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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover and NOT the original book. Preview: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey  is a book about how to go from debt ridden to financially secure… Inside this...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robert M. Sapolsky’s Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers and NOT the original book. Preview: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers (2004) by Robert Sapolsky is a thorough explanation of the impact of chronic stress on the body. It describes the many systems...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene and NOT the original book. Preview: The Selfish Gene (1976) by Richard Dawkins outlines theories and research in the field of evolutionary biology to explain the importance of the gene as the most significant...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Olivia Fox Cabane’s The Charisma Myth and NOT the original book. Preview: The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane is a book in the self-help genre that instructs the reader on how to develop and maintain a charismatic persona in business and personal...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Joseph J. Ellis’s The Quartet and NOT the original book. Preview: The Quartet is an historical account of the debates and events leading up to, during, and immediately following the creation of the Constitution of the United States of America....

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Julie Lythcott-Haims’s How to Raise an Adult and NOT the original book. Preview: How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success is a book of parenting advice. The author, Julie Lythcott-Haims, is a...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts and NOT the original book. Preview: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson explores several crucial years in Berlin through the eyes of the US ambassador...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Knoll’s Luckiest Girl Alive and NOT the original book. Preview: Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll is a dark and gripping novel that reveals the traumatic past of TifAni FaNelli, a writer for a popular woman’s magazine. This book shows how...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You and NOT the original book. Preview: The repressed bitterness, anger and disappointment simmering for years inside the Lee family finally erupt in Everything I Never Told You after...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow and NOT the original book. Preview: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is the story of a Russian aristocrat-turned-waiter who lives 32 years of his life under house arrest at the Hotel Metropol in Moscow. Set...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch and NOT the original book. Preview The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is a coming-of-age novel that follows Theodore Decker, 13, in the wake of his traumatic experience in a deadly terrorist attack on the Metropolitan Museum...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Stephanie Danler’s Sweetbitter and NOT the original book. Preview: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler is a coming-of-age story set in New York City. Over the course of a year, 22-year-old Tess, a girl straight out of small-town middle America, arrives...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man and NOT the original book. Preview: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a dating advice book by comedian and radio personality Steve Harvey. As a man, Harvey has insight into how men think and what...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Emily Giffin’s First Comes Love and NOT the original book. Preview: First Comes Love by Emily Giffin is a novel told from the alternating perspectives of two sisters, Josie and Meredith, who are still struggling with the tragic death of Daniel,...