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By: N/A
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press: 1977
Seller ID: 2270173
Top edge of jacket front previously mended with tape, front jacket flap clipped, jacket spine very faintly toned. 1977 Hard Cover. 62 pp. Far-Eastern proverbs covering a range of topics including: advice, business, caution, children, contention, education, friendship, honor, house, inclination, justice, labor, learning, opportunity, riches and poverty, satisfaction, sin, speech and silence, strength and power, time, virtue and piety. View more info
By: Albom, Mitch
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2268450
A very nice copy. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost ... View more info
By: Albom, Mitch
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2269926
Jacket edges very lightly rubbed. Sticker on front endpaper. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twe... View more info
By: Aron, Elaine N.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Broadway Books: 1997
Seller ID: 2269262
Pages faintly toned, a few ink marks. 1997 Trade Paperback. 251 pp. Are you a highly sensitive person? Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you too shy or too sensitive according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the Highly Sensitive Person, i... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Indianaopolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1926
Seller ID: 2119198
Lightly foxed, minor pencil marginalia, flaps of absent jacket laid in, ink name & address on front endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. 281, [1] pp. 8vo. A religious study of the afterlife. View more info
By: Berkus, Rusty
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Red Rose Press: 1988
Seller ID: 1500930
Front cover corners creased. 1988 Soft Cover. 52 pp. Once in a great while a person comes along whose view of reality works harmoniously with the universe. Such a person is Nell the Nebbish. As Nell grew up, she did not fit into the American ideal of what a child is supposed to be like or look like. She was gangly, awkward, and did not excel in school or sports. Yet her parents had waited a decade for her arrival and viewed her as a treasure; they bestowed upon her uncon... View more info
By: Carlson, Richard
Price: $5.00
Publisher: MFJ Books: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2201901
Ink note and label to front endpaper.Near Fine. 1997 Small Hard Cover. 248 pp. Does your life seem to have as many ups and downs as a soap opera? Then let this little book that spent 100 weeks on THE NEW YORK TIMES bestseller list show you how to stop blowing things out of proportion, stop worrying about things that might happen (but probably won't), stop obsessing about things you can't change and things that just don't matter--and start living! View more info
By: Carlson, Richard
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 1997
Seller ID: 2261929
A nice copy. 1997 Small Softcover. 248 pp. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life. You can learn to put things into perspective by making the small daily changes Dr. Carlson suggests, including advice such as Choose your battles wisely; Remind yourself that when you die, your 'in' box won't be empty; and Make peace with imperfection. With Don't Sweat the Small Stu... View more info
By: Carnegie, Dale
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1948
Seller ID: 1532280
Reprint. Lacks jacket. Boards a bit spotted, edge wear. 1948 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 306 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Part One. Fundamental Facts You Should KNow About Worry; Part Two. Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry; Part Three. How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You; Part Four. Seven Ways to Cultivate a Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness; Part Five. The Perfect Way to Conquer Worry; Part Six. How to Keep F... View more info
By: Cousins, Norman
Price: $3.00
Publisher: A Dutton Book: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1536763
First edition. Includes original jacket. Gift note on title page.Very Good. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 368 pp. People tell me not to offer hope unless I know hope to be real, but I don't have the power not to respond to an outstretched hand. I don't know enough to say that hope can't be real. I'm not sure anyone knows enough to deny hope. I have seen too many cases these past ten years when death predictions were delivered from high pr... View more info
By: Crain, Mary Beth
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Harper San Francisco: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1295447
First edition. Dust jacket edge wear, ink gift note on front free endpaper.Good. 2000 Hard Cover. 201 pp. When Mary Beth Crain lost her husband of only three years to cancer, she though she would never again know the meaning of the word happiness. Inconsolable, she couldn't imagine anything with the power to draw her out of the seemingly bottomless pit of grief. But there was a savior - or two - on the horizon, in the form of President Harry S. Truman, Mary Beth's idol, ... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Stormblock Publishing: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2268377
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2003 Hard Cover. The Crow and the Eagle describes the struggle for success that every person with vision has had to face, and how a Cy Young-winning baseball pitcher overcame those obstacles - both in the New York Yankee's golden fifties and through to his own golden years. View more info
By: De La Vega, Reena; Oyer, Deanna
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Bridges Publishing: 1998
Seller ID: 1509028
Lightly rubbed. 1998 Trade Paperback. xvi, 116 pp. A book designed to inspire women to discover their own inner power and beauty, drawing from the author's own experience in her transition from fear to wholeness. View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1521594
First edition. Address label on front endpaper, jacket rubbed & toned.Good. 1988 Hard Cover. 190 pp. This book contains 250 stories, grouped under the themes of prayer, awareness, religion, grace, the 'saints', the self, love, and truth. View more info
By: Fritz, Robert
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1989
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2268601
Revised and expanded edition. Ink marginalia, pages lightly toned. 1989 Trade Paperback. xxvii, 285 pp. A revolutionary program for creating anything, from a functional kitchen to a computer program, to a work of art, Robert Fritz demonstrates that any of us has the innate power to create. Discover the steps of creating; the importance of creating what you truly love, how to focus on the creative process to move from where you are to where you want to be, and much more. View more info
By: Gay, Francis
Price: $3.00
Publisher: D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.: 1979
Seller ID: 1294942
Pages slightly toned, light wear.Very Good. 1979 Hard Cover. A thought for each day in 1980 - a nice gift for anyone born in that year. View more info
By: Hadfield, Chris
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Back Bay Books: 2015
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 2267228
Sixth printing. A fine copy. 2015 Trade Paperback. 295, 14 pp. Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. In his bestselling An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Hadfield takes readers deep into his yea... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Western Publishing House: 1878
Seller ID: 2268489
Front free endpaper absent, hinges just beginning to weaken, lightly foxed (tissue guards heavily). 1878 Hard Cover. 607 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles, marbled edges. A guide for happy living, illustrated with numerous full-page engravings. View more info
By: Johnson, Blanche Wynne (Editor)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: B.F. Johnson Publishing Co.: 1894
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200540
First edition. Front hinge weak, page ridges foxed & stained, ink marks inside front cover. 1894 Large Hardcover. 552 pp. 102 illustrations throughout. A collection of literary excerpts with a focus on self-development. CONTENTS: APPLES OF GOLD FOR CHILDREN: Tot's Selfishness; Chubby Dixon's Prayer; Emily's Picnic; A Little Maid of the Revolution; Tom's Make-Up Party; Our Band of Mercy Story; A Real Knight; Frightened Prayers; A Labor of Love; Can't Help it; Her Name; A ... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Harlo Press: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1296938
First edition. Dust jacket edge wear, ink gift note on front free endpaper.Good. 1973 Hard Cover. 63 pp. In an age that honors abstraction and gloom it is good to discover JOY'EMS, a book that communicated gladness, and to find here only clean words - whatever their number of syllables. Happily, there is a retreat from the tortured and unintelligible (best witnessed in the appointment of Sir John Betjeman as England's seventeenth Poet Laureate) and renewed respect for pe... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: P.W. Ziegler & Co.: 1889
Seller ID: 2013806
Boards a bit rubbed, hinges loosening. 1889 Hard Cover. 600 pp. Includes 70 full-page half-tone illustrations. Green cloth, gilt titles. A collection of short works by influential and successful individuals, designed to aid the reader in developing the strong character necessary to reach personal goals. Includes contributions by Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and many others. View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: ALTI Publishing: 1991
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1510704
Signed by author. Page ridges & inside covers foxed. 1991 Trade Paperback. 208 pp. Many of us give up our lives by the time we reach twenty-one. We don't go to an early grave, thanks to medical science, but far too many of us lose our life force, our direction, our purpose. The challenge is age-old: how are we to live and enjoy our lives fully? The threefold approach set forth in this book is one practical solution to that dilemma. View more info
By: MacLeod, Ainslie
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Sounds True: 2009
Seller ID: 2268460
A very nice copy. 2009 Trade Paperback. xv, 299 pp. Have you ever sensed that your life has a deeper, more meaningful purpose, but you don't know what it is? If so, you're not alone. To help you and the millions like you, psychic Ainslie MacLeod's spirit guides have given him a systematic approach to uncovering who you really are-and the life your soul has planned for. They call it The Instruction. Now, for the first time, this unique teaching is offered as a step-by-ste... View more info
By: Ogden, Ruth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes: 1903
Seller ID: 1859250
Light foxing in front and rear matter. 1903 Small Hard Cover. 61 pp. A lovely 1903 rumination on the subject of friendship. A perfect holiday gift for any friend. View more info
By: Pausch, Randy; Zaslow, Jeffrey
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 2008
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2201736
Reprint. Includes original jacket. An exceptional copy. 2008 Hard Cover. 206 pp. 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 help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy When Randy Pausch, a computer scienc... View more info
By: Pausch, Randy; Zaslow, Jeffrey
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199866
First edition. Includes original jacket. An exceptional copy.Fine. 2008 Hard Cover. 206 pp. 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 help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy When Randy Pausch, a comp... View more info
By: Pausch, Randy; Zaslow, Jeffrey
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 2008
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2269272
Reprint. 2008 Hard Cover. x, 206 pp. 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 help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to... View more info
By: Peck, M. Scott
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1978
Seller ID: 1500055
Spine & front cover corner creased, cover & pages toned. 1978 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 320 pp. 'Life is difficult.' With this first sentence, Dr. M. Scott Peck revolutionized the way we live our lives, and it is no less true today than when it was written twenty years ago. In this guide to confronting and resolving our problems-and suffering through the changes-we learn that we can reach a higher level of self knowledge. Written in a... View more info
By: Peck, M. Scott
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1295433
First edition. Minor jacket edge wear.Near Fine. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 422 pp. From the acclaimed author of The Road Less Traveled comes the personal story of his own journey of self-discovery. On a three-week spiritual quest with his wife to see the ancient megalithic stones in the countryside of Wales, England, and Scotland, he gained insight into such issues as parenthood, holiness, romance, art, and his own shortcomings. View more info
By: Pelzer, Dave
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Omaha Press: 1995
Seller ID: 2201239
Minor wear to corners. 1995 Trade Paperback. xi, 184 pp., 4-page terminal publisher ad. This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because... View more info
