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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It's All Small Stuff
Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series)
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff is a book that shows you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life. You can learn to put things in perspective by making...
Susan J. Fowler
Feb 25, 2021Also recommended by
Adam RobinsonMaybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Ch...
Susan J. Fowler
Feb 05, 2021Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedi...
Susan J. Fowler
Feb 05, 2021Is This Anything?
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The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy.Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. “Whenever I came up with a funn...
Susan J. Fowler
Jan 30, 2021Also recommended by
Russell BrandMan's Search for Meaning
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Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with re...
Susan J. Fowler
Jan 27, 2021Also recommended by
Jimmy FallonEmma WatsonPewDiePieCory BookerTony RobbinsJillian MichaelsTerry CrewsJordan PetersonAmanda PalmerMaria PopovaDavid BlaineSimon SinekSteve KerrDaniel PinkDavid Heinemeier HanssonJim KwikRyan HolidayDerek SiversSandeep MaheshwariJames AltucherCharlie BilelloTom BilyeuEsther PerelJeffrey ShawJordan Vogt-RobertsMike ShellenbergerRobin BlackFedor HolzDustin MoskovitzSusan SuehrMichael GervaisStuart McMillanSven GatzChip ConleyTuria PittBryan JohnsonDave ElitchThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before.In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and ph...
Susan J. Fowler
Jan 27, 2021Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the...
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J. K. RowlingJenna Fischer’s Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. With a theater degree in hand, she was certain everything would fall easily into place. Never mind that she didn’t know a single person in the entertainment industry. She was determined, she was confident, she was ready to work har...
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Dec 16, 2020Also recommended by
Arlan HamiltonThe Magician's Nephew
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The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventureNARNIA...where the woods are thick and cold, where Talking Beasts are called to life...a new world where the adventure begins.Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory's Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is...
Susan J. Fowler
Dec 10, 2020Pachinko
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In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister pas...
Susan J. Fowler
Nov 26, 2020Multi-award-winning author Willis delivers a story that examines one of the toughest issues of all: death. Part medical thriller, part literary exploration, Willis plunges readers into a bizarre and fascinating world....
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Sep 24, 2020The Plaza by Julie Satow
An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Colin Bird
Kant by Mary Gregor
The Art of Forgery by Noah Charney
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lost Time by Jozef Czapski
The role of the Supreme Court in American government by Archibald Cox
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Aeneid by Virgil
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
The Republic by Plato
An Introductin to Quantum Field Theory by Peskin Schroeder
Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. Griffiths
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Holy Bible by ESV
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Elements of New Testament Greek by David Wenham (Foreword by) Jeremy Duff
Enchiridion by Epictetus
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman
Plutarch Lives, I, Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola by Plutarch
Do Unto Otters by Laurie Keller