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<title><![CDATA[The Little Prince]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781607963028</link>
<description><![CDATA[An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Little Prince]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antoine De Saint-Exupery]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[WWW.Bnpublishing.com]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781607963028]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[It's Kind of a Funny Story]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780786851973</link>
<description><![CDATA[Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan’s Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does.  That’s when things start to get crazy.At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he’s just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away. The stress becomes unbearable and Craig stops eating and sleeping—until, one night, he nearly kills himself. Craig’s suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio.  There, isolated from the crushing pressures of school and friends, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness. For a novel about depression, it’s definitely a funny story.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[It's Kind of a Funny Story]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ned Vizzini]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Disney-Hyperion]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780786851973]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan’s Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does.  That’s when things start to get crazy.At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he’s just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away. The stress becomes unbearable and Craig stops eating and sleeping—until, one night, he nearly kills himself. Craig’s suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio.  There, isolated from the crushing pressures of school and friends, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness. For a novel about depression, it’s definitely a funny story.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Everything That Rises Must Converge]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374504649</link>
<description><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Everything That Rises Must Converge]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor; Robert Fitzgerald]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780374504649]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1965-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Great Divorce]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060652951</link>
<description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis takes us on a profound journey through both heaven and hell in this engaging allegorical tale. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis introduces us to supernatural beings who will change the way we think about good and evil.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Great Divorce]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[HarperOne]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060652951]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis takes us on a profound journey through both heaven and hell in this engaging allegorical tale. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis introduces us to supernatural beings who will change the way we think about good and evil.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Sun Also Rises]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780743297332</link>
<description><![CDATA[The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Sun Also Rises]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Scribner]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780743297332]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-10-17T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Reader's Companion to F. Scott Fitgerald's Tender Is the Night]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781570032233</link>
<description><![CDATA[Solves the mysteries surrounding this masterpiece.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Reader's Companion to F. Scott Fitgerald's Tender Is the Night]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew J. Bruccoli; Judith S. Baughman]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[University of South Carolina Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781570032233]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Solves the mysteries surrounding this masterpiece.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1997-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Big Girl Small]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374112578</link>
<description><![CDATA[Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old—sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town?The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the whole school could have something to do with it. And that scandal has something—but not everything—to do with the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall.Rachel DeWoskin remembers everything about high school: the auditions (painful), the parents (hovering), the dissection projects (compelling), the friends (outcasts), the boys (crushable), and the girls (complicated), and she lays it all out with a wit and wistfulness that is half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, Prep’s ironic heroine. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Big Girl Small]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel DeWoskin]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780374112578]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old—sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town?The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the whole school could have something to do with it. And that scandal has something—but not everything—to do with the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall.Rachel DeWoskin remembers everything about high school: the auditions (painful), the parents (hovering), the dissection projects (compelling), the friends (outcasts), the boys (crushable), and the girls (complicated), and she lays it all out with a wit and wistfulness that is half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, Prep’s ironic heroine. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-05-10T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Happiness Project]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061583254</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to; instead she focused on improving her life as it was. Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her?and what didn't. Her conclusions are sometimes surprising?she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely; that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that "treating" yourself can make you feel worse; that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them; that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference?and they range from the practical to the profound. Written with charm and wit, The Happiness Project is illuminating yet entertaining, thought-provoking yet compulsively readable. Gretchen Rubin's passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire you to start your own happiness project. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Happiness Project]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gretchen Rubin]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061583254]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to; instead she focused on improving her life as it was. Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her?and what didn't. Her conclusions are sometimes surprising?she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely; that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that "treating" yourself can make you feel worse; that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them; that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference?and they range from the practical to the profound. Written with charm and wit, The Happiness Project is illuminating yet entertaining, thought-provoking yet compulsively readable. Gretchen Rubin's passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire you to start your own happiness project. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Rapt]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594202100</link>
<description><![CDATA[Winifred Gallagher revolutionizes our understanding of attention and the creation of the interested life In Rapt, acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the radical argument that the quality of your life largely depends on what you choose to pay attention to and how you choose to do it. Gallagher grapples with provocative questions--Can we train our focus? What's different about the way creative people pay attention? Why do we often zero in on the wrong factors when making big decisions, like where to move?--driving us to reconsider what we think we know about attention. Gallagher looks beyond sound bites on our proliferating BlackBerries and the increased incidence of ADD in children to the discoveries of neuroscience and psychology and the wisdom of home truths, profoundly altering and expanding the contemporary conversation on attention and its power. Science's major contribution to the study of attention has been the discovery that its basic mechanism is an either/or process of selection. That we focus may be a biological necessity-- research now proves we can process only a little information at a time, or about 173 billion bits over an average life--but the good news is that we have much more control over our focus than we think, which gives us a remarkable yet underappreciated capacity to influence our experience. As suggested by the expression "pay attention," this cognitive currency is a finite resource that we must learn to spend wisely. In Rapt, Gallagher introduces us to a diverse cast of characters--artists and ranchers, birders and scientists--who have learned to do just that and whose stories are profound lessons in the art of living the interested life. No matter what your quotient of wealth, looks, brains, or fame, increasing your satisfaction means focusing more on what really interests you and less on what doesn't. In asserting its groundbreaking thesis--the wise investment of your attention is the single most important thing you can do to improve your well-being--Rapt yields fresh insights into the nature of reality and what it means to be fully alive.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Rapt]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Winifred Gallagher]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Press HC, The]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781594202100]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Winifred Gallagher revolutionizes our understanding of attention and the creation of the interested life In Rapt, acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the radical argument that the quality of your life largely depends on what you choose to pay attention to and how you choose to do it. Gallagher grapples with provocative questions--Can we train our focus? What's different about the way creative people pay attention? Why do we often zero in on the wrong factors when making big decisions, like where to move?--driving us to reconsider what we think we know about attention. Gallagher looks beyond sound bites on our proliferating BlackBerries and the increased incidence of ADD in children to the discoveries of neuroscience and psychology and the wisdom of home truths, profoundly altering and expanding the contemporary conversation on attention and its power. Science's major contribution to the study of attention has been the discovery that its basic mechanism is an either/or process of selection. That we focus may be a biological necessity-- research now proves we can process only a little information at a time, or about 173 billion bits over an average life--but the good news is that we have much more control over our focus than we think, which gives us a remarkable yet underappreciated capacity to influence our experience. As suggested by the expression "pay attention," this cognitive currency is a finite resource that we must learn to spend wisely. In Rapt, Gallagher introduces us to a diverse cast of characters--artists and ranchers, birders and scientists--who have learned to do just that and whose stories are profound lessons in the art of living the interested life. No matter what your quotient of wealth, looks, brains, or fame, increasing your satisfaction means focusing more on what really interests you and less on what doesn't. In asserting its groundbreaking thesis--the wise investment of your attention is the single most important thing you can do to improve your well-being--Rapt yields fresh insights into the nature of reality and what it means to be fully alive.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-04-16T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Snoop]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780465027811</link>
<description><![CDATA[Does what’s on your desk reveal what’s on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected-and unplanned-ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others, and interpret the world around us. Gosling, one of the field’s most innovative researchers, dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around dorm rooms and offices, to see what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff. What he has discovered is astonishing: when it comes to the most essential components of our personalities-from friendliness to flexibility-the things we own and the way we arrange them often say more about us than even our most intimate conversations. If you know what to look for, you can figure out how reliable a new boyfriend is by peeking into his medicine cabinet or whether an employee is committed to her job by analyzing her cubicle. Bottom line: The insights we gain can boost our understanding of ourselves and sharpen our perceptions of others. Packed with original research and fascinating stories, Snoop is a captivating guidebook to our not-so-secret lives.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Snoop]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Gosling]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Basic Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780465027811]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Does what’s on your desk reveal what’s on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected-and unplanned-ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others, and interpret the world around us. Gosling, one of the field’s most innovative researchers, dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around dorm rooms and offices, to see what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff. What he has discovered is astonishing: when it comes to the most essential components of our personalities-from friendliness to flexibility-the things we own and the way we arrange them often say more about us than even our most intimate conversations. If you know what to look for, you can figure out how reliable a new boyfriend is by peeking into his medicine cabinet or whether an employee is committed to her job by analyzing her cubicle. Bottom line: The insights we gain can boost our understanding of ourselves and sharpen our perceptions of others. Packed with original research and fascinating stories, Snoop is a captivating guidebook to our not-so-secret lives.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[You Say More Than You Think]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307453983</link>
<description><![CDATA[Now You’re Talking!Do you want to be bulletproof at work, secure in your relationship, and content in your own skin? If so, it’s more important than ever to be aware of what your body is saying to the outside world. Unfortunately, most of what you’ve heard from other body language experts is wrong, and, as a result, your actions may be hurting, not helping, you.  With sass and a keen eye, media favorite Janine Driver teaches you the skills she used every day to stay alive during her fifteen years as a body-language expert at the ATF. Janine’s 7-day plan and her 7-second solutions teach you dozens of body language fixes to turn any interpersonal situation to your advantage. She reveals methods here that other experts refuse to share with the public, and she debunks major myths other experts swear are fact: Giving more eye contact is key when you’re trying to impress someone. Not necessarily true. It’s actually more important where you point your belly button. This small body shift communicates true interest more powerfully than constant eye contact.The “steeple” hand gesture will give you the upper hand during negotiations and business meetings. Wrong. Driver has seen this overbearing gesture backfire more often than not. Instead, she suggests two new steeples that give you power without making you seem overly aggressive: the Basketball Steeple and the A-OK Two-Fingered Steeple. Happy people command power and attention by smiling just before they meet new people. Studies have shown that people who do this are viewed as Beta Leaders. Alpha leaders smile once they shake your hand and hear your name.  At a time when every advantage counts—and first impressions matter more than ever—this is the book to help you really get your message across.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[You Say More Than You Think]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janine Driver; Mariska Van Aalst]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Three Rivers Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307453983]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Now You’re Talking!Do you want to be bulletproof at work, secure in your relationship, and content in your own skin? If so, it’s more important than ever to be aware of what your body is saying to the outside world. Unfortunately, most of what you’ve heard from other body language experts is wrong, and, as a result, your actions may be hurting, not helping, you.  With sass and a keen eye, media favorite Janine Driver teaches you the skills she used every day to stay alive during her fifteen years as a body-language expert at the ATF. Janine’s 7-day plan and her 7-second solutions teach you dozens of body language fixes to turn any interpersonal situation to your advantage. She reveals methods here that other experts refuse to share with the public, and she debunks major myths other experts swear are fact: Giving more eye contact is key when you’re trying to impress someone. Not necessarily true. It’s actually more important where you point your belly button. This small body shift communicates true interest more powerfully than constant eye contact.The “steeple” hand gesture will give you the upper hand during negotiations and business meetings. Wrong. Driver has seen this overbearing gesture backfire more often than not. Instead, she suggests two new steeples that give you power without making you seem overly aggressive: the Basketball Steeple and the A-OK Two-Fingered Steeple. Happy people command power and attention by smiling just before they meet new people. Studies have shown that people who do this are viewed as Beta Leaders. Alpha leaders smile once they shake your hand and hear your name.  At a time when every advantage counts—and first impressions matter more than ever—this is the book to help you really get your message across.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-01-04T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Help]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399155345</link>
<description><![CDATA[    Visit  www.penguin.com for the latest   news, tour   information and more.   Listen to an excerpt from the  audiobook.      Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home   after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy   till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the   woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has   gone.   Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has   shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to   the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.   Minny, Aibileen’s best   friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she   can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to   town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.   Seemingly as different from one   another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at   risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes   lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary   women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—  mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and   hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we   don’t.    Watch the trailer for this book:]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Help]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Stockett]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780399155345]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[    Visit  www.penguin.com for the latest   news, tour   information and more.   Listen to an excerpt from the  audiobook.      Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home   after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy   till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the   woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has   gone.   Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has   shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to   the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.   Minny, Aibileen’s best   friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she   can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to   town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.   Seemingly as different from one   another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at   risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes   lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary   women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—  mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and   hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we   don’t.    Watch the trailer for this book:]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-02-10T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Water for Elephants]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781565124998</link>
<description><![CDATA[Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell.  Jacob was there because his luck had run out-orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn't have an act-in fact, she couldn't even follow instructions. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.  Surprising, poignant, and funny, "Water for Elephants" is that rare novel with a story so engrossing, one is reluctant to put it down; with characters so engaging, they continue to live long after the last page has been turned; with a world built of wonder, a world so real, one starts to breathe its air.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Water for Elephants]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Gruen]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781565124998]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell.  Jacob was there because his luck had run out-orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn't have an act-in fact, she couldn't even follow instructions. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.  Surprising, poignant, and funny, "Water for Elephants" is that rare novel with a story so engrossing, one is reluctant to put it down; with characters so engaging, they continue to live long after the last page has been turned; with a world built of wonder, a world so real, one starts to breathe its air.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Four Loves]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156329309</link>
<description><![CDATA[A candid, wise, and warmly personal book in which Lewis explores the possibilities and problems of the four basic kinds of human love- affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. “Immensely worthwhile for its simplicity...a rare and memorable book” (Sydney J. Harris).]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Four Loves]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Mariner Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780156329309]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A candid, wise, and warmly personal book in which Lewis explores the possibilities and problems of the four basic kinds of human love- affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. “Immensely worthwhile for its simplicity...a rare and memorable book” (Sydney J. Harris).]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1971-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Mere Christianity]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060652920</link>
<description><![CDATA[A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis's books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Mere Christianity]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[HarperOne]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060652920]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis's books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Screwtape Letters]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060652937</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Screwtape Letters]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[HarperOne]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060652937]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Philosophy Book]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780756668617</link>
<description><![CDATA[Using innovative graphics and creative typography to help demystify hard-to-grasp concepts for those new to philosophy, The Philosophy Book cuts through the haze of misunderstanding, untangles knotty theories, and sheds light on abstract concepts.  Aimed at anyone with a general interest in how our social, political, and ethical ideas are formed, as well as students of philosophy and politics, The Philosophy Book breathes new life to a subject that is often regarded as esoteric and academic.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Philosophy Book]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[DK Publishing]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[DK ADULT]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780756668617]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Using innovative graphics and creative typography to help demystify hard-to-grasp concepts for those new to philosophy, The Philosophy Book cuts through the haze of misunderstanding, untangles knotty theories, and sheds light on abstract concepts.  Aimed at anyone with a general interest in how our social, political, and ethical ideas are formed, as well as students of philosophy and politics, The Philosophy Book breathes new life to a subject that is often regarded as esoteric and academic.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-01-17T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Blue Like Jazz]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780785263708</link>
<description><![CDATA[Miller's fresh and original voice may change the way Christians view the status quo of faith and build a bridge to seekers who believe that organized religion doesn't meet their needs.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Blue Like Jazz]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald Miller]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Nelson Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780785263708]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Miller's fresh and original voice may change the way Christians view the status quo of faith and build a bridge to seekers who believe that organized religion doesn't meet their needs.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2003-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Dog Sense]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780465019441</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dogs have been mankind's faithful companions for tens of thousands of years, yet today they are regularly treated as either pack-following wolves or furry humans. The truth is, dogs are neither--and our misunderstanding has put them in serious crisis. What dogs really need is a spokesperson, someone who will assert their specific needs. Renowned anthrozoologist Dr. John Bradshaw has made a career of studying human-animal interactions, and in Dog Sense he uses the latest scientific research to show how humans can live in harmony with--not just dominion over-- their four-legged friends. From explaining why positive reinforcement is a more effective (and less damaging) way to control dogs' behavior than punishment to demonstrating the importance of weighing a dog's unique personality against stereotypes about its breed, Bradshaw offers extraordinary insight into the question of how we really ought to treat our dogs.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Dog Sense]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Bradshaw]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Basic Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780465019441]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Dogs have been mankind's faithful companions for tens of thousands of years, yet today they are regularly treated as either pack-following wolves or furry humans. The truth is, dogs are neither--and our misunderstanding has put them in serious crisis. What dogs really need is a spokesperson, someone who will assert their specific needs. Renowned anthrozoologist Dr. John Bradshaw has made a career of studying human-animal interactions, and in Dog Sense he uses the latest scientific research to show how humans can live in harmony with--not just dominion over-- their four-legged friends. From explaining why positive reinforcement is a more effective (and less damaging) way to control dogs' behavior than punishment to demonstrating the importance of weighing a dog's unique personality against stereotypes about its breed, Bradshaw offers extraordinary insight into the question of how we really ought to treat our dogs.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Damned]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385533027</link>
<description><![CDATA[“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari­juana overdose—and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone’s favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won’t buy them off. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where The English Patient plays on end­less repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Damned]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chuck Palahniuk]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Doubleday]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385533027]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari­juana overdose—and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone’s favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won’t buy them off. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where The English Patient plays on end­less repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-10-18T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Marriage Plot]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374203054</link>
<description><![CDATA[A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 titleOne of The Telegraph’s Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It’s the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.As Madeleine tries to understand why “it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France,” real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead—charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy—suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old “friend” Mitchell Grammaticus—who’s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange—resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate.Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology Laboratory on Cape Cod, but can’t escape the secret responsible for Leonard’s seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love.Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Marriage Plot]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeffrey Eugenides]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780374203054]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 titleOne of The Telegraph’s Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It’s the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.As Madeleine tries to understand why “it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France,” real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead—charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy—suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old “friend” Mitchell Grammaticus—who’s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange—resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate.Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology Laboratory on Cape Cod, but can’t escape the secret responsible for Leonard’s seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love.Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-10-11T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Living a Charmed Life]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061649905</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Achieve Happiness at Any Age, In Any Circumstance   Bestselling author Victoria Moran presents fifty action-inspiring essays that show us how to custom craft our very own blessed lives. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Living a Charmed Life]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Moran]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[HarperOne]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061649905]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ Achieve Happiness at Any Age, In Any Circumstance   Bestselling author Victoria Moran presents fifty action-inspiring essays that show us how to custom craft our very own blessed lives. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Book of Lost Things]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781442429345</link>
<description><![CDATA[It’s a few days before Halloween, and Samuel Johnson and his dachsund Boswell witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don’t mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. A gap that holds a pair of enormous gates—the gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out….Can one small boy defeat evil—and harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it? In his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book.... The Book of Lost Things. The Gates]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Book of Lost Things]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Connolly]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781442429345]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[It’s a few days before Halloween, and Samuel Johnson and his dachsund Boswell witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don’t mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. A gap that holds a pair of enormous gates—the gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out….Can one small boy defeat evil—and harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it? In his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book.... The Book of Lost Things. The Gates]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-08-30T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Till We Have Faces]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156904360</link>
<description><![CDATA[This tale of two princesses - one beautiful and one unattractive - and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is Lewis’s reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one of his most enduring works.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Till We Have Faces]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Mariner Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780156904360]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This tale of two princesses - one beautiful and one unattractive - and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is Lewis’s reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one of his most enduring works.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1980-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[29 Gifts]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780738213569</link>
<description><![CDATA[At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by a battle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological condition that made it difficult for her to walk, work, or enjoy her life. Seeking a remedy for her depression after being hospitalized, she received an uncommon prescription from an African medicine woman:Give to others for 29 days.29 Giftsis the insightful story of the author’s life change as she embraces and reflects on the naturally reciprocal process of giving and receiving. Many of Walker’s gifts were simple ?a phone call, spare change, a Kleenex. Yet the acts were transformative. By Day 29, not only had Walker’s health and happiness improved, but she had created a worldwide giving movement.The book also includes personal essays from others whose lives changed for the better by giving, plus pages for the reader to record their own journey. More than a memoir,29 Giftsoffers inspiring lessons on how a simple daily practice of altruism can dramatically alter your outlook on the world.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[29 Gifts]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cami Walker]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Da Capo Lifelong Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780738213569]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by a battle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological condition that made it difficult for her to walk, work, or enjoy her life. Seeking a remedy for her depression after being hospitalized, she received an uncommon prescription from an African medicine woman:Give to others for 29 days.29 Giftsis the insightful story of the author’s life change as she embraces and reflects on the naturally reciprocal process of giving and receiving. Many of Walker’s gifts were simple ?a phone call, spare change, a Kleenex. Yet the acts were transformative. By Day 29, not only had Walker’s health and happiness improved, but she had created a worldwide giving movement.The book also includes personal essays from others whose lives changed for the better by giving, plus pages for the reader to record their own journey. More than a memoir,29 Giftsoffers inspiring lessons on how a simple daily practice of altruism can dramatically alter your outlook on the world.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Anam Cara]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060929435</link>
<description><![CDATA[Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging  John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the universal themes of friendship, solitude, love, and death as: Light is generous  The human heart is never completely born Love as ancient recognitionThe body is the angel of the soul Solitude is luminous  Beauty likes neglected places  The passionate heart never ages  To benatural is to be holy Silence is the sister of the divine Death as an invitation to freedom]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Anam Cara]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John O'donohue]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper Perennial]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060929435]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging  John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the universal themes of friendship, solitude, love, and death as: Light is generous  The human heart is never completely born Love as ancient recognitionThe body is the angel of the soul Solitude is luminous  Beauty likes neglected places  The passionate heart never ages  To benatural is to be holy Silence is the sister of the divine Death as an invitation to freedom]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-11-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[My Year with Eleanor]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061875038</link>
<description><![CDATA[ After losing her high-octane job as an entertainment blogger, Noelle Hancock was lost. About to turn twenty-nine, she'd spent her career writing about celebrities' lives and had forgotten how to live her own. Unemployed and full of self-doubt, she had no idea what she wanted out of life. She feared change?in fact, she feared almost everything. Once confident and ambitious, she had become crippled by anxiety, lacking the courage required even to attend a dinner party?until inspiration struck one day in the form of a quote on a chalkboard in a coffee shop:   "Do one thing every day that scares you." ?Eleanor Roosevelt   Painfully timid as a child, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated herself to facing her fears, a commitment that shaped the rest of her life. With Eleanor as her guide, Noelle spends the months leading up to her thirtieth birthday pursuing a "Year of Fear." From shark diving to fighter pilot lessons, from tap dancing and stand-up comedy to confronting old boyfriends, her hilarious and harrowing adventures teach her about who she is, and what she can become?lessons she makes vital for all of us. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[My Year with Eleanor]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Noelle Hancock]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Ecco]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061875038]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ After losing her high-octane job as an entertainment blogger, Noelle Hancock was lost. About to turn twenty-nine, she'd spent her career writing about celebrities' lives and had forgotten how to live her own. Unemployed and full of self-doubt, she had no idea what she wanted out of life. She feared change?in fact, she feared almost everything. Once confident and ambitious, she had become crippled by anxiety, lacking the courage required even to attend a dinner party?until inspiration struck one day in the form of a quote on a chalkboard in a coffee shop:   "Do one thing every day that scares you." ?Eleanor Roosevelt   Painfully timid as a child, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated herself to facing her fears, a commitment that shaped the rest of her life. With Eleanor as her guide, Noelle spends the months leading up to her thirtieth birthday pursuing a "Year of Fear." From shark diving to fighter pilot lessons, from tap dancing and stand-up comedy to confronting old boyfriends, her hilarious and harrowing adventures teach her about who she is, and what she can become?lessons she makes vital for all of us. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780446584708</link>
<description><![CDATA["My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate."--Chelsea Handler, from Chapter 10 of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang It's no lie: Chelsea Handler loves to smoke out "dumbassness," the condition people suffer from that allows them to fall prey to her brand of complete and utter nonsense. Friends, family, co-workers--they've all been tricked by Chelsea into believing stories of total foolishness and into behaving like total fools. Luckily, they've lived to tell the tales and, for the very first time, write about them.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chelsea Handler]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grand Central Publishing]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780446584708]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate."--Chelsea Handler, from Chapter 10 of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang It's no lie: Chelsea Handler loves to smoke out "dumbassness," the condition people suffer from that allows them to fall prey to her brand of complete and utter nonsense. Friends, family, co-workers--they've all been tricked by Chelsea into believing stories of total foolishness and into behaving like total fools. Luckily, they've lived to tell the tales and, for the very first time, write about them.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-04-03T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Afterwards]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781434644763</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Afterwards]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathlyn Rhodes]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[BiblioLife]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781434644763]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback, Large Print]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Women Food and God]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781416543084</link>
<description><![CDATA[No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. After three decades of studying, teaching and writing about our compulsions with food, bestselling author Geneen Roth adds a powerful new dimension to her work in Women Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God. A timeless and seminal work, Women Food and God shows how going beyond the food and the feelings takes you deeper into realms of spirit and soul—to the bright center of your own life.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Women Food and God]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geneen Roth]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Scribner]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781416543084]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. After three decades of studying, teaching and writing about our compulsions with food, bestselling author Geneen Roth adds a powerful new dimension to her work in Women Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God. A timeless and seminal work, Women Food and God shows how going beyond the food and the feelings takes you deeper into realms of spirit and soul—to the bright center of your own life.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-02-08T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780449910580</link>
<description><![CDATA["Will empower all women to stop believing that our bodies are the problems, dieting the solution."--Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. Author of The Dance of AngerIn this revolutionary new book, bestselling authors Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann explore the myriad reasons why women cling to diets despite overwhelming evidence that diets don't work. In fact, diets turn us into compulsive eaters who are obsessed with food and weight.Munter and Hirschmann call this syndrome "Bad Body Fever" and demonstrate how "bad body thoughts" are clues to our emotional lives. They explore the difficulties women encounter replacing dieting with demand feeding. And finally, they teach us how to think about our problems rather than eat about them--so that food can resume its proper place in our lives."Many women will find in these pages exactly what they need: determined, optimistic, and resourceful coaches, pausing at the right moments to acknowledge the difficulty of change, then passionately urging them to press on."--Susan C. Wooley, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Codirector, Eating Disorders Center University of Cincinnati Medical Center]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane R. Hirschmann]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Ballantine Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780449910580]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Will empower all women to stop believing that our bodies are the problems, dieting the solution."--Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. Author of The Dance of AngerIn this revolutionary new book, bestselling authors Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann explore the myriad reasons why women cling to diets despite overwhelming evidence that diets don't work. In fact, diets turn us into compulsive eaters who are obsessed with food and weight.Munter and Hirschmann call this syndrome "Bad Body Fever" and demonstrate how "bad body thoughts" are clues to our emotional lives. They explore the difficulties women encounter replacing dieting with demand feeding. And finally, they teach us how to think about our problems rather than eat about them--so that food can resume its proper place in our lives."Many women will find in these pages exactly what they need: determined, optimistic, and resourceful coaches, pausing at the right moments to acknowledge the difficulty of change, then passionately urging them to press on."--Susan C. Wooley, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Codirector, Eating Disorders Center University of Cincinnati Medical Center]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1996-12-30T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Skinny Bitch]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780762424931</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, "Soda is liquid Satan" and "You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin," it's a rallying cry for all savvy women to start eating healthy and looking radiant. Unlike standard diet books, it actually makes the reader laugh out loud with its truthful, smart-mouthed revelations. Behind all the attitude, however, there's solid guidance. Skinny Bitch espouses a healthful lifestyle that promotes whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, and encourages women to get excited about feeling "clean and pure and energized."]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Skinny Bitch]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Barnouin; Rory Freedman]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Running Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780762424931]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, "Soda is liquid Satan" and "You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin," it's a rallying cry for all savvy women to start eating healthy and looking radiant. Unlike standard diet books, it actually makes the reader laugh out loud with its truthful, smart-mouthed revelations. Behind all the attitude, however, there's solid guidance. Skinny Bitch espouses a healthful lifestyle that promotes whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, and encourages women to get excited about feeling "clean and pure and energized."]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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