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Alain de Botton
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Penguin
The Consolations of Philosophy
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Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles.Solace for the broken heart can be found in the words of Schopenhauer. The ancient Greek Epicurus has the wisest, and most affordable, solution to cash flow problems. A remedy for impotence lies in Montaigne. Seneca offers advice upon losing a job. And Nietzsche has shrewd counsel for everything from loneliness to illness. The Consolations of Philosophy is a book as accessibly erudite as it is useful and entertaining.
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Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
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William
Morrow
RAISING YOUR SPIRITED CHILD : A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, And Energetic
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Newly revised, featuring the most up-to-date research, effective strategies, and real-life stories The spirited child—often called "difficult" or "strong-willed"—possesses traits we value in adults yet find challenging in children. Research shows that spirited kids are wired to be "more"—by temperament, they are more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and uncomfortable with change than the average child. In this revised edition of the award-winning classic, voted one of the top twenty books for parents, Kurcinka provides vivid examples and a refreshingly positive viewpoint. Raising Your Spirited Child will help
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Alice Sebold
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Little,
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The Almost Moon
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"The Almost Moon" is a gripping tale that delves into the complex relationships of mothers and daughters, husbands and wives. This book offers a unique perspective that captivates the readers, and Alice Sebold has done an excellent job bringing depth to the characters and their experiences. The author's writing style is fluid, and she manages to keep the reader engaged throughout the story. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a challenging, moving, and captivating read on the intricacies of human relationships.
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Edward de Bono
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Ebury
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How to Have a Beautiful Mind
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"How To Have A Beautiful Mind" by Edward de Bono is more than just a guide; it's an invitation to cultivate the often-overlooked elements that make us truly attractive. De Bono urges you to invest in your mental creativity and conversational skills, suggesting that the way you think can profoundly impact your charisma. If you're curious about improving your social interactions and fostering a mind that twinkles just as brightly as a well-toned body, this book may just sculpt your thoughts into something irresistible.
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Philip Hensher
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Harpercollins
Publishers
The Northern Clemency
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In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife is having an affair, Malcolm Glover has suddenly disappeared. The reverberations of this rupture will echo through the years to come as the connection between the families deepens. But it will be the particular crises of ten-year-old Tim Glover--set off by two seemingly inconsequential but ultimately indelible acts of cruelty--that will erupt, full-blown, two decades later in a shocking conclusion. Expansive and deeply felt, "The Northern Clemency" shows Philip Hensher to be one of our most masterly chroniclers of modern life, and a storyteller of virtuosic gifts.
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Alexandra Horowitz
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Inside of a Dog : What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and other quirky animal, the human. "Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs' perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it mgiht be like to be a dog. What it's like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell sadness in humans, or even the passag eof time? How does a tingy dog manage to play sucessfully with a Great Dane? What is it like to hear the bodily vibrations of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light? Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? What's it like to use your mouth as a hand? In short, what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground, amidst the smells of the sidewalk, gazing at our ankles or knees? Inside of a Dog explains these things and much more. The answers can be surprising-once we set aside our natural inclination to anthropomorphize dogs. Inside of a Dog also contains up-to-the-minute-research-on dogs' detection of disease, the secrets of their tails, and their skill at reading our attention-that Horowitz puts into useful context. Although not a formal training guide, Insie of Dog has practical applicaiton for dog lovers interested in understanding why their dogs do what they do. With alight touch and the weight of science behind her, Alexandra Horowtiz examines the animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least. This book is as close as you can get to knowing about dogs without being a dog yourself
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Diana Evans
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Vintage
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Ordinary People : Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
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'I am shouting from the rooftops to anyone who will listen about this book. It’s so so good – realistic and funny and so truthful it almost winded me' Dolly Alderton Two London couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a narrow Victorian terrace, she begins to disappear. Michael, growing daily more accustomed to his commute, still loves Melissa but can’t quite get close enough to her to stay faithful.Meanwhile out in the suburbs, Stephanie is happy with Damian and their three children, but the death of Damian’s father has thrown him into crisis – or is it something, or someone, else?Ordinary People is an intimate study of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, love and ageing. It is the story of our lives, and those moments that threaten to unravel us.
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"& Sons is a daring feat of fiction that explores complex family dynamics and how they shape us. Through the story of an iconic novelist, his three sons, and two interconnected families, David Gilbert weaves a deeply affecting tale that will resonate with readers of Jonathan Franzen and Claire Messud. The book's most distinctive feature is its layered, almost Proustian detail in conjuring up the characters' memories. It is a smart, engrossing saga that is both funny and heart-wrenching, infused with warmth and wisdom about what it means to be a family."
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Steven Low
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Battle
Ground
Creative
Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (Second Edition)
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Commonly referred to by readers as an "exercise Bible," Overcoming Gravity is a comprehensive guide that provides a gold mine of information for gymnastics and bodyweight strength training within its large 8.5"x11" size and nearly 600 pages. Steven Low takes the reader on a journey through logically constructing a strength-oriented bodyweight workout routine. With a highly systematic approach, he delves into the physiology behind strength training equips the reader to adequately prepare their body for the rigors of bodyweight training. This book covers much ground that other books do not, offering information health and injury management, factors that contribute to a successful routine, and actual program implementation. If you prefer your health and fitness books to include scientific data, comprehensive sample programming, and effective recommendations, Overcoming Gravity is the ideal choice for your library. This Second Edition has been revised, expanded, and re-organized to read easier, provide more content, and offer easily accessible next-steps for beginner, intermediate, and advanced populations. Notable improvements from the first edition include the Note : This book does not contain primary gymnastics skill work like cartwheels, tumbling, swings, giants, etc.For a book preview including Table of Contents, Introduction, Chapter 1-3, and Charts, v2.1 4/17/17: ~25 editing and illustration errors are fixed. v2.2 5/2/17: Page 38 missing fixed. Page 5/19/22-6/4/22: Amazon/Kindle stopped manufacturing the book due to changing their max page size to 590 (mine was 598). The solution was to compress the interior to keep all of the content. All exercise progressions used to have their own pages, but now a few are two on a page.
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Marc Weissbluth
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Vermilion
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child : A step-by-step programme for a good night's sleep
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This book is a valuable resource for parents struggling with their children's sleep patterns. Dr. Weissbluth provides a step-by-step program that helps parents establish beneficial sleep routines based on their child's natural sleep cycles. The book covers a wide range of topics such as how to handle 'nap-resistant' kids, the benefits and drawbacks of allowing kids to sleep in the family bed, and how to prevent and treat common sleep problems such as nightmares and bedwetting. A must-read for all parents who want their children to have healthy sleep habits.
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A.M. Homes
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Granta
This Book Will Save Your Life
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This work is short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. It is an uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel about compassion and transformation, "This Book Will Save Your Life" reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you. Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years.
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A parable about love, literature and fanaticism. A young university student becomes obsessed with a magical book that delves into the dangerous natures of love and self. Abandoning his studies and his family, he goes with the beautiful Janan on a search for the meaning of the book's darker secrets.
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Alexander Boguslawski, Sasha Sokolov |
Nyrb
Classics
A School For Fools
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By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, “an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.”
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In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories—his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, "Echo's Bones", to serve as the final piece. However, he’d already killed off several of the characters—including the protagonist, Belacqua—throughout the book, and had to resurrect them from the dead. The story was politely rejected by his editor, as it was considered too imaginatively playful, too allusive, and too undisciplined—qualities now recognized as quintessentially Beckett. As a result, "Echo's Bones" (not to be confused with the poem and collection of poems of the same title) remained unpublished—until now, nearly eight decades later.This little-known text is introduced by the preeminent Beckett scholar, Dr. Mark Nixon, who situates the work in terms of its biographical context and textual references, examining how it is a vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work. Beckett confessed that he included "all I knew" in the story. It harnesses an immense range of subjects: science, philosophy, religion, literature; combining fairy tales, gothic dreams, and classical myth. This posthumous publication marks the unexpected and highly exciting return of a literary legend.
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A.M. Homes
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Viking
Adult
This Book Will Save Your Life
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Disconnected from the outside world until a health scare and a sink hole in his yard force him to forge new relationships, middle-aged everyman Richard Novak finds his life changed by a doughnut shop owner, a kidnapped woman, a counterculture icon, and others. 40,000 first printing.
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Norman Rush
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Knopf
Mortals
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Mortals is a thrilling novel that expertly weaves together the personal misadventures of ex-pats with the political landscape and history of Africa. With humor, romance and political intrigue, Norman Rush paints a vivid picture of expat life in Botswana while shedding light on the complex relationships between Black populism and American intervention. A must-read for anyone interested in African politics and expat culture.
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Jorge Molist, Mara Faye Lethem |
Atria
Books
The Ring : The Last Knight Templar's Inheritance
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The Ring follows a young New York lawyer who receives two rings -- one from her fiancé and one that will lead her on an unforgettable adventure. On her twenty-seventh birthday, New York lawyer Cristina Wilson receives a diamond engagement ring from her fiancé, Mike, a wealthy stockbroker. Later that day, a messenger from Barcelona delivers a beautiful antique jewel, a ruby set in bone, from a mysterious sender. Cristina wears them both, unaware that they are incompatible. The ruby soon works its mysterious effects, giving her strange and unsettling dreams. Cristina is swept away to Spain to attend the reading of her godfather's will, where she reunites with her first love, Oriol, and soon the powerful attraction that once overwhelmed them in their adolescent years is rekindled. Together Cristina and Oriol embark on an odyssey in search of a Templar treasure that has remained hidden for centuries in a place that only they can uncover. From New York lawyer to intrepid adventurer, Cristina experiences a profound journey of love, life, and death as she learns an unforgettable lesson that could redirect the course of her destiny.
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Peg Dawson, Richard Guare |
Guilford
Press
Smart but Scattered : The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
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Scientists who study child development have recently found that kids who are "smart but scattered" lack or lag behind in crucial executive skills—the core, brain-based habits of mind required to “execute” tasks like getting organized, staying focused, and controlling emotions. Drawing on this revolutionary discovery, school psychologist Peg Dawson and neuropsychologist Richard Guare have developed an innovative program that parents and teachers can use to strengthen kids’ abilities to plan ahead, be efficient, follow through, and get things done. Smart but Scattered provides ways to assess children’s strengths and weaknesses and offers guidance on day-to-day issues like following instructions in the classroom, doing homework, completing chores, reducing performance anxiety, and staying cool under pressure. Small steps add up to big improvements, enabling these kids to build the skills they need to live up to their full potential. More than 40 reproducibles are included.
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Heidi Murkoff
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Workman
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What to Expect the First Year
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If you're a new or expecting parent, "What to Expect the First Year" could feel like a comforting companion through the maze of early parenthood. It's a resource that addresses countless concerns, offering advice that can relieve your anxiety and help you make informed decisions. With its month-by-month breakdown, this book grows with you, adapting to each stage of your baby's development.
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Bruce Feiler
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William
Morrow
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The Secrets of Happy Families : Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
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In The Secrets of Happy Families , New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler has drawn up a blueprint for modern families — a new approach to family dynamics, inspired by cutting-edge techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military. From smartphones to social media, we live in an age of digital distractions, where we Google everything and parents even text their kids to come downstairs for dinner. In The Secrets of Happy Families , Bruce Feiler, the New York Times bestselling author and father, offers an antidote to our increasing disconnect, reminding us of the positive emotional connections that tie successful families together. Scholars have recently revolutionized our understanding of why families succeed and how every family can improve. From interviewing these scholars and the happy families they study to running a white tablecloth experiment to promote family dinners, and from visiting a high-end sex spa for couples to going backstage on the ABC hit series “Modern Family”, Feiler explains the building blocks of a successful family life and creates a toolbox for the happy family by sharing expert advice and fun facts. The result is a funny and thought-provoking playbook for contemporary families, with more than 200 useful strategies, the right way to have family dinner, what your mother never told you about sex (but should have), and why you should always have two women present in difficult conversations… Timely, compassionate, and filled with practical tips and wise advice, Bruce Feiler’s The Secrets of Happy Families should be required reading for all parents.
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Every major character in Until I Find You has been marked for life – not only William Burns, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed, but also William's son, Jack, an actor who is shaped as a child by his relationships with older women. And Jack's mother, Alice – a Toronto tattoo artist – has been permanently damaged by William's rejection of her. This is a novel about the loss of innocence, on many levels.
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Kamila Shamsie
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Bloomsbury
Usa
A God in Every Stone : Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015
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In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, joins an archaeological dig in Turkey, fulfilling a long-held dream. Working alongside Germans and Turks, she falls in love with archaeologist Tahsin Bey and joins him in his quest to find an ancient silver circlet. But the outbreak of war in Europe brings her idyllic summer to a sudden end, and her new friends become her nation's enemies.Thousands of miles away, twenty-year-old Pathan Qayyum Gul is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. When he loses an eye in battle and is sent to England to recuperate, his allegiances falter.Returning home at last, Qayyum shares a train carriage with Vivian Rose, whose continued search for the circlet has led her to Peshawar in the heart of the British Raj. Many years later, the two cross paths again, and their loyalties will be tested once more amidst massacres, cover-ups, and the disappearance of a young man they both love.
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Bunmi Laditan
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Scribner
The Honest Toddler : A Child's Guide to Parenting
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From the bestselling author of Dear God , an irreverent, bracingly honest, and “awfully funny” ( The Boston Globe ) satirical parenting guide from the Twitter’s most infamous tot, whose unchecked sense of entitlement and undeniable charm have captivated hundreds of thousands of fans.Are you constantly disappointing the toddler in your life?Are you tired, stressed out, and looking for relief? I can’t help you with that, but if you want to become an A+ servant to your small child, this book is for you. Who better to teach you about toddlers than another toddler? You will • How time-outs make you look like a fool• Why potty training is not only unnecessary but unrealistic for children under eighteen• Why toddler beds are OUT and letting your child sleep on the diagonal in your bed is IN• The best way to apologize to your toddler for all of those Pinterest casseroles• That when you love someone, you accept them as they are, pants or no pantsThe hard-hitting knowledge in The Honest Toddler will save you thousands of dollars in unnecessary whole grains and toothbrushes.Happy reading. You’re doing the right thing. For once.
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David Foster Wallace
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Hamish
Hamilton
The David Foster Wallace Reader
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The David Foster Wallace Reader is a selection of David Foster Wallace's work, introducing readers to his humour, kindness, sweeping intellect and versatility as a writer.A compilation from the one of the most original writers of our age, featuring:· the very best of his fiction and non-fiction;· previously unpublished writing· and original contributions from 12 prominent authors and critics about his workFrom classic short fiction to genre-defining reportage, this book is a must for new readers and confirmed David Foster Wallace fans alike'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times'There are times, reading his work, when you get halfway through a sentence and gasp involuntarily, and for a second you feel lucky that there was, at least for a time, someone who could make sense like no other of what it is to be a human in our era' Daily Telegraph'A prose magician, Mr. Wallace was capable of writing . . .about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humour and fervour and verve' Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesDavid Foster Wallace wrote the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest, and The Broom of the System and three story collections. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. He died in 2008.
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Mark Manson
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Harper
Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
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This book is for those who are tired of the superficial promises of self-help books and are ready for a raw and honest exploration of the problems we face as individuals and as a society. Mark Manson fearlessly tackles topics like religion, politics, money, and the internet, forcing readers to question their beliefs and redefine their understanding of hope, happiness, and freedom. With his unique blend of wit and wisdom, Manson provides a thought-provoking and refreshing perspective that will leave readers feeling enlightened and empowered to make positive changes in their lives.
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Orzel Chad
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One
World
Breakfast with Einstein : The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects
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Making complex theories intelligible for the general reader, this guide to quantum mechanics and the history of modern physics uses the everyday experiences of getting up, making breakfast and checking email to demonstrate how quantum effects govern the world around us.
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A magical new novel from the critically acclaimed bestselling author of THE TOYMAKERS which will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern.______________________________________Every city has its own magic...Every night on their long journey to Paris from their troubled homeland, Levon’s grandmother has read to them from a very special book. Called The Nocturne, it is a book full of fairy stories and the heroic adventures of their people who generations before chose to live by starlight.And with every story that Levon’s grandmother tells them in their new home, the desire to live as their ancestors did grows. And that is when the magic begins…Nobody can explain why nocturnal water dogs start appearing at the heels of every citizen of Paris-by-Starlight like the loyal retainers they once were. There are suddenly night finches in the skies and the city is transforming: the Eiffel Tower lit up by strange ethereal flowers that drink in the light of the moon.But not everyone in Paris is won over by the spectacle of Paris-by-Starlight. There are always those that fear the other, the unexplained, the strangers in our midst. How long can the magic of night rub up against the ordinariness of day? How long can two worlds occupy the same streets and squares before there is an outright war?
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Tom Hanks
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Dutton
Uncommon Type
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If you're charmed by Tom Hanks's on-screen presence, imagine how his creativity translates into writing. "Uncommon Type" is a mosaic of America, its quirks, and its humanity, with Hanks's wit and heart stringing each story together. It's perfect for anyone who enjoys narratives that feel both grand and intimate, familiar yet wondrous.
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Anuschka Rees
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Ten
Speed
Press
The Curated Closet : A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe
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Is your closet jam-packed and yet you have absolutely nothing to wear? Can you describe your personal style in one sentence? If someone grabbed a random piece from your closet right now, how likely is it that it would be something you love and wear regularly?With so many style and shopping options, it can be difficult to create a streamlined closet of pieces that can be worn easily and confidently. In The Curated Closet , style writer Anuschka Rees presents a fascinatingly strategic approach to identifying, refining, and expressing personal style and building the ideal wardrobe to match it, with style and shopping strategies that women can use every day. Using The Curated Closet method, you’ll learn to:• Shop smarter and more selectively• Make the most of your budget• Master outfit formulas and color palettes• Tweak your wardrobe for work• Assess garment fit and quality like a pro• Curate a closet of fewer, better piecesIncluding useful infographics, charts, and activities, as well as beautiful fashion photography, The Curated Closet is the ultimate practical guide to authentic and unique style.
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Are you torn between climbing the career ladder or throwing on a sarong in Goa? Do all your mates seem more successful and sorted than you do? Are you suffocated by choice, responsibility, and self-doubt? Are money, homelife and relationships stressing you out? Do these questions just make you want to crawl back under your duvet? Surprisingly you are not alone you could be in the middle of a quarterlife crisis. We've all heard of adolescent angst and the mid-life crisis, but no one really talks about the challenges of the period in between. The truth is that being a twentysomething in the 'real-world' isn't easy. "Quarterlife Crisis" is the first book to name and document this phenomenon. With masses of facts, information, and startlingly honest anecdotes "Quarterlife Crisis" helps you out through an often dizzying period, and compellingly tackles the most difficult questions facing twenty somethings today.
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Gregory Rabassa, Gabriel García Márquez |
Penguin
Books
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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If you're drawn to the seamless blending of the fantastical with the mundane, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" could be a treasure for you. Gabriel García Márquez crafts a world where the lines between myth and reality blur, offering a literary journey that's as enchanting as it is profound. The multi-generational tale of the Buendia family encapsulates human experience in a way that's both unique and universally resonant.
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Simon Blackburn
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Oxford
University
Press,
Usa
Think : A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
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Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them," Think provides a sound framework for exploring the most basic themes of philosophy, and for understanding how major philosophers have tackled the questions that have pressed themselves most forcefully on human consciousness.
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John Gray
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Harpercollins
Publishers
Ltd
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communications and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
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If you've ever felt like you and your partner are speaking different languages, this book could bridge the gap. John Gray's 'Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus' uses compelling metaphors to dissect the complexities of communication in relationships. It's a deep dive into understanding and accepting the differences between genders, which could be just what you need to strengthen your connection.
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Philip Pullman
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Vintage
Daemon Voices : On Stories and Storytelling
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From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling.One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that charts the history of his own enchantment with story--from his own books to those of Blake, Milton, Dickens, and the Brothers Grimm, among others--and delves into the role of story in education, religion, and science. At once personal and wide-ranging, Daemon Voices is both a revelation of the writing mind and the methods of a great contemporary master, and a fascinating exploration of storytelling itself.
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David Szalay
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Jonathan
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All That Man Is : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZENine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving – in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel – to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are – ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.
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Jonathan Franzen
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Purity
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A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FreedomYoung Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother – her only family – is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world – including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters – Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers – and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
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Piccadilly
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How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen : A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
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From the widely acclaimed HOW TO TALK series, discover tried and tested communication strategies to survive and thrive with kids ages 2-7The all-new content in this book deals with struggles familiar to every parent, relative, teacher and childminder. How do you respond to the toddler who won't brush his teeth? The preschooler who pinches the baby? The child who throws everything she can reach? It's hard to be a little kid. It's hard to be an adult responsible for that little kid. And it's really hard to think about effective communication when the toast is burning, the baby is crying and you're exhausted.This book will help readers do just that. Organized according to everyday challenges and conflicts, and including real-life examples and the series' trademark cartoons, this book is a survival manual of communication tools, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing or autism spectrum disorders.
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Richard Nelson Bolles
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Ten
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2015
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The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2015 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and nuts-and-bolts guidance on landing a job. Combining classic elements like the famed Flower Exercise with updated advice on social media and search tactics, this revised edition outlines what works--and what doesn't. Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process, from resumes to interviewing to networking, expertly guiding job-hunters towards their dream job.
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Lodro Rinzler
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Shambhala
The Buddha Walks Into The Office - A Guide To Livelihood For A New Generation
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Wisdom for "Generation Next" on how to make your work meaningful, satisfying, and of benefit to othersDoes it ever seem that a lot of the people you work with are, well, jerks? This book is about how not to let work turn you into one of them. Apply the simple Buddhist teachings and practices Lodro Rinzler provides here to whatever you do for a living, and you’ll not only avoid jerk-hood, but you’ll be setting out on the path toward making your livelihood an expression of your inherent wisdom, honesty, and compassion. You’ll discover practical ways to bring mindfulness into administrative support, cabinet-making, financial management, nursing, truck-driving, or latté-brewing. In the process, you’ll discover genuine empathy for the folks you once found so difficult. You’ll also learn leadership skills that apply compassion to management in a way that increases happiness along with efficiency.This is career advice of the profoundest kind, geared toward today’s twenty- and thirty-something workers and job-seekers whose employment outlook is radically different from that of a generation ago. As Lodro shows, even if the path of work shifts beneath your feet, it’s possible to make your livelihood a source of satisfaction and of deep meaning.
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Robert H. Frank
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Basic
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The Economic Naturalist - In Search Of Explanations For Everyday Enigmas
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Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic principles operate in the real world--which they do everywhere, all the time.Once you learn to think like an economist, all kinds of puzzling observations start to make sense. Drive-up ATM keypads have Braille dots because it's cheaper to make the same machine for both drive-up and walk-up locations. Travelers from Kansas City to Orlando pay less because they are usually price-sensitive tourists with many choices of destination, whereas travelers originating from Orlando typically choose Kansas City for specific family or business reasons. The Economic Naturalist employs basic economic principles to answer scores of intriguing questions from everyday life, and, along the way, introduces key ideas such as the cost benefit principle, the "no cash left on the table" principle, and the law of one price. There is no more delightful and painless way of learning these fundamental principles.
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Tyler Cowen
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Dutton
Discover Your Inner Economist - Use Incentives To Fall In Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, And Motivate Your Dentist
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In Discover Your Inner Economist one of America’s most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage—often when you least expect it to be relevant. Like no other economist, Tyler Cowen shows how economic notions--such as incentives, signals, and markets--apply far more widely than merely to the decisions of social planners, governments, and big business. What does economic theory say about ordering from a menu? Or attracting the right mate? Or controlling people who talk too much in meetings? Or dealing with your dentist? With a wryly amusing voice, in chapters such as “How to Control the World, The Basics” and “How to Control the World, Knowing When to Stop” Cowen reveals the hidden economic patterns behind everyday situations so you can get more of what you really want. Readers will also gain less selfish insights into how to be a good partner, neighbor and even citizen of the world. For instance, what is the best way to give to charity? The chapter title “How to Save the World—More Christmas Presents Won’t Help” makes a point that is every bit as personal as it is global. Incentives are at the core of an economic approach to the world, but they don’t just come in cash. In fact, money can be a disincentive. Cowen shows why, for example, it doesn’t work to pay your kids to do the dishes. Other kinds of incentives--like making sure family members know they will be admired if they respect you--can work. Another non- monetary incentive? Try having everyone stand up in your next meeting if you don’t want anyone to drone on. Deeply felt incentives like pride in one’s work or a passing smile from a loved one, can be the most powerful of all, even while they operate alongside more mundane rewards such as money and free food. Discover Your Inner Economist is an introduction to the science of economics that shows it to be built on notions that are already within all of us. While the implications of those ideas lead to Cowen’s often counterintuitive advice, their wisdom is presented in ordinary examples taken from home life, work life, and even vacation life… How do you get a good guide in a Moroccan bazaar?
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Ranging over 2,500 years, Cities in Civilization is a tribute to the city as the birthplace of Western civilization. Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and outlines the precise combinations of forces -- both universal and local -- that led to each city's belle epoque.Hall identifies four distinct expressions of civic artistic growth, technological progress, the marriage of culture and technology, and solutions to evolving problems. Descriptions of Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan London, and nineteenth-century Vienna bring to life those seedbeds of artistic and intellectual creativity. Explorations of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, of Henry Ford's Detroit, and of Palo Alto at the dawn of the computer age highlight centers of technological advances. Tales of the creation of Los Angeles' movie industry and the birth of the blues and rock 'n' roll in Memphis depict the marriage of culture and technology.Finally, Hall celebrates cities that have been forced to solve problems created by their very size. With Imperial Rome came the apartment block and aqueduct; nineteenth-century London introduced policing, prisons, and sewers; twentieth-century New York developed the skyscraper; and Los Angeles became the first city without a center, a city ruled instead by the car. And in a fascinating conclusion, Hall speculates on urban creativity in the twenty-first century.This penetrating study reveals not only the lives of cities but also the lives of the people who built them and created the civilizations within them. A decade in the making, Cities in Civilization is the definitive account of the culture of cities.
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Horace Freeland Judson
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Penguin
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The Eighth Day Of Creation - Makers Of The Revolution In Biology
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In the foreword to this expanded edition of his 1979 masterpiece, Horace Freeland Judson says, "I feared I might seem the official historian of the movement"--molecular biology, that is. If by official he means "authoritative; definitive; the standard against which all others are measured" then his fears are warranted. Detailed without being overly technical, humane without being fulsome, The Eighth Day of Creation tells of molecular biology's search for the secret of life. "The drama has everything--exploration of the unknown; low comedy and urgent seriousness; savage competition, vaulting intelligence, abrupt changes of fortune, sudden understandings; eccentric and brilliant people, men of honor and of less than honor; a heroine, perhaps wronged; and a treasure to be achieved that was unique and transcendent." And in Judson this drama found its Shakespeare.
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Bertrand Russell
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Routledge
History of Western Philosophy
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If you're intrigued by the big questions that have shaped human thought across centuries, Bertrand Russell's "History of Western Philosophy" is a treasure trove waiting to be explored. It's rich in insight yet accessible, full of Russell's characteristic wit. You'll not only get an extensive overview of philosophical ideas but also enjoy the sharp, engaging prose of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers. It's the kind of book that offers both an education and an enjoyable read, a combination that's hard to resist for anyone curious about philosophy's role in shaping our world.
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Basic
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Godel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid
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Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
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Chris Baty
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Chronicle
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No Plot? No Problem! Revised And Expanded Edition - A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide To Writing A Novel In 30 Days
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Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful literary marathon known as National Novel Writing Month, has completely revised and expanded his definitive handbook for extreme noveling. Chris pulls from over 15 years of results-oriented writing experience to pack this compendium with new tips and tricks, ranging from week-by-week quick reference guides to encouraging advice from authors, and much more. His motivating mix of fearless optimism and practical solutions to common excuses gives both first-time novelists and results-oriented writers the kick-start they need to embark on an exhilarating creative adventure.
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Janet Lansbury
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Jlml
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No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
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If you're navigating the tumultuous toddler years, "No Bad Kids" by Janet Lansbury might be just the support you need. Lansbury's approach is hands-on and sympathetic, focusing on forging strong, respectful relationships with your children rather than traditional punitive measures. It's insightful for those stressful moments and cherished for the philosophy of kindness and understanding it promotes, making it an invaluable guide to weather the storms of toddlerhood with grace.
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A year and a half into our marriage, I found out my husband had been having an affair with a nineteen-year-old for six months. I filed for divorce and left. Two weeks later I met a man, and we fell madly in love. It was a fairy-tale romance for a month and a half, and he convinced me to join him on a romantic month-long vacation in Italy. Forty-eight hours before we were supposed to get on a plane, he told me he needed to go by himself. I was devastated. So, I had a decision to make. Either stay home and be heartbroken, or go travel Europe for a month by myself. And staying at home heartbroken? F%*k. That. What does a woman do when her life has fallen apart and her heart has been ripped out and stepped on twice in two months? She goes on a wild adventure, makes some bad decisions, and does a sh*t load of soul searching. But most importantly? She finds out how to love…herself. This is so not Eat, Pray, Love. This is Eat, Pray, #FML. *Due to the mature language and content this book is recommended for readers 18+* "Even with five kids, I could NOT put this book down. I don’t think I’ve ever read something more raw, relatable, and wildly entertaining. For anyone who’s gone through love, divorce, heartbreak, or needs to learn to love themselves and take their damn power back. READ. THIS. BOOK. -Tori Spelling (Actress) "Reading this book has absolutely inspired me. These are words of pure truth. To say I needed to read this is an understatement. I'm so thankful for this book and how it opened my eyes about myself and my relationships. I'm ready to see it on the big screen!" -SCOUT TAYLOR COMPTON (Actress) "Eat, Pray, #FML is a riveting journey of what happens when your life is thrown to the wolves and you come out leading the pack. This isn't a soul-searching book, it's a soul defining book, and Gabrielle shows us how to elegantly do so...without giving a single f%*k." -K.L. RANDIS(Bestselling author of Spilled Milk : Based On A True Story)
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Eckhart Tolle
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Yogi
Impressions
The Power of Now
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If tranquility and personal growth are what you’re yearning for, "The Power of Now" could be a true game-changer for you. Eckhart Tolle simplifies profound spiritual teachings, offering a practical guide to living in the present and shedding the pain of the past and anxiety for the future. It’s not just about concepts; it's an experience that could potentially unfold a more peaceful and enlightened way of being for you.