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You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life

Neil Pasricha · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From Neil Pasricha - New York Times, million-copy bestselling author of The Book of Awesome series and The Happiness Equation, thought leader for the next generation, and one of the most popular TED speakers in the world - comes a revelatory and inspiring book that...
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Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

Mats Ottosson · Roost Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A stunning celebration of birds and why we love them. Gorgeous, close-up photographs highlight the magic in every feather, with enchanting essays about how birds touch our lives.Our lives intertwine with birds like no other wild creature. Every day birds warm our hearts, inspire our curiosity,...
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Nomad: Designing a Home for Escape and Adventure

Emma Reddington · Artisan
Format: Book

A reclusive designer living in a custom tiny house in the middle of the Montana wilderness. A couple who traded their expensive Bay Area apartment for a slip at a nearby marina, where they live on a docked sailboat. A family of five who decided to simplify their lives by moving into...

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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything

BJ Fogg Ph.D · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The world's leading expert on habit formation shows how you can have a happier, healthier life: by starting small.

Myth: Change is hard. Reality: Change can be easy if you know the simple steps of Behavior Design.

Myth: It's all about willpower. Reality:...
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Eightysomethings: Transitions, Letting Go, and Unexpected Happiness

Katharine Esty PhD · Skyhorse
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

This invaluable guide will help the historical number of eightysomethings live fulfilled, happy lives long into their twilight years. Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind,...
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Worried?: Science investigates some of life?s common concerns

Lise A. Johnson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

How scientific reasoning explains our most common daily fears -- from germs to natural disasters and everything in between.

How scientific reasoning explains our most common daily fears -- from germs to natural disasters and everything in between.

Quick--what do you worry...

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Holiday Jubilee: Classic & Kitschy Festivities & Fun Party Recipes

Charles Phoenix · Prospect Park Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

You're invited to celebrate America's favorite seasonal traditions like never before. Ambassador of Americana Charles Phoenix mixes and mingles spectacular vintage Kodachrome slides of New Year's, Valentine's Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas with his eye-popping,...
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Wake Up!: Break the Generational Cycle and Be Yourself

Janet S. Ellis · Morgan James Publishing
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback

Wake Up is about breaking the vicious cycle of habitual repeated behavior handed down generation after generation and awakening full potential. It's time for people to break the vicious cycle of family dynamics and awaken to who they truly are in order to move forward and create a life...
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The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

Angela Kelly · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty's Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty's...

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Where to Retire: America's Best & Most Affordable Places

John Howells · Globe Pequot
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Where to Retire offers the best advice not only on where to relocate in the retirement years, but why people should pick up and move just as life is settling down and provides well-researched and completely revised and updated information on how to find the ideal home base for the retirement...
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Plus Size Knits: 25 Knitting Patterns for Sweaters & Accessories

Phildar · Fox Chapel Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

It doesn't have to be a challenge to find well-constructed knitting patterns for your body type! 25 knitting patterns specifically designed for plus size women, not just up-sized Stylish and flattering designs of sweaters, cardigans, and accessories Step-by-step directions and high-quality...
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The Narcissist in Your Life: Recognizing the Patterns and Learning to Break Free

Julie L. Hall · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

A highly illuminating examination of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and its insidiously traumatic impact on family members and partners. Packed with insight, compassion, and practical strategies for recovery, this is a must-read for survivors and clinicians alike. Narcissistic...
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Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season

Bernd Brunner · Greystone Books
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, beautiful survey of all things winter.

Brunner masterfully does in words what resilient and adventurous people have done in their lives for centuries; he finds beauty in blizzards and ice and the crystallized enchantment of snow."
- Dan Egan, Pulitzer finalist...

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When Reagan Sent In the Marines: The Invasion of Lebanon

Patrick J. Sloyan · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"In this formidable narrative, the prize-winning and super honest reporter, Patrick Sloyan, adds the depth of a scholar's context to produce a gripping reminder of why we should never forget history. He makes readers feel like they were eye witnesses." -- Ralph Nader

From...

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Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

Bridges, William · DA CAPO PR INC
Format: Book

Celebrating 40 years of the best-selling guide for coping with life's changes, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help and personal development -- with a new Discussion Guide for readers, written by Susan Bridges and aimed at today's current people and organizations...

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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Cliff Kuang · MCD
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women's rights to the Great Depression to World...
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The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It

John Tierney · Penguin Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read." - Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even...
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The Two-Pencil Method: The Revolutionary Approach to Drawing It All

Mark Crilley · Watson-Guptill
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

From the best-selling artist and YouTube art instructor, this book features step-by-step lessons that show you how to draw professional-quality portraits, landscapes, travel sketches, and animals using only two ordinary pencils.Great art doesn't have to be expensive. For the cost of a regular...
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The Self-Care Solution: A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and Fitter--One Month at a Time

Jennifer Ashton M.D. · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

ABC's chief medical correspondent helps you ring in the New Year right with a resolution that's actually doable: a year-long plan to improve your emotional and physical health - from giving up alcohol to doing a digital detox, but each for only one month.Dr. Jennifer Ashton is at the top of her field...
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The Defined Dish: Whole30 Endorsed, Healthy and Wholesome Weeknight Recipes

Alex Snodgrass · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Healthy, easy, and delicious recipes from the Defined Dish blog--fully endorsed by Whole30 Alex Snodgrass of TheDefinedDish.com is the third author in the popular Whole30 Endorsed series. With gluten-free, dairy-free, and grain-free recipes that sound and look way too delicious to be healthy,...
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To Hell With the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World

Jefferson Bethke · Thomas Nelson Inc
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bethke delivers a call to resist our cultural worship of connectivity and achievement before we lose the essentials that make us distinctly and deeply human. Our culture makes constant demands of us. Do more. Accomplish more. Buy more. Post more....
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Infinite Succulent: Miniature Living Art to Keep or Share

Rachael Cohen · Countryman Press
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

Take your succulents to the next level with these stylish and creative projectsFrom blue- green to purple and pink, flower-shaped to squat and spiky or tall and fuzzy, the variety, versatility, and low-maintenance care of succulents makes them go-to plants for home gardeners. Here, succulent...
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Breaking Up With Sugar: Divorce the Diets, Drop the Pounds, and Live Your Best Life

Molly Carmel · Avery
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A proven plan to break free from your unhealthy relationship with Sugar - and reclaim your health and your life for good.The solution to your food and weight problems isn't willpower or the next fad diet - it's breaking up with Sugar. Molly Carmel, an eating disorder therapist with...
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Fix It with Food: More Than 125 Recipes to Address Autoimmune Issues and Inflammation

Michael Symon · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The first-ever health-focused cookbook from everyone's favorite celebrity chef, Michael Symon. Fix It with Food shares how Symon learned which foods caused his inflammation and pain (he calls these his food triggers) and helps readers discover their own food triggers. By beginning...
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Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player

Jeremy Beer · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover

Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one." Among experts he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime he became a legend in Cuba and one of black America's most popular figures. Yet even among serious...
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National Geographic Atlas of the National Parks

Jon Waterman · National Geographic
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The first book of its kind, this stunning atlas showcases America's spectacular park system from coast to coast, richly illustrated with an inspiring and informative collection of maps, graphics, and photographs.

From the white sand beaches of Dry Tortugas to the snowy peaks of Denali,...
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Fun and Easy Crafting with Recycled Materials: 60 Cool Projects that Reimagine Paper Rolls, Egg Cartons, Jars and More!

Kimberly McLeod · Page Street Kids
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Eco-friendly adults can help their kids make cool crafts everyone will love from materials they already have. Egg cartons become flowers, old pool noodles transform into pirate ships and toilet paper rolls become tree trunks. Kimberly McLeod, founder of the popular kids' crafting blog...
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A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success

Maye Musk
Format: Book

"Warm, honest and true--A Woman Makes A Plan is full of insight as well as a good dose of humor, offering readers a lifetime of hard-won advice."
--Diane Von Furstenberg

The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from...

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Space Exploration―A History in 100 Objects

Sten Odenwald · The Experiment
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

This is no ordinary space book.

Within the pages of this eclectic pop-history, scientist and educator Sten Odenwald at NASA examines 100 objects that forever altered what we know and how we think about the cosmos. From Sputnik to Skylab and Galileo's telescope to the Curiosity...
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The Gut-Friendly Cookbook: Delicious Low-FODMAP, Gluten-Free, Allergy-Friendly Recipes for a Happy Tummy

Alana Scott · Countryman Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

More than 100 fresh low-FODMAP recipes -- the go-to diet for digestive issues, including IBS

Recent studies have shown that a low-FODMAP diet -- one that eliminates certain carbohydrates that can trigger gas, bloating, and other digestive issues -- can help followers to feel better...
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Yoga for the Inflexible Male: A How-To Guide

Yoga Matt · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback

A yoga book for the chronically inflexible, with practical, down-to-earth advice for weekend warriors, aging athletes, and anyone else who could benefit from a bit more flexibility in their lives.The benefits of yoga--greater strength, flexibility, and presence of mind--are for anyone,...
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Vegetables, Chickens & Bees: An Honest Guide to Growing Your Own Food Anywhere

Carson Arthur · Appetite by Random House
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

For anyone who's ever wanted to grow their own food, comes gardening guru Carson Arthur's honest, and often hilarious, advice for any and every skill level and space.Everyone appreciates the glory of a fresh vine-ripened vegetable, but how do you successfully grow your own? Nobody...
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