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Home, Health, & Wealth... +fun! January 2026 |
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Lunch Well: 85 Recipes to Bring a Little Spark to the Midday Meal
by Fern Green
Much ink has been spilled over packing desirable lunches for kids, but for adults, lunch is often the neglected meal. With too many time constraints placed on it, lunch often becomes a sad desk-side meal. Rather than sidelining this important meal, why not use it as an opportunity to infuse your day with a bit of self-care, and a chance to refuel for a productive second half of your day. With 85 recipes, Lunch Well offers a road map: meals that take 15 minutes or less, meals that require only 5 ingredients, how to use one vegetable for three different lunches, and how to turn toast and tinned fish into a perfect meal. It's packed with abundant tips on how to build your pantry to make lunching easier and faster, how to prep while you're making your morning coffee, and quick ferments for better gut-health. With an eye to reusing ingredients and making good use of leftovers, not to mention packing to avoid spills and soggy ingredients, this is a practical book to reshape your relationship with the midday meal.
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Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook
by Samin Nosrat
With all the generosity of spirit that has endeared her to millions of fans, Samin Nosrat offers more than 125 of her favorite recipes--simply put, the things she most loves to cook for herself and for friends--and infuses them with all the beauty and care you would expect from the person Alice Waters called America's next great cooking teacher. As Samin says, Recipes, like rituals, endure because they're passed down to us--whether by ancestors, neighbors, friends, strangers on the internet, or me to you. A written recipe is just a shimmering decoy for the true inheritance: the thread of connection that cooking it will unspool. Good Things is an essential, joyful guide to cooking and living, whether you're looking for a comforting tomato soup to console a struggling friend, seeking a deeper sense of connection in your life, or hosting a dinner for ten in your too-small dining room. Here you'll find go-to recipes for ricotta custard pancakes, a showstopping roast chicken burnished with saffron, a crunchy, tingly Calabrian chili crisp, super-chewy sky-high focaccia, and a decades-in-the-making, childhood-evoking yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Along the way, you'll also find plenty of tips, techniques, and lessons, from how to buy olive oil (check the harvest date) to when to splurge (salad dressing is where you want to use your best ingredients) to the best uses for your pressure cooker (chicken stock and dulce de leche, naturally). Good Things captures, with Samin's trademark blend of warmth, creativity, and precision, what has made cooking such an important source of delight and comfort in her life.
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Big Kids, Bigger Feelings: Navigating Defiance, Meltdowns, and Anxiety to Raise Confident, Connected Kids
by Alyssa Blask Campbell
From the coauthor of Tiny Humans, Big Emotions, a guide to supporting children's social and emotional growth through the elementary school years (ages 5-12), a critical but often-overlooked developmental stage. TOO OLD FOR TANTRUMSTOO YOUNG FOR TEENAGE DRAMA Meltdowns. Name-calling. Hitting, kicking, and hair-pulling. Except, these aren't the toddler years. Why is your elementary-school-age child still having these outbursts? Long thought of as the time when parents can finally enjoy calmer kids and deal with less emotional volatility and tears, the elementary school years are anything but. During this pivotal time, our children navigate a new set of social and emotional challenges. From playground bullying to cliques and exclusion, ever-increasing academic challenges, and plenty of physical growth and hormonal changes thrown into the mix--the elementary school years are more complicated than most parents realize. Big Kids, Bigger Feelings is the guide you need to help your child thrive during these developmentally complex and wonderful years. The social and emotional skills you provide your children with now will prepare them for a lifetime of self-advocacy and stronger emotional intelligence. Campbell's revolutionary Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method, used in preschool and elementary school environments, teaches you how to work with your children to help them understand how they are feeling and process their big emotions in healthy, constructive ways. Discover how to: - Teach kids to handle unkind behaviors and set boundaries- Help kids learn to regulate themselves when they feel angry, sad, or upset- Manage technology use in a safe and healthy way- Navigate puberty, body changes, sex, drugs, and other important topics- Develop a deeper connection with your child. The elementary school years are rife with change--from changing bodies to changing social structures--and there's never a better time to help your kids handle these ever-increasing challenges so they can thrive today and tomorrow.
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Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want
by Marc Brackett
Instant USA Today Bestseller From Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of the bestselling book Permission to Feel, comes an essential guide for regulating how we respond to our emotions in order to transform our lives. Success in virtually every aspect of life--career, friendship, love, and family--is determined mainly by one thing: how we deal with emotions. In your most challenging moments, how did you respond? Did you fly off the handle? Were you paralyzed by indecision? Did you engage in behaviors that undermined your best intentions? Or did you exhibit grace under pressure and flourish? How you responded likely shaped what happened next. But emotion regulation isn't a fixed trait, as many believe. It is a set of skills and strategies that must be learned, practiced, and refined over a lifetime. Marc Brackett examines his own challenges dealing with emotions, explains the latest science of emotion regulation, and provides a set of practical, evidence-based strategies to help us use our feelings wisely to nurture healthy relationships, achieve ambitious goals, and experience greater well-being. At the heart of his message is acceptance: There are no bad emotions--only emotions we don't understand or know how to direct in positive, intentional ways. The good news? We all have the power to decide how we will respond to what life throws at us. By honing our emotion regulation skills, we can increase our chances of achieving success in all facets of our lives. Dealing with Feeling will show you how to work with your and others' emotions--not against them--so you can become the best version of yourself and lift others up too.
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It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life
by Sanjay Gupta
Gupta makes the argument that there are effective options for relief that you can start practicing today to greatly reduce your chances of suffering pain tomorrow. He shows how pain carries an enormous amount of physical, social, and emotional baggage, which is, in part, why it has been so hard to treat, and too often ignored. It can also present in infinite ways. Yet both patients and practitioners labor under the mistaken idea that most pain problems can be fixed with a drug or procedure. It turns out we have tremendous agency in choosing how we'll respond. The brain 'creates' pain, but it also has the capacity to reduce or even eliminate it. There is more evidence than ever about the benefits of sleep, diet and nutrition, mindfulness-based pain management (MBPM), myofascial and other hands-on treatments, as well as yoga, specialized psychotherapies, and even social 'prescriptions'--prompting more doctors than ever to focus on these solutions.
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Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You
by Meg Josephson
Psychotherapist Meg Josephson is here to show you that people-pleasing is not a personality trait. It's a common trauma response known as fawning an instinct often learned in childhood to become more appealing to a perceived threat in order to feel safe. Yet many people are stuck in this way of being for their whole lives. Are You Mad at Me? weaves Josephson's own moving story with that of fascinating client stories and thought-provoking exercises to show you how to: - Identify all the roles you might play--from peacekeeper to performer to caretaker to lone wolf to perfectionist to chameleon--that keep you far from yourself. - Stop fearing your thoughts and emotions, even if they're unpleasant. - Rethink conflict and boundaries as an opening for deeper connection. - Practice leaning back in relationships. - Recognize when people-pleasing is actually necessary (with your chaotic boss) and when it's not (with your close friends) and stop self-loathing when you slip into old patterns. - Shift away from the familiar chaos, anxiety, and resentment you're used to as you move closer to yourself and a life that no longer depletes you--but brings you joy. With Josephson's lucid prose and smart mix of clinical expertise, personal disclosure, and pertinent case studies (Publishers Weekly), Are You Mad at Me? will help you shed the behaviors that are keeping you stuck in the past so that you can live in your most authentic present.
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The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path
by Emma Heming Willis
The day Emma Heming Willis's husband, Bruce Willis, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), all they were given was a pamphlet and told to check back in a few months. With no hope or direction, Emma walked out of that doctor's appointment frozen with fear, confusion, and a sense that her world had just fallen apart. In fact, it had. Bruce and Emma had their story written, their future mapped out. Yet all those dreams crumbled with that diagnosis, and Emma felt alone and more isolated than ever. How would she care for her husband while parenting their young daughters?
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Cricut for Dummies
by Kerri Adamczyk
A Cricut is a personal electronic cutting machine--and a source of endless possibility for crafters, small business owners, and entrepreneurs. Cricut(R) For Dummies shows you how you can elevate your projects with this easy-to-use tool. You'll learn how to choose the right machine for you, use the Design Space(R) app, and work with step-by-step instructions. Plus, you'll get fun project ideas for crafting with paper, vinyl, and beyond. Start with the basics and work your way to advanced projects with this user-friendly guide.
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Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift
by Stephanie Burt
Taylor Swift has become a peerless superstar, ceaselessly productive and internationally beloved. From her teen country debut to her world tour as the chair of the tortured poets department, Swift's career and her creations have captivated and bewitched us, opening up new ways to see both her life and our own. In Taylor's Version, the poet and literary scholar Stephanie Burt offers [a] ... critical appreciation of Taylor Swift, her body of work, and the community that her art has fostered. Drawing from her 2024 Harvard course ... as well as from her years as a Swiftie, Burt examines the purposes, talents, and energies Swift brings to her music and to her persona. She highlights the ways Swift's work remains at once intimate and relatable, portraying people we feel that we know and people we wish we could be, from the first loves and girlhoods on Fearless through the public and private angst of Midnights.
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Lonely Planet Florida
by David Gibb
Discover Florida's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from heading to Miami's beautiful, laid-back Crandon Beach Park for amazing views of the Magic City skyline; to losing yourself in immersive rides at Universal Orlando Resort; and losing yourself in true Florida wilderness at the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.
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Crochet Amigurumi for the Holidays: 20+ Festive Crochet Projects for Gifts, Decoration, and More
by Bianca Costa Dos Santos Esmanhoto
From penguins to polar bears, elves to o'l Saint Nick, learn to crochet more than a dozen adorable amigurumi designs perfect for the holiday season! It's time to deck the halls - with Amigurumi! Crochet Amigurumi for the Holidays is chock full of the most festive designs for gifts, decoration, and more. Renowned crochet artist Bianca Santos has exploded the internet with her Funko Pop-inspired amigurumis, and now is taking that style to the holidays, with iconic figures from Santa and Mrs. Clause to snowmen, reindeer, and even elves. But the fun doesn't stop there! Crochet Amigurumi for the Holidays also includes fun and easy patterns for holiday decor, ornaments to hang on the tree, and even a present box, all created with Bianca's fresh and fun style. With 20+ projects for every skill level and holiday need, plus clear, concise patterns and gorgeous pictures, Crochet Amigurumi for the Holidays not only helps you make great gifts, it's the perfect gift for your favorite crafter! 'TIS THE SEASON: Crochet Amigurumi for the Holidays features more than 20 festive designs, perfect for the holiday season. FOR EVERY SKILL LEVEL: Start with easy-to-learn patterns and work your way up to more intricate designs. INSPIRING IMAGES: Each pattern is accompanied by photos of the finished project as well as step-by-step visual aids for anything unique to the pattern.
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