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Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Jeffrey Pfeffer - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

The author of Power, Stanford business school professor, and a leading management thinker offers a hard-hitting dissection of the leadership industry and ways to make workplaces and careers work better.The leadership enterprise is enormous, with billions of dollars, thousands of books,...
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The Keeper of Happy Endings

Barbara Davis - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback

Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It's said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating...
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Along the Infinite Sea

Beatriz Williams - G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.
Format: Print book

An epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging '60s, in another riveting historical novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers and Tiny Little Thing.Each of the three Schuyler sisters...
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Intimacies: A Novel

Katie Kitamura - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still...
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From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet

John Naughton - Quercus
Format: Hardcover

John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said that his writings, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities...
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Meadowlark: A Coming-of-Age Crime Story

Ethan Hawke - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Set against the quiet and unassuming city of Huntsville, Texas, Jack "Meadowlark" Johnson, and his teenage son, Cooper embark on a journey of epic proportions. Told over the course a single day, this electrifying graphic novel recounts Cooper's struggle to survive the consequences...
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Untitled Stone Barrington #57

Stuart Woods - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington is in hot water in the newest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling Stuart Woods.
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Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security

Laurence J. Kotlikoff - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Learn the secrets to maximizing your Social Security benefits and earn up to thousands of dollars more each year with expert advice that you can't get anywhere else.Want to know how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits? You could...
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The Birth Partner - Revised 4th Edition: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions

Penny Simkin - Harvard Common Press; 4 Revised edition
Format: Paperback

Since the original publication of The Birth Partner, new mothers' mates, friends, and relatives and doulas (professional birth assistants) have relied on Penny Simkin's guidance in caring for the new mother from the last few weeks of pregnancy through the early postpartum period....
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The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why

Arthur Benjamin - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Print book

The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples - from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares - this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties behind those...
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