Books

Excercise is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging
Judy Foreman

America the Anxious: How our Pursuit of Happiness is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks
Ruth Whippman

Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Defiance, Tantrums, and Other Everyday Behavior Problems by Seeing the World through Your Child's Eyes
Claudia M. Gold

The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
Anya Kamenetz

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Nicholas D. Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn

You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
Roz Chast

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Robert Wright

The Way of Boys, Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of young boys
Anthony Rao

Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

How to Be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute
KJ Dell'Antonia

And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
Meaghan O'Connell

My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Maya Dusenbery

An Epidemic of Absence, A New Understanding of Allergies and Auto-Immune Disorders
Moises Velasquez Manoff

How to Raise a Reader
Pamela Paul

Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
Barbara Ehrenreich

An Epidemic or Absence: A New Way of Understanding Alleriges and Autoimmune Diseases
Moses Velasquez-Manoff

Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
William Pollack

Raising Boys with ADHD: Secrets for Parenting Healthy, Happy Sons
Mary Anne Richey, James W. Forgan

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Beth Macy

Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work and Remake the World
Annie Lowrey

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land

Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Alexandra Natapoff

Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems -- Advice from Those Who Have Succeeded
Anne M. Fletcher M.S. R.D.

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson

Her Best Kept Secret: Why Women Drink & How They Can Regain Control
Gabrielle Glaser

It's a Boy: Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18
Michael Thompson

My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
Kevin Toolis

The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
Lauren Markham

How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety
Ellen Hendriksen

America the Anxious: Why Our Search for Happiness Is Driving Us Crazy and How to Find It for Real
Ruth Whippman

Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater

The Rough Patch: Marriage and the Art of Living Together
Daphne de Marneffe PhD

Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don't Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax
Robert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine

Home Before Dark: A Family Portrait of Cancer and Healing
David Treadway and Kate Treadway

Before It's Too Late: Working with Substance Abuse in the Family
David C. Treadway

Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
Susan Forward and Donna Frazier Glynn

The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
Lauren Markham

Collaborative Intervention in Early Childhood: Consulting with Parents and Teachers of 3- to 7-Year-Olds
Deborah Hirschland

When Young Children Need Help: Understanding and Addressing Emotional, Behavorial, and Developmental Challenges
Deborah Hirschland

The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Pema Chodron

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Nina Riggs

Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
John Medina

The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes

You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life and Death and In Between
Daniela Lamas

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz

My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
Kevin Toolis

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Steven Stoll

Why Boys Need Parents
Alex Beckerman and Julien Tomasello

ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic
Alan Schwarz

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison

Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
David A. Kessler M.D.

Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel

Salt Houses
Hala Alyan

Lakota Woman
Mary Crow Dog

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman

The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Alia Malek

The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott

Everybody's Son
Thrity Umrigar

The Curse of the Good Girl
Rachel Simmons

The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
Ben Ehrenreich

Beyond Measure: Rescuing an Overscheduled, Overtested, Underestimated Generation
Vicki Abeles, Grace Rubenstein

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal

Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Perfect Daughters: Adult Children of Alcoholics
Robert Ackerman

No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
Ron Powers

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD

Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania and Character
Kay Redfield Jamison

The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain
Brock L. Eide M.D. M.A. and Fernette F. Eide M.D.

In the Darkroom
Susan Faludi

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild

Transitions: Making Sense of Life Changes
William Bridges

The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Katharine A. Phillips

Life, Reimagined: The Science, Art and Opportunity of Midlife
Barbara Bradley Hagerty

How Women Decide: What's True, What's Not and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices
Therese Huston

Grit
Angela Duckworth

Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Robert D. Putnam

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Life of Teenagers
Nancy Jo Sales

Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Wendell Potter & Nick Penniman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Rebecca Traister

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years
Tara Haelle

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Brene Brown

Evicted: Poverty and Profits in the American City
Matthew Desmont

Tribe
Sebastian Junger

What to Expect When You Are Expecting
Heidi Murkoff

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson

Tears to Triumph
Marianne Williamson

White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Paul Roberts

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
David M. Levy

Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives
David M. Levy

The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention and Energy
Chris Bailey

Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
Katherine Zoepf

The Responsibility Trap - CoDependency in Families
Ben Rawlence

While I Remember To Tell You
Colleen Hertel

City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence

The Betrayal Bond
Patrick Carnes

The Heart of Addiction
Dr. Lance Dodes

Death's Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Can Tell Us About Life and Living
Brandy Schillace

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

This Old Man
Roger Angell

Overlooked & Underprepared
Loren Pope

Between the World and Me
Nehisi Coates

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in the Digital Age
Sherry Turkle

Spark The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Kathryn Edin & Luke Shaefer

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
William Deresiewicz

Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad and Surprising Good About Feeling Special
Craig Malkn

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckham Tolle

The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
Lani Guinier

The Last Time We Say Goodbye
Cynthia Hand

Enduring Desire: Your Guide to Lifelong Intimacy
Michael E. Metz and Barry W. McCarthy

Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick

The Man Who Couldn't Stop OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
David Adam

I Was Here
Gayle Forman

My Husband Is Gay: A Woman's Guide to Surviving the Crisis
Carol Grever

The Light of the World: A Memoir
Elizabeth Alexander

Drinking: A Love Story
Carolyn Knapp

How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
Julie Lythcott-Haims

Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self Promotion
David Zweig

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Daniel Levitin

The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing But You Don't Have to Be
Anya Kamenetz

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl Wudunn

Surviving Female Friendships
Nicole Zangara

The Science of Smarter Spending
Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton

How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire
Stan Hinden

The Couple's Retirement Puzzle: 10 Must-Have Conversations for Creating an Amazing New Life Together
Roberta K. Taylor and Dorian Mintzer

Raising Money Smart Kids: What They Need to Know About Money – And How to Tell Them
Janet Bodnar

O.M.G. Official Money Guide For Teenagers
Susan P. Beacham and Michael L. Beacham

Born to Be Good
Dacher Keltner

Chasing Chaos - My Decade In & Out of Humanitarian Aid
Jessica Alexander

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Kao Yang

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior

Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
Sandeep Jauhar

Life Planning for You: How to Design & Deliver the Life of Your Dreams
George Kinder

The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of the American Community
Marc Dunkelman

Monkey Mind
Daniel Smith

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
William Styron

Do Fathers Matter: What Science is Telling Us About the Parent We Have Overlooked
Paul Raeburn

The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar

The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance - What Women Should Know
Katty Kay and Claire Shipman

Capital in the Twenty First Century
Thomas Piketty

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
David Kelly and Tom Kelly

Anatomy of An Epidemic: Magic Butlers, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Robert Whitaker

Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Source of Adolescence
Lawrence Steinberg

Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
Katy Butler

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer

The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children & Parenting
Alfie Kohn

You Are Not Special and Other Encouragements
David McCullough

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan

The Rise: Creativitiy, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
Sarah Lewis

Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
Ezekiel Emanuel

Being Happy: You Don't Have to be Perfect to Lead a Richer, Happier Life
Tal Ben-Shahar

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That...
Dan Harris

Emotional Currency: A Woman's Guide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Money
Kate Levinson Ph.D.

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered
Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz

Do Fathers Matter: What Science is Telling Us About the Parent We Overlooked
Paul Raeburn

Transcending Loss - Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make It Meaningful
Ashley Davis Bush LCSW

The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Frans de Waal

The Empathetic Civizilation: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World of Crisis
Jeremy Rifkin

Why Empathy Matters: The Science and Psychology of Better Judgement
J.D. Trout

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind
Scott Stossel

A Nation in Pain: Healing Our Biggest Health Problems
Judy Foreman

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior

Girls Will Be Girls
Dr. JoAnn Deak

How Girls Thrive
Dr. JoAnn Deak

The Buddah and the Borderline
Kiera Van Geider

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Meg Jay

The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
Elizabeth H. Bradley & Lauren A. Taylor

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
Sir Ken Robinson

The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
Bruce Feller

Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being
Martin Seligman

The Power of Plan: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children
David Elkind

Great Kids: Helping Your Baby And Child Develop the 10 Essential Qualities For a Healthy, Happy Life
Stanley I. Greenspan

The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
Ann Dowsett Johnston

Her Best Secret, Why Women Drink and How They Can Regain Control
Gabrielle Glaser

The American Way Of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table
Tracie McMillan

Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive In a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World
Nancy Carlsson-Paige

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers our Future
Joseph Stiglitz

The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
Catherine Steiner-Adair

Put Yourself In Their Shoes, Understanding How Your Children See The World
Barbara Meltz

Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
Katy Butler

One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
Brendan Reilly

Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us
Christine Gross-Loh

Confident Parents, Remarkable Kids, 8 Principles For Raising Kids You'll Love To Live With
Bonnie Harris

Washed Away
Sonali Deraniyagala

A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
Ted Gup

No, Why Kids of All Ages Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It
David Walsh

Marbles, Mania & Depression
Ellen Forney

How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire
Stan Hinden

Clean
David Sheff

The Still Point of the Turning World
Emily Rapp

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
Adam Phillips

Fear of Intimacy
Robert Firestone & Jaycee Catlett

Despair and Hope Amid the Embers
Jonathan Kozol

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family & a Lost Middle East
Anthony Shadid

Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They're Really Saying
Michael Riera

The Heart of Money: A Couples Guide to Creating True Financial Intimacy
Price (New World Library) 2013

Talk to me Like I am Someone You Love
Nancy Dreyfus

Dying in Character Memoirs on the End of Life
Jeffrey Berman

Cost
Roxana Robinson

Mindfulness for Beginners
Kabat-Zinn

To A Mountain in Tibet
Colin Thubron

A Small Key Opens Big Doors
Jay Chen

The 100 Best Volunteer Vacations to Enrich Your Life
Pam Grout

Home Before Dark: A Family Portrait of Cancer and Healing
David Treadway

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Paul Tough

The Modern Dad's Dilemma: How to Stay Connected with Your Kids in a Rapidly Changing World
John Badalament

Zen Beyond All Worlds
Wolfgang Kapp

Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD: An 8-Step Program for Strengthening Attention, Managing Emotions and Achieving Your Goals
Lydia Zylowska, MD

Smart But Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
Peg Dawson & Richard Guare

That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized Children and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life
Ana Homayoun

Angry Fat Girls
Frances Kuffel

Passing for Thin
Frances Kuffel

Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work
Leslie A. Perlow

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Gail Caldwell

I Married You for Happiness
Lily Tuck

Blue Nights
Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death
Zoe FitzGerald Carter

The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us
Jeffrey Kluger

The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
Mark Williams

Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard
Thomas Vander Ven

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol Dwech

Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective
Stephanie Brown

It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up With Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults
Claudia Black

Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
Dan Buettner

Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy
Jeremy Harding

Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us
Nancy Berns

ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand & Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps
Melissa Orlov

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Deborah Tannen

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Sherry Turkle

There's No Such Thing As a Bad Kid
Charlie Appelstein

The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families
Mary Pipher

First Comes Love, Then Comes Money: Basic Steps to Avoid the #1 Conflict in Marriage
Roger Gibson

The Dance of Connection
Harriet Lerner

The Plain Language of Love and Loss
Beth Taylor

Spouseonomics
Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson

The Dance of Intimacy
Harriet Lerner

Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood
Richard Settersten & Barbra E. Ray

The Marriage Benefit: The Surprising Rewards of Staying Together
Mark O'Connell

Your One Year Old, Your Two Year Old, Your Three Year Old...
Louise Bates Ames & Frances L. Ilg

Perfect Madness: MotherHood & the Age of Anxiety
Judith Warner

CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap
Edward Hallowell

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with ADD
Edward Hallowell

Trauma & Recovery
Judith Herman

Women Who Love Too Much
Robin Norwood

The Narcissism Epidemic
Jean Twinge and Keith Campbell

Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay
Mira Kirshenbaum

The Suicide Index: Putting My Fathers Death in Order
Joan Wickersham

Still Alice
Lisa Genova

No Contest - The Case Against Competition
Alfie Kohn

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
Dr. Michael Kimmel

Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death
Zoe Fitzgerald Carter

Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch

Volunteer: A Traveller's Guide to Making a Difference Around The World
Lonely Planet

Family of Adoption
Joyce Pavao

Inside Transracial Adoption
Gail Steinberg & Beth Hall

Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Education
James A. Banks

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Shelia Heen

Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don’t Have in Search of Happiness We Can’t Buy
James A. Roberts

The Complete Eldercare Planner, Revised and Updated Edition: Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help
Joy Loverde

The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss in Later Life, 4th Edition
Nancy L. Mace

Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents, Third Edition: How to Help, How to Survive
Claire Berman

Creating Moments of Joy for the Person with Alzheimer's or Dementia: A Journal for Caregivers
Jolene Brackey

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