Six months after her husband dies, fifty-eight-year-old Florence Loughton falls in love. She falls in love the moment that Hector stretches out his tiny little neck and licks at the smooth tan skin of her face. She soon forms an unlikely bond with twenty-six-year-old Trey Barkley, Hector's dog walker...
read moreIn haiku, we pay attention to the moment without embellishment. We embrace the moment as it is, not how we would like it to be. Just this, right here, right now.Wabi-sabi is valuing imperfection, impermanence, and the natural devolving of everything born or made. Just this, right here, right now, as is.Zen also teaches us to pay attention. The past is gone. The future is unknown...
read moreThe Happiness Solution: Finding Joy and Meaning in an Upside Down World is a fascinating collection of parable-like stories, myths, and anecdotes. Dr. Gettis draws upon his forty years of clinical experience as a psychologist and combines that with the latest research on the science of happiness. The result is markedly influenced by Dr...
read moreThe Happy Hour Effect: Twelve Secrets to Minimize Stress and Maximize Life, by bestselling and award-winning author Kristen K. Brown, provides easy, fun, and powerful solutions to minimize your stress and maximize your life. Kristen's voice is inspiring, motivating, witty, funny, and down to earth, and her book provides specific and actionable steps to stress less now. It isn't hard...
read morePaying homage to Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein, author Alan Gettis and illustrator Kyle Wade have combined to give the reader over a hundred whimsical and zany poems. These "silly" poems are for both kids and grown-ups. Perfect for adults or older siblings to read to younger kids, and for kids eight and up to read themselves...
read moreIt's All Part of the Dance: Finding Joy and Meaning in an Upside Down World is a fascinating collection of parable-like stories, myths, and anecdotes. Dr. Gettis draws upon his 40 years of clinical experience as a psychologist and combines that with the latest research on the science of happiness...
read moreLearning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying: Embracing Life After Loss accomplishes just that in an easy-to-digest, warm, and highly-accessible format. Anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one can greatly benefit from this book, which was inspired firsthand by the loss of author Allen Klein's wife...
read moreProject Personal Freedom: Tips and Tools for a Liberated Life provides a year of insights and action steps for finding the freedom so many of us seek. Personal freedom is an overall liberated life experience. It's a state of being in which one is self-determined and self-directed...
read moreProfessor Reis Welling's life is idyllic. A respected professor of botany at Cornell, he's been granted early tenure, has received a grant to carry out field research in the Adirondack Forest, and has met Ellen, the love of his life...
read moreThis new edition of Seven Times Down Eight Times Up: Landing on Your Feet in an Upside Down World is the right book for the right time. We seemingly are in the midst of an upside down world in which the economy is in shambles, our security is threatened, and we're uncertain of who we can trust. It is no wonder that we struggle with our emotions to the extent that we do...
read moreAs eighteen-year-old Amanda spirals into mania, her father, psychiatrist Dr. Jerry Benson, sees the realization of his worst fears: his daughter is not just moody, but truly ill. With his words, his diagnosis—manic depressive illness—his world and that of his family is forever altered...
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