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The authors examine female serial killers by focusing on the life of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. This book explores mental illness and forensic psychology while also providing a history of how American jurisprudence has grappled with such controversial issues as the insanity defense and mental competency to stand trial.
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
First Free Trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 258 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Yes! presents a summary of the social-psychological research on persuasion. It illustrates a simple approach that can hone anyone's strategies for getting that "yes" to make the sale.
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Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2021.
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xv, 344 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Actor (Jane the Virgin), director (Five Feet Apart), and well-known social activist (Wayfarer) Justin Baldoni is boldly taking on the issues of toxic masculinity. He tackles his own struggles and brings up previously unspoken taboos to help create a new understanding and system of accountability. It is not just about becoming better men, but becoming more human. Topics will include redefining masculinity, female empowerment, relationships, violence...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Explores how love and mindfulness can guide people in living their lives and interacting with their communities, and calls upon readers to give and receive love in their lives.
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English
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"From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Timesbest-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void, '" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and...
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Publisher
Dey St
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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A book of inspirational and spiritual life lessons from the star of NBC's "This Is Us" examines the role of authenticity and sincerity in her successes, encouraging readers to claim their rightful places in a world that constantly undermines individuals.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Laurel Braitman spent her childhood learning how to outfish grown men, keep bees, and fix carburetors from her larger-than-life dad. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he went to spectacular lengths to teach her the skills she’d need to survive without him. But by her mid-thirties she is a ship about to splinter on the rocks, exhausted by running from her own bad feelings. We follow as Laurel changes course, navigating multiple wildernesses—from...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 285 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Elizabeth Gilbert and the man she falls in love with, find themselves wandering all over Southeast Asia when he is kicked out of the U.S. by immigration officials. As they await permission to return home, Gilbert searches for wisdom, advice and perspective on the subject of romantic commitment.
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Language
English
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Valerie Bertinelli shares an inspiring blueprint that offers women in midlife support and hope. She shares personal stories that many women will relate to from her past decade: hitting her fifties, taking care of her dying mother, the evolving relationship with her husband, a career change, her relationship with food, and the battle to believe in herself as she is.
Despite her success receiving Emmys for her Food Network show and critical praise...
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
xiv, 415 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The definitive biography of one of America's brightest stars. Hers was a brief life that still fascinates the world. Marilyn Monroe was born in obscurity and deprivation, and rose to become a legend of her century, a great actress, and a lover of the most famous men in America, only to die young and under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Anthony Summers interviewed more than six hundred people,...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children's author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband's life without her in the viral New York Times Modern Love column, 'You May Want to Marry My Husband. -- . On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times-- 'Modern Love-- column --&'You May...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In a powerful and intimate memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, and -- slowly, painfully, and miraculously -- her cautious return to hope and love after the death of her three young daughters in a traffic accident.
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Publisher
Regan Arts
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Regan Arts hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Ronda Rousey, the Olympic medalist in judo, reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion, and new Hollywood action hero, charts her difficult path to glory. Rousey's account of the toughest fights of her life -- in and outside the Octagon -- reveals the painful loss of her father when she was eight years old, the intensity of her judo training, her battles with love, her meteoric rise to fame, the secret behind her undefeated UFC record, and what it...
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
2009. Patterson earned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family, and over the months that followed she kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold? Sifting through the few belongings her father left behind, looking to signs and symbols for meaning, Patterson also gathered evidence of the final days of...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former diehard Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no idea his life was about to change. When he got to the front of the line, he urged his fellow officers to hold it against the growing crowd of insurrectionists--until he found himself...
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Howard Books
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
ix, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Describes the devasting accident and case of mistaken identity that left one family grieving for the young woman they thought was their daughter while the wrong family cared for the lone survivor, and describes the healing journey of survivor Whitney Cerak.