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Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known

by Scott Simon ...

From the beloved host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, moving tales of the marvelous animals who have crossed his path.Scott Simon’s household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals. Whether two-legged or four-, flesh-covered, fur-covered, feathered, or gilled—everyone is family. Today, Simon lives with the haiku-writing and absolument charmant French poodle Daisy and ... Read more

$17.09 USD

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From the beloved host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, moving tales of the marvelous animals who have crossed his path.Scott Simon’s household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals. Whether two-legged or four-, flesh-covered, fur-covered, feathered, or gilled—everyone is family. Today, Simon lives with the haiku-writing and absolument charmant French poodle Daisy and
... Read more

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Pretty Birds

A Novel

by Scott Simon ...

The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character–a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.In the spring of 1992, Irena Zaric is a star on her Sarajevo high school basketball team, a tough, funny teenager who has ... Read more

$8.99 USD

The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character–a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.In the spring of 1992, Irena Zaric is a star on her Sarajevo high school basketball team, a tough, funny teenager who has
... Read more
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other

In Praise of Adoption

by Scott Simon ...

In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures of their daughters, when the small girls are placed in their arms, and all the laughs and tumbles along ... Read more

$14.99 USD

In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures of their daughters, when the small girls are placed in their arms, and all the laughs and tumbles along
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Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known

by Scott Simon ...

Narrated by Scott Simon ...

Unabridged

4 hours 55 min

From the beloved host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday**, moving tales of the marvelous animals who have crossed his path.**Scott Simon’s household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals. Whether two-legged or four-, flesh-covered, fur-covered, feathered, or gilled—everyone is family. Today, Simon lives with the haiku-writing and absolument charmant French poodle Daisy ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

From the beloved host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday**, moving tales of the marvelous animals who have crossed his path.**Scott Simon’s household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals. Whether two-legged or four-, flesh-covered, fur-covered, feathered, or gilled—everyone is family. Today, Simon lives with the haiku-writing and absolument charmant French poodle Daisy
... Read more

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Replacing Luck with Clarity

by Simon Scott ...

At some point in business, effort stops being the issue.You're working hard. The business is operating. From the outside, things may even look successful. Yet decisions feel heavier than they used to, progress feels less certain, and the instincts that once served you well no longer feel quite as reliable.If that sounds familiar, this book was written for you.Replacing Luck with Clarity explores ... Read more

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At some point in business, effort stops being the issue.You're working hard. The business is operating. From the outside, things may even look successful. Yet decisions feel heavier than they used to, progress feels less certain, and the instincts that once served you well no longer feel quite as reliable.If that sounds familiar, this book was written for you.Replacing Luck with Clarity explores
... Read more
My Cubs

A Love Story

by Scott Simon ...

NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise.Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the ... Read more

$4.99 USD

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NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise.Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the
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Sunnyside Plaza

by Scott Simon ...

Wonder meets Three Times Lucky in a story of empowerment as a young woman decides to help solve the mystery of multiple suspicious deaths in her group home.Sally Miyake can't read, but she learns lots of things. Like bricks are made of clay and Vitamin D comes from the sun. Sally is happy working in the kitchen at Sunnyside Plaza, the community center she lives in with other adults with ... Read more

$6.99 USD

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Wonder meets Three Times Lucky in a story of empowerment as a young woman decides to help solve the mystery of multiple suspicious deaths in her group home.Sally Miyake can't read, but she learns lots of things. Like bricks are made of clay and Vitamin D comes from the sun. Sally is happy working in the kitchen at Sunnyside Plaza, the community center she lives in with other adults with
... Read more

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Preformations

by Scott Simon ...

Preformations is a collection of philosophic essays concerning debates both ancient and contemporary. Epistemology and Phenomenology are two important topics of focus. Philosophers analyzed include Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Hans Jonas, Merleau-Ponty, and Michel Foucault. These engaging essays should prove enlightening to the critical reader. ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Preformations is a collection of philosophic essays concerning debates both ancient and contemporary. Epistemology and Phenomenology are two important topics of focus. Philosophers analyzed include Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Hans Jonas, Merleau-Ponty, and Michel Foucault. These engaging essays should prove enlightening to the critical reader.
... Read more
Sweet and Sour

Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs

by Scott Simon ...

Series series Asian Voices
Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in their families and in the marketplace? How do they construct physical and social space for themselves in ... Read more

$44.59 USD

Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in their families and in the marketplace? How do they construct physical and social space for themselves in
... Read more
Windy City

A Novel of Politics

by Scott Simon ...

The acclaimed author of the intensely powerful novel Pretty Birds,Scott Simon now gives us a story that is both laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercing–as sprawling and brawling as Chicago, where politics is a contact sport.The mayor of Chicago is found in his office late at night, sitting in his boxer shorts, facedown dead in a pizza. The mayor was a hero and a rascal: dynamic, charming, ... Read more

$6.99 USD

The acclaimed author of the intensely powerful novel Pretty Birds,Scott Simon now gives us a story that is both laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercing–as sprawling and brawling as Chicago, where politics is a contact sport.The mayor of Chicago is found in his office late at night, sitting in his boxer shorts, facedown dead in a pizza. The mayor was a hero and a rascal: dynamic, charming,
... Read more
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Men with ADHD

Practical Strategies to Enhance Focus, Accept Yourself and Manage Other Challenges as an Adult With ADHD

by Scott Simond ...

Narrated by Robert Seacrest ...

Unabridged

10 hours 19 min

Does your mind race at a mile a minute, making it impossible to concentrate on anything for long?Do you feel like your potential is shrouded by the overwhelming challenges of ADHD?Are your relationships suffering due to your difficulties in managing your ADHD?Are impulsive decisions wreaking havoc on your personal and professional life?Are you exhausted from the daily battle to harness your ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Does your mind race at a mile a minute, making it impossible to concentrate on anything for long?Do you feel like your potential is shrouded by the overwhelming challenges of ADHD?Are your relationships suffering due to your difficulties in managing your ADHD?Are impulsive decisions wreaking havoc on your personal and professional life?Are you exhausted from the daily battle to harness your
... Read more
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The Best Thing You Can Steal [Dramatized Adaptation]

Gideon Sable 1

by Simon R. Green ...

Narrated by Christopher Walker, Scott McCormick, Jenna Sharpe, John Kielty, Rayner Gabriel, Terence Aselford, Henry Kramer, Holly Adams, Peter Holdway, Rob McFadyen, Kay Elúvian ...

Series series Gideon Sable
Unabridged

5 hours 48 min

Welcome to London, but not as you know it. A place where magics and horror run free, wonders and miracles are everyday things, and the dark streets are full of very shadowy people...Gideon Sable is a thief and a con man. He specializes in stealing the kind of things that can't normally be stolen. Like a ghost's clothes, or a photo from a country that never existed. He even stole his current ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Welcome to London, but not as you know it. A place where magics and horror run free, wonders and miracles are everyday things, and the dark streets are full of very shadowy people...Gideon Sable is a thief and a con man. He specializes in stealing the kind of things that can't normally be stolen. Like a ghost's clothes, or a photo from a country that never existed. He even stole his current
... Read more

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