Personal Growth

Cathy Runyan: Got Her Marbles
The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer
by Susan Sheehan, Howard Means
Cathy Runyan lives with her second husband, Larry Svacina, and a million marbles in an underground house built into the side of a hill in Kansas City, Missouri. She built the house in 1982 while married to her first husband because she was unhappy

Introduction
The Art of Living Consciously
by Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D.
It is true that living consciously obliges us at times to confront painful realities. It is also true that it demands an effort. As a way Of operating in the world, living consciously has its costs, and we will examine them.

Enlightened Thinking Is the Key to a Successful Life
The Thinker's Way
by John Chaffee, Ph.D.
Over the past two decades I have worked with thousands of people to help them become more informed and enlightened thinkers-the key to living a life that is creative, professionally successful, and personally fulfilling.

Living Virtue 1
A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues
by Terrie Williams
As a child, I once listened to a minister tell a story about how he had been called by God to preach. He cried as he told us about being healed of his addictions and carnal living and compelled to worship God and serve the community.

The Joy of Detached Involvement
Negotiate This! By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much
by Herb Cohen
Negotiating is the game of life. Every day, in countless ways, we communicate with others-boss or broker, landlord or customer, spouse or child-in attempts to influence their behavior. In this new book, which will tickle your funny bone as well as open

Why Ask Why?
Change Your Life and Everyone In It
by Michele Weiner Davis
By virtue of the fact that you picked up this book, I know something about you. You're ready for a change in your life. You may want to change something about yourself - you might want to lose weight, free yourself from depression

Dogs
A Matter of Dignity
by Andrew Potok
On a sunny day in early spring, Loie and I climb into one of the Seeing Eye's vans for the ten-minute drive from the elegant spread of the guide dog school to the center of Morristown. The Seeing Eye's main residence, its offices and kennels, are situated

Interview with Elizabeth Wurtzel
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Wurtzel has a lot of strong opinions which seem to inspire debate. Whether you agree or disagree with what she has to say, her ideas always make you think. Bold Type sad down with Elizabeth recently to discuss her treatise on difficult women

You Give Your Power Away

When your life sucks, it's a wake-up call. Now self-help guru and bestselling author Alan Cohen invites you to answer that call, change your course, and enjoy the life you were meant to live. In ten compelling chapters, Cohen shows you how to stop wasting

Destiny vs. Self-Created Meaning
What Should I Do with My Life?
by Po Bronson
Wouldn't it be so much easier if you got a letter in the mail when you were seventeen, signed by someone who had a direct pipeline to Ultimate Meaning, telling you exactly who you are and what your true destiny is?

Guide to Hope, Healing, and Inspiration for Men of Color
Reclaim Your Power!
by Terrance Dean
I remember walking to work at MTV Networks from the train station. I heard a big booming voice asking, 'What are you doing?' It startled me at first because I had heard the voice before.

Do Not Rip the Ticket or Otherwise Mutilate It
As Luck Would Have It
by Joshua Piven
Steve Roberts is having trouble reading the numbers. It's dark outside, and he's driving, so try as he might, he can barely make them out. It's late, and he's tired, and the woman on the radio is announcing the winning numbers over and over

Manufacturing Fascination
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
As feminism has charged forward-and no one can deny the leaps and strides it has made-so has the invention of the overeager hypersexualized female body. Nowadays you pay for sex not because you are lonely and miserable and can't get laid, or married and

Acquiring and Using Things
Objects of Our Desire : Exploring Our Intimate Connections with the Things Around Us
by Salman Akhtar, M.D.
Look around. What do you see? Lamps, tables, chairs, flower vases, paintings, pillows, newspapers, magazines, books? Or, if you happen to be in your kitchen, perhaps your eyes move from the refrigerator to the stove and from the microwave

I Will Embrace My Uniqueness
Accept No Mediocre Life: Living Beyond Labels, Libels, and Limitations
by David Foster
The perfect conditions, perfect timing, perfect skills for achieving excellence will never come. We have to seize today and vow to begin a life-changing, life-affirming journey to reach the awesome possibilities ahead.

A Practical Approach to Achieving Inner Wisdom
Dante's Path
by Bonney Gulino Schaub, M.S., R.N., Richard Schaub, Ph.D.
You have within you all the potential for a special relationship that is waiting to be realized right now. It is the relationship between your everyday personality and a deep source of internal wisdom.

Beginning
Fat, Stupid, Ugly: One Woman's Courage to Survive
by Debrah Constance, J.I. Kleinberg
Despite a life fraught with cycles of abuse and addiction, cancer and catastrophe, Debrah defied the odds, never losing hope in herself or humanity. Her story is one of triumph: how one woman overcame her past and provided a community with the love

An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living
What Would Jackie Do?
by Shelly Branch, Sue Callaway
What was it about her, dammit? Almost from the moment she made her debutante turn at Hammersmith Farm in 1947, it was obvious that the elegant sylph known simply as 'Jackie' possessed something enviable, intangible.

Preface
If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules
by Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.
Life has often been compared to a game. We are never told the rules, unfortunately, nor given any instructions about how to play. We simply begin at 'Go' and make our way around the board, hoping we play it right.

The Four Universal Social Gifts
First Impressions: What You Don't Know About How Others See You
by Ann Demarais, Ph.D., Valerie White, Ph.D.
Now you know the value of focusing on how others feel. But you may not know specifically how to be socially generous. What do people want exactly? While people vary in what they desire and need from others, there are some important social gifts that are