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  • Author:
    McGarey, Gladys
    Summary:

    Dr. Glady McGarey, a centenarian still-practicing doctor and the mother of holistic medicine, reveals her powerful and life-changing secrets for how to live with joy, vitality, and purpose at any age.

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    Beck, Martha
    Summary:

    As Martha Beck says in her book, "Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period." In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us--people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits--all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Beck uses Dante's classic hero's journey as a framework to break down the process of attaining personal integrity into small, manageable steps. She shows how to read our internal signals that lead us towards our true path, and to recognize what we actually yearn for versus what our culture sells us. With techniques tested on hundreds of her clients, Beck brings her expertise as a social scientist, life coach and human being to help readers to uncover what integrity looks like in their own lives. She takes us on a spiritual adventure that not only will change the direction of our lives, but bring us to a place of genuine happiness.

  • Author:
    O'Neill, Robert
    Summary:

    Rob O'Neill and Dakota Meyer are two of the most decorated and recognized US service members: O'Neill killed the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, and Meyer was the first living Marine to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. In this book, O'Neill and Meyer share their philosophy of combat and life. This isn't a book about the glory of war and combat, but one about facing your enemies, some who are flesh and blood and some that are not: Your thoughts. Your doubts. Your boredom and your regrets.

  • Author:
    Pressfield, Steven
    Summary:

    Steven Pressfield delivers a guide to inspire and support those who struggle to express their creativity. Pressfield believes that "resistance" is the greatest enemy, and he offers many unique and helpful ways to overcome it.

  • Author:
    Singer, Michael A.
    Summary:

    Michael A. Singer explores the question of human identity. He shows how the development of consciousness can enable listeners all to dwell in the present moment and achieve happiness and self-realization.

  • Author:
    Haseotes, Ashley
    Summary:

    Ashley Haseotes shares her story of hitting rock bottom and finally coming to grips with the reality of her trauma. Suffering deeply and feeling overwhelmed, she becomes debilitatingly ill with chronic migraines and vertigo that leave her confined to her bed for months. Unable to work and take care of her children, lost and disconnected from her life purpose, she stares down feelings of unbridled failure and unsurmountable stress. Through Ashley's journey of chronic pain, a breathtaking spiritual healing is catalyzed. Her memoir is a story of walking through the storm to emerge reborn, to be healed.

  • Author:
    Greene, Melissa Fay
    Summary:

    Felled by a neuromuscular disease, Karen Shirk was encouraged to raise her own service dog. A thousand dogs later, her service dog academy is restoring broken children to life. Melissa Fay Greene weaves the latest discoveries about our co-evolution with dogs with Karen's story.

  • Author:
    De Witte, Christina
    Summary:

    Addressing the struggles of young girls everywhere, this hilariously relatable comic guide to life provides real advice and encourages a new generation of teen girls to find confidence and embrace individuality. With friends, love, social media, body image, and more—navigating young adulthood can seem impossible. The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl provides humorous and highly relatable guidelines for all of the struggles young girls face, presented in author Christina De Witte's signature comic style and told from the point of view of her lovable Instagram and Internet character, Chrostin. A Hyperbole and a Half for the young adult audience, the book includes comics and hands-on advice about serious issues like mental health and self-care, and also deals with questions on every young girl's mind, like "Can you survive on pizza alone?" Quirky, hilarious, and sincere, The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl empowers young women to challenge society's unrealistic standards of beauty and embrace their individuality. This is sure to be a favorite for teen girls.

  • Author:
    Weiss, Martin D.
    Summary:

    This examines investments and health care, proposing ways to protect and increase a financial portfolio through careful observations and decisions. Weiss offers five main lessons to better understand the stock market: watch for hidden risks, avoid costly advice, ignore "rules of thumb," remember that even well-known firms can be hazardous, and don't forget safeguards.

  • Author:
    Gelber, Jonathan
    Summary:

    Essential advice for fans and fighters MMA is one of the world's fastest-growing sports. The Ultimate Guide to Preventing and Treating MMA Injuries offers professional and amateur fighters and fans alike the sound professional advice they need to prevent and treat injuries, find a good training camp and partners, train smarter--not harder--and choose the right equipment. Dr. Jonathan Gelber translates complicated medical topics into a guide full of practical, easy-to-follow information, complete with step-by-step photos and diagrams. From joint injuries to preventing infection, from muscle strains to the hot topic of head injuries and concussions, Dr. Gelber outlines all the need-to-know details. Featuring advice from more than 40 UFC Hall of Famers and champions, as well as many of MMA's top athletes and elite trainers, The Ultimate Guide to Preventing and Treating MMA Injuries is a must-have for anyone serious about today's fight game.

  • Author:
    Lights, Zion
    Summary:

    The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting is the first book of its kind. Journalist, science writer and mother Zion Lights has researched all those questions that beset new or expecting parents, not just about environmental issues but also on approaches to parenting. She focuses on the scientific evidence rather than on the latest fad or personal anecdote and the result is a book that will help you adjust your lifestyle in practical ways that work for you and your child. From birth to nutrition and from diapers to travel, advice based on research and evidence can guide the way. And the good news is that going green will not only help to save the planet and help to protect your child's health, it will also result in a happier and more fulfilling family life.

  • Author:
    Rosswood, Eric
    Summary:

    Jam packed with parenting tips and advice to help you build confidence and become the awesome gay dad you were meant to be.

  • Author:
    Perlus, Haley
    Summary:

    The achievement journal is Perlus' first of many steps along her journey to becoming the expert on inspiring and guiding individuals toward achieving their peak performance in every domain. All fitness professionals and current success/achievement journals tell the consumer what to eat and how to train. The missing element is how to develop mental toughness. Therefore, using proven mental toughness techniques and sport psychology, Perlus teachs consumers how to achieve their goals while recommending they follow what they've been told to eat and how they've been advised to train. The niche it fills: The majority of individuals who achieve their health and fitness goals use journals to track their progress. Top fitness professionals have provided success journals to help their readers follow their fitness and nutrition programs. Perlus' achievement journal is designed for fitness enthusiasts who are searching for mental toughness tools to help them achieve their goals using the fitness program they have already created.

  • Author:
    Desteno, David
    Summary:

    "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 placed, is what makes our world spin and lives flourish. Renowned psychologist David DeSteno brings together the latest research from diverse fields, including psychology, economics, biology, and robotics, to create a compelling narrative about the forces that have shaped the human mind's propensities to trust. He shows us how trust influences us at every level, from how we learn, to how we love, to how we spend, to how we take care of our own health and well-being. Using cutting edge research from his own lab, he also unlocks, for the first time, the cues that allow us to read the trustworthiness of others accurately. Appealing to readers of Dan Ariely, Dan Gilbert, and David Eaglemen, The Truth About Trust offers a new paradigm that will change not only how you think about trust, but also how you understand, communicate, and make decisions in every area of your life."

  • Author:
    Brill, Stephanie A.
    Summary:

    Is it just a phase, a fad, or a real issue with your teen? This comprehensive guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising a teenager who may be transgender, gender-variant or gender-fluid. Covering extensive research and with many personal interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the author covers pressing concerns relating to physical and emotional development, social and school pressures, medical options, and family communications. Learn how parents can advocate for their children, find acceptable colleges and career paths, and raise their gender variant or transgender adolescent with love and compassion.

  • Author:
    Dale, James
    Summary:

    The Too-Bad-It's-Your-Birthday Book is like the best outrageous birthday cards rolled into one. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, the book's edgy humor needles everyone who's suffered the slings and arrows of one too many birthdays: Your friends got together to light your birthday candles. Oops, not enough friends. Who's older . . . you or the Earth? Now that you're older, admit it. You watch the Weather Channel. It's now estimated the universe is a trillion years old. That's two years older than you. Exaggerated sentiments in The Too-Bad-It's-Your-Birthday Book will make the birthday girl roll with laughter-and start plotting her revenge!

  • Author:
    Port, Michael
    Summary:

    Drawing on input from his Think Big Revolution, an online social networking community, the author discusses how to stop squandering one's potential, think on a much bigger scale, and learn how to achieve what was once thought impossible.

  • Author:
    Hyemin
    Summary:

    Haemin Sunim, a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life.

  • Author:
    Duffy, Claire
    Summary:

    Everything students, parents, and teachers need to know about debating and public speaking. Welcome to the world of school debating and public speaking, the best training ground for developing self-esteem and learning to look critically at big issues. Speaking well builds confidence and opens up a world of opportunity, in education, leadership, careers, and community and political engagement. In an increasingly competitive world, being a convincing, passionate, and persuasive speaker is essential to standing out from the crowd. Claire Duffy not only demystifies the process but makes it fun. Learn all about the best ways to prepare for a debate or speech, the persuasive power of reason, the art of argument and rebuttal, and, when worse comes to worst, how to be gracious in defeat. Including practical tips from the pros and helpful step-by-step examples, this is the essential handbook for making every spoken word count.

  • Author:
    Hebert, Connie
    Summary:

    The Teachable Minute is a golden opportunity to teach kids something, anywhere, FAST. It can be caught at any time, in common places, where we all live and go. When we make time to Show, Ask, or Teach kids something, we help kids in two very important ways. We help them grow smarter. Consequently, they will know more and want to know more. We give them our time and undivided attention. Consequently, they will grow appreciative and grateful for our efforts, and connect with us more as parents.

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