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The Loneliness Cure: Six Strategies for Finding Real Connections in Your Life

Kory Floyd · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Rediscover the benefits of a real-life social network!Although today's technology allows you to communicate with people all over the globe, it can also leave you feeling disconnected and unhappy in the real world. The Loneliness Cure helps you rediscover the power of socializing in person...
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The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

Ben Sasse · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled...
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Critical Thinking Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day

LLC Editors of LearningExpress · Learningexpress, LLC; 3rd Edition edition
Format: Print book

Become an effective critical thinker in just 20 minutes a day! Whether at work, at school, or at home, critical thinking skills are essential for success. Learning to think critically will improve your decision-making and problem-solving skills, giving you the tools you need to tackle the tough...
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The Psychology Bible: The Definitive Guide to the Science of the Mind

Sandi Mann · Firefly Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The Psychology Bible presents more than an introduction to the discipline. It is applicable to anyone and everyone and we are all curious about why we think and feel the way we do. The topics include: The history of psychology, the "science of the mind" Biographies...
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Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

Daniel J. Siegel MD · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 321
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times-bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding.Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important, and oftentimes maddening, ways....
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Action: A Book about Sex

Amy Rose Spiegel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

With whip-smart prose, reminiscent of Roxane Gay and Meghan Daum, ACTION interweaves Spiegel's own sexual autobiography with loving advice on one-night stands, relationships, and everything in between. ACTION is a book about sex that people won't feel embarrassed about owning. There...
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We're All Mad Here: The No-Nonsense Guide to Living with Social Anxiety

Claire Eastham · Jessica Kingsley
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

Anxiety is a crafty shapeshifter that can take on many forms: the tiger that sinks its claws in with physical symptoms and distressing thoughts, the cruel and belittling bully creating insecurity and self-doubt and, worst of all, the frenemy rewarding avoidance of social situations with...
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Wish Granted: 25 Stories of Strength and Resilience from America's Favorite Athletes

Make-A-Wish® with Don Yaeger · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

“Those kids are my heroes and by actively deciding to help them continue their fight with a little more hope, you’re one of my heroes, too.”—Michael Jordan, from the IntroductionPoignant stories from this nation’s best loved athletes include Michael Jordan,...
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The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It

Warren Farrell · BenBella Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads. It's a crisis of mental health. As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis...
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness

Jessie Close · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament...
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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

Liza Long · Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover

Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was What if my son does that someday She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanzas Mother...
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

JASON STANLEY · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history in the United States and around the world, to conclude that fascism is alive in America today.Fascism means...
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Soraya L Chemaly · Atria Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her will be good for women, and for the future of this country. After all, women have a lot to be angry about."...
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

DANIEL COYLE · Bantam
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code comes a book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow's leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture. Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your...
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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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