Extract: Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr Julie Smith
Discover how to stay motivated in accomplishing your goals this year with an extract from clinical psychologist Dr Julie Smith’s book, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Archive - Jan 27, 2023
Extract: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Practical advice and techniques for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. Carnegie’s advice will teach you how to make friends quickly and easily; increase your popularity; persuade people to follow your way of thinking; enable you to win new clients and customers; become a better speaker; and boost enthusiasm among your colleagues.
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Extract: Still Me by Jojo Moyes
Lou Clark knows too many things ... She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to meet someone who’s going to turn her whole life upside down. Because Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it’ll hurt.
Extract: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright – restless, stifled – makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours work over his wife, is not the adventure – or the escape – that she hoped for. That is, until she meets Margery O’Hare, a troublesome woman – and daughter of a notorious felon – the town wishes to forget.
Extract: After You by Jojo Moyes
Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar. Whether her family can ever forgive her. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What she knows for certain is that something has to change. Then it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for? Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it and she risks everything. But Lou once made a promise to live.
Extract: The Good Life by Marc Schulz and Robert J. Waldinger
What is the key to a good life? Directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, bring together over 80 years of research to reveal the true components of a happy, fulfilled life. In their ground-breaking book, The Good Life.