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Live the luxe life on less
You're a Modern Girl embarking on a fabulous life in the city, working hard and playing even harder. Money may be an object, but you refuse to let it be an obstacle. That's because what you may lack in funds you make up for in daring and desire. Completely revised with more tips and tricks than ever, City Chic is your practical insiders' primer on how to creatively cheat at being chic. From food
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What to Do to Retire Successfully is an enlightening blend of actual retirement scenarios intermingled with healthy, practical advice from a respected neuropsychiatrist, who is a fellow retiree with a wonderfully optimistic glass-half-full philosophy on living a fulfilling retirement life. Dr. Goldstein taps into his financial and psychiatric background as he explores the potential pitfalls of life after career's end, while providing helpful, proven...
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There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, discipline to nutrition. In spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise theirchildren to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, helping them learn to take on life's challenges, communicate well with others, and remain committed to learning. These are the "essential...
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No question about it -- by almost any measure, America operates the world's largest, costliest, and most dysfunctional criminal justice ($250 billion) and incarceration ($80 billion) systems. With nearly 2.2 million prisoners in state and federal institutions, another 12 million circulating in and out of jails and detention centers, and 77 million with arrest records, America is an arrested society with more troubling rap sheets than promising resumes!...
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There is no end to the sources of frustration, challenge, disaster--and humor!--in a woman's life, and there is no one more skilled at finding the merriment and wisdom in these everyday foibles and events than award-winning author and popular speaker Karen Linamen. In her newest humor-packed release, Linamen (author of Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt) guides readers on a side-splitting, hopeful, and entertaining tour of a woman's...
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Tripping the Prom Queen is a groundbreaking investigation into the dark secret of female friendship: rivalry.
Susan Shapiro Barash has exploded the myth that women help one another, are supportive of one another, and want each other to succeed. Based on interviews with women across a broad social spectrum, she has discovered that the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it is covert. She tells us:
* Why women can't and won't...
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"The 21st century guidebook of life safety skills for teens, their parents, and other caregivers, covering physical safety, sexual consent, social media, your rights with the police, situational awareness, dating violence, smartphones, and more. Young people coming of age today face new risks, expectations, and laws that didn't exist when their parents were young. What They Don't Teach Teens provides teens, tweens, and young adults with up-to-date,...
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As a woman working in finance Karen Finerman noticed numerous ways that she and her smart, motivated, and seemingly together female colleagues sabotaged themselves both professionally and personally. Why were her friends unable to bring the same logic they applied at work to personal decisions? Why did they often let personal baggage undermine them in the office in a way that her male colleagues never did?
71) The girl's guide: getting the hang of your whole complicated, unpredictable, impossibly amazing life
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A colossal cheat sheet for your post-college years, answering all the needs of the modern woman-from mastering money to placating overly anxious parents, from social media etiquette to the pleasure and pain of dating (and why it's not a cliché to love yourself first).
A perfect combination of tried-and-true advice and been-there tips, it's a one-stop resource that includes how to clean up your digital reputation, info on finding an apartment you...
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The ability to speak in front of an audience is a crucial skill in school, career, and life. Both the content of a good speech and the ways to conquer stage fright are examined in this guide to public speaking. Helpful tips in fact boxes, bulleted lists, and a colorful design will appeal to readers. Whether brushing up on a skill or getting ready for a first oral report, this book contains the tools everyone needs to be an effective and engaging speaker....
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No one is perfect-- but everyone can fake it. At one point or another, every woman has had to fake it-- how else would we get everything done in a mere twenty-four hours? With more than 100 shortcuts and wonderfully constructed white lies, this book shows you how to fake it all, from flawless skin for that big night out to a tidy car on carpool day, and even, yes, faking an orgasm.
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"From seasoned war correspondent and professor at Columbia Journalism School, Judith Matloff, a reassuring and kick-ass book in the vein of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook for women to take on whatever the world throws at them-from hurricanes to harassment and beyond"--
75) The ex-girlfriend of my ex-girlfriend is my girlfriend: advice on queer dating, love, and friendship
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"Writer Maddy Court answers letters from queer women and people of marginalized genders about dating, friendship, and love."--
77) The ex-offender's guide to a responsible life: a national directory of re-entry tips and resources
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Going beyond mere survival issues, this incredibly detailed and user-friendly resource helps ex-offenders stay out for good by focusing on many key ingredients that lead to a responsible life. The directory identifies important support services and common sense tools for dealing with the day-to-day realities of finding a job, locating housing, maintaining good health, controlling anger, handling addictions, avoiding relapse, managing money, and becoming...
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From Organizing from the Inside Out for Teens:
Jessi Says
What's My Payoff?
My bedroom is my home base and keeping it organized is a must. If my room isn't in solid condition, it's difficult to keep the rest of my life on track. Here are some other reasons that motivate me to keep my room organized:
- My room is the only space on the entire planet that is solely mine.
- My organized room allows me to maximize my space and time.
- My room boosts...
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"What's wrong with me? I feel so stuck. Is this all there is? Satya Doyle Byock hears these refrains regularly in her psychotherapy practice, Quarterlife Counseling, where she works exclusively with individuals between the ages of eighteen to thirty-five. She understands their frustration. Some clients have seemingly done everything "right": earn a degree, get a job, meet a partner, settle down. Yet, even after checking these boxes, they are left...
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Written by two experienced lesbian therapists, Lesbian Couples covers a range of topicscommitment ceremonies and marriage, living arrangements, work, money, togetherness and separate identities, coming out to family and friends, resolving conflict and understanding each otherand uses a variety of helpful examples and problem-solving techniques, drawing from research done on lesbian couples over the past decade. The book pays special...
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