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The Measure of My Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris

by Jackie Kai Ellis

Published: 2018-03-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER. For fans of Eat Pray Love, Wild, and H is for Hawk, The Measure of My Powers is the story of one woman's search for self-love, experienced through food and travel."With searing vulnerability and unflinching honesty, Jackie Kai Ellis takes us on an intense and i...

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The Art of Living (Prosperity Gospel Series)

by Bob Proctor, Sandra Gallagher

Published: 2015-12-29

Paperback: 240 pages

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Make Bob Proctor YOUR personal mentor!   The Art of Living presents transcripts from legendary business speaker and mentor Bob Proctor’s most popular workshop—Matrixx—and brings this wisdom to a wider audience. With this book, readers will become a student of Bob Proctor’s as he t...

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Blended

by Sharon M. Draper

Published: 2018-10-30

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Eleven-year-old Isabella’s blended family is more divided than ever in this thoughtful story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper.Eleven-year-old Isabella’s parents are divorced, so she has to...

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Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

by Susan Freinkel

Published: 2011-04-18

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemica...

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The Paragon Hotel

by Lyndsay Faye

Published: 2019-01-08

Hardcover: 432 pages

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A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash....

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The Steward Leader: Transforming People, Organizations and Communities

by R. Scott Rodin

Published: 2010-04-11

Paperback: 199 pages

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Coach. Entrepreneur. Mentor. Executive. Servant. Visionary. Everyone has a different idea of what a leader should be. How can any one person be everything? Scott Rodin brings unity and clarity to this confusing, demanding picture of leadership. He offers a comprehensive model that brings together a biblical...

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Summary of "48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers: Concise & Informative Summary

by StickyBooks

Published: 2017-09-20

Paperback: 40 pages

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Busy? Try this Concise & Informative Summary on 48 Laws of Power now! Here’s just a taste of what you’ll see in this useful summary: “Everyone wants to exercise a certain sense of power over others and the absence of this power makes one miserable. By using the example of the old aristocratic court...

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Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

by Helen DeWitt

Published: 2018-05-29

Hardcover: 224 pages

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NPR Best Book of the YearNew York Public Library's Best Books for AdultsAt last a new book: a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp genius For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt ...

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Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph

by Yusra Mardini

Published: 2018-05-15

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The inspiring story of how one woman saved fellow refugees from drowning?and how she went on to become an Olympic swimmer.When young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini realized her boat's engine shut down as she was traveling from Syria to Greece with other refugees, there was no hesitation: she...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Published: 2018-12-24

Kindle Edition: 95 pages

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.It tells of a girl named Alicefalling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphiccreatures....