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10-Day Sugar Detox: Easy Meal Plans to Beat Sugar in 10 Days
by Rockridge Press10 Days. 4 Sugar Detox Options. 1 Life-Changing Experience.Live healthier. Lose weight. Cut carbs. Gain energy. Sleep better. Most people who choose to do a sugar detox have similar goals. But just because you want to achieve the same things doesn't mean you're starting from the same place. 10-Day Sugar Detox takes into account the real eating habits of aspiring sugar detoxers. It offers four different detoxes, each of which can be undertaken to end sugar addiction safely and successfully. Which sugar detox is right for you? Orange Plan: Vegetarian Yellow Plan: Carnivorous Green Plan: Grain-free, legume-free Blue Plan: Grain-free, legume-free, dairy-free Each sugar detox includes its own shopping list and meal plan for the 10-day period—so the only thing you have to think about is how good you're going to feel by the end.
The Essential Self Compassion Workbook for Teens: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Fully Embrace Yourself
by Katie Krimer MA, LCSWReplace your inner critic with a big self-hug—an interactive workbook for teens ages 13 to 16 Feelings of anxiety, sadness, insecurity, and shame are challenging obstacles that may come your way while growing up, and they are difficult to manage alone. Self compassion is a remarkable, life-changing superpower that will help you develop a healthier outlook and a more balanced, accepting view of yourself. The Essential Self Compassion Workbook for Teens is an interactive guide filled with practical and interesting activities and exercises rooted in research-based strategies that will help you calm your inner critic, deal with difficult emotions, and learn to love yourself. Inspired by the Mindful Self Compassion program developed by Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff, author Katie Krimer puts her own spin on some of their most tried and true principles, and infuses her unique, impassioned voice into the pages of this workbook. By learning core elements of self compassion and coping skills, you can embrace yourself, overcome self-criticism, and cultivate kindness. Designed to teach you all the aspects of this beneficial practice, this hands-on workbook will help you take that brave first step in a journey that will create a kinder and more empathetic you. This self compassion workbook will teach teens: Kind at heart—With an encouraging, positive tone, learn to motivate yourself with kindness and self compassion. Personal stories—Relate to other teens who, like you, have struggled with negative thoughts and emotions and benefited from the wonders of self compassion. Interactive approach—Use unique exercises and journaling sections as your safe place to always be able to jot down your thoughts and feelings and reframe your perspective. Work toward becoming a more harmonious, accepting version of yourself with self compassion.
The Book of Calm: Clarity, Compassion, and Choice in a Turbulent World
by Nancy G. ShapiroUsing real-life stories, scientific concepts, and awareness tools, The Book of Calm challenges the constraints of inevitable change and turbulent events with a dynamic stance of clarity, compassion, and choice. Transitions expert Nancy G. Shapiro moves gracefully and deliberately through subjects as diverse as welcoming paradox, fierce self-care, power and conversation, and the difficult task of connecting with others when faced with our thousand-fold differences―providing convincing evidence that people stuck in fear or indecision can experience profound insights, break harmful habits, and move into their own wisdom by letting go of old beliefs. Inspiring and compelling, The Book of Calm supports readers to reimagine and renew their lives and their place in the world by transforming patterns within thoughts, language, and behaviors―one person, one family, one community at a time.
The Well of Truth: Stories of Spirit
by Elizabeth A. GouldIncorporating elements of fantasy, mysticism, and lore, The Well of Truth follows a female heroine through poignant moments of her adult life. Through the initiations of marriage, raising children, getting divorced, going through menopause, losing loved ones, and ultimately making an independent life for herself, she gains insight and spiritual wisdom from unexpected places.These short stories are filled with reflections on feminine resilience, power, and agency.
Be Brave. Lose the Beige!: Finding Your Sass After Sixty
by Liz KitchensMeet Beige. Beige is reliable, practical, sensible, and safe. Beige doesn’t put up a fuss; it follows the rules, blends in, doesn’t want to stand out. Now meet Magenta. Magenta is rich, dynamic, loud, sometimes garish, and not easily overlooked. Society has decidedly beige expectations when it comes to aging, and the intrinsic danger of beige and its many practical aspects is that it precludes creative thinking. Creative thinking is critical in avoiding a beige aging journey. Be Brave. Lose the Beige! Finding Your Sass after Sixty encourages women to trot out their inner magenta and defy those beige expectations. Be Brave. Lose the Beige! started as a blog and morphed into a movement. This movement gently pokes fun at ageist rules and expectations. It says “yes” when the rest of the world keeps saying “no.” In these pages, Liz Kitchens chronicles how creative thinking helped her cope with empty nest syndrome, navigate sex over sixty, transition from being outtasight to literally being out-of-sight . . . and so much more. The stories and creative techniques outlined in this book are guaranteed to introduce color, sass, and a lightness of spirit into your later years. Are you ready to start coloring outside the lines, even if a few pesky rules get trampled in the process?
The Fun Master: A Memoir
by Jeff SeitzerA self-involved academic struggling to cope with his own neurological problems, Jeff could hardly take care of himself, let alone a child with special needs, when his son, Ethan, was born. But despite multiple surgeries, hospitalizations, serious breathing and swallowing problems, hearing loss, and a challenging social environment in his first months of life, Ethan thrived—all the while teaching Jeff to take things as they came. And eight years later, the arrival from China of adopted baby sister Penelope took Jeff's on-the-job training to a whole new level.Ethan's instinct for fun proved the perfect complement to Jeff's determination to live life fully. He died too young, but not before he, Penelope, and their mother, Janet, taught Jeff that the true path to happiness was putting other people's needs before his own—and living in the moment rather than trying to control it.
Buck's Pantry: A Novel
by Khristin Wierman“Buck’s Pantry is a surprising tale of intrigue and suspense, and a perfect example of how three days and a random encounter can change the course of so many lives. Khristin Wierman’s narrative is charming and disarming all at the same time.” —Laurie Gelman, author of the Class Mom seriesIn a small Texas town, three women—Gillian, a former prom queen and furious juggler of her three children’s manic schedules; Lianna, a foul-mouthed East Coast banking super star; and Aimee, a woman capable of far more than her current life will allow—find their lives converging. Gillian, reeling from the revelations her husband shared at a fundraiser she hosted just days ago, is suddenly grappling with what she has always believed about politics, family, and her own comfortable life—and aghast at some of the choices she’s made. Lianna is en route to close a deal and languishing in the August heat. Desperate to return to her beloved New York and a first-time visitor to rural Texas, she’s certain she has landed in one of the outer rings of hell. Aimee, though withering under the covert dysfunction and mental illness lurking in her family, still manages to shine in her low-level job and allows herself to dream of a life far away. When Gillian and Lianna stop at the same convenience store, they find themselves in an unthinkable situation. Aimee may be their only hope—if she can put the pieces together.
After Perfect: A Novel
by Maan GabrielThirty-six-year-old Gabriella Stevens is living a quiet and content fairy tale as a devoted housewife to Simon—just as her traditional Filipino mother has always told her to do—when, after sixteen years of marriage and twenty years together, he tells he wants a divorce.Simon has been Gabby&’s everything since they were kids; without him, her world implodes. But as she navigates her way through the wreckage of the marriage she thought would last forever, she becomes determined to make a life on her own. With New York City as her backdrop, Gabby—single for the first time since she was a teenager—goes back to school, gets her first real job, and faces unfamiliar reality with determination. Gabby&’s life takes another turn when she falls in love with her mysterious but utterly beautiful creative writing professor, Colt. Being with Colt is exhilarating for her—something new, something exciting and beyond understanding. He is almost seven years her junior, and a literary genius. But he is also battling demons of his own: a tragic past that may have made him incapable of love.Is Gabby destined for another heartbreak—or will her connection with Colt be what unbreaks her?
Dragons in My Classroom: A Teacher's Memoir
by Barbara KennardAs a young book lover with dyslexia, Barbara found the solution to her reading struggles in Miss Gluding, her first grade teacher, who showed compassion for her student&’s plight—and knew how to help her. From that time on, Barbara knew what she wanted to be: a teacher, just like Miss Gluding.Unfortunately, Barbara also had some bad teachers in the years that ensued—including her sixth grade teacher, an exacting woman who called attention to Barbara&’s learning disabilities in front of classmates. Still wanting to follow in Miss Gluding&’s footsteps in 1964, Barbara vowed she would be a better one than her sixth grade teacher; instead, however, she became very much like her, with unattainable expectations for her students and herself. After seventeen years in the teaching profession, she realized she had to either change her teaching style or change careers. By providence, right as she stood at this crossroads, she was offered the opportunity to teach overseas at The Dragon School in Oxford, England, for a year—an opportunity she jumped at.In the year that followed, Barbara would rely on her faith in God to give up a lot of what she knew about teaching and learn to do it differently—ways that wouldn&’t have room for her perfectionism. In short, she would have to begin again.
Love Is Blind in One Eye: 7 Stories
by Marianne RogoffIn these linked stories Jewel navigates the stage of life between 25 and 45, from the day she finds a body on a wild California beach to crossroads encounters with mystics, lovers, beggars, surgeons, and sailors on the shores of Maui and streets of San Miguel de Allende, Lisbon, Larkspur, Mill Valley, and Barcelona. Falling in love, whether with the one she marries, her newborn babies, total strangers, or the places she goes, calls forth conflicting sensations: ease/excitement, pleasure/danger, attachment/release. One eye sees and the other is blind as Jewel learns to love and grieve by staying in motion, finding and losing her way in the crowds and landscapes, heart cracked open.
Within Reach: A Novel
by Jessica StevensDying wasn&’t on seventeen-year-old Xander Hemlock&’s summer to-do-list. Finding ways to spend more time with his girlfriend, Lila, was the most critical thinking he planned on doing. But that was before he found himself trapped in a realm of only darkness with thirty days to convince Lila he&’s not actually dead—well, not completely, anyway. As Xan tries to show Lila she isn't alone, she struggles to comprehend how her life has changed so completely. Six months ago her life was perfect: she was on her way to becoming a professional dancer, her parents were still married, and her boyfriend was alive. But now, with her anorexic tendencies stronger than ever, she must decide which is the lesser of two evils: letting go to be with a boy she doesn't love, or holding on to the unreasonable, yet overpowering, feeling that Xan is still within reach...and trying to show her something. Improbable and endearing, Within Reach is a story of two soulmates discovering that sometimes it takes more than one lifetime to get it right.
As Long As It's Perfect: A Novel
by Lisa TognolaTo Janie Margolis, &“assistant contractor&” sounds like the ideal job for a mom whose role raising kids has become routine―but her perfect plan starts to unravel when she and her husband, Wim, find themselves arguing about everything from money to masonry to man caves. Then the economy collapses, and it&’s hard to surmount the reality ahead: they are about to sink their entire savings into rebuilding a new house they can&’t afford while trying unsuccessfully to sell the one they already own. Will Janie back herself so far into a corner that she&’ll find herself homeless before she finds herself a home? From crushes on contractors to frenzied shopping expeditions to the erection of a cupola that looks a little too phallic for her upscale new neighborhood―or really any neighborhood!―Janie navigates the pitfalls of building. Along the way, she deals with a con artist kitchen designer, a construction worker and architect who fight like schoolgirls, and a tile guy who turns her shower into a pornographic work of art, all while struggling to stay out of debt and keep her marriage going. In the end, she comes face to face with her flaws and learns that dreams can be achieved―but the only way to authentic happiness is through truth and acceptance.
Islam Explained: A Short Introduction to History, Teachings, and Culture
by Ahmad Rashid SalimA revealing guide to understanding the principles of Islam With more than 1.8 billion followers worldwide, Islam is one of the world's largest religions, but it is also one that is poorly understood by many Americans. Islam Explained offers an informative overview of the faith, helping those who are new to Islam foster cultural awareness while also providing those already familiar with it the opportunity to deepen their understanding. Whether you are looking to expand your own knowledge of Islam or just better understand the practices of Muslim friends, coworkers, and neighbors, this concise and essential guide provides a solid foundation for future study and conversation. Islam Explained features: Easy-to-understand explanations—This book provides a complete overview ideal for those who are interested in Islam as a faith, a subject of study, and beyond. Historical contexts—Better understand the history of Islam, how the religion has evolved, and the ways that history has shaped the lives of Muslims. Beliefs and practices—Explore what it means to be a practicing Muslim, including the Five Pillars, laws, dress codes, and brief glimpses into how they vary between individual sects. Take yourself on a journey that will end in a better, more complete understanding of Islam.
The College Survival Guide for Christian Women: 5-Minute Devotions for Strength, Reflection, and Calm
by Meredith BarnesKeep God close throughout college College can be an exciting and overwhelming time, full of big changes and new experiences. This book of devotions for women makes it easy to carve out moments of calm and stay connected to your faith as you discover everything college has to offer. What sets this college survival guide apart from other college books: Short and sweet—Bolster your faith in just five minutes with quick devotions designed to complement the busy life of any college woman. Relevant topics—Explore a wide range of Bible passages and discover how God can provide guidance on personal boundaries, peer pressure, and more. Thoughtful prompts—Reflect on the Lord's wisdom and consider how to apply His lessons to your life with insightful, open-ended questions at the end of every devotion. Foster your faith and find support as an undergrad with The College Survival Guide for Christian Women.
Camping Anatomy Activities for Kids: Fun, Hands-On Learning (Anatomy Activities for Kids)
by Steve LemigExplore like a scientist with this illustrated camping guide for kids ages 8 to 12Camping is the perfect time to learn about the world around you. Adventure through nature like a real scientist with Camping Anatomy Activities for Kids. It's full of super-fun activities and lessons that show you how to build a working campsite, stay safe on the trail, and much more! You'll learn new camping skills and keep track of everything you discover as you become an outdoor lover for life.Go beyond other camping books for kids and:Experience the wilderness—20 unique lessons teach you how to ask questions about the natural world, imagine solutions to potential problems, and test ideas to prepare for a successful camping trip.Try awesome activities—Get your campsite up and running with activities like pitching a tent, reading the stars, and drawing a map.Start a camping journal—Use your own blank journal to answer writing prompts that help you record your ideas and observations.Become an expert camper as you interact with the outdoors through this nature journal for kids.
Fibromyalgia Freedom!: Your Essential Cookbook and Meal Plan to Relieve Pain, Clear Brain Fog, and Fight Fatigue
by Kathleen Standafer MS, RDNFight fibro the natural way—with food. There's a vital connection between what you eat and how you feel. Fibromyalgia Freedom! helps you manage your fibromyalgia naturally by taking control of your nutrition. This gourmet meal plan targets pain, lethargy, indigestion, and cognitive "brain fog," so you can find relief—and still eat well. The 4-stage plan starts you on a targeted diet, removing problematic foods to give your body a chance to heal. Over 110 recipes give you lots of engaging options to further reduce fibromyalgia symptoms. The recipes are brain- or immunity-boosting, and many are free of gluten, dairy, or allergens like nuts. In Fibromyalgia Freedom!, you'll find: 4-week meal plan—Address fibromyalgia symptoms in four stages: Pain Management, Gaining Energy, Fighting Brain Fog, and Promoting Healthy Digestion. 110+ nourishing recipes—Enjoy Thai Coconut Milk Soup, Crispy Baked Parsnip Fries, Italian-Style Meatballs, Creamy Chocolate Mousse, and more. Symptom tracking—Regain control of your health using a guided tracking strategy, made easy with charts for your symptoms, foods, and weekly progress. This holistic approach to fibromyalgia treatment will put you on the path to a more stress-free and symptom-free life.
Baseball Biographies for Kids: Stories of Baseball's Most Inspiring Players (Sports Biographies for Kids)
by Dean BurrellGet to know the game with inspiring baseball biographies for ages 8 to 12!It's the bottom of the ninth, bases are loaded, and your team is down by three—who do you want coming up to bat? Discover the most talented players in every position on the field with Baseball Biographies for Kids! This lineup shows you what it takes to be a real MVP, with a run-down of stories, stats, and achievements of the best players in baseball, from the 1960s through today.Legends of the league—Get inspired by the players who defined the game, like Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, and Ichiro Suzuki.Key career stats—Each biography in this baseball history book includes the player's life story, as well as their major statistics like games played, ERA, hits, and more.Draft your own all-star team—Fill out the included starting lineup sheet with your favorite picks for each position.Whether you're an aspiring athlete or just a big fan, this book of baseball stories for kids is sure to give you a greater love of the game!
Mindful Parenting in a Chaotic World: Effective Strategies To Stay Centered At Home and On the Go
by Nicole Libin PhDWhen parents and kids practice mindfulness together, life gets a lot calmer. There are no perfect parents and no perfect kids—just perfect moments. Mindful Parenting in a Chaotic World features mindfulness strategies and activities that are easy for anyone to do anywhere. It's a mindful parenting guide for caregivers and children to practice being totally present, so everyone feels noticed, respected, and heard. These guided techniques are simple, quick, fun, and designed to be used wherever you are. Explore a range of different mindful parenting exercises to spread empathy, emotional awareness, and acceptance within your whole family. With Mindful Parenting in a Chaotic World, you'll get: Latest and greatest—Mindful parenting techniques that are grounded in research, and presented in simple, straightforward language. Anyone, anytime, anywhere—Simple, effective, and fun practices that can be done at home or on the go. True to life—Real-world examples of how mindfulness has helped families that will show you what's possible. Let Mindful Parenting in a Chaotic World be your guide to happier kid and caregiver relationships.
Brain Food Handbook for Mental Health: What to Eat to Relieve Anxiety, Memory Loss, and More
by Amanda Foote RDBoost your mental health through food! Here's some food for thought: does what you eat affect your mental health? The answer is yes! The same way a balanced diet keeps your body healthy, the right foods can improve your brain function and emotional state. With this handbook, you'll explore the "mind-gut connection" and start building a diet plan that can keep you sharper, happier, and healthier—inside and out. Your mind, your diet—Find out which foods to eat (or avoid) based on your brain health needs, whether you want to help prevent memory loss, manage ADHD, or reduce anxiety and depression. How food affects mood—Learn why certain foods are better for mental health, and how to create a diet full of brain-healthy nutrients like omega-3s, lean proteins, colorful fruits and vegetables, probiotics, and fermented foods. Beyond the ingredients—It's not just about the food—get tips for tracking your habits, eating mindfully, and treating nutrition as holistic self-care. Feed your body to feed your mind with this nourishi ng brain food book.
Hard Cider: A Novel
by Barbara Stark-NemonAbbie Rose Stone&’s acquired wisdom runs deep, and so do her scars. She has successfully navigated the shoals of a long marriage, infertility, challenging children, and a career. Now it&’s her turn to realize her dream: producing hard apple cider along the northern shores of Lake Michigan that she loves. She manages to resist new versions of the old pull of family dynamics that threaten to derail her plan—but nothing can protect her from the shock a lovely young stranger delivers when she exposes a long-held secret. In the wake of this revelation, Abbie must overcome circumstances that severely test her self-determination, her loyalties, and her understanding of what constitutes true family.
Americashire: a Field Guide to a Marriage
by Jennifer RichardsonWhen an American woman and her British husband decide to buy a two-hundred-year-old cottage in the heart of the Cotswolds, they&’re hoping for an escape from their London lives. Instead, their decision about whether or not to have a child plays out against a backdrop of village fêtes, rural rambles, and a cast of eccentrics clad in corduroy and tweed. Americashire: A Field Guide to a Marriage begins with the simultaneous purchase of a Cotswold cottage and Richardson&’s ill-advised decision to tell her grandchild-hungry parents that she is going to try to have a baby. As she transitions from urban to rural life, she is forced to confront both her ambivalence about the idea of motherhood and the reality of living with a spouse who suffers from depression. Then, just when she is finally settling into English country life, she is struck by an attack of non-alcohol-related slurring that turns out to be a symptom of multiple sclerosis. Her indecision about moving forward with motherhood is brought to a head when her neurologist tells her that pregnancy may actually decrease her risk of developing full-blown MS. Part memoir, part travelogue—and including field guides to narrative-related Cotswold walks--Americashire is a candid, compelling tale of marriage, illness, and difficult life decisions.
Enough: A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
by Amelia ZachryA bicultural child of a Malay mother and an Indian father, Amelia Zachry was different from the get-go, never quite fitting in. In this raw, inspiring memoir, she chronicles the long, winding journey that brought her from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Kentucky, USA—the place she and her family now call home.Amelia was nineteen years old, her future wide open, when a fellow student from her Kuala Lumpur university sexually assaulted her. After that night, she felt sullied—and convinced that what had happened was her fault. In the months and years that followed, she spiraled, first into isolation and then into promiscuity, as she attempted to try to take back some of the power that had been stripped from her that night. Eventually, she met the man who would become her husband and greatest advocate, Daniel, and began to emerge from that dark place—but even he couldn’t fight her demons for her. In her late twenties, Amelia was diagnosed with PTSD and bipolar II disorder, both of which would go on to shape her adult life as an individual, a wife, and a mother.A memoir of trauma and healing, mental illness and resilience, culture shock and new beginnings, devastation and triumph, Enough is one woman’s story of learning to make peace with the fact that things are as they should be, even if she sometimes wishes they were different—and of discovering that however far away it may seem, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
Hoosier Hysteria: A Fateful Year in the Crosshairs of Race in America
by Meri Henriques VahlIndiana University, September 1963. Meri Henriques, a naïve freshman from New York, arrives on campus thinking she&’s about to enroll at an idyllic Midwestern college. Instead, she discovers a storm is brewing. An intriguing cast of characters inhabits Meri&’s new and often troubled world: Katherine &“Pixie&” Gates, Meri&’s charming and quirky roommate; Rachel, brilliant and sarcastic fellow New Yorker; Daniel, a tough radical with a tender heart; folk singer Derek Stone, Meri&’s crush; and Shennandoah Waters, a white coed who only dates black men or exotic foreigners, much to her ultra-conservative parents&’ horror. Over the course of Meri&’s first year at college, tragedy strikes twice: John Kennedy is assassinated, and a young, black IU basketball player is castrated and thrown into a ditch—murdered for dating a white coed. And finally, that year&’s commencement ceremonies bring an infamous symbol of white supremacy to campus, endangering anyone who dared to protest—thrusting Meri into the middle of violent and escalating racial tensions. Vivid and compelling, Hoosier Hysteria is a timely story of prejudice and political unrest that, today more than ever before, must be told.
Arboria Park: A Novel
by Kate Tyler WallStacy Halloran has lived most of her life in 1950s-era housing development Arboria Park. But her beloved neighborhood may not survive much longer. Despite her parents&’ entreaties to &“stay in the yard where it&’s safe,&” the Park is where young Stacy roams in quest of &“real life.&” Through her wanderings, she learns about the area&’s agricultural history; meets people from backgrounds different than her own; watches her siblings develop interracial and same-sex relationships; helps launch the local punk-rock scene; and finally, settles as a wife and mother. As the neighborhood declines (along with her relationship with her mother), Stacy considers moving on to rescue herself and her daughter. But then a massive highway project threatens the ever-resilient Park—and it&’s Stacy&’s task to rally family, friends, and neighbors to save it.
The Other Side of Nothing: A Novel
by Anastasia ZadeikA moving exploration of family, friendship, and how far we are willing to go for the ones we love, The Other Side of Nothing is a powerful read about loss, self-determination, and second chances. 2024 IPPY Awards Gold Medalist for Popular Fiction 2024 Zibby Summer Reads Selection? The day after her eighteenth birthday, Julia Reeves checks herself into a psychiatric facility, longing to find a way out of the grief and guilt that have engulfed her since her father&’s untimely death. What she finds is fellow suicide attempt survivor Sam Lorenzo, a brilliant twenty-three-year-old photographer. Sam brings beauty and light back into Julia&’s life, so when he asks her to escape with him on a cross-country odyssey, she agrees. Before Julia can process what she&’s done, the two young lovers are on the run. When Julia&’s mother, Laura, learns Julia has disappeared and authorities will do nothing to help find her, Laura forms an uneasy alliance with the sole person who has as much to lose as she does: Sam&’s mother, Arabella. Armed with only a handful of clues, the two mothers embark on a journey of their own, desperately hoping to save their children before they are lost forever.