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PORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER A galvanizing, stirring memoir about growing up homeless and in foster care and rising to become a leading advocate for child welfare, recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change. “You will fall in love with David Ambroz, his beautifully-told, gut-wrenching story, and his great big heart.” (Jeanette Walls,...
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2022-12-08T12:23:45.000ZSet in the capital city of the world’s happiest country, a comedy of manners about depression, the pressures of marriage, and the possibility of falling in love again, from the bestselling author of A House for Happy Mothers.Sanya was always the perfect wife, but after a breakdown at her office, it’s her husband Harry’s turn to step up. His proposa...
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2022-10-23T12:45:04.000ZShashi Bellamkonda
2022-10-02T12:48:39.000Z
Sisters of Mokama
The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India
Sisters of Mokama is proof that faith and courage does move mountains. -- Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for StoneThe never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same New York Times editor Jyoti Thottam's mother was ...
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2022-09-25T03:31:51.000Z
How to Lead
Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
The essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffet, Oprah, and many others through illuminating conversations about their remarkable lives and careers. For the past five years, David M. Rubenstein—author of The American Story, visionary cofounder of The Carl...
First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, th...
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2021-04-09T02:15:05.000ZA witty sharply observed journey down the length of North and South America.Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Sweating and shivering...
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2021-04-09T02:15:05.000Z
Forgiving What You Can't Forget
Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again
*#1 New York Times Bestseller*You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to you.Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on like this, but you don't know what to do next. Lysa TerKeurst has wrestled through this journey. But in surprising way...
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2021-01-30T22:50:02.000ZFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. John le Carré's new novel, Agent Running in the Field, is coming October 2019.The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement--especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with ...
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2020-12-13T23:08:20.000ZIn this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carre brings to light the shadowy dealings of international espionage in the tale of a British agent who ...
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2020-12-13T23:08:20.000ZNothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why by Alexandra Petri
The Catalyst by Jonah Berger
Unlocked by Madelyn Blair
Roots by Alex Haley
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters
The Pursuit of Wow! Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times by Tom Peters