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Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say it, and When to Listen

Wendy Mogel · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Renowned speaker, parenting expert and New York Times bestselling author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, Dr. Wendy Mogel offers an essential guide to the new art of talking to children, and shows how a change in voice can transform conversations and ease the relationship between parents...
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Journey Through Trauma: A Trail Guide to the 5-Phase Cycle of Healing Repeated Trauma

GRETCHEN PH D SCHMELZER · Avery
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

For survivors of PTSD and repeated, relational trauma -- and the people who love them.Gretchen Schmelzer watched too many people quit during treatment for trauma recovery. They found it too difficult or too frightening or just decided that for them it was too late. But as a therapist and trauma...
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Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Catherine Shanahan · Flatiron Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A self-published phenomenon examining the habits that kept our ancestors disease-free -- now with a prescriptive plan for "The Human Diet" to help us all live long, vital, healthy lives.Physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan, M.D. examined diets around the world known to help...
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The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations

OPRAH WINFREY · Flatiron Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Oprah Winfrey says Super Soul Sunday is the television show she was born to do. "I see it as an offering," she explains. "If you want to be more fully present and live your life with a wide-open heart, this is the place to come to."Now, for the first time, the aha moments...
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The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work

Eli J Finkel · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The structure of modern successful marriages is revealed in this inspiring and useful new perspective on the most important relationship a human being can have. The institution of marriage in America is struggling. But as Eli Finkel's most recent research reveals, the best marriages today...
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There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love

Emily Mcdowell · HarperOne
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

The creator of the viral hit "Empathy Cards" teams up with a compassion expert to produce a visually stunning and groundbreaking illustrated guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain.When...
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The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy

Donna Freitas · Basic Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend hours agonizing over their hopes for Friday night and, later, dissecting the evenings’ successes or failures, often wishing that the social contract of the hookup would allow them to ask for more out of sexual...
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Love at First Click: The Ultimate Guide to Online Dating

Laurie Davis · Atria Books; Original edition
Format: Book

One in five relationships starts on an online dating site, but little straightforward guidance exists for users. Enter digital dating whisperer Laurie Davis . . . In a world where we communicate as much via texts as we do through body language, this book empowers readers to log on and double...
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The Angst of Adolescence: How to Parent Your Teen and Live to Laugh About It

Sara Villanueva · Bibliomotion, 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Being a good parent is one of the most difficult, yet most rewarding, jobs a person can have in his or her lifetime. Being the parent of a teen is an especially daunting phase of the journey. As parents begin to notice the significant changes that come with adolescence (physical changes...
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Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose

Gabrielle Bernstein · Hay House, Inc.,
Pages: 255
Format: Print book

Miracles Now by New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein will help readers clear stress and find peace - even if they only have a minute to spare. Bernstein knows that most of us don't have time for an hour of yoga or 30 minutes of meditation to dissolve our anxiety, so she has hand-picked...
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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

KATHRYN MANNIX · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey through dying.Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine...
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Higher Is Waiting

Tyler Perry · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An intimate book of inspiration by the one and only Tyler Perry - actor, producer, director, philanthropist, and the creator of Madea Higher Is Waiting is a spiritual guidebook, a collection of teachings culled from the experiences of a lifetime, meant to inspire readers to climb higher...
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The Art of Mingling: Fun and Proven Techniques for Mastering Any Room

Jeanne Martinet · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Fully revised and updated-with Jeanne Martinet's trademark wit and practicality, The Art of Mingling hands you the keys to feeling at ease in any social situation Does the idea of going to a large party make your mouth go dry? Are you more comfortable on Facebook than face-to-face?...
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Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman

Galadrielle Allman · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 370
Format: Bargain - Hardcover

A deeply personal, revealing, and lyrical portrait of Duane Allman, founder of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, written by his daughter Galadrielle Allman went to her first concert as an infant in diapers, held in her teenage mother's arms. Playing was her father - Duane Allman,...
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The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and

Cathi Hanauer · William Morrow
Pages: 332
Format: Print book

More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back - along with sixteen captivating new voices - sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser...
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