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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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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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The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century

Adam Davidson · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The brilliant creator of NPR's Planet Money podcast and award-winning New Yorker staff writer explains our current economy: laying out its internal logic and revealing the transformative hope it offers for millions of people to thrive as they never have before.

Contrary...
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Connect First: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy at Work

Melanie Katzman · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A renowned business psychologist, advisor, and consultant to the world's leading companies reveals the key to greater success, meaning, and joy at work

Technology has enabled us to be more interconnected today than ever before. So why do so many of us feel isolated and undervalued...
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Failure to Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn't Grown Up...and What to Do About It

Mark McConville Ph.D. · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From an expert in adolescent psychology comes a groundbreaking, timely, and necessary guide for parents of the 2.2 million young adults in America who are struggling to find their way in the world.

In Dr. Mark McConville's decades of experience as a family clinical psychologist,...
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On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

James K. A. Smith · Brazos Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker...
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Meet Your Hormones: Discover the Hidden World of the Chemical Messengers in Your Body

Catherine Whitlock · Firefly Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Humans have thousands, perhaps millions, of hormones in our bloodstreams. These complex chemical messengers regulate the function of our cells and organs. They keep our bodies working properly, coordinating processes like growth, fertility and metabolism.

Meet Your Hormones...

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You Can Have It All, Just Not at the Same Damn Time: A Guide for Women Everywhere

Romi Neustadt · Portfolio
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and life and business coach Romi Neustadt has a message for women: You CAN have it all--just not at the same damn time.

Romi Neustadt is a mom of two, a wife, a daughter, bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and coach....
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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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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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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence,...
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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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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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Get Your Ducks in a Row: The Baby Boomers Guide to Estate Planning

Harry S. Margolis
Format: Paperback

If you're over 55, you probably know you need an estate plan. What you might not know is how to create one. Questions about cost, confusion about options, and difficulty talking about subjects like disability and death can make the process of preparing for the future seem overwhelming....

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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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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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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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Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

Tara Brach · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands,...
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Instant Loss: Eat Real, Lose Weight: How I Lost 125 Pounds--Includes 100 Recipes

Brittany Williams · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

The eagerly awaited follow-up to the best-selling Instant Loss Cookbook

Brittany Williams has taken the weight loss world by storm with her best-selling Instant Loss Cookbook. After reaching a peak weight of 260 pounds and spending a lifetime struggling with obesity, yo-yo...
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A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success

Maye Musk
Format: Hardcover

"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 a life of "living...
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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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Older, but Better, but Older: From the Authors of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are

Caroline De Maigret · Doubleday
Format: Book

From the bestselling authors of How to be Parisian, what smart, savvy, fabulous French women think, feel and advise as they hit forty on life, love, and everything else

Older, but Better, but Older has the playful wit, self deprecation...

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Everywhere Holy: Seeing Beauty, Remembering Your Identity, and Finding God Right Where You Are

Kara Lawler · Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Popular writer and blogger Kara Lawler shows women how to embrace the sacred in mundane, ordinary life--and in the process, discover themselves.

Life doesn't have to be lived on grand mountaintops for it to be meaningful. We can see God at work right where...

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Body Love: Every Day: Choose Your Life-Changing 21-Day Path to Food Freedom!

Kelly LeVeque · William Morrow
Pages: 272
Format: eBook

Say goodbye to cravings and food drama and experience more balance and joy every day with this structured yet flexible 30-day plan based on Kelly LeVeque's bestselling Body Love, illustrated with 16 pages of color photos and filled with delicious, easy recipes, invaluable advice, and inspiration...

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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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1,500 Stretches: The Complete Guide to Flexibility and Movement

Hollis Liebman · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 736
Format: Hardcover

1,500 Stretches--the follow-up book to the New York Times bestseller 2,100 Asanas-- compiles all stretching poses in one place, organized by body part, with stunning photographs, easy-to-follow steps, and the health benefits of each pose. Does your lower back ache from sitting all day?...
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