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Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be

Marshall Goldsmith · Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

In his powerful new book, bestselling author and world-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith examines the environmental and psychological triggers that can derail us at work and in life.Do you ever find that you are not the patient, compassionate problem solver you believe yourself...
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No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

Buzz Aldrin · National Geographic
Pages: 223
Format: Print book

Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life - both in outer space and on earth - in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation. Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Sean Covey · Touchstone
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback

With more than five million copies in print all around the world, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is the ultimate teenage success guide - now updated for the digital age.Imagine you had a roadmap - a step-by-step guide to help you get from where you are now, to where you want to be in the future....
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This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

Jonathan Evison · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

"Jonathan Evison is a ridiculously gifted storyteller: racing, breathless, and vibrant with his prose, hungry for personal truths, and clearly in love with the world around us all. That compassion and those writerly charms are deeply felt in This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, an irresistible,...
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable....
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More Happy Than Not

Adam Silvera · Soho Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In his twisty, gritty, profoundly moving debut - called "mandatory reading" by the New York Times - Adam Silvera brings to life a charged, dangerous near-future summer in the Bronx.In the months after his father's suicide, it's been tough for 16-year-old Aaron Soto to find...
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The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

Joy Williams · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The legendary writer's first collection in more than ten years - and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order. Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass · Dover Publications; Unabridged edition
Format: Paperback

Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force...
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The Heir

Kiera Cass · Harper Teen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series has enchanted readers from the very first page. In this fourth romantic novel, follow Illéa's royal family into a whole new Selection - and find out what happens after happily ever after.Twenty years ago, America Singer...
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Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf

R. A. Salvatore · Wizards of the Coast
Format: Hardcover

Bloody war rages across the Forgotten Realms world in the third book of the Companions Codex, the latest series in R.A. Salvatores New York Times best-selling saga of dark elf Drizzt DoUrden.In the evolving world of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Sundering has given way to months of cloud-cloaked...
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Lost in the Sun

Lisa Graff · Philomel Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the author of A Tangle of Knots and Absolutely Almost, a touching story about a boy who won't let one tragic accident define him. Everyone says that middle school is awful, but Trent knows nothing could be worse than the year he had in fifth grade, when a freak accident on Cedar Lake...
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Hope to Die

James Patterson · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family--his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what...
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My Anxious Mind: A Teen's Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic

Michael A. Tompkins · Magination Pr; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Anxiety can make everything seem unmanageable - from dealing with family and friends to managing schoolwork and extracurricular activities. Its been estimated that between nine and 15 million teens in the United States suffer from phobias, panic attacks, or extreme worry or anxiety. Thats...
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UnDivided

Neal Shusterman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel · Mariner Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like...
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