November News - Books to Give Thanks for
With so much uncertainty happening in the world, one of the best places to escape without having to actually go anywhere other than where you are, is reading. I have a hard time stopping myself from picking out new titles to add to my ever-growing to-be-read list but there’s no one to stop me and I don’t see the harm! One can never have too much to read!
Pocket Therapy for Anxiety by Edmund J. Bourne and Lorna Garano
Quick CBT Skills to Find Calm
Description
Quick, simple, and effective anxiety relief that fits right in your pocket—so you can manage your symptoms anytime, anywhere.
If you suffer from anxiety, you may try to avoid the situations that cause you to feel uneasy. But avoidance isn’t the answer—and letting your fears and worries constantly hold you back will ultimately keep you from living the life you truly want. So, how can you learn to cope with your anxiety in the moment? This little book can help you face your fears and take charge of your anxiety—wherever or whenever it shows up.
From the author of The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook and Coping with Anxiety, Pocket Therapy for Anxiety offers immediate, user-friendly, and evidence-based strategies to help you manage anxiety, panic, and fear. The exercises in this book can be done in the moment, whenever you feel anxious, and will help you move past your fears and start living the life you were meant to live.
You’ll learn to:
Relax your body and mind
Stop expecting the worst
Get regular exercise and eat right to stay calm
Turn off worry and cope on the spot
And much, much more…
Don’t let anxiety keep you one step behind. This little book will show you how to face your fears, overcome panic when it happens, and take charge of your anxiety for good!
Advance Praise
“Leaf through the pages of this extraordinary book on anxiety, and you’ll find helpful steps to overcome anxiety that you can use right away. You might hear yourself say, I can do this. Indeed, you can. The authors have taken the guesswork out of combating anxiety. By knowing how to overcome anxiety, and doing what you know, you might soon ask yourself, where did my anxiety go?”
—Bill Knaus, EdD, author of The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety, and coauthor of The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anger
“Pocket Therapy for Anxiety strikes a perfect note for our times: accessibility. It provides cutting-edge strategies for anxiety that are understandable and can be taken wherever the user goes, since anxiety can show up anywhere. It is ideal for those experiencing anxiety, and a spot-on supplement for clinicians to recommend in therapy.”
—Timothy A. Sisemore, PhD, is professor at California Baptist University, and author of The Clinician’s Guide to Exposure Therapies for Anxiety Spectrum Disorders
The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter
Description
The critically acclaimed author of the “bold, innovating, and thrilling” (Stephen King) novel The Twenty-Year Death and the “brilliant” (Booklist, starred review) novel Barren Cove returns with a dark and compelling mystery set in the near future.
Decimated by plague, the human population is now a minority. Robots—complex AIs almost indistinguishable from humans—are the ruling majority. Nine months ago, in a controversial move, the robot government opened a series of preserves, designated areas where humans can choose to live without robot interference. Now the preserves face their first challenge: someone has been murdered.
Chief of Police Jesse Laughton on the SoCar Preserve is assigned to the case. He fears the factions that were opposed to the preserves will use the crime as evidence that the new system does not work. As he digs for information, robots in the outside world start turning up dead from bad drug-like programs that may have originated on SoCar land. And when Laughton learns his murder victim was a hacker who wrote drug-programs, it appears that the two cases might be linked. Soon, it’s clear that the entire preserve system is in danger of collapsing. Laughton’s former partner, a robot named Kir, arrives to assist on the case, and they soon uncover shocking secrets revealing that life on the preserve is not as peaceful as its human residents claim. But in order to protect humanity’s new way of life, Laughton must solve this murder before it’s too late.
The Preserve is a fresh and futuristic mystery that is perfect for fans of Westworld and Blade Runner.
The 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook by Carole Jones
100 Delicious Recipes That Will Save You Time and Money—No Pre-Thawing Required!
Description
Transform your convenient and affordable frozen ingredients into a fresh, home-cooked meal in less than 30 minutes with these 100 quick and easy recipes—no thawing required.
If you’re not someone who plans out their weekly menu days in advance, then this cookbook is for you. Thanks to your freezer, you can create more than 100 different recipes for fresh, delicious meals that you can devour in less than 30 minutes. No need to wait hours for the ingredients to thaw and defrost, simply grab your ingredients and start cooking.
Filled with simple solutions to your dinner dilemmas, The 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook allows you to spend less time shopping, prepping, and planning your meals and spend more time doing the things you actually enjoy! Save money and eliminate food waste by storing the ingredients you buy in the freezer, keeping them fresher for longer. Cooking from frozen ingredients is a quick, cost-effective way to feed your family and with this cookbook to guide you, it is now easier—and tastier—than ever.
The Haunting of Beatrix Greene by Rachel Hawkins, Ash Parsons, Vicky Alvear Shecter
Description
Beatrix Greene has made a name for herself in Victorian England as a reputable spiritual medium, but she’s a fraud: even she knows ghosts aren’t real. But when she’s offered a lucrative job by James Walker—a scientist notorious for discrediting pretenders like her—Beatrix takes the risk of a lifetime. If her séance at the infamously haunted Ashbury Manor fools him, she will finally have true financial freedom. If she fails, her secret will become her public shame.
But James has his own dark secrets, and he believes only a true medium can put them to rest. When Beatrix’s séance awakens her real gift—and with it, a vengeful spirit—James finds that the answers he seeks are more dangerous than he could have imagined. Together, with a group of supernatural sleuths, Beatrix and James race to settle the ghost’s unrest before it strikes— or else they might not make it out of the haunted manor alive.
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, along with Ash Parsons and Vicky Alvear Shecter, weaves darkness, death, and a hint of desire into this suspenseful mystery for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Crimson Peak.