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Plagued by fire : the dreams and furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Hendrickson, Paul, 1944- author.
Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright who....
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The art of making memories : how to create and remember happy moments
Wiking, Meik, author.
The CEO of the Happiness Institute explores how we can learn to create happy memories and do better at holding onto them.....
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Good habits, bad habits : the science of making positive changes that stick
Wood, Wendy, 1954 June 17- author.
Wood draws on three decades of original research to explain the fascinating science of how we form habits, and offers the key to unlocking our habitual mind in order to make the changes we seek.....
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Here we are : American dreams, American nightmares
Shahani, Aarti Namdev, author.
The Shahanis came to Queens--from India, by way of Casablanca--in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the u....
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The man who played with fire : Stieg Larsson's lost files and the hunt for an assassin
Stocklassa, Jan, author.
When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister. It was the first time in h....
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Doctor dogs : how our best friends are becoming our best medicine
Goodavage, Maria, 1962- author.
New York Times bestselling author Maria Goodavage takes us on a thrilling, delightful, globe-trotting journey to discover the heartwarming and fascinating new world of doctor dogs. In this groundbreaking book, Goodavage brings us behind the scenes of cutt....
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Where I come from : life lessons from a Latino chef
Sa&nchez, Aaro&n, author.
Chef and television personality Aaro&n Sa&nchez recounts his formative years and how he fell in love with the culinary world. From a summer spent in New Orleans with Paul Prudhomme during his adolescent years, to a short-lived stint in culinary school, to....
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Crisis of conscience : whistleblowing in an age of fraud
Mueller, Tom, author.
The author forces readers to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual rights and corporate power as he traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases.....
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