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1) Atomic habits: tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones

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#1 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 209 week(s).

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A leading expert on habit formation reveals practical strategies to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

2) The Pioneer Woman cooks: dinner's ready : 112 fast and fabulous recipes for slightly impatient home cooks

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Drummond, Ree

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#2 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Food Network favorite The Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond returns with an exciting new cookbook filled with no-fuss family recipes for dinners, desserts, and more. Cook smarter, not harder! After seventeen years of sharing recipes in my cookbooks, on my website, and on my cooking show, I still absolutely love cooking! That said, while I enjoy making a slow-cooked meat sauce or long-braised pork roast, life...

3) Be useful: seven tools for life

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Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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#3 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone. The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke. But this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And...

4) The creative act: a way of being

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Rubin, Rick

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#4 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 45 week(s).

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"From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which...

5) How to know a person: the art of seeing others deeply and being deeply seen

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Brooks, David

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#5 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen--to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood." And yet we humans don't do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better,...

6) Baking yesteryear: the best recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s

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Hollis, B. Dylan

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#6 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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"A decade-by-decade collection of wild, wacky, and wonderful recipes from the 20th century"--Back cover. Travel back on a delicious decade-by-decade jaunt as Hollis shows you how to bake vintage forgotten greats. From Chocolate potato cake to Avocado pie, he has collected these recipes from antique cookbooks from the 1900s to the 1980s. Some are spectacular failures-- and others are disastrously strange. Others are delightful blasts from the past...

7) Hidden potential: the science of achieving greater things

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Grant, Adam

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#7 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and...

8) Not that fancy: simple lessons on living, loving, eating, and dusting off your boots

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McEntire, Reba

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#8 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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In Not That Fancy, GRAMMY-award winning singer and actress Reba McEntire shares life lessons, behind-the-scenes stories and photos, and her favorite comfort food recipes to inspire you to enjoy the simple things in life.

9) The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse

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Mackesy, Charlie

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#9 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 207 week(s).

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A reminder of the most important things in life. A book of hope for uncertain times. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most poignant life lessons. Charlie's first book includes his most-loved illustrations and new ones too. The conversations of the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, hung on hospital walls and turned into...

10) Magnolia Table: Volume 3 :a collection of recipes for gathering

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Gaines, Joanna

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#10 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list for 2023-12-10. It has been on the list for 16 week(s).

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In this, her third cookbook, Joanna shares the recipes--old and new--that she's enjoyed the most over the years. The result is a cookbook filled with recipes that are timeless, creative, and delicious! Just as in her past books, within each recipe Joanna speaks to the reader, explaining why she likes a recipe, what inspired her to create it in the first place, and how she prefers to serve it. The book is beautifully photographed and filled with dishes...