| Sh*t My Dad Says
| After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him: "That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them." "Do people your age know how...More
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| A Woman Named Smith
| CHARACTERSSOPHY: A woman named Smith.ALICIA GAINES: Flower o' the Peach.NICHOLAS JELNIK: Peacocks and Ivory.DOCTOR RICHARD GEDDES: _Coeur-de-Lion._THE AUTHOR: Himself.THE SECRETARY: A Pleasant Person.MISS EMMELINE PHELPS-PARSONS: of Boston, Massachusetts.MISS MARTHA HOPKINS: "Clothed in White Samite."JUDGE GATCHELL: The Law.SCHMETZ AND RIEDRIECH: Workmen and Visionaries.THE JINNEE: A Son of the Prophet.SOPHRONISBA SCARLETT: "The Scarlett Witch."THE HYNDSES OF HYNDS HOUSE.PAYING GUESTS.THE PEOPLE...More
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| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
| A step-by-step guide to achieving a principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems. Covey reveals a pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity.
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| The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
| Helps you discover and understand five specific languages of love, and learn how to identify your partner's primary love language. This title reveals the profound satisfaction and joy of being able to express your love in a manner that it is interpreted in the right sense.
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| The Glass Castle: A Memoir
| Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the respon...More
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| Committed
| Deals with marriage. This title debunks myths, unthreads fears and suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in their amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibilities of adulthood.
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| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
| Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWhen three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation ...More
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| My Horizontal Life
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| Pride and Prejudice
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| Politics: A Treatise on Government
| Classic work from the Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, who laid down the foundations of Western philosophy.
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| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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| The Swiss Family Robinson; Or Adventures in a Desert Island
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Juvenile Fiction / Action
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| Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption
| In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures of their daughters, when the small girls are placed in their arms, and all the laughs and tumbles along the road as they become a real family.Woven into the tale of Scott, Caroline, and the two little ...More
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| What to Expect When You're Expecting: Fourth Edition
| Announcing a brand new, cover-to-cover revision of America's pregnancy bible. What to Expect When You're Expecting is a perennial New York Times bestseller and one of USA Today's 25 most influential books of the past 25 years. It's read by more than 90% of pregnant women who read a pregnancy book—the most iconic, must-have book for parents-to-be, with over 14.5 million copies in print. Now comes the Fourth Edition, a new book for a new generation of expectant moms—featuring a new loo...More
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| The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
| In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries—an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’s crying.No wonder pediatricians across the country are praising him and thousands of Los Angeles parents, from working moms to superstars like Madonna and Pierce Brosnan, have turned to him to learn the secrets for making babies happy.Never again will parents have to stand by helpless and frazzled while the...More
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| Love and Freindship [sic]
| LETTER the FIRST From ISABEL to LAURA How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said "No, my freind never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones." Surely that time is now at hand. You are this day 55. If a woman may ever be said to be in safety from the determined Perseverance of disagreeable Lovers and the cruel Pers...More
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| Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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| American Fairy Tales
| No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another. Mrs. McFarland was attending the weekly card party held by the Women's Anti-Gambling League. Sister Nell's young man had called quite unexpectedly to take her for a long drive. Papa was at the office, as usual. It was Mary Ann's day out. As for Emeline, she certainly should have stayed in the house and looked after the little girl; but Emeline had a restless nature."Wou...More
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| The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
| Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more. In addition, this book is stuffed with cartoons, clever ide...More
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| Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
| Rich Dad, Poor Dad chronicles the story of the authors two dads, his own father, who wa the superintendent of education in Hawaii and who ended up dying penniless and his best friends father who dropped out of school at age 13 and went on to become one of the wealthiest men in Hawaii. Kiyosaki uses the story of these two men and their varying financial strategies to illustrate the need for a new financial paradigm in order to achieve financial success in the new millennium.
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