LibraryAware May 2024

New & Noteworthy

How to Walk Into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away
by Emily P. Freeman

A podcast host, spiritual director and best-selling author offers guidance to help readers recognize when to leave situations that are no longer useful, including how to navigate endings without closure and differentiate between peace and discomfort avoidance.

The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living
by Bonnie Wan

Based on the business world's most-used organizational tool, this essential guide for aligning life with your personal, professional, cultural and spiritual dreams features three phases to help you identify your core values and align every area of your life with them so you can feel fulfilled every day.

Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being
by Sue Varma

Combining philosophy, her own personal experience and the latest research in psychology, psychiatry, medicine and neuroscience, a board-certified psychiatrist offers a scientific and tangible pathway to boosting health, happiness, resilience, success and longevity by cultivating an optimistic mindset.

Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age
by Chip Conley

The midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes, but this long-derided life stage has an upside. What if we could reframe our thinking about the natural transition of midlife not as a crisis, but as a chrysalis - a time when something profound awakens in us, as we shed our skin, spread our wings, and pollinate our wisdom to the world? In Learning to Love Midlife, Chip Conley offers an alternative narrative to the way we commonly think of our 40s, 50s and 60s. Drawing on the latest social science research, inspiring stories, and timeless wisdom, he reveals twelve reasons why life gets better with age.

Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
by Chris Anderson

Recounting inspiring stories from the world's boldest thinkers, the bestselling author, media pioneer and curator of TED shows how generosity has the power to transform outrage back into optimism and offers a playbook for how to embark on our own generous acts.

Relationships

We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want From Your Relationship
by Khadeen Ellis

The stars of the social media show The Ellises and hosts of the Webby Award-winning podcast Dead Ass with K&D, with their trademark transparency and humor, share one surprising, essential truth: If you're looking for a healthy relationship and a fulfilling life, focus on your partner's needs instead of your wants.

8 Rules of Love: How to Find it, Keep it, and Let it Go
by Jay Shetty

Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don't break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners.

It's Not Me, it's You: Break the Blame Cycle. Relationship Better.
by John Kim

Analyzing their own relationship, two renowned therapists help readers figure out theirs so they can work together to foster a healthy and long-term bond—one of communication, curiosity, patience and understanding.

I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself
by Eli Rallo

A social media star and podcaster presents a humorous and honest take on modern dating and offers tips and tricks for going on dates, falling in love and managing relationships from having sex to experiencing heartbreak.

Polywise: A Deeper Dive Into Navigating Open Relationships
by Jessica Fern

Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern and restorative justice facilitator David Cooley use a grounded theory approach to explore the underlying challenges that nonmonogamous individuals and partners can experience after their first steps, offering practical strategies for transforming them into opportunities for new levels of clarity and intimacy. Polywise provides both the conceptual framework to better understand the shift from monogamy to nonmonogamy and the tools to navigate the next steps.