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Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck
Jon Acuff · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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It took me sixteen years to write this book. That breaks down to a brisk twelve words per day. But it wasn't the writing that took so long. . . . It was the working.I had to work at big companies and small companies. I had to get hired and fired several times. I had to find my dream... |
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The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
Pico Iyer · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover
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A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico... |
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The Secret to Hummingbird Cake
Celeste Fletcher McHale · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 297
Format: Print book
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"Why won't you just tell me what's in that cake?" I'd been trying to get Laine's recipe for years. We all had. When all else fails, turn to the divine taste of hummingbird cake. In the South you always say "yes, ma'am" and "no, ma'am." You know everybody's... |
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Cracking the ACT with 6 Practice Tests, 2015 Edition
Princeton Review · Princeton Review; Csm edition
Format: Print book
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THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get all the prep you need to ace the ACT with 6 full-length practice tests, thorough ACT topic reviews, and extra practice online.Techniques That Actually Work. Powerful tactics to avoid traps and beat the ACT Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically... |
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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Scott Galloway · Random House Large Print
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering... |
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert · Henry Holt and Co
Pages: 319
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTA major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful... |
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The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands
Lysa TerKeurst · Thomas Nelson
Format: Book
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Are you living with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule and aching with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul? Lysa TerKeurst is learning that there is a big difference between saying yes to everyone and saying yes to God. In The Best Yes, she will help you Cure the disease to please with... |
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Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon · Turtleback Books
Pages: 215
Format: Print book
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A guide to self-promotion explains how to become more known by letting other artists glean inspiration from one's original work, sharing illustrations, quotes and stories that demonstrate key strategies in generosity-based self-promotion. By the best-selling author of Steal Like an Artist. |
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Me Before You: A Novel
Jojo Moyes · Penguin Books
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestseller, soon to be a major motion picture; US release on June 3, 2016. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has barely been... |
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre · Random House Inc
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height... |
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
Nancy Forbes · Prometheus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth centuryTwo of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867)... |
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Official GRE Quantitative Reasoning Practice Questions
Educational Testing Service · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Book
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150 REAL GRE Quantitative Reasoning questions--direct from the test maker! The best way to prepare for the Quantitative Reasoning measure of the GRE revised General Test is with real GRE test questions--and that is what you will find in this unique guide! Specially created for you by ETS,... |
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · Scribner
Pages: 531
Format: Hardcover
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Over two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the stunningly beautiful and captivating story about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II - now available from Encore!Marie-Laure... |
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