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If you or someone you love is struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you need up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information on the problems you're facing and where you can turn for help. But where do you look? Much of the professional literature on BPD is too technical and confusing to be of much help. If you're living with BPD, this compassionate book offers what you really need: an easy-to-follow road map to guide you through this disorder and its treatment.

Sir John Woodstock (James Fleet) is the Lord of the Castle and basically in charge of keeping order in the ramshackle medieval village. Although he hates all that torturing and usually lets the peasants off with a bit of community service. He lives in his huge but slightly falling down castle (but then it was built by the French, so what can one expect) with his daughter Anne (Martha Howe-Douglas) and very teenage son Henry (Steven Kynman). Anne’s best friend Charlotte (Ingrid Oliver) nearly always joins Anne on her constant quest to find fit men in the village. 

If you have an anxiety disorder or experience anxiety symptoms that interfere with your day-to-day life, you can benefit from learning four simple skills that therapists use with their clients. These easy-to-learn skills are at the heart of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a cutting-edge therapeutic approach that can help you better manage the panic attacks, worries, and fears that limit your life and keep you feeling stuck. In The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety, you'll learn how to use each of these skills to manage your anxiety, worry, and stress.

We say goodbye to the month of June as we hose down with some SPF and head for the beach. First let’s take another look at the best of June 2012. In a seemingly endless election season, one thing we have to look forward to is the nightly skewering of the news media by the comic geniuses at The Daily Show. The person responsible for bringing it to life is comedian and writer Lizz Winstead, who talks about her life and career in her new book of essays, Lizz Free or Die.

If you’re feeling a little Downton Abbey withdrawal we’ve got just the thing with the latest novel from Jacqueline Winspear, who knows the era between the wars very well. Her newest featuring detective Maisie Dobbs is called Elegy for Eddie. Next, Maggie Linton talks with someone on a more current beat – mystery writer Andrew Gross talks about the real event that led to his latest, 15 Seconds.

It’s family drama this week – from the grand canvas of European royalty to disgraced American gentry. I’ll talk with the acknowledged source for all things romantic and royal, Philippa Gregory about her newest novel, The Lady of the Rivers. Next, Maggie Linton sits down with the king of weeper, Nicholas Sparks, and they’ll talk about his book, The Best of Me.

Dragons are hot property these days and one of the pioneers of dragons in fiction was the late Anne McCaffrey. I sat down with her son Todd McCaffrey about her legacy, the past, and future of Pern, and about his own work. Next, Maggie Linton chats with thriller master Stephen Hunter who has picked his Soft Target. And we’ll go Behind the Mike in our continuing conversation with Audible’s talented voice actors and meet Therese Plummer.

Two things on everyone’s mind right now – politics and the future of our society, and The Hunger Games. There’s one book that neatly intersects both obsessions, and I’m delighted to welcome Lois Lowry, the author of the original young adult dystopian novel, The Giver. Speaking of politics, Maggie Linton sits down with Vince Flynn and sorts out the bad guys in his new book, Kill Shot.

Today, a rousing space opera with Dan Abraham and Ty Franck and their stunning novel Leviathan Wakes. Next, Maggie Linton talks with the musically inclined Professor Gary Marcus about his book Guitar Zero. And the authors of Nurture Shock, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, are back and taking on the Science of Winning and Losing in Top Dog.< But first, Maggie has the top-ten Non-Fiction downloads from Audible.com.

Today we’ll meet Lisa See, whose reflections on the secret history of Chinese women has put her on the bestseller list – this time with Dreams of Joy. Next, Maggie Linton was fortunate enough to have talked with the late Jeffrey Zaslow about his book, The Last Lecture. And from military expert Paula Broadwell, an unprecedented look at the Education of General David Petraeus in her book, All In.

Today we’ll travel partway around the world to a dramatic and unusual place with a very unusual lead character. Halgrimmur Helgasun takes us to Iceland in The Hitman’s Guide to Housecleaning. Maggie Linton talks with Ron Reagan Jr. about his father – his hero. The book is My Father at 100

Today we’ll meet someone who is already a star both on Broadway and on the small screen. Raul Esparza makes his mark as the narrator of Stephen King’s Under the Dome. Next, Maggie Linton sits down to chat with bestseller Mary Higgins Clark about her 32nd novel…Daddy’s Gone A Hunting. And comedian Ross Matthews reveals his innermost secrets in his new memoir, Man Up!. But first, Maggie has the top-ten history downloads from Audible.com.

Today we’ll meet rising star Erin Morgenstern, whose neo-Victorian vision for a Night Circus has been attracting a lot attention. Next, Maggie Linton meets John Michael Greer who calms us all down with his latest - Apocalypse Not: Why Everything You Know About 2012, Nostradamus and the Rapture Is Wrong. Then, Audiofile’s Robin Whitten drops by to talk about the remarkable work of writer A. S. Byatt.

Today we’ll visit a strange new world with Tony DiTerlizzi, who leaves Spiderwick behind with his new work, The Search for WondLa. Maggie Linton explores the mysterious world of global finance with Peter Schiff and his book, How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes. And if there’s one thing just about everyone agrees on, it’s the desire for Peace and Plenty. That’s the title of Sarah Ban Breathnach’s new book about the search for financial security.

We are mostly all back at our desks and ready to get back into the swing, so we’ll need some great listening to get us started. I’ll talk with the very talented Jess Walter about his latest novel, Beautiful Ruins. Next, Maggie Linton speaks to an exciting new writer, Tayari Jones about her novel of secret sisters, Silver Sparrow.

One of history’s coldest murder cases is the death of Mozart. Was he poisoned? Author and journalist Matt Rees tried out his theory in Mozart’s Last Aria. Next, Maggie Linton talks with young adult author Lauren Oliver about her new fantasy novel, Pandemonium. And we’ll go Behind the Mike in our continuing conversation with audible’s talented voice actors and meet Mark Vietor.

This is election week - as you may have heard. When putting this week’s show together I had to decide between politics and a comment on the calamitous storms that still affects much of the northeast and beyond. Whoever wins this election, climate change remains with us, so I went with dystopian SF author Paolo Bacigalupi and his award winning novel The Drowned Cities.

Everyone talks about the end of the world, but no one does anything about it. Today we’ll meet author Ben Winters, whose new novel The Last Policeman is a poignant mystery set against just that – a world about to finish. Next, Maggie Linton talks with baseball legend Tony La Russa about his long career on the field and behind the scenes in his book, One Last Strike.

Even though the days are comfortably post –summer, the frost is undoubtedly on the pumpkin, and we’re creeping up on Halloween. Few authors spend as much time in the deep end of the scary pool than Dean Koontz, and I’ll chat with him today about his latest Odd Thomas novel, Odd Apocalypse.

Today we’ll take a look at the world of steam punk from the ground up – way up – with the final book in Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan series, Goliath. Maggie Linton talks with Harvey Makay about applying business strategy to your own real life in his book, The Mackay MBA of Selling in The Real World. And we’ll take a sneak listen to the first work of fiction from CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Monday Mornings.