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The Business Romantic: Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself

Tim Leberecht - Harperbusiness
Format: Hardcover

In this smart, playful, and provocative book, one of today's most original business thinkers argues that we underestimate the importance of romance in our lives and that we can find it in and through business - by designing products, services, and experiences that connect us with something...
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Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet

Dr. Jan Pol - Gotham; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan.Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the in Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wilds hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been...
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The Start Here Diet: Three Simple Steps That Helped Me Transition from Fat to Slim . . . for Life

Tosca Reno - Ballantine Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

With her Eat-Clean Diet, Tosca Reno went from being overwhelmed and overweight to modeling a bikini, but her seventy-pound weight loss and body transformation didn’t happen overnight; even Tosca needed a simple approach, a place to begin. Now she reveals her secrets so that you can begin...
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Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love

Bret Baier - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Special Heart is a deeply touching personal story told through the eyes of a journalist as he faces the most daunting challenge in life -- far more frightening than reporting from battlefields, infinitely more momentous than interviewing newsmakers of the day: caring for his critically...
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The Vegiterranean Diet: The New and Improved Mediterranean Eating Plan--with Deliciously Satisfying Vegan Recipes for Optimal Health

Julieanna Hever - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Book

The Mediterranean diet has been the gold standard dietary pattern for decades, and with good reason: it has been linked with lowered risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Now, Julieanna Hever takes the Med to a whole new level! By focusing on whole-plant...
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Passionate Nutrition: A Guide to Using Food as Medicine from a Nutritionist Who Healed Herself from the Inside Out

Jennifer Adler - Sasquatch Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This power-foods healthy-living guidebook will inspire readers to eat well, lose weight, and embrace food as medicine. "Food as medicine" is a powerfully healing way to eat and was embraced by nutritionist Jennifer Adler as she recovered from a malnourished childhood and adolescence....
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Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book About Life

David R Dow - Twelve, 2014.
Format: Print book

"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone." In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row....
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What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives

Bruce Grierson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book

A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the processIn What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninety-four-year-old track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninety-four-year-old....
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Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry

Tom Burns - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Book

The first attempt in forty years to explain the full subject of psychiatry, from one of the world’s experts. In what will be a tour de force in the field of psychiatry in all its complexity and depth, this important new volume explores the essential paradox of psychiatry—and...
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Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, brave, and moving memoir of one woman's struggle with alcoholism, a disease that affects fifteen million Americans each year."It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because love was destroying everything I cared about, I had to fall out." So begins...
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When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community: Words to Say and Things to Do

Rachael Wonderlin - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Print book

Life changes dramatically for the entire family when the decision is made to move a person who has dementia from home to community care. Rachael Wonderlin, a gerontologist, dementia care expert, and popular dementia care blogger, helps caregivers cope with the difficult behaviors, emotions,...
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

Lawrence Wright - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle...
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The Smart Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want: How to be assertive with wit, style and grace

Mary Hartley - Random House Inc
Format: Paperback

Do you feel like you're not heard but you don't want to have to scream?Personal development coach Mary Hartley explains the secrets of assertiveness - of how to communicate with other people in ways that are confident, effective - but also considerate. Mary reveals the simple steps...
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The Swift Diet: 4 Weeks to Mend the Belly, Lose the Weight, and Get Rid of the Bloat

Kathie Madonna Swift - Hudson Street Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The microbiome is about to be the hottest thing in health. New research, for example, shows that lean people have different gut bacteria than heavier people.The Swift Diet will be the first to show women how they can tap into that research to lose weight permanently by eating to change...
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Lasting Words: A Guide to Finding Meaning Toward the Close of Life

Claire B. Willis - Green Writers Press; 1 edition
Format: Book

Faced with the ultimate challenge of life-confronting your death-how would you want to be remembered? Are there stories you want to tell? Experiences you want to relay? Explanations about how you felt and why? Maybe you wish to ensure that future generations know your family lore. Perhaps...
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Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX Examination, 3e

Linda A. LaCharity PhD RN - Mosby; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

The only NCLEX review book on the market with a focus on prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment - just like the current NCLEX Examination itself! Using a unique simple-to-complex approach, Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX® Examination,...
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Eat More Better: How to Make Every Bite More Delicious

Dan Pashman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

What if you could make everything you eat more delicious?As creator of the WNYC podcast The Sporkful and host of the Cooking Channel web series You're Eating It Wrong, Dan Pashman is obsessed with doing just that. Eat More Better weaves science and humor into a definitive, illustrated...
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Las Herramientas del Cuerpo

Luz Maria Briseno - Nutradvise, Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Book

En este libro encontraras las herramientas que necesitas para que tu propio cuerpo sane. Las herramientas del cuerpo agua, ejercicio, vitaminas y minerales, protena de calidad, carbohidratos complejos densos arroz integral, panes y cereales integrales carbohidratos complejos vegetales y frutas,...
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The Language of Healing: Daily Comfort for Women Living with Breast Cancer

Pat Benson - Conari Press, 2014.
Format: Paperback

This wise little book of 150 meditations is like a breast cancer support group. It is exactly what a woman recuperating in her hospital bed or during any of the other milestones of treatment and recovery might need--the advice and wisdom of other women who have preceded her in confronting...
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Back RX: A 15-Minute-a-Day Yoga- and Pilates-Based Program to End Low Back Pain

Vijay Vad - Gotham Books
Format: Book

As a physician specializing in treating athletes, Dr. Vijay Vad has spent years researching how to cure back pain using medical yoga and Pilates. Profiled in The Wall Street Journal, his program requires just fifteen minutes a day for eight weeks to restore flexibility and prevent future...
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The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

Alan Christianson NMD - Harmony Crown
Format: Hardcover

GO FROM WIRED AND TIRED TO LEAN AND THRIVING ... Why are people gaining weight faster than ever before? The idea that people simply eat too much is no longer supported by science. The emerging idea is that weight gain is a survival response. Our bodies are under attack from all directions...
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How We Are: Book One of the How to Live Trilogy

Vincent Deary - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

How We Are is the first part of the monumental How to Live trilogy, a profound and ambitious series that gets to the heart of what it means to be human: how we are, how we break, and how we mend.In How We Are, Vincent Deary explores the power of habit and the difficulty of change. As he shows...
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How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents

Joseph A. Califano Jr. - Touchstone; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

The highly acclaimed comprehensive guide to getting your child through the formative pre-teen, teen, and college years drug-freenow completely revised and updated. Nearly every child will be offered drugs or alcohol before graduating high school, and excessive drinking is common at most...
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The Dukan Diet Made Easy

Pierre Dukan - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

Living on Dukan Has Never Been Easier! Millions of people around the world have used the Dukan Diets unique 4-step plan to lose unwanted pounds. Now, keeping them off for life is simple and delicious.Dukan Made Easycontains all the tools you need to succeed The 10 slimming secrets you need...
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Homemade Beauty: 150 Simple Beauty Recipes Made from All-Natural Ingredients

Annie Strole - Perigee Books
Format: Print book

150 all-natural skin, hair and body care recipes that are inexpensive, toxin-free, and easy for readers to make themselves. Homemade Beauty is a beautifully packaged collection of 150 all-natural skin, hair and body care recipes. From turning blueberries into a lush detoxifying mask to fresh...
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Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America

Rand Paul - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Senator Rand Paul, leading national politician and likely contender for the 2016 Presidential bid, presents his vision for America. In his four years since joining the Senate, Rand Paul has risen to the forefront of the national discussion. He's being called "the most interesting...
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Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era

Tim Elfrink - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The definitive and dramatic story of the Alex Rodriguez and Biogenesis scandal, written by the reporters who broke and covered the storyOn January 29th, 2013, an exposé by Miami New Times reporter Tim Elfrink set the sports world on fire. Elfrink revealed that a Miami clinic, Biogenesis,...
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Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

J.C. Herz - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFits origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon. One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture,Learning to Breathe Firecombines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means...
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Babygate: How to Survive Pregnancy and Parenting in the Workplace

Dina Bakst - Feminist Press
Format: Paperback

Moms-to-be get tons of advice on strollers, sleep training, and post-baby workouts. What they don't get is straight talk about navigating the workplace during pregnancy and new parenthood - factors that put many women's jobs in jeopardy. That's why Babygate is essential: the first...
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Yin, Yang, Yogini: A Woman's Quest for Balance, Strength and Inner Peace

Kathryn E. Livingston - Open Road Media
Format: Book

Yin Yang Yoginiis a memoir about transformation with yoga as the backdrop for changemdasha story of how one can evolve in midlife and in midstride of how one can learn to let go of the past let go of fear and live with trust in the present momentThis is a memoir about a transformational...
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The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead

Brad Steiger - Visible Ink Press
Format: Book

Rampaging, driven, killing machines. Soulless and dead. Infected and infectious. Zombies. The epidemic of the living dead is stronger than ever in today's pop-culture, but long before exotic viruses, biological warfare, and sinister military experiments brought the dead back to life...
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Best 100 Juices for Kids: Totally Yummy, Awesomely Healthy, & Naturally Sweetened Homemade Alternatives to Soda Pop, Sports Drinks, and Expensive Bottled Juices

Jessica Fisher - Harvard Common Press,
Format: Print book

With 100 imaginative, healthy and great-tasting recipes for using your at-home juice machine, Jessica Fisher's BEST 100 JUICES FOR KIDS brings the juicing revolution home for everyone in the family.
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Conceiving Healthy Babies: An Herbal Guide to Support Preconception, Pregnancy and Lactation

Dawn Combs - New Society Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Book

Healthy babies don't just happen. The lifestyle of the prospective parents is a crucial factor in promoting fertility and ensuring a successful pregnancy. But the average North American diet is saturated with processed foods and environmental toxins are rampant - we must take responsibility...
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Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières

Renée C. Fox - Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This study of Mdecins Sans Frontires Doctors Without Borders MSF casts new light on the organizations founding principles, distinctive culture, and inner struggles to realize more fully its without borders transnational vision.Pioneering medical sociologist Rene C. Fox spent nearly twenty...
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Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What's Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation

Don Altman - New World Library, 2016.
Format: Print book

Many have pointed out the psychological benefits of clearing out the clutter in our surroundings. But what do we do with our emotional clutter - the psychological versions of the jam-packed closet or impenetrable garage? As we shut away and try to hide old pains and traumas we create...
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Hunter Killer: Inside America's Unmanned Air War

T. Mark Mccurley - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The first-ever inside look at the US military's secretive Remotely Piloted Aircraft program - equal parts techno-thriller, historical account, and war memoirRemotely piloted aircraft (RPA) , commonly referred to by the media as drones, are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the military's...
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Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

Richard Leider - Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.,
Format: Paperback

Winner of the 2014 Silver Nautilus Award Are You Ready for Your Life Reimagined Moment?Are you at a point in your life where you're asking, "What's next?" You've finished one chapter and you have yet to write the next one. Many of us face these transitions at midlife,...
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Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success

David B. Feldman - HarperWave
Format: Hardcover

Starting where resiliency studies leave off, two psychologists explore the science of remarkable accomplishment in the wake of trauma, revealing the surprising principles that allow people to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary things.Over four billion people worldwide will...
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The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects: 76 Useful Things You Can Build to Create Customized Working Spaces and Storage Facilities, Equip the ... Animals, and Make Practical Outdoor Furniture

Spike Carlsen - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

Homesteaders, gardeners, small farmers, and outdoor living enthusiasts will love these 76 DIY projects for practical outdoor items designed to help you live more sustainably and independently. Expert woodworker Spike Carlsen offers clear, simple, fully illustrated instructions for everything...
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The Recovery Book: Answers to

Catherine Dold - Workman Publishing Company; Revised edition
Format: Print book

"A classic. Read it. Use it. It can help guide you step by step into the bright light of the world of recovery." - from the Foreword by Harry Haroutunian, M.D., Physician Director, Betty Ford Center "The Recovery Book is the Bible of recovery. Everything you need to know...
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The Paleo Foodie Cookbook: 120 Food Lover's Recipes for Healthy, Gluten-Free, Grain-Free and Delicious Meals

Arsy Vartanian - Page Street Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Excite Your Inner Food Lover with the Best Paleo Recipes Out ThereArsy Vartanian, Paleo Foodie and author of the bestselling cookbook The Paleo Slow Cooker, is ready to share only the best of the best Paleo recipes thatll have your mouth watering.Arsys delicious and nutritious recipes range...
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Your Hidden Riches: Unleashing the Power of Ritual to Create a Life of Meaning and Purpose

Janet Bray Attwood - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Passion Test comes a book that will teach readers to harness the power of ritual to unlock their unique gifts and create a life of love, wealth, and happiness. Rituals are the common feature of every ancient culture on Earth. Yet, modern...
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Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others

Shane J. Lopez Ph.D. - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

How do some people make good things happen and bounce back from setbacks? Why do they lead happier, healthier, more productive lives? It’s because they have hope—not because of luck, or intelligence, or money. So, what exactly is hope and how can you get it, too? Using discoveries...
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Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Katherine A Bussard - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography, Unfamiliar Streets explores the work of Richard Avedon (1923-2004),...
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The Mindful Diet: How to Transform Your Relationship with Food for Lasting Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

Tania Hannan - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the renowned Duke Integrative Medicine center, The Mindful Diet is the first book to combine health psychology with cutting-edge nutrition research to deliver an up-to-the-minute method for eating mindfully and breaking the yo-yo diet cycle. Its easy on occasion to eat too much, eat too quickly,...
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A Good Food Day: Reboot Your Health with Food That Tastes Great

Marco Canora - Clarkson Potter; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

WHAT IS A GOOD FOOD DAY? A day when feeling good and eating well go hand in hand.Imagine a whole day in which every meal was full of healthy and delicious ingredients. After years of thoughtless eating that led to weight gain and poor health, chef Marco Canora knew he had to make every...
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Bread Revolution: World-Class Baking with Sprouted and Whole Grains, Heirloom Flours, and Fresh Techniques

Peter Reinhart - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

Renowned baking author and instructor Peter Reinhart has always been on the forefront of the bread movement—from his seminal work, The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, to today. In Bread Revolution, he explores the cutting-edge developments in bread baking, with fifty recipes and formulas...
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Indie Spiritualist: A No Bullshit Exploration of Spirituality

Chris Grosso - Atria Books/Beyond Words

Brutally honest and radically unconventional, Chris Grossos collection of stories and musings about his meandering journey of self-inquiry, recovery, and acceptance shows what it means to live a truly authentic spiritual life. Set amongst the backdrop of Grossos original music included...
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The Yoga of Food: Wellness from the Inside Out

Melissa Grabau PhD - Llewellyn Publications; 1 edition
Format: Book

For the millions of people who struggle with food and body issues, yoga and its practice of mindfulness can offer a surprisingly effective path to well-being. For Melissa Grabau, a psychotherapist who has battled her own eating disorders since she was a child, yoga contains the key ingredients...
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The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection

Michael Harris - Current
Format: Hardcover

Soon enough nobody will remember life before the Internet What does this unavoidable fact mean For future generations it wont mean anything very obvious They will be so immersed in online life that questions about the Internets basic purpose or meaning will vanish But those of us who have...
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The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics

Barron H. Lerner - Beacon Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care As a practicing physicianand longtime member of his hospitals ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all.But in the mid-1990s,...
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Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Sharon Salzberg - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

How would you like to be calmer, less distracted, more productive, and more content at your job? You might think it would take more hours in the day, a better boss, more support, less interference, a shorter commute - and the list goes on. Most of the things we think would help are either...
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Make Up: Your Life Guide to Beauty, Style, and Success--Online and Off

Michelle Phan - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

Michelle Phan has believed in makeup since the first time she was allowed to try eyeliner. When she looked in the mirror and saw a transformed version of herself looking back, she fell in love with the sense of confidence that makeup could give her. Ever since she posted her first makeup...
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Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year with the Criminally Insane

Stephen Seager - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

A darker twist on Orange is the New Black this true insiders account delivers an eye-opening look into the nations largest state-run forensic hospital a facility that houses the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the worldPsychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when...
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The Cheap Chica's Guide to Style: Secrets to Shopping Cheap and Looking Chic

Lilliana Vazquez - Gotham
Format: Paperback

Priceless tips and tricks to shopping on a budget, from America’s favorite frugal fashionistaStylish bargain-hunters have been flocking to Lilliana Vazquez’s CheapChicas.com since 2008 for tips and tricks on how to shop smart, copy their favorite designer looks, and dress chic...
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A Change of Appetite

Diana Henry - Mitchell Beazley
Format: Hardcover

What happened when one of today's best-loved food writers had a change of appetite? Here are the dishes that Diana Henry created when she started to crave a different kind of diet - less meat and heavy food, more vegetable-, fish-, and grain-based dishes - often inspired by the food...
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What the Fork Are You Eating?: An Action Plan for Your Pantry and Plate

Stefanie Sacks - Tarcher; 1st edition
Format: Print book

It's labeled "natural," "grass-fed," or "free-roaming;" yet it might be anything but. It's time to find out what you're actually eating...When your groceries are labeled "low-fat," "sugar-free," and even "natural" and "antibiotic-free,"...
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Flavor Flours: A New Way to Bake with Teff, Buckwheat, Sorghum, Other Whole & Ancient Grains, Nuts & Non-Wheat Flours

Maya Klein - Artisan; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Winner, James Beard Foundation Award, Best Book of the Year in Baking & Desserts In this monumental new work, beloved dessert queen Alice Medrich applies her baking precision and impeccable palate to flavor flours - wheat-flour alternatives including rice flour, oat flour, corn flour,...
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The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

Walter Mischel - Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Format: Print book

Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior...
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Stress Free Kids: A Parent's Guide to Helping Build Self-Esteem, Manage Stress, and Reduce Anxiety in Children

Lori Lite - Adams Media
Format: Print book

Stress management solutions for you and your children! Kids today are more stressed, overwhelmed, and struggling with anxiety than ever before. Children are not born with the coping strategies needed to navigate today's increasing demands of technology, bullying, academics, and family...
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The Truth About Trust: How It Determines Success in Life, Love, Learning, and More

David DeSteno - PENGUIN BOOKS
Format: Hardcover

What really drives success and failure? Can I trust you? It's the question that strikes at the heart of human existence. Whether we're talking about business partnerships, romantic relationships, child-parent bonds, or the brave new world of virtual interaction, trust, when correctly...
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The Hungry Girl Diet: Big Portions. Big Results. Drop 10 Pounds in 4 Weeks

Lisa Lillien - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Hungry Girl cookbooks now delivers the first-ever meal plan based on the concepts that have satisfied millions: The Hungry Girl Diet! Lisa Lillien has taken her famous super-sizing techniques, diet philosophies, and delicious recipes, and she's...
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Diabetes and Heart Healthy Cookbook

American Diabetes Association. - American Diabetes Association; Second Edition edition
Format: Book

Diabetes puts people at a very high risk of having a heart attack or stroke. To address this problem, the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association created a heart-healthy cookbook for people with diabetes. Now, its back in an all-new and expanded edition, including...
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Thinspired: How I Lost 90 Pounds -- My Plan for Lasting Weight Loss and Self-Acceptance

Mara Schiavocampo - Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing
Format: Hardcover

This inspirational book from ABC News correspondent Mara Schiavocampo takes you on her journey of weight loss - and helps you shed pounds and find peace, health, and happiness in the process.Like so many people, Mara Schiavocampo had struggled with weight for most of her life. She tried...
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Managing Your Depression: What You Can Do to Feel Better

Susan J. Noonan - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover

As a physician who personally suffers from depression, Susan J. Noonan draws on her own expertise and empathy to create a guide for people who suffer from the disease. Explaining the basics of mental health—including sleep hygiene, diet and nutrition, exercise, routine and structure,...
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Crohn's and Colitis Diet Guide: Includes 175 Recipes

Dr. Hillary Steinhart - Firefly Books Ltd
Format: Paperback

Diet is a huge priority for anyone living with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. The authors provide crucial guidance for families, friends and caregivers too in helping to manage IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) symptoms. This updated second edition, in a very informative and easy-to-understand...
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It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

Melissa Hartwig - Victory Belt Publishing; Hardcover with Jacket edition
Format: Hardcover

Now a New York Times bestseller!Food can change your life in unexpected ways. It Starts With Food will show you how.It Starts With Food outlines a clear, balanced, sustainable plan to change the way you eat forever--and transform your life in unexpected ways. Your success story begins...
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Doulas: Why Every Pregnant Woman Deserves One

Susan Ross - Rockpool Publishing
Format: Paperback

Imagine birthing your baby exactly the way you would like - quietly and peacefully in a dimly lit room in absolute control of your labour and birth, feeling safe and supported. A doula can help you achieve this. Doulas are trained to look after you, both emotionally and physically, during...
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The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning

Alicia Silverstone - St Martins Pr
Format: Paperback

When did making babies get to be so hard? Infertility is on the rise globally, affecting as many as one in six couples. But instead of considering diet and lifestyle factors, doctors pump their patients full of expensive and invasive fertility treatments. Once pregnant, women just accept...
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The Secret Life of Sleep

Kat Duff - Atria Books/Beyond Words; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

It has become increasingly clear that our sleep shapes who we are as much as, if not more than, we shape it. While most sleep research hasn’t ven­tured far beyond research labs and treatment clinics, The Secret Life of Sleep taps into the enormous reservoir of human experiences...
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The Psychology Book: From Shamanism to Cutting-Edge Neuroscience, 250 Milestones in the History of Psychology

Wade E. Pickren - Sterling
Format: Hardcover

What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterlings Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments, and discoveries. Beginning with ancient philosophies...
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Brassicas: Cooking the World's Healthiest Vegetables: Kale, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts and More

Laura B. Russell - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

A cookbook showcasing recipes for the most popular of the worlds healthiest vegetables--kale cauliflower broccoli brussels sprouts cabbage leafy greens and more--tailored to accommodate special diets such as gluten-free dairy-free vegetarian and veganFor a long time brassicas had a mixed...
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Breast Cancer Surgery and Reconstruction: Whats Right For You

Patricia Anstett - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

More than 100,000 American women undergo mastectomy and breast reconstruction every year because of breast cancer. Thousands more are having double mastectomies to prevent it. So much has been written about breast cancer, and so much overlooks the reality of reconstruction when a woman...
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Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace & Savor Your Next Chapter

Ron Pevny - Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Paperback

We financially plan for our retirement, but do we plan for our wellbeing? Here is an empowering guide with practical tools to help you live a passionate, fulfilling second half of life.If you're part of the Baby Boomer generation, then you belong to 26 percent of the US population that...
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Swim, Bike, Run, Eat: The Complete Guide to Fueling Your Triathlon

Tom Holland - Fair Winds Press
Format: Book

Its race day and you have your quick-closure running shoes sleek suits bikes goggles and watches but if you havent been training with the proper nutrition youll be left in the dust in the third mile Enter Swim Bike Run--Eat to guide you from day one of training to the finish line and help...
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Painkillers, Heroin, and the Road to Sanity: Real Solutions for Long-term Recovery from Opiate Addiction

Joani Gammill RN - Hazelden
Format: Paperback

Recovery from prescription painkiller or heroin addiction can feel impossible, especially considering that those who have gone through typical twenty-eight-day treatment programs often experience relapses and sometimes even fatal overdoses. But there is hope.In Painkillers, Heroin, and the Road...
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The Carnivore's Manifesto: Eating Well, Eating Responsibly, and Eating Meat

Patrick Martins - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

One of The Atlantics Best Food Books of 2014Fifty ways to be an enlightened carnivore, while taking better care of our planet and ourselves, from the founder of Slow Food USA.We have evolved as meat eaters, proclaims Patrick Martins, and its futile to deny it. But, given the destructive...
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Your Best Age Is Now: Embrace an Ageless Mindset, Reenergize Your Dreams, and Live a Soul-Satisfying Life

Robi Ph D Ludwig - Harper One, 2016.
Format: Print book

Although we've been conditioned to think "middle aged" is practically a four-letter word, the realities of women in midlife today are far different than what our mothers experienced. Women in their 40s, 50s, and even 60s are living younger, vibrant lives. But influenced by our youth-obsessed...
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Brave Parenting: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children

Krissy Pozatek - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

How do we build resilient children who can handle life's challenges?As parents today, we often feel that our role is to protect our children from the world: to cushion them when they fall, to lift them over obstacles, and to remove sharp rocks from their path. But controlling a child's...
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

Dan Jurafsky - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

2015 James Beard Award Nominee: Writing and Literature category Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have...
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The Ultimate Diet REVolution: Your Metabolism Makeover

Jim Karas - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author and fitness expert Jim Karas reveals the surprising truth about your metabolism, and how you can change it forever, following the radically different weight loss and fitness plan he calls The Ultimate Diet REVolution.In The Ultimate Diet REVolution,...
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Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace

Michael Morton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

He spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justiceand a second chance at life. On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went...
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The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go Can Empower Your Life

Judith Orloff - Random House Inc
Format: Print book

Are you longing for your life to be easier and more fun? Would you like to stop pushing, micromanaging, and forcing things so you can relax? What if you could enjoy what you have instead of always lusting for "more"? What if you could live in "the zone," propelled by powerful...
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The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World

Desmond Tutu - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness - helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing...
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The Green City Market Cookbook: Great Recipes from Chicago's Award-Winning Farmers Market

Green City Market - Agate Midway
Format: Book

Founded in 1998 by the late culinary luminary, author, chef, and entrepreneur Abby Mandel, the Green City Market is the venerable year-round farmers market held in Chicago's Lincoln Park. Since its inception, the Green City Market has grown into one of the most popular destinations...
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Toss the Gloss: Beauty Tips, Tricks & Truths for Women 50

Andrea Q Robinson - Pgw
Format: Hardcover

"Forget about makeup reclaiming youth," says Andrea Q. Robinson. "Good makeup reclaims you." Robinson, whose illustrious career has included positions such as the chief marketing officer of Este Lauder, president of Tom Ford Beauty, beauty editor of Vogue, and president...
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The Pescetarian Plan: The Vegetarian + Seafood Way to Lose Weight and Love Your Food

Janis Jibrin - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

With more than 100 mouthwatering recipes, switching to a vegetable- and seafood-based diet has never been easier, healthier—or more delicious!   You can go vegetarian to slim down, help reduce your risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease, feel great, and probably live longer....
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Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within

Gayathri Ramprasad - Hazelden

As a young girl in Bangalore, Gayathri was surrounded by the fragrance of jasmine and flickering oil lamps, her family protected by Hindu gods and goddesses. But as she grew older, demons came forth from the dark corners of her idyllic kingdom--with the scariest creatures lurking within...
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Overcoming Shock: Healing the Traumatized Mind and Heart

Diane Zimberoff - New Horizon Press
Format: Print book

Whether it is suddenly losing a loved one, finding out your spouse is having an affair, learning that your child is using drugs, or discovering that a child has a major illness, shock is the bodys way of saying, I cant deal with this right now and I need a moment to collect myself. When...
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First Snow

Peter McCarty - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

First Snow is the newest picture book from acclaimed Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Peter McCarty, which extends the winning world of animal characters established in Chloe, a Kids' Indie Next List Pick and Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, and Henry in Love, a New York...
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Love Me Slender: How Smart Couples Team Up to Lose Weight, Exercise More, and Stay Healthy Together

Thomas N. Bradbury PhD - Touchstone Books
Format: Hardcover

My husband keeps undermining my diet. My wife keeps nagging me to exercise. I want to be healthier, but I can't do it on my own! First comes love, then comes marriage . . . then comes a larger pant size Many couples find themselves gaining weight as they settle into a relationship,...
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The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

David J Morris - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Noonday Demon, a moving, eye-opening exploration of PTSD
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The Sugar Smart Diet: Stop Cravings and Lose Weight While Still Enjoying the Sweets You Love!

Anne Alexander - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

Sugar is the most controversial subject in the American diet debates today - alternately viewed as public health enemy No. 1 and an innocent indulgence. A New York Times bestseller, The Sugar Smart Diet reveals the suite of hidden sugars in food that have skyrocketed the nations annual...
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The Smart Guide to Classical Music

Robert Sherman - Smart Guide Publications, Inc.
Format: Book

If you like classical music but don't quite know why, this book is for you. And if you love classical music but are afraid to admit it because you really don't understand what it's all about, this book is also for you. If you think you hate classical music because you've...
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America

Ayana Byrd - St. Martin's Griffin; Second Edition, Revised and Updated edition
Format: Paperback

Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a "free" person to the 1998 uproar over a White...
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Once a Warrior--Always a Warrior: Navigating The Transition From Combat To Home--Including Combat Stress, Ptsd, And Mtbi

Charles W Hoge - GPP Life
Format: Paperback

The essential handbook for anyone who has ever returned from a war zone, and their spouse, partner, or family members.
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Creativity: The Perfect Crime

Philippe Petit - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of The Creative Habit and The Artist's Way, a new manifesto on the creative process from a master of the impossible. Since well before his epic 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Philippe Petit had become an artist who answered first and foremost...
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The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock

Tanya Selvaratnam - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback

A candid assessment of the pros and cons of delayed motherhood. Biology does not bend to feminist ideals and science does not work miracles. That is the message of this eye-opening discussion of the consequences of delayed motherhood. Part personal account, part manifesto, Selvaratnam...
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Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines

Patricia Monaghan - New World Library
Format: Paperback

More Than 1,000 Goddesses and Heroines from around the WorldGroundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe. Her work demonstrated that from the beginning of recorded...
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The New Lean for Life: Outsmart Your Body to Shrink Fat Cells and Lose Weight for Good

Cynthia Stamper Graff - Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
Format: Hardcover

Weeks to Lose the Weight.4 Phases to Keep It Off.The Lean for Life program has been used for over 40 years in Lindora Clinics to help over 500,000 people lose millions of pounds.Now this classic bestseller has been completely revised and updated based on groundbreaking new research about...
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Tipping Sacred Cows: The Uplifting Story of Spilt Milk and Finding Your Own Spiritual Path in a Hectic World

Betsy Chasse - Atria Paperback ; Hillsboro, Oregon
Format: Paperback

Wife, mother, and award-winning producer of the sleeper hit What the Bleep Do We Know!? Betsy Chasse thought she had it all figured out...until she realized she didn't. She didn't know anything about happiness, love, spirituality, or herself...nothing, nada, zilch. In a book that's...
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A Very Fine House: A Mother's Story of Love, Faith, and Crystal Meth

Barbara Cofer Stoefen - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

A Very Fine House is an intimate memoir of a mothers Norman Rockwell family turned upside down by her daughters descent into meth addiction and crime. Bright and beautiful, Annie is an unlikely candidate for meth. Living fast and hard on the streets of Bend, Oregon, she commits crimes against...
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Canyon Ranch 30 Days to a Better Brain: A Groundbreaking Program for Improving Your Memory, Concentration, Mood, and Overall Well-Being

Richard H Carmona - Atria Books, 2014.
Format: Paperback

"In this user-friendly guide, Dr. Richard Carmona gives specific, practical advice about optimizing brain function based on the best scientific evidence. I recommend it." (Andrew Weil, author of Healthy Aging and True Food).Synthesizing the cognitive science behind memory, sleep,...
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Travels With Casey

Benoit Denizet-Lewis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A moody Labrador and his insecure human take a funny, touching cross-country RV trip into the heart of Americas relationship with dogs. I dont think my dog likes me very much, New York Times Magazine writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis confesses at the beginning of his journey with his nine-year-old...
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Your Inner Will: Finding Personal Strength in Critical Times

Piero Ferrucci - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling psychotherapist and author of The Power of Kindness offers a concrete program for developing the will - a faculty we greatly need to face life's hurdles and to embark on our most meaningful projects All of us experience periods of gloom, fear, and uncertainty. But we each...
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The Illustrated Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living

Russ Harris - Shambhala
Format: Print book

The life-changing practice of applied mindfulness called ACT is made even more accessible in this fun and easy-to-understand volume that illustrates all the principles with entertaining cartoons.Theres this idea going around that were always supposed to be happyand its making us miserable....
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Everybody's Got Something

Robin Roberts - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's...
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