Collection: Self-Development

A #1 New York Times Bestseller from Gabrielle Bernstein, called "A new role model" by The New York Times and featured on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday as a next-generation thought leader.

In this motivational and super inspirational book, The Universe Has Your Back, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches you how to transform your fear into faith in order to live a divinely guided life with confidence.

ARE YOU READY TO WORK MIRACLES?

Each story and lesson in the book guides you to release the blocks to what you most long for: happiness, security, clear purpose, and direction.

These spiritual lessons will help you relinquish the need to control, so you can release anxiety and relax into a sense of certainty and freedom.

You'll learn how to stop chasing life and truly live with a more positive mindset. Making the shift from fear to faith will give you a sense of power in a world that all too often makes us feel utterly powerless.

When the tragedies of the world seem overwhelming, this book will help guide you back to your true power and peace. Follow the secrets revealed in this book to unleash the presence of your power and know always that the Universe has your back.

Chapter Titles Include:

- You Have a Hidden Power
- You Are the Dreamer of Your Dream
- You Are Always Being Guided. Even When It Doesn't Feel Like It
- Your Vibes Speak Louder Than Your Words
- The Universe Works Fast When You're Having Fun!
- Obstacles Are Detours in the Right Direction
- Certainty Clears the Path for What You Desire
- The Universe Speaks in Mysterious Ways
- Oneness Sets You Free
- You Are the Universe
- When You Think You're Surrendered, Surrender More
- Be an Instrument for Love

Gabrielle says, "My commitment with this book is to wake up as many people as possible to their connection to faith and joy. In that connection, we can be guided to our true purpose: to be love and spread love. These words can no longer be cute buzz phrases that we merely post on social media. Rather, these words must be our mission. The happiness, safety, and security we long for lies in our commitment to love."

When you follow this path, you'll begin to feel a swell of energy move through you. You will find strength when you are down, synchronicity and support when you're lost, safety in the face of uncertainty, and joy when you are otherwise in pain.

Your energetic shift clears space for more miracles on a global scale. Not only will you experience massive abundance -- you'll help heal the world, too.

"I love Gabby and her work. She just has a special way of reaching people, and I know this book will change the shape of many hearts."
--India Arie, singer, songwriter, and teacher

Keep your favorite family recipes organized with this all-inclusive recipe binder! This binder makes it easy to celebrate your family's traditions and keep track of the recipes you use most often.

• Write or type recipes on 50 pre-formatted recipe pages - Instructions for sending them through the printer can be found in the back, so you can share recipes with friends.
• 2 splash guards help protect your recipes, while tabbed pocket dividers make them easy to organize.
• Tabbed section dividers.
• 16 pages of cooking tips and hints help you out in the kitchen.
• 3 attractive magnets.
• 1 magnetic notepad is just right for writing down grocery lists (4 x 9 inches with 50 sheets).

This set is a great addition to any family's kitchen. It can also make a wonderful gift, especially for adult children who are setting up their own kitchen!

"With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential."--Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential

If you're muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . .
If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or feel joy in the small things . . .
If you feel an inner void--like something is missing, but you aren't sure what . . .

Then this book is for you.

Languishing--the state of mental weariness that erodes our self-esteem, motivation, and sense of meaning--can be easy to brush off as the new normal, especially since indifference is one of its symptoms. It is not a synonym for depression and its attendant state of prolonged sadness. Languishers are more likely to feel out of control of their lives, uncertain about what they want from the future, and paralyzed when faced with decisions. Left unchecked, languishing not only impedes our daily functioning but is a gateway to serious mental illness and early mortality.

Emory University sociologist Corey Keyes has spent his career studying the causes and costs of languishing--the neglected middle child of mental health. Now Keyes has written the first definitive book on the subject, examining the ripple effect of languishing on our lives before deftly diagnosing the larger forces behind its rise: the false promises of the self-help industrial complex, a global moment of intense fear and loss, and a failing healthcare system focused on treating rather than preventing illness.

Ultimately, Keyes presents a counterintuitive approach to breaking the cycles keeping us stuck and finding a path to true flourishing. Unlike self-improvement systems offering quick-fix mood boosts, his framework focuses on functioning well: taking simple but powerful steps to hold our emotions loosely, becoming more accepting of ourselves and others, and carving out daily moments for the activities that create cycles of meaning, connection, and personal growth.

Languishing is a must-read for anyone tempted to downplay feelings of demotivation and emptiness as they struggle to haul themselves through the day, and for those eager to build a higher tolerance for adversity and the pressures of modern life. We can expand our vocabulary for describing our inner experiences and deepest needs--and, with it, our potential to flourish.

Head outside and get the buzz on bugs! Packed with educational prompts and activities, this fourth book in the Backpack Explorer series encourages junior naturalists to spot insects while on a walk in the woods, playing in a park, or searching right outside their front door. Twelve interactive field guides help young seekers identify fliers, crawlers, and pollinators, while sensory scavenger hunts, projects such as Weave a Web or Make a Bug Hotel, and cool bug facts boost the insect intrigue. Equipped with a real magnifying glass, stickers, and a log for recording sightings, this book is the perfect companion for any nature adventure.

Now nature-curious kids can play and learn with the companion Backpack Explorer online game!

"Smart and essential!" --Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

"They used to tell kids to chant "sticks and stones" or "just ignore it." It didn't work. This book helps kids find the opposite approach: don't ignore it; understand it."--Tom Angleberger, Origami YodaHow to Navigate Middle School shows readers how to handle the increasing academic demands of middle school, organizational skills and time management, how to be self-determined, have grit, and a sense of agency.

Whether you are just starting middle school or getting ready for the next grade, you probably have ideas about what the school year will be like--or should be like. Maybe you imagine that perfect day in middle school, where you are picked class president, made tons of new friends, or became the captain of the soccer team, or crushed your Spanish vocab test. Or maybe you imagine more a disastrous days...where you can't get your locker open, don't have anywhere to sit in the cafeteria, or trip while walking down the hallway. Or maybe you have heard from a friend or older sibling middle school teachers are strict or you will have 10 hours of homework a night!

Whatever you have heard, it's most likely a combination some truth but a whole lot of drama and exaggeration. This book will help you separate fact from fiction and give you the tools and strategies you will need to find your place and be your best self in middle school. It will help you handle the increasing academic demands of middle school, teach amazing organizational skills and time management, show you what it takes to have grit and grow in amazing ways!

Kid Confident Book 4: How to Navigate Middle School is part of an awesome book series developed with expert psychologist and series editor, Bonnie Zucker, PsyD that authentically captures the middle school experience. These nonfiction books skillfully guide middle schoolers through those tricky years between elementary and high school with a supporting voice of a trusted big sister or a favorite aunt, stealthily offering life lessons and evidence-based coping skills. Readers of Telgemeir's Guts will recognize similar mental health and wellness strategies and fans of Patterson's Middle School series will appreciate the honest look at uncertainty and chaos that middle graders can bring. Kid Confident offers what kids need to have fun with it all and navigate middle school with confidence, humor, perspective, and feel our mad respect for being the amazing humans they already are.

Books in the series:
Kid Confident (Book #1): How to Manage Your SOCIAL POWER in Middle School by Bonnie Zucker, PsyD
Kid Confident (Book #2): How to Master Your MOOD in Middle School by Lenka Glassman, PsyD
Kid Confident (Book #3): How to Handle STRESS for Middle School Success by Silvi Guerra, PsyD
Kid Confident (Book #4): How to NAVIGATE Middle School by Anna Pozzatti, PhD & Bonnie Massimino, MEd

From the best-selling author of Would You Rather? Made You Think! Edition, a laugh-out-loud game of challenging "Would You Rather?" questions for teens.

Help your teen take a break from social media, school, and everyday teen stress with this super fun game of 160+ hilarious "Would You Rather?" questions designed specifically for them. Covering topics teens care about and contemplate--from technology to entertainment to adventure--this age-appropriate book gives teens space to laugh, think, and hang out as they try to win the Would You Rather? trophy.

Would You Rather? Teen Challenge Edition features:

• Creative challenges through either/or scenarios that make teens think outside the box, use their imagination, and pull together facts quickly.
• Screen-free time with entertaining and thought-provoking questions that give everybody a break from technology.
• A competitive game for teens who want to outsmart friends and family with the funniest or most creative answer.
• A safe social activity, perfect for hanging out together after school, at parties, at summer camp, at sleepovers, or on vacation.
• A perfect teen gift for birthdays, holidays, or just for fun!

Whether your teen is the class clown, the creative genius, or simply looking for great entertainment, Would You Rather? Teen Challenge Edition will give them hours of fun.

SKILL is written for those who want to become the best - no matter what they're trying to achieve. This book provides guidelines - via 40 practical tips and processes - to fulfill anyone's natural ability. It's about becoming the master of your own fate, your own skills and your own success. Greatness is not a natural gift, according to Dr. Christopher S. Ahmad, one of the top surgeons in the world for orthopaedic surgery, and head team physician for the New York Yankees. It is something achieved through hard work and diligent practice - not from dreaming, but from working. Master chef, great soccer player, brilliant musician, doctor, lawyer, business executive: for anyone who aspires to excellence, reading this book will give you the tools to take your natural abilities to the next level.

Join Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins writer Jody Houser, artist extraordinaire Hunter Bonyun, and Critical Role's Matthew Mercer and Taliesin Jaffe as they reveal Mollymauk's evolution from empty shell to vibrant individual, and the dark corners of his past that even he is afraid to examine.

What strange events created Mollymauk Tealeaf?

Entertainer, fighter, and performer, "Molly" has a knack for hiding his true self behind the shifting color and shape of a personality he seems to wear like his singular coat. But as with every member of the Mighty Nein, his past will eventually catch up with him...and it's a strange one indeed.

Everyone longs for fragrant early spring blossoms - Snapdragons, Bells of Ireland, Sweet Peas, Sweet Williams and other beauties. But few grow them successfully in their own gardens because they haven't learned the simple cool-weather techniques that make it possible.

Expert flower grower Lisa Zeigler profiles 30 long-blooming stars of the spring garden, the "hardy annuals" that thrive when they are planted during cool conditions (instead of waiting until the warmth of spring and losing much of the season). Give them a cool start, plant them in the right spot at the right time, and stand back. In no time at all you'll have a low-maintenance, vibrant spring flower garden that keeps on blooming when the "tender annuals" are dead and gone. Beautifully photographed and filled with simple steps to success.

Read your future, add a mystical touch to your home, and learn the art of palm reading with Tiny Palmistry!
This kit includes:

• Miniature porcelain palm (3-inch height), with key lines (love line, life line) and mounts (Venus, Mercury) marked in purple ink.
  
• Clear quartz crystal, for cleansing the palm before conducting a reading.
  
• A 48-page miniature book, with a complete introduction to the art of palm reading.
  
• A deluxe magnetic closure box.
  

Maximize your potential for connection, healing, and personal growth with this "timely bridge for our divided world." (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential)

"We've been hiding from each other for far too long. Seek offers us an empathic, practical, and heartfelt road map forward." ―Seth Godin, author of The Song of Significance and Tribes

If you've felt alienated and alone in recent years, you're in good company. Whether it's a rift in your family, polarization at your workplace or just a sense that society isn't as connected as it once was, many of us feel painful chasms in our connections. Internationally-recognized curiosity expert and bridge builder Scott Shigeoka knows that there's only one cure: Deep Curiosity.

Rooted in a desire to understand, rather than to know, a practice of Deep Curiosity can help us leverage something we think of as an intellectual force or personality trait into a heart-centered daily practice to transform our well-being and our lives.

In Seek, Shigeoka blends cutting-edge research with electric, vulnerable storytelling to teach readers their signature DIVE model. With his guidance, you'll learn more than a dozen practical strategies to:

• Detach -- Let go of your ABCs (assumptions, biases, certainty),
• Intend -- Prepare your mindset and setting,
• Value -- See the dignity of every person, including yourself,
• Embrace -- Welcome the hard times in your life.

"Energizing, creative, and exciting" (Gretchen Rubin), Seek is a revolutionary playbook to heal division, loneliness, estrangement, hatred, and our most urgent societal challenges.

Want to impress your buddies at school?

Need to think of something fun to do at Thanksgiving or Christmas?

Want to learn a bunch of random facts about history, science, and the paranormal?

If you answered yes to any or all of those questions then pick up Interesting Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of the Most Interesting, Unbelievable, and Craziest Stories on Earth! This book is the coolest collection of interesting facts about a whole bunch of several different topics.

Here you will find the answers to some of the following:

● How did a dog, a horse, and a cat become TV and movie stars?

● What were the first video game consoles?

● Why can't you break an egg in the palm of your hand?

● How do parrots talk?

● Did Alexander the Great love his horse more than anything else?

And much, much more!

You'll be glued to the pages of this book reading about interesting facts, scary stories, and how to do a few neat science experiments. Interesting Stories for Curious Kids brings learning to you in a new, fun way that is sure to keep you reading.

Parents, this book is a perfect tool to keep your kids reading in the summer or winter breaks, when they've put the books aside and are more interested in other things. There's a bit of everything in here for tweens, so I guarantee that it'll keep their mind sharp even during the summer doldrums.

Whether science, history, or just weird facts are your thing, you're sure to find something in here that will keep you interested and turning the pages. So open this book and your mind and see other things that you may not know existed.

When we are baffled by the insanity of the "other side"--in our politics, at work, or at home--it's because we aren't seeing how the conflict itself has taken over.

That's what "high conflict" does. It's the invisible hand of our time. And it's different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. That's good conflict, and it's a necessary force that pushes us to be better people.

High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. In this state, the brain behaves differently. We feel increasingly certain of our own superiority, and everything we do to try to end the conflict, usually makes it worse. Eventually, we can start to mimic the behavior of our adversaries, harming what we hold most dear.

In this "compulsively readable" (Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author) book, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict--and how they break free.

Our journey begins in California, where a world-renowned conflict expert struggles to extract himself from a political feud. Then we meet a Chicago gang leader who dedicates his life to a vendetta--only to realize, years later, that the story he'd told himself about the conflict was not quite true. Next, we travel to Colombia, to find out whether thousands of people can be nudged out of high conflict at scale. Finally, we return to America to see what happens when a group of liberal Manhattan Jews and conservative Michigan corrections officers choose to stay in each other's homes in order to understand one another better, even as they continue to disagree.

All these people, in dramatically different situations, were drawn into high conflict by similar forces, including conflict entrepreneurs, humiliation, and false binaries. But ultimately, all of them found ways to transform high conflict into good conflict, the kind that made them better people. They rehumanized and recatego-rized their opponents, and they revived curiosity and wonder, even as they continued to fight for what they knew was right.

People do escape high conflict. Individuals--even entire communities--can short-circuit the feedback loops of outrage and blame, if they want to. This is an "insightful and enthralling" (The New York Times Book Review) book--and a mind-opening new way to think about conflict that will transform how we move through the world.

Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game and the perfect gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create your own hilariously funny stories all about history!

Who knew that Albert Einstein was also an experienced OCCUPATION? With 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about the Seven Wonders of the World, famous inventors, and historical landmarks, History of the World Mad Libs will make you see history in a brand new light! Play alone, in a group, or at the Great Pyramid of Giza! Mad Libs are a fun family activity recommended for ages 8 to NUMBER.

History of the World Mad Libs includes:

- Silly stories: 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories all about history!
- Language arts practice: Mad Libs are a great way to build reading comprehension and grammar skills.
- Fun With Friends: each story is a chance for friends to work together to create unique stories!

The bestselling business classic on the power of relationships, updated with in-depth advice for making connections in the digital world.

Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success?

The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered in early life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships--so that everyone wins.

In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps--and inner mindset--he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his contacts list, people he has helped and who have helped him. And in the time since Never Eat Alone was published in 2005, the rise of social media and new, collaborative management styles have only made Ferrazzi's advice more essential for anyone hoping to get ahead in business.

The son of a small-town steelworker and a cleaning lady, Ferrazzi first used his remarkable ability to connect with others to pave the way to Yale, a Harvard M.B.A., and several top executive posts. Not yet out of his thirties, he developed a network of relationships that stretched from Washington's corridors of power to Hollywood's A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain's 40 Under 40 and selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the Davos World Economic Forum.

Ferrazzi's form of connecting to the world around him is based on generosity, helping friends connect with other friends. Ferrazzi distinguishes genuine relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad-handing usually associated with "networking." He then distills his system of reaching out to people into practical, proven principles. Among them:

Don't keep score: It's never simply about getting what you want. It's about getting what you want and making sure that the people who are important to you get what they want, too.
"Ping" constantly: The ins and outs of reaching out to those in your circle of contacts all the time--not just when you need something.
Never Eat Alone: The dynamics of status are the same whether you're working at a corporation or attending a social event--"invisibility" is a fate worse than failure.
Become the "King of Content" How to use social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to make meaningful connections, spark engagement, and curate a network of people who can help you with your interests and goals.

In the course of this book, Ferrazzi outlines the timeless strategies shared by the world's most connected individuals, from Winston Churchill to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan to the Dalai Lama.

Chock-full of specific advice on handling rejection, getting past gatekeepers, becoming a "conference commando," and more, this new edition of Never Eat Alone will remain a classic alongside alongside How to Win Friends and Influence People for years to come.

The perfect gift for any mom, this keepsake memory book is a beautiful place to record special moments, stories, and advice that you want to pass down to your children one day.

Mom's Story is a guided journal thoughtfully designed to help moms of all ages write down memories that they want to preserve and share with their children and family. Designed by bestselling artist and author Korie Herold, this keepsake book provides moms with thoughtful writing prompts and plenty of journaling pages to record memories from their childhood, school years, early adulthood, and more. Show mom that you love her and want to grow closer with this timeless gift that's ideal for Mother's Day, birthdays, or any time of year.

Sections and writing prompts include:
- Early Childhood: What was your house like growing up? What were your favorite toys or playtime activities?
- School Years: What did you think you wanted to be when you grew up? What were you like as a teenager?
- Work and Travel: What was your first job? What family vacations do you remember the most?
- Love and Family: What's your best relationship advice? How did you feel when you found out you were going to be a mom?
- Character and Values: What do you value most in life? What family values do you hope to pass down?
- Hypotheticals and Curiosities: What's something you wish you had done differently? What's the best advice you ever received?
- Words of Wisdom: Additional space to write letters to your family

Special features include:
- Elegant linen with gold foil cover
- Acid-free and archival paper
- Layflat design allows you to easily write in the book
- Carefully developed designs and prompts allow to you reflect and remember