Bernadette Dunne
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From the author of How to Say It, the million-copies-sold bestseller
If you want to improve your conversational skills-and achieve greater levels of personal and professional success-The Art of Talking to Anyone is the ultimate book. Rosalie Maggio has built a career on teaching people how to say the right thing at the right time-and she's made her techniques available to you.
This essential communication handbook includes:
Sample dialogues, topics,...
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This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction—now including the previously unpublished short story, “The Night King”—ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead. Arranged chronologically, from 1926 through 1940, these works allow readers to follow the extraordinary trajectory of Rand's literary and intellectual growth, from a twenty-one-year-old Russian immigrant...
43) The Winner's Way
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Create personal best performance at will-and revel in the achievement! If you have ever watched athletes performing at their best, you have witnessed the power of “the Zone”, that state where everything clicks and personal and team bests are the norm. In The Winner's Way, Dr. Pam Brill tells listeners how they, too, can achieve the Zone of top performance, turning goals, whether in the wide world of sports, work, or daily life-into positive, results-driving...
44) The Submission
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Claire Harwell hasn't settled into grief; events haven't let her. Cool, eloquent, raising two fatherless children, Claire has emerged as the most visible of the widows who became a potent political force in the aftermath of the catastrophe. She longs for her husband, but she has found her mission: she sits on a jury charged with selecting a fitting memorial for the victims of the attack. Of the thousands of anonymous submissions that she and her...
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In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, Rand demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let conventional ideas define her sense of the truth. Rand eloquently asserts that one cannot create art without infusing it with one's own value judgments and personal philosophy—even an attempt to withhold moral overtones only...
46) The Bathhouse
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In Iran, a seventeen-year-old girl is arrested because of her brother's politics and imprisoned in a former bathhouse with other women captives. With intense emotion and great literary skill, Moshiri gives voice to these prisoners, exploring their torment and struggle, their courage and humanity, in the face of tyrants.
47) Countdown
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Eve Duncan novels volume 6
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2006
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When it reaches zero, you die.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers’ pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out. . . .
“Don’t kill her. She’s...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers’ pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out. . . .
“Don’t kill her. She’s...
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Emily Herring Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Eleanor Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1938, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped Roosevelt build a cottage on Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. There, the three women-the 'three graces,' as FDR called them-were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family,...
49) Wolves and Honey
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Prompted by the emotional loss of two friends, one a trapper and one a beekeeper, the author explores the implications of their very different relationships to the natural world. The book is ultimately a touchstone and memoir of the land itself, in upstate New York.
50) Son
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Giver quartet volume 4
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Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
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Celebrate Wise Mature Women "Skip the midlife crisis and embrace the joys of aging with this "lighthearted manual on how to become a juicy and wise old woman". -Isabelle Allende, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
#1 Bestseller in Adulthood & Aging and Mysticism
Dr. Bolen is celebrated by some of the most acclaimed women of the twentieth century like Isabel Allende, Gloria Steinem, and Alice Walker. In her book, Crones Don't Whine, she...
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Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love, always elusive, is scorned as illusion. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in...