Healthy Mind and Body
November 2025
The book of alchemy : a creative practice for an inspired life by Suleika Jaouad
The Book of Alchemy : A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
by Suleika Jaouad

Explores the transformative power of journaling, blending the author's insights with essays and prompts from 100 writers, artists, and thinkers, offering guidance to navigate life's challenges, embrace creativity, and uncover deeper self-awareness through themes of beginnings, love, loss, and renewal.
Goodbye to inflammation : your all-natural plan to reclaim health, lose weight, and feel better than ever by Sandra Moänino
Goodbye to Inflammation : Your All-Natural Plan to Reclaim Health, Lose Weight, and Feel Better than Ever
by Sandra Moñino

This best-selling guide to reducing chronic inflammation through nine key habits presents a targeted diet plan, simple recipes and a three-day jumpstart challenge—offering natural, evidence-based strategies to boost energy, ease symptoms and support long-term health.
Bless the messy : life lessons from a work in progress by Jess Bird
Bless the Messy : Life Lessons from a Work in Progress
by Jess Bird

"Bless the Messy is a compassionate, distinctive, and voice-driven illustrated personal growth book, one that gives readers permission to radically love themselves, feel their feelings, and live with joy even as - especially as - they may fumble through major life moments, or feel othered by society's narrow norms."
Food Intelligence : The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us by Julia Belluz
Food Intelligence : The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us
by Julia Belluz

This clear-eyed, science-backed guide to understanding how nutrients affect the body debunks diet myths and exposes how modern food systems—not personal failure—drive eating habits, obesity and chronic disease in today's confusing nutritional landscape.
Digital Exhaustion : Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life by Paul Leonardi
Digital Exhaustion : Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life
by Paul Leonardi

Offering realistic research-backed strategies, this practical guide helps you understand digital burnout, shift daily tech habits, avoid emotional traps and use devices more intentionally to boost focus, creativity and well-being without needing to unplug completely from modern life.
Tiny experiments : how to live freely in a goal-obsessed world by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Tiny Experiments : How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Challenges traditional linear life goals by promoting an experimental mindset, encouraging readers to design small personal experiments to explore their true ambitions, break free from limiting beliefs, and make decisions based on self-discovery rather than external expectations in a noisy, disaffected world.
Air-borne : the hidden history of the life we breathe by Carl Zimmer
Air-borne : The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
by Carl Zimmer

A columnist for the New York Times takes readers on a fascinating journey through the hidden world of airborne life, blending history and recent scientific discoveries to reveal the mysteries of the living atmosphere and its impact on global health.
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