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Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

by Rick Hanson

Published: 2013-10-08

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences but slowly from the good ones. You can change this. Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden p...

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My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout

Published: 2016-01-12

Hardcover: 208 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. Lucy Bart...

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How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons

by Bob Mankoff

Published: 2014-03-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New YorkerPeople tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that...

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Walking Home: A Pilgrimage from Humbled to Healed

by Sonia Choquette

Published: 2015-09-29

Paperback: 384 pages

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Life was falling apart. Within the space of three years, Sonia Choquette had suffered the unexpected death of two close family members, seen her marriage implode, and been let down by trusted colleagues. And sympathy was not forthcoming. “You’re a world-renowned spiritual teacher and i...

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Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life

by Karen Maezen Miller

Published: 2010-04-13

Paperback: 181 pages

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It’s easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are ?out there,” somewhere outside of our daily routine. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a contemporary woman reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in...

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Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans

by Jean Pfælzer

Published: 2008-08-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Driven Out exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From 1848 into the twentieth century, Chinat...

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J: A Novel

by Howard Jacobson

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize“J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling...

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (20th Anniversary Edition)

by Sherman Alexie

Published: 2013-10-08

Paperback: 304 pages

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?Alexie’s prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts.”?The Boston Globe?Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven i...

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A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction

by Terry Pratchett

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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A collection of essays and other non fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from his early years to the present day.      Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series -- but in recent y...

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Wilt

by Tom Sharpe

Published: 2004

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Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife,...