Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Outlining twelve characteristics of optimists and showing how they keep their motivation high, the author provides mental techniques for maintaining a cheerful disposition, increasing vigor and creating an aptitude for success

The Power of Optimism

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Beyond Our Selves

Rachel Hollis

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Putting Life Back Together When Your World Falls Apart

I want you to know that what's been good will always be good: the smell of coconut sunblock, a five year old showing you the spot where his front tooth used to be, a home-cooked meal, when your love kisses that exact spot on your neck, a grandmother's handwriting, a job well done, the kindness of strangers, the human spirit, an Appaloosa horse, the ritual of your faith, laughing until you pee your pants a little, holiday dessert tables, first birthday parties, a perfect cup of coffee. What's good will always be good, and one of the most awful, beautiful things about the hard seasons is that unless we experience hardship, we'll never truly appreciate the goodness. Fear. Grief. Loss. Betrayal. Rachel Hollis has felt all those things. Now, she takes you to the other side. Rachel Hollis sees you. As the millions who read her #1 New York Times bestsellers Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, attend her RISE conferences and follow her on social media know, she also wants to see you transform. When it comes to the "hard seasons" of life--the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job--transformation seems impossible when grief and uncertainty dominate your days. Especially when, as Didn't See that Coming reveals, no one asks to have their future completely rearranged for them. But, as Rachel writes, it is up to you how you come through your pain--you can come through changed for the better, having learned and grown, or stuck in place where your identity becomes rooted in what hurt you. With her signature humor, heartfelt honesty and true-life stories, in Didn't See that Coming Rachel Hollis shares how to embrace the difficult moments in life for the learning experiences they are, and that a life well-lived is one of purpose and focused on the essentials. This is a small book about big feelings, inspirational, aspirational, and an anchor that shows that darkness can co-exist with the beautiful.

Didn't See That Coming

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Maryland

Discover God's Direction for Your Life

The author explains that in discovering and understanding the uniqueness of your gifts and your purpose, you can achieve more than you dreamed possible. We have the thoughts, we have the ideas, and we find that God gives us the power, the means, and the ability to see these dreams fulfilled and to live the life He intends for us.

Walking in Your Own Shoes

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Kerry Shook

Chris Shook

Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life

Offers strategies for overcoming habits that mire Christians in mediocrity, helping believers embrace their mortality and be empowered to live each day engaged in being fully alive.

One Month to Live

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Making the Most Out of Every Day (Regardless of What Life Throws You)

In the two decades since she first appeared on Good Morning America and instantly captured our hearts with her infectious good humor and early-morning enthusiasm, Joan Lunden has become a rare and genuine American treasure.

In the face of countless challenges--each compounded by the relentless spotlight of celebrity--Joan has never sacrificed her upbeat outlook and always refused to abandon her dreams and goals. And now, after a pair of beloved New York Times bestselling life-guides, Joan offers her most revealing, empowering, and inspired book yet as she shares with readers the various and often surprising sources from which she draws her remarkable strength.

Full of photographs and priceless, refreshingly straightforward advice, Wake-Up Calls reveals a "behind-the-scenes" Joan--candid, content, and clear-eyed--as she doles out the sage guidance that has kept her thriving throughout her long tenure in the public eye. Through a spirited mix of beautifully written ruminations on some of her most personal experiences, poems, and hundreds of priceless quotes from notable figures in all walks of life, Joan Lunden demonstrates the matchless value of a positive, "you-can-do-it" attitude as she shows us: how to unravel the mind-sets that might be keeping us trapped in the past; how to declare and redefine our notions of what it means to be fulfilled and contented; how to connect to all of the motivational resources that we have at our fingertips but may not see;

Wake-up Calls

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Emily Ley

North Dakota

Embracing Simplicity, Celebrating Joy





Are you ready for a new way of seeing your time Have you been told you can have it all, only to end up exhausted and occasionally out of sorts with the people you love Hold yourself and those you love to a more life-giving standard in Grace, Not Perfection, and allow that grace to seep into your days, your family, and your heart.

As a busy wife, mother, and entrepreneur, Emily Ley came to a point when she suddenly realized she couldn't do it all. She needed to simplify her life, organize her days, and prioritize her priorities. She decided to hold herself to a standard of grace rather than perfection. This mantra led to the creation of her bestselling Simplified® planner. By embracing grace, not perfection, you will discover how to:

 * Simplify your life by simplifying three major areas: your space, your time, and your mind
 * Create effective to-do lists and get through them one step at a time
 * Center your day around an intentionally slower rhythm of life with various strategies

Grace, Not Perfection is for:

 * Moms, ages 25-50
 * Mother's Day, National Best Friend Day, birthdays, and holiday gifts

Designed with Emily Ley's signature aesthetic, gorgeous photography, and a beautiful ribbon marker, this book gives women tangible ways to simplify their lives to give space to what matters most.

Grace, Not Perfection

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Oregon

52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life

A companion to the Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel The Crossover, the basis of the show streaming on Disney+!

What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives?

Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on the court of life. Each rule contains wisdom from inspiring athletes and role models such as Nelson Mandela, Serena Williams, LeBron James, Carli Lloyd, Steph Curry, and Michelle Obama. Kwame Alexander also shares his own stories of overcoming obstacles and winning games in this motivational and inspirational book for readers of any age and for anyone needing a little bit of encouragement.

You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar.

The Playbook

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Louisiana

Iyanla Vanzant

California

Finding Yourself and the Love You Want

Inspirational advice for those yearning for deeper love explains how to reach new levels of happiness, spirituality, and awareness in one's personal relationships, as well as how to break free of fantasies and avoid repeating past mistakes. 100,000 first printing. Tour. BAKER & TAYLOR

In the Meantime

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New, never read, BUT arrived with a stain. See photo. 

Minnesota

As Your Heart Is Breaking Open and Our World Is Waking Up

This is a counterculture call to gentleness, from a contemporary and accessible sage.

What happens when you begin to identify as Love--as the Soul beyond your personality constructs?

What changes when you see yourself--and others, through a Loving gaze? Everything.

Love is universal, but how we learn about it and express it is incredibly personal. Being Loving doesn't necessarily mean feeling more. It means feeling everything with more Love. It's the ultimate inclusiveness. Because in the heart, it's ALL IN--your light and your shadows--and everyone else's.

We do not need to focus on "fixing" ourselves. As we focus on living from our heart center--from Love--anything that's not in alignment with that Light falls away. This message is so liberating. And practical.

You'll learn that progress is more about letting go than learning new tricks. And...

* You can choose higher quality thoughts more consistently (without spiritual bypassing) and interrupt lifelong patterns of rejecting our shadow side. We can unlearn the dogma that perpetuates perfectionism.

* Your ego, which is just an exaggerated sense of a separate self, will begin to calm down. You can't life hack your way through fear--that only creates more fear. Instead, you can invite every part of yourself into the heart to rest in Love.

* You'll stop talking yourself out of your natural inclination to Forgive. The heart is for... giving. It's such sweet relief to opt for the power of Love and move on.

* You repeatedly choose higher-quality thoughts. Our thinking is magnetic. We can use the intelligence of Love to calm our nervous systems and experience real peace.

* You will create conditions for healing in your life. Accepting yourself and situations as is will free up so much of your life force--energy you can use to grow in new directions.

Here it is. Heart centered, soul powered, and divinely timed. A place for nuance and Compassion, where profound acceptance has room to grow.

This is How to Be Loving.

How to Be Loving

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Illinois

How God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of Coincidence

When God Winks at You

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John Cena

Nebraska

And Other Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self

"From the beloved entertainer ... and motivational tweeter comes a beautifully illustrated book of uplifting quotes adapted from his popular Twitter feed ... John Cena encourages readers to be bold, brave, and open-minded, to embrace discomfort, and to make the most of opportunities"--

Be a Work in Progress

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Tiffany Yecke Brooks

Mallory Weggemann

Georgia

The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance





Meet Mallory Weggemann: a Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator whose extraordinary story will give you the encouragement you need to rise up to meet any challenge you face in life.

On January 21, 2008, a routine medical procedure left Mallory paralyzed from her waist down. Less than two years later, Mallory had broken eight world records, and by the 2012 Paralympic Games, she held fifteen world records and thirty-four American records. Two years after that, a devastating fall severely damaged her left arm. But despite all of the hardships that Mallory faced, she was sure about one thing: she refused to give up.

After two reconstructive surgeries and extended rehab, she won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships. And even better, she found confidence, independence, and persevering love. She even walked down the aisle on her wedding day against all odds.

Mallory's extraordinary resilience and uncompromising commitment to excellence are rooted in her resolve, her faith, and her sheer grit. In Limitless, Mallory shares the lessons she learned by pushing past every obstacle and expectation that stood in her way, teaching you how to: 

 * redefine your limits
 * remember that healing is not chronological
 * be willing to fail
 * lean on your community
 * embrace your comeback
 * write your own ending

Mallory's story reminds us that we can handle whatever challenges, labels, or difficulties we face in life, and we can do it on our own terms. Because when we refuse to accept every boundary that hems us in--physical, emotional, or societal--we become limitless.

Limitless

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Ohio

New Hampshire

Jen Hatmaker

Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life

New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker, with playful hilarity, shameless honesty, and refreshing insight, assures readers they have all the pluck they need for vibrant, courageous, grace-filled lives. Jen Hatmaker believes backbone is the birthright of every woman. Women have been demonstrating resiliency and resolve since forever. They have incredibly strong shoulders to bear loss, hope, grief, and vision. She laughs at the days to come is how the ancient wisdom writings put it. But somehow women have gotten the message that pain and failure mean they must be doing things wrong, that they messed up the rules or tricks for a seamless life. As it turns out, every last woman faces confusion and loss, missteps and catastrophic malfunctions, no matter how much she is doing "right." Struggle doesn't mean they're weak; it means they're alive. Jen Hatmaker, beloved author, Big Sister Emeritus, and Chief BFF, offers another round of hilarious tales, frank honesty, and hope for the woman who has forgotten her moxie. Whether discussing the grapple with change ("Everyone, be into this thing I'm into! Except when I'm not. Then everyone be cool.") or the time she drove to the wrong city for a fourth-grade field trip ("Why are we in San Antonio?"), Jen parlays her own triumphs and tragedies into a sigh of relief for all normal, fierce women everywhere who, like her, sometimes hide in the car eating crackers but also want to get back up and get back out, to live undaunted "in the moment" no matter what the moments hold.

Of Mess and Moxie

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Oklahoma

How many people does it take to make a difference

Shauna Niequist

Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working





When everything we've been clinging to falls apart, how do we know what to keep and what to let go of I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet is a clear-eyed look at where we go from here--and how we can transform our lives along the way.

Just after her fortieth birthday, New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist found herself in a season of chaos, change, and loss unlike anything she'd ever faced. She discovered that many of the beliefs and practices that she usually turned to were no longer serving her.

After trying--and failing--to pull herself back up using the same old strategies and systems, she realized she required new ones: courage, curiosity, and compassion. She discovered the way through was more about questions than answers, more about forgiveness than force, more about tenderness than trying hard.

In I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet, Niequist chronicles her journey--from her life-changing move from the Midwest to Manhattan to the power of unlearning what is no longer helpful and accepting the unknowns that come with midlife, heartbreak, and chronic pain.

With her characteristic candor and grace, Niequist writes about her experience learning how to:

 * Discover new ways of living when the old ways stop working
 * Embrace the challenges and delights of releasing our expectations for how we thought our lives would look
 * Trust God's goodness in a deeper, more profound way

Follow Niequist as she endeavors to understand grief, to reshape her faith, and to practice courage when it feels impossible.

Praise for I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet:

"Gentle. Loving. This tender book asks us to listen to our pain, lean into our discomfort, and trust that we can be lifted back on our feet by God and each other."

--Kate C. Bowler, New York Times bestselling author of No Cure for Being Human

"This book is a masterpiece. It is a journey and an invitation and a joy and a heartbreak and all the things you need to read to be reminded that hope can still be found."

--Annie F. Downs, New York Times bestselling author of That Sounds Fun

I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet

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North Carolina

#hardcover #house #motivational #properybrothers #hgtv

Our Story

Jonathan and Drew Scott, known for their wildly popular HGTV shows including Property Brothers and Brother vs Brother, follow up their New York Times bestseller, Dream Home, with a highly anticipated memoir. It Takes Two: Our Story shares never-before-revealed tales of the brothers' childhood and rise to fame--from starting their first business at 7 years old, their years modeling and acting, to their first house purchase at the impressive young age of eighteen. They soon found their true passion in life, combining their natural gifts for entertaining with the skills they learned from buying, renovating, and selling homes. Complete with hilarious behind-the-scenes stories from set, Jonathan and Drew discuss how their family and upbringing have led to their success in life. Throughout, the brothers keep fans laughing with the clever--and sometimes zany--sibling banter for which they're known best.

It Takes Two

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Michigan

The Grad's Pocket Guide to Greatness is a collection of uplifting, encouraging and inspirational thoughts for the graduate. This little book mixes Scripture and the wisdom of some of the most thoughtful people in history including St. Francis, Winsto

The Grad's Pocket Guide to Greatness

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Nick Vujicic

Indiana

Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life

The director of Life Without Limbs describes his experiences as a physically challenged individual born without arms and legs, recounting his inspirational journey from a suicide survivor to an independent and purposeful motivational speaker. 150,000 first printing.

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