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Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More
Elizabeth F. Emens · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Reading this book should be at the top of your To Do list. Life Admin will give you many hours of your life back.
Every day an unseen form of labor creeps into our lives - stealing precious moments of free time, placing a strain on our schedules and our relationships, and earning... |
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When Someone Dies: The Practical Guide to the Logistics of Death
Scott Taylor Smith · Scribner; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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Scott Taylor Smith, a venture capitalist and lawyer, had plentiful resources, and yet after his mother died, he made a series of agonizing and costly mistakes in squaring away her affairs. He could find countless books that dealt with caring for the dying and the emotional fallout of death,... |
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Levels of Life
Julian Barnes · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearA Daily Candy Best Book of the YearJulian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account... |
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Bipolar, Not So Much: Understanding Your Mood Swings and Depression
Chris Aiken · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Approaching depression as a complex disorder with many different facets rather than all-or-nothing. Depression confuses the mind, strips away hope, and causes people to blame themselves for an illness they never asked for. This book presents a revolutionary new understanding of the concept... |
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This Is Why You're Single
Laura Lane · Adams Media
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Whether you're falling for that man child for the fifty-seventh time or text messaging your way to stalker status, dating can make you want to find a nice roomy hermitage on Airbnb and live a solitary, monk-like life. Luckily, that frustration ends now. This Is Why You're... |
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I've Been Thinking . . .: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life
MARIA SHRIVER · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 224
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A book of reflections for those seeking wisdom, guidance, encouragement, and inspiration on the road to a meaningful life As a prominent woman juggling many roles, Maria Shriver knows just how surprising, unpredictable, and stressful everyday life can be. In this moving and powerful book,... |
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Your Second Wedding: How to Handle Issues, Make Plans, and Ensure it's a Great Success
Kristie Lorette · Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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Even though you may have already planned a wedding, second weddings present even more challenges. There are many factors to consider, and this book will help you navigate through them to make your special day less stressful and more memorable. You will learn: What types of vows and ceremonies... |
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FLAWD: How to Stop Hating on Yourself, Others, and the Things That Make You Who You Are
Emily-Anne Rigal · Perigee Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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When you look in the mirror and only see your flaws, it can be hard to be your best self. FLAWD is your new cheerleader - an energetic guide to seeing your flaws as the doorway to something more.Through dynamic stories and advice from teens and celebrities around the world, FLAWD will... |
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Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing
Shari Botwin · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Thriving After Trauma addresses readers who have experience trauma or loss due to a variety of experience - whether accident, abuse, or injury. Shari Botwin shows readers, through personal stories, how many who have experienced the worst kinds of trauma have managed to move on and thrive... |
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8 Keys to End Bullying: Strategies for Parents & Schools
Signe Whitson · W W Norton
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
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Tackling an all-too-prevalent problem among kids with 8 smart, practical strategies. Groundbreaking books have peered into the psychology of bullying and the cultural climate that -- seemingly now more than ever -- gives rise to such cruelty and aggression. But few have been able to synthesize... |
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Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials
Lucinda Herring · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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For all those seeking to reclaim their innate and legal right to care for their own dead, create home funeral vigils, and choose greener after-death care options that are less toxic and more sustainable for the earth
More natural after-death care options are transforming the paradigm... |
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All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found
Philip Connors · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years before finding solace in the wilderness.In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells... |
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Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day
Cali Williams Yost · Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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As the demands of work grow more intense, personal life can get shoved to the side. But resolving the job-versus-life conflict doesn't require the kind of big, disruptive, scary transformation that so many time-management "experts" recommend. In TWEAK IT, Cali Williams Yost... |
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The Secrets of Lost Cats: One Woman, Twenty Posters, and a New Understanding of Love
Dr. Nancy Davidson · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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You've seen them. Hanging on telephone poles and posted on supermarket bulletin boards.But have you ever wondered about the stories behind them?When her orange tabby, Zak, disappeared, Nancy Davidson did what countless people before her had done. She made a lost cat poster. And after... |
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Heaven Is for Healing: A Soul's Journey After Suicide
JOE GALLENBERGER · Rainbow Ridge
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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When his beloved brother Peter committed suicide,psychotherapist Dr. Joe Gallenberger met his overwhelming grief with courage, and open-minded curiosity. Using tools learned at The Monroe Institute, and affirming that "love can pierce any veil," he was soon able to contact Peter... |
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