Eric Weiner
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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore...
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Hello! Freddie Parrott III here with some exciting news. Too exciting, in fact. The stories I have to tell you are rather feather-raising. But don't worry. Somehow my butler and best friend, Peccary, always finds a way to save the day. Then he and I have a big chuckle--at my expense. They don't call me famously funny for nothing!
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When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner - and agnostic by default - finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. "Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags him, and prods him and ultimately launches him on a far-flung journey to do just that.
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"We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for philosophy and global travel in a pilgrimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from great thinkers around the world, from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling...
11) Little Star
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Dora and Boots try to get Little Star home after a comet knocks him out of the sky so everyone can make a good-night wish.
12) Dora's backpack
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Dora and Boots find all sorts of items in Backpack that help them get eight books back to the library before it closes.
14) Meet Diego!
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Dora's cousin Diego can talk to animals and rescues them when they're in danger. In this adventure, Dora, Boots and Diego race to the waterfall in an attempt to save Baby Jaguar before he plunges over. Includes Spanish words for common types of words.