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"Picking up after the final season of the acclaimed and beloved The Expanse show and filling in the missing years between The Expanse: Babylon's Ashes and The Expanse: Persepolis Rising, the hidden stories of your favorite Expanse characters are revealed for the first time! Everything comes together, tying the threads of the show and answering lingering questions that will bring readers and viewers alike far beyond the stellar horizon."--Back of cover....
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Douglas Spitzer wants to be one of the "astronauts" selected for the crucial Mission Politzer. And just like astronauts like Buzz Aldrin and Sally Ride, Douglas is brave, adaptable, and self-sacrificing. He's one of the program's best candidates. But if he qualifies, Douglas won't be traveling through space; he'll be launched into alternate realities on a desperate mission to save Earth from a horrific crisis that has our world on the brink of extinction....
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed...
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Expanse Dragon Tooth volume 9
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Comics veteran Andy Diggle (The Losers, Green Arrow: Year One) and artist Rubine (Voltron: Legendary Defender) continue their adaptation of the beloved science fiction franchise!
Set in the nearly 30 year gap between the 6th and 7th novels, The Expanse: Babylon's Ashes and The Expanse: Persepolis Rising, the final season of the television series was not the end, and neither an unstable interstellar cold war nor emerging alien technology will compare...
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What if you could change your life—without changing your life? Gretchen had a good marriage, two healthy daughters, and work she loved—but one day, stuck on a city bus, she realized that time was flashing by, and she wasn't thinking enough about the things that really mattered. "I should have a happiness project," she decided. She spent the next year test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular
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"Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin (The Happiness Project; Better Than Before) reveals the surprising truth about the four hidden personality types that drive everything we do. Learn how to understand yourself better--and also how to influence others more effectively"--Provided by publisher.
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Alice Jones enjoys solving math problems and little mysteries for her classmates, but now one of them has asked her to figure out how a scientist who was working on invisibility disappeared from his locked lab--and solving this problem could actually lead Alice into real danger, because someone does not want him found.
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From the author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers The Happiness Project and Happier at Home comes a book that tackles the question: How do we make good habits that are easy, effortless, and automatic?
Habits are the invisible architecture of our lives. Rubin provides an analytical and scientific framework from which to understand these habits—as well as change them for good....
Habits are the invisible architecture of our lives. Rubin provides an analytical and scientific framework from which to understand these habits—as well as change them for good....
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Expanse Dragon Tooth volume 4
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The first lore-expanding arc of the Kickstarter sensation comes to an explosive close!
Working together, Avasarala and Drummer piece together the true nature of the mysterious "Dragon Tooth"
The Rocinante joins a battle group of OPA pirate-hunters for a final showdown with the notorious pirate Sohiro, but they get more than they bargained for!
But it's up to The Rocinante and its crew to secure the alien Ring Gates-and the future of the human...
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Expanse Dragon Tooth volume 5
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Ten years have passed since the stunning climax of the first arc of The Expanse: Dragon Tooth, legendary comics writer Andy Diggle (The Losers, Green Arrow: Year One) and artist Rubine (Voltron: Legendary Defender) continue the series that has enraptured fans.
As mysterious technological troubles and human disconnection abounds on an interstellar scale, problems arise with the Laconia gate that could prove deadly…
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Expanse Dragon Tooth volume 2
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The stellar expansion and continuation of The Expanse continues in the only place fans will find new adventures!
In a time of great strife and subterfuge, Sohiro, Roki, Avasarala, and other key players make their way in the breadth of cosmic colonialism and piracy.
But, a long-hidden threat lurks in waiting… connected to threads from the past that will change the future forever.
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Dragons love tacos volume 2
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"When dragons run out of tacos, they travel back in time to get a fresh supply"--Provided by publisher.
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"A deeply moving portrait of the Callery pear tree that survived the attacks on September 11, from Eisner Award-nominated author-illustrator Sean Rubin.
In 1973, nestled between the newly completed Twin Towers in New York City, a Callery pear tree was planted. Over the years, the tree provided a home for birds and shade for people looking for a place to rest, along with the first blooms of spring.
On September 11, 2001, everything changed. The...
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"From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be."--Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which...
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Since the early nineteenth century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In the only photo-essay book about the quilts of Gee's Bend for children, award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin explores the history and culture of this fascinating group of women and their unique quilting traditions. Rubin uses meticulous research to offer an exclusive look at an important facet of African American art and culture.
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Dragons love tacos volume 1
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Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.
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"With clarity and humor, bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. And for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution doesn't work. In this easy-to-read but hard-to-put-down book, Gretchen Rubin suggests more than 150 short, concrete clutter-clearing ideas so each reader can choose the ones that...
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Those darn squirrels volume 1
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When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food.
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"Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv...
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