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The Blast from the Past (Riley Thorn, #3)

by Lucy Score (Goodreads Author)

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Ready for Dessert, Revised: My Best Recipes [A Baking Book]

by David Lebovitz (Goodreads Author)

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The People vs. the Golden State Killer

by Thien Ho

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Pure Vanilla: Irresistible Recipes and Essential Techniques by Shauna Sever

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The history of the vanilla bean is every bit as rich and complex as its flavor. It begins with the Totonac Indians of Mexico, who discovered the vanilla orchid and its precious pods more than two thousand years ago. Totonac mythology tells ...more

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“The disappointment of my life,' he told Ernst, was that Americans had succumbed to nationalism. His adopted country had come to look more and more like Germany or any other European nationstate: obsessed by its own purity, wary of outsiders, and more concerned with being great than doing good. Americans turned out to be less exceptional than anyone, himself included, had supposed.”
― Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

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“We became who we are through a monumental effort at forgetting: what to call this kind of tree, when to plant this seed, how to gods prefer to be addressed. We may revere our ancestors, but non of us would truly recognize them. Knowing human society, past and present, is a race against oblivion.”
― Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

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“They preach unwavering faith with a clear absence of critical thinking,”
― Emily Lynn Paulson, Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

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“Once you latched on to the idea that your group or your way of life was bound to a piece of real estate by history and national destiny, no supply of free elections could change the outcome. The result was a world in which every society reduced itself to one people, one country, even one leader--each expression its particular national will, wall-bound and suspicious.”
― Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

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“And it feels very similar to rushing a sorority; the planned conversation with the more important sorority sisters, always pretty, usually white, who've already gone through a list of photos and have their favorites pegged and the answers to their questions preloaded. "Oh, no way! You were a cheerleader, too?! So was I! You'll fit in so well in our house!" Meanwhile, we, of source, knew she was a cheerleader because we spent days studying the rushee's photos and applications, and we already knew which ones we'd be attacking. And here I am, in my mid-thirties, re-creating the same behavior to sell a similar promise of a different sisterhood.”
― Emily Lynn Paulson, Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

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