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The DASH Diet for Beginners: The Guide to Getting Started

Sonoma Press · Sonoma Press
Pages: 339
Format: Print book

Shed pounds and improve your health with the DASH diet, ranked #1 in "Best Diets Overall" by U.S. News & World Report. The DASH diet is the last diet you will ever need to go on. The DASH diet is a scientifically proven way to permanently reduce blood pressure and lose weight....
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The Marriage Book: Centuries of Advice, Inspiration, and Cautionary Tales from Adam and Eve to Zoloft

Lisa Grunwald · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The definitive anthology of wisdom and wit about one of life's most complex, intriguing, and personal subjects.When and whom do you marry? How do you keep a spouse content? Do all engaged couples get cold feet? How cold is so cold that you should pivot and flee? Where and how do children...
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The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters

Wes Moore · Random House Inc
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore continues his inspirational quest for a meaningful life and shares the powerful lessons - about self-discovery, service, and risk-taking - that led him to a new definition of success for our times. The Work is the story of how one young man traced...
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The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You

Ella Berthoud · Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Guardian UKAn exuberant pageant of literary fiction and a celebration of the possibilities of the novel.A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or focus. But it can also be something more powerful—a...
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8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well-being

Manuela Mischke Reeds · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Learning how to pay attention to the present moment.Becoming mindful is about the small, everyday things such as pausing to take a breath before you drive off in a hurry or considering the food that will nourish your body before a meal. Or it can mean checking in with yourself before responding...
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The Everything Guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Learn Positive and Mindful Techniques to Change Negative Behaviors

Ellen Bowers · Adams Media
Format: Print book

A step-by-step guide to a positive outlook and a happier life!Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a popular method of therapeutic treatment that involves examining both your thoughts and your actions. Proven to be an effective treatment for anxiety, depression, and eating and mood disorders,...
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Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir

Elizabeth Nunez · Akashic Books
Format: Print book

One of Oprah.com's "Memoirs Too Powerful to Put Down""Nunez ponders the cultural, racial, familial, social, and personal experiences that led to what she ultimately understands was a deeply loving union between her parents. A beautifully written exploration of the complexities...
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The Lose Your Belly Diet: Change Your Gut, Change Your Life

Stork MD · Ghost Mountain Books
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

We want to be healthy. We want to be lean. And we want to lose that annoying fat around our bellies We can achieve ALL of these goals with The Lose Your Belly Diet. Based on exciting new research about the dramatic benefits of vibrant gut health and a diverse gut microbiome, this plan...
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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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Everyday Ambassador: Make a Difference by Connecting in a Disconnected World

Kate Otto · Atria Paperback ; Hillsboro, Oregon
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

In Everyday Ambassador Kate Otto brings people together even as our digital networks pull us further apart.In a world of limitless technology, we are more connected than ever before but our hyper-connected lifestyles threaten our ability to know ourselves and interact with each other. By focusing...
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ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Survivors: A Guide to Practical and Legal Matters When Someone You Love Dies

Sally Balch Hurme · American Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Division,
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Grand Award Winner for Print Media in the APEX 2015 Competition!"An exceptional book. ...the content is first rate. Extremely well researched and well organized, each topic is well written, and carefully presented in as inviting a way as such a topic can be. If anything has been overlooked...
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Levels of Life

Julian Barnes · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An NPR Best Book of the YearA Daily Candy Best Book of the YearJulian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account...
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Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me

Lucinda Franks · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Words by the millions have been printed about you, but none have revealed your real life, your secret life--which is that you belong to me."In this beautifully rendered literary memoir, Lucinda Franks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, tells the intimate story of her marriage...
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Blood Pressure: 40 Super-food that will naturally lower your blood pressure

Arnold Yates · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 66
Format: Paperback

Use these powerful recipes and strategies to naturally lower your blood pressure! Greetings, My name is Arnold Yates and I am a Doctor and a bodybuilder. I have a PHD in exercise physiology. The reason I created this book is because I don't want people to go through what I went through....
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How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

Heather Havrilesky · Doubleday
Pages: 258
Format: Print book

A collection of original, impassioned, and inspiring letters by the author of the popular advice column Ask Polly

Should you quit your day job to follow your dreams? How do you rein in an overbearing mother? Will you ever stop dating wishy-washy, noncommittal guys? Should...
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