Jonathan Todd Ross
61) The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul
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In The 100 Thing Challenge Dave Bruno relates how he remade his life and regained his soul by getting rid of almost everything. But The 100 Thing Challenge is more than just the story of how one man started a movement to unhook himself from consumerism by winnowing his life's possessions down to 100 things in one year. It's also an inspiring, invigorating guide to how we all can begin to live simpler, more meaningful lives.
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Planet Earth, it turns out, may not be the best of all possible worlds-and lately humanity has been depleting resources, decimating species, and degrading everything needed for life. Meanwhile, human ingenuity has opened up a vista of habitable worlds well beyond our wildest dreams of outposts on Mars. Worlds without End is an expertly guided tour of this thrilling frontier in astronomy: the search for planets with the potential to host life.
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Restoration Agriculture reveals how to sustainably grow perennial food crops that can feed us in our resource-compromised future.
The restoration agriculture system described in this award-winning book works! It is possible for humans to produce staple foods using perennial agricultural ecosystems that actually improve the quality of the environment. This can be done on a backyard, farm or ranch scale and is needed right now-on a global scale.
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During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler's prime inspirations for the Holocaust, yet the United States did not officially recognize the Armenian Genocide until 2021.
This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early...
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In this inspirational fable, Jack McKee is a professional golfer who has just suffered through the most humiliating meltdown of his career. After years of struggle, he is ready to quit on his dream. He has convinced himself he doesn't have what it takes to make it on the PGA Tour. In an attempt to figure out why his career has ended up the way it has, Jack reaches out to one of the game's greatest former players for advice. This legendary golfer teaches...
66) Threader Origins
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This first book of a new sci-fi series introduces an alternate earth where powerful Threads have the power to alter reality as we know it. Pulled from his world by an experiment gone wrong, Darwin Lloyd is one of the few that can see the Threads quantum strings that can be manipulated to change or control reality. On an alternate Earth ravaged by war, Darwin is torn between the Qabal and Safe Haven, his only goal to find a way back home and stop the...
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Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two worlds at once-shifting endlessly from virtual to physical reality as we reach out to others.
Worse yet, we are developing different personal identities in our two worlds. We say and do things...
68) Super Burp!
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New York Times best-selling author Nancy Krulik has written more than 150 books for young audiences. Even the most reluctant reader will be enthralled by Super Burp!, the tale of a class clown looking for a fresh angle. On his first day at a new school, George Brown tries to leave his goofball reputation behind him. But soon his body is overpowered by magical, loud-as-thunder burps that compel him to do crazy things.
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New York Times best-selling author Nancy Krulik keeps listeners giggling with the delightful-and often disastrous-adventures of class clown George Brown. Here George is determined to save enough cash to get a new remote-controlled toy. But his moneymaking plans are put in jeopardy when his crazy "magical" burps return, landing him a cruel punishment-the world's worst wedgie.
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I wanna rock and roll all night are the words that fans shout at KISS concerts. Self-proclaimed hottest band in the land, KISS rocks stadiums and albums. Their upbeat anthem Rock and Roll All Nite rocketed them to stardom. Fans can’t get enough of their loud, showy, and flashy concerts. Read about the band members and how they formed KISS, the ups and downs of some of the members, how they became a marketing machine, and where they are today.
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Aleksandar and Isobel are siblings and former classical music prodigies, once destined for greatness. As the only Eastern European family growing up on their block on the far southside of Chicago, the pair were inseparable until each was
forced to confront the absurdity of tragedy at an early age and abandon their musical ambitions.
Now in their twenties, they find themselves encountering ridiculous jobs, unfulfilling romantic relationships, and...
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Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is that objects have properties whether or not anyone is observing them, and the measurement of one can't affect the other. Quantum entanglement rejects this assumption, offering impeccable reasoning...
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An award-winning journalist’s eco-adventures across the globe with his three traveling companions: his fiancée, his OCD, and his chronic anxiety—a hilarious, wild jaunt that will inspire travelers, environmentalists, and anyone with mental illness. Most travel narratives are written by superb travelers: people who crave adventure, laugh in the face of danger, and rapidly integrate into foreign cultures. But what about someone who is paranoid...
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Best known for her How I Survived Middle School and Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo series, Nancy Krulik has written numerous New York Times bestsellers. In this seventh George Brown, Class Clown book, George learns that eating onions won't keep the magical Super Burps away. So when the burps threaten to make an appearance while George competes at the countywide spelling bee, he starts to panic.
75) Wet and Wild!
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Best-selling author Nancy Krulik keeps young listeners in stitches with her delightful tales starring class clown George Brown. In Wet and Wild!, George gets invited to a birthday party at a water park. With his whole grade expected to be there, George is determined to steer clear of trouble. Unfortunately, wherever George goes, his curse of super burps follows- and mayhem is never far behind.
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John Callahan is a man who has spent his life following his calling as a high school football coach just like his legendary father. But his dream life is suddenly being crushed. Just days before the state championship game, John receives news that his beloved school is declaring bankruptcy and will be shutting down at the end of the year.
Everything John has worked his whole life for is being taken away from him. John is now questioning all his past...
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Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world-from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion-leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed. Along the way, Carse finds new ways of understanding everything from how...
78) Threader War
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This second book of a groundbreaking sci-fi series introduces an alternate earth where powerful Threads can alter reality as we know it.
After almost a year, the gate between worlds has opened again, and through it Darwin Lloyd hears the anguished screams of Teresa, the love he left behind. He returns to her world-one where quantum Threads can change or control reality
and ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
But nothing is as he had left...
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Brand Advocates are your most loyal, passionate, and engaged customers, and your best marketers. They don't just buy your products-they sell your products for you. Brand Advocates tweet, blog, and Yelp about you; they praise you with five-star reviews on Amazon and TripAdvisor; they talk you up in social networks, online communities, and over coffee; and they defend you from detractors. Do you know who your Brand Advocates are? Are you systematically...
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In this coming-of-age tale set in early 19th century America, two sons of the Virginia aristocracy risk it all to defend their dreams and determine their own destinies. General Armistead Mason and John “Jack” Mason McCarty are brothers-in-law, second cousins and descendants of founding father George Mason IV. Ambitious and headstrong, together they set out to find love, acceptance and honor on their own merit. Armistead—by nature a politician—demands...