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The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American History

By John Jeremiah Sullivan

The forgotten history of a colonial-era Utopia resonates to the present day in this epic of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of David Grann's The Lost City of Z and Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail In 1735, charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany, under threat of arrest, bound for colonial South Carolina.

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Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age

By Chip Conley

New York Times bestselling author and co-founder/CEO of The Modern Elder Academy "reminds us all to savor the wisdom, self-knowledge, and joy that accompanies [the middle decades] of our lives" (Father Richard Rohr) and "provides a clear blueprint for creating the lives we want" (Gretchen Rubin) The midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes, but this long-derided life stage has an upside.

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Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

By Kate Bowler

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the good--from the three-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) Kate Bowler believes that the cultural pressure to be cheerful and optimistic at all times has taken a toll on our faith.

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Untitled 1981

By Random House

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

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Untitled: A Journal

By Dave Grohl

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Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

By Glory Edim

An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl "She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

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The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens

By Ellen Galinsky

Blending cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling, The Breakthrough Years offers readers a paradigm-shifting comprehensive understanding of adolescence. Almost every adolescent has said to parents, "You JUST don't understand. " In The Breakthrough Years , child development expert Ellen Galinsky explains why that is so often true.

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Sexism: Its Rise, Decline, and Revival

By Maria Misra

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Responsible Negotiation: How to Negotiate Successfully and Why

By Alain Lempereur, Michele Pekar, Kalypso Nicolaidis

Everyone negotiates all the time, within their family, at work, etc. , because they need to get things done with others, reach deals and overcome conflicts. But many people, out there, still lack confidence in negotiating and often get frustrated. Negotiation does not work for them, because they may have never been introduced to the best practices and to sound theories, and, even if they have learnt to be more effective by experience or otherwise, they still wonder where negotiating is leading them, what the point of it all is.

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Applied Histogram Data Analysis in R

By Javier Arroyo, Antonio Irpino, Rosanna Verde

This book provides a complete account of histogram-valued data analysis whilst using the popular statistical software R. Written by leading experts in the field, the author discuss the reasons for working with histogram data, descriptive statistics, visualisation, distances and univariate statistics for histogram-valued data, and a number of more sophisticated methods including regression, clustering and time series analysis through real-world case studies.