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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert · 288 pages

Elizabeth Gilbert digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity, offering insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need i

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Chicken Soup for the Soul

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen · 480 pages

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The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Sonja Lyubomirsky · 366 pages

Drawing on her own groundbreaking research with thousands of men and women, research psychologist and University of California professor of psychology Sonja Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives-in the short term and over the long term. The How of Happiness is a different kind of happiness book, one that offers a comprehensive gu

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You Can Heal Your Life

Louise L. Hay · 243 pages

This book offers practical steps for dissolving both the fears and the causations of diseases. It helps clear away the blocks that keep people from robust health and having what they want in life.

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What I Know for Sure

Oprah Winfrey · 240 pages

"After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the question offered her a way to take "stock of her life," Oprah has penned one column a month over the last fourteen years, years in which she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated program of its kind in history), l

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Living Loving and Learning

Leo F. Buscaglia · 267 pages

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The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch · 224 pages

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

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What Do You Want to Do Before You Die?

The Buried Life, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn, Jonnie Penn, Ben Nemtin

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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie · 319 pages

Stop Worrying ... Slow Down... Enjoy Life! Dale Carnegie's proven techniques have helped millions to adopt new mental attitudes leading to security and happiness, teaching them to break the worry habit —forever: • Practical, tested formulas for conquering anxiety • How to eliminate 50 percent of business worries immediately • How to reduce financial worries • How to turn criticism to yo

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SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient - Powered by the Science of Games

Jane McGonigal · 466 pages

A renowned game designer describes how she recovered from a debilitating concussion by turning her therapeutic process into a digital game that became the subject of a major NIH research study.

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On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life

John O'Leary, Cynthia DiTiberio · 272 pages

"In the bestselling tradition of Brene Browns Daring Greatly and Nick Vujicics Life Without Limits comes a rousing 7-step plan for living a life on fire, filled with hope and possibilityfrom an inspirational speaker who survived a near-fatal fire at the age of nine and now runs a successful business inspiring people all around the world,"--Amazon.com. "If you could go back in time, would you do i

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The Art of Happiness

Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler · 322 pages

Summary:One of the world's greatest spiritual leaders teams up with a psychiatrist to share, for the first time, how he achieved his hard-won serenity and how readers can attain the same inner peace

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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

J.K. Rowling · 69 pages

In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world f

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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Austin Kleon · 160 pages

When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011, Austin Kleon wrote a simple list often things he wished he'd heard when he was their age: 'Steal like an artist; Don't wait until you know who you are to start making things; Write the book you want to read; Use your hands; Side projects are important; Do good work and put it where people can see

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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant · 240 pages

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void," she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-sh

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Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

Shonda Rhimes · 373 pages

In this poignant, hilarious, and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywoods most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Greys Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder reveals how saying YES changed her life and how it can change yours too. On Thanksgiving Day, 2013, Rhimes' sister told her: "You never say yes to anything." This became a wake-up call-- and a c

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Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott · 240 pages

Anne Lamott gives her perspective on the art and work of writing. The title comes from a family story when her brother had to complete a report on birds. He put it off until the last minute and was overwhelmed. Her father counseled him saying they would take it, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica

From one of the world's leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement. The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. The Element draws on the stories of a wide range of people, f

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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

William H. McRaven · 144 pages

Inspired by the advice Admiral William H. McRaven gave in a graduation speech that went viral, this book is a reminder that sometimes little things can have a big impact.

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Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom · 192 pages

Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz gradually dies of ALS. The book topped the New York Times Non-Fiction Best-Sellers List for 23 combined weeks in 2000, and remained on the New York Times best-selling list for more than four years after. In 2006, Tuesdays with Morrie was

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