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The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope

José Andrés - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

A captivating collection of stories and recipes from renowned chefs, local cooks, and celebrity friends of José Andrés's beloved nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK) , which feeds communities impacted by natural disasters and humanitarian crises; with a foreword from Stephen Colbert.....
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Suddenly Single After 50: The Girlfriends' Guide to Navigating Loss, Restoring Hope, and Rebuilding Your Life

Barbara Ballinger - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

A stressful, protracted divorce. A difficult, painful death of a beloved husband. And suddenly, after age 50, you're on your own again. Your children have moved out, your parents are aging fast or deceased, your friends' lives continue onward, seemingly unchanged. Being suddenly single...
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I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World

Rachel Nuwer - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a medical revolution--and the potential it may hold to help us thrive.. Few drugs in history have generated as much controversy as MDMA--or held as much promise. Once vilified as a Schedule...
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The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog

Patricia B McConnell - Atria Books
Format: Print book

In this powerful, soul-searching memoir, beautifully written in the vein of A Pack of Two and Wild, animal behaviorist Dr. Patricia McConnell recounts for the first time the compelling story of her dark past, memories of which are triggered by a troubled dog named Will.World-renowned...
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Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

Taisia Kitaiskaia - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback

With a strange, otherworldly style, poetic clarity, and striking honesty, Ask Baba Yaga contains beautifully skewed wisdom to be consulted in times of need.Dear Baba Yaga,I think I must crave male attention too much. I fear that, without it, I would feel invisible. BABA YAGA:When you seek...
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Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Peace

Seth J. Gillihan - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

A practicing psychologist - one of the top popularizers of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - offers a fresh, welcome approach for treating mental health issues that speaks to our times, blending mindfulness and spirituality with CBT to effectively overcome negative thinking, achieve...
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

John Koenig - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: "sonder." Or maybe you've watched a thunderstorm roll...
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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

Eugenia Cheng - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math - focusing on questions, not answers Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human curiosity - most...
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From The Bronx To Wall Street: My Fifty Years in Finance and Philanthropy

Leon Cooperman - Advantage Media Group
Format: Hardcover

A Wall Street Legend Recounts His Fifty Years in the Stock Market, Hedge Funds, and PhilanthropyWall Street mogul Leon Cooperman provides a brilliant business memoir encompassing a quarter-century with Goldman Sachs and then the management of his own successful hedge fund, Omega Advisors....
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The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance

Rich Diviney
Format: Hardcover

During his twenty years as a Navy officer and SEAL, Rich Diviney was intimately involved in a specialized SEAL selection process, which whittled a group of hundreds of extraordinary candidates down to a handful of the most elite performers. Diviney was often surprised by which candidates...
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