DescriptionEverything you've always wanted to know about Marcel Proust but were afraid to ask! Esteemed author Alain de Botton has created a highly amusing and informative book about the celebrated French writer. He offers both serious interpretation and some tongue-in-cheek ideas on how one's life can be "improved" through Proust's works. Samuel West's faultless narration adds great style and humour, including a fifteen-second precis of the seven volumes of Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time in the voice of Harry Baggot of Luton, inspired by the memorable Monty Python sketch "The All England Summarize Proust Competition".
DescriptionGrowing up is tough...really tough. But what if you had a handbook that told you how to figure things out? How to stay out of trouble? How to think about success? How to think about the guy on the street? At Duke's Place, Jimmy and Kevin find out that the handbook isn't written down. It means listening to Duke and his friends talk about their lives. But how can Duke, a senior citizen, understand what it is to be young now? In the tradition of his award-winning book Monster, Walter Dean Myers once again breaks new ground with this extraordinary, original, and complex novel about learning to be a man.
DescriptionThe best-selling author of A Woman After God's Own Heart has a brand new release! Elizabeth George's A Mother After God's Own Heart offers 10 principles to help moms make God an everyday part of their children's lives. Elizabeth, who has two grown children and six grandchildren, gives practical advice and real-life suggestions for helping children, no matter what their ages, incorporate God into daily life. Elizabeth's husband, Jim, also provides biblical advice from a dad's perspective.
DescriptionCheryl Richardson, best selling author and one of the most sought-after lecturers in the country, knows firsthand how tough it can be to juggle the daily demands of living a fast-paced world, and how easily you can become disconnected from your true self…
DescriptionAsk Jenny your most complex interpersonal relationship questions. Go on, we dare you! High school junior Jenny Greenley is good at solving other people's problems, so good that she's the school newspapers' anonymous advice columnist. But when 19-year-old screen sensation Luke Striker comes to Jen's small town to research a role, he creates havoc that even levelheaded Jenny isn't sure she can repair...especially when he asks her, and not Jenny's Luke Striker-groupie best friend, to the Clayton High Spring Fling. Can Jen, who always manages to be there for everybody else, learn to take her own advice, and find true love at last?
DescriptionFrom America's most beloved comedic actress and the star of Desperate Housewives comes a personal, heartfelt, and often very funny manifesto on life, love, and the lessons we all need to learn, and unlearn, on the road to happiness. Teri Hatcher…
DescriptionFrom a psychiatrist who has spent the past 30 years listening to other people's most intimate secrets and troubles comes an eloquent, incisive, and deeply perceptive book about the things we all share, and which every one of us grapples with as we strive…
