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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise April 2019
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Crystals : a guide to using the crystal compass for energy, healing, and reclaiming your power
by Aisha Amarfio
What it's about: The ultimate guide to using crystals for healing, wellbeing, and creating harmony.
Don't miss: the easy to use, full color chart--the Crystal Compass--that helps you diagnose the root cause of tensions in your life, so that you can select the crystal and healing method that you need to experience holistic healing and powerful transformation.
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Brave, not perfect : fear less, fail more, and live bolder
by Reshma Saujani
What it's about: In a book inspired by her popular TED talk, New York Times bestselling author Reshma Saujani empowers women to embrace imperfection and bravery.
Don't miss: The best-selling author and founder of the Girls Who Code nonprofit shares insights into the toxic cultural standards affecting girls today, explaining how girls can transition from perfectionism to more courageous practices that understand the value of imperfection.
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The clean plate : eat, reset, heal
by Gwyneth Paltrow
What it is: The Oscar-winning actress and author of the best-selling My Father's Daughter shares clean, flexible recipes for the week's most time-challenged meals and explains how to promote healing and rebalance in accordance with specialist recommendations.
Don't Miss: Full of go-to recipes and revitalizing health tips, THE CLEAN PLATE is exactly the standout cookbook we have been waiting for, from the biggest name in clean eating.
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Outer order, inner calm : declutter & organize to make more room for happiness
by Gretchen Rubin
What it is: The best-selling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project reveals the link between external order and inner calm, listing more than 150 customizable ideas for minimizing clutter to promote better productivity, creativity and energy.
Reviewers say: Rubin's many fans will flock to this title, as will anyone seeking a quick and easy fix to the persistent problem of clutter.
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There are no grown-ups : a midlife coming-of-age story
by Pamela Druckerman
What happens: The best-selling author of Bringing Up Bébé charts the largely unexplored realities of being a 40-something in today's world.
Reviewers say: Half memoir and half ironic how-to guide, Druckerman's book is not only a humorous meditation on the gains and pains of a time in life "when you become who you are"; it is also a thought-provoking meditation on "what it means to be a grown-up." A trenchant and witty book on maturity and "middle-age shock."
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| Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying) by Bill GiffordWhat it is: a cheeky, fast-paced exploration of aging and of humanity's enduring quest to defeat it.
Chapters include: "The Fountain of Youthiness," "Baldness as Metaphor," "The Death of Death," "Who Moved My Keys?"
Reviewers say: "[Bill] Gifford's entertaining and informative book will give readers sound advice" (Library Journal). |
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| How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant QuinnWhat it's about: how to make the most of a retirement investment portfolio, presented with straightforward advice and without condescension.
Don't miss: the author's emphasis on how having the right attitude toward money can help retirees hang onto more of it.
Author alert: Jane Bryant Quinn is the author of personal finance classic Making the Most of Your Money Now. |
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| The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 by Jonathan RauchWhat it is: a science-based, journalistic examination of the titular "happiness curve," in which people report feelings of dissatisfaction in mid-life but a return to happiness in their later years.
Why you should read it: although the research suggests that a mid-life slump is very common, the author makes a point to recommend ways to counteract it.
Reviewers say: "Stimulating reading for those seeking enlightenment and joyfulness throughout middle age" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| Happy Retirement: the Psychology of Reinvention by Kenneth S. ShultzWhat it's about: how to plan for and get the most out of retirement, based on recent research into retirement's psychological effects.
Read it for: the pragmatic advice, abundant illustrations, and the author's skillful evaluation of the cited research studies.
Chapters include: "Sunset or new dawn?," "Is my legacy secure?," "Passing the flame." |
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