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English
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David Ponder is at a crossroads. Having lost his job and the will to live, he has been supernaturally selected to travel through time, gathering wisdom for future generations. Visits to historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, King Solomon, and Anne Frank yield the Seven Fundamentals for Success that will impact the entire world.
3) Greenlights
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Language
English
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"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. This book is an album, a record, a story of his life and the graces, truths, and...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classic Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm...
7) Dr. David Reuben's Mental first-aid manual: instant relief from twenty-five of life's worst problems
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
xiv, 255 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author shares the life lessons that enabled him to rise from a homeless single father to a millionaire businessman and outlines steps for recovering from professional or physical setbacks and finding the motivation to pursue new challenges.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
iv, 390 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents fun-filled activities that can be done outside of cyberspace which promote self-realization and well-being and include such categories as nature, travel, animals, food, and individual passions.
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 233 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
More than one hundred notable people from all walks of life, including Peter Wood and Katherine Paterson, discuss the lessons that they learned from children's books, in a book that includes excerpts from beloved children's books.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"America's top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his fail-proof approach to decluttering and downsizing. Your boxes of photos, family's china, and even the kids' height charts aren't just stuff; they're attached to a lifetime of memories--and letting them go can be scary. With empathy, expertise, and humor, Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff helps you sift through years of clutter, let go of what no longer...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays...
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A whimsical guide to life for adult fans of classic Little Golden Books combines lighthearted advice with nostalgic illustrations that convey such nuggets of wisdom as "Don't forget to enjoy your wedding!," "Be a hugger," and "Sweatpants are bad for morale."
19) Principles
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Language
English
Description
Dalio "shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business--and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals"--Amazon.com.
20) CinderSilly
Author
Publisher
Dramatic Adventures
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this variation of Cinderella, CinderSilly learns to make chores fun, and magic is in the power of imagination.