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The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

Danielle LaPorte · Sounds True; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Your bucket list. Quarterly objectives. Strategic plans. Big dreams. Goals. Lots of goals and plans to achieve those goals-no matter what. Except.   Youre not chasing the goal itself, youre actually chasing the feeling that you hope achieving that goal will give you.   Which means we have...
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No Excuses: Growing Up Deaf and Achieving My Super Bowl Dreams

Marcus Brotherton · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Trailblazing Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman Jr. - the first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL - tells his inspirational journey of persevering through every obstacle, remaining dedicated to the hard work and a no-excuses attitude that ultimately earned him a Super Bowl...
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The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

Gary Zukav · Simon & Schuster; Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Paperback

With the same extraordinary skill that he used to demystify scientific abstraction and the new physics, Gary Zukay, the award-winning author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters, here takes us on a brilliant and penetrating exploration of the new phase of evolution we have now entered. With lucidity...
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Sunny's Kitchen: Easy Food for Real Life

Sunny Anderson · Clarkson Potter
Format: Paperback

From the host of the Food Network’s Cooking for Real and Home Made in America, and frequent guest on Rachael Ray and Today, here is Sunny Anderson's debut cookbook, featuring American classics, made her way.   Sunny draws on her family roots in the Carolinas, her travels...
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I'll Be Home for Christmas: A Twilight, Texas Novel

Lori Wilde · Avon Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Christmas in Twilight, Texas, is all merriment and mistletoe. The Cookie Club is whipping up their most festive sweets, the townspeople are scrambling to get their holiday shopping done, and Joe - a hometown guy with a restless heart - is dreaming about the woman he wants to kiss most . . .. . . And who happens...
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A Certain Age: A Novel

Beatriz Williams · William Morrow
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.As the freedom...
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Peter C. Brown · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like...
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A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918

Joseph Loconte · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 256
Format: Book

Recommended by Steve, Youth Services The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation...
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A Little Life: A Novel

Hanya Yanagihara · Doubleday
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBrace 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...
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The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor

Robert Schnakenberg · Quirk Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

The man. The movies. The life. The legend. He's played a deranged groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James "Bill" Murray, America's greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags...
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National Geographic Almanac of World History, 3rd Edition

Stephen G. Hyslop · National Geographic; 3 edition
Format: Hardcover

Epic in scope, yet loaded with captivating detail, this completely updated edition of National Geographics bestselling Almanac of World History encompasses all of human history, from ancient times to present. It is a rich chronicle of great ages and cultures told in a vivid and varied format,...
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The Scarlet Gospels

Clive Barker · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against...
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull · Random House
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover

From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, the Academy Award-winning studio behind Inside Out and Toy Story, comes an incisive book about creativity in business - sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath....
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Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

Tony Wagner · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century economy.Today more than ever, we prize academic achievement, pressuring our children...
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League of Dragons

Naomi Novik · Del Rey
Pages: 380
Format: Print book

With the acclaimed Temeraire novels, New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik has created a fantasy series like no other, combining the high-flying appeal of Anne McCaffrey's Pern saga and the swashbuckling derring-do of Patrick O'Brian's historical seafaring adventures. Now, with...
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