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Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Written by Charles Duhigg
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $28.00
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.
Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people...
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From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Written by Cheryl Strayed
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $25.95
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was... Read more >
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The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Written by Susan Cain
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $26.00
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we...
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An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Written by Mitch Albom
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.99
It’s been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now–twelve million copies later–in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie’s life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions all those years ago. . .
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A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
Written by Richard N. Bolles
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $18.99
The 40th Edition. This is not your father’s Parachute; and not your mother’s, either. They’d be astounded at the changes. This book keeps building--in insight, helpfulness, relevance, and urgency--through new invention and information each year. And this year it’s the critical resource to help Americans (and others) get back to work.
For forty years... Read more >
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Written by Barbara Park
Illustrated by Denise Brunkus
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $4.99
It's kindergarten graduation!
All the children in Room Nine are excited when they get their bright white graduation gowns. Mrs. says to keep them in their boxes until the big day. But Junie B. Jones just can't help herself. Then—uh-oh!—an accident happens! Can Junie B. find a way to fix things? Or... Read more >
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And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Written by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2005
Price: $26.00
Do you want to get ahead in life?
Climb the ladder to personal success?
The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships—so... Read more >
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Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
National Bestseller
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in...
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Written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1991
Price: $9.95
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a... Read more >
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Now a Major Motion Picture
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $24.95
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.
Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her... Read more >
