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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise February 2018
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| Your Score: An Insider's Secrets to Understanding, Controlling. and... by Anthony Davenport with Matthew RudyWhat it is: a straightforward, nuts-and-bolts guide to understanding the mystifying world of consumer credit and your credit score, including what to do in the case of fraud and identity theft and how to navigate divorce, financing a new home, or handling school loans.
Why you might like it: Though author Anthony Davenport is an industry insider, he writes in an accessible style -- “readers will feel like Davenport is sitting right next to them” (Booklist). |
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| The Mindful Way to a Good Night's Sleep by Tzivia GoverWhat it's about: improving your quality of sleep with the use of meditation, yoga, and journaling.
Why you might like it: This insightful, step-by-step guide to enhanced zzzz’s is also beautifully designed, gentle, and calming.
About the author: No stranger to bad sleep herself, Tzivia Gover's now a certified dream therapist, the director of the Institute of Dream Studies, and the host of a weekly radio spot. |
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Dollars and sense : how we misthink money and how to spend smarter
by Dan Ariely
The New York Times best-selling author of Predictably Irrational and his co-author share anecdotal insight into the illogical influences behind poor financial decisions and how to outmaneuver them, covering topics ranging from credit-card debt and household budgeting to holiday spending and real estate sales. 75,000 first printing.
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The how not to die cookbook : 100+ recipes to help prevent and reverse disease
by Michael Greger
The author of the best-selling How Not to Die presents a fully illustrated companion cookbook of health-bolstering, plant-based recipes based on the latest nutrition science, from Superfood Breakfast Bites and Spaghetti Squash Puttanesca to Two-Berry Pie with Pecan-Sunflower Crust. Illustrations
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| Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship With Food by Rachel HerzWhat it is: a science-based examination of the psychology of eating. This is not a diet book; rather, it’s a look at the complex relationship between food consumption and our senses.
Why you might like it: Author Rachel Herz excels at explaining complex scientific ideas and theories in an engaging, fun way, tackling topics such as how listening to music (or watching TV) can alter the experience of eating.
Further reading: Check out How We Eat by Leon Rappoport. |
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| Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life by Joy Mangano with Alex TresniowskiWhat it is: an inspirational look at how cultivating a can-do attitude and positive life outlook will help you achieve business and personal success.
Why you might like it: In addition to her blueprint for building a joyful life, author and entrepreneur Joy Mangano (from the Home Shopping Network) shares her thoroughly entertaining rags-to-riches life story.
Book buzz: Mangano’s story is also charted in the award-winning 2015 biographical film Joy, starring Jennifer Lawrence. |
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Focus on: Addiction and Recovery
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The Trip to Echo Spring : on Writers and Drinking
by Olivia Laing
Examines the connection between creativity and alcohol by traveling to locales well-loved by six of America's greatest writers, who were also alcoholics, including John Cheever's New York, Tennessee Williams' New Orleans and Ernest Hemingway's Key West. 25,000 first printing.
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Creative recovery : a complete addiction treatment program that uses your natural creativity
by Eric Maisel
A comprehensive addiction recovery program demonstrates how readers can draw on their innate creative abilities at each stage of the recovery process to promote effective and long-lasting healing, in a study that includes an analysis of the link between creativity and recovery and presents exercises to engage readers in the creative process. Original. 15,000 first printing.
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| The 30 Day Sobriety Solution: How to Cut Back or Quit Drinking... by Jack Canfield and Dave AndrewsWhat it is: a unique month-long program that can help you limit or stop drinking at home without attending support groups or going to rehab.
About the authors: Jack Canfield created the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series; Dave Andrews is a recovering alcoholic – and an addiction recovery expert. Together they developed this 5-step empowerment program, which includes instructions on what to do each day of the 30-day journey.
What sets it apart: Straightforward and sincere, this guide offers help and inspiration to those in need. |
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Unbroken brain : a revolutionary new way of understanding addiction
by Maia Szalavitz
A paradigm-shifting reevaluation of addiction challenges common perceptions to represent addiction as a learning disorder and how reclassification has the potential to improve ongoing approaches to treatment, prevention and policy. By the author of Help at Any Cost.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Harrison Memorial Library Ocean and Lincoln Carmel, California 93921 831-624-4629www.hm-lib.org/ |
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