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Like many people navigating adulthood, Lane Moore thought she would have friends by now. Movies, books, and TV shows tell us we should’ve already found our people by the time we’re adults, or there must be something wrong with us. But where do you find these close friends once you’ve left high school or college? Is it even possible? You Will Find Your People is the groundbreaking guide to making—and keeping—the friends we’ve all been desperately waiting for.

In this practical and deeply touching guide - inspired by her book Reach Out, Gather In - popular author Karen Ehman gives you 101 actionable ideas you can implement today to truly make a difference in the lives of other people. Make Their Day is filled with creative ideas to connect with your family and friends on a deeper level throughout the year. This book will help you develop habits of kindness, reconnect with friends and family, and make encouraging people a priority.

Whether you’re a teenager figuring out who your people are, a young adult navigating new cities and shifting circles, or someone in midlife or beyond wondering what happened to the closeness you once felt—How to Be a Friend (In an Unfriendly World) is for you.

"Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: 'There just isn't only one love story in our lives,' Schaefer writes. If you're lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. It's high time that we start seeing it that way."--NPR...

An inspirational guide to the 6 core qualities of healthy communities, for anyone looking to build community as a source of connection and a vehicle for social change After two years meeting with different communities in the US, psychologist Lisa Kentgen identified 6 key traits of vibrant...

Destined to be a classic. . . . . Cope makes us want to risk making real, intentional human connections-and makes us long to celebrate them, and to allow them to transform us into fully-conscious and fully-alive human beings.'- Geneen Roth, New York Times best-selling author of Women, Food and...

Bumble BFF’s resident friend expert identifies the 9 most common conflict types in women's platonic relationships, sharing practical strategies to resolve issues and strengthen ties.​ Using a combination of psychology, science, narrative, and a few of the author's signature scripts and...

In this meditation on celebrity, power, and a simple thank-you, Mindy Kaling takes the next charmed step in her path from Conan intern to mogul: picking up the entire tab for a famous A-lister. It’s an investment, right? He’ll be blown away by her class. They’ll be best friends forever. Forty thankless seconds later, who wouldn’t spiral into self-doubt, second-guessing, over-rationalizing, and anxious obsession?

In the heart of America's Midwest, an extraordinary friendship blossomed when two young couples became neighbors. What started as a chance encounter in 1993 grew into a three-decade adventure filled with laughter, mischief, and unbreakable bonds. Ron Cox and his best friend Chris Sprague, along with their wives and families, have selected 30 of their most memorable stories from a treasure trove of shared experiences. From hilarious misadventures to heartwarming moments, these tales span 30 years of friendship, family, and fun in small-town USA.

Just as there are three dimensions of the physical world (height, width, and depth), there are three dimensions of the interpersonal world - power, love, and mindfulness. How well we learn to navigate them directly corresponds to how well we live our lives and how happy and fulfilled we feel. Human reactivity is the source of most of our interpersonal problems and pain.

At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong. At 66, Terry had lived a life full of achievements: becoming one of the UK's best-selling writers, winning the Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Following his untimely death from Alzheimer's disease, the mantle of completing Terry's memoir was passed to Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate.

From behavioral scientists to besties, Kate draws upon the extraordinary research from academics, scientists, and psychotherapists, and stories from friends of friends, strangers from the Internet, and her “squad” to get to the bottom of these and other facets of friendship. For fans of Susan Cain’s Quiet and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic, The Friendship Cure is a fascinating blend of accessible “smart thinking,” investigative journalism, pop culture, and memoir for anyone trying to navigate this lonely world, written with the wit, charm, and bite of a fresh voice.

Grounded in the Buddha’s teachings on spiritual friendship, Radical Friendship shares seven strategies to help us embody our deepest values in all of our relationships. Drawing on her experiences as a leading meditation teacher, as well as personal stories of growing up multiracial in a racist world, Kate Johnson brings a fresh take on time-honored wisdom to help us connect more authentically with ourselves, with our friends and family, and within our communities.

From acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family's future. For decades, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier destination for lavish...

Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud listen that follows a fictitious group of eight 20- and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous wedding. This instantly relatable story is told entirely through emails, texts, DMs, and every other form of communication known to man.

People We Forgot After Vacation is a tender reflection on impermanence—a story about how connection blooms and fades in the spaces between escape and return. It captures the fragile magic of fleeting encounters: the people who made us feel infinite for a week, and the selves we became beside them. Through quiet, lyrical prose, it explores memory, distance, and the mercy of forgetting—how not every bond is meant to endure, and how the beauty of life often lies in its brevity. This is a meditation on nostalgia, belonging, and the human need to remember what was never meant to last.

Happier Together is an exploration of the transformative power of authentic human connection and the detrimental effects of loneliness. Happier Together celebrates the value of friendships at every stage of life and their role in creating a strong foundation for health, happiness, and longevity. Essential for anyone looking to overcome loneliness, Happier Together details the how, when and where to find friends, start new relationships and nurture existing connections.

Many of us can regurgitate why healthy boundaries and saying "no" are important. So why are we still over-accommodating and actively participating in imbalanced relationships that fuel anxiety and exhaustion? If you tend to over-function in relationships and then get resentful of other people's demands on your time and energy, it's time to break old patterns and discover new ones. In Serial Fixer, psychotherapist and wellness consultant Leah Marone will help you break old habits of fixating on—and fixing—the problems of others.

Aristote vous livre ses précieux conseils pour développer et gérer vos amitiés non seulement pour le bien de vos amis, mais de vous-même ! En effet, selon Aristote, l'amitié est le premier pas indispensable pour accéder à la vertu voire au succès ! Bienveillance, liberté, vérité, reconnaissance, comprenez dans toute leur profondeur ces mots-clés de la pensée d'Aristote, pour nouer des amitiés les plus enrichissantes possibles et les plus bénéfiques pour vous-même.

Un libro hecho de pequeñas historias reales, anécdotas, recuerdos, algunos más felices, otros marcados por el infortunio y el dolor, pero con un denominador común: el gesto universal del abrazo. Hablamos tanto del gesto físico que nos define como humanos, el que nos brinda protección y consuelo, como del abrazo de la simpatía, el del afecto, aunque sea lejano, el de toda una comunidad o, incluso, del abrazo que a veces damos a las ideas, a las pasiones o a la fe.