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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

Keigo Higashino - Yen On
Format: Paperback

"From exactly midnight until daybreak, the Namiya General Store advice box will be reopening for one night only." When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the stores...
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Food, Health and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life

Oprah Winfrey - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Oprah Winfrey will be the first to tell you, she has had a complicated relationship with food. It's been both a source of delight and comfort for her, but also the cause of an ongoing struggle with her weight. In Food, Health, and Happiness, Oprah shares the recipes that have allowed...
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Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

Brooke McAlary - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

Free yourself from the frantic and embrace the joy of slow..."After reading this book, you'll have an amazing list of ingredients that can help you create a meaningful life, too!" -- The Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus"Finally, a slow living guide for the imperfect...
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The Big Finish

Brooke Fossey - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Meet Duffy, an old curmudgeon who lives in an assisted living home. Meet Josie, a desperate young woman who climbs through his window. Together, they're going to learn it's never too late - or too early - to change your ways. For Duffy Sinclair, life boils down to one simple thing:...
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Separation Anxiety: A Novel

Laura Zigman - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

"Separation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and don't stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel." - Alice Hoffman From bestselling...
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It's Not All Downhill from Here: A Novel

Terry McMillan - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life - from Terry McMillan, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale...
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Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero

Christopher McDougall - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor . . . McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection." --John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst DogFrom the best-selling author of Born to Run,...
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The Thank-You Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time

Davis Kho, Nancy - Running Press Adult
Format: Hardcover

Gratitude and happiness go hand-in-hand -- and The Thank-You Project provides an easy-to-follow approach for creating more of both.Who helped you become the person you are today? As Nancy Davis Kho approached a milestone birthday, she decided to answer that question by sending thank-you...
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The Art of Happy Moving: How to Declutter, Pack, and Start Over While Maintaining Your Sanity and Finding Happiness

Ali Wenzke - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive, upbeat guide to help you survive the moving process from start to finish, filled with fresh strategies and checklists for timing and supplies, choosing which items to toss and which to keep, determining the best place to live, saying farewell and looking forward to hello.Moving...
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A Private History of Happiness: Ninety-Nine Moments of Joy from Around the World

George Myerson - Bluebridge
Format: Hardcover

A chronicle of happiness and pleasant moments from ancient Greece to more recent times, this collection contains 99 passages designed to give an uplifting perspective to modern life. Instead of advocating the latest gimmick, guide, or formula, this book offers a wider perspective on everyday...
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Terry McMillan - The Viking Press
Format: Hardcover

Stella Payne is 42, beautiful and divorced. She works as a high-powered investment analyst while raising her son. A dedicated mother and career woman, she has little time to think of love and even less energy to get involved. That is until she meets a man half her age on a Jamaican holiday.
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Bill Bryson - Broadway Books; Reprint edition

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing...
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel

Rachel Joyce - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian...
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