Buzbee.
The yellow-lighted bookshop : a memoir, a history
005.58 SWI Echo Swinford.
Fixing PowerPoint annoyances : how to fix the most annoying things about your favorite presentation program
158.1 GRE Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney.
Succeed on your own terms : lessons from top achievers around the world on developing your unique potential
242.645 JAK T.D. Jakes.
Promises from God for parents
248.8 MCG Robin McGraw.
Inside my heart : choosing to live with passion and purpose
248.844 BUR Jim Burns.
Creating an intimate marriage : rekindle romance through affection, warmth & encouragement
296.3 KUS Harold S. Kushner.
Overcoming life's disappointments
305.8 SOK Jason Sokol.
There goes my everything : white Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975
332.64 WEI Eric J. Weiner.
What goes up : the uncensored history of Wall Street told by the bankers, brokers, CEOs, and crooks who made it
342.7308 EPP Garrett Epps.
Democracy reborn : the 14th Amendment and the fight for civil rights in post-Civil War America
355 JOR Christer Jörgensen ... [et al.].
Fighting techniques of the early modern world, AD 1500 - AD 1763 : equipment, combat skills and tactics
361.76 MOR S. Brent Morris.
The complete idiot's guide to freemasonry
363.25 FLE Connie Fletcher.
Every contact leaves a trace : crime scene experts talk about their work from discovery through verdict
372.4 BLA Caroline Blakemore & Barbara Weston Ramirez.
Baby read-aloud basics : fun and interactive ways to help your little one discover the world of words
393.9 CUL Lisa Takeuch Cullen.
Remember me : a lively tour of the new American way of death
394.1 CHA Denise Chávez.
A taco testimony : meditations on family, food and culture
394.12 SCH Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson.
Chew on this : everything you don't want to know about fast food
553.8 FIN Victoria Finlay.
Jewels : a secret history
599.78 PAY Brian Payton.
Shadow of the bear : travels in vanishing wilderness
612 MCM Beverly McMillan.
Human body : a visual guide
612.8 BRI Louann Brizendine.
The female brain
613.25 HAV Julia Griggs Havey with J. Patrick Havey.
The vice-busting diet : a 12-week plan to break your worst food habits and change your life forever
613.69 PIV Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht
The worst-case scenario survival handbook: life
613.7046 MEH Mira Mehta.
How to use yoga : a step-by-step guide to the Iyengar method of yoga, for relaxation, health and well-being
613.71 COO Geralyn Coopersmith.
Fit and female : the perfect fitness and nutrition game plan for your unique body type
615.9 FIT Randall Fitzgerald.
The hundred-year lie : how food and medicine are destroying your health
616.0472 BRA Scott Brady and William Proctor.
Pain-free for life : the 6-week cure for chronic pain-- without surgery or drugs
616.7227 GOO Dorothy Foltz-Gray
The Arthritis Foundation's Guide to Good living with rheumatoid arthritis.
617.43 GOL Merle Cantor Goldberg, William Y. Marcus, & George Cowan, Jr.
Weight-loss surgery : is it right for you?
623.8882 BUD Geoffrey Budworth.
Knots
635.9 BRY Geoff Bryant.
Plant propagation A to Z : growing plants for free
635.9 MAC Tony and Suzanne Mace.
Cactus basics : a comprehensive guide to cultivation and care
636.7 MCC Patricia B. McConnell.
For the love of a dog : understanding emotions in you and your best friend
636.7 TAY David Taylor.
Old dogs, new tricks : understanding and retraining older and rescued dogs
641.22 CHE written by Dina Cheney
Tasting club : gathering together to share and savor your favorite tastes
641.59 KAG Katharine Kagel
Cooking with Cafe Pasqual's : recipes from Santa Fe's renowned corner café
641.5973 KIN Jonathan King, Jim Stott, and Kathy Gunst
Stonewall kitchen favorites : delicious recipes to share with family and friends every day
641.5973 RED introductions by Sue Ellen Cooper.
The Red Hat Society cookbook
641.647 LON Lori Longbotham
Luscious berry desserts
641.657 GRE Aliza Green.
Field guide to herbs & spices : how to identify, select, and use virtually every seasoning at the market
646.4072 BER René Bergh.
Make your own patterns
646.79 HAN Mark Victor Hansen and Art Linkletter.
How to make the rest of your life the best of your life
647.95 LYN by Entrepreneur Press and Jacquelyn Lynn.
Start your own restaurant and five other food businesses
649.1 CON Kenneth N. Condrell.
The unhappy child : what every parent needs to know
649.156 LEV Madeline Levine.
The price of privilege : how parental pressure and material advantage are creating a generation of disconnected and unhappy kids
658.802 AND Chris Anderson.
The long tail : why the future of business is selling less of more
682 SIM Lorelei Sims.
The backyard blacksmith : traditional techniques for the modern smith
683.403 LYO Larry Lyons.
The gun owner's handbook : a complete guide to maintaining and repairing your firearms--in the field or at your workbench
687.1 SUL James Sullivan.
Jeans : a cultural history of an American icon
690.892 JEN Alison Jenkins.
Birdhouses : from castles to cottages--20 simple homes and feeders to make in a weekend
702.812 CIR Giuseppina "Josie" Cirincione.
Collage lost and found
725.74 LEE Vinny Lee
Cool pools and hot tubs
728 JAC Karrie Jacobs
The perfect $100,000 house : a trip across America and back in pursuit of a place to call home
728.37 SAT Dan F. Sater II.
The smaller home : creating the perfect fit
729.28 ZEL Marilyn Zelinsky Syart
Complete lighting design : a practical design guide for perfect lightingo.
741.5 COR Ben Cormack.
Cartoon clinic
745.5 BRO Marie Browning.
Snazzy jars : glorious gift ideas
745.5 SHR Caroll Louise Shreeve.
Victorian details : decorating tips & easy-to-make projects
745.54 BAR Alli Bartkowski.
Paper quilling for the first time
745.56 ARE José Antonio Ares
Metal : forming, forging, and welding techniques
745.572 RAL Emma Ralph.
Get creative with polymer clay
745.582 CAS Barbara Case.
It's all about the beads
745.593 SCR from the editors of Memory Makers Books.
Scrapbook fundamentals : your guide to getting started
746.434 MEL Carol Meldrum.
Easy crocheted accessories
746.46 CAU Linda Causee.
Quilts A to Z : 26 techniques every quilter should know
746.46 DEW Donna Dewberry and Cindy Casciato.
One stitch quilting : the basics
747 HOU the editors of House Beautiful magazine.
House beautiful : ready, set, decorate : the complete guide to getting it right every time
747.3 KAS Anna Kasabian with Julie Goodman
Designing interiors with tile : creative ideas with ceramic, stone, and mosaic.
748.2 SCH Ellen T. Schroy.
Warman's depression glass : a identification and price guide
751.42 MACK Gordon MacKenzie.
The watercolorist's essential notebook, landscapes
751.426 HAM [edited by Amy Jeynes and Jolie Lamping Roth].
Acrylic painting with Lee Hammond
781.66 BEA Andrew Beaujon.
Body piercing saved my life : inside the phenomenon of Christian rock
791.4502 MAD Tim Madigan.
I'm proud of you : my friendship with Fred Rogers
796.334 GIF Clive Gifford.
The Kingfisher soccer encyclopedia
796.357 MNO Seth Mnookin.
Feeding the monster : how money, smarts, and nerve took a team to the top
796.357 VEC George Vecsey.
Baseball : the history of America's favorite game
797.2 COX Lynne Cox.
Grayson
799.276 ALS Charles J. Alsheimer
Strategies for whitetails
808.5 KAR  Anne Karpf.
The human voice : the story of a talent
811.54 HAL Donald Hall.
White apples and the taste of stone : poems, 1946-2006
814.54 EPH Nora Ephron.
I feel bad about my neck : and other thoughts on being a woman
818.602 WIL Robert Wilder.
Daddy needs a drink : an irreverent look at parenting from a dad who truly loves his kids-- even when they're driving him nuts
861.308 GRO selected & translated by Edith Grossman
The Golden Age : poems of the Spanish Renaissance
92 ATK Sarah Helm.
A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
92 ATT John Man.
Attila : the Barbarian king who challenged Rome
92 BEE Jeremy Siepmann.
Beethoven : his life & music
92 DAV Charlotte Chandler.
The girl who walked home alone : Bette Davis, a personal biography
92 HOL Lou Holtz.
Wins, losses, and lessons : an authobiography
92 JOH Randall B. Woods.
LBJ--architect of American ambition
92 MAL Christina Hardyment.
Malory : the knight who became King Arthur's chronicler
92 MOZ Jeremy Siepmann.
Mozart : his life & music
92 RAT Alan Weisman.
Lone star : the extraordinary life and times of Dan Rather
92 STA Jon Krampner.
Female Brando : the legend of Kim Stanley
92 TAY J. Randy Taraborrelli.
Elizabeth
920.71 SCH Jerry Schilling with Chuck Crisafulli.
Me and a guy named Elvis : my lifelong friendship with Elvis Presley
929.4 EVA Cleveland Kent Evans.
The great big book of baby names
932.012 HAW Zahi A. Hawass.
Mountains of the pharaohs : the untold story of the pyramid builders
938.05 BAY Nigel Bagnall.
The Peloponnesian War : Athens, Sparta, and the struggle for Greece
940.4 MIL Chad Millman.
The detonators : the secret plot to destroy America and an epic hunt for justice
943.087 STE Fritz Stern.
Five Germanys I have known
956.7044 LOW Richard S. Lowry
Marines in the Garden of Eden
956.7044 RIC Thomas E. Ricks.
Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq
956.7044 STE Rory Stewart.
The prince of the marshes : and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
958.104 CHA Sarah Chaves.
The punishment of virtue : inside Afghanistan after the Taliban
972.8705 MUS Kurt Muse & John Gilstrap.
Six minutes to freedom : how a band of heroes defied a dictator and helped free a nation
973.7 OLS Christopher J. Olsen.
The American Civil War : a hands-on history
973.7 WIT compiled by J.G. Lewin and P.J. Huff
Witness to the Civil War : first-hand accounts from Frank Leslie's illustrated newpaper
973.711 CAL Erik Calonius.
The Wanderer : the last American slave ship
973.931 KEA Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton.
Without precedent : the inside story of the 9/11 Commission
973.931 WRI Lawrence Wright.
The looming tower : Al Qaeda and the road to 9/11
974.7 ZIM Jean Zimmerman.
The women of the house : how a colonial she-merchant built a mansion, a fortune, and a dynasty
976.044 COO Christopher Cooper, Robert Block.
Disaster : Hurricane Katrina and the failure of Homeland Security
976.3 HOR Jed Horne.
Breach of faith : Hurricane Katrina and the near death of a great American city
SW 978.9 SIL Jason Silverman
Untold New Mexico : stories from a hidden past
SW 979 HAY Allan and Carol Hayes
The desert Southwest : four thousand years of life and art
YA 070.5 TOD Mark Todd + Esther Peal Watson
Whatcha mean, what's a zine? : the art of making zines and mini comics
YA 362.29 MEN Francha Roffé Menhard.
The facts about amphetamines
YA 363.738 GLO Cynthia A. Bily, book editor.
Global warming
YA 522.682 TAS Karen Taschek.
Death stars, weird galaxies, and a quasar-spangled universe : the discoveries of the Very Large Array telescope
YA 560.176 BLA Jean F. Blashfield with Richard P. Jacobs.
When dinosaurs ruled : the Mesozoic era
YA 577.34 ALL Michael Allaby
Tropical forests
YA 92 BRO Raychel Haugrud Reiff.
Charlotte Brontë
YA 92 FRO Peggy Caravantes.
Deep woods : the story of Robert Frost
YA 92 HOU Sid Fleischman.
Escape! : the story of the great Houdini
YA 92 PIC Tim McNeese.
Pablo Picasso

 

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