With anecdotes and metaphors, Langer explains how the mindless develop habits of thought born of repetition in childhood and throughout schooling. To be mindful, allows free rein to intuition and...
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Author: Langer, Ellen J.Summary:Genre: Psychology -
Author: Gary, AmySummary:Drawing on newly discovered personal letters and diaries, Amy Gary reveals the eccentric and exceptional life of Margaret Wise Brown, author of the popular children's books Goodnight Moon and The...
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Author: Berlin, LuciaSummary:Compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts...
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Author:Summary:With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one original stories from today's most prominent mystery writers. These sometimes terrifying, sometimes funny, and always...
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Author: Hoffman, AliceSummary:
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a suicidal son and a defiant granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family and the grounds of their waterfront estate. But...
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Author: Manning, ChandraSummary:
By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps." This book probes what the camps were like and how former...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house,...
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Author: Andrews, DonnaSummary:A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Toucan Keep a Secret. Meg Langslow's grandfather has been booked by a cruise line to...
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Author: Ware, SusanSummary:An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.
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Author: Andrews, DonnaSummary:
A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment. When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her...
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Author: Andrews, DonnaSummary:
** An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning production. ** New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of...
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Author: Weisberger, LaurenSummary:
A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses.
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job "a million girls...Genre: Humorous fiction -
Author: Strayed, CherylSummary:
Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back...
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Author: Pinsker, SarahSummary:
From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Everybody's getting one. Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and...
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Author: Andrews, DonnaSummary:
A Shakespearean twist on the long-running Meg Langslow mystery series in Murder Most Fowl , the next installment from Donna Andrews, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Falcon...