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The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype--and the Best Time to Eat Lunch, Ask for a Raise, Have Sex, Write a Novel, Take Your Meds, and More

Michael Breus · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Learn the best time to do everything--from drink your coffee to have sex or go for a run--according to your body's chronotype. Most advice centers on what to do, or how to do it, and ignores the when of success. But exciting new research proves there is a right time to do just about everything,...
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Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children

Bonnie Zucker · Prufrock Pr
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Anxiety-Free Kids (2nd ed.) offers parents strategies that help children become happy and worry free, methods that relieve a child's excessive anxieties and phobias, and tools for fostering interaction and family-oriented solutions. Using a unique companion approach that offers two books...
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Think and Grow Rich for Women: Using Your Power to Create Success and Significance

Sharon Lechter · Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

Women are the future of American business. According to a recent Nielsen report, women will control two-thirds of American consumer wealth in less than a decade.And yet almost all business and success literature is still written for men - dispensing advice that doesn't take into account...
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Living at the End of Life: A Hospice Nurse Addresses the Most Common Questions

KAREN WHITLEY BELL · Sterling Ethos
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

An updated edition of the most respected book on hospice care - for both patients and caregivers. This warm and informative resource on hospice and other end-of-life care options now gets an update. It receives a new preface and revised guidance on elders who need more long-term care and support,...
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Living Well on the Road: Health and Wellness for Travelers

Linden Schaffer · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 277
Format: Paperback

Stressed out? Eating badly? Skipping the gym? Sleeping with your phone rather than your partner? Experiencing brain fog and lack of focus? Then this book is for you. Linden Schaffer was an overworked, stressed out, on-the-go professional who found time to refocus, recharge, recommit to wellness...
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How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

Joanna Faber · Scribner
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed "The Parenting Bible."For over thirty-five...
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Life is Good: The Book

Bert Jacobs · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

From Life is Good founders and brothers Bert and John Jacobs, this inspiring book of wisdom celebrates the power of optimism: the driving force behind their beloved, socially conscious clothing and lifestyle brand, now worth more than $100 million.Following the chronology of their personal...
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The Grief Recovery Handbook for Pet Loss

Russell Friedman · Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Book

If you've found yourself almost inconsolable after your pet died, please know that you're normal.If you've found that your family and friends don't seem to understand the level of your grief, please know that, too, is normal.Without comparing our relationships with our pets...
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Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death

Henry Fersko-Weiss · Conari Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth...
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The Southern Sympathy Cookbook: Funeral Food with a Twist

Perre Magness · Countryman Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Hearty bites for the heavy-hearted "He had a life-long love affair with deviled eggs, his homemade canned fig preserves, and buttermilk served in martini glasses garnished with cornbread." -- Obituary from Gulfport, Mississippi So-called "funeral food" is having a moment....
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover

A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty -- a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre -- took a job at a crematory,...
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Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself

Anneli Rufus · Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

"Anneli Rufus has an incredible insight into the human condition. Through observation and anecdote, she shows us that no matter what was said or done to us, self-loathing does not have to be our fate. Hers is a strong, sympathetic and encouraging voice." - Henry Rollins"This...
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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 bestsellerTwo 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. Despite their hardships...
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8 Keys to End Bullying: Strategies for Parents & Schools

Signe Whitson · W W Norton
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback

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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De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less

Douglas Noll · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Discover how to successfully and efficiently calm an angry person or diffuse a volatile situation in ninety seconds or less with this proven and accessible peacekeeping method by self-described "lawyer turned peacemaker" Douglas E. Noll.We live in an increasingly divided world...
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