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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Jen Waite · Plume
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
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**An International Bestseller**"Like Big Little Lies, A Beautiful Terrible Thing is a startling reminder that fairy tales aren't real. A master class in suspenseful storytelling, Jen Waite recounts the lies, betrayals, and infidelity she endured with unrestrained honesty and deft candor.... |
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I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche
Sue Prideaux · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts - the Ãœbermensch, the will to power, slave morality - have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what... |
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Jessie Close · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament... |
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Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped
Russell Brand · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Russell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes and mentors.Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? Mentors - the follow up to the New York Times bestseller Recovery - describes... |
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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
J. K. Rowling · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover
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J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom... |
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Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers.
Henry David Thoreau · Literary Classics of the United States
Pages: 1114
Format: Print book
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Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week... |
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The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison
Mikita Brottman · Harper
Pages: 230
Format: Print book
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A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them - Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature... |
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The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
Meghan Cox Gurdon · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal writer's conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,... |
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Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide
BRANDON WEBB · Portfolio
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb comes a simple yet powerful five-step guide to transforming your life by making your fears work for you instead of against you.Brandon Webb has run life-threatening missions in the world's worst trouble spots,... |
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Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
Malene Rydahl · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year... |
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Anne Harrington · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry's quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder... |
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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
Reshma Saujani · Currency
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and Girls Who Code founder/CEO inspires us to discover the power of female bravery.Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said or did might... |
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