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Pen & Palate: Mastering the Art of Adulthood, with Recipes

Lucy Madison · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

From the writers of acclaimed blog Pen & Palate, a humorous coming-of-age (and mastering-the-art-of-home-cooking) memoir of friendship, told through stories, recipes, and beautiful illustrations. Getting through life in your twenties isn't easy--especially if you're broke, awkward,...
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Stuffocation: Why We've Had Enough of Stuff and Need Experience More Than Ever

James Wallman · Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

Stuffocation is a movement manifesto for "experiential" living, a call to arms to stop accumulating stuff and start accumulating experiences, and a road map for a new way forward with the potential to transform our lives.Reject materialism. Embrace experientialism. Live more with...
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Failed It!: How to turn mistakes into ideas and other advice for successfully screwing up

Erik Kessels · Phaidon Press Ltd. 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

A fun and fabulous take on the art of making mistakes. Erik Kessels celebrates imperfection and failure and shows why they are an essential part of the creative process.Failed it! celebrates the power of mistakes and shows how they can enrich the creative process. This is part photobook...
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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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This Modern Love

Will Darbyshire · Atria/Keywords Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Post Secret and Other People's Love Letters, a crowdsourced compilation of letters, stories, and art work about the modern state of love and relationships, edited by rising filmmaker and beloved YouTube vlogger Will Darbyshire."What would you say to your ex, without...
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The Art and Science of Happiness in Body, Mind and Soul: Exploring Happiness - A Physician's Perspective

Om P Sharma MD · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 294

Throughout his lengthy medical and research career, author Om P. Sharma, MD, has discovered that human beings are communal creatures who often tie their own contentment to the well-being of their neighbor. From this perspective, it's easy to understand why our connections through...
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Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer

Heather Lende · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she's distilled what she's learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words:...
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Good Girl: A Memoir

Sarah Tomlinson · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Told with raw, rugged honesty, this heartrending memoir from journalist Sarah Tomlinson recounts her unconventional upbringing and coming-of-age as colored by her complicated relationship with her father.Sarah Tomlinson was born on January 29, 1976, in a farmhouse in Freedom, Maine. After...
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Lessons of Lifelong Intimacy: Building a Stronger Marriage Without Losing YourselfThe 9 Principles of a Balanced and Happy Relationship

Michael Gurian · Atria Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Michael Gurian offers a groundbreaking plan for couples seeking to build a healthy relationship, work through past hurts, and create greater intimacy.Become separate from your partner yet also become closer - sounds counterintuitive, doesn't it? With...
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Saving Our Lives: Essays to Inspire the Writer in YOU

D. Margaret Hoffman · Createspace
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

For most of her life, D. Margaret Hoffman taught other people to write. By challenging herself to write an essay a week for a year, she learned first-hand that life is always there to hand us something more to say. Saving Our Lives: Essays to Inspire the Writer in YOU was born of this challenge....
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