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I Dare Me: How I Rebooted and Recharged My Life by Doing Something New Every Day

Lu Ann Cahn · Perigee Trade
Format: Hardcover

Feeling stuckVeteran journalist and cancer survivor Lu Ann Cahn was feeling angry and frustrated The economy was tanking Her job was changing In a word she felt stuckSomething had to change Her daughter helped convince her to start a Year of Firsts For the next days Cahn made a point of doing...
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

David Brooks · Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

With unequaled insight and brio David Brooks the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise has long explored and explained the way we live Now with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation Brooks turns...
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One Perfect Word: One Word Can Make All the Difference

Debbie Macomber · Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning, perennial bestselling novelist Debbie Macomber applies the best of her fiction writing skills to true stories that illustrate the profound impact focusing on a single word—such as balance, surrender, or believe—for a whole year can bring. In One Perfect Word,...
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Be the Miracle: 50 Lessons for Making the Impossible Possible

Regina Brett · Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Want to live your dreams--or even surpass them? Want the world to change for the better? Want to see a miracle? What are we waiting for? Why not be the miracle?That's the challenge Regina Brett sets forth in BE THE MIRACLE. To be a miracle doesn't necessarily mean tackling problems...
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Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose

Jean Case · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Philanthropist, investor, and technology pioneer Jean Case brings to life the five Be Fearless principles common to the people and organizations that change the world.

This book is a call to action for those seeking to live extraordinary lives and bring about transformational change.
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Character Disturbance: the phenomenon of our age

George K. Simon Ph.D. · Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc; First Edition, First edition edition
Format: Book

Modern permissiveness and the new culture of entitlement allows disturbed people to reach adulthood without proper socialization. In a book meant both for the general public and for professionals, bestselling author and psychologist George Simon explains in plain English: •How most...
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How to Raise a Reader

Pamela Paul · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

An indispensable guide to welcoming children - from babies to teens - to a lifelong love of reading, written by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, editors of The New York Times Book Review.

Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours...
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When Your Children Marry: How Marriage Changes Relationships with Sons and Daughters

Deborah M. Merrill · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Marriage is an important transition in the life of any adult who marries. But often when a son or daughter gets married, their relationships with their natal families changes. It is often said that a 'daughter is a daughter all of her life, but a son is a son 'til he takes him a wife.'...
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

GEORGE ANDERS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts

Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only...
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Dig This Gig

Laura Dodd · Citadel Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Ready to claim or create your ideal job? Ready to stop dreaming and start digging? When Laura Dodd started talking with her twentysomething peers about working, it didn't take long for her to see that people are passionate about the jobs they do and the jobs they'd like to do. What...
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The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

Laurie Nadel · HCI
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

"Once a seasoned journalist but now a distinguished scholar and practicing psychotherapist, Dr. Laurie has immersed herself in the academic study of suffering, in addition to the depth her own life story provides . . . . When it comes to teaching how to get up after being...
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10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

Dan Harris · It Books
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 Living Now Book Award for Inspirational Memoir

Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.

After...

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Superhero Therapy: Mindfulness Skills to Help Teens and Young Adults Deal with Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma

Janina Scarlet · Instant Help
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

A hero's journey always begins with a struggle - what's yours? For the first time ever, psychologist Janina Scarlet and Marvel and DC Comics illustrator Wellinton Alves join forces to create Superhero Therapy - a dynamic, illustrated introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy...

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The Learning Habit: A Groundbreaking Approach to Homework and Parenting that Helps Our Children Succeed in School and Life

Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman · A Perigee Book
Pages: 206
Format: Print book

A groundbreaking approach to building learning habits for life, based on a major new study revealing what works - and what doesn't

Life is different for kids today. Between standardized testing, the Common Core Curriculum, copious homework assignments, and seemingly endless amounts...
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A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted

Will Bowen · Harmony; 1 edition
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A Complaint Free World is an engaging, enjoyable, easy-to-read reminder that the only permanent, constructive changes you can make in the world are the changes that you make in yourself.Gary Zukav, author of The Seat of the Soul and Soul to Soul A SIMPLE PLAN... A LIFE-CHANGING RESULT......
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