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People Tools: 54 Strategies for Building Relationships, Creating Joy, and Embracing Prosperity

Alan C Fox · Midpoint Trade Books Inc
Pages: 187
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Getting along well with others is the real secret to success and happiness. In tens of thousands of classrooms we teach reading, writing, and arithmetic and yet we leave solutions to the universal problems of human relationships to be discovered, if at all, by trial...
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Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence

Lisa Factora-Borchers · AK Press
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback

Dear Sister,It wasn't your fault; it was never your fault. You did nothing wrong. Hold this tight to your heart: it wasn't your fault.At night when you lay there and your mind fills with images and you wonder if only, if you had . . . if you hadn't . . . . Remember: it wasn't...
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Letters from Motherless Daughters: Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing

Hope Edelman · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback

Letters from Motherless Daughters is a compilation of the letters Hope Edelman received in response to her groundbreaking New York Times–bestseller, Motherless Daughters. Reaffirming her precious link with motherless women across the country, Edelman presents these...
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How to Hygge: The Nordic Secrets to a Happy Life

Signe Johansen · Griffin
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

The "Danish coziness" philosophy is fast becoming the new "French living" in terms of aspirational lifestyle books and blogs. There are countless viral articles comparing the happiness levels of Americans versus Danes. Their homes are more homey; their people are more...
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From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #84888-054

Bernard B. Kerik · Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

The controversial New York City police commissioner and bestselling author of The Lost Son shares the story of his fall from grace and the effects of his incarceration on his views of the American justice system.Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks,...
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The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life

Chris Guillebeau · Harmony Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A remarkable book that will both guide and inspire, The Happiness of Pursuit reveals how anyone can bring meaning into their life by undertaking a quest. When he set out to visit all of the planet's countries by age thirty-five, compulsive goal seeker Chris Guillebeau never imagined...
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Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero

Emily V. Gordon · Seal Press (CA)
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Superheroes don't start from glorious beginnings. Their origins are almost always marked by traumatic events that leave them helpless and scared. Batman witnessed his parents' murder. Superman was sent away from his dying planet with no one to guide him as he grew up. Orphaned Catwoman...
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Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health

Richard Jacoby · Harper Wave
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What Grain Brain did for wheat, this book by a leading peripheral nerve surgeon now does for sugar, revealing how it causes crippling nerve damage throughout the body - in our feet, organs, and brain - why sugar and carbohydrates are harmful to the body's nerves, and how eliminating...
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Four Funerals and a Wedding: Resilience in a Time of Grief

Jill Smolowe · She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

"An absolute must-read for people struggling with loss." -- Publishers Weekly In Four Funerals and a Wedding, Smolowe jostles preconceptions about caregiving, defies cliche´s about losing loved ones, and reveals a stunning bottom line: far from being uncommon, resilience...
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The Diva Rules: Ditch the Drama, Find Your Strength, and Sparkle Your Way to the Top

Michelle Visage · Chronicle Books
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

Michelle Visage is not your average diva. Powerful, positive, and polished, this diva's not only glamorous, she's a savvy businesswoman with serious credentials who works her tail off. From her days vogueing in the downtown Manhattan clubs in the '90s to her successful career...
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AARP The Other Talk: A Guide to Talking with Your Adult Children about the Rest of Your Life

Timothy Prosch · McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback

A one-of-a-kind practical guide to making the tough decisions parents and their adult children inevitably faceIt was a rite of passage for you to have the Talk with your kids about the beginning of life (as in the birds and the bees). As you get older, you need to have the Other Talk--about...
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson · HarperOne
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerIn this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy,...
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Jump: Take the Leap of Faith to Achieve Your Life of Abundance

Steve Harvey · Harpercollins
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The number-one New York Times bestselling author shares the secret of his success and teaches you how to achieve the blessed full life that belongs to youOn January 13, 2016, at the close of a taping of Family Feud, Steve Harvey spontaneously began to speak. Not knowing that the cameras...
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Live Raw Around the World: International Raw Food Recipes for Good Health and Timeless Beauty

Mimi Kirk · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book

Voted PETA’s sexiest vegetarian over 50—at age 70—Mimi Kirk is uniquely positioned to share her raw food recipes and lifestyle secrets from her travel around the globe. Everyone knows that eating well makes you feel good, bu
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