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The Optimist's Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup and Create a New Life You Love
The Optimist's Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup and Create a New Life You Love

Suzanne Riss · Workman
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

For the more than one million women who get divorced each year, welcome to your support group. Wise, comforting, and uplifting, The Optimist's Guide to Divorce captures the experience of sisterhood through the voices of its authors and their community of women in the Maplewood Divorce Club...
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Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle: Resolve the Power Struggle and Build Trust, Responsibility, and Respect
Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle: Resolve the Power Struggle and Build Trust, Responsibility, and Respect

Neil D Brown · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 180
Format: Print book

"Full of practical expectations ... Warmly ­recommended." - Library Journal starred review Power struggles between parents and teens are nothing new, but chronic control battles are destructive to teen development as well as the entire family. According to psychotherapist...
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52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles: Cultivate a Simpler, Slower, More Love-Filled Life
52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles: Cultivate a Simpler, Slower, More Love-Filled Life

Karen Casey · Conari Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The impact A Course In Miracles (ACIM) has had on Karen Casey's life is immeasurable. First introduced to ACIM during the early stages of sobriety when she hung on to Alcoholics Anonymous like her life depended on it (and, of course, it did) , she yearned for something that could quiet...
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Finishing School: The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done
Finishing School: The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done

Cary Tennis · Tarcherperigee
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. Finishing School helps writers reignite the passion that started them on the project in the first place and work steadily to get it done. Untold millions of writing projects - begun with hope...
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Marijuana Nation: One Man's Chronicle of America Getting High: From Vietnam to Legalization
Marijuana Nation: One Man's Chronicle of America Getting High: From Vietnam to Legalization

Roger A Roffman · Pegasus Books, 2014.
Pages: 345
Format: Print book

As public attitudes about pot undergo rapid change, Roger Roffman's portrait of marijuana in America rises above punditry and rhetoric Roger Roffman first discovered marijuana while serving as a US Army officer in Vietnam. From these seemingly innocuous beginnings, Roffman has been...
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When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women
When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women

Farnoosh Torabi · Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover

How to thrive in a relationship when you’re the richer halfFor the top-earning woman, the rules are different. She faces a much higher risk for burnout, infidelity, and divorce. In this highly practical book, financial guru and media star Farnoosh Torabi—a breadwinner herself—presents...
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The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

Meghan Daum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction"Daum is her generation's Joan Didion." --NylonNearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, Meghan Daum returns to the personal...
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Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas. Advice & Projects from 50 Successful Artists
Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas. Advice & Projects from 50 Successful Artists

Danielle Krysa · Chronicle Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Creative block presents the most crippling - and unfortunately universal - challenge for artists. No longer! This chunky blockbuster of a book is chock-full of solutions for overcoming all manner of artistic impediment. The blogger behind The Jealous Curator interviews 50 successful international...
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DASH Diet Detox: 14-day Quick-Start Plan to Lower Blood Pressure and Lose Weight the Healthy Way
DASH Diet Detox: 14-day Quick-Start Plan to Lower Blood Pressure and Lose Weight the Healthy Way

Kate Barrington · Ulysses Pr, 2015.
Pages: 156
Format: Print book

A powerful, easy-to-follow cleanse utilizing the scientifically-proven DASH diet - the #1 overall diet by U.S. World News and Report five years in a rowFor years, the DASH diet has been chosen by doctors as the number one diet for weight loss and overall health. Now, this book shows how to quickly...
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Lived Through This: Listening to the Stories of Sexual Violence Survivors
Lived Through This: Listening to the Stories of Sexual Violence Survivors

Anne K Ream · Beacon Press,
Pages: 202
Format: Print book

In these pages you'll meet a community of rape and sexual violence survivors who have been shaped, but refuse to be defined, by their histories of violence. They are brave, and they are outspoken - but, mostly, they are hopeful. From its insistently resolute opening essay to its final,...
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The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Bodys Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You
The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Bodys Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You

Sylvia Tara · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

This groundbreaking work of practical, popular science reveals that fat is much smarter than we think.Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing -- and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our body.You may not love your fat, but your...
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Ready to Wed: 12 Ways to Start a Marriage You'll Love
Ready to Wed: 12 Ways to Start a Marriage You'll Love

Greg Smalley · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Rings. Dress. Cake.You're engaged, and the checklist for the day of your dreams is a mile long. In the who, what, where, and how of planning, the why can be forgotten.Ready to Wed discusses 12 Traits of a thriving marriage and offers a variety of topics to guide and advise those preparing...
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Faith in the Spotlight: Thriving in Your Career While Staying True to Your Beliefs
Faith in the Spotlight: Thriving in Your Career While Staying True to Your Beliefs

Megan Alexander · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Megan Alexander is a national correspondent for Inside Edition and a special correspondent for Thursday Night Football on CBS. In Faith in the Spotlight she shares her practical advice for achieving excellence in career, faith, and family and gives us an honest look at thriving in a secular...
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Think and Eat Yourself Smart: A Neuroscientific Approach to a Sharper Mind and Healthier Life
Think and Eat Yourself Smart: A Neuroscientific Approach to a Sharper Mind and Healthier Life

Dr. Caroline Leaf · Baker Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Science is beginning to understand that our thinking has a deep and complicated relationship with our eating. Our thoughts before, during, and after eating profoundly impact our food choices, our digestive health, our brain health, and more. Yet most of us give very little thought to our food...
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The Buddha Walks into the Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation
The Buddha Walks into the Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation

Lodro Rinzler · Shambhala
Format: Book

From the author of the best-selling Buddha Walks into a Bar . . ., wisdom for "Generation Next" on how to make your work meaningful, satisfying, and of benefit to others. Does it ever seem that a lot of the people you work with are, well, jerks? This book is about how not to let work...
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