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    The Art of Grace: On Mov­ing Well Through Life
    Sarah L. Kaufman
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    Mon­ey Talks: 100 Strate­gies to Mas­ter Tricky Con­ver­sa­tions about Money
    Deborah Garyson Riegel
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    Take My Spouse, Please: How to Keep Your Mar­riage Hap­py, Healthy, and Thriv­ing by Fol­low­ing the Rules of Comedy
    Dani Klein Modisett
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    Play­ing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mis­sion, Your Message
    Tara Mohr
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    Mil­lion Dol­lar Women: Build a Mul­ti­mil­lion-Dol­lar Busi­ness Raise Cap­i­tal and Love (Almost) Every Minute of It
    Julia Pim­sleur
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    Lighter As We Go: Virtues, Char­ac­ter Strengths, and Aging
    Mindy Green­stein
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    More Love, Less Pan­ic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Par­ent­ing After We Adopt­ed Our Son from Ethiopia
    Claude Knobler
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    Ask Big Ques­tions: Why Bother?

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    Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro
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    What’s Your Book About?

    Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro has writ­ten for the New York Times Mag­a­zine, Time, and The Believ­er. Her book, Promise Land: My Jour­ney through Amer­i­ca’s Self-Help Cul­ture, is now…
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    August 19, 2014
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    Con­so­la­tion: The Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney Beyond Grief
    Maurice Lamm
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    End­ing Addic­tion for Good: The Ground­break­ing, Holis­tic, Evi­dence-Based Way to Trans­form Your Life
    Con­stance Scharff
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    Promise Land: My Jour­ney through Amer­i­ca’s Self-Help Culture
    Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro
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    Deep­er Dat­ing: How to Drop the Games of Seduc­tion and Dis­cov­er the Pow­er of Intimacy
    Ken Page
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    Car­la Naumburg
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