New Year, New You
How to Be Useful
A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work
There's a lot of career advice out there. Much of it dumb. But what if someone read all the advice books -- over a hundred years' worth -- and put all the good ideas in one place? Could you finally escape the cube? Stop mailing things? Be happier?
In How to Be Useful, Megan Hustad dismantles the myths of getting ahead and helps you navigate the murky waters of office life. Humorous yet wise, irreverent yet marvelously practical, this book will help you
In How to Be Useful, Megan Hustad dismantles the myths of getting ahead and helps you navigate the murky waters of office life. Humorous yet wise, irreverent yet marvelously practical, this book will help you
The Ultimate Diet Log
Finally, the creator of The Ultimate Workout Log teams up with one of the country’s top nutritionists to bring us the
tool we really need—The Ultimate Diet Log, a goal-oriented daily diary for tracking food choices, eating habits, and
exercise patterns for anyone interested in losing weight, firming up, or just eating better.
100 Words To Make You Sound Smart
100 Words To Make You Sound Smart, a title in the popular 100 Words series, is an informative and entertaining resource that can help anyone be right on the money when looking for words that will make a point, seal the deal, or just keep folks listening. Chosen by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, these words will appeal to anyone who wants to be a more compelling communicator—as a worker, consumer, advocate, friend, dinner companion, or even as a romantic prospect.
Kids @ HMH
Michelle Obama
An American Story
This book looks at Michelle Obama's life story within the context of the larger movements in African American history: slavery, freedom, the Reconstruction era, the Civil Rights movement, and finally, her own era.
History is what has shaped Michelle and challenged her. And ultimately, not only has she overcome any obstacles put before her, she has carved out her own place in history as well.
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
New York Times Notable Children's Book (2008)
A witty and winsome look at babies around the world that has a toe-tapping refrain: the words sound easy and familiar, as though they have been handed down to children forever. And the story ends with a pitch-perfect moment: one little baby who is "mine, all mine."—The New York Times
The Way We Work
Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
MacArthur genius and Caldecott medalist David Macaulay is known for his ability to explain anything to anyone. With this new book, he tackles the most complex machine of all: the human body.
Watch David Macaulay discuss The Way We Work
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Beautiful Boy
A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
Entertainment Weekly picked Beautiful Boy as the #1 Nonfiction Book of 2008. Beautiful Boy
is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
New in Hardcover
Lost River
Taking us back to his acclaimed and much-loved Storyville series, in Lost River award-winning author David Fulmer marks a heart-pounding return to the streets of early-1900s New Orleans.
Mrs. Astor Regrets
The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach
USA TODAY calls this "an even-handed and fascinating portrait of a wealthy family torn apart by money." Read the full story in the lifestyle section.
"Meryl Gordon's riveting account of the legendary life and sad final days of Brooke Astor is an American epic. It's all here— high society, big money, blue blood, family feuds and criminal charges." —Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation and A Long Way From Home
"Meryl Gordon's riveting account of the legendary life and sad final days of Brooke Astor is an American epic. It's all here— high society, big money, blue blood, family feuds and criminal charges." —Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation and A Long Way From Home
In Translation
Death with Interruptions
"Decidedly ingenious...Saramago, one of the last of the old-line Communists, has written an atheist's religious parable; a story abounding in sentiment and purged of it."
—New York Times
Friendly Fire
With great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways.
Reading Group Choices
Find great new books for your reading group!
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