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1) The undoing project: a friendship that changed our minds

Author

Lewis, Michael

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#1 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

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Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations....

2) The 5 love languages: the secret to love that lasts

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Chapman, Gary

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#2 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

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Dr. Chapman explains how people communicate love in different ways, and shares the wonderful things that happen when men and women learn to speak each other's language

3) Uninvited: living loved when you feel less than, left out, and lonely

Author

Terkeurst, Lysa

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Audio Bible Studies

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#3 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

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Do you ever feel left out, lonely, or less than? Today, learn the secret of belonging which will help you keep rejections in perspective and be better equipped to foster healthy connections in your relationships.

In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father.

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4) Daring greatly: how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead

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Brown, C. Brené

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#4 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

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Discusses how to embrace vulnerability in order to live whole, courageous lives, explaining that traits typically regarded as character flaws and weaknesses are actually clear paths to engagement and meaningful connections.

5) Why not me?

Author

Kaling, Mindy

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#5 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

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The star of "The Mindy Project" presents a collection of personal essays, observations, fears, and advice on everything from prisoner fan mail to celebrity interactions.

6) Love warrior

Author

Melton, Glennon Doyle

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#6 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

7) Modern Romance

Author

Ansari, Aziz

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#7 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

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The #1 New York Times Bestseller
“An engaging look at the often head-scratching, frequently infuriating mating behaviors that shape our love lives.” —Refinery 29
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices
At some...

8) Bad feminist: essays

Author

Gay, Roxane

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#8 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

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A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue." In these funny and...

9) Tribe: on homecoming and belonging

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Junger, Sebastian

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#9 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

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Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners forhundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the...

10) Men explain things to me

Author

Solnit, Rebecca

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#10 on the Love and Relationships list for 2017-01-15.

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"Despite years of feminism and such activist groups as Women Strike for Peace, much of the female population in the world is often powerless, forced to remain voiceless and subjugated to acts of extreme violence in the home, on school campuses and anywhere men deem they should dominate. "Rape and other acts of violence, up to and including murder, as well as threats of violence, constitute the barrage some men lay down as they attempt to control some...