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The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

by Danielle LaPorte

Published: 2014-01-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Your bucket list. Quarterly objectives. Strategic plans. Big dreams. Goals. Lots of goals and plans to achieve those goals—no matter what. Except …You're not chasing the goal itself, you're actually chasing the feeling that you hope achieving that goal will give you.Which means we have...

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The Choke

by Sofie Laguna

Published: 2017-08-23

Kindle Edition: 307 pages

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Winner of the 2018 Indie Book Award for Fiction!'It is quite a feat to write characters with such nuance...in harnessing her storytelling facility to expose the flaws in the system with what is becoming trademark empathy, Laguna is an author proving the novel is a crucial document of the t...

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The Cheerleaders

by Kara Thomas

Published: 2018-07-31

Hardcover: 384 pages

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"Sharp, brilliantly plotted, and totally engrossing."--KAREN M. MCMANUS, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying"A crafty, dark, and disturbing story."--KATHLEEN GLASGOW, New York Times bestselling author of Girl In Pieces "A little bit Riverdale and a little bit Veronica M...

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Leaving Cloud 9: The True Story of a Life Resurrected from the Ashes of Poverty, Trauma, and Mental Illness

by Ericka Andersen

Published: 2018-06-26

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American Southwest trailer park named Cloud 9.Abandoned by his father at age two, Rick Sylvester lived with an abusive mother whose struggles as a member of the working poor led he...

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A Terrible Country: A Novel

by Keith Gessen

Published: 2018-07-10

Hardcover: 352 pages

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"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year."—Ann Levin, Associated Press"The funniest work ...

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Severance: A Novel

by Ling Ma

Published: 2018-08-14

Kindle Edition: 290 pages

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Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize, A PEN/Hemingway Finalist, A New York Times Notable Book of 2018, An Indie Next SelectionA Best Book of 2018 at Elle, Marie Claire, Refinery29, Bustle, Buzzfeed, BookPage, Bookish, Mental Floss, Chicago Review of Books, HuffPost, Electric Literature, Amazon ...

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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

by Sam Anderson

Published: 2018-08-21

Kindle Edition: 435 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE ECONOMIST AND DEADSPINAward-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great America...

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Cherry: A novel

by Nico Walker

Published: 2018-08-14

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin.   “Nico Walker’s Cherry might be the first great novel of the opioid epidemic.” —Vulture   “A miracle of literary serendipity. . . . [Walker’s] language, relentles...

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Whistle in the Dark: A Novel

by Emma Healey

Published: 2018-07-24

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary...

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Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things

by Courtenay Hameister

Published: 2018-07-31

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The "hilarious and poignant" story of one chronically anxious woman's quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding. (Cheryl Strayed) For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay Hameister liv...