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Stay or Leave

How to remain in, or end, your relationship

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future.Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront.What makes the issue so hard is that there are no fixed rules for judgement. How can we tell whether a relationship is 'good enough' or plain wrong? ... Read more

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A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future.Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront.What makes the issue so hard is that there are no fixed rules for judgement. How can we tell whether a relationship is 'good enough' or plain wrong?
... Read more

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Dealing with the Dead

A Novel

by Alain Mabanckou ...

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRFrom one of Africa’s greatest living writers, a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history"Alain Mabanckou addresses the reader with exuberant inventiveness in novels that are brilliantly imaginative in their forms of storytelling. His voice is vividly colloquial, mischievous and often outrageous as he explores, from multiple angles, the country where he ... Read more

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Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRFrom one of Africa’s greatest living writers, a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history"Alain Mabanckou addresses the reader with exuberant inventiveness in novels that are brilliantly imaginative in their forms of storytelling. His voice is vividly colloquial, mischievous and often outrageous as he explores, from multiple angles, the country where he
... Read more
On Love

A Novel

by Alain de Botton ...

**The New York Times–bestselling author's modern classic that "takes a conventional love story and textures it with philosophical ruminations" ( Kirkus Reviews).A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love story—from first kiss to first argument, elation to heartbreak, and everything in between. Each stage of the relationship is illuminated ... Read more

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**The New York Times–bestselling author's modern classic that "takes a conventional love story and textures it with philosophical ruminations" ( Kirkus Reviews).A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love story—from first kiss to first argument, elation to heartbreak, and everything in between. Each stage of the relationship is illuminated
... Read more
What They Forgot To Teach You At School

Essential emotional lessons needed to thrive

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

A collection of the essential emotional lessons we need in order to thrive.We probably went to school for what felt like a very long time. We probably took care with our homework. Along the way we surely learnt intriguing things about equations, the erosion of glaciers, the history of the Founding Fathers, and the tenses of foreign languages.But why, despite all the lessons we sat through, were we ... Read more

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A collection of the essential emotional lessons we need in order to thrive.We probably went to school for what felt like a very long time. We probably took care with our homework. Along the way we surely learnt intriguing things about equations, the erosion of glaciers, the history of the Founding Fathers, and the tenses of foreign languages.But why, despite all the lessons we sat through, were we
... Read more

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The Good Enough Parent

How to raise contented, interesting, and resilient children

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

A compassionate guide to raising resilient, authentic, well-rounded children.The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of life lessons, including how to say 'No', how to look beneath the surface of "bad" behavior to find the root of what is going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, and how to handle the moodiness of adolescence.Rather than striving for perfection, the book argues, the ... Read more

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A compassionate guide to raising resilient, authentic, well-rounded children.The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of life lessons, including how to say 'No', how to look beneath the surface of "bad" behavior to find the root of what is going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, and how to handle the moodiness of adolescence.Rather than striving for perfection, the book argues, the
... Read more

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How to Survive the Modern World

Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair, and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource ... Read more

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A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair, and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource
... Read more

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A Simpler Life

A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied, and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared down, peaceful, and focused on the essentials.But finding simplicity is not always easy; it ... Read more

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This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied, and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared down, peaceful, and focused on the essentials.But finding simplicity is not always easy; it
... Read more

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How to Find the Right Words

A guide to delivering life's most awkward messages

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

Twenty case studies explaining how to gently deliver a range of life’s most awkward messages while causing minimal harm.Life constantly requires us to give other people some hugely awkward messages: that we don’t love them anymore; that we do love them (though we’re not meant to); that they smell a bit; that they’re fired; that we’re furious with them (though we adore them) or that their music is ... Read more

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Twenty case studies explaining how to gently deliver a range of life’s most awkward messages while causing minimal harm.Life constantly requires us to give other people some hugely awkward messages: that we don’t love them anymore; that we do love them (though we’re not meant to); that they smell a bit; that they’re fired; that we’re furious with them (though we adore them) or that their music is
... Read more
How to Overcome Your Childhood

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned in childhood.As we try to navigate the complexities and anxieties of adulthood, considering our childhoods can feel like a daunting task. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember, let alone relate to, the little person we used to be. But one of the most powerful explanations for why ... Read more

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A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned in childhood.As we try to navigate the complexities and anxieties of adulthood, considering our childhoods can feel like a daunting task. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember, let alone relate to, the little person we used to be. But one of the most powerful explanations for why
... Read more
Dear Roxane: From Yan Diomandé

by Alain Nzeyimana ...

"Dear Roxane: From Yan Diomandé". Yan Diomandé — a football superstar from Ivory Coast — once struggled to find a team until Sister Roxane believed in him. She passed away before seeing him make it. This is his raw, emotional letter telling her: "I made it." ... Read more

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"Dear Roxane: From Yan Diomandé". Yan Diomandé — a football superstar from Ivory Coast — once struggled to find a team until Sister Roxane believed in him. She passed away before seeing him make it. This is his raw, emotional letter telling her: "I made it."
... Read more
On Confidence

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

Series series Essay Books
Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn.Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us in the course of our everyday lives: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, asking someone on the train to turn down their music, changing the world.This is a ... Read more

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Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn.Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us in the course of our everyday lives: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, asking someone on the train to turn down their music, changing the world.This is a
... Read more

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How to Find Love

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

Series series Essay Books
A practical guide to making wiser, more informed choices in love.Finding and choosing a partner is one of the most consequential decisions we will ever make. This guide explains everything from why we have "types" and how our early lives inform our romantic decisions as adults. It sheds light on harmful and repetitive patterns and provides insight on how to break them.Drawing on in-depth analysis, ... Read more

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A practical guide to making wiser, more informed choices in love.Finding and choosing a partner is one of the most consequential decisions we will ever make. This guide explains everything from why we have "types" and how our early lives inform our romantic decisions as adults. It sheds light on harmful and repetitive patterns and provides insight on how to break them.Drawing on in-depth analysis,
... Read more

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