Motivational category: 14833 books
The Heming Way
How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested Retro-Sexual Legend Within, Just Like Papa!
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Marty Beckerman's hilarious guide for the modern man to booze, battle, and bull-fight his way to becoming more like Hemingway
More than fifty years have passed since the death of Ernest Hemingway, history's ultimate man, and young males today—obsessed with Facebook, Twitter, and Playstation—know...
La sagesse en action
100% vécu : Le récit (extra)ordinaire d'un homme qui nous invite au coeur de la sagesse
Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Ce livre retrace le parcours de Christophe Yann. Aussi incroyable qu’il y paraisse, ce récit est vrai. J’invite le lecteur à accepter cette idée comme nous acceptons avec émerveillement le miracle de la naissance d’un enfant.
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A Journey Of Life On PURPOSE
Creativity, Love, Womanhood, Community, Race, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
Our life purpose is often found at the intersection of who we are, our most compelling convictions, and the roles that we serve. In this book, A Journey of Life On PURPOSE, author Avril Somerville tackles, through poetry and essays, the intersectionality of creativity, womanhood, sisterhood,...
by Steven McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Life’s foundational questions come elegantly to the fore in this skillfully crafted nonfiction story about the late John H. Finley, Jr. For 51 years Finley was the celebrated and erudite Eliot Professor of the Classics at Harvard. Luminous and compellingly relevant, his story leads readers into...
by James Gerard Small
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
MOST WRITTEN STORIES, TRUE OR NOT, start at the beginning or the end. The former is understandable from anyone’s viewpoint; it’s a fairly standard narrative process. The latter is often used for purposes of creativity, pathos, or some other literary device the author felt important to the telling...
by Muyassar Sattarova
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
“Mom! I am afraid! What will happen if I fail?” –asked Bill, a seven-year-old school-boy.
“Why are you afraid? Why do you think that you may fail?” –asked mother sitting down onto the edge of her son`s bed and putting her hand on his forehead.
“Everyone at school tells...
Promises to Keep
On Life and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the author of Promise Me, Dad, tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama’s beloved, influential vice president.
“I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics...
Stone's Rules
How to Win at Politics, Business, and Style
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Rules to live by from the master of political dark arts, as seen in the award-winning documentary Get Me Roger Stone
At long last, America’s most notorious political operative has released his operating manual!
A freedom fighter to his admirers, a dirty trickster to his detractors,...
Chocolate & Vicodin
My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn't Go Away
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
The humorous and touching memoir of a woman who’s been seeking relief from a headache for more than two years.
Jennette Fulda was riding high on the success of her first book, Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir, until one fateful day in February 2008, when she developed a headache—and it...
The Priority List
A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In this poignant and inspiring memoir, a beloved high school English teacher with terminal brain cancer undertakes a cross-country journey to reunite with his former students in order to find out if he made a difference in their lives, discovering along the way what is truly important in life.
Based...
by Randy Pausch
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."---Randy Pausch
A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't...
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“A bold memoir” of one young woman’s courageous battle with breast cancer—the basis for the Emmy-nominated Lifetime movie starring Sarah Chalke (People).
Having recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School and landed her dream job at 20/20, the last thing twenty-seven-year-old...
The True Joy of Positive Living
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The inspiring autobiography of the world-renowned minister and revered self-help giant whose positive thinking techniques have bettered the lives of millions of people
In his 95 years, Norman Vincent Peale made a profound difference. The son of a minister in Lynchburg, Ohio, he went on to preach...
Mandela's Way
Lessons for an Uncertain Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
A compact, profoundly inspiring book that captures the spirit of Nelson Mandela, distilling the South African leader’s wisdom into 15 vital life lessons
We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a...