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Books For Graduates

You've graduated - so now what? Are you ready for a new job, love, saving for a house, new car, marriage, babies? Go forth into the world ready for any challenge with the help from some of these new and used books.

 

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Take This AdviceTake This Advice: The Most Nakedly Honest Graduation Speeches Ever Given
Sandra Bark

Take This Advice delivers thirty of the most powerful commencement speeches given in the past ten years. With grace and humor, this generation's favorite writers, performers, and thinkers address graduates to celebrate their greatest achievement, and to let them know that life after school is not, as many suspect, the end of the world.

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A Short Guide to a Happy LifeA Short Guide to a Happy Life
Anna Quindlen

In this unusual and beautiful book, Quindlen reflects on what it takes to "get a life"--to live deeply and uniquely rather than to merely get through our days. Beautifully designed with evocative photos, the handbook offers guidance on how to live with awareness. 25 photos.

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Why Won't the Landlord Take Visa?Why Won't The Landlord Take Visa?
Tara Bray

Here is the answer to every recent graduate's prayers -- an instruction book for life, with advice on everything from finding an apartment to setting up a checking account to balancing a career in the dot.com world. Over 500,000 registered users on the Princeton Reviews review.com web site will be clamoring for this book after seeing it in the career forum.

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The Experts Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to DoThe Experts Guide To 100 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do
Samantha Ettus

The simplest things are the hardest to master. From brewing your morning cup of coffee and reading the newspaper to apologizing or remembering names, it's the small stuff that makes up day-to-day life. The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do provides unparalleled insights into how to do them better—more resourcefully, more effectively, and more efficiently—in 100 brief how-to essays by 100 of the world's leading experts

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The Naked RoommateThe Naked Roommate
Harlan Cohen

The Naked Roommate gives college students the 100 things they need to know to get over the speed bumps and make the most out of college. Packed with advice from Harlan's years of experience, as well as stories and tips straight from students who have lived it, this book covers all the need-to-know questions.

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The New York Times Guide to Essential KnowledgeThe New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge
New York Times

John Leonard, a former editor of The New York Times Book Review, introduces this reference as a nontrivial, fact-based retort to what "deconstructed agnostics" tell us about reality. The weighty volume also contains an eclectic gamut of useful information including a writer's guide, tips on solving the Times' crossword puzzles, a glossary of computer and Internet terms, wine primer, history of the world in 30,000 words, award-winners, and bibliographical dictionary of some 1,000 notables.

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Oh, The Places You'll GoOh, The Places You'll Go
Dr. Seuss

Don't be fooled by the title of this seriocomic ode to success; it's not 'Climb Every Mountain,' kid version. All journeys face perils, whether from indecision, from loneliness, or worst of all, from too much waiting. Seuss' familiar pajama-clad hero is up to the challenge, and his odyssey is captured vividly in busy two-page spreads evoking both the good times (grinning purple elephants, floating golden castles) and the bad (deep blue wells of confusion).

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Haiku UHaiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables
David Bader

Why spend weeks slogging through The Iliad when you could just read the haiku? From Homer to Faulkner to Lao Tzu, the Great Books are now within the reach of even the shortest attention spans. Show off your literary prowess at cocktail parties with minimal prep time

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