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Fourth Wing
Fourth Wing
"The most brutally addictive fantasy I've read in a decade!" --#1 NYT bestselling author Tracy Wolff"Fourth Wing will have your heart pounding from beginning to end. Brutal games, grumpy dragons, complex characters, sizzling sexual tension, magic, and war...a fantasy like you've never read before."...
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by Grann, David
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The...
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Maame by George, Jessica
Maame
"An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little...
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The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants by Ortega-Medina, Orlando
The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
Award-winning author and immigration attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina returns to 1990s San Francisco in The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants, a powerful family drama that plays out within a captivating legal thriller.Attorney Marc Mendes, the estranged son of a prominent Rabbi and a burned-out lawyer with...
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Divine Rivals by Ross, Rebecca
Divine Rivals
When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to...
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Big Swiss by Beagin, Jen
Big Swiss
"Wild...hilarious...so good." --Cosmopolitan, Best Books of the Year * "A laugh-out-loud bad romance for Gen Xers and an ode to misfits who just want to belong." --Oprah Daily * "Always interesting...too fun to stop." --Vanity Fair "One of the funniest books of the last...
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  • Los Barrios Family Cookbook: Tex-Mex Recipes from the Heart of San Antonio by Trevino, Diana Barrios
    Los Barrios Family Cookbook: Tex-Mex Recipes from the Heart of San Antonio
    More than 140 recipes from San Antonio's favorite Tex-Mex restaurant, featuring dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert (plus cocktails ). Since 1979, Los Barrios restaurant in San Antonio, Texas--the heart of Tex-Mex cuisine--has been serving up casero, or home-style, cooking that has charmed...
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  • Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation by Plato
    Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation
    Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style. Gathered...
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  • The PDR Family Guide to Common Ailments: An Authoritative A-To-Z Guide to Your Family's Top 100 Health Concerns, Plus Standard Remedies and Natural Al by Physicians' Desk Reference
    The PDR Family Guide to Common Ailments: An Authoritative A-To-Z Guide to Your Family's Top 100 Health Concerns, Plus Standard Remedies and Natural Al
    PDR(R) is the reference source used by physicians and pharmacists every day.Now PDR is the family friend you can rely on. The publishers of The Physicians' Desk Reference(R) have created this easy-to-use A-to-Z guide filled with information you need on nearly one hundred common...
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  • How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them by Stein, Sol
    How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them
    Each year thousands of fiction writers, from beginners to bestselling author, benefit from Sol Stein's sold-out workshops, featured appearances at writers' conferences, software for writers, on-line columns, and his popular first book for writers, Stein on Writing. Stein practices what he teaches: He is...
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  • An Uncommon Union: Dallas Theological Seminary and American Evangelicalism by Hannah, John D.
    An Uncommon Union: Dallas Theological Seminary and American Evangelicalism
    Dallas Theological Seminary is often viewed as a bastion of conservative evangelicalism, marked by an unswerving devotion to theological positions of fundamentalism, biblical inerrancy, and dispensational premillennialism. An Uncommon Union, the first book-length history of Dallas Theological Seminary, written by a graduate and veteran...
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  • NIV, Reference Bible, Giant Print, Imitation Leather, Pink/Brown, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print by Zondervan
    NIV, Reference Bible, Giant Print, Imitation Leather, Pink/Brown, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print
    Let Scripture Explain ScriptureFeaturing a giant, easy to read print size and the exclusive Zondervan NIV Comfort Print(R) typeface, the NIV Giant Print Reference Bible provides a clear, smooth, and easy reading experience for readers of all ages. The end-of-paragraph reference system allows you...
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  • NIV, Journal the Word Reference Bible, Imitation Leather, Gold/Gray, Red Letter Edition: Let Scripture Explain Scripture. Reflect on What You Learn. by Zondervan
    NIV, Journal the Word Reference Bible, Imitation Leather, Gold/Gray, Red Letter Edition: Let Scripture Explain Scripture. Reflect on What You Learn.
    Let Scripture Explain Scripture. Reflect on What You Learn.The NIV Journal the Word(TM) Reference Bible allows you to capture your thoughts next to treasured verses while cross-referencing Scripture in the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV) translation. This single-column, red-letter edition features...
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  • Chronological and Background Charts of Church History by Walton, Robert C.
    Chronological and Background Charts of Church History
    See how the rich tapestry of nearly 2,000 years of church history unfolded.Packed with teaching and learning tools, from charts and timelines, to maps and visual guides, Chronological and Background Charts of Church History will help you quickly grasp the historic foundation on which...
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  • Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts: An A-To-Z Guide with Detailed Instructions and Endless Inspiration by Martha Stewart Living Magazine
    Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts: An A-To-Z Guide with Detailed Instructions and Endless Inspiration
    For nearly 20 years, home crafters have turned to the pages of Martha Stewart Living for all kinds of crafts projects, each presented in the magazine's inimitable style. Now, the best of those projects, including step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs, have been collected into...
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  • Mastering Cheese: Lessons for Connoisseurship from a Maître Fromager by McCalman, Max
    Mastering Cheese: Lessons for Connoisseurship from a Maître Fromager
    Ma tre fromager Max McCalman, author of The Cheese Plate and Cheese, is steeped in the world of artisanal cheeses like no one else. In Mastering Cheese, he shares the wealth of his expertise to help cheese lovers on their path to connoisseurship. After...
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  • How to Read Literature by Eagleton, Terry
    How to Read Literature
    A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure--"English 101 in a book." (Michael Lindgren, Washington Post) What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like...
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  • airbnb Guest Book: airbnb guest book by Huhn, Michael
    airbnb Guest Book: airbnb guest book
    airbnb guest book. classic stylish and sure to be a conversation starter. Author: Michael HuhnPublisher: BlurbPublished: 08/04/2019Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.13dISBN: 9780464147596This title is not returnable
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  • Perfumery: Training the Nose by Carles, Jean
    Perfumery: Training the Nose
    A unique reference work containing the method of training a 'nose' by Jean Carles who founded the Givaudan Perfumery school in Grasse France together with the famous 'charts'. Together with a short biography and monograph on the master, this book will become a favourite...
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  • The Top 500 Poems by Harmon, William
    The Top 500 Poems
    The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces,...
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  • How to Write History That People Want to Read by Curthoys, A.
    How to Write History That People Want to Read
    Drawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all levels the book includes a wide range...
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  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations by Brown, Garrett W.
    The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations
    This bestselling dictionary contains over 1,700 entries on all aspects of politics and international relations. Written by a leading team of political scientists, it embraces the multi-disciplinary spectrum of political theory including political thinkers, history, institutions, theories, and schools of thought, as well as...
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  • Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction by Marcus, Laura
    Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction
    Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians, and psychologists, who...
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  • An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon: Founded Upon the 7th Ed. of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. 1889. by Liddell, H. G.
    An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon: Founded Upon the 7th Ed. of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. 1889.
    This abridgement of the world's most authoritative dictionary of ancient Greek is based on the 1883 revision. It includes some discussion of word usage, citing examples and characteristic phrases. Generally speaking, only words used by late writers and scientific terms have been omitted from...
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  • 1001 Legal Words You Need to Know: The Ultimate Guide to the Language of the Law by Feinman, Jay M.
    1001 Legal Words You Need to Know: The Ultimate Guide to the Language of the Law
    1001 Legal Words You Need to Know explains and illuminates the most difficult and arcane vocabulary any American has to deal with--that of the law. This comprehensive--but never condescending--guide to the language of the American legal system carefully defines and explains every term, and...
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  • 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present by Davis, Paul K.
    100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present
    From the ancient Egyptian battle at Megiddo in 1469 BC to the recent military actions in Iraq, great battles have had an enormous impact on the shaping of history. Now, in this fully illustrated book, one hundred of the world's most important military confrontations...
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Reference books are the unsung heroes of the information age. Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply curious, having the right reference materials can be invaluable. From quick facts to in-depth analysis, reference books offer a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips.

Pocket reference books are perfect for on-the-go information. These compact guides cover a wide range of topics, from medical terms to historical dates. For those working on academic or professional projects, mastering the art of book citation is essential. A good style guide, such as the MLA Handbook or the Chicago Manual of Style, can help you format citations correctly.

While digital resources have become increasingly popular, there's still something to be said for the convenience of a physical reference book. Whether you need a dictionary, encyclopedia, or specialized guide, having a reliable print resource can save you time and effort.

To find the perfect reference book, consider your specific needs and explore online bookstore booksdeli.com. With a vast selection of titles, you're sure to find the essential tools for your research or personal interests.

FAQ's

Q. What is the difference between a reference book and a textbook?

A. While both provide information, reference books are designed for quick and specific lookups, while textbooks offer in-depth explanations and analysis of a subject. A dictionary is a classic example of a reference book, while a college-level history book is a textbook.

Q. How can I find the right reference book for my needs?

A. Start by identifying the specific information you need. Are you looking for facts, statistics, definitions, or in-depth explanations? Once you know your goal, you can search for books with specific titles or consult a librarian for recommendations. Online booksellers often have detailed descriptions and customer reviews to help you choose.

Q. Are there online alternatives to traditional reference books?

A. Yes, there are numerous online resources that serve as digital reference books. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and atlases are widely available online. However, printed reference books still offer advantages like offline accessibility and a tangible format for some users.

Q. How do I cite information from a reference book?

A. Citation styles vary depending on the format required (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.). Generally, you'll need the author (if listed), title of the book, publication date, and specific page number where you found the information. Consult a style guide for precise formatting guidelines.

Q. Can I use reference books for research purposes?

A. Absolutely! Reference books are valuable tools for research. They can provide background information, statistics, definitions, and citations for further exploration. However, remember to verify information from multiple sources to ensure accuracy.

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