Nutrisystem and Dr. Andy Baldwin’s My Way Diet

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With the New Year just past us, thousands of Americans made the resolution to lose weight and live healthier in 2014. Though weight loss is one of the top resolutions made year after year, a study published last January in the Journal of Clinical Psychology revealed that only 8% of people actually completed their resolutions.

Dr. Andy Baldwin, MD, is a board-certified family and lifestyle physician, iron-man triathlete and humanitarian. Dr. Baldwin is a firm believer in educating Americans about the warning signs of diabetes and the importance of healthy weight maintenance in the battle against the disease. He is also known to the American television audience for his role on the tenth season of The Bachelor. Working alongside Nutrisystem, Dr. Andy Baldwin has helped many diet-resolution-keepers maintain their goals and get their fitness back on track.

 

 

Foul Trouble By John Feinstein

 

Terrell Jamerson is the #1 high school basketball player in the country. His team is poised to win the state championship. He’s got top colleges lined up to offer him scholarships. Press coverage at every game. Everyone says he could play in the NBA tomorrow. From all outward appearances, Terrell is living the dream.  But his best friend, Danny Wilcox, would tell you a different story. Danny is his teammate, and a top prospect himself. But he sees that not all of the people buzzing around Terrell have his best interests at heart. The sneaker guys, the money managers, the college boosters–they’re all so eager to help. But their kind of help comes with strings attached, and could get Terrell investigated by the NCAA.  In between exciting play-by-play scenes of a tension-filled, high-stakes basketball season, there’s an equally tense gamesmanship happening off the court. It’s a dirty game, but Terrell will have to learn to play if he wants his chance at a slam dunk.

FOUL TROUBLE takes readers deep inside the seedy underbelly of big time college basketball recruiting, where nothing is as it seems . . . and everyone is playing to win. School Library Journal calls it “A riveting, cautionary tale about behind-the-scenes, big-money pressures confronting talented high school athletes” and goes on to say, “Readers will breathlessly await Terrell’s final decision.”

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Finding The Next Steve Jobs By Nolan Bushnell

 

Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari, the restaurant chain Chuck E. Cheese’s, and two dozen other companies. Widely regarded as the father of video games, Bushnell is one of the most creative and prolific innovators of our time. He also launched the career of Steve Jobs along with many other brilliant creatives over the course of his five decades in business. In his eagerly awaited first book, Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep and Nurture Talent, Bushnell uses his long-time friendship and mentor-employee relationship with Jobs as an example of how to identify and foster excellent work in brilliant employees. With 52 lessons—or Pongs—and written in Bushnell’s inimitable voice, Finding the Next Steve Jobs offers practical, unique, first-hand  advice to hiring the kind of talent that could make any business a creative powerhouse like Apple, AirBnb, and Amazon, or like Atari, or Chuck E. Cheese’s in their day.

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“An absolutely invaluable book by the founder of Atari and the man who launched Steve Jobs’s career.”

—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

 

The Tell by Matthew Hertenstein

Just as expert poker players use their opponents’ tells to see through their bluffs, Hertenstein shows that we can likewise train ourselves to read physical cues to significantly increase our powers of prediction. By looking for certain clues, we can accurately call everything from election results to the likelihood of marital success, IQ scores to sexual orientation—even from flimsy evidence, such as an old yearbook photo or a silent one-minute video. Moreover, by understanding how people read our body language, we can adjust our own behavior so as to face our next job interview or snag a date.

Drawing on rigorous research in psychology and brain science, Hertenstein shows us how to hone our powers of observation to increase our predictive capacities. A testament to the power of the human mind, The Tell, to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, shows us how to observe what we see.

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Mennonite Meets Mr. Right By Rhoda Janzen

Rhoda Janzen, author of the # 1 New York Times bestselling Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, is back with MENNONITE MEETS MR. RIGHT: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Love, a hilarious and heartfelt memoir about her return to faith and love, all while facing some serious Lady Problems.

What does it mean to give church a try when you haven’t really tried since you were twelve?  At the end of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen had reconnected with her family and her roots, though her future felt uncertain.  But when she starts dating a churchgoer, this skeptic begins a surprising journey to faith and love.  Instead of returning to the dignified simplicity of the Mennonites, she finds herself hanging with the Pentecostals, who know how to get down with sparkler pom-poms.  Amid the hand waving and hallelujahs Rhoda finds a faith richly practical for life – just in time to stare down breast cancer, embrace an unexpected romance and fall in love with a quirky new family.

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The Aviators By Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle and Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight

 

Groom’s rich narrative tells their intertwined stories—from broken homes to Medals of Honor (which all three would receive); barnstorming to the greatest raid of World War II; front-page triumph to anguished tragedy; and near death to ultimate survival—as all took to the sky, time and again, to become exemplars of the spirit of the “greatest generation.” He has crafted a narrative steeped in the romance of this epic era of flight, alive with adventure and suspense.

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From Winston Groom, the best-selling author of Forrest Gump, Shiloh 1862, and Vicksburg 1863, comes the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight and redefined heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage, THE AVIATORS: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle and Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight.

 

The Bully Pulpit Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism BY Doris Kearns Goodwin

 

The gap between rich and poor has never been wider . . . legislative stalemate paralyzes the country . . . corporations resist federal regulations . . . spectacular mergers produce giant companies . . . the influence of money in politics deepens . . . bombs explode in crowded streets . . . small wars proliferate far from our shores . . . a dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life.

Fall Books PreviewThese unnervingly familiar headlines serve as the backdrop for bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin’s highly anticipated THE BULLY PULPIT—a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air.

The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine—Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White—teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S. S. McClure.

The Bully Pulpit, like Goodwin’s brilliant chronicles of the Civil War and World War II, exquisitely demonstrates her distinctive ability to combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It is a major work of history—an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought the country closer to its founding ideals.

Inside The White House: Stories From The Worlds Most Famous Residence BY NOEL GROVE WITH WILLIAM B. BUSHONG AND JOEL D. TREESE

Take a tour of the most iconic building in America!

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Stories from the World’s Most Famous Residence

National Geographic, in collaboration with the White House Historical Association, welcomes you into the White House with a vivid account of this symbolic building and all that has happened within it in INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE: Stories from the World’s Most Famous Residence.

Walk the halls roamed by one commander-in-chief after another. Meet Rebecca the raccoon and Rex the King Charles spaniel, along with all of the other cherished pets that have lived on the property. Appreciate the incredible responsibilities of the house staff and the prominent architecture of the remarkable building. Get to know the families of the presidents and delve into the rumors, conspiracies, and controversies surrounding their lives. Enter the doors of America’s rich history with fascinating images, anecdotes, and records, some never-before published, that vividly recount all the incredible happenings that went on within the walls of the White House and the corresponding actions of the country.

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Through all the tragedies and joys, the White House has stood as an icon of the American dream and the strength of the United States, as a nation. After reading this book, you will never see 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue quite the same!                                                   “Past the famous gleaming columns and through the curved portico, you are entering an iconic house, well known to the world and home to the President of the United States and his family. Each room and each piece of furniture tells a story.”     -Former First Lady, Laura Bush

Johnny Cash: The Life By Robert Hilburn

The life of Johnny Cash has always been one to follow, but this book will make you feel like an insider!   

johnnycashIn JOHNNY CASH, Hilburn tells the complete story of Johnny Cash for the first time. He covers Cash’s artistic career and turbulent life, from his days growing up poor in Depression-era rural Arkansas, working the cotton fields of his family’s farm, to becoming one of the true icons of 20th-century popular music. Of the many great rock and country arrivals in the 1950s, Cash was one of the few who approached his music as more than hits for the jukebox. He wanted to inspire and uplift people. As Hilburn shows, Cash was the crucial link between Woody Guthrie’s music of social idealism in the 1930s and 1940s and Bob Dylan’s music of revolution in the 1960s and beyond. Singing of love, loss, hardship, and faith, Cash was one of the first artists to recognize that he could use his music and fame to affect social attitudes, and offer hope to those downtrodden by society.

 “A definitive biography of my father that is excruciatingly honest, rigorously researched, and has the depth and integrity that the subject demands.”
—Rosanne Cash

Rob Delaney Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage

“Twitter’s most outrageous voice goes big with hilarious, raw memoir…Delaney writes harrowingly and hilariously about his plunge into alcoholism as a teenager and his rehabilitation during his twenties.” —Rolling Stone

“A book as funny, sincere, weird, wet, and wonderful as Rob Delaney himself.”  —Jimmy Kimmel

robdelaneyRob Delaney has been named the “Funniest Person on Twitter” by Comedy Central and one of the “50 Funniest People” by Rolling Stone.  His new collection of autobiographical essays about childhood, fatherhood, sex, addiction and recovery, make him a writer worth watching.

 

“Rob’s transition from Tweets to book is like a gold medal sprinter winning the marathon the next day.
I am jealous and angry.” —Seth Meyers