Collection: Self-Development

Have you ever wished you could grow mangoes, coffee, oranges and other delicious tropical plants... but find yourself limited by a less-than-tropical climate? If you long for Key lime pies at Christmas, or homegrown bananas at breakfast, you're not alone! Expert gardener and mad scientist David The Good fought for years to figure out how grow tropical plants hundreds of miles outside their natural climate range... and he succeeded!

In PUSH THE ZONE: The Good Guide to Growing Tropical Plants Beyond the Tropics, David the Good shares his successes and failures in expanding plant ranges, and equips you with the knowledge you need to add a growing zone or two to your own backyard. Based on original research done in North Florida, PUSH THE ZONE is useful for northern gardeners as well. Discover microclimates in your yard, use the thermal mass of walls to grow impossible plants and uncover growing secrets that will change your entire view of what can grow where!

There are several types of dementia but in this book the author focuses on Sundown Dementia, Vascular Dementia and Lewy Body Dementia. Stages, symptoms, signs, prognosis, diagnosis, treatments, progression, care and mood changes are all covered. The author, Lindsay Leatherdale, a 20 year old neuro-science and psychology under graduate, with a special interest in dementia, has a grandmother who was diagnosed with sundown and vascular dementia. Her friend's mum was diagnosed with Lewy Body dementia. She wanted to help caring for her grandmother and decided to buy some books about sundown, vascular and lewy body dementia. To her disappointment there was a lack of good informative books available on the three types of dementia. She decided to investigate the subject thoroughly and write a book about it to be able to help others. The book is written in an easy to read and understandable style. In a straightforward, no nonsense fashion, Lindsay covers all aspects of sundown, vascular and lewy body dementia including other types of dementia, early warning signs, symptoms, behavioural patterns, causes, what can you do to help a dementia patient, who can diagnose it, treatments available, medication, living with a person who has dementia, and a lot more.... This book is a must have for anybody who is confronted with dementia. It is full of sound advice and contains caring tips and aids for the dementia patient.

Learn over 50 mind-blowing magic tricks and delight your friends and family, all without buying fancy props or equipment.

Step-by-step photos and encouraging performance tips from top magician Jake Banfield will turn you into a professional in no time! Magic Tricks with Coins, Cards, and Everyday Objects will teach you how to make magic with anything you can get your hands on.

With magic tricks of varying levels of difficulty divided by category--card tricks, coin tricks, everyday objects, and mind reading--this book offers an insider's view of the popular world of "street magic," where magicians specialize in up-close, informal tricks to bamboozle their audiences.

Along with card trick basics, the introduction sets out the rules for performing magic and offers suggestions on how to combine tricks for maximum impact, tips on rehearsing and practice, and advice on how to develop your own performance style to truly wow your audience.

Then, explore top magic secrets to learn how to:

• Make a card chosen by a volunteer disappear, and then reappear inside an orange!
• Melt a coin through an audience member's hand!
• Make two paper clips fly through the air like trapeze artists and end up magically linked!
• Turn into a magical ninja, harnessing a secret force to chop a carrot in two with only a banknote!
• Tear a length of thread into pieces, and then miraculously restore them into one long piece again!
• Amaze your volunteer by knowing exactly which word they're thinking of!
• And so much more!

Attention aspiring Houdinis of all ages: prepare to transform from you into super magic you.

Bring the magic of Disney to your knitting needles with the first official book of knitting patterns inspired by classic characters like Mickey Mouse and Cinderella and films like Alice in Wonderland, The Little Mermaid, Moana, and more.

Featuring 28 beautiful knits pictured in gorgeous full-color photography, Knitting with Disney includes patterns for toys, apparel, and decor pulled straight from and inspired by favorite Disney movies. Take a trip to Neverland with an adorable amigurumi Tinker Bell. Celebrate the circle of life with a vibrant sweater based on The Lion King. Or make an authentic Disney costume replica of one of the Seven Dwarfs' caps or Kuzco's poncho.

Projects range from simple patterns to more complex projects for knitters of all skill levels and include sizing from extra small through 6XL. Filled with classic quotes and fun facts from beloved films, Knitting with Disney will have fans everywhere bundling up to rewatch their favorite movies, and knit fun projects for themselves, friends, and family.

INCLUDES 28 PROJECTS: Perfect patterns for every fan and every skill level.
SWEATERS TO SOCKS AND MORE: Knit a gorgeous Beauty and the Beast sweater, Mickey & Minnie cowl, Magic Carpet blanket, and many more clever creations.
ALL-STAR DESIGNERS: Projects created by some of the most popular knitting influencers on Ravelry and Instagram.
FOR EVERY KNITTER: Start with easy projects and level up to more complex creations.
INSPIRING IMAGES: Beautiful full-color photos of every project.

Includes patterns featuring:
Mickey Mouse
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
Sleeping Beauty
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
The Lion King
Pocahontas
Mulan
The Princess and the Frog
Tangled
Brave
Moana

Calling all word search lovers! Brain Games Word Search Challenge Puzzles features intriguing and engaging word search puzzles.

• Features 70 word search puzzles covering themes like Greek Mythology, Saturn's Moons, Gemstones, Covered Bridges, and more!
• You'll unscramble anagrams, answer clues, and uncover hidden messages to solve some of the puzzles, while the others contain dozens of informative and interesting search terms.
• Answer key is found in the back of the book in case you need help solving a puzzle or finding a term.
• Spiral bound, 160 pages.
• Puzzles are presented in an easy-to-read format across 2 pages.

Sharpen your mental ability and strengthen your memory.

In Clay Lab for Kids, art teacher and winner of the Netflix bake-off show Nailed It! Cassie Stephens presents 52 hands-on projects made with kid-friendly clays that get kids working creatively and thinking three-dimensionally.

Squishy, colorful, and infinitely shapable, clay just might be the most versatile art material for kids. Author-artist-teacher Cassie Stephens has created all-new clay projects for kids of all skill levels. Start with the basics of rolling, coiling, and pinching pots, and move up to making "Jurassic fossils," animal marionettes, monster magnets, and boxes with secret compartments.

All of the projects use kid-friendly, no-kiln clay (air-dry, homemade, and polymer) and water-based paints, perfect for home and classroom, plus there's an entire chapter of recipes for mixing up inexpensive homemade clays in the kitchen.

When creating with clay, kids are introduced to a wide range of cognitive and manual skills they'll work three-dimensionally; make figurative models; use their imaginations in making jewelry and toys; design with color; and decorate with paints.

The popular Lab for Kids series features a growing list of books that share hands-on activities and projects on a wide host of topics, including art, astronomy, bugs, geology, math, and even how to create your own circus--all authored by established experts in their fields. Each lab contains a complete materials list, clear step-by-step photographs of the process, as well as finished samples. The labs can be used as singular projects or as part of a yearlong curriculum of experiential learning. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, they are enriching for a range of ages and skill levels. Gain firsthand knowledge on your favorite topic with Lab for Kids.

Discover your body's awesomeness with a puberty guide for tween and teen girls ages 10 to 18

Puberty is one of the first signs that you're growing up--and that's something to be celebrated. If you're looking for body-positive puberty books for girls but aren't sure where to start--Celebrate Your Body 2 provides the support needed to navigate this whole puberty thing with confidence.

From bras and braces to budding romantic feelings, this guide stands out among puberty books for girls as you become an expert on everything from pimples to peer pressure. Of all the puberty books for girls, this one will help you discover how your changing body is beautiful, special, and simply on the way to becoming the number one you.

Celebrate Your Body 2 goes beyond other puberty books for girls, including:

• The shape of you--Explore how and why your body is changing with advice on mysterious hair, period care, and more.e
• Cool and confident--Find calmness during mood swings and increase your self-esteem using creative suggestions and confidence-building tips rarely found in puberty books for girls.
• Close-knit vs. clique--Learn about choosing the right friends, finding a trusting ear, and the importance of consent.

Your body is awesome--now start your journey right with Celebrate Your Body 2, one of the best in puberty books for girls.

Blast off into space with the Starship Operations Manual, Starfinder's latest rules expansion hardcover! Outfit your beloved starship with more than 100 new starship weapons, expansion bays, alternate armors, and systems like drop pods, ramming prows, mines, ablative armor, virtual intelligences, and more. If you're looking for a new ride, you'll find profiles of leading starship manufacturers as well as statistics for more than 40 new starships found throughout the galaxy.

The Starship Operations Manual puts you at the controls, offering bold new ways to present starship combat, from dogfights in planetary atmospheres to daring chases through asteroid fields to pitched battles between huge fleets. New rules allow crewmembers to get even more out of their skills and feats, unlocking thrilling critical success results that add excitement to starship combat. Take your adventures into the great unknown and beyond with the Starfinder Starship Operations Manual!

After a significant loss, grief is an everyday experience. Bit by bit, these one-page-a-day readings will help you feel supported and muster the courage and hope you need to make it through the day. Whether you're choosing this book as a follow-up to Understanding Your Grief or as a way to engage with the teachings in a different format, you'll find a combination of classic content mixed with new ideas and insights. Reading just one page each day will help you sustain hope and heal your heart.

Originally published in 1987 and continuously in print since then, Coming Apart has been an important resource for hundreds of thousands of readers experiencing painful breakups. Whether going through a divorce, separation, or break up, bestselling author Daphne Rose Kingma, offers the tools and validation needed to move forward.

3,820 alphabet stickers for word nerds!

Say it, shout it--spell it! This delightful collection of stickers is devoted entirely to the alphabet and the joy of matching a font to every mood and occasion. These letter stickers are perfect for spelling everything from your name to your favorite song lyrics--on your planner, photo album, notes, invitations, and anything that needs a touch of whimsy!

Spread the sticker love!

Move beyond granny squares and get ready for crocheted circles, triangles, hexagons, and stars. Edie Eckman opens up the door to crocheting creativity with more than 140 motifs of every shape and size. Embellish your clothing, linens, housewares, and bags with colorful patterns as you put odd yarn leftovers to good use. Step-by-step instructions and color photographs provide the building blocks to limitless possibilities.

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.

Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn:

- Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
- Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health.
- Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower
- Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control.
- Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control.
- Willpower failures are contagious--you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends­­--but you can also catch self-control from the right role models.

In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.

An inspirational guide for understanding your soul and discovering why it chose to incarnate at the moment it did.

From the author of The Starseed Oracle, Rebecca Campbell, a writer, mystic, devotional creative, and visionary who supports hundreds of thousands of people to connect with their soul and weave the sacred back into their everyday life.

"A leading voice in spirituality, Rebecca's work is deep and illuminating."
-- Soul and Spirit Magazine

AN ENCOURAGING BOOK TO HELP YOU REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE AND TO PLANT YOURSELF HERE

Tap into the cosmic nature of your soul, discover your purpose and commit to being here on Earth.

Letters to a Starseed asks the biggest questions that mystics and philosophers through the ages have been asking: What is the soul, where did it originate and why have we chosen to come here at this time?

YOUR SOUL HAD A DREAM, YOUR LIFE IS IT.

This is a book for those who at times feel misplaced in the world; those who have always felt a remembering of some other place without quite knowing what that place really is.

As a planet, we are waking up to the fact that the ancient prophecies and warnings from the elders and wise ones are no longer predictions, but our waking reality. They are not just coming or even near ... we are living them right now.

What we do now matters to the future of this planet. And we all have a role to play.

Some Letters to a Starseed Chapter Titles include:

- Who Are We and Where Did We Come From?
- The Moment of Your Birth
- What Is a Starseed?
- Ancient Stars in Our Bones
- Reaching Back to the Ancients
- Here We Are
- Returning
- The Longing for Home
- I Remember
- Why Did You Come Here?
- There Must Be More Than This
- Why Did You Choose to Come?
- We All Have a Role to Play, but Only We Know What
- Our Role Is
- There You Are
- I Have Music in My Heart
- Finding Our Ground
- Starseed Roles
- Plant Yourself Here
- How to Feel More at Home on Earth
- The Challenge of Being Human
- Incarnation
- The Original Severing
- Plant Yourself Here

We are living in a time between myths and stories, and are currently re-weaving the fabric of life on Earth. Throughout this book, Rebecca shares insights and experiences illuminating the connection between our souls, the Earth and the cosmos, to encourage you to commit fully to your incarnation, embrace your human experience and plant yourself here.

"Throughout the book you'll find two prompts, which will support you on your journey as you read.

"In many chapters, you'll find Soul Inquiry prompts that will help you hear the calls of your soul as you journey through the book.

"In some chapters, you'll also find activations. These are here to support you in activating and integrating energies and healing within you, from your soul to your cells.

"My hope for this book is that it supports, comforts, and inspires you to remember who you truly are and why you chose to be here at this pivotal moment in the story of humanity. To commit fully to being here and being present to your life on Earth at this time.

"To encourage you to play the note that you came here to play, without waver.

"Do you remember why you've come?"

Love,

Rebecca x

Congratulations! You have a new baby.
Don't forget you also have a marriage.

Having a baby is a joyous experience, but even the best relationships are strained during the transition from duo to trio. In And Baby Makes Three, Love Lab(TM) experts John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman teach couples the skills needed to maintain healthy marriages, so partners can avoid the pitfalls of parenthood by:

- Focusing on intimacy and romance
- Replacing an atmosphere of criticism and irritability with one of appreciation
- Preventing postpartum depression
- Creating a home environment that nurtures physical, emotional, and mental health, as well as cognitive and behavioral development for your baby

Complete with exercises that separate the "master" from the "disaster" couples, And Baby Makes Three helps new parents positively manage the strain that comes along with their bundle of joy.