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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Jim Collins · HarperBusiness; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Challenge:Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great...
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Ultimate Star Wars

Ryder Windham · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Become an expert on the Star Wars galaxy!Ultimate Star Wars® is an in-depth visual feast exploring the characters and storylines from the Star Wars galaxy. This is a beautifully illustrated guide that is structured chronologically and packed full of information about key characters and storylines...
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The Cavendon Luck

Barbara Taylor Bradford · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 504
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating epic saga of courage and honor, following the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries.It is 1938 in England, and Miles and Cecily Ingham have lead the family in bringing the Cavendon...
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Julian Fellowes's Belgravia

Julian Fellowes · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTOWN ABBEY The New York Times bestselling novel about scandalous secrets and star-crossed lovers On the evening of 15 June 1915, the great and the good of British society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess...
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Wheat Belly Total Health: The Ultimate Grain-Free Health and Weight-Loss Life Plan

William Davis · Rodale
Pages: 398
Format: Print book

Wheat Belly Total Health answers the question, "What's next in the battle against wheat?" In his follow-up to the mega bestseller, Wheat Belly, Dr. Davis helps his readers take command over their life and health in the aftermath of wheat. There are many strategies that will help...
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A Short Guide to a Long Life

David Agus · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pages: 190
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.In his international bestseller, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared what he has learned from...
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A Little Life: A Novel

Hanya Yanagihara · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into...
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A River of Stars: A Novel

VANESSA HUA · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where...
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Stars of fortune

Nora Roberts · Berkley Books
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

FIRST IN THE GUARDIANS TRILOGY From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about three couples who join together to create their own family and solve an ancient mystery through the powers of timeless love ... Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams...
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God Help the Child: A novel

Toni Morrison · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child - the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment - weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black...
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The Leavers: A Novel

Lisa Ko · Algonquin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Electric Literature "There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko's novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving, and all of that...
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Eat to Live Cookbook: 200 Delicious Nutrient-Rich Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health

Joel Fuhrman · HarperOne
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

Do you want to eat delicious food that allows you to lose weight and keep it off permanently without hunger or deprivation? Do you want to throw away your medications and recover from chronic illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes? Do you want to maintain...
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman · Penguin Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever."It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent...
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The Elite

Kiera Cass · HarperTeen; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestseller The Elite is a must-read for fans of dystopian fiction, fairy tales, and reality TV. This second book in the bestselling Selection series will enchant teens who love Divergent and The Bachelor. The paperback also includes a sneak peek at The One - the thrilling...
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Animal Farm, 50th Anniversary Edition

George Orwell · Recorded Books
Pages: 140
Format: Audiobook

Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell...
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