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2) The affair
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English
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"Heads always turned when Rose McCarthy walked into a room. Nearly six foot tall, she was ramrod straight, and impeccably put together with faultless style, long graceful legs, her snow-white hair cut in a chin-length rounded cap. Her piercing blue eyes missed nothing. She could terrify anyone with a few, well chosen, soft-spoken, eloquent words, or comfort and delight a young employee with generous praise. For twenty-five years, she had been the...
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English
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"The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been weather-beaten, shabby and in serious need of repair when she found...
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Series
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English
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David Ponder is at a crossroads. Having lost his job and the will to live, he has been supernaturally selected to travel through time, gathering wisdom for future generations. Visits to historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, King Solomon, and Anne Frank yield the Seven Fundamentals for Success that will impact the entire world.
6) Principles
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Language
English
Description
Dalio "shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business--and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Behavior expert and business consultant Joe Navarro reveals the five unequalled qualities that set exceptional individuals and great leaders apart, and how you can use these principles to stand out and distinguish yourself. Including case studies from business and history, compelling stories from Joe's life and career, and cutting-edge science, this book empowers you to change how you see yourself, influence how others see you, and prepare, should...
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English
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Over the last two years, Tim Ferriss has collected the routines and tools of world-class performers around the globe while interviewing them for his self-titled podcast. Now the distilled notebook of tips and tricks that helped him double his income, flexibility, happiness, and more is available as Tools of Titans.
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Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II,...
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Physical Desc
211 p. 22 cm.
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English
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each new thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the world’s best loved and most admired public figures, offers a wise and intimate guide on how to overcome fears, embrace challenges as opportunities,...
12) New power
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (600 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From two visionary thinkers and practitioners comes a big idea about how power works differently in the hyper-connected age. Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms provide the tools for using new power to successfully spread an idea, lead a movement, or build a career in the twenty-first century.
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 287 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teaches the reader how to overcome barriers to meaningful communication while expanding and enriching conversations with colleagues, friends and family, along with handling strong emotions.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
David Epstein shows that in most domains, the way to excel is something altogether different. Sample widely, gain a breadth of experiences, take detours, and experiment relentlessly.
Publisher
Hatchette Audio
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (ca. 5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jacob and Megan Brandeis have gotten jobs with the mega-successful, ultra-secretive Store. Seems perfect. Seems safe. But their lives are about to become anything but perfect, anything but safe.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 213 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "Little Bets", leading business consultant Peter Sims turns problems on their heads and outlines a counter-intuitive path to perfection using negativity to positive effect.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 333 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people, both seasoned and new, that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit."
20) The broken road
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Series
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English
Description
Chicago celebrity, Charles James can shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted-fame, fans and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this is...