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Self Help

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To-Do List Signed Edition
To-Do List Signed Edition
by Sasha Cagen

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What Do Your Lists Say About You? More and more, we are a nation of list-makers, from grocery lists, New Year's resolutions, and things to do before we die to DVDs to rent and people we've kissed. In To-Do List (based on the popular blog of the same name, todolistblog.com) Sasha Cagen celebrates the humble to-do list, exploring the ways these scribbled agendas reflect our personalities and passions. To-Do List is both a celebration of lists and a peek at the lists that others create. Broken down by subjects like "Daily Lists" to "Sex Lists," it's a fascinating collection of lists from everyday people to the well-known...(read more)
 
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God Is No Laughing Matter God Is No Laughing Matter
by Julia Cameron
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In God Is No Laughing Matter, bestselling author Julia Cameron takes a witty, powerfully honest, and irreverent look at the culture of "spirituality" today and offers insight to enable readers to determine their personal spiritual path. The important... (read more)
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Used Books

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah Book Club #61) A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah Book Club #61)
by Eckhart Tolle
Publisher Comments
The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now. With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived... (read more)
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Family Issues

The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
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This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her... (read more)
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Relationships

He's Just Not That Into You: the No-excuses Truth To Understanding Guys
He's Just Not That Into You: the No-excuses Truth To Understanding Guys
by Greg Behrendt

Powells.com Staff Pick
It is sad but true, we women do tend to sometimes overcompensate when it comes to relationships, at times making excuses for men who really aren't worth our time and effort. Like a big brother or excellent platonic friend, Greg Behrendt opens our eyes to some of the truths behind the mixed messages that many women hope means anything but the fact that "he's just not that into you." A liberating, witty, and fun book that will help in clearing a path to the men who really do deserve our gorgeous selves! Cassie, Powells.com...(read more)
 
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch
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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." — Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while... (read more)
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Relationships

How To Win Friends and Influence People ((Rev)81 Edition)
by Dale Carnegie
Publisher Comments
YOU CAN GO AFTER THE JOB YOU WANT...AND GET IT! YOU CAN TAKE THE JOB YOU HAVE...AND IMPROVE IT! YOU CAN TAKE ANY SITUATION YOU'RE IN...AND MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU! For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried... (read more)
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Spiritual

Four Agreements : a Practical Guide To Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) (97 Edition)
by Don Miguel Ruiz
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Rooted in traditional Toltec wisdom beliefs, four agreements in life are essential steps on the path to personal freedom. As beliefs are transformed through maintaining these agreements, shamanic teacher and healer don Miguel Ruiz asserts lives will... (read more)
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Female Specific

Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
by Jen Lancaster
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Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life — until real life kicked her to the curb. She had the perfect man, the perfect job — hell, she had the perfect life — and there was no reason to think it wouldn't last. Or maybe there was, but... (read more)
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Grief

The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International)
by Joan Didion
Powells.com Staff Pick
Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and... (read more)
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Creativity

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
by David Lynch
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In this rare work of public disclosure, filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Over the last four decades, David... (read more)
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Depression

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
by David Burns
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The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically... (read more)
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Bestsellers

Wednesday November 19, 2008
The Glass Castle
  1. The Glass Castle
    by Jeannette Walls
  2. The Last Lecture
    by Randy Pausch
  3. How to Win Friends and Influence People
    by Dale Carnegie
  4. A New Earth
    by Eckhart Tolle
  5. The Power of Now
    by Eckhart Tolle
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