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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

Published: 2010-11-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought you Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations provides a step-b...

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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (Vintage)

by Neal Gabler

Published: 2007-10-09

Paperback: 0 pages

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The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with hi...

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Borinquen: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature (Marc Corporation Book)

by Stan Steiner

Published: 1974-12

Paperback: 515 pages

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The Ascendant: A Thriller

by Drew Chapman

Published: 2014-01-07

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Hidden deep within the figures tracking the ups and downs of the stock market lies a terrifying truth: America is under attack. Our government . . . our economy . . . our very way of life are in the crosshairs of a ruthless enemy . . . and no one knows. Except Garrett Reilly. He has a knac...

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One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

by B. J. Novak

Published: 2014-02-04

Hardcover: 288 pages

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B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover that c...

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Flyover Lives: A Memoir

by Diane Johnson

Published: 2014-01-16

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the ?wispy but material” family ghosts who shape us Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi and off to s...

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The Wives of Los Alamos: A Novel

by TaraShea Nesbit

Published: 2014-02-25

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (2014) in Fiction (historical fiction) and Best Book/New Mexico categoriesThey arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where ev...

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The Son

by Philipp Meyer

Published: 2014-01-28

Paperback: 592 pages

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Soon to be a TV Series on AMC starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer.Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood, and power that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s t...

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Lean on Pete: A Novel

by Willy Vlautin

Published: 2010-04-13

Paperback: 304 pages

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"[Vlautin] unearths a world Steinbeck would have recognised...where the American underclass still resides. Lean On Pete is an archetypal American novel, Huck Finn for the crystal-meth generation." —Independent ExtraAuthor Willy Vlautin—“a major realist talent”(Seattle Post Intellig...

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One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix, a Novel

by Jane Kirkpatrick

Published: 2013-04-02

Paperback: 400 pages

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One dedicated woman...giving voice to the suffering of many  Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father, Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers, Charles and Joseph. But at just fourteen, she is separated from them and sent to live with relatives to...