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A groundbreaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From. Plenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential decisions, the...

The son of a celebrated Hollywood director emerges from his father's shadow to claim his own place as a visionary force in American culture. George Stevens, Jr. tells an intimate and moving tale of his relationship with his Oscar-winning father and his own distinguished career in Hollywood and Washington.

Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. The two are on different courses-Austin is British, temporarily in New York. Dara's from North Carolina, set on law school. They fall in love at first sight, and are determined to make their lives together. Days...

Do you doubt that it’s possible to build a business, make money, and grow spiritually at the same time? Explore story after story in Meditating Entrepreneurs and transform your thinking. You will discover that you have what it takes to create a life of joy and abundance. Fifteen entrepreneurs, committed to their inner development and a peaceful world, share their wisdom of inner bliss and outer success.

Adam has spent his life trying to be the perfect man and succeeding, as his nickname of "Adonis" implies. But a woman seeking help to live crashes into his life and has him questioning everything. Nearly losing her mother forces Evie to change everything. Desperate to become healthy, she goes to Adam’s fitness center.

Seven strangers wake up in a sealed compound with no idea how they got there. They are informed by a computer-generated voice that they must complete tasks in order to leave, and that failure to complete any of the tasks or breaking any of the rules results in a strike. The first two strikes induce extreme pain. The third strike is death. As they struggle to survive without turning on each other, they have no idea that their actions and choices could doom humanity. Or save it.

When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people—and their families—reeling, in this poignant novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Women in Sunlight “A moving immersion in love and loss.”—People A great...

The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get them right? Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to...

Having spent his life dealing with a controlling grandfather, David Brown takes the reins of his family's company, determined to control life on his terms. Until he shares a glance with a brunette beauty across a crowded holiday ballroom and follows her. Having spent her life under the thumb of her aristocratic father, Lady Diana Willoughby is banished to her aunt in NYC. When a man follows her during the ball, kissing her breathless, Diana discovers a fire inside her that only David can control. Lust at first sight is one thing. Are they brave enough to believe in love at first sight?

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner of the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Award “[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book Review A...