Books That Save Lives
We live in a stressful world where it is increasingly difficult not to feel overwhelmed, worried, depressed, and downright scared. Our books provide support for the vulnerable, including people struggling with mental wellness and physical illness as well as people of color, queer and trans adults, teens, immigrants, and anyone who needs encouragement and inspiration.
New Releases
Change the World One Book at a Time: Make a Positive and Meaningful Difference With Your Words
Nina Amir shows how words can make a difference through books that spark change, start movements, and make this a better world.
Change the World One Book at a Time will teach those who want to write for change how to produce books that serve as potent tools for transformation. Like Becoming a Citizen Activist meets Writing to Change the World, this nonfiction reference book will provide activists, coaches, healers, clergy, speakers, leaders, writers, and anyone who wants to write a book that makes a difference with a comprehensive guide to understanding the change process, building engaged communities around their missions, and writing books that move readers to action.
Writing has the potential to effect change. Yet, until now, writers who want to inspire and motivate change with their books have faced a roadblock: a lack of guidance through the process. Nina Amir, seasoned Author Coach and San Francisco Writers Conference track coordinator, removes that obstacle.
Change the World One Book at a Time provides activists, coaches, healers, clergy, speakers, leaders, writers, and anyone who wants to write a book that makes a difference with a comprehensive guide to understanding the change process, building engaged communities around their missions, and writing books that move readers to action.
This essential resource details how to become a writer with the ability to produce books that serve as potent tools for transformation. “Authors of Change” make a difference by sparking change, starting movements, and fostering causes or missions with their published words. As a result, they make the world a better place.
While a variety of books have been published on how to become an author, none have focused on providing strategies specifically geared toward writers who want to inspire and motivate change… until now. These writers need a better-than-average manual on how to write and publish transformational books. Now they have one.
Wellness Warrior Style: A Simple, Peer-Supported Guide to Help First Responders and Veterans Heal
Affirmations and Meditations for Confidence
Women Empowerment. The Woman’s Book of Confidence is a little book with a big message. We can reclaim our dreams, tap into our intuitive wisdom, and find the strength to live fearlessly each and every day. In dozens of short entries, author and psychotherapist Sue Patton Thoele offers meditations, affirmations, and true stories, including deeply personal, often humorous, revelatory stories of her own rocky path of personal growth.
Powerful Affirmations and Meditations. Confidence is not some big, abstract “out there” thing, accessible only to movie stars, brainiacs, and billionaires. It’s the stuff daily life is made of. Sue inspires and encourages us to find and grow our own confidence. Her collection of supportive meditations and affirmations will help you trust yourself emotionally and spiritually.
A Self-Help Book for Strong Women. Thoele is on a mission to help each and every woman uncover her own authentic self and tap into her wellspring of wisdom and self-confidence. Thoele offers practical tools and gentle guidance to help us become confident women, such as:
- Weaving a safety net
- Befriending our fears
- Accepting what is
Readers of motivational and inspirational books for women like I’ve Been Thinking…, Journey to the Heart, or Each Day a New Beginning will love The Woman’s Book of Confidence.
The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women
Major Health Crisis Among Black Women Generated from Systemic Racism
“Marita Golden’s The Strong Black Woman busts the myth that Black women are fierce and resilient by letting the reader in under the mask that proclaims ‘Black don’t crack.’” ―Karen Arrington, coach, mentor, philanthropist, and author of NAACP Image Award-winning Your Next Level Life
Sarton Women’s Book Award
#1 New Release in Reference
Meet Black women who have learned through hard lessons the importance of self-care and how to break through the cultural and family resistance to seeking therapy and professional mental health care.
The Strong Black Woman Syndrome. For generations, in response to systemic racism, Black women and African American culture created the persona of the Strong Black Woman, a woman who, motivated by service and sacrifice, handles, manages, and overcomes any problem, any obstacle. The syndrome calls on Black women to be the problem-solvers and chief caretakers for everyone in their lives―never buckling, never feeling vulnerable, and never bothering with their pain.
Hidden mental health crisis of anxiety and depression. To be a Black woman in America is to know you cannot protect your children or guarantee their safety, your value is consistently questioned, and even being “twice as good” is often not good enough. Consequently, Black women disproportionately experience anxiety and depression. Studies now conclusively connect racism and mental health―and physical health.
Take care of your emotional health. You deserve to be emotionally healthy for yourself and those you love. More and more young Black women are re-examining the Strong Black Woman syndrome and engaging in self-care practices that change their lives.
Hear stories of Black women who:
- Asked for help
- Built lives that offer healing
- Learned to accept healing
If you have read The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health, The Racial Healing Handbook, or Black Fatigue, The Strong Black Woman is your next read.
Simple Pleasures of the Garden: A Seasonal Self-Care Book for Living Well Year-Round
Simple Pleasures Throughout the Year
“Simple Pleasures has become my go-to book for remembering to slow down and enjoy the little things in life.” —Becca Anderson, bestselling author of Badass Affirmations, The Book of Awesome Women, and more
An abundant sourcebook of ideas, encouraging quotes, recipes, and soothing activities
Simple Pleasures of the Garden shows you how to appreciate the simple things within your daily activities. The secret to living well year round can be found in the abundance of your home garden, so get to planting those seeds of simple joys and herbal healing!
Nurture your mind, body, and soul. Sometimes finding the positive can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. From the recipe for a homemade herbal bath for a spa day to quick and easy recommendations for an instant room makeover, the suggestions and home recipes collected in this book offer a new appreciation for the everyday activities that nurture and comfort you.
Simplify your emotional self care. Taking care of yourself doesn’t have to be expensive, unrealistic, or inaccessible. It can be as easy as tending to a green garden, making healing herbal tonics, sipping calming teas, or spending time with other natural energy boosters. Pleasures are made, not bought, so unlock new secrets to happiness with these touching stories, practical tips, and satisfying crafts.
Inside this positive attitude book you’ll find:
- Ways to decorate your home with nature crafts, growing herbs, and an air of magic
- Advice on how to foster a routine for a rejuvenating self care year
- Tips on how to become the gardener of your moods and emotions
If you liked seasonal self care books like A Year of Self-Care, Grow Your Own Medicine, or A Woman’s Garden, you’ll love Simple Pleasures of the Garden.
Bestsellers
It’s Your Weirdness that Makes You Wonderful: A Self-Acceptance Prompt Journal
Work through anxiety and depression and celebrate your own uniqueness. Depression and anxiety are topics that can be uncomfortable to talk about, but that doesn’t mean they should be avoided. With the help of her adorable support animals, art blogger Kate Allan urges us to be mindful of our mentality.
Available in Paperback and eBook formats
The Book of Awesome Queer Heroes: How the LGBTQ+ Community Changed the World for the Better
Discover how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans people have changed the world into the one we know and love in this riveting history book.
Pride across the ages. The LGBTQ+ community has made countless positive impacts throughout history as scientists, world leaders, athletes, and entrepreneurs, and each one of them deserves to be celebrated in The Book of Awesome Queer Heroes.
Queer Cheer: Activities, Advice, and Affirmations for LGBTQ+ Teens
A positive affirmations book with invaluable information for all queer teens
Available in Paperback and eBook formats
American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence
Fred Guttenberg, who lost his beloved daughter Jaime in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, and International gun policy consultant Thomas Gabor team up in American Carnage to dismantle some of the most common myths about guns and gun violence.
Available in Paperback, eBook and Audiobook formats
The Boy from Mexico: An Immigration Story of Bravery and Determination
Based on a true story, Luz channels his inner bravery to come to America. All alone, he must face natural disasters and sacrifice everything to have a better life.
Learn bravery and independence with Luz. Luz stays strong on his journey by thinking of his family. His tale is truly a powerful representation of immigration and determination. His real-life adventure across the border will ignite hope in the hearts of every child that reads this short Spanish story.
Extreme Survival: Lessons from Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds
Explore the stories and the causes of manmade disasters. To answer the question of why disasters happen and how some survive, Tougias interviewed over 100 people who survived against all odds, first chronicling their harrowing survival stories, and then discussing in detail lessons learned. Extreme Survival delivers the entertainment and exceptional research Michael Tougias fans expect.
Available in Paperback, eBook and Hardcover formats
The Woman’s Book of Strength: Meditations for Wisdom, Balance, and Power
Bestselling author with over 1 million books sold, Sue Thoele, is back with The Woman’s Book of Strength!
Discover your power as a strong confident woman. The Woman’s Book of Strength clothes you in words of encouragement and strength making you feel empowered and courageous enough to act on your heart’s desire. It is the perfect companion to grow you in tenacity and compassion. These daily meditations strengthen you to be whole.
Available in Paperback and eBook formats
You Deserve Nice Things: Calming Coloring Pages
A gently supportive and encouraging coloring book by Kate Allan, creator of TheLatestKate and author of You Can Do All Things, perfect for those dealing with anxiety.
Available in Paperback format
Codependence and the Power of Detachment: How to Set Boundaries and Make Your Life Your Own
Learn how to value your own opinion over those of others. Codependency books are perfect for those of us who live as if what other people think matters more than what we think. This thinking leads to constantly trying to please or even to change others. Codependent behaviors can have negative effects on us and those around us, even leading to a dysfunctional family. It can be difficult to say no to those we love.
Available in Paperback and eBook formats
Random Acts of Kindness: 365 Days of Good Deeds, Inspired Ideas and Acts of Goodness
Great ideas on how to improve the world all year long, from simple acts you can do for yourself to big things you can do for your community, and more.
In 1995, a small group of people at Conari Press came together around the idea that small gestures and simple acts can make a difference in people’s lives. Thus, Random Acts of Kindness was born. But they had no idea how big this little idea would become, or that it would sell over one million copies.
Available in Paperback and eBook formats
The Herbal Healing Handbook: How to Use Plants, Essential Oils and Aromatherapy as Natural Remedies
Heal the natural way. In her latest work, bestselling author Cerridwen Greenleaf shares the healing power of plants, roots, herbs, essential oils, aromatherapy, and all things natural remedies. If you are tired of automatically turning to chemical treatments, or just want to have more plant-based care options, The Herbal Healing Handbook is the book for you.
Available in Paperback and eBook formats
Mindfulness For Warriors: Empowering First Responders to Reduce Stress and Build Resilience
A traumatic way of life. First responders have the incredibly difficult job of running toward danger while the rest of us run away. No training prepares them for what they see and endure. Kim Colegrove understands what it’s like to watch someone go through that.