A Good Housekeeping Best Book of the Year "Every sentence shines with wit, originality, and sharp observations." --The Boston Globe A razor-sharp, deeply felt novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, an enigmatic, brilliant, yet perverse, teacher who instructs his students not only about how to reason, but how to prevaricate. As the years go by, LaVerdere's covert and overt instruction lingers in his students' lives as they seek some sense of purpose or meaning. When Ben feels the pace of his life accelerating and views his intimate relationships as less and less fulfilling, there seems to be a subtext he's not able to access. And what, really, did Bailey Academy teach him? While relationships with his stepmother and sister improve, and a move to upstate New York offers respite from his anxiety about love and work, LaVerdere's reappearance in his life disturbs his equilibrium. Everything he once thought he knew about his teacher--and himself--is called into question. Written by one of our most iconic writers, known for casting a cold eye on her generation's ambivalence and sometimes mistaken ambition, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is a keenly observed psychological study of a man who alternates between careful driving and hazardous risk taking, as he struggles to incorporate his past into the vertiginous present.

When an occupational therapist suffers a massive stroke while attending a wedding in her native England, she can’t believe it. Janet R. Douglas emerges from a coma weeks later at a Chicago hospital where she once worked. Her left side is totally paralyzed, her eyesight impaired, her memory and identity lost. Trapped in the present, she finds herself talking in German even though she has seldom spoken the language since high school. With no understanding of the severity of her problems, she resists therapy, thinking she doesn’t need it. Despite all odds, she returns to her high-powered job only to find herself cast adrift by a corporate reorganization. With time on her hands, she carries out her own research to find out how damage to one specific part of the brain affects behavior. From the perspective of both therapist and patient, Douglas explains the impact of stroke, how it makes the simplest tasks difficult, and how the visible disabilities it causes are just the tip of the iceberg. Join Douglas on a decade-long quest to recapture her identity so she can once again enjoy family, work, and travel in A Wonderful Stroke of Luck.

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Welcome to the book "As my Portuguese Grandfather said - Guidelines for Reinventing Yourself in the Covid-19 era." Black Swans are unexpected, unlikely events that take place in our lives. The Covid-19 pandemic is a low-probability, high-impact black swan event. This is a book of guidance and self-help to address these events that transform our lives forever. To address them, we need to start again and face life head-on. You have to reinvent yourself. To address them, we need to start again and face life head-on. You have to reinvent yourself. The author uses phrases that his Portuguese grandparents applied when life demanded to simplify, lift the mood, face, overcome difficulties and touch the lives forward. The phrases are distributed throughout the book utilized in the best situations to illustrate the context with suggested arguments as guidelines to reinvent yourself. The book covers topics and guidelines that will give you an incentive to an upset, as did our grandparents, fighting and reinventing itself several times in his life. About the book This book seeks to provide guidance for facing unexpected, improbable events that happen in our lives and transform us. It aims to: - Awaken your winning instinct by providing information, guidance, and knowledge to seek alternative paths after unexpected events. - Collaborate to face disasters that happen in life without explanation or time marked. Alert that you can start over, to reinvent yourself. - Guide by providing ideas and suggestions to make you more confident to start over, developing new goals and plans in your life. - Reinvent yourself in the sense of an alert, a ray of light that hit you, causing changes in attitudes and actions to seek a better life. What will we learn in this book? Let's learn how it's possible to reinvent yourself to face unexpected events in our lives, like Covid-19. The book is organized into two parts that guided us in this task. 1 - To overcome black swan events and Reinvent yourself: - Be self-critical and resilient. Have courage and overcome fear; - Enjoy the gifts received from God; - Develop intuition, our sixth sense for survival; - Develop skills and competencies in new areas; - Learn to have focus and productivity. Avoid digital distraction. - Learn to use the time well. Long live the present moment; - Learn to dream and to develop scenarios for the future; - Learn from mistakes, pray, have faith and positive attitudes; - Learn to live with losses. Get rid of nonconformity; - Enjoy the Pygmalion effect to come out ahead again; - Beware of chaos, insignificant events that change lives. 2 - Some techniques and factors that can help you Reinvent yourself: - Reinvent yourself with longevity; - Reinvent yourself as an entrepreneur; - Be a friend of Pareto and apply the 80/20 rule; - Learn from top performers and become one of them; - Take practical advice from geniuses and entrepreneurs; - Apply the 5-hour rule to learn new things; - Learn to have more focus with the Pomodoro technique; - Reinvent yourself in human relationships; This book can be a guide in your life, so you can realize reinventing yourself importance, seek alternative ways, and come out victorious. Regards. Author José Antonio (Zezinho).

This book is my humble contribution to the world, a naive attempt to transpire my own experiences of what it took of me to stand for aspirations so big, that it took me awhile just to understand that I need to" give up nothing" in order to achieve them. This book is for everyone who loves to live life to its fullest. It is about embracing your fears of exploring life, love, breakthroughs, breakdowns and choices. It's about knowing what it takes to stand for your own dreams. This book has made an attempt to touch, move and inspire all those, particularly young leaders who stand for their aspirations in the face of no possibility. In process of writing this book in past 8 years I got that: I'm here for the results and the opportunity of living in pure & honest intentions. I'm the possibility of being a river of dreams and miracles through commitment. I am here to have my life be on the hot seat..., to be willing to go through breakdowns or whatever else happens to get to the breakthroughs that give me my life. I'm here to invent new ways of being-based on nothing to show up in my life and in the world. I am here because in my intuitive heart I know that my life on earth revolves around bringing the new modes of conversations into the world, especially with researchers and for world peace. I'm here to give my love to others, because I can and because it is the same love that they have for me." The book " My Dreams Are Not For Sale" is a literary masterpiece, an humble contribution to the world. The author tries to share her profound experiences in order to achieve her goals in life! An eye-opening, non-fiction, motivational genre book, allows one to understand the virtues behing living the life to its fullest. The book discusses different facets of life vis-a-vis authors insights on breakthroughs, breakdowns, love, making the right choices, and commitment! The book empowers and inspires you, as it takes you through the journey of life's miracles that are awaiting for you to own them! A profoundly honest, and captivating work, this book is a literary beacon of hope!