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Finishing School: The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done

Cary Tennis · Tarcherperigee
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. Finishing School helps writers reignite the passion that started them on the project in the first place and work steadily to get it done. Untold millions of writing projects - begun with hope...
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1-2-3 Magic Teen: Communicate, Connect, and Guide Your Teen to Adulthood

Thomas Phelan · Sourcebooks Inc
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Help your teens grow into the very best versions of themselves!From rule-breaking and risk-taking to defensive communication and disrespect, parenting a teenager can feel like modern warfare--but it doesn't have to be that way. In 1-2-3 Magic Teen, internationally renowned parenting expert...
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Emotional Intelligence

Andrew Cope · John Murray
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Emotional Intelligence is an immediately accessible, outcome-focused primer on the topic of EQ, which provides practical, no-nonsense life advice and takes a sideways look at a world which is overwhelming at times. Funny, colorful and profound, this book is a gripping manual for the human...
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Marry Smart: Advice for Finding THE ONE

Susan Patton · Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

You’re single and you know what you want in your life. And if your dreams include getting married and having children, this fresh new approach to finding the right one at the right time shows the way to make those dreams a reality. A graduate of one of the first classes of women...
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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

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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The Philosophy of Childing: Unlocking Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason through the Wisdom of Our Youngest

Christopher Phillips · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, The Philosophy of Childing takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve...
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The Love Playbook: Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness

La La Anthony · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerLa La Anthony shares her one-of-a-kind rules on matters of the heart.Star of VH1's La La's Full Court Life, actress, entrepreneur, and wife of New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony, La La Anthony found love and success on her own terms. But before La La was a strong...
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Not Your Mother's Retirement; Secrets for Today's Women to Live Fully During the Best Years of Life

Mark Evan Chimsky · Sellers Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Listen up! A successful retirement doesn't happen all by itself but it can occur if you plan wisely for it. Geared to women in their forties and fifties, Not Your Mother's Retirement is a user-friendly resource for planning for the future while you still have enough time to do it. Containing...
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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience: many of our most iconic, creative endeavors - from Nobel Prize-winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and works in the arts - are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts. The gift of failure...
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The 5 Love Languages Military Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts

Gary D Chapman · Northfield Publishing
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Advice for military couples"As soon as I arrived in Afghanistan, I began reading The 5 Love Languages®. I had never read anything so simple yet so profound." - Anonymous soldier If you are in a military relationship, you know the strain of long deployments, lonely nights,...
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Every Father's Daughter: Twenty-four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers

Margaret McMullan · McPherson & Company
Format: Hardcover

What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger...
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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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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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Eating disorders anonymous : the story of how we recovered from our eating disorders

Eating Disorders Anonymous. · Gurze Designs & Books
Format: Print book

Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders presents the accumulated experience, strength, and hope of many who have followed a Twelve-Step approach to recover from their eating disorders. Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA) , founded by sober members...
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WHOLE: How I Learned to Fill the Fragments of My Life with Forgiveness, Hope, Strength, and Creativity

Melissa Moore · Rodale
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

When Melissa Moore was 13 years old, her father said to her, "I know how to kill someone and get away with it." At the time she chalked it up to his love of detective novels, but it didn't change the fact that her father had always been someone who made her anxious. Two years...
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