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I Only Want to Get Married Once: The 10 Essential Questions for Getting It Right the First Time

Chana Levitan · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

There is no rule that says heartbreak must be a prerequisite for good judgment. If you don't want to be a divorce statistic and are ready for a long-lasting relationship, this book's for you. In today's divorce culture, too many people have stopped trusting their ability to build...
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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...

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The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us

Bruce Feiler · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about...
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The Artist's Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children

Julia Cameron · Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

“For decades, people have been asking me to write this book. The Artist’s Way focuses on a creative recovery. We re-cover the ground we have traveled in our past. The Artist’s Way for Parents focuses on creative cultivation, where we consciously—and playfully—put...
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Young Widower: A Memoir

John W. Evans · University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback

John W. Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and were working for a year in Romania when they set off with friends to hike into the Carpathian Mountains. In an instant their life...
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Successfully Surviving a Brain Injury: A Family Guidebook, from the Emergency Room to Selecting a Rehabilitation Facility

Garry Prowe · Brain Injury Success Books
Format: Paperback

Someone you love has suffered a brain injury. The doctors can not yet make a prognosis. "Every brain injury is unique and unpredictable," they say. "Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst," they tell you. What do you do now? Successfully Surviving a Brain Injury...
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Breaking Sad: What to Say After Loss, What Not to Say, and When to Just Show Up

Shelly Fisher · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Real stories and real feedback on what should be said, what should be kept to yourself, and what can be done when trying to support someone you care about as they navigate loss. Breaking Sad helps us start conversations through its pages of personal stories and suggestions from everyday...
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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

CELESTE HEADLEE · Harper Wave
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"WE NEED TO TALK."They are, perhaps, the most dreaded four words in the English language. But in her timely, insightful, and wonderfully practical book, We Need to Talk, Celeste Headlee - who earns a living by talking on the airwaves of National Public Radio - makes the case that...
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The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Dalai Lama · Avery
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller

Two spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression....
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The Cool Factor: A Guide to Achieving Effortless Style, with Secrets from the Women Who Have It

Andrea Linett · Artisan
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Trendsetter Andrea Linett has that rare ability to distill fashion talk into advice that everyone can follow, and in this book she shares the style wisdom she s gathered over years of working in the fashion industry. Here is only the content that matters wardrobe classics, leather, denim,...
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Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People--and Break Free

Stephanie Moulton Sarkis · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A mental health expert sheds light on "gaslighting"--the manipulative technique used by sociopaths, narcissists, and others--offering practical strategies to cope and break free.

Gaslighting is a technique of manipulating others to gain control, often practiced...
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UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World

Michele Borba · Touchstone
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood - and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future.

Is the Selfie Syndrome...
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10 Steps to Mastering Stress: A Lifestyle Approach, Updated Edition

David H. Barlow · Oxford University Press
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback

We know that stress is bad for us. We see evidence of this in the news, we hear it from our doctors, and we feel it at the end of a hectic week. Health professionals have learned that stress interferes with our lives-it increases missed work days, can lead to relationship difficulties,...
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Rest in peace : a planning guide for the inevitable

Charles Walts · Next Century Pub
Pages: 162
Format: Print book

As human beings, we are not immortal.

Life comes with an expiration date and sooner or later we are all going to pass away, often without warning or time to prepare.

To help prepare for the end of life, Rest in Peace is a pre-death planning guide; whether it be for your...

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