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Family Ties That Bind: A Self-Help Guide to Change Through Family of Origin Therapy
RELATIONSHIPS
Author and clinician, Ronald Richardson explains how families function and what you can do to change the way you act in your family and with other people. Exercises show how to apply the principles to your own situation and develop a more positive approach to all aspects of your life.
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Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers
INTIMACY
Magnificent Sex is based on the largest, in-depth interview study ever conducted with people who are having extraordinary sex. It gathers the nuggets for remarkable sex from the experts, distilling them into an attainable blueprint for ordinary lovers who want to make erotic intimacy grow over the course of a lifetime.
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find, And Keep, Love
RELATIONSHIPS
In this revolutionary book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller scientifically explain why some people seem to navigate relationships effortlessly, while others struggle.
Discover how an understanding of adult attachment--the most advanced relationship science in existence today--can help us find and sustain love.
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Edgar & Elouise
RELATIONSHIP & PARENTING
Sagas are about being human in an uncertain and dangerous world. How do we sculpt an inner strength and strong connections with others, and how can we protect what we love - our frail and magical world? The whimsical tales of Edgar & Elouise make up two such sagas.
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The Ultimate Date Night Game for Couples
FUN/PLAY
Set the tone for a fun and interactive date night with this “Would You Rather” style card deck for couples! Choose your own adventure with 250 cards in four categories, frisky, silly, adventurous and philosophical.
No matter how you play, fun and connection are guaranteed!
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Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life
RELATIONSHIPS/PERSONAL GROWTH
You are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play--and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
RELATIONSHIPS
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. This book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.
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Touch: The Science of the Hand, Heart, and Mind
INTIMACY
In Touch, neuroscientist and bestselling author David J. Linden explores this critical interface between our bodies and the outside world, between ourselves and others. Touch offers an entertaining and enlightening answer to how we feel in every sense of the word.
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
RELATIONSHIPS
Are you looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one gone awry? We all want a lifetime of love, support, and companionship. But sometimes we need a little help.
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Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
RELATIONSHIPS
Fisher proved what psychologists had until recently only suspected: when you fall in love, specific areas of the brain "light up" with increased blood flow. This sweeping new book uses this data to argue that romantic passion is hardwired into our brains by millions of years of evolution. It is not an emotion; it is a drive as powerful as hunger.
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The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
HEALTHY LIVING
In this New York Times bestseller, Janice Kaplan spends a year living gratefully and transforms her marriage, family life, work, and health.
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The Hold Me Tight Workbook: A Couple's Guide for a Lifetime of Love
RELATIONSHIPS
A companion workbook to Dr. Sue Johnson's million-copy bestseller Hold Me Tight, packed with exercises, conversation prompts, and activities to help couples strengthen their bond, deepen their intimacy, and cultivate a lifetime of love.
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The Penis Book
SEXUAL HEALTH
Useful to men and women alike, The Penis Book is a one-stop-shop for the care and maintenance of the penis in your life. Includes an easy-to-follow holistic five-step plan for optimum penis health.
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The Stonewall Reader
LGBTQ+
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.
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The Couple's Quiz Book: 350 Fun Questions to Energize Your Relationship
RELATIONSHIPS
Energize your relationship with this quiz book for couples. Curiosity is a great way to create and sustain intimacy in relationships. Create curiosity in your relationship with quizzes that will have you competing against one another to see who really knows who best.
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Guide to Getting It on
SEXUALITY/SEXUAL INSTRUCTION
The Guide To Getting It On! has won five awards and has been translated into 12 foreign languages. It has sold hundreds of thousands of copies from the dorms of UC San Diego to the bedrooms of Tripoli. Some people say The Guide is the best how-to book on sex ever written--we say it's the most fun to read.
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The Consent Primer: Foundations for Everyday Life
COMMUNICATION/RELATIONSHIPS/SEX
Consent is part life. It plays a role in our daily interactions with others - a role you’re probably unaware of until something goes wrong. This foundational book explores consent in a new way and will explain the fundamentals of consent, how to use consent in your relationships and sex life, and what to do when consent goes wrong.
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The Breathwork Companion
EMOTION REGULATION
If you aren’t feeling safely connected to your partner, it’s stressful, and you’re likely to get emotionally reactive. In this practical, accessible guide, Margaret Townsend offer readers simple yet effective breathing techniques. Use them to invite calm, wind down for sleep, and find self-compassion. Try them out to calm your reactive emotions and hold steady with your partner.
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I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
RELATIONSHIPS/PERSONAL GROWTH
What if making one tweak in your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve your relationship, and every relationship in your life? Learn the power of validation and how to use it to increase feelings of love, resolve or prevent arguments, provide support and encouragement, and more!
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Oh My Mother!
RELATIONSHIPS/HUMOR
For Mother’s Day, we recommend this entertaining look at one of the most enduring yet complex of human relationships. Connie Wang’s honest and hilarious memoir tells the story of her relationship with her stubborn and charismatic mother. Follow them from Vegas to Versailles and be encouraged in your own complex relationships!
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Daring Greatly
INSPIRATION/PERSONAL GROWTH
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, thought leader Brené Brown presents a transformative vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate, all based on the power of vulnerability. Explore what it could be like to set fear aside and be fully yourself — in your couple relationship and the other arenas of your life.
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What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
INSPIRATION/PERSONAL GROWTH
In this #1 New York Times Bestseller, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce D. Perry provide powerful scientific and emotional insights into behaviors that result from trauma. Through deeply personal conversations, the pair provide a way for us to understand our past and open the door to resilience and healing.
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