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The Secrets of Happy Families

Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

Bruce Feiler spoke to experts from a range of disciplines — everything from the military to software firms — for ideas on how to raise happier families. With his wife and two children, Feiler tested these methods, and in this book, he shares the best strategies for drawing your family closer together.

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• Book Review: 'The Secrets Of Happy Families'
• Control The Chaos With 'Secrets Of Happy Families'

Days That I'll Remember

Spending Time With John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and in Days That I'll Remember, recounts the course of those friendships over the decades and provides an intimate look at two of the most astonishing cultural figures of our time.

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• Days With John And Yoko: A Writer Remembers

Never Goin' Back

Winning the Weight-Loss Battle for Good

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• Al Roker On Being 'The Jolly Fat Person'
• Al Roker On Being The 'Jolly Fat Person'

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling numerous medical and scientific discoveries.NPR Bestseller

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• 'Immortal' Cells Of Henrietta Lacks Live On In Labs
• College Freshmen Learn From 'Henrietta Lacks'
• Tracing The 'Immortal' Cells Of Henrietta Lacks

Thrive

Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way

The first book to identify demographically proven "happiness hotspots" worldwide documents the happiest people on Earth and reveals how people can create their own happy zones.

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• How To 'Thrive': Short Commutes, More Happy Hours
• New In Paperback: Oct. 17 - 23
• How To 'Thrive': Short Commutes, More Happy Hours

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons in the 2004 Sri Lankan tsunami. In this searing, unflinching memoir, she allows herself to remember the life that she lost — and learns to balance that terrible loss with her need to keep her family alive in her heart.

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• 'Wave' Tells A True Story Of Survival And Loss In The 2004 Tsunami
• Exclusive First Read: 'Wave' By Sonali Deraniyagala

The Terror Courts

Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

When the United States captured hundreds of suspected terrorists and imprisoned them at Guantanamo Bay, the detainment of these individuals was just the start of the story. The Terror Courts describes the legal, political, and moral issues that arose when Americans attempted to prosecute these men, and describes the consequences of creating a parallel system for legal justice.

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• A Bona Fide American Tragedy In 'The Terror Courts'

Honeybee Democracy

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• The Filibuster Solution, Or 'What If Honeybees Ran The U.S. Senate?'

Sticks and Stones

Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy

Through the stories of three young bullying victims, Emily Bazalon explores the community-wide impact of teenage cruelty.

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• Today's Bullied Teens Subject To 'Sticks And Stones' Online, Too

The Heavy

A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet: A Memoir

An expansion of the author's controversial "Up Front" column in Vogue magazine describes her family's efforts to help her clinically obese, seven-year-old daughter to lose weight, recounting how their progress was challenged by judgmental and conflictingdetractors.

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• Why One Mom Put Her 7-Year-Old On A Diet

The Outpost

An Untold Story of American Valor

Jake Tapper investigates the history of Compound Outpost Keating, a U.S. camp in Afghanistan that was the site of a deadly Taliban attack in 2009. A Pentagon investigation later concluded that there was no reason for Outpost Keating to have been there in the first place.

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• Jake Tapper: 'The Outpost' That Never Should Have Been

Avoiding Armageddon

America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

India and Pakistan will be among the most important countries in the twenty-first century. In Avoiding Armageddon, Bruce Riedel explains the challenge and the importance of successfully managing America's affairs with these two emerging powers and their toxic relationship.

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• Tina Brown's Must Reads: The Post-Sept. 11 World

Erasing Death

The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death

Drawing from meticulous research, one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death, the human mind-brain relationship and near-death experiences demystifies what happens to human consciousness during and after death.

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• 'Erasing Death' Explores The Science Of Resuscitation

The Cleanest Race

How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters

North Korea analyst B.R. Myers presents a view of North Korea through the eyes of its citizens. He argues that the late Kim Jong Il guided his regime through a paranoid, race-based nationalism with roots in Japanese fascist thought.

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• Questions About North Korea? What To Read To Understand

North Korea Through the Looking Glass

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• Questions About North Korea? What To Read To Understand

The Aquariums of Pyongyang

Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

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• Questions About North Korea? What To Read To Understand