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Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See: My Story

by Erik Weihenmayer

Published: 2002-03-26

Paperback: 342 pages

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The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity AdvantageErik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead ...

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A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

by Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney

Published: 2017-10-17

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world’s best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney p...

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Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do

by Matthew Syed

Published: 2015-11-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Nobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront our mistakes, learn from our own version of a black box, and create a climate where it’s safe to fail. ?We all have to endure failure from time to time, whether it’s underperforming at a...

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Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

by Matthew Syed

Published: 2011-05-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success—in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you’d want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tip...

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A Widow's Walk: A Memoir of 9/11

by Marian Fontana

Published: 2006-09-11

Paperback: 448 pages

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On September 11, I dropped my son off at his second full day of kindergarten. The sky was so blue it looked as if it had been ironed. I crossed the street, ordered coffee, and sat to wait for my husband to meet me. It was our eighth wedding anniversary and Dave and I were about to begin a...

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Gwendy's Button Box: A Novella

by Stephen King, Richard Chizmar

Published: 2017-10-31

Paperback: 176 pages

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Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineStephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the mysterious town of Castle Rock.There are three ways up to Castle View from the town o...

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The Moonstone (Penguin Classics)

by Wilkie Collins

Published: 1999-06-01

Paperback: 528 pages

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"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else."The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthd...

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Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes

by Elizabeth Bard

Published: 2016-06-07

Paperback: 384 pages

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Escape to Provence this summer with the "brave, funny" sequel to Elizabeth Bard's bestselling Lunch in Paris (Diane Johnson).Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way, Eliza...

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The Ice House

by Laura Lee Smith

Published: 2017-12-05

Hardcover: 448 pages

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From a writer who’s been praised for her “intelligence, heart, wit” (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls), The Ice House follows the beleaguered MacKinnons as they weather the possible loss of the family business, a serious medical diagnosis, and the slings a...

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A Dangerous Invitation (The Rookery Rogues) (Volume 1)

by Erica Monroe

Published: 2013-12-17

Paperback: 346 pages

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Scoundrels, thieves and rebels inhabit the rookeries--where dangerous men fall in love with fierce women. SHE'S GIVEN UP ON LOVE, AND WANTS ONLY INDEPENDENCE...Torn from her life of privilege by her father's death, Kate Morgan survives in London's dark and depraved rookeries as a fence fo...