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How to Be Fearless: In 7 Simple Steps

Jessica Hagy · ‎Sasquatch Books
Format: Hardcover

"Using her cheeky signature graphs, Hagy keenly outlines the 7 steps that will desaturate your fear and alter the way you approach each day: with fresh purpose, power, and clarity." Ready to shake off worry and get to work, but not sure how to do that, or if it's even possible?...
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The Working Parent's Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder

Anita Cleare · ‎Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Offers strategies and guidance to building a happier family life by doing less not more, and parenting smarter not harder. Most modern parents work. And we have limited time, limited energy, limited patience, and too much to do. We are seldom at our best at the end of a long working day when...
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.Nobody needs telling there isn't enough time. We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless...
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Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend: Advice on Queer Dating, Love, and Friendship

Maddy Court · Chronicle Books; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback

Fix yourself a cup of non-caffeinated herbal tea and prepare to laugh, cry, reminisce, and feel your feelings as you read through these quintessentially queer dating dilemmas.In The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend Is My Girlfriend, advice columnist Maddy Court (a.k.a. Xena Worrier Princess)...
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Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

Kevin A. Sabet · Forefront Books
Format: Hardcover

From the leading authority on marijuana - a man who has served as White House advisor on drugs to three different administrations and who NBC News once called "the prodigy of drug politics" - comes the remarkable and shocking exposé about how 21st century pot, today's new and highly...
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Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Ron Friedman · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Hardcover

For generations, we've been taught there are two ways to succeed - either from talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman illuminates a powerful third path - one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers,...
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Conscious Crafts: Pottery: 20 mindful makes to reconnect head, heart & hands

Lucy Davidson · Leaping Hare Press
Format: Hardcover

Making is mindfulness made practical, and pottery is a popular meditative craft. Drawing on the traditions of hand making, Lucy has created with air dry and polymer clay -all without the need for a wheel or kiln: imperfect pots; coasters; necklace beads; abstract earrings; terrazzo-style...
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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

Tarana Burke · Random House
Format: Hardcover

It started as a text between two friends.Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer Brené Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Brené assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration...
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Parenting for Social Justice: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Conversations and Action with Kids

Jaimie Lynn Kessell · Green Writers Press
Format: Paperback

In 2015, social justice educator and activist Angela Berkfield held her first Parenting for Social Justice workshop. Now it is time to share those tools and inspiration. Using plain language, this book discusses race, class, gender, disability, healing justice, and collective liberation,...
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The Art of Routine: Discover How Routineology Can Transform Your Life

Angel Iscovich MD · ‎Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

construct a routine that works best for you! Conventional wisdom suggests that the best way to navigate our noisy new world is to accept change. Open up to novelty. Go with the flow. Live in the moment. Embrace the relentless pelting of content minute by minute. But routine experts Angel...
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