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"In Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies' futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge: one is a man, the other a woman. In [her latest] novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable choices they make, what drives them, and how others...
3) Why?
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Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.
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High school senior Avery Dennis runs the prom committee, and she has always had a date for everything, but when a public breakup with her current boyfriend makes her start wondering about her own dating history, she sets out to investigate why her relationships never seem to work out--and ends up discovering some hard truths about herself and her dating choices.
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"While most contemporary Enneagram books stop at the descriptions of the nine types, Enneagram teacher and bestselling author Chris Heuertz uncovers the missing link in our journey of living into our true self: radical self-compassion that can bring us back to belonging. The Enneagram of Belonging is your guide to this essential journey"--
6) Mind the gap
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The story of five people, who seem to be unrelated, who make a decision to take some risks with their personal lives while searching for happiness.
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Take off your shoes is Feder's brutally honest journey of self-rediscovery, his revealing, heartfelt attempt to find personal fulfillment and rebuild family relationships. Exploring brain plasticity and our ability to change our lives by changing our minds, he discovered more meaningful connections to his family and experiences. Now, could he return to his New York City reality and practice compassion and gratitude, engaging in a richer life fiercely...
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"A prominent figure in the entertainment world who has turned to fiction in the last decade, Kevin Morris received wide literary acclaim with his story collection White Man's Problems, praised by David Carr as "remarkable" and Tom Perrotta as "revelatory." Now Morris cements his place as a bold new voice in American literature with his muscular debut novel, All Joe Knight. 1961. Outside Philadelphia, a soon-to-be father runs into a telephone pole...
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In Do You Know the Real You? psychology expert Claire Gordon offers revealing exercises and quizzes to help you pinpoint your strengths and use them more effectively in every area of your life. From your career and friendships to romantic relationships and beyond, this beautifully packaged, practical book of self-discovery assesses how your own unique traits affect how you interact in the world and explains how to overcome your weaknesses.
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Walt, a middle-aged man, follows the twenty-year-old journal of a hike on the Appalachian Trail by a younger man, Strider, who had undertaken the trek to discover the "good life" and quit to pursue it. Since Walt's good life with his wife and daughters has gone sour, he starts this walk to think about his future. On the way Walt reflects on Strider's memorable encounters and plunges into his own life-changing experiences, leaving him lost and uncertain...
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In this capstone work, Lamont unpacks the power of recognition--rendering others as visible and valued--by drawing on nearly forty years of research and new interviews with young adults, and with cultural icons and change agents who intentionally practice recognition--from Nikole Hannah Jones and Cornel West to Michael Schur and Roxane Gay. She shows how new narratives are essential for everyone to feel respect and assert their dignity s of neoliberalism...
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