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One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will ...
Amy Cuddy
Dec 18, 2020Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's ...
Amy Cuddy
Feb 06, 2019In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medic...
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Feb 06, 2019Also recommended by
Ed YongCharlotte's Web
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This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." This high-quality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's ...
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Gretchen RubinA People's History of the United States
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"A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be ready by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." --Howard FastWith a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out th...
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Feb 06, 2019From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana — stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape. Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic surroundings, a l...
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Jimmy ChinWhere the Sidewalk Ends turns forty! Celebrate with this anniversary edition that features an eye-catching commemorative red sticker. This classic poetry collection, which is both outrageously funny and profound, has been the most beloved of Shel Silverstein's poetry books for generations.Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. Th...
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Feb 06, 2019The Year of Magical Thinking
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'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–...
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Gretchen RubinWalt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
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"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our na...
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Feb 06, 2019Beloved
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful f...
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Feb 06, 2019Plainsong
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A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling ...
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Feb 06, 2019I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Shame Nation by Sue Scheff
Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu
Wonderland by Steven Johnson
The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith
Peak Performance by Brad Stulberg
Strong Is the New Pretty by Kate T. Parker
Micro-Resilience by Bonnie St. John
Mastering Civility by Christine Porath
Take Pride by Jessica Tracy
10% Happier by Dan Harris
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
Compelling People by John Neffinger
Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Mastermind by Maria Konnikova
Quiet by Susan Cain
What Every Body Is Saying by Joe Navarro
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck