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Week of August 21, 1949

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A GUIDE TO CONFIDENT LIVING
Norman Vincent Peale
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A GUIDE TO CONFIDENT LIVING

by Norman Vincent Peale · Prentice-Hall

47 wks on list

"Change your thoughts and change your life". Dr. Norman Vincent Peale demonstrates how you can think your way to success and happiness with his amazing time-tested techniques. Step-by-step, in clear readable language, Dr. Peale shows you how to release your inner powers to achieve confidence and contentment and to open the way to new energy that will actually revitalize your life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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BEHIND THE CURTAIN
John Gunther
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LET 'EM EAT CHEESECAKE
Earl Wilson

LET 'EM EAT CHEESECAKE

by Earl Wilson · Doubleday

7 wks on list

A round up of various types of jokes, stories, quips and ad glibs by Earl Wilson.

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THE DOCTOR WEARS THREE FACES
Mary Bard
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THE DOCTOR WEARS THREE FACES

by Mary Bard · Lippincott

10 wks on list

As a family, the Bards were always special. In the really bad times of the Great American Depression of the late 'twenties and early 'thirties and in the not-quite-so-bad-times of the New Deal which followed, they hung together closely like a bunch of bananas: unfailingly bright, optimistic and funny, totally supportive of each other and endlessly hospitable to others of all ages, races and creeds less fortunate than themselves. The rock of the family was Sydney, the widowed mother. But undoubtedly the mover, the fixer and Unequalled Organiser-of-Others had to be Mary, the fizzing firecracker. And then she married a doctor. She became a Doctor's Wife without catching one glimpse of the Job Description. Even if she had, she would have married Jim anyway. She had always welcomed a challenge. Which was just as well, for otherwise we would have been robbed of this very enjoyable book in which a 'mover' and a 'do-er' of a Doctor's Wife gets to grips with possibly one of the most conservative professions on Earth. It could have been a recipe for disaster. Instead it produced this book—a sure-fire prescription for high entertainment.

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A MENCKEN CHRESTOMATHY
H.L. Mencken
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A MENCKEN CHRESTOMATHY

by H.L. Mencken · Random House

2 wks on list

A selection of choice passages from H.L.M.'s out-of-print writings.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.