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Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us

Amanda Carpenter - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

A CNN contributor, former Ted Cruz staffer, and "Never Trump" adherent reveals a shocking truth: Donald Trump's lies and fabrications don't horrify America - they enthrall us - and explains how we can avoid falling for them."Can you believe what Donald Trump said?"In...
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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon - Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of the "brave ... deeply humane ... open-minded, critically informed, and poetic" (The New York Times) The Noonday Demon, comes a book about the consequences of extreme personal and cultural differences between parents...
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Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End

Tia Powell - Avery
Format: Hardcover

The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care.Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when...
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Wild and Free Handcrafts: Fifty Activities to Build Skill, Confidence, and Creativity in Kids

Arment, Ainsley - HARPER ONE

The companion to The Call of the Wild Free styled in the lush aesthetic of the Wild Free brand, a four-color book offering crafts, activities, and essays, that parents, educators, and caregivers can use to inspire their children.Wild Free Handcrafts is a beautiful, four-color resource...
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...
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This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Sarah Hill - Avery
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are just now beginning to understand. By allowing women to control...
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What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life

Phil Zuckerman - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"A thoughtful perspective on humans' capacity for moral behavior." -- Kirkus Reviews "A comprehensive introduction to religious skepticism." -- Publishers Weekly In What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life,...
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When an Adult You Love Has ADHD: Professional Advice for Parents, Partners, and Siblings

Russell A Barkley - American Psychological Association
Format: Print book

In this book ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley explains the science behind ADHD and how you can tell if your spouse, partner, friend, adult child, or sibling may have it. He shows how to guide your loved one toward the right treatment, and what to do if he or she doesn't want treatment. Adults...
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Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World

Jill Rigby - Howard Books; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

This inspirational parenting guide offers proactive and positive steps to raising respectful, engaged, and grateful children.In an effort to raise children with a healthy view of themselves, parents often focus on self-esteem rather than self-respect. And author Jill Rigby says there’s...
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The Four Tendencies: The Surprising Truth About the Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do

Gretchen Rubin - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life. During her multibook investigation into...
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Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

Karen Kilgariff - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the #1 hit podcast My Favorite Murder!Sharing never-before-heard stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating disorders, and addiction, Karen and Georgia irreverently recount...
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Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide

Deborah Serani - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention...
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Overcoming Opioid Addiction: The Authoritative Medical Guide for Patients, Families, Doctors, and Therapists

ADAM BISAGA - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

From a leading addiction expert, a desperately needed medical guide to understanding, treating, and finally defeating opioid use disorder Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, claiming more lives than the AIDs epidemic did at its peak. Opioid...
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River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope

Naomi Judd - Center St
Format: Print book

Bestselling author and Grammy-winning musical superstar Naomi Judd shares her devastating personal story with depression to spread awareness and encourage others with the disease. The world knows Naomi Judd as one of the most successful and best-loved country music stars ever. What the world...
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Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls

Lisa Damour Ph.D. - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, studies confirm that it has skyrocketed...
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The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

Ben Sasse - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents...
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No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

Liz Fosslien - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

"A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong in the workplace."--Susan Cain, author of Quiet A hilarious guide to effectively expressing your emotions at the office, finding fulfillment, and defining work-life balance on your own terms.How do you stop the office...
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The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives

Al Gini - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

When E. B. White said "analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies," he hadn't seen Al Gini's hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish...
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Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude

Stephanie Rosenbloom - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of travelling soloIn our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when travelling. Through on-the-ground reporting and recounting...
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Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster

Linda Graham - New World Library
Format: Paperback

Whether it's a critical comment from the boss or a full-blown catastrophe, life continually dishes out challenges. Resilience is the learned capacity to cope with any level of adversity, from the small annoyances of daily life to the struggles and sorrows that break our hearts. Resilience...
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Beth Macy - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book

While it seems that news about the opioid epidemic has been running non-stop for the past several years, the deluge of reports can make it difficult to remember exactly where and how the trouble started. Beth Macy’s book Dopesick takes the reader all the way back to 1996,...
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Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life--For Good

Sean D Young - HarperCollins
Format: Audiobook

Whether it's absent-minded mistakes at work, a weakness for junk food, a smart phone addiction, or a lack of exercise, everyone has some bad habit or behavior that they'd like to change. But wanting to change and actually doing it--and sticking with it--are two very different things.Dr....
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More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Additional Hunches in Bunches

Jacob M Held - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Dr. Seuss and Philosophy delighted thousands of readers by demonstrating the insights of these children's classics through a playful engagement with the philosophical tradition. In More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy readers will be offered a vision of the good life through the world of Dr. Seuss....
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You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements

David McCullough Jr. - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

David mccullough, Jr.'s now iconic high school commencement address was a tonic for children, parents, and educators alike. With wit and a perspective earned from raising four children and teaching high school students for nearly thirty years, McCullough expands on his speech, shares...
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Toilet Training in Less Than a Day

Nathan Azrin
Format: Paperback


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The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science

Shaili Jain - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From a physician and post-traumatic stress disorder specialist comes a nuanced cartography of PTSD, a widely misunderstood yet crushing condition that afflicts millions of Americans.The Unspeakable Mind is the definitive guide for a trauma-burdened age. With profound empathy and meticulous...
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Conscience of a Conservative

ANONYMOUS. - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative....
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Calming Your Anxious Child: Words to Say and Things to Do

Kathleen Trainor - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Print book

Ten million children in the United States--two million of them preschoolers--suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to be out of their parents' sight; they may refuse to talk except to specific people or under specific circumstances; they may insist on performing tasks such...
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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

Gabriel Weinberg - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!"You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. You've got to have models in your head."- Charlie Munger, investor,...
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Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain-and How to Fight Back

Vivek Wadhwa - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Technology promises to help us achieve our dreams, connect us to everyone, and free up time--so why are we more miserable then ever? Wadhwa and Salkever show that our unhappiness can be traced to a concerted effort by tech companies to mold our thoughts and behavior to accomplish their...
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The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive

W Thomas Boyce - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From one of the world's foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health--a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and child development experts coping with "difficult" children, fully exploring the author's revolutionary...
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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future

Joselin Linder - Ecco
Format: Print book

A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicineWhen Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors...
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Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff

Alison Stewart - Chicago Review
Format: Print book

Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying...
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