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  • Don't Count Me Out

    A Baltimore Dope Fiend's Miraculous Recovery

    by Rafael Alvarez ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Don't Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need for drugs, to his miraculous recovery three decades later and involvement in the treatment of addicts, where he is now a leader in the rehabilitation field.Rafael Alvarez's recounting of White's journey should inspire those dealing with the fallout ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Wire

    Truth Be Told

    by Rafael Alvarez ...
    Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire, hailed as "the best show on television, period" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times calls it "a vital part of the television landscape...unvarnished realism." Time declares that The Wire, "like its underfunded, workaday cops, just plugged away until it outshone everything else on TV."The Wire stands not only as riveting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Don't Count Me Out

    A Baltimore Dope Fiend's Miraculous Recovery

    by Rafael Alvarez ...
    Narrated by Lee Osorio ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    Don't Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need for drugs, to his miraculous recovery three decades later and involvement in the treatment of addicts, where he is now a leader in the rehabilitation field.Rafael Alvarez's recounting of White's journey should inspire those dealing with the fallout ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer

    The Baltimore Anthology

    by Gary M. Almeter, Rafael Alvarez ...
    Series series Belt City Anthologies
    A "diverse collection" of essays, stories, and poems about Baltimore that provide "a wide-ranging account of what the city feels like today" ( Baltimore Magazine).To many outsiders, Baltimore--sometimes derisively called "Mobtown" or "Bodymore"—is a city famous for its poverty and violence, twin ills that have been compounded by decades of racial segregation and the loss of manufacturing jobs. But ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soil-Water-Solute Process Characterization

    An Integrated Approach

    Edited by Javier Alvarez-Benedi, Rafael Munoz-Carpena ...
    The practitioner or researcher often faces complex alternatives when selecting a method to characterize properties governing a soil process. After years of research and development, environmental and agricultural professionals now have an array of methods for characterizing soil processes. Well-established methods, however, may not be suitable for ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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    by George R. R. Martin ...
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    NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENONHere is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece.A GAME OF THRONESIn a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister ... Read more

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  • The Sellout

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    by Paul Beatty ...
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    $11.99 USD

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  • Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water

    by American Water Works Association, James K. Edzwald ...
    Series series Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Series
    The definitive water quality and treatment resource--fully revised and updatedComprehensive, current, and written by leading experts, Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water, Sixth Edition covers state-of-the-art technologies and methods for water treatment and quality control. Significant revisions and new material in this edition reflect the latest advances and critical topics in ... Read more

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  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners

    101 Inspirational Stories of Energy, Endurance, and Endorphins

    by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...
    Runners will love these inspirational stories about their sport -- the camaraderie, the self-discipline, the energy and endorphins they enjoy, the self-discovery. Includes stories on swimming and cycling for triathletes too.When runners aren't running, they are talking about running, planning their next run, shopping for running... This book contains 101 stories from everyday and famous runners... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • South and West

    From a Notebook

    by Joan Didion ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s BazaarJoan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Uhlig's Corrosion Handbook

    Edited by R. Winston Revie ...
    Series Book 57 - The ECS Series of Texts and Monographs
    This book serves as a reference for engineers, scientists, and students concerned with the use of materials in applications where reliability and resistance to corrosion are important. It updates the coverage of its predecessor, including coverage of: corrosion rates of steel in major river systems and atmospheric corrosion rates, the corrosion behavior of materials such as weathering steels and ... Read more

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  • Closing Time

    The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder

    by Lacey Fosburgh ...
    The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: "A first-rate achievement" (Truman Capote).In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime made headlines and the ensuing case quickly evolved ... Read more

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