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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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It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand

Megan Devine · Sounds True
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

In 2009, on a beautiful sunny day, Megan Devine witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner Matt. "All my professional experience as a therapist felt meaningless," she writes. "Grief literature is loaded with well-intended advice that can actually worsen and extend...
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Better than Perfect: 7 Strategies to Crush Your Inner Critic and Create a Life You Love

Elizabeth Lombardo · Seal Press
Format: Book

Perfectionists exist in every walk of life. While outwardly they appear to be very accomplished, they are often unhappy and unfulfilled. Perfectionists strive toward unattainable goals, and their behaviors can wreak havoc on both their physical health and their psychological well-being.Timely...
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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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A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

Paula Becker · University Of Iowa Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker's son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his writer/historian mom and his physician father. He was a bright, curious child. And yet,...
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The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work

Eli J Finkel · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The structure of modern successful marriages is revealed in this inspiring and useful new perspective on the most important relationship a human being can have.

The institution of marriage in America is struggling. But as Eli Finkel's most recent research reveals, the best marriages...
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Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things

Rosemary Davidson · Harper Wave
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Integrating mindfulness, neuroscience, positive psychology, and creativity research, Craftfulness offers a thought-provoking and surprising reconsideration of craft, and how making things with your hands can connect us to our deepest selves and improve our well-being and overall happiness.

We...

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Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two

Jessica Pan · Gotham
Format: Paperback

Two best friends document their post-college lives in a hilarious, relatable, and powerfully honest epistolary memoir. Fast friends since they met at Brown University during their freshman year, Jessica Pan and Rachel Kapelke-Dale vowed to keep in touch after their senior year through in-depth...
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Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction

Dean Sluyter · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Less Fear, More Life - a Practical Guide

These days there's so much fear in the air, you can almost taste it - along with all the varieties of anxiety, anger, and addiction that grow out of it. How can you navigate your way through the fear and confusion, and find your way to peace?

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I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics: How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous Partisan World

Jeanne Safer · All Points Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Do you thrust unsolicited partisan articles upon your spouse? Are you convinced that you can change your coworker's mind, if you could only argue forcefully enough? Have you gone from befriending to "defriending" the people once closest to you? Don't give up hope; Dr. Jeanne...

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Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity

Carolyn Eckert · Storey Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

With change happening faster and faster in our tech-ruled world, being able to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever. In Your Idea Starts Here, graphic designer Carolyn Eckert offers 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises - cleverly combined...
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Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

Arianna Huffington · Harmony
Format: Paperback

In Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world.   Arianna Huffington's personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye -- the result of a fall...
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How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

Jennifer L Taitz · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Single, less stressed, and free

If you're tired of swiping through dating apps, ghosting, and hearing well-meaning questions about why you're still single, it's hard not to feel "less-than" because you haven't found your soul mate.

Until now.

How to Be Single...
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How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

Max Lucado · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In a world searching for happiness, bestselling author Max Lucado provides a personal plan for a life filled with lasting and fulfilling joy, supported by Jesus' teaching and modern research.

Do you feel happy?

How long has it been since you felt a level of contagious, infectious,...

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