Year Changed

A year-long guide to awareness, reflection, and personal growth with deep intention from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Time 100 Creator, meditator, and modern poet Yung Pueblo, one of today’s brightest lights in self-healing and compassion. Yung Pueblo’s Journey is just that—a...

'A gorgeous story of love, loss, best friends and unbreakable bonds. It truly melted my heart' Shari Low As young women, Lise and Emma had the kind of friendship people dream about. While Lise's own family was distant and disengaged, Emma's was welcoming and warm, and for the first twenty-six...

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! President Ronald Reagan's famous exhortation when visiting Berlin in 1987 has long been widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The United States won, so this version of history goes, because Ronald Reagan stood firm against the USSR; American resoluteness brought the evil empire to its knees. Michael Meyer, who was there at the time as a Newsweek bureau chief, begs to differ.

1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in the summer of 1816.  

Four sisters who never knew their father—or each other—come together around his deathbed and learn what it means to be a family in The Year Everything Changed, a magnificent novel brimming with heart and feeling from author Georgia Bockoven.

In her late 20s, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized that nothing she was doing or buying was making her happy - only keeping her from meeting her goals - she decided to set herself a challenge: she would not shop for an entire year. The Year of Less documents Cait's life for 12 months during which she bought only consumables.

Fifty-two inspiring stories from the best-selling author of the international phenomenon, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. Bronnie Ware's The Top Five Regrets of the Dying became an international sensation, giving people the licence to focus on the most important aspects of life in this realm. Having spent several years listening to, and then writing about, the regrets of dying people, Bronnie Ware understands the importance of acknowledging death and finding the courage to live a happy and authentic life in the meantime.

Small-town gossip never much bothered Olivia Westerly. As a single career woman, she's weathered her share. It's easy to ignore the raised eyebrows over her late-in-life marriage to Charlie Doyle. But after he drops dead on their honeymoon, the whispers are salt on her raw grief. Especially when an orphaned, 11-year-old-boy shows up on her doorstep, looking for the grandfather he never met. Behind Ethan Allen Doyle's wary blue eyes lie heavily guarded emotions that unexpectedly tug on Olivia's heart, and she finds herself wanting to win his trust.

Being kind is something most of us do when it's easy and when it suits us. Being kind when we don't feel like it, or when all of our buttons are being pushed, is hard. But that's also when it's most needed; that's when it can defuse anger and even violence, when it can restore civility in our personal and virtual interactions. Kindness has the power to profoundly change our relationships with other people and with ourselves. It can, in fact, change the world. In A Year of Living Kindly, Donna Cameron shares her experience committing to 365 days of practicing kindness.

A converted stone farmhouse on the Irish coast is about to receive its first guests in this warmly captivating story for fans of Maeve Binchy and Monica McInerney With its brightly painted front door, white-sash windows and garden path sweeping down toward the sea, Lizzie O's guesthouse promises...

Ginger isn't spending her 30th the way she would have planned. Tonight might be the first night of the rest of her life - or a total disaster. Sam is finally pregnant after years of trying. When her waters break on the morning of her 40th birthday, she panics: forget labour, how is she going to be a mother? Callie is celebrating her 50th at a big party in her Dublin home. Then a knock at the door midparty changes everything....

*Updated 2025 Edition * This book will look at the impact started in 2004 until now and sure to draw the ire of the members of the club. Expect many negative reviews from members of those in Iron Order. Iron Order M/C has been the subject of multiple confrontations with well established motorcycle clubs and is seen as starting the "Pop-Up Club" phenomenon.Before the Iron Order M/C, it was unheard of accepting Active or Retire Law Enforcement into a civilian motorcycle club. Now, 2018 has seen a rise in clubs sporting the 1%er patch accepting law enforcement into their ranks. The 1%er patch ...

A much enlarged version of are you the same person now that you were fifteen years ago? In fact, are you the same person you were just seven years ago? Most of us have heard the old saying that every cell in the body is changed over a period of years; but recent investigation has uncovered facts of far more significance to us as human beings. This concerns the emotional, physical and mental changes that seem to occur in approximate seven-year intervals. Renowned author and dream expert Tony Crisp takes you through each of the seven year cycles, from birth to old age, identifying the key ...

'A gorgeous book ... it's timeless and beautiful and it deserves to be read by people of all ages.' MELINA MARCHETTA Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2021 A CBCA Notable Book for Younger Readers 2021 Shortlisted for the Readings Children's Book Prize 2021 Longlisted for the...

Move aside, New Year’s resolutions. 12 New Things® is your key to making lasting change. In Give Me a Year: 12 New Things to Embrace Change and Live Your Best Life, author, entrepreneur, and adventurer Shonda Scott provides a kinder, gentler way to treat the most important person in your life: you!

A major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writer—immersing us in one year of his life—from the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice. The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and...

A Lambda Literary Award Finalist: from "an extraordinary new voice," a "passionate and clear-eyed and unputdownable" meditation on queerness, family, and desire (Mary Karr). For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of...

His father had been pausing in the living room every morning for fifty-six years. Before his coffee. Before anything. Standing in front of the photograph on the mantle — a young soldier with his helmet pushed back and a grin that was just his face — acknowledging the absence of a man who had been twenty years old forever. Danny Callahan. Panel 27W. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C. James Callahan has spent his entire life shaped by a grief that was never his to carry. His father's brother died in Quang Tri Province in March of 1969, and the loss hollowed something out of the ...

Wake up, hit the snooze button a few times, scroll on your phone, roll out of bed, drink 2 cups of java, wake the kids up, get them ready, drop off kids, sit in traffic, 8-12 hours of unfulfilling work, endless meetings, sit in traffic again, pick up kids, cook dinner, clean, argue with spouse, walk your dog, put kids to bed, binge Netflix, pass out on the couch. Rinse and Repeat. This is what many people’s lives looks like. This is what my life looked life after 17 years in the legal field when I was no longer feeling fulfilled. It becomes monotonous drifting through life aimlessly ...

A forest almanac for our time, rooted in a full year observing a rural woodland and its birds. Tapper’s groundbreaking first book How to Love a Forest offered a pragmatic and hopeful vision for our relationship with forests and other ecosystems. His new book, The Forest Year, lives inside the...