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At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family drifted apart and her marriage crumbled. With nothing left to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America and to do it alone. She had no experience of lo...
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Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. What starts out as a journey to find...
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The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost
A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has never visited. There she forms an unlikely bond with a free-spirited Australia...
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The Lost Girls
Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World.
“Brave, funny, and deeply moving.” — Cathy Alter, author of Up for Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, and Starting Over“Three cheers to The Lost Girls for showing us, with good humor and graceful prose, the beauty and importance of leading life astray.” — Franz Wisner, New York Times Bestselling author of Honeymoon with My BrotherTh...
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For out-starting upstarts of all ages, here is a wonderfully wise and blessedly brief graduation speech from the one and only Dr. Seuss. In his inimitable, humorous verse and pictures, he addresses the Great Balancing Act (life itself, and the ups and downs it presents) while encouraging us to find the success that lies within us. And will you succ...
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Eckhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a wor...
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An updated edition of a beloved classic, the original book on happiness, with new material from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Howard Cutler. Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize ...
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"This book is written with the sole objective of helping the reader achieve a happy, satisfying, and worthwhile life." -- Norman Vincent PealeThe precursor to The Secret, The Power of Positive Thinking has helped millions of men and women to achieve fulfillment in their lives. In this phenomenal bestseller, Dr. Peale demonstrates the power of faith...
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A New Earth
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)
“A wake-up call for the entire planet . . . [A New Earth] helps us to stop creating our own suffering and obsessing over the past and what the future might be, and to put ourselves in the now.” —Oprah WinfreyWith his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life li...
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Learn how to achieve the happiness you deserve "A guide to sustaining your newfound contentment."--Psychology TodayYou see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehensive guide to understanding the elemetns of happiness based on years of groundbreaking scientific research. It is also a practical, empowering, and eas...
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When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma—newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage—rose to her full height of five feet and told her doctor, “I’m ninety years old. I’m h...
Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Swell by Liz Clark
Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre Deroche
At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
Your Fully Charged Life by Meaghan B Murphy
From Excuses to Excursions by Gloria Atanmo
All Over the Place by Geraldine Deruiter
The Gift of Presence by Caroline Welch
A Manual for Heartache by Cathy Rentzenbrink
Happier Human by S. J. Scott
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Strangers Have the Best Candy by Margaret Meps Schulte
Postcards from the Sky by Erin Seidemann
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine
Authentic Happiness by Martin E. P. Seligman
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
A Thousand New Beginnings by Kristin Addis
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
How to Be Married by Jo Piazza
How Not To Travel The World by Lauren Juliff
You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
It's Only the Himalayas by S. Bedford
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Seven Letters from Paris by Samantha Vérant
No Baggage by Clara Bensen
Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom
Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It by Various