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Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock Your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way

Judy Ho PhD · Harper Wave
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning clinical psychologist and TV personality Dr. Judy Ho helps you stop the cycle of self-sabotage, clear a path to lasting happiness, and start living your best life in this a must-have guide perfect for fans of You Are a Badass, Unf*ck Yourself, and How to Stop Feeling Like...
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Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Ripoff Artists

Frank Abagnale · Portfolio
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Frank Abagnale (whose life as a con man was depicted in the movie Catch Me If You Can) reveals the methods used by the world's most skillful con artists to steal billions of dollars each year from unsuspecting Americans--and teaches 5 simple rules that will help us protect our money.Former...
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Haben Girma · Twelve
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New York Times "New & Noteworthy" Pick ** An O Magazine...
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Travel Light, Move Fast

Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well livedSix months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly...
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune

Paul Strathern · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family -- a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners -- set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious...
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Reading behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian

Jill Grunenwald · Skyhorse
Pages: 360
Format: Book

. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill was lucky enough to snag one of the few librarian gigs left in her home state of Ohio. The catch? The job was behind bars as the prison librarian at a men's minimum-security prison....
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Holy Roar: 7 Words That Will Change The Way You Worship

Chris Tomlin
Format: Hardcover

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When I Was White: A Memoir

Sarah Valentine · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed...
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing

Elissa Altman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? It's the universal question that has defined mothers and daughters from Demeter and Persephone to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. "Wise, evocative, and rich...
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Master the EMT Certification Exam

Peterson's · Peterson's
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Peterson's® Master™ the EMT Basic Certification Exam is a comprehensive source that offers the essential test prep needed to help readers score their best on the qualifying exam to become an emergency medical technician. This new edition covers all of the segment categories on the test...
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The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down

Abigail Pesta · Seal Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of how serial predator Larry Nassar got away with abusing hundreds of gymnasts for decades -- and how a team of brave women banded together to bring him down.We think of Larry Nassar as the despicable sexual predator of Olympic gymnasts -- but there is an astonishing, untold...
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Math: The Easy Way

Anthony Prindle · Barrons Educational Series
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for a math class. Math: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn math the easy way.Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra include whole numbers,...
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Tiny But Mighty: Kitten Lady's Guide to Saving the Most Vulnerable Felines

Hannah Shaw · Plume
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Kitten Lady, the professional kitten rescuer, humane educator, animal advocate, and owner of the popular Instagram @kittenxlady comes the definitive book on saving the most vulnerable--and adorable--feline population: newborn kittens.Hannah Shaw, better known as Kitten Lady, has dedicated...
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How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time

Will McCallum · Penguin Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

An accessible guide to the changes we can all make - small and large - to rid our lives of disposable plastic and clean up the world's oceans It takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to fully biodegrade, and there are around 12.7 million tons of plastic entering the ocean each year. At our current...
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

Margaret Renkl · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family -- and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads,...
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A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

Ben Folds · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir that is as nuanced, witty, and relatable as his cult-classic songs. Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The...
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Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention

Donna Freitas · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A powerful memoir about a young woman's toxic relationship with her mentor, an acclaimed professor, whose dark, stalking obsession altered her future forever.Donna Freitas has lived two lives. In one life, she is a well-published author and respected scholar who has traveled around the country...
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Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English

Gyles Brandreth · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For anyone who wants to make fewer (not less) grammar mistakes, a lively, effective, and witty guide to all the ins and outs of the English language, reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Our language is changing, literary levels are declining, and our grasp...
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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

Lawrence Weschler · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patientThe author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published...
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Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond--and How Parents Can Help

Phyllis L. Fagell · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase--and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive.Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage...
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An American Sunrise

Joy Harjo
Format: Hardcover

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Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap

Judy Goldman · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper...
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So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community That Will Listen

Kristen Meinzer · William Morrow
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring, comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating a hit show, So You Want to Start a Podcast covers everything from hosting and guest booking to editing and marketing - while offering plenty of encouragement and insider stories along the way. Though they are the fastest-growing...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

Leah Price · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedDo you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained...
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March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women: A Library of America Special Publication

Kate Bolick · Library of America
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover

On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up.For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang,...
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