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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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Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body

Kate Hudson · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

I didn't just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn - each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this,...
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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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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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Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide

Deborah Serani · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention...
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The Dolphin Way: A Parent's Guide to Raising Healthy, Happy, and Motivated Kids-Without Turning i nto a Tiger

Shimi K Kang · Jeremy P. Tarcher, Penguin
Pages: 334
Format: Print book

In this inspiring book, Harvard-trained child and adult psychiatrist and expert in human motivation Dr. Shimi Kang provides a guide to the art and science of inspiring children to develop their own internal drive and a lifelong love of learning. Drawing on the latest neuroscience and behavioral...
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Stressed Out!: Solutions to Help Your Child Manage and Overcome Stress

Mary Anne Richey · Prufrock Press, Inc.
Pages: 146
Format: Paperback

For parents of stressed kids, Stressed Out!: Solutions to Help Your Child Manage and Overcome Stress is an easy-to-read guide to understanding children's stress, its effects on their day-to-day lives, and how to handle it. The book suggests stress management solutions for children that...
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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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Lose Your Belly Diet Cookbook:: The Ultimate Secret To Losing Belly Fat, Improve Your Gut and Live Healthy.

Brain Thompson · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 102
Format: Paperback

Do you want to be healthy? Do you want to be lean? And finally do you want to lose that annoying fat around your bellies! The recipes in this book is built around a very clear, research-based concept: it is enriched with recipes that nourishes and protects the microbes in your gut paves...
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles Happen: 101 Inspirational Stories about Hope, Answered Prayers, and Divine Intervention

Jack Canfield · Chicken Soup for the Soul
Format: Print book

Miracles happen every day! These 101 true stories of answered prayers and divine intervention show a higher power at work in our lives. These 101 true stories of healing, divine intervention, and answered prayers prove that miracles can happen to anyone at any time. You will be awed and uplifted...
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He Texted: The Ultimate Guide to Decoding Guys

Lisa Winning · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 261
Format: Paperback

You're a busy, intelligent, modern woman. You stay on top of work e-mail. You "like" all the baby photos your sister posts on Facebook. You found your dream job through LinkedIn. But when your crush texts you "Sup?" every few days, yet never asks you out, what the hell...
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Big Gal Yoga: Poses and Practices to Celebrate Your Body and Empower Your Life

Valerie Sagun · Seal Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Instagram star Valerie Sagun is a powerful voice in the body-positive movement: With 120,000 followers on Instagram and constant traffic on her Tumblr site, readers love her for her fearless message and insights on the benefits of yoga for all bodies.Rejecting the idea that all yogis have...
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The Mindspan Diet: Reduce Alzheimer's Risk, Minimize Memory Loss, and Keep Your Brain Young

Preston W Estep · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From an esteemed geneticist and the director of gerontology at the Personal Genome Project at Harvard Medical School comes a revolutionary plan for curbing memory loss and improving cognitive longevity that will forever change how you think about diet and aging. All around the world people...
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Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving

Julia Samuel · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An instant bestseller in the UK, Grief Works is a profoundly optimistic and compassionate handbook for anyone suffering a loss - from the expected death of a parent to the sudden death of a child or spouse - as well as a guide for those who want to help their grieving loved ones.Death affects...
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We Don't Talk Anymore: Healing after Parents and Their Adult Children Become Estranged

Kathy McCoy · Sourcebooks
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Break the silence and heal the riftEstrangement or partial estrangement from an adult son or daughter is one of a parent's worst nightmares. It can mean angry silences and anguished days and nights wondering what went wrong. Becoming estranged from a parent can be equally painful for an adult...
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