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When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women

Farnoosh Torabi · Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover

How to thrive in a relationship when you’re the richer halfFor the top-earning woman, the rules are different. She faces a much higher risk for burnout, infidelity, and divorce. In this highly practical book, financial guru and media star Farnoosh Torabi—a breadwinner herself—presents...
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Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness

George Saunders · Random House Inc
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThree months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million...
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Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Bill Courtney · Weinstein Books
Format: Hardcover

In Against the Grain, Bill Courtney shares his convictions on the fundamental tenets of character, commitment, service, leadership, civility, and others that, in his decades of success as an entrepreneur and educator, have proven to be the keys to a winning and meaningful life and career....
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover

A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty -- a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre -- took a job at a crematory,...
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Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much

Tony Crabbe · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Business psychologist Tony Crabbe outlines a unique four-step approach to combating one of the modern life's great problems: being too busy.
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People Tools: 54 Strategies for Building Relationships, Creating Joy, and Embracing Prosperity

Alan C Fox · Midpoint Trade Books Inc
Pages: 187
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Getting along well with others is the real secret to success and happiness. In tens of thousands of classrooms we teach reading, writing, and arithmetic and yet we leave solutions to the universal problems of human relationships to be discovered, if at all, by trial...
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Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message

Tara Mohr · Gotham
Format: Hardcover

A "Huffington Post" columnist and women's leadership expert outlines practical skills that women can use to implement positive change, covering such topics as self-esteem and how to overcome sabotaging gender rules of conduct.--Publisher information.
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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience: many of our most iconic, creative endeavors - from Nobel Prize-winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and works in the arts - are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts. The gift of failure...
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