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My Seinfeld Year

You’d know Fred Stoller if you saw him. He has appeared on practically every great sitcom you’ve ever seen―Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, and Murphy Brown just to name a few. But he has never been a regular on a series, always the guest star. He longs to find a showbiz home. Instead, he is a television foster child, shuttling from show to show in the vain hope that one will finally agree to keep him. My Seinfeld Year tells the hysterical and bittersweet story of what happened when Stoller finally got a shot at the showbiz stability he’d always dreamed of―as a staff writer on one of the biggest television shows in history.

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Monday Motivation: A year of fitness motivation

Mondays can be kind of rough, especially when you’re trying to set healthy habits. Guess what? They don’t have to be hard! I have come up with a year’s worth of Monday Motivation, tips, inspirational quotes, and a few recipes. Make this year be the year you finally achieve those fitness goals you’ve been setting for years!

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The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, The Daily Henry James is a little book from a great mind. First published with James’s approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom—a limited edition quote-of-the-day collection titled The Henry James Year Book—this new edition is a gift across time, arriving as we mark the centenary of his death. Drawing on the Master’s novels, essays, reviews, plays, criticism, and travelogues, The Daily Henry James offers a series of impressions (for if not of impressions, of what was James fond?) to carry us through the year.

From the deepest longings of Isabel Archer to James’s insights in The Art of Fiction, longer seasonal quotes introduce each month, while concise bits of wisdom and whimsy mark each day. To take but one example: Isabel, in a quote from The Portrait of a Lady for September 30, muses, “She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.” Featuring a new foreword by James biographer Michael Gorra as well as the original introductions by James and his good friend William Dean Howells, this long-forgotten perennial calendar will be an essential bibelot for James’s most ardent devotees and newest converts alike, a treasure to be cherished daily, across all seasons, for years, for ages to come.

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A Year of Stories: Cobalt Blue

At the beginning of 2016, Steve Spalding – author of Founder’s Saga and creator of the popular podcast Steve Reads Stories – challenged himself to write one piece of short fiction, every weekday, for a full year. This collection, Cobalt Blue, is the first in a series of books to chronicle that journey.

Inside are 20 original tales, ranging from a contemporary fantasy piece about relationships, gods and the weather (“Partly Cloudy”), to a science fiction short that follows an aging treasure hunter as he searches the galaxy for his lost son (“The Fire and the Black”).

After every story, Steve gives insight into his inspiration, the writing process, and the challenges of 2am editing sessions.

Cobalt Blue is the perfect companion for listeners who like their whimsy with a dose of darkness, for anyone looking to have their heart strings plucked at, and for connoisseurs of great fiction the world over.

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Super Powereds: Year 3: Super Powereds, Book 3

Junior year has come for the remaining students of Melbrook Hall, and it promises to be the most difficult one yet. With one of their own gone and another under serious investigation, none of the former Powereds know how many days remain for them in the Hero Certification Program. The time they do have will be filled with more trials and classes, honing their skills as they work toward the increasingly difficult goal of becoming Heroes.

Ample new challenges await them, and not all of them can be met within the safety of Lander’s campus. Fallout from last year’s final exam has stirred the interest of many parties, not all of them friendly.

With enemies pressing in from all directions, it’s going to take new alliances, dedication, and countless hours of training if they want to last another year.

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Affirmations : A Pathway to Transformation : Empowered Development by the Day, by the Month, by the Year

Opportunities to learn and grow are woven into each moment, each day, each month, each year of our lives. In Affirmations: A Pathway to Transformation, author Jeanie Marshall, Empowerment Consultant with Marshall House, describes a powerful method for working with intentional affirmations which she has developed through her work with private clients and workshop participants. Her insightful process and empowering words allow readers to focus their thoughts and energy for positive results. This book advances and enriches the popular self-help strategy of using affirmations. Well-stated affirmations written by an author who embodies deep spiritual and human consciousness reflect monthly themes such as abundance and peace and love. You can start the process and the calendar anytime and use every year.

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Every Day Matters Pocket Diary 2017: A Year of Inspiration for the Mind, Body and Spirit

A refreshed and updated version of the former bestselling Mind, Body, Spirit Book of Days, this contemporary, illustrated diary provides not only plenty of space for daily planning, but also vibrant colour artworks that will lift your spirits and inspiring advice on how to make each and every day really matter. Designed as a resource for enriching daily life, it will guide you on a journey of awareness and fulfilment as you go about your weekly activities. It’s all too easy to become overwhelmed with multiple thoughts each day as our to-do lists grow, so positivity blogger Dani DiPirro presents insightfully, within this cheerful diary, one life-enhancing theme a month to focus on. This year’s themes range from Love, Positivity, Forgiveness, Acceptance, Hope and Inspiration to Joy, Appreciation, Authenticity, Adventure, Empathy and Freedom. And each month offers a positive affirmation to inspire the reader to embrace the motif to the max. Each week-to-view spread then features a carefully chosen quote that encourages reflection on the theme, as well as an exercise to further your holistic well-being. By focusing on one theme per month, but in different ways each week, the diary allows a seed of awareness to grow over time so that positive action can become an integral part of daily life. So here’s to a year ahead where we really do make every day matter.