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Would life be better without alcohol?
It's the nagging question more and more of us are finding harder to ignore, whether we have a "problem" with alcohol or not. After all, we yoga. We green juice. We meditate. We self-care. And yet, come the end of a long work day, the start of a weekend, an awkward social situation, we drink. One glass of wine turns into two turns into a bottle. In the face of how we care for ourselves
...43) MatchUp
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"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOffand adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including...
44) An unlikely love
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"When Grant and Marissa meet on a steamer headed to the Chautauqua Assembly, he is instantly drawn to her. But his courtship soon hits some roadblocks. She's intent on spreading her temperance message, and he manages his family's vineyard"--
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Rance Dehner westerns volume 5
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"The wild west becomes even wilder as violence erupts over booze in the Texas town of Red Horse. A play, The Devil's Brew, which demands the abolition of liquor, is greeted with gunfire. The author is brutally murdered, and the cast threatened with death by the appearance of devil dolls. Detective Rance Dehner quickly discovers that no one in the cast of the play believes in abolition. They are struggling actors trying to make a living. But powerful...
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"Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made Prohibition law: alcohol could no longer be produced, imported,...