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How to Be a Rule-Breaking Letterer: A Guide to Making Perfectly Imperfect Art

Huyen Dinh - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback

Break the rules, embrace imperfection, and express your unique self through lettering art!. This book is for anyone who's felt the pressure of perfection. As a schoolgirl in Vietnam and later in online lettering classes, Huyen Dinh was always told to perfect her penmanship. Instead,...
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The Brain-Friendly Workplace: Why Talented People Quit and How to Get Them to Stay

Friederike Fabritius - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A smart, science-based approach to retaining your talent and making the world of work a better place.Today's work isn't working. Stress and burnout are driving talented professionals out of the workforce while the corporate standard of extreme hours, sleep deprivation, and nonstop...
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Your Playbook for Beating Depression: Essential Strategies for Managing and Living with Depression

MARY GARRISON - NEW CHAPTER PR
Format: Print book

Millions of people live with depression every day and it can have a devastating impact on one's life - but know you are not alone. Cliff Richey and Mary Garrison help readers understand, manage, and live with depression, offering a tool on the path to recovery. Combining Mary's...
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Flex Your Age: Defying Stereotypes & Reclaiming Empowerment

Joan MacDonald - Alpha
Format: Hardcover

How did Joan do that? Now you can find out!As we get older, our bodies go through many changes, especially physical and mental. Most are out of our control. But for those that aren't, all we need sometimes is advice about how to make specific, sustainable, and successful decisions that...
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Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom

Dolly Alderton - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Dolly Alderton is one of the foremost 'it' writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working." - Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women"Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation." - Elizabeth...
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Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends, and Letters

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage offers a treasury of tales that speak to the tenderness and passion, difficulties and blessings of love. Jewish tradition overflows with love stories from the Bible, Talmud, and Midrash. Folktales continue the tradition, and contemporary writers highlight...
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Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

JOAN HALIFAX - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"Joan Halifax is a clearheaded and fearless traveler and in this book ... she offers us a map of how to travel courageously and fruitfully, for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings." -- From the foreword by Rebecca Solnit Standing at the Edge is an evocative examination...
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The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship

Marilyn Yalom - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book

From historian and acclaimed feminist author of How the French Invented Love and A History of the Wife comes this rich, multifaceted history of the evolution of female friendship.In today's culture, the bonds of female friendship are taken as a given. But only a few centuries ago, the idea...
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Bully, the Bullied, and the Not-So-Innocent Bystander: From Preschool to High School and Beyond: Breaking the Cycle of Violence and Creating More Deeply Caring Communities

Barbara Coloroso - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

An international bestseller, Barbara Coloroso's groundbreaking and trusted guide on bullying - including cyberbullying - arms parents and teachers with real solutions for a problem that affects almost all school age kids."An extremely helpful book that both parents and teachers...
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Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection

Marissa King - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Social Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think about "networking." Understanding the contours of your social network can dramatically enhance personal relationships, work life, and even your global impact. Are you an Expansionist, a Broker, or a Convener? The answer...
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