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From the wildly popular Instagram account, Disappointing Affirmations hilariously counters the culture of relentless toxic positivity with a realistic take on a disappointing world where failure is always an option, but that's okay.
Pairing lovely vacation photos taken by the author himself with sayings that are amusingly self-critical, encouraging, disillusioned, or all three at once, Tarnowski points to feelings commonly...
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In the 1950s and 1960s south Lancashire and Cheshire was criss-crossed by a web of railway lines, servicing the various needs of local industries. The region was a haven for railway enthusiasts who pursued the hundreds of steam workhorses based at British Railways depots in 'chemical towns' such as Warrington, Widnes, Wigan and Sutton Oak, besides Southport and Northwich. While these facilities appeared less glamorous than larger counterparts in Liverpool...
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Finding the bright side of a terrible situation has never been easier, thanks to the adorable baby animal postcards found in Maybe Your Leg Will Grow Back. Amanda McCall and Ben Schwartz, nationally bestselling authors of Grandma's Dead and Why is Daddy in a Dress?, are back with their third collection of cuteness designed to soften life's unexpected blows, whether you're dealing with shark attacks, incurable diseases, or incarcerations in filthy...
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In this book, the author defines the express stem locomotive on the basis of the mandatory criterion of large drive wheels, and studies its evolution from around 1850 to the last refinements made around 1960, with many wrong turns and great successes along the way. This highly illustrated work features over 6,000 German express steam locomotives, including the oldest, the 1A1 and the Crampton; the largest, the Prussian S3; the fastest, the Reichsbahn-05;...
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WARNING! WEIRD WACKY AND WONDERFUL TAXIDERMY OVERLOAD. A perfect gift for fans of Crap Taxidermy and taxidermy in general, Taxidermy Gone Wrong takes you inside the strange and hilariously horrifying world of taxidermy from around the globe.
From musical mice and basketball playing bengals to gun-toting rodents and lawnmowing moles, Taxidermy Gone Wrong is a wonderfully weird collection of curiosities that will amuse and astonish. Bringing...
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A minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of the elite 101st Airborne's daring parachute landing behind enemy lines at Normandy is accompanied by firsthand accounts from Airborne veterans and forty incredible, previously unknown (let alone published) color photos of the "Screaming Eagles" at Normandy and in Great Britain prior to the invasion. Accompanying these remarkable D-Day color Kodachromes-which were unearthed in the attic of an Army doctor's...
7) First words
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26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 14 cm.
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Pictures of basic objects teach vocabulary.
8) Dinosaurs
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm
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"Explore prehistoric forests, swamps and woodland in First Explorers: Dinosaurs. Meet Velociraptors, Triceratops and the fierce Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as lots of other amazing creatures who lived in the ancient world. Each scene has chunky push, pull and slide mechanisms, animals to spot and fun facts about dinosaurs. Beautifully illustrated by Chorkung, this title has gentle learning and is a magical introduction to dinosaurs"--Amazon.com
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The book opens with the first beginnings of bike racing in the London area - at High Beech - in 1928 and continues with the pre-war history of the North Circular as one of Britain's new 'arterial' roads, and?the establishment of the Ace 'road-house' at Stonebridge Park in 1939. Then, Barry 'Noddy' Cheese, one of the Ace's original 'ton-up' boys, paints a graphic picture for us of the excitement of life at the cafe in the 1950-1960s. The controversial...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Indigenous women have always worked tirelessly to protect our water -- keeping it pure and clean for the generations to come. Yet there was a time when their voices and teachings were nearly drowned out, leaving entire communities and environments in danger and without clean water. But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece, Autumn. Speak for the water. Sing for the water. Dance for the water. With moving lyricism and arresting illustrations,...
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This book chronicles the once-vibrant hot rod scene in California's San Fernando Valley--from the iconic Bob's Big Boy drive-in to the San Fernando drag strip.
Author and Los Angeles native, Tony Baker, grew up in Hollywood during the height of the sixties hot-rod scene. He has written six books on the subject of motor sports in California for Arcadia Publishing and has had articles published in Hot Rod magazine, Hot Rod Deluxe , and Rodder's Journal...
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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"Brought to life with lavish and ornate illustrations, The Truth About Dragons follows a child on a journey guided by his mother's bedtime storytelling. He begins a quest into two very different forests as his grandmothers help him discover two different, but equally enchanting, truths about dragons. Eastern and Western mythologies coexist and enrich each other in this warm celebration of mixed cultural identity." --
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333 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 30 cm.
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"Show Me the Way to Go to Home is an immersive, visual journey through the incarceration camps that held 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War 2. Photographers Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy tell the story of each camp through original and archival photographs, personal stories, and government documents. It's a frightening tale of a society that failed to protect its vulnerable. Each camp's story is printed on exquisite rice paper...
16) Colors
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26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 14 cm.
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Learn to associate words with pictures.
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320 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
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"Lace up your hiking boots for the next in Lonely Planet's highly successful Epic Hikes series, this time exploring 50 of the Americas' most rewarding treks and trails. From Canada's longest hut-to-hut hike, the Sunshine Coast Trail, to a descent through Havasu Canyon in the USA, and the Santa Cruz Trail of northern Peru, we cover a huge variety of themes and experiences across routes that range from one-day walks to multi-day treks. Each of the featured...
19) Chore pirates
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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"Tom and Daddy are home today. Daddy wants to clean the house and do the dishes, but Tom wants to play. Quickly they come up with a solution: together they'll try to conquer the dish monster and go on a quest in the jungle of socks. A funny and recognizable story about doing chores with Dad, which doesn't have to be boring at all."--
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Monsters everywhere volume 2
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32 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm.
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"Merry monsters, hairy monsters, monsters trailing slime. Shiny monsters, tiny monsters, all at Christmas time!"--Publisher's description.
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