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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise April 2023 |
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| Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies by Marjorie Ingall and Susan McCarthyWhat it's about: what makes good apologies good, bad apologies bad, and why they're important for individuals and institutions alike.
Read it for: the well-organized, actionable recommendations for learning to apologize better and for the right reasons.
Reviewers say: "...this book, at its core, could change lives" (Booklist). |
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| 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go by Jay ShettyWhat it is: a thoughtful and engaging guide to rethinking your approach to your individual relationships and the concept of love in general.
Topics include: the importance of being intentional; unlearning the belief that breakups are inherently “failing” a relationship.
About the author: Former Vedic monk Jay Shetty is an instagram influencer, podcaster, keynote speaker, and author of Think Like A Monk. |
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| Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy by Daniel T. Willingham, PhDWhat it is: a practical, research-based guide to how the brain learns and how to make the most of it.
Read it for: the straightforward, actionable tips presented in digestible, well-organized sections at the end of each chapter.
Reviewers say: “Highly informative and inspiring: a must-read for students of any age” (Kirkus Reviews). |
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Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile, editors
What's inside: candid and incisive essays from the archives of literary magazine Catapult about our bodies and how they inform our experiences of the world around us, related to topics like disability, size, and gender.
Essays include: "Smother Me" by Natalie Lima; "Attack of the Six-Foot Woman" by Hannah Walhout; "What I Did for the Chance to Have a Baby Someday" by Karissa Chen.
For fans of: The Pretty One by Keah Brown; Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams; The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor.
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Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep--Friends
by Marisa G. Franco, PhD
What it's about: the importance of friendship, how to foster it in our lives, and how learning about attachment styles can help us connect with one another.
Don't miss: the chapter exploring the unique hurdles that marginalized people can face in friendships with privileged people and how set and maintain boundaries.
Reviewers say: Platonic is a "pleasing mix of research, advice, and humor" an a "useful tonic to a key social ailment" (Kirkus Reviews).
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How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times
by Chris Bailey
What it's about: learning to embrace the other side of the productivity coin by making time and space for calm and being more present in the moments outside of our productive time.
Why you might like it: Ironically, it was Chris Bailey's work specializing in productivity that gave him insight into the need for periods of restorative calm as an important part of our ability to get things done.
Topics include: the pitfalls of "busyness" for its own sake; the relationship between anxiety and the brain's drive for dopamine; the similarities and differences between analog and digital experiences and how they affect anxiety.
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You're Going to Be Okay: 16 Lessons on Healing After Trauma
by Madeline Popelka
After Madeline Popelka was diagnosed with PTSD and began to heal, she felt a need to create a space where other trauma survivors wouldn't feel so isolated. She then founded @HealingFromPTSD, which has grown into the largest trauma healing community on Instagram. In this hopeful and empowering book, there are 16 chapters, each reflecting a lesson or insight that Madeline gained along her healing journey.
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How We Live is How We Die
by Pema Chodron
Discover newfound freedom in life's ever-constant flow of endings and beginnings with the wise words of Pema Chodron, beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart .
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Côte Saint-Luc Public Library
5851 Cavendish Blvd.
Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec H4W 2X8
514-485-6900csllibrary.org/ |
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