6 best-selling education books like College Admission Essentials: A Step-By-Step Guide to Showing Colleges Who You Are and What Matters to You by Ethan Sawyer

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College Admission Essentials: A Step-By-Step Guide to Showing Colleges Who You Are and What Matters to You

By: Ethan Sawyer

4.39

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

You can get into the perfect school! Discover the key to standing out from the crowd and capturing …

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1. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By: Nir Eyal

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?Why do some products capture wide… read more

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2. Grit

By: Angela Duckworth

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth sho… read more

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3. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

By: Dai Sijie , Ina Rilke

3.84

Format: 208 pages,

In this enchanting tale about the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening, two haples… read more

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4. Think Like a Freak

By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner

3.50

Format: None pages, ebook

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden s… read more

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5. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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6. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader

By: Chi-Young Kim , Haemin Sunim , Youngcheol Lee

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in ou… read more

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7. News of the World

By: Paulette Jiles

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a yo… read more

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8. The Elements of Style

By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.

4.18

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more

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"He owned"

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

9. The Astonishing Color of After

By: Emily X.R. Pan

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turn… read more

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10. Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

By: Loren Pope

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope's expertise since 19… read more

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11. Confessions of a Scholarship Winner: The Secrets That Helped Me Win $500,000 in Free Money for College. How You Can Too.

By: Kristina Ellis

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Kristina Ellis was awarded a full scholarship through her PhD. How she managed to get that kind of … read more

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12. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

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13. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

By: Frank Bruni

3.51

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasiona… read more

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14. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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15. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

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16. I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works

By: Ramit Sethi

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

As seen on the new NETFLIX series! The groundbreaking NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSE… read more

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17. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

By: Gregory Zuckerman

4.03

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the … read more

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18. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

By: Ron Lieber

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Revi… read more

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19. Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

By: Jeffrey J. Selingo

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Seling… read more

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20. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

By: Max Fisher

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more

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"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"

-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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21. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By: Walter Isaacson

4.29

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more

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"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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22. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

By: Lisa Damour

4.47

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ in… read more

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23. Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

4.06

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgetta… read more

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"You like it,"

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

"QUIDQUID LATINE DICTUM, ALTUM VIDETUR."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

"There’s this word in Japanese: tsundoku,"

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

"People change , Rowan. Thank God they do."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

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24. The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

By: Rachel Linden

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An uplifting novel about a heartbroken young pie maker who is granted a magical second chance to li… read more

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"You don't need magic to change your life. You just need to follow your bliss as best you can."

-Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

"Whatever you do, keep following your bliss. Be honest. Pay attention. Seek joy. That is the key to unlocking your destiny."

-Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

"...we must be emptied of that which fills us that we may be filled with those things which we are lacking. [ST. AUGUSTINE, paraphrase by Gertrude Lund]"

-Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

"My life is a lemon. I faced the truth afresh, bent over a cold stainless-steel mixing bowl, whipping egg whites and sugar into stiff French meringue peaks."

-Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

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25. Smells Like Tween Spirit

By: Laurie Gelman

4.08

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Even with the cutthroat days of being Class Mom behind her, as a freshly minted mat mom of the Pion… read more

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26. I Never Thought of It That Way

By: Monica Guzmán

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Partisanship is up,… read more

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27. The Truth about College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together

By: Brennan Barnard

4.30

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Is your family just starting to think about visiting colleges? Maybe you are in the throes of the e… read more

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28. College Admission Essentials: A Step-By-Step Guide to Showing Colleges Who You Are and What Matters to You

By: Ethan Sawyer

4.39

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

You can get into the perfect school! Discover the key to standing out from the crowd and capturing … read more

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17 must-read audiobook books like The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

Transform Your Habits

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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