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How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind

by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

Published: 2011-04-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome...

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

by Paul Tough

Published: 2013-07-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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“Drop the flashcards—grit, character, and curiosity matter even more than cognitive skills. A persuasive wake-up call.”—People Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to th...

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How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly

by Connie May Fowler

Published: 2010-04-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly is the transcendent story of a young woman who, in a twenty-four hour period, journeys through startling moments of self-discovery that lead her to a courageous and life-altering decision.

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How Did You Get This Number

by Sloane Crosley

Published: 2010-06-15

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A brand-new book of hilarious and insightful personal essays by the iconic, irresistible Sloane Crosley. From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widesp...

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How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

by Andy Andrews

Published: 2012-01-03

Hardcover: 96 pages

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How Do You Kill  11 Million People? Or, to be precise, 11,283,000 people. Andy Andrews believes that good answers come only from asking the right questions. Through the powerful, provocative question, "How do you kill eleven million people?"-the number of people killed by the Nazi Germ...

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How Doctors Think

by Jerome Groopman

Published: 2007-03-19

Hardcover: 307 pages

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On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastroph...

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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

by Moustafa Bayoumi

Published: 2009-07-28

Paperback: 320 pages

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An eye-opening look at how young Arab- and Muslim- Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Just over a century ago , W.E.B. Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk: How does it feel to be a problem? Now,...

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How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and everywhere in between)

by Mei-Ling Hopgood

Published: 2012-01-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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A tour of global practices that will inspire American parents to expand their horizons (and geographical borders) and learn that there's more than one way to diaper a baby. Mei-Ling Hopgood, a first-time mom from suburban Michigan?now living in Buenos Aires?was shocked that Argentine pare...

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How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets

by Garth Stein

Published: 2014-03-18

Paperback: 384 pages

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Tenth Anniversary EditionFeaturing a conversation between Garth and his editor, Bryan Devendorf, drummer of The National. Fathers never forget seeing their kids for the first time. But Evan is greeting his son, Dean, fourteen years late. The boy had been shuttled secretly to another city...

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How Fargo of You

by Marc de Celle

Published: 2010-11-20

Paperback: 267 pages

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You re new to North Dakota and hire a carpenter you just met to install a doggie door. He does an exceptional job. What should you say when he insists It s a housewarming gift, and refuses to let you pay him?How Fargo of You.You're eating a great home style meal in a small North Dakota caf...