The Hardest Thing in This World


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Sexy, smart-mouthed Melody Sawyer is an underachiever, a home health care nurse with good intentions and a chip on her shoulder. Her troubled daughter Renee recently dropped dead at 24, but Renee's ghost keeps popping in on the family. And her married daughter, Kayla, has been deep in a clandestine affair with pro baseball player Baron Lee Presley since she was 16. Revolving around family and the issues that come with living in a family with mental illness, the story follows the Sawyer women through birth, coming of age, and dealing with the death--and ghosts--of loved ones.--Publisher.







The Handiest Things in the World


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Celebrates in verse, accompanied by photographs, the many things hands can do.




The Hardest Job in the World


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and current state of the American presidency, and how we can make the job less impossible and more productive—featuring a new post-2020–election epilogue “This is a great gift to our sense of the actual presidency, a primer on leadership.”—Ken Burns Imagine you have just been elected president. You are now commander-in-chief, chief executive, chief diplomat, chief legislator, chief of party, chief voice of the people, first responder, chief priest, and world leader. You’re expected to fulfill your campaign promises, but you’re also expected to solve the urgent crises of the day. What’s on your to-do list? Where would you even start? What shocks aren’t you thinking about? The American presidency is in trouble. It has become overburdened, misunderstood, almost impossible to do. “The problems in the job unfolded before Donald Trump was elected, and the challenges of governing today will confront his successors,” writes John Dickerson. After all, the founders never intended for our system of checks and balances to have one superior Chief Magistrate, with Congress demoted to “the little brother who can’t keep up.” In this eye-opening book, John Dickerson writes about presidents in history such a Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and Eisenhower, and and in contemporary times, from LBJ and Reagan and Bush, Obama, and Trump, to show how a complex job has been done, and why we need to reevaluate how we view the presidency, how we choose our presidents, and what we expect from them once they are in office. Think of the presidential campaign as a job interview. Are we asking the right questions? Are we looking for good campaigners, or good presidents? Once a candidate gets the job, what can they do to thrive? Drawing on research and interviews with current and former White House staffers, Dickerson defines what the job of president actually entails, identifies the things that only the president can do, and analyzes how presidents in history have managed the burden. What qualities make for a good president? Who did it well? Why did Bill Clinton call the White House “the crown jewel in the American penal system”? The presidency is a job of surprises with high stakes, requiring vision, management skill, and an even temperament. Ultimately, in order to evaluate candidates properly for the job, we need to adjust our expectations, and be more realistic about the goals, the requirements, and the limitations of the office. As Dickerson writes, “Americans need their president to succeed, but the presidency is set up for failure. It doesn’t have to be.”




A Little Life


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.




The Hardest Fall


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In the game of love you can't afford to drop the ball... Zoe’s always been shy. At college, to try to help her, her friend dares her to do the craziest thing she can think of… kiss a random guy. She follows Dylan into a room she thinks is a classroom and ends up seeing a little too much of him. She can hardly kiss him now… not when after their embarrassing encounter and certainly not after he tells her he has a girlfriend. But when he finds out about the dare, the two make a pact… if they ever cross paths again – and they’re both single – they’ll kiss. Two years later, fate intervenes, and they end up as accidental roommates. Now Zoe’s seeing a lot more of Dylan than she bargained for and it’s even harder to resist peeking the second time round.




Paper Towns


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Quentin Jacobson has spent a lifetime loving Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappeared.




Your God is Too Glorious


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Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.




Secret to Modern Woman's Heart (I and II)


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This gentlemen is so underrated ! I have purchased the book written by him and oh boy, it was pure gold. You have changed my entire notion of thinking about the girls. Bless you sir. Keep writing." (Via Quora Comments)Ever wondered what women really want and why? Why your girlfriend behaves irrationally ? Author writes on Quora (2500 followers, 3 million views) and runs his own blog (Hemantpandeyblog.com). Book Rated 4.33 on Good Reads. Hemant was a typical die hard romantic, writing love sonnets and letters to women he loved. Even after pouring his heart out he faced countless problems with women in his life. Changing mood of girls, suddenly going cold, neglecting etc. He started by classic psychology textbooks and was utterly disappointed. d104books teach nothing about women psychology or seduction (May be due to its controversial nature), similar to reproductive systems being treated in biology textbooks.Author started his quest in other seduction books. (Just like we learn sex through porn). The problem was immense again. Many of these books are fake and the methods simply don't work. Out of 1000s of pick up artist books and seduction material on 100s of websites, only a handful worked. It took 10 years for author to try and test almost all books on the subject. Second problem was that although these methods really work (No doubt about it), these books never teach you why they work. All methods are basically trial and error. In this book author solved these two problems. All material reinvented (10 years research) and rewritten (modified) by avoiding those which never work. Author devised 100s of entirely new methods which really work in any given scenario with any girl for any man (irrespective of his looks or personality). Every method discussed is supported by logic. Why the method works? This book will definitely save 1000s of hours in researching every book available on the planet, testing all of them and selecting best from the rest. You will learn Avoid FRIEND (PET) ZONE, Nice Guys Test, 'Dump Test' and 'Bitching Test'. Rules of TEXTING, how much, how long, what things to avoid? Get your GIRLFRIEND BACK after silence zone built after a fight or break up (entirely new 'ice breaker text method'.) 10 Most Important points in Modern Dating (Things to avoid). Secret Art of deep seduction (Fractionation) Making a girl fall in trance like love with you FOREVER. DOMINATE GIRLS to be subservient by using entirely new emotional Vaccination and Soft Dumping method. GIRLS BIGGEST TURN OFF and only ONE THING WOMEN LOVE the most in any MAN. Excerpt from the book: Fractionation and Rules of d104ing "You created a fractionation pattern by successively creating pain and pleasure response. Further you are the cause of both.This is the basic of all techniques of dealing with women. You create both pain and pleasure in quick succession and some times in one sentence like ' You look good but your hair could have been better'. Most guys there focus only on pleasure and fail to deliver emotional ups and downs, which women crave". "vii. Never be too available. This is again a test by girl to know your status. If you are always free for her, your value goes down. viii. Never chat with her for longer duration, especially when she is free. She will use you for time pass and dump you! "




Different Seasons


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Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.