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How to Win Friends and Influence People

8 reviews
Dale Carnegie

Vermilion, 2007

Required reading for any entrepreneur
Paul Graham (Hackers and Painters) has mentioned that an important read for preparing to start your own business is How To Win Friends and Influence People. I'm happy to report that this gem from 1936 is timeless and truly life-changing. I believe Paul's reasons for the recommendation include: the importance of charisma, general rounding out one's personality, and finding ways to get ...

How to Lose All Your Friends (Picture Puffins)

12 reviews
Nancy Carlson

Puffin, 1997

Good book to explain children about frienship
My son has been being bully at school, he is a very innocent child, he's in the second grade. Since he wants to be like within the circle of children in his classroom, he will do things that can be annoying to others, meanwhile he's doing these things to be cool and be liked. I highly recommend this book, is very age appropiate, he reads the book at all times, and he can also distinguish who is ...

My Best Friend's Girl

17 reviews
Dorothy Koomson

Bantam Discovery, 2008

Great with a capital "G"
I bought this book on the fly for myself and one for my Daughter. I have not had time to read in a while and had put a few other books down that didnt grab my attention enough. This book not only grabbed my attention but I could not put it down!! I cried, I laughed and fell in love with the characters. I am an adopted child whose mother died when I was young so I could completely relate to the ...

My Friend Leonard

374 reviews
James Frey

Riverhead Hardcover, 2005

GET THIS BOOK!
AWESOME BOOK! It's entertaining, touching and a beautiful sequel to one of my all time favorite books. I don't care what Oprah says, this author is amazing. His style is relatable, and the content makes every book a page turner. If you're looking for a raw, gripping novel, I highly suggest picking up a copy.

How to Win Friends & Influence People

591 reviews
Dale Carnegie

Pocket, 1998

Making friends made easy...
Is it possible to learn how to make friends? Read this and find out for yourself... Revolutionary.

NOT "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity

64 reviews
Shirley Glass

Free Press, 2004

Right On Target
This book is exactly what was needed for my boyfriend and I. The book references married couples, but our relationship is headed in that direction. We broke up 2 years prior based on an inappropriate relationship he had with another woman. We recently got back together but have had a difficult time moving past our previous issues. We got this book and have been reading it together. We are still ...

To My Dearest Friends (Vintage Contemporaries)

15 reviews
Patricia Volk

Vintage, 2008

Wonderful read for women in midlife years
I read Patricia Volk's memoir, Stuffed, several years ago and remember thinking that she described people so well that I felt I had really seen or met them. She has used same ability to bring characters to life in this recent novel. The book begins in a rather confusing way. Two women who don't know each other are requested to be at a lawyer's office to receive the key to a safety deposit box ...

Frog and Toad Are Friends (I Can Read Book 2)

46 reviews

HarperTrophy, 1979

Help a child learn to read
The Frog and Toad books have helped my 8 year old grandson learn to read--he has been having trouble and these books were so interesting and fun to him that he finally realized how reading could open up whole new worlds for him. He loves these books.

How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them (Dino Life Guides for Families)

17 reviews
Laurie Krasny Brown

Little, Brown Young Readers, 2001

Fun and a great teaching tool
How to be a friend is such a nice book. It is like an instruction manual for kids who have difficulties making friends. It shows what is acceptable and what others find attractive in a friend. It tells directly what is annoying or inappropriate. I read this to my entire class, which consists of general education students and children on the autism spectrum (Asberger). I used it early in the ...

How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners (Revised & Updated Edition)

151 reviews
The Monks of New Skete

Little, Brown and Company, 2002

This is the best book I have ever read on dog training, and I have read many.
I got this book from a friend and have absolutely loved it. This book should be owned by all dog owners and breeders. This is the best book I have ever read on dog training, and I have read many. By the time you are half-way through this book you feel as if you and your dog actually understand each other. That's a result that speak for itself! Also check these books: Why Do Dogs Drink Out of ...

Best Friends for Never (The Clique, No. 2)

87 reviews
Lisi Harrison

Poppy, 2004

The clique is back!
Best friends for never leaves off from the last book where Claire and Massie become sorta/kinda friends. After a dress code scandal that involves pretty much the whole school and is led by the pretty committee minus Claire principal Burns announces that a dress code will have to be put into place immediately! After a long board meeting a descission is made that Octavian Country day school will ...

A Line Between Friends

21 reviews
Michele, VanOrt Cozzens

McKenna Publishing Group, 2006

Fantastic first novel
I have read Michele Cozzens' I'M LIVING YOUR DREAM LIFE and THE THINGS I WISH I'D SAID, so I was a big fan to begin with. But this was something I was not ready for...one of the most brilliantly written works of fiction I've read in years. I can see why it won an award. The book contains some extraordinary writing, with humourous and insightful details sprinkled throughout. I cannot say enough ...

Good Friends Are Hard to Find: Help Your Child Find, Make, and Keep Friends

10 reviews
Fred Frankel, Barry Wetmore

Perspective Publishing, 1996

Hard to Find and Hard to Keep
"Friendship is a mutual relationship formed with affection and commitment between people who consider themselves equals." Life changes fast. Your friends are changing and you are changing and at times friends will go off in different directions. Lately someone told me a story about a friend who was like an angel to them and only appeared in their life when they needed her. She also ...

Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without

23 reviews
Tom Rath

Gallup Press, 2006

Friends--- More Than Just a "Good Idea"
I've heard of good friends, close friends, old friends, casual friends, best friends, even "just" friends, but I had never heard the word "vital" to describe friends until this book. And that is exactly what Tom Rath proceeds to explain, that having friends, real, meaningful engaged relationships, is absolutely vital to our health, our well-being, and our personal and professional success. Not ...

Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics)

50 reviews
Charles Dickens

Modern Library, 2002

Down by the river, up from the river
The last completed novel by Dickens is also one of the darkest and, in my opinion, one of the best. The plot, as usual, is too dense and complex to be treatd here in detail. The story centers around one John Harmon, back from abroad to claim the inheritance from his deceased, horrible, and miser of a father. For reasons that are never explained (one of the several loose ends of the book), Old ...

Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

8 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

Free Press, 2008

So Grateful for My "Old Friend"
I read this book through once, without doing any of the exercises, and I felt as if I was sitting across the table from my old friend, Natalie. I felt like we were drinking tea and chatting over tasty cookies and not worrying about the clock.... I was wearing my favorite comfy-yet-stylish sweat clothes... I am not sure what she is wearing but I do know she looks stunningly beautiful. Then I ...

African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa (Publications in Ethnography, Vol. 37)

11 reviews
David E. Maranz

SIL International, 2001

Read this before you arrive.
Essential reading for any Westerner going to live in Africa. Might also be useful to Africans living in the West, or with Western friends and colleagues.

My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

10 reviews
Abigail Adams, John Adams

Belknap Press, 2007

Outstanding
This book is a wonderful adjunct to the HBO series and David Mc Cullough's brilliant book.."John Adams". I have never been devoted to our American history, preferring instead Ancient cultures. I see what I have missed and vow to read more about the brave and devoted men and women who, indeed ,created our country. The love affair between John and Abigail seemed to provide the great man, as well ...

How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends

33 reviews
Don Gabor

Fireside, 2001

P-E-R-F-E-C-T!!!
Another awsome book for women which I love and recommend - How to be a Super Hot Woman: 339 Tips to Make Every Man Fall in Love with You and Every Woman Envy You Both books are a must read!

Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children

11 reviews
Michael Thompson, Cathe O'Neill-Grace, ...

Ballantine Books, 2002

This book is important.
Alice Miller (author of The Drama of the Gifted Child and Breaking Down the Walls of Silence) has long emphasized that if we are serious about solving society's problems, we must focus on how we treat children --- as individual families and as a cultural. This book is an excellent contribution toward that end. From thought-provoking observations to practical suggestions about solutions, Best ...

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