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These are all books I've read!  Whether you seek entertainment, personal growth, or intellectual stimulation, books provide a gateway to endless possibilities. Dive into the pages of compelling narratives, enlightening biographies, and engaging self-help guides. Expand your horizon...
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Historical Fiction

Historical fiction is a captivating literary genre that whisks readers away to different eras, immersing them in the past through the lens of gripping narratives. It's a genre that combines meticulous research with imaginative storytelling, offering ...

 
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The Flight Girls" by Noelle Salazar is a breathtaking novel that I wholeheartedly give a five-star rating. This beautifully written story takes you on an unforgettable journey through the lives of courageous women pilots during World War II. S...
The Flight Girls (Original) a book by Noelle Salazar
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah is a masterpiece of historical fiction that I enthusiastically rate with five stars. This profoundly moving novel captures the essence of resilience and the human spirit during the harrowing times of World Wa...
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The Great Alone" by Kristin Hannah is an extraordinary novel that I wholeheartedly give a five-star rating. This emotionally gripping tale is set against the wild and untamed backdrop of 1970s Alaska, where the beauty of the landscape is as mu...
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The Lost Apothecary" by Sarah Penner is a captivating and enchanting novel that earns a resounding five-star rating from me. This spellbinding tale masterfully intertwines the lives of women across centuries, blending historical fiction with a...
The Lost Apothecary (Original) a book by Sarah Penner
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The Dutch Wife" by Ellen Keith is a profoundly moving and beautifully written novel that I wholeheartedly award five stars. This book is a stunning exploration of resilience, love, and the indomitable human spirit set against the harrowing bac...
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Self-Help

Self-help is a transformative literary genre dedicated to guiding individuals on their journey to self-improvement and personal development. Within these pages, you'll discover valuable insights, practical advice, and empowering strategies to overcom...

 
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Atomic Habits by James Clear is a transformative and insightful guide that delves into the power of small changes and how they can lead to remarkable results. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to build good habits, break bad ones, and maste...
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones a book by James Clear
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In "What Happened to You?", Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry offer a profound and empathetic exploration into the impacts of trauma and the journey towards healing. This book is a compelling blend of personal anecdotes, scientific research, and pract...
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing a book by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
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"The Go-Giver," co-authored by Bob Burg and John David Mann, is a compelling parable that imparts profound wisdom about the power of giving, value, and genuine influence. This relatively short read, packed with timeless principles, is a treasure trov...
The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea (Go-Giver, Book 1 (Expanded) a book by Bob Burg, John David Mann, and John David Mann
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If you've watched the show or have grown up in the church this book is a great review on the wrong teaching a lot of us have been taught.  I wasn't raised in IBLP but a lot of the principles overlap…"Becoming Free Indeed" offers a profound journey of self-discovery and liberation. The author delves into the complexities of breaking free from rigid belief systems, providing insightful re...
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"ADHD 2.0" by Drs. Edward Hallowell and John Ratey is a groundbreaking exploration into the world of ADHD. This concise yet comprehensive guide offers fresh insights and practical strategies, making it an invaluable resource for individuals with ADHD...
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"The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk is a seminal work in understanding trauma and its profound impact on the mind and body. Van der Kolk combines decades of research and clinical experience to explore how trauma reshapes both body and b...
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"Good Boundaries and Goodbyes" is a compelling read that delves into the often challenging yet essential practice of setting healthy boundaries. The book offers insightful guidance on navigating complex relationships with wisdom and grace. It emphasi...
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"Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ" by Daniel Goleman is a groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart. Goleman introduces the concept of emotional intelligence (EQ) and argues its critical role in personal and p...
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"Come as You Are" by Emily Nagoski is a revolutionary book that transforms the way we understand female sexuality. Nagoski combines groundbreaking science with practical advice, debunking myths and offering a new perspective on women's sexual well-be...
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"Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess" by Dr. Caroline Leaf offers a refreshing approach to managing mental health. Dr. Leaf, a cognitive neuroscientist, presents a practical, five-step plan to reduce anxiety, stress, and toxic thinking. The book skillfully ...
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 I decided to delve into "Dare to Lead" despite not viewing myself as a typical leader. As I read through the book, I discovered that Brown's philosophies about finding strength through vulnerability and challenging traditional boss-like approaches re...
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown - Audiobook
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One of the most valuable books I've come across is centered on the mindset of earning and managing money effectively. This book serves as a comprehensive philosophical guide, delving into how people psychologically approach money and their perspectiv...
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About ...
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This book serves as a deeply thought-provoking read. I found myself taking notes and revisiting certain parts after my initial listen. As someone who has been a long-term student of metaphysics and has already read many of the authors mentioned in th...
Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This may be one of the best books about managing a household/family/children while staying sane!                                                                 📖     It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family - and then sent that list to her husband, a...
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have ...
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Fiction

Fiction, the ever-enchanting literary genre, invites readers into a world of boundless creativity and imagination. Within its pages, you'll encounter characters, places, and stories that are entirely the product of the author's inventiveness. This ge...

 
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Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts ...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder a book by Holly Jackson
 
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Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of gl...
Every Summer After a book by Carley Fortune
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Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when sh...
It Ends with Us a book by Colleen Hoover
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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodk...
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine a book by Gail Honeyman
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For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows--her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close-knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lex...
Night Road a book by Kristin Hannah
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Meet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can't remember where from. Except one person. Someone knows Aimee very well. They know who she is and they know what she did. When Aimee comes home and discovers her husband is missing, s...
I Know Who You Are a book by Alice Feeney
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Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected?...
Local Woman Missing: A Novel of Domestic Suspense (First Time Trade) a book by Mary Kubica
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Alexis Spencer thinks she has it all figured out. Even when life gets her down, she is never too far away from another inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and ignore all her problems. Her boyfriend tires of her deadbeat life and breaks it...
The Girl I Was a book by Jeneva Rose
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Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in...
The Perfect Marriage: A Completely Gripping Psychological Suspense a book by Jeneva Rose
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Addison's about to get married, but she's not looking forward to the big day. It's not her fiancé; he's a wonderful man. It's because Addison doesn't know who she really is. A few years ago, a kind driver found her bleeding next to a New Jersey highw...
The Stranger in the Mirror a book by LIV Constantine
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This was a quick and easy book to listen to, kept me engaged and in suspense the whole time!   Great summer read!               "Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night...." Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl h...
The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden: A gripping psychological thriller with ...
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This one was another quick read.  Freida McFadden really does a great job of sucking you in to the plots…Twists and turns…Victoria Barnett has it all: a great career as a nurse practitioner, a handsome and loving husband, a beautiful home in the suburbs, and a plan to fill it with ch...
The Wife Upstairs: Frieda McFadden
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Loved this one!!!  After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, D.C. philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they’re ready to settle d...
The Senator's Wife by Liv Constantine
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I enjoyed this one!!!  Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unsc...
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Good one!  Kept my attention…Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Usually...
Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
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All families are messy. Some are disasters. Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over 15 years ago. She fled California shortly after that fateful night and hasn't spoken to anyone in her family since. Now, on the ...
A Very Typical Family: A Novel: Godfrey, Sierra
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Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulo...
Love and Other Words: Lauren, Christina
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Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twe...
The Maid by Prose, Nita ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda's novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women - a decade apart - told in reverse. It's been 10 yea...
All the Missing Girls by Miranda, Megan
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The Wife: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful business, two children, and a beautiful house. Her Husband: Alice knows that life could have been different if her first husband had lived, but Nathan’s ar...
The First Mistake by Jones, Sandie
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Meet the women of Buckhead—a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships. Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she’s been unceremoniously dumped by Bryce, her politician husband. When Bryce replaces her with a much yo...
One of Us Is Dead by Jeneva Rose
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Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn’t what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila’s husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences un...
Pretty Little Wife by Kane, Darby
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When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year PhD candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationshi...
The Love Hypothesis by Hazelwood, Ali
 
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Reese's Bookclub Recommendation!!!   Emily is having the time of her life - she’s in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find...
We Were Never Here by Bartz, Andrea
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This one kept me guessing until the very end!!!  Great Book!                                           📖 10 years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, managing The Passage Inn, a cozy, upscale resort nestled in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass. Cutter’s Pass is best known for its outdoor offerings—rafting and hiking, with ...
The Last to Vanish: A Novel - Miranda, Megan
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⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She rents a new apartment and applies for college. But when the college informs her that her social security number has raised a red flag, Jessie ...
When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in LA together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for ...
November 9 by Hoover, Colleen
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylon...
Meet Me at the Lake by Fortune, Carley
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Great summer read!!! Coming of age story and now a TV series as well! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Belly has an unforgettable summer in this stunning start to the Summer I Turned Pretty series from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Be...
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
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Can you figure out who did it?  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter s...
Never Lie by Freida McFadden
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Great read!!! 📖  Lisa is living a lie and everyone is about to find out. Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job and her best friend Marilyn. But when a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him, too. Maybe she...
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭒ "An Anonymous Girl" by Greer Hendricks is a thrilling and intricate psychological suspense that I rate at 4.5 stars. This novel is a compelling exploration of ethics, obsession, and the complexities of human psychology. Hendricks masterfully cr...
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭒ "All Good People Here" by Ashley Flowers is a captivating and intricately plotted thriller that I enthusiastically rate at 4.5 stars. This debut novel by Flowers, known for her work on the "Crime Junkie" podcast, is a foray into the world of cr...
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Business

The business genre is a powerhouse of knowledge and insight, offering a treasure trove of strategies, advice, and real-world experiences for individuals seeking to excel in the professional world. From entrepreneurship to leadership, marketing to fin...

 
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Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to ...
Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine a book by Mike Michalowicz
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inually grow it. In Part II you will be introduced to seventeen "Wealth Files," which describe exactly how rich people think and act differently than most poor and middle-class people. Each Wealth File includes action steps for you to practice in the...
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth a book by T. Harv Eker
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A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations - whether in the boardroom or at home. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, ...
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life ...
 
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Influence: Science and Practice is an examination of the psychology of compliance (i.e. uncovering which factors cause a person to say "yes" to another's request). Written in a narrative style combined with scholarly research, Cialdini combines evide...
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The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller—one of the most influential busi...
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That ...
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The Challenge: Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about t...
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and ...
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The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets—now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle—which begins ...
Crossing the Chasm
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedi...
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use ...
 
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The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel be...
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
 
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Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doe...
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business ...
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Dale Carnegie, known as 'the arch-priest of the art of making friends', pioneered the development of personal business skills, self-confidence and motivational techniques. His books - most notably How to Win Friends and Influence People - have sold t...
How to Win Friends & Influence People | Dale Carnegie
 
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Love the concepts in this book!                   Are you an entrepreneur mystified as to how to scale your business? Do you realize the solution is to make yourself replaceable? Does that question bring up any resistance? Well, then you are ready to dive into my latest book. The Replaceable Founde...
The Replaceable Founder: Meisel, Ari
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I'm amazed by Dr. Ben Hardy's latest work; he truly surpassed himself with this book. As the author of influential books like "Personality Isn't Permanent," "Who Not How," and "The Gap and The Gain" (the last two co-written with Dan Sullivan!), he ha...
10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs ...
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Once you get your hands on this book, read it, absorb every word, and take action! Implementing his advice will undoubtedly take your business to new heights of success.
Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Creating a ...
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Tons of practical knowledge and the case studies are proof that this stuff works. The cool thing is, all of these creators in the book started at zero, just like all of us. So grateful for all the opportunities on the internet and extremely grateful ...
The YouTube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock ...
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This book is a must-read for those who aspire to lead a happy and prosperous life. It provides a specific recipe for attaining wealth and financial abundance through practical tools that you can incorporate into your daily routine. The insights share...
Think and Grow Rich
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If you are a small business owner or considering venturing into entrepreneurship, this book is an absolute must-read. The insights it offers are truly astonishing. The first section, which delves into motivations for starting a business, is pure gold...
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't ...
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Are you tired of struggling financially and feeling like you'll never achieve your dreams? Do you want to learn how to create multiple streams of income, build wealth, and achieve financial freedom at a young age? Look no further than "The Young Mill...
The Young Millionaire by Daniel Butogwa
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Reese's Book Club 2023 List

Reese's BooReese's Book Club is a unique genre in the literary world, personally curated by acclaimed actress and producer Reese Witherspoon. With a discerning eye for compelling stories and strong female voices, Reese selects books that resonate wit...

 
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If you had the power to change the past…where would you start? Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drin...
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When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. Joh...
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?:
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Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she’s long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career succe...
Romantic Comedy
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1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her ...
The House of Eve by Johnson, Sadeqa
 
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Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they’d been spending time with all summer. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secr...
The House in the Pines: Ana Reyes
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Reese's Book Club 2022 List

Reese's Book Club is a unique genre in the literary world, personally curated by acclaimed actress and producer Reese Witherspoon. With a discerning eye for compelling stories and strong female voices, Reese selects books that resonate with her and h...

 
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Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her ol...
The Marriage Portrait by O'Farrell, Maggie
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For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling author Cheryl Strayed—first through her online column at The Rumpus, later through her hit podcast, Dear Sugars, and now through her popular S...
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life
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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t kn...
Our Missing Hearts by Ng, Celeste
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At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they’ve become a bona fide girl g...
On the Rooftop: A Reese's Book Club Pick
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Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do ...
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
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Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. An expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show, Brown Sugar, she’s made it her mission to make sure the women of the Afro-Caribbean S...
Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola
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Money can’t buy happiness...but it can buy a decent fake. Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect li...
Amazon.com: Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
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Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford Eng...
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
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True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their par...
True Biz by Novic, Sara
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Everyone's Dying to Join . . . The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the...
The Club by Ellery Lloyd
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“A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It’s a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it’s like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche. There’s a joy to it. I...
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
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Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh An...
Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
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In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India t...
Honor by Umrigar, Thrity
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Gifts for the Book Lover

 
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Get a fun book surprise in the mail every month! We believe books should continue to be circulated and that an author's work should endure. We select the best quality used books randomly from our inventory based on your selected genres. Every shipmen...
Used Books Monthly
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If the book lover in your life has a kindle, give the gift of accessories for their kindle.
Kindle Accessories
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Could I live without my kindle, probably…but what kind of life would that be?
Kindle Paperwhite
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Give the gift of a library at your fingertips!  Kindle Unlimited Membership
Kindle Unlimited Membership
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Some book lovers love to read an actual book and some love the audio version.  Give the gift of Audible books! I love my subscription.
Audible Gift Memberships - 3 Months Free
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Introducing our Waiting for a Love Like Rowan and Aelin 11 oz Mug, a perfect blend of elegance and personalization. These mugs feature a captivating two-tone design, crafted with a customizable white ceramic base beautifully complemented by vibrant i...
Waiting for a Love Like Rowan and Aelin 11 oz Mug
 
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Every book lover loves to begin reading THAT book that just takes them away- but browsing for that perfect book can be time consuming. Let Box of Books do the hard work for you! Pick your genres and we'll deliver great reads that just can't be set do...
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