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41) Sleeping tigers
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Holly Robinson
Pub. Date
[2011]
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253 pages ; 23 cm
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"Sleeping Tigers is the kind of book you wish didn't have to end. Fast-moving and funny, loaded with sex, adventure, and characters who feel like your oldest friends, it takes the reader through fabulous, keenly-observed settings as it follows one woman on a brave journey of self-discovery. Robinson's prose crackles with wit and humanity - it brims with all the energy that's released when life and love are unleashed and allowed to roam. " -Elisabeth...
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The Quest for Happiness Is a Universal Fact. It is a scientific fact, which means we can measure happiness, we can assess it, and we can devise strategies to make ourselves happy and fulfilled human beings. So says Professor Gad Saad, the author of the sensational bestseller The Parasitic Mind and the irrepressible host of The Saad Truth podcast. In this provocative, entertaining, and life-changing new book, he roams through the scientific studies,...
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In this inspiring, empowering book, Shetty draws on his time as a monk to show us how we can clear the roadblocks to our potential and power. Combining ancient wisdom and his own rich experiences in the ashram, Think Like a Monk reveals how to overcome negative thoughts and habits, and access the calm and purpose that lie within all of us. He transforms abstract lessons into advice and exercises we can all apply to reduce stress, improve relationships,...
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Currency
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"As creators of Google Ventures' renowned "design sprint," Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective...
45) Grown-up pose
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
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304 pages ; 21 cm
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"Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit Indian community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai must now start from the beginning: learning who she is and what she truly wants. But Anu doesn't have time to start over. Telling her parents that she was separating from her husband was the hardest thing she's ever done--and she's still dealing with the fallout....
47) The archer
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In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo Coelho's story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfil, that a life constricted by fear of rejection...
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A desperate search for income leads writer Francesca to Chicky, a spunky, red-haired octogenarian who wants Francesca to write the memoirs of her parents, Joe and Ellie, who toured the vaudeville circuit in the early 1920s. Francesca is reluctant to take the job, but Chicky's tales soon lure her into a showbiz era as irresistible and unlikely as the love story that unfolds.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
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"A woman whose looks have always defined her, who has spent a lifetime trying to prove that she is allowed to exist in her own sphere, tries to be herself even as multiple men try to categorize and own her"--
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 22 cm.
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Moving to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to care for an aging family friend, Madeline Stone becomes involved in the lives of the small community and two octogenarian sisters who teach her valuable lessons about love and goodwill.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024].
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xi, 241 pages ; 22 cm
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"'America's Mom' Tabitha Brown presents an inspirational guide for encouraging positive changes in your life— one day and one challenge at a time. I did a new thing today! Years ago, Tabitha Brown started a 30-day personal challenge that she called 'I Did a New Thing!' The challenge was simple. Every day she would do something she'd never done before. Sometimes it was something small like trying a new food. Other times, she'd step it up a bit...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
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244 p. ; 24 cm.
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Fleeing south to embark on a new career after a romance with her boss goes wrong, Harvard Law graduate and former New Yorker Natalie Goldberg struggles with the disapproval of both those she has left behind and her new neighbors.
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
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xvii, 180 p. ; 19 cm.
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"Amazing Things Will Happen offers straightforward advice that can be put into action to improve your life. Through personal anecdotes from the author's life, and interviews of successful individuals across several industries, this book demonstrates how to achieve success, in all aspects of life, through hard work and acts of kindness. Split into five sections, this book details how to begin the self-improvement journey."--www.Amazon.com.
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Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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v, 152 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Using a business model, the author proposes five steps that can be taken to maximize potential and achieve a more satisfying and fulfilling life, based on identifying unique strengths and implementing well-defined goals.
57) The rest of us
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Years after an affair with her college professor compelled her to abandon her own art, Terry, who believed her ex had died, unexpectedly runs into him and pursues a healing friendship that renews her creative ambitions.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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"When Jennifer Palmieri realized that everything in her life had been shaped by men, she wanted to make a change. From work behavior and use of language to wardrobe choices, she decided to follow her own convictions and reject paternalistic expectations.In an era of wage gaps, the Kavanaugh hearings, the #MeToo movement, and a domineering administration, Jennifer found a way to move beyond the bounds of patriarchy and wants to show readers a way out....
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Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2013
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338 p. ; 21 cm.
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An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in Jamaica -it's the invitation of a lifetime for a group of old college friends. All four women are desperate not just for a reunion, but for an escape: Tina is drowning under the demands of mothering four young children. Allie is shattered by the news that a genetic illness runs in her family. Savannah is carrying the secret of her husband's infidelity. And, finally, there's Pauline, who spares no expense...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
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"Avita was born to be a star. Her tent sells out nightly, and every performance incites bloodcurdling screams. She's the most lucrative circus act from Texas to Tacoma, the crown jewel of the Family Fortuna, and Avita feeds on the shrieks, the gasps, thefear. But when a handsome young artist arrives to create posters of the performers, she's appalled by his rendering of Bird Girl. Is that all he sees? A hideous monster--all sharp beak and razor teeth,...
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