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"Why is it so hard to live well amidst the chaos and noise? While you might think this is a problem of the modern world, it's a timeless issue. 2000 years ago, the ancient Stoics talked about the exact same challenges we're facing today, like: How can we find inner peace?; What does it take to be happy?; Can we become more resilient? The answers can be found in the philosophy of Stoicism. I've used the philosophy since 2014 to change my life and career....
2) Aetherbound
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After escaping her abusive family's interstellar merchant ship, seventeen-year-old Pendt lands on a remote space station run by the Brannick twins, and together they make plans to thwart the destinies they never wanted.
3) Nausea
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French writer Antoine Roquentin is disgusted at his own existence and catalogs his every thought and feeling.
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"A liberating read that will cause you to act in your own best interests and the best interests of everyone working within your sphere of influence." —John Hoover, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Work for an Idiot
The number one reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is "my manager." This can be for multiple reasons—including one that many managers and executives aren't even aware of: Today's...
The number one reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is "my manager." This can be for multiple reasons—including one that many managers and executives aren't even aware of: Today's...
5) Blood red
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"In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, in obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely....
6) Feed
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In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. So says Titus, a teenager whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been almost completely obliterated by his "feed, " a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. Feeds are a crucial part of life for Titus and his friends. After all, how else would they know where to party...
7) Ada's room
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"A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from her husband. A woman named Ada, imprisoned in a concentration...
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"A hilarious and heartfelt debut novel following three generations of a boisterous family whose simmering tensions boil over when a home aide enters the picture, becoming the calamitous force that will either undo or remake this family--perfect for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Evvie Drake Starts Over. When Kevin Gogarty's irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother, Millie, is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker...
10) Chasing liberty
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Anna, who is the daughter of the President of the United States, eludes the secret service and dashes around Europe with a mysterious stranger. She must tell her newfound friend who she really is and risk a broken heart before her father catches her.
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As the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, Shannon Harris found that nothing in her secular upbringing had prepared her to enter the world of conservative Christianity. When Joshua wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye, it became a bestseller and helped inspire a national purity movement. Now Shannon's identity became "pastor's wife." Asked to live within a narrow definition of womanhood for almost two decades, she found her worldview was narrowed,...
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Misfits of Mayfair volume 1
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"For exactly one season, Lady Charlotte Wentworth played the biddable female the ton expected - and all it got her was society's mockery and derision. Now she's determined to be in charge of her own future. So when an unwanted suitor tries to manipulate her into an engagement, she has a plan. He can't claim to be her fiancé if she's engaged to someone else. Even if it means asking for help from the last man she would ever marry. Ethan, Viscount Amesbury,...
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The decade between ages twenty and thirty is one of the most pivotal in our lives. We leave home, we find jobs, we marry. We lose old friends and make new ones. The decisions we face during this time, from where we choose to live to what career we choose to follow, are often made with little more guidance than the advice of a well-meaning (but equally uninformed) friend.
We need experience-based advice and empathetic counsel for dealing with our...
16) El viaje de Nala
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"Por primera vez, la joven Nala debe afrontar un viaje por la peligrosa sabana sin la ayuda de la manada ni de su madre. Al llegar a su destino, Nala ya no será la misma. Nala es un elefante que ha crecido con su madre y su manada. Ellos le han enseñado todo lo que debe saber para sobrevivir, desde cruzar el río a nado como saber distinguir qué alimentos son los más nutritivos. Sin embargo, para convertirse en una elefante adulta, Nala debe emprender...
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"A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. "Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's...
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A revised edition of the best-selling solution-oriented guide to identifying and healing over-involvement or "entanglement" in relationships with others. Anyone who has struggled with balancing his or her own needs and desires with those of the "other" person will benefit from Nancy Johnston's sensible, easy-to-follow method for changing the course of one's relationships. Disentangle combines psychoeducation, personal anecdotes, clinical case vignettes,...
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Legions of self-help authors rightly urge personal development as the key to happiness, but they typically fail to focus on its most important objective: hardiness. Though that which doesn't kill us can make us stronger, as Nietzsche tells us, few authors today offer any insight into just how to springboard from adversity to strength.
It doesn't just happen automatically, and it takes practice. New scientific research suggests that...
It doesn't just happen automatically, and it takes practice. New scientific research suggests that...
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