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The Jealousy Cure: Learn to Trust, Overcome Possessiveness, and Save Your Relationship

Robert L Leahy · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Could jealousy be a positive thing? In this groundbreaking book, Robert L. Leahy - author of the hugely popular self-help guide, The Worry Cure - invites you to gain a greater understanding of your jealous feelings, keep jealousy from hijacking your life, and create healthier relationships.We've...
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Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge

Henry Cloud · HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

In Boundaries for Leaders, clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Henry Cloud leverages his expertise of human behavior, neuroscience, and business leadership to explain how the best leaders set boundaries within their organizations--with their teams and with themselves--to improve...
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How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

Letty Cottin Pogrebin · PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Everyone knows someone who’s sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends’ and family’s diverse reactions...
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The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

JONATHAN RAUCH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

This book will change your life by showing you how life changes.Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you're successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end?Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist...
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Fire Up Your Life in Retirement: 101 Ways for Women to Reinvent Themselves

Catherine DePino · Paragon House
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Women want to be fulfilled in all areas of their lives and at all stages. They want to love and be loved. They want freedom from conflict and a peaceful existence. And when life doesn't meet these expectations, they want to be able to deal with their disappointments with strength and courage....
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Unqualified

ANNA FARIS · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Anna Faris has advice for you. And it's great advice, because she's been through it all, and she wants to tell you what she's learned. After surviving an awkward childhood (when she bribed the fastest boy in the third grade with ice cream) , navigating dating and marriage in Hollywood,...
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This Is Woman's Work: Calling Forth Your Inner Council of Wise, Brave, Crazy, Rebellious, Loving, Luminous Selves

Dominique Christina · Sounds True
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"A woman's work is to define herself," writes award-winning slam poet Dominique Christina. While this task is important for everybody, Dominique says, "There is an urgency for women. When you have inherited a construct that names, describes, and practices an ideology...
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Moving Forward in Mid-Career: A Guide to Rebuilding Your Career after Being Fired or Laid Off

John Weiss · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

Losing a job is one of the most devastating events one can experience. For trauma, it ranks up there with divorce, loss of a loved one, or permanent personal injury, and it happens more often that one would think. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 50,000 workers...
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The Angst of Adolescence: How to Parent Your Teen and Live to Laugh About It

Sara Villanueva · Bibliomotion, 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Being a good parent is one of the most difficult, yet most rewarding, jobs a person can have in his or her lifetime. Being the parent of a teen is an especially daunting phase of the journey. As parents begin to notice the significant changes that come with adolescence (physical changes...
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The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family: How to Survive and Then Thrive

Karen Casey · Conari Press
Format: Paperback

Is there a silver lining to growing up in a dysfunctional family?Bestselling recovery author Karen Casey looks at stories of people who grew up in dysfunctional families and "the good stuff" that can come from the experience. "Throughout my many decades in recovery rooms...
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The Gluten-Free Revolution: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know about Losing the Wheat, Reclaiming Your Health, and Eating Happily Ever After

Jax Peters Lowell · Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Pages: 656
Format: Print book

An expanded, revised, and exhaustively updated 20th anniversary edition of the book that fired the first shot--a comprehensive and entertaining guide to living gluten-freeWay ahead of its time, the original edition of this book, Against the Grain, was the first book of its kind: a funny,...
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The Longest Date: Life as a Wife

Cindy Chupack · Viking Adult, 2014.
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of The Between Boyfriends Book and an award-winning writer for Sex and the City and Modern Family takes a hilarious, heartbreaking look at marriageCindy Chupack has spent much of her adult life writing about dating and relationships for several hit TV series and as a sex columnist...
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The World on a Plate: 40 Cuisines, 100 Recipes, and the Stories Behind Them

Mina Holland · Penguin Books
Format: Print book

Eat your way around the world without leaving your home in this mouthwatering cultural history of 100 classic dishes.Best Culinary Travel Book (U.K.) , Gourmand World Cookbook AwardsFinalist for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award"When we eat, we travel." So begins this irresistible...
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WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere

Gillian/ Nadel Jennifer Anderson · Atria Books
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

Actress Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel, friends for more than a decade, have created the road map they wish they'd had for how to live a meaningful life.WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is an uplifting, inspirational, and intensely practical manual for change, providing...
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A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more

Mark Bittman · Pam Krauss Books
Format: Hardcover

Since his New York Times op-ed column debuted in 2011, Mark Bittman has emerged as one of our most impassioned and opinionated observers of the food landscape. The Times' only dedicated opinion columnist covering the food beat, Bittman routinely makes readers think twice about how the food...
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