Personal Growth

Introducing the Challenge
Tough Transitions : Navigating Your Way Through Difficult Times
by Elizabeth Harper Neeld, Ph.D.
Life is constantly handing us opportunities, challenges, and changes-a new baby, retirement, a new job, new stepchildren or in-laws, a move to a new community. Dr. Neeld teaches us how to take on challenges of all kinds... and offers a new path that leads

The Quest
Guiding Lights
by Eric Liu
She saw right through me. Right through my careful presentation of self, my reportorial pose, into the inner chambers. We'd known each other for fifteen minutes. I was there to interview her. Had my leather-bound notebook, my questions all lined up.

What is NLP?
by Peta Heskell
NLP is the art and science of re-working/and applying outstanding results derived from the investigation and analysis of the behaviour of top performers in different fields. NLP is an ever-increasing assortment of dynamic and interactive technologies

The Front Nine
Golf and the Spirit
by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Once there was a man of limited imagination who considered the progress of life to be straightforward. To the proverbial man from Mars, golf would seem the most linear of all human activities.

Don't Take My Advice
George Foreman's Guide to Life: How to Get Up Off the Canvas When Life Knocks You Down
by George Foreman
There's hardly a single lesson I've learned in life that didn't come the hard way. So I know that life can sometimes seem like a big hole, and that you have to be pulled up out of it from time to time. But I also know you can pull yourself out.

Why Courage Matters
The Way to a Braver Life
by John McCain
'Courage,' Winston Churchill explained, is 'the first of human qualities ... because it guarantees all the others.' As a naval officer, P.O.W., and one of America's most admired political leaders, John McCain has seen countless acts of bravery

Love Lifted Me
Keeping the Faith
by Tavis Smiley
The fundamental theme of Black life and history is freedom, a freedom that is rooted in a deep courage to love. The power of Black love not only sustains our struggle for freedom; it is the prerequisite of our sanity and dignity.

Believe in Yourself
Winning Nice: How to Succeed in Business and Life Without Waging War
by Dawna Stone, Matt Dieter
Radio show host and founder of Her Sports + Fitness magazine, Dawna Stone shares her recipe for personal and professional success. A successful executive, entrepreneur, athlete, and public speaker, Dawna Stone credits her incredible success to a simple

First Lady-Like Impressions: How Not to Be an Interchangeable Woman
What Would Jackie Do?
by Shelly Branch, Sue Callaway
It's important to be more than witty, pretty, and splendidly turned out. And who cares if you make a swell crowd-pleaser, or man teaser? If you are content to be a like-kind, same-this-or-that chick, ready and willing to swap lipsticks, secrets, jobs men!

Wednesdays and Sundays
Keeping the Faith
by Tavis Smiley
I am the only child of the union of Isaiah and Hannah Robinson. My father spent all his life working for meager wages in rural North Carolina. His highest annual salary was $8,500. We grew up in a small, dilapidated house with no bathroom or running water

Where Meaning and Love Abide
Human Moments: How to Find Meaning and Love in Your Everyday Life
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
Renowned author Edward Hallowell proposes a simple, effective way to find happiness and love in this totally unique guide to living a fulfilling life. Dr. Hallowell teaches us how to recognize and appreciate a 'human moment,' an instance when we recognize

The Long and Winding Road
Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?
by Sara Davidson
In Leap!, Davidson sets out on a passionate quest to learn how to do the coming years well. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores such questions as How does a high-powered person learn to walk down the ladder gracefully?

A Child of Baseball
Hideki Matsui: Sportsmanship, Modesty, and the Art of the Home Run
by Shizuka Ijuin
In this unique and meaningful book, Shizuka Ijuin, an award-winning author and a friend of baseball legend Hideki Matsui, profiles the beloved New York Yankee - a world-class athlete who exemplifies a quality that Ijuin believes is central to success

If We Could Talk to Animals
Cesar's Way : The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems
by Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier
There are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets have problems? In this definitive and accessible guide, Cesar Millan-star of National Geographic Channel

Tattered Hearts, Topsy-Turvy World
Mending Your Heart in a Broken World: Finding Comfort in the Scriptures
by Patsy Clairmont
Early in our marriage I didn't mind the hopping around. In fact, it felt like an adventure. But after the first fifteen moves, I grew weary of cardboard boxes and broken stuff. Honestly, I've never had a move, no matter how close by, that we didn't lose

The Pain-to-Power Principle
Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty
by Keith Ablow, M.D.
Based on more than 20 years of clinical experience and highlighting stories from his own practice, Keith Ablow shows how ignoring or burying painful memories and experiences can negatively affect every aspect of our lives, and he presents strategies

Blueprint for a New Way of Living
The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
by Sarah Susanka
We are facing an enormous problem in our lives today. It's so big we can hardly see it, and it's right in our face all day, every day. We're all living too big lives, crammed from top to toe with activities, urgencies, and obligations that seem absolute.

Opening The Gift
The Exquisite Risk
by Mark Nepo
Before stories were recorded, what happened to the living was told and retold around fires, on cliffs, and in the shade of enormous trees. And it is said that somewhere on the edge of what was known and unknown, a man and a woman paused in their struggles

Why We Need Advocates
Doing What's Right
by Tavis Smiley
To let the politicians and the social indicators tell it, these are absolutely the best of times in the United States, the most prosperous society in the world. The economy is booming. Jobs abound. Crime is down.

Who Are You?
Welcome to Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want
by Laura Day
Crisis can be the most authentic version of self-transformation. Points of crisis bring us face-to-face with our deepest doubts and fears, and our most essential aspirations. And this means that our response to change is every bit as important