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And Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood

Rachel Friedman · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A journey through the many ways to live an artistic life - from the flashy and famous to the quiet and steady - full of unexpected insights about creativity and contentment, from the author of The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost.Rachel Friedman was a serious violist as a kid. She quit...
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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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Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow

Ramesh Srinivasan · The MIT Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet.In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics,...
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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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Enough: Notes From a Woman Who Has Finally Found It

Shauna M. Ahern · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

For women everywhere, a collection of fierce and often funny personal essays on finding enough, from writer Shauna M. Ahern, of Gluten-Free Girl fame.

Like so many American women, Shauna M. Ahern spent decades feeling not good enough about her body, about money, and about her worth...
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The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired

Daniel J. Siegel · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What's the one thing a parent can do to make the most difference in the long run? The research is clear: Show up! Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood. One of the very best scientific predictors...
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Everything Isn't Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down

Kathleen Smith · Hachette Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of You Are a Badass and The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, a helpful and humorous guide to shedding our anxious habits and building a more solid sense of self in our increasingly anxiety-inducing world.Licensed therapist and mental health writer Dr. Kathleen Smith...
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F*ck No!: How to Stop Saying Yes When You Can't, You Shouldn't, or You Just Don't Want To

Sarah Knight · Voracious
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

With 2 million copies sold worldwide, Sarah Knight's bestselling No F*cks Given Guides prove that she's the Queen of No: no to a single extraneous f*ck given, to unwanted obligations, overcommitting, and overcomplicating her life.For Sarah, saying no is easy. For the rest of us, it's...
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Gracefully You: How to Live Your Best Life Every Day

Jenna Dewan · Gallery Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Actress and dancer Jenna Dewan shares her uplifting message of how to elevate your life and experience beauty every day - perfect for fans of Jessica Alba's The Honest Life and Kate Hudson's Pretty Happy.

The frustrations and challenges that come with modern living...
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How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well

Catherine Wilson · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answer
Epicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to eat, drink, and be merry. In How to Be an Epicurean, philosopher Catherine Wilson...
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How to Have Your Life Not Suck: Becoming Today Who You Want to Be Tomorrow

Bianca Juarez Olthoff · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Do you ever just want someone to help you figure life out - to tell you how to win at work, what guys to stay away from, and what jeans rock your body shape? With so much information at your fingertips, real success, good dates, and true friendships can still feel out of reach. Bianca Juarez...
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I Really Needed This Today: Words to Live By

Hoda Kotb · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From New York Times bestselling author and beloved Today show co-host Hoda Kotb comes an inspiring collection of quotes--drawn from her own personal favorites featured on her enormously popular Instagram account--that offer...
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Loss, Survive, Thrive: Bereaved Parents Share Their Stories of Healing and Hope

Meryl Hershey Beck · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover

No one is prepared for the loss of a child. No one. It feels completely unnatural for children to predecease their parents. Although it is not widely known, each year there are over 135,000 under 40-year-old deaths in the U.S. alone. And, according to one study, 19% of parents outlive their...
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Love You Like the Sky: Surviving the Suicide of a Beloved

Sarah Neustadter PhD · SparkPress
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

Writing from the unique point of view of a suicide survivor who is also a psychologist, Sarah Neustadter presents a selection of the emails she sent to John, her deceased beloved, over a three-year period following his death. Documenting the raw emotions she experienced during this time...
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Making Comics

Lynda Barry · Drawn and Quarterly
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

The idiosyncratic curriculum from the Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity will teach you how to draw and write your story

Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don't miss class, and turn off your phones. No time for introductions, we start drawing...

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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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Scatterbrain: How the Mind's Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful

Henning Beck · Greystone Books - Greystone Books - Greystone Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this mind-bending book, an esteemed neuroscientist explains why perfectionism is pointless - and argues that mistakes, missteps, and flaws are the keys to success.


Remember that time you screwed up simple math or forgot the name of your favorite song? What if someone told...

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Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between: The New and Necessary Conversations Today's Teenagers Need to Have about Consent, Sexual Harassment, Healthy Relationships, Love, and More

Shafia Zaloom · Sourcebooks
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The only book you need to start a conversation with your kids about sexual harassment, consent, #metoo, and more

Many American teens are steeped in a culture that sends unsettling messages about sex, through everything from politics to music to the normalization of porn. In today's...

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Small Doses

Amanda Seales · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Insightful essays, poignant life advice, and pithy pearls of wisdom from one of comedy's brightest rising stars

Comedian, writer, actress, and social media star Amanda Seales is a force of nature who has fearlessly and passionately charted her own course through life and career....
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Stillness Is the Key

Ryan Holiday · Portfolio
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller & Wall Street Journal Bestseller

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology....
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The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way

Hector Garcia · Penguin Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Learn to make every moment a once-in-a-lifetime experience with this definitive guide to the Japanese art of ichigo ichie (pronounced itchy-GO itchy-A) , from the bestselling authors of Ikigai.Every moment in our life happens only once, and if we let it slip away, we lose it forever--an...
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Susannah Cahalan · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR) .

Doctors have...
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The History of Philosophy

A. C. Grayling · Penguin Press
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers

The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents,...
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna

Mira Ptacin · Liveright
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest-running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond.They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna -- an otherworldly community in the woods...
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The Joy of Missing Out: Live More by Doing Less

Tonya Dalton · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Productivity expert and CEO of inkWELL Press Productivity Co. Tonya Dalton challenges women to rethink "busy" and intentionally live with a mindset of abundance

Overwhelmed. Too many women are swamped and exhausted by all they strive to do, ending most days feeling unsatisfied...

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The Little Book of Big Lies: A Journey into Inner Fitness

Tina Lifford · Amistad
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring and illuminating guide to true self care, from the sage teacher and breakout star of the critically acclaimed drama, Queen Sugar, from Executive Producers Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay for OWN.

Featured on Essence Magazine's Culture List

In all your years of schooling,...

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The Most Important Thing: Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life

Adyashanti · Sounds True
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

From esteemed teacher Adyashanti, a collection of writings on the search for the ultimate reality beneath the narrative of our lives

"Our inner lives are every bit as astonishing, baffling, and mysterious as the infinite vastness of the cosmos." - Adyashanti

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Understanding Teenage Anxiety: A Parent's Guide to Improving Your Teen's Mental Health

Jennifer Browne · Skyhorse
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

If you're the parent of a teenager experiencing chronic anxiety, this book is for you.

Today's teens are high-strung and socially overextended. We shrug it off as a millennial problem, but is it? In a world that encourages the quick fix, instant gratification, and real-time feedback,...
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You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity

Don McPherson · Edge of Sports
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

"McPherson wants readers to begin to understand that traditional masculinity is a burden to boys and men, and to help change the narrative handed down to them...This is a valuable contribution to the new choir of traditionally masculine men reevaluating themselves on their own terms."
--Publishers...

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