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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch - Hyperion Format: Hardcover
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A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences cant help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last... |
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The Canyon Ranch Guide To Men's Health: A Doctor's Prescription for Male Wellness
Stephen C Brewer - SelectBooks Format: Print book
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Do you or someone you love have a Y chromosome? If so, this book is for you. The average life expectancy for men is five years shorter than for women. Why? Because men neglect their health. Dr. Stephen C. Brewer's The Canyon Ranch Guide to Men's Fitness: A Doctor's Prescription for Male... |
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Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness
Rachel Kelly - Atria Books Format: Print book
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A compact, accessible, life-changing book, internationally bestselling Walking on Sunshine offers fifty-two tips and tools (one for each week of the year) to increase your happiness year-round and help you manage the mood-altering pressures of everyday life.In the form of weekly... |
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The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Dalai Lama - Avery Format: Hardcover
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An instant New York Times bestsellerTwo spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their... |
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Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
George Saunders - Random House Inc Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThree months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million... |
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The Book of Highs: 255 Ways to Alter Your Consciousness without Drugs
Edward Rosenfeld - Workman Publishing Company Format: Paperback
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Call it altering consciousness, call it getting high, or call it mindfulness. Humans are hardwired to seek ways to transcend the limits of everyday awareness, whether it's the little kid spinning in circles to get dizzy or a runner experiencing the day's first rush of dopamine. And you don't... |
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Finding the Blue Sky: A Mindful Approach to Choosing Happiness Here and Now
Joseph Emet - TarcherPerigee Format: Print book
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In this beautifully crafted book, Joseph Emet explores the intersection between one of the hottest field of study in the realm of personal growth - Positive Psychology - and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism Positive Psychology - with its focus not on mental "disease," but rather... |
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Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction
Dean Sluyter - TarcherPerigee Format: Paperback
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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? In Fear... |
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Don't Sing at the Table LP: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers
Adriana Trigiani - HarperLuxe; Lgr edition Format: Large Print]
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"No one ever reads just one of Trigiani’s wonderfully quirky tales. Once you pick up the first, you are hooked.” —BookPageNew York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers: time-tested, common... |
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Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use
Niurka - Harmony; 1 edition Format: Book
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“Supreme Influence is a way of being and communicating with purpose, poise, precision and power. It is a practice that allows you to consciously create harmonious relationships and produce successful results in every area of life.”Transform your language, transform your life!... |
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On Living
Kerry Egan - Riverhead Books Format: Print book
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A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it. As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Instead, she discovered... |
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Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
Martha Beck - Crown; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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"The North Star -- Stella Polaris -- is a fixed point that can always be used to figure out which way you're headed. Explorers and mariners can depend on Polaris when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate... |
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1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12
Thomas W Phelan - Sourcebooks Format: Print book
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The gold standard of parenting books and a 2016 Family Choice Award winner!"1-2-3 Magic made parenting fun again.""My three-year-old has become a different little girl, and she is so much happier now.""All I have to say is that the ideas in this book really WORK!... |
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Good Girl: A Memoir
Sarah Tomlinson - Gallery Books Format: Hardcover
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Told with raw, rugged honesty, this heartrending memoir from journalist Sarah Tomlinson recounts her unconventional upbringing and coming-of-age as colored by her complicated relationship with her father.Sarah Tomlinson was born on January 29, 1976, in a farmhouse in Freedom, Maine. After... |
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Jump: Take the Leap of Faith to Achieve Your Life of Abundance
Steve Harvey - Amistad Format: Hardcover
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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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I'll See You Again
Jackie Hance - Gallery Books; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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In a powerful and intimate memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, andslowly, painfully, and miraculouslyher cautious return to hope and love. Until the horrific car accident on New York States Taconic Parkway that took the lives of her three beloved young... |
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Addict In The Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery.
Beverly Conyers - Hazelden; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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Witnessing the addiction of a family member or loved one is a heart-rending experience. But hope can prevail, as shown in this compelling new book. Here, the gripping stories of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters of addicts offer important lessons on loving, detachment, intervention,... |
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The Five Languages of Apology: How to Experience Healing in All Your Relationships
Gary D Chapman - Northfield Publishing; New Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Just as you have a different love language, you also hear and express the words and gestures of apology in a different language.New York Times best-selling author Gary Chapman teamed with counselor Jennifer Thomas on this groundbreaking study of the way we apologize, discovering that... |
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Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things
Rosemary Davidson - Harper Wave Format: Hardcover
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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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Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
Joe Fassler - Penguin Books Format: Paperback
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A stunning guide to finding creative inspiration and how it can illuminate your life, your work, and your art - from Stephen King, Junot Daz, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, and many more acclaimed writers What inspires you That's the simple, but profound... |
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Clear Body, Clear Mind
L. Ron Hubbard - Bridge Publications, Inc. Format: Hardcover
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It is estimated that there are more than 700 different drugs and toxic substances in our bodies. These substances reduce your ability to think clearly and can prevent you from achieving what you really want in life. The Purification Program is an all-natural regimen that eliminates these... |
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Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence
Gail Sheehy - William Morrow; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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One of those rare books that can drastically lighten even the heaviest of loads.Rosalynn CarterTrust me there is no better guide to caregiving.Bill MoyersGail Sheehy, author of the groundbreaking Passageswhich was a New York Times bestseller for more than three yearsnow brings us Passages... |
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The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle
Joanne Huist Smith - Harmony Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne... |
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Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned From a Little Golden Book
Diane Muldrow - Golden Books Format: Hardcover
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Next in the EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW... series comes a book perfect for your valentine, your family, or YOU. Charming and witty as ever, this new treasury of insights reveals that, for all the love-related mystery and confusion we face as adults, those Little Golden Books may have had the answers... |
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The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations
OPRAH WINFREY - Flatiron Books Format: Hardcover
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Oprah Winfrey says Super Soul Sunday is the television show she was born to do. "I see it as an offering," she explains. "If you want to be more fully present and live your life with a wide-open heart, this is the place to come to."Now, for the first time,... |
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Queer Eye: Love Yourself. Love Your Life.
Tan France Jonathan Van Ness Bobby Berk Antoni Porowski - Clarkson Potter Format: Hardcover
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From the Fab Five--the beloved hosts of Netflix's viral hit Queer Eye--comes a book that is at once a behind-the-scenes exclusive, a practical guide to living and celebrating your best life, and a symbol of hope. Feeling your best is about far more than deciding what color to paint... |
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The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China
John D Day M.D. - Harper Paperbacks Format: Hardcover
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From a renowned Johns Hopkins- and Stanford-educated cardiologist at Intermountain Medical Center - a hospital system that President Obama has praised as an "island of excellence" - comes the story of his time living in Longevity Village in China, and the seven lessons he learned... |
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Getting from Me to We: How to Help Young Children Fit in and Make Friends
Shonna Tuck - Woodbine House Inc., U.S Format: Paperback
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Many children age seven and under struggle with social skills and find themselves perpetually on the sidelines, in time-out, or ignored by their peers in school and on the playground. It's incredibly painful and worrisome for their parents to witness, but fortunately, they are not powerless... |
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GuRu
RuPaul - Dey Street Books Format: Hardcover
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A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the world's most famous shape-shifter RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented career for more than thirty-five years. GuRu is packed with more than 80 beautiful photographs that illustrate the concept of building... |
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Weddiculous: An Unfiltered Guide to Being a Bride
Jamie Lee - HarperOne Format: Print book
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In this irreverent wedding guide, MTV's wedding planning guru and star of Girl Code, comedian and bride-to-be Jamie Lee, offers practical advice and hilarious insights on how to stay sane while planning your "big day."Weddings. What was once a beautiful celebration of a couple... |
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The Future of God: A Practical Approach to Spirituality for Our Times
Deepak Chopra - Harmony; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times Bestselling Author. Can God be revived in a skeptical age? What would it take to give people a spiritual life more powerful than anything in the past? Deepak Chopra tackles these issues with eloquence and insight in this book. He proposes that God lies at the source... |
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Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
David Zweig - Portfolio Penguin Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring look at the hidden stars in every field who perform essential work without recognition In a culture where so many strive for praise and glory, what kind of person finds the greatest reward in anonymous work? Expanding from his acclaimed Atlantic article, "What Do Fact-Checkers... |
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One God, in One Book, for One People
Linda L. Blum - XLIBRIS Format: Paperback
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This book has been designed to help answer the questions such as: How are the manifestations of God alike in both the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the Brit Chadashah (New Testament) ? Do both reveal how Jews and Gentiles have equal access to the Rock of Salvation? Did Yeshua (Jesus)... |
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
Ann Patchett - HarperCollins Format: Print book
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What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work... |
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The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Amanda Palmer - Grand Central Publishing; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience... |
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