After her mother's death, Rachel and her adopted sister Hilary are taken in by Aunt Cora, who runs a dancing school where Rachel's spoiled cousin Dulcie is the star pupil.

The motivational coach and best-selling author of You Are a Badass shares illustrative case studies to outline a step-by-step, 21-day guide for overcoming self-sabotaging behaviors while cultivating habits that support healthy priorities and personal goals.

""There is the mammal way and there is the bird way." This is one scientist's pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their...

Animal scientist Temple Grandin argues that people with autism think the way animals think and draws from her experiences with autism to discuss how animals think, act, and feel.

After the beautiful Diana Hotchkiss is found murdered outside her apartment, an obsessive man, Ben, discovers she was leading an illicit double life.

Offers stories that celebrate altruistic and heroic animal behavior, including seals saving a dog from drowning, a feral male cat protecting a kitten during a tornado, and a pod of dolphins shielding swimmers from a shark.

A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.

New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.
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Ben practices a new move that he hopes will help his soccer team make it to the league play-offs, but has trouble executing it on the field and worries he does not have what it takes to win.

Jake acts like a class clown in order to cheer his teacher up.

When Froggy goes on vacation to Hawaii, he is too excited to pay much attention to his parents.