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"A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide--from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew...
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Fries With That volume 2
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Much to her chagrin, Robyn finds out that she is going to have to wear big metal braces. Once in place, she refuses to open her mouth, instead choosing to converse with friends and customers through body language and hand-written signs.
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Told as a series of reflections on her personal experiences, this is a bold manifesto by a brilliant young mind on our contemporary understanding of romantic love and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships.
Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tamara Tenenbaum approached the sexual and affective habits of the secular world like an anthropologist discovering...
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Win in every room. Cultivate an authentic connection with your audience, no matter what. Conquer your public speaking fears, learn how to be likable, how to present for work, how to give compelling pitch meetings, and how to be a person who wins through highly effective communication techniques. “Winning the Room” teaches public speaking skills applicable to everybody, in any situation.
Become a great public speaker with guidance from an expert....
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Funny, thoughtful, and anarchic. Bert Smith writes about everyday things and bigger societal issues with the same fearless disregard for conventional wisdom. I don't know where he gets his ideas from – Bert's Mum. Great fun, but I've told him to get a proper job – Bert's Dad. Interview with the Author Q - Do you have any unusual writing habits?A – I write all the time. I could be sat on a train then start writing something off the top of my...
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Improved conversations are the ones that get to make you successful decisions in life. The book titled "How to be Better at Conversation: Guide to Better and Effective Talking" explains in detail the conversation skills you need. Our lives are woven together by the conversations that shape our relationships, guide our choices, and have an overall positive impact on our well-being. Our lives are woven together by the conversations that shape our relationships,...
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Welcome to "Everyday English Sentences: A Practical Guide to Conversational Fluency". This book is designed to help you achieve fluency in English by providing you with practical and essential everyday sentences that are commonly used in conversations. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced learner of English, this book will help you develop your language skills and become a confident and effective communicator.
The ability to communicate fluently...
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Storyteller Skills for Speeches, Pitch Meetings, and Everyday Life
"Raw, funny and hugely practical-JP shares insights and secrets from decades of helping an incredible range of people tell their story with confidence and style. Now you can too."-Adam Spencer, Australian comedian, media personality and prolific author
Transform into a powerful public speaker that audiences love! For entrepreneurs, creatives, or anyone who needs to communicate...
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Street Smarts by Gregory Koukl helps Christians better engage in productive conversations with those who challenge their convictions on a variety of issues. A follow-up to Koukl's best-selling Tactics, this book focuses on revealing the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values. It then provides individual strategies to exploit those shortcomings by offering model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers...
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This book on forgiveness, lovingly assembled and written by Michael Delia, is based on the work of Fr. Gerry O'Rourke, a Roman Catholic priest. Of course, all Catholic priests are schooled in the sacrament of forgiveness. Knowing something and believing it is not the same as being able to get your hands on it when you need it most. We know we should forgive, and we may want to forgive, but often we struggle to find a way. Gerry created four questions...
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"Have you ever had moments when your words got the better of you? Maybe you knew how much something would hurt, but you said it anyway because it felt good in the moment. Maybe you're fighting a habit of complaining or yelling, when you really want to be a person who speaks with kindness and patience. Or maybe you stay silent because you're never quite sure what to say. Whatever your "maybe" may be, you are in the right place. Sarah Molitor understands...
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Very few topics generate as much emotion as religious beliefs. Those with religious inclinations and those who are against religion frequently embrace their particular viewpoint on the basis of information, much of which may be incorrect. This holds true for both believers and non-believers. Through a series of semi-fictitious conversations, Michael Gayle seeks to address some of the issues which influence an individual's worldview. For the non-believers,...
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“Real Friends Talk About Race” is an essential guide for those who want to have stronger interracial relationships, whether it's with friends, colleagues, or loved ones.
Having conversations about race is uncomfortable. But for progress between individuals (and our communities) to happen, we need to be able to speak openly and honestly. Podcast hosts of The Kinswomen Yseult and Hannah use their own friendship and experiences from different racial...
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"A guide to handling difficult conversations calmly and gracefully. The author shows readers how to defuse verbal attacks, maintain one's composure in stressful situations, and deal with difficult people without becoming one"--
Want to know how to speak up instead of shut down, face challenges head-on instead of run the other way, and keep your cool even when others don't? Talking on Eggshells shows you how. This inspiring book shares everyday character-building...
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"In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep...
16) My mother says
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"The narrator's long-term girlfriend has just broken things off, forcing her to move back in with her father, a Pink Floyd-loving priest. While she desperately tries to convince her girlfriend to reconsider, the rest of the world bombards her with advice: from her childhood friend Mulle to her kindly therapist to her overbearing mother and card-playing father. Bumbling through the fog of disillusionment, the narrator gives herself permission to grieve,...
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"When Ari and Josh meet the first time, the wrong kind of sparks fly. They hate each other. Instantly. A free-spirited, struggling comedian who likes to keep things casual, Ari sublets, takes gigs, and lives by a code that ensures her friends-with-benefits stay firmly in the friendzone. She doesn't believe in morning sex because she never sleeps over. Born-and-bred Manhattanite Josh has ambitious plans: he'll take the culinary world by storm, find...
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Queen Elizabeth II's death ruptured the already-fractured foundations of the House of Windsor-and dismantled the protective shield around it. With an institution long plagued by antiquated ideas around race, class and money, the monarchy and those who prop it up are now exposed and at odds with a rapidly modernizing world. Relying on his vast experience as a royal reporter and over a decade of conversations and interviews with current and former Palace...
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Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, a noted historian, a passenger on an airliner hijacked by Palestinians in 1970, sets out to understand both what happened in the Jordan desert and her own fractured family and childhood pain.
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Hippo Park
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"Addie must choose fame or friendship in this delightfully off-beat picture book debut, perfect for fans of Aaron Blabey and Ryan T. Higgins. Addie was born to be a STAR. Just look at her--she loves attention! "Ehem! Can we please continue?" (Of course!) Addie and her best friends, Ben and Jude, are three peas in a pod. Besties since birth! And together, they learn to perform spellbinding moves in the air (check out the spinzarella and the bonkers...