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The Complete Brain Exercise Book: Train Your Brain - Improve Memory, Language, Motor Skills and More

Fraser Smith · Robert Rose, 2015.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

While most brain exercise books are focused on preventing and treating memory loss due to aging and disease, this book addresses the steps for increasing mental speed, visual acuity, language acquisition, sensory growth, and motor skills. The author deals with the recovery of brain function...
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Quichotte: A Novel

Salman Rushdie · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age - an epic tour de force that is as much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for love and family, by Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

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Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God

· Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Is what you're anchored to stronger than what you're going through? The answer to that question changes everything. In Unshakable Hope, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado offers encouraging, practical guidance for overcoming difficult circumstances, renewing inner...

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What Knot?

Geoffrey Budworth · Chartwell Books
Pages: 256
Format: Book

Anyone can tie knots: learn just one or two from this book and you will be glad you bought it. Learn ten, and it could make a difference in your life. This is because there is endless pleasure to be had from the study and practice of knot tying, this fundamental but fascinating process...
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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 291
Format: Book

"This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death."

From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead. This...
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I Wasn't Born Bulletproof: Lessons I've Learned

Maci Bookout · Post Hill Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Maci Bookout, the reality television megastar of Teen Mom and the New York Times bestselling author of Bulletproof, offers down-to-earth, practical advice on how to navigate life, love, and everything in between. Since catapulting to reality TV stardom on the hit MTV series Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant,...
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Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala · Vintage
Format: Paperback

One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of the Year, a Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book, a Newsday Top 10 Books pick, a People magazine Top 10 pick, a Good Reads Best Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction BookA National Book Critics Circle Award finalistIn...
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Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis · Penguin Classics
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Sinclair LewisA Penguin Classic George F. Babbitt, a conniving, prosperous real estate man from Zenith, Ohio, revels in his popularity, his success, and, especially, in the material rewards they bring. He bullies his wife, flirts with other women, and patronizes...
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Your Life Is Worth Living: 50 Lessons to Deepen Your Faith

Fulton Sheen · Image
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Back in print with a new preface by Robert Barron, fifty inspiring lessons to deepen your faith from one of the leading religious figures of the twentieth century and author of the Catholic bestseller Life of Christ.For over four decades, Fulton Sheen was the face of Catholicism in America...
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The Power of Positive Thinking

Norman Vincent Peale · Blurb
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback

"You do not need to be defeated by anything,... you can have peace of mind, improved health, and a never-ceasing flow of energy." The Power of Positive Thinking is a practical, direct-action application of spiritual techniques to overcome defeat and win confidence, success and joy....
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The Secret

Rhonda Byrne · Atria Books/Beyond Words; First Edition edition
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this...
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Grief Day By Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss

Jan Warner · Althea Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Grief Day by Day offers supportive readings and exercises to help you move through life after loss, one day at a time.Grief is complex. It is ever changing and may come to us differently on any given day. Grief Day by Day offers reflections and practices that address the day-to-day feelings...
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Creativity

Matthew Fox · Tarcher
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Drawing on his lectures and sermons, an Episcopalian priest and theologian sheds new light on the nature of creativity, demonstrating that communication with God can be revealed in the simplest expressions of human creativity. By the author of One River, Many Wells. 12,500 first printing.
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MELT Performance: A Step-by-Step Program to Accelerate Your Fitness Goals, Improve Balance and Control, and Prevent Chronic Pain and Injuries for Life

Sue Hitzmann · HarperOne
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The MELT Method introduces a unique, scientific-based proactive training program for improving overall balance, performance, and control while preventing pain and injury.

Are you an athlete facing constant injuries...

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The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning

Ernest Kurtz · Bantam
Pages: 293
Format: Paperback

I Am Not Perfect is a simple statement of profound truth, the first step toward understanding the human condition, for to deny your essential imperfection is to deny yourself and your own humanity. The spirituality of imperfection, steeped in the rich traditions of the Hebrew prophets...
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