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The author of several blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin's Where We Belong delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love that binds them togetherMarian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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With the kids off at college and her husband enjoying a jump-started career, Elizabeth "Birdie" Shore, feeling lonely, embarks on a search for self, believing that her former passion for life can only be rediscovered outside of her twenty-four-year-old marriage.
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Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Elyse Bearden, already thinking her marriage is headed towards divorce, meets Gerry Kincaid on an airplane and decides to have an affair, and through her talks with her friends and budding relationship with Gary, Elyse begins to realize what she really wants from life.
8) The magic
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Step by step, day-by-day, secret teachings, revelations, and scientific law are brought together to form 28 simple practices that open the reader's eyes to a new world, and lead them to a dream life.
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"When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading "Go to Paris." But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a childhood trauma, and her mother's negligent parenting style, have kept her strictly confined to her comfort zone, even in adulthood. When her boss encourages her to time off, Stella resigns herself to honor her mother's wishes, even if a spontaneous trip to Paris is the...
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Gatekeeper Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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On her thirty-third birthday, Ashley realized she wasn't happy with how her life was unfolding. Heartbroken, riddled with fear, and feeling a lack of self-worth, she embarks on a journey to untangle what was holding her back, and discovers the steps she must take to move towards her true path--the path she is meant for. She gracefully confronts her truth, suffering, and heartbreak with laugh-out-loud humor and curiousness. This is a diary of sorts,...
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Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Novelist Clarissa Burden, living in Hope, Florida, in an unhappy marriage with her deadbeat husband who resents her success, embarks on a twenty-four-hour journey of self-discovery which involves supernatural experiences and leads her to realize she must change her life.
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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With 100 uplifting quotes and stories along with vibrant artwork, You Are Essential is for the essential people in your life--including you!--who need a reminder that what they do matters. We all have essential people in our lives, whether they are friends, family, or someone we are meeting for the first time at the doctor's office or grocery pick-up line. Designed to be given as an encouragement or thank-you to others or as a self-purchase to remind...
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Redhook
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book....
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Lawyer Natalie Goldberg leaves her job in Manhattan and takes the position of prosecuting attorney in Macon, Georgia, where she dwells on her past relationship with a married man, ruminates about her father's disapproval of her career, helps a colleague's abused sister, and tries a capital case--even though she is anti-death penalty.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind...
18) The lower river
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Sixty-two-year-old Ellis Hock's family has abandoned him, he and hopes to rekindle his youthful happiness in Malawi where he taught school forty years earlier, but in Malawi he finds the old school in ruins and the people apathetic.
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TarcherPerigee, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"We all want to be happy. This goal drives everything that we do. Why, then, are so many of us so unhappy? It's not your fault. You have been told a lie: that achieving your own success will make you happy. This is "old happy," society's incorrect definition of happiness. The truth is that happiness comes from helping other people to live happier lives. In New Happy, happiness expert and wildly popular Instagram artist Stephanie Harrison shares her...
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