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The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

by Olivia Fox Cabane

Published: 2013-03-26

Paperback: 272 pages

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What if charisma could be taught?The charisma myth is the idea that charisma is a fundamental, inborn quality—you either have it (Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Oprah) or you don’t. But that’s simply not true, as Olivia Fox Cabane reveals. Charismatic behaviors can be learned and perfecte...

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The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard

by Kristin Schell

Published: 2017-06-06

Hardcover: 224 pages

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A simple way to connect your neighborhood, your community and build friendships. Are you consumed with a busy life but unsure how to slow down? Do you desire connection within your community and think, “Absolutely, but I don’t have time for that” or “I can’t create that”? What ...

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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir

by Jessica B. Harris

Published: 2017-05-09

Hardcover: 272 pages

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In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era—the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Je...

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Men, Women, and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough

by Brené Brown

Published: 2012-11-15

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What does it mean to engage with the world from a place of worthiness? How do we make the long walk from "What will people think" to "I am enough!" Dr. Brené Brown has spent more than 10 years researching these questions, and her discoveries always lead back to one critical finding: Shame...

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Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice

by Brené Brown PhD LMSW

Published: 2017-06-01

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Spirituality—How It Makes Us Stronger   With her previous bestsellers, Dr. Brené Brown helped us realize that vulnerability is the birthplace for trust, courage, joy, creativity, and love. Yet a willingness to be vulnerable means accepting that life will sometimes knock us down. Where ...

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Invisible Murder (A Nina Borg Novel)

by Lene Kaaberbol, Agnete Friis

Published: 2013-06-11

Paperback: 368 pages

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The second installment in the bestselling Danish crime series starring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg, following Fall 2011's New York Times–bestselling The Boy in the Suitcase In the ruins of an abandoned Soviet military hospital in northern Hungary, two impoverished Roma boys are scavenging...

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Death of a Nightingale (A Nina Borg Novel)

by Lene Kaaberbol, Agnete Friis

Published: 2015-01-06

Paperback: 352 pages

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From the Nordic noir duo who brought you The New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase comes a chilling new thriller with a mystery seventy-years in the making.Nina. Natasha. Olga. Three women united by one terrifying secret. But only one of them has killed to keep it.Natasha Doros...

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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

by Suzy Hansen

Published: 2017-08-15

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent rol...

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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

by Howard Markel

Published: 2017-08-08

Hardcover: 544 pages

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***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction***"What's more American than Corn Flakes?" —Bing CrosbyFrom the much admired medical historian (“Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be”—Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addiction (�...

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The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten Surgeon

by Cherry Lewis

Published: 2017-08-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A colorful and absorbing portrait of James Parkinson and the turbulent, intellectually vibrant world of Georgian London. Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 60,000 new cases each year in the United States alone, yet few know anything about the man the di...