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"Star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac's parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father's approval by earning a spot on the school's basketball team. But will their friendship and support for each other be enough to keep the two boys from falling short"--
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The United States faces a serious retirement challenge. Many of today's workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and responsibility have shifted from government and employers to individuals. For this reason, Charles D. Ellis, Alicia H. Munnell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth have written this concise guide...
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Chasing Failure will help you remove every excuse for not pursuing the life you want to live, and that failure may just be the quickest way to success. We all have something we?d love to do, but often our fear of failure outweighs the potential of our destiny. But what if we found out that failure could actually help us succeed? In Chasing Failure, Ryan Leak shares the science behind why people are afraid to fail, mixing in real-life stories and adding...
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We keep an old shoebox, Gill and I, nestled in a drawer in our room. It's filled with thirty-three birthday cards for our two young sons: one for every year I'll miss until they're twenty-one. I wrote them because, since the end of 2017, I've been living with — and dying from — motor neurone disease. This book is about the process of saying goodbye. To my body, as I journey from unexpected clumsiness to a wheelchair that resembles a spacecraft,...
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Short Magic and Fantasy Tales to Help Your Children Relaxing & Falling Asleep Fast.
Does your kid always keep asking for one last bedtime story?
Is it hard for them to calm down or relax after a busy day?
Listening to children's bedtime stories is very important for their mental and emotional development. This offers a double benefit to both parents and children involved in this simple yet extremely rewarding act. Listening to bedtime stories helps...
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Short Meditation and Fantasy Tales to Help Your Children Relaxing and Falling Asleep Fast.
Are you looking for a fun way to help your child get to sleep?
Want to help them relax, de-stress, and experience the benefits of mindfulness?
Sleep is essential to your child's development. Adequate amounts of sleep lead to improved attention, behavior, learning, memory, quality of life, and mental health!
But the benefits go beyond sleep. Stories allow...
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A Collection of Fantasy Short Stories to Help Children Falling Asleep Fast and Dreaming Peacefully.
Do you want to know the perfect way to help your child develop healthy sleep habits?
Do you want to help your child while having fun snuggling together every single night?
A relaxing collection of bedtime stories can help you in a critical part in your child's improvement. Child clinicians point out the cognitive benefits for youths who are raised...
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A Collection of Meditation and Funny Short Stories to Help Children Relaxing and Falling Asleep Fast.
Are you looking for an excellent and magical compilation of short stories to help your little children enter the world of meditation and natural sleep?
Listening to bedtime stories with your kids not only helps them sleep better, but also has a long-lasting impact on developing their imagination, love for books, and a stronger bond with their family.
Bedtimes...
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"In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 85 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and lays out an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances - a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that...
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"Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade...
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"'I believe we can change the world. But first, we've got to stop living in fear of being judged for who we are.' Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: women not living into their full potential. They feel a tugging on their hearts for something more, but they're afraid of embarrassment, of falling short of perfection, of not being enough. In [this book], bestselling author and founder of a multimillion-dollar media company Rachel Hollis sounds a wake-up...
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A refreshing and thought-provoking look at athletes whose legacies have been reduced to one defining moment of defeat--those on the flip side of an epic triumph--and what their experiences can teach us about competition, life, and the human spirit. Every sports fan recalls with amazing accuracy a pivotal winning moment involving a favorite team or player--Henry Aaron hitting his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth; Christian Laettner's famous buzzer...
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"A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government"--
"Brennan pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the Central Intelligence Agency, describing the selfless, patriotic, and invisible work of the women and men involved in national security. He also examines the insularity, arrogance, and myopia that have, at times, undermined its reputation in the eyes of the American...
14) All Girls
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"A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel for fans of Sally Rooney, Curtis Sittenfeld, and J. Courtney Sullivan, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England prep school, as nine young women navigate their ambitions, friendships, and fears against the backdrop of a scandal the administration wants silenced. But as the months unfold, and the school's efforts to control the ensuing crisis fall short, these extraordinary girls are forced to...
15) Loved and missed
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"When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can willpower and a daring creative zeal carry you through? Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvellously absorbing novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs"--
16) Mounting fears
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President Will Lee is having a rough week. There are some loose nukes in Pakistan--and a rogue CIA agent--that might just trigger World War III if Lee's diplomatic efforts fall short. It's up to Holly Barker, Lance Cabot, and a few other Stuart Woods series regulars to save the world--and the upcoming election.
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The book gives parents practical tools to help children of all ages go from behaviors like defiance, meltdowns, and power struggles to being responsible, confident, kind, resilient, prepared to make good decisions, focused and motivated, and equipped to develop healthy relationships.
18) Boys I know
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"June Chu is the 'just good enough' girl. Good enough to line the shelves with a slew of third-place trophies and steal secret kisses from her AP Bio partner, Rhys. But not good enough to meet literally any of her Taiwanese mother's unrelenting expectations or to get Rhys to commit to anything beyond a well-timed joke. While June's mother insists she follow in her (perfect) sister's footsteps and get a (full-ride) violin scholarship to Northwestern...
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Hailed by PMA, the Independent Book Publisher's Association, as a "business breakthrough" and "one of the thirty best business books of the year" by Soundview, the first edition of Working Relationships set the standard for managing conflict and developing teamwork while learning to get along with friends and foes at work.
Now author Bob Wall is back with the latest research and field-tested knowledge about the critical role emotional intelligence...
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"In 1950, Ingrid Bergman already a major star after movies like Casablanca and Joan of Arc has a baby out of wedlock with her Italian lover, film director Roberto Rossellini. Previously held up as an icon of purity, Bergman's fall shocked her legions of American fans. Growing up in Hollywood, Jessica Malloy watches as her PR executive father helps make Ingrid a star at Selznick Studio. Over years of fleeting interactions with the actress, Jesse comes...
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