Shapiro presents a colorful panoply of rejection letters--many from famous people including A-Rod, Jimi Hendrix, and Andy Warhol--that when taken together offer humor, insight, and the comfort of shared experience.

A voyeuristic look at modern romance brings together an assortment of actual love letters, written by a diverse cross section of people, that appear exactly as they were originally written, offering candid insights into how people think about love.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

21세기 최고의 작가 조앤 롤링 어린 시절 책을 좋아하고 공상을 좋아하던 소녀는 커서 세상을 깜짝 놀라게 한 책을 씁니다. 그녀가 쓴 책은 전 세계 67개국 언어로 번역되었고 4억 권 이상 판매되어 성경 다음으로 많이 팔린 책이 되었습니다. 그녀는 가장 빨리 부자가 된 작가이며, 영국 여왕보다도 재산이 많습니다. 그녀는 바로 조앤 롤링입니다. 조앤 롤링은 다섯 살 때 처음으로 홍역에 걸린 토끼에 관한 동화를 씁니다. 하지만 그녀가 어린 시절의 꿈을 다시 찾기 위해서는 아주 먼 길을 돌아와야 했습니다. 조앤 롤링의 꿈을 지지해 주시던 어머니는 희귀병으로 돌아가시게 됩니다. 어머니를 잃고 떠난 곳에서 결혼을 하지만 결혼 생활은 곧 끝이 나고 조앤 롤링은 아이와 홀로 남겨집니다. 그녀가 일할 곳은 아무데도 없었고 정부에서 나오는 보조금이 수입의 전부인 가난 속에 놓입니다. 그녀가 할 수 있는 유일한 일은 글을 쓰는 일이었지요. 그녀는 원고를 완성해 출판사에 보내지만 열두 군데 출판사에서 거절당합니다. 하지만 그녀는 포기하지 않았고 열세 번째 출판사에서 책을 내게 됩니다. 그리고 그 책은 전 세계 어린이들을 TV와 컴퓨터 앞에서 내려와 책 앞으로 이끕니다. 그녀의 책 해리 포터 이야기 못지않게 흥미로운 조앤 롤링의 이야기를 만날 수 있습니다. 권말에 있는 워크북에는 단어 찾기, 단어 퀴즈, 문장 표현 연습, 나만의 주문 만들기, 종이 접기 등이 들어 있습니다.

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.