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Self-Help
Self-Help
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Finance
Well Endowed: The Secrets to Strategic Spending, Building a Financial Foundation for You and Your Family, and Creating Lasting Generational Wealth by Vivian Tu
Well Endowed: The Secrets to Strategic Spending, Building a Financial Foundation for You and Your Family, and Creating Lasting Generational Wealth
by Vivian Tu

This personal finance guide addresses major financial decisions commonly faced in adulthood, including housing, marriage, family planning, insurance, and retirement. Building on foundational money-management concepts, the author focuses on strategic spending and long-term wealth accumulation aligned with individual values and goals. Drawing on professional experience in finance, the book presents practical guidance on balancing present needs with future financial security and planning for personal and intergenerational wealth.
The Money Habit: The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence by Mike Michalowicz
The Money Habit: The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence
by Mike Michalowicz

Money. What if you never had to worry about it again? In the follow-up to his international bestseller Profit First, entrepreneur and money expert Mike Michalowicz reveals how to achieve financial freedom by working with your natural habits rather than trying to change them. His Profit First model has already helped over a million businesses and entrepreneurs achieve financial independence. Now, with The Money Habit, he brings that proven system to personal finance.
The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life by Morgan Housel
The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life
by Morgan Housel

From the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever, lessons on harnessing the power of money to live a happier life Can money buy happiness? Yes. Can spending it make you happier? Absolutely. Yet, many of us struggle to unlock its full potential-either by spending on things that don't bring as much joy as they should or by avoiding investments that would truly enhance our mental well-being. In The Art of Spending Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel offers a refreshingly practical approach to managing wealth while finding deeper meaning and contentment.
What No One Tells You about Money: The Real Key to Getting Unstuck from Someone Who's Been There by Jade Warshaw
What No One Tells You About Money: The Real Key to Getting Unstuck from Someone Who's Been There
by Jade Warshaw

Spoiler alert: Money's not the problem. You read that right. When it comes to fixing your money situation, the numbers aren't the hardest part. It's the personal emotions and beliefs underneath the financial mess that can keep you spinning your wheels. Jade Warshaw gets it, because she's lived it. Before she became a personal finance coach and co-host of The Ramsey Show, Jade and her husband spent years fighting their way out of nearly half a million dollars of debt. In What No One Tells You About Money, she shares the full story (the good, the bad, and the downright ugly) and unpacks the raw truths and practical steps they learned along the way. You'll learn everything you need to break through the emotional barriers keeping you stuck, so you can start winning with money--no more false starts.
Health
Push: Unlock the Science of Fitness Motivation to Embrace Health and Longevity by MD Metzl, Jordan D.
Push: Unlock the Science of Fitness Motivation to Embrace Health and Longevity
by Jordan D. Metzl

Push explores the murky waters of motivation, for good and for bad. How do you transform motivation to stay on the couch and skip workouts into an irresistible desire to tie your sneakers and get moving? Understanding the science of healthy and unhealthy motivation is at the heart of Push, and Dr. Metzl's career-long obsession. He's spent more than 25 years helping people stay properly motivated by combining medical and fitness expertise. Push examines why your brain is the way it is, helps you understand how your unique motivational profile works, and gives you the tools to move past understanding into action, including: The three ingredients of healthy motivation-knowledge, emotion, belief-and how they intertwine in your brain to get you moving.
What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters by Marion Nestle
What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters
by Marion Nestle

An updated classic on nutrition and food, Marion Nestle's What to Eat Now is a straightforward and comprehensive guide to cutting through the marketing and half truths in order to make healthy, delicious, and sustainable food choices at the grocery store.
Heal Faster: Unlock Your Body's Rapid Recovery Reflex by Victoria Maizes
Heal Faster: Unlock Your Body's Rapid Recovery
by Victoria Maizes

Drawing on forty years of medical experience and cutting-edge research, Dr. Maizes shows that recovery may be possible for a wide range of conditions when you know how to support your body's natural healing processes. From short-term ailments like colds and sprains to chronic conditions like asthma and diabetes to recovering from surgery, this book offers evidence-based strategies to heal faster and more completely.
It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life by Sanjay Gupta
It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life
by Sanjay Gupta

Are you one of the 52 million people who experience chronic pain in your day-to-day life? In It Doesn't Have to Hurt, Sanjay Gupta makes the empowering argument that there are effective options for relief that you can start practicing today to greatly reduce your chances of suffering pain tomorrow. The significance of reducing and even eliminating pain cannot be overstated. Gupta 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. 
Success/Leadership
Big Trust: Rewire Self-Doubt, Find Your Confidence, and Fuel Success by Shadé Zahrai
Big Trust: Rewire Self-Doubt, Find Your Confidence, and Fuel Success
by Shadé Zahrai

Drawing on leading research, over a decade of work with Fortune 500 companies, and experience educating millions of professionals worldwide, Dr. Shadé Zahrai reveals a proven system for breaking the cycle of self-doubt and building deep, unshakable self-trust. In Big Trust she shares her proven framework -- the Four A's: Acceptance, Agency, Autonomy, and Adaptability -- and shows you how to take control of your inner world so you can thrive in the outer one. With insights from her self-diagnostic quiz and actionable exercises throughout, you'll learn to: Reframe the beliefs that hold you back, Break free from people-pleasing and perfectionism, Quiet comparison and imposter thoughts, Stretch your comfort zone and reclaim your power, Channel emotion into clarity and conviction.
The Way of Excellence: A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World by Brad Stulberg
The Way of Excellence: A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World
by Brad Stulberg

The definitive book on excellence: a practical guide to creating, contributing, and actualizing your potential amid the craziness of modern life.
Mission Driven: The Path to a Life of Purpose by Mike Hayes
Mission Driven: The Path to a Life of Purpose
by Mike Hayes

Former Navy SEAL commander, White House Fellow, and nonprofit and business leader Mike Hayes offers an inspiring playbook for understanding and achieving your most rewarding and purposeful life. Mission Driven offers a practical guide for transition points: young people, recent graduates, professionals shifting to new roles, or people shifting to find new balance in their lives. It is divided into two sections: The Long Game (figuring out who you want to be, how you define success, and what kind of impact you're looking to have in your own life and the world) and The Short Game (moving readers from the who to the how, taking the learnings they've gathered in the first half of the book and applying them toward building their lives and finding their next great opportunities).
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown
Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts
by Brené Brown

Four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown has spent the past two decades studying the emotions and experiences that give meaning to our lives, and the past seven years working with transformative leaders and teams spanning the globe. She found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?
Emotional Well-Being
Why We Suffer and How We Heal: Using Narrative, Ritual, and Purpose to Flourish Through Life's Challenges by MD PhD Song, Suzan
Why We Suffer and How We Heal: Using Narrative, Ritual, and Purpose to Flourish Through Life's Challenges
by Suzan J Song

In her debut book, Harvard- and Stanford-trained child and adult psychiatrist Suzan Song draws from her clinical practice, patient stories, research, and public health work to help readers release their unrealistic longing for stability, and open them up to a new, healthier mindset.
Why Do I Keep Doing This?: Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy by Kati Morton
Why Do I Keep Doing This?: Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy
by Kati Morton

Like so many of us, Kati was trapped in an endless cycle of trying to control everything around her. The to-do lists, emotions, relationships - the very things we are trained to keep under control - become the things that harm our relationships, our well-being, and ultimately, ourselves. Why Do I Keep Doing This? helps readers understand how control is at the root of our people-pleasing and perfectionist tendencies, and how to finally break the cycle. It's a vital tool that will unpack why we keep doing this to ourselves, where it comes from, and most importantly, how to finally let go in a way that doesn't feel like free-falling. Because there is another way - a way that allows us to feel safe, supported, and whole without needing to control every single detail of our lives.
Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You by Ethan Kross
Shift: Managing Your Emotions – So They Don't Manage You
by Ethan Kross

A myth-busting, science-based guide that addresses the timeless question of how to manage your emotional life using tools you already possess-from the bestselling author of Chatter.
Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change by Olga Khazan
Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change
by Olga Khazan

Research shows that you can alter your personality traits by behaving in ways that align with the kind of person you'd like to be--a process that can make you happier, healthier, and more successful. In Me, But Better, Olga [Khazan] embarks on an experiment to see whether it's possible to go from dwelling in dread to "radiating joy." For one year, Olga reluctantly clicks "yes" on a bucket list of new experiences--from meditation to improv to sailing--that forced her to at least act happy. With a skeptic's eye, Olga brings you on her journey throught the science of personality, presenting evidence-backed techniques to help you change your mind for the better.
Connection
The Balancing ACT: Creating Healthy Dependency and Connection Without Losing Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab
The Balancing Act: Creating Healthy Dependency and Connection Without Losing Yourself
by Nedra Glover Tawwab

This self-help guide explores how individuals can achieve balance in personal relationships while maintaining a clear sense of self. Therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab examines patterns such as codependency, enmeshment, avoidant and anxious attachment styles, and hyper-independence. She provides strategies for setting healthy boundaries, exploring personal identity through therapeutic tools, and fostering supportive social connections. The book offers guidance on identifying personal needs, managing conflict, and cultivating trust and harmony in relationships with partners, family members, friends, and other important people.
Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America by Andrew McCarthy
Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America
by Andrew McCarthy

Who Needs Friends charts McCarthy's journey over nearly ten thousand miles behind the wheel, following him on often-unexpected travels through Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, the Chihuahuan Desert, the Rocky Mountains with one driving purpose: to reconnect. Along the way he talks to countless men about their male friendships, from cowboys and blues musicians to preachers and rootless teens. What began as a simple desire to catch up with a few friends turned into a deep exploration of the challenges and rewards that men experience in forming bonds with each other. In McCarthy's own words, "It turns out that guys have a difficult time with friendship." But that's not the way it needs to be.
Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

From award-winning journalist and bestselling author Jennifer Wallace comes Mattering-a landmark book that introduces a transformative new framework to confront the loneliness, burnout, and lack of purpose so many of us face today.
The Joy of Solitude: How to Reconnect with Yourself in an Overconnected World by Robert J. Coplan
The Joy of Solitude: How to Reconnect with Yourself in an Overconnected World
by Robert J Coplan

Solitude is part of the human experience. But just like other relationships, your relationship with solitude can be satisfying, intimate, and enhance your well-being, or it can leave you wanting, stuck in a cycle of sadness, anxiety, or anger. Regardless of whether you're starved for "me time" or struggling with loneliness, most of us have never thought carefully about how to get the most out of the time we spend by ourselves. As a result, we're missing out on what could be a deeply enriching aspect of our lives. But how can we unlock the positive power of solitude? In The Joy of Solitude, Robert Coplan draws from diverse fields including psychology, neuroscience, literature, and sociology to guide readers through solitude's many dimensions and its profound effects on mental health and well-being.
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