Self Help books

#1 New Release in Punk and Music Philosophy & Social Aspects, Theory, Composition & Performance ─ A Look at the History of the Emo and Indie Music Era

Explore the cultural, social, and psychological factors surrounding the genres. Though songs can be timeless, music is often a result of the era in which it was created. The 2000s in music gave rise to indie, emo, and punk rock, carrying an emotional tone that has resonated with listeners ever since. Originally appealing to a small selection of music lovers, this music era now holds a significant place in the history of rock.

The relationship between music and mental health. Music leaves its mark on the world by touching the hearts and minds of its creators and listeners. This book explores that connection and takes a look at what emo, alternative, and indie music did for the mental health of musicians and listeners.

Inside stories from the music legends themselves. The voices of the rock musicians who contributed to these genres of music are just as important now as they were then. Author Taylor Markarian includes both her own interviews with bands and those from outside sources to provide an oral history and offer an authentic portrayal of these underground arts.

Markarian’s book offers a comprehensive look into genres of music that have been simultaneously mocked and admired. Discover in From the Basement:

• The beauty and legitimacy of the gritty, wailing music that evolved into indie, alternative, and emo
• Insights from conversations with favorite emo/indie bands of the time
• The impact these genres have had on the millennial generation and today’s pop culture and mental health
• Extensive coverage of bands like Save the Day, Dashboard Confessional, and My Chemical Romance

If books such as Please Kill Me, American Hardcore, Meet Me in the Bathroom, and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs have rocked your world, then From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society should be your next read.

Please note: A batch of printed copies mislabeled the band Hot Water Music as How Water Music. If you received a copy with this issue, please contact support@mango.bz to recieve a corrected copy of the book.

Thankful Thinking for 5 Minutes a Day

A daily dose of humor and heart. Find inspiration through writing prompts and quotes in this gratitude journal by bestselling author Ronnie Walter. The creator of a coloring series dedicated to stress relief and fun (The Coloring Café®), Ronnie brings over twenty years of successful illustrating and writing to this daily journal dedicated to personal growth and happiness.

Exercise gratitude each day. Whether it comes at the start of our day or the end, making time to think about what we’re grateful for is beneficial in many ways. Practicing an attitude of gratitude strengthens our spirit and quiets our mind, even if just for a moment. It provides the peace and zen we long for and need in the midst of busy days and packed schedules.

Move forward to a happier and more meaningful life. Journaling is a form of self-care because it encourages us to check in with ourselves and examine our thoughts and feelings on a deeper level. By using this 5-minute journal to record things we’re grateful for, spot meaningful intentions, and celebrate tiny victories, we create a space to grow in gratitude for what we have and see better who we want to be.

Harness your “Thank You Power” in just 5 minutes with the help of Ronnie Walter’s Gratitude with Attitude journal. Dive into it each day and find:

• Ideas for connecting to your sense of abundance and wellbeing
• Ways to express your creativity and imagination
• Inspiration for deepening your connection to spirituality

Be sure to pick up Gratitude with Attitude if you’ve enjoyed other titles such as Good Days Start With Gratitude, Zen as F*ck: A Journal for Practicing the Mindful Art of Not Giving a Sh*t, and The One-Minute Gratitude Journal.

La Formule du Succès à l’Université

Gagnez en aptitudes aux études et à la vie quotidienne. Quel que soit votre âge, les premiers temps à la fac peuvent être vécus comme un choc. Soudain, la vie devient bien plus complexe, surtout si vous avez un boulot, une famille et des problèmes d’argent. Ce livre révèle les aptitudes, les outils, et la mentalité nécessaires à la réussite des étudiants universitaires.

Des conseils détaillés. Pour réussir à la fac, vous avez besoin de deux types de compétences : des compétences scolaires et des compétences personnelles. En découvrant à la fois la valeur des aptitudes à l’étude et à la vie quotidienne, les étudiants arriveront à mieux établir et accomplir une vision pour leur éducation et leur réussite.

Améliorez votre expérience universitaire en général. Ce livre sert de guide éducatif et de manuel de développement personnel pour toute personne à l’université ou sur le point d’y entrer. Découvrez:

• Une meilleure participation en classe et dans les études et une motivation à demeurer à l’université.
• Un progrès dans les aptitudes essentielles telles que la gestion financière, l’atteinte des objectifs, la résolution de conflits, la santé et le mieux-être.
• Comment adopter des habitudes essentielles, telles que la « Proactivité » et « La Pensée Gagnant-Gagnant », chapitre après chapitre.

Si d’autres livres-guides pour l’université vous ont intéressés, tels que 30 jours pour trouver ma voie et vivre mes rêves d’Isabelle Servant et Je déchire au collège de David Alfroy et Cécile Sauvan, alors Les 7 Habitudes des étudiants qui réussissent devrait être le prochain dans votre liste de lecture!

Jetez aussi un coup d'œil à ces autres titres fantastiques de Franklin Covey: Les 7 Habitudes de deux qui réalisent tout ce qu’ils entreprennent et Les 7 Habitudes des ados bien dans leur peau.

Power Your University Success and Beyond with This Essential College Guide

#1 Bestseller in College Guides

Offering advice for college freshmen, Navigating College with the 7 Habits is the ultimate college survival kit, packed with academic and life skills—a high school graduation gift that keeps on giving.

Master college life with ease. Navigating College with the 7 Habits is a step-by-step eBook that blends essential academic tips with crucial life skills like communication and time management. For teens transitioning from high school, it's a valuable graduation gift that prepares them for the rigors and challenges of university life and beyond.

Your college planner for happiness and success. Navigate college dorm dynamics and learn to work harmoniously with diverse personalities. As a college survival guide, Navigating College with the 7 Habits offers practical solutions for common issues, empowering you to build a thriving, stress-free college environment.

In this invaluable college guide, you'll uncover:

• Proven strategies to ace your freshman year and beyond, making it the ideal university survival guide
• Actionable tips to manage your time efficiently, enhancing your productivity in college and life
• Techniques to improve communication with roommates, fostering a harmonious dorm life
• Comprehensive tools for balancing academic and personal life, an integral part of your college survival kit

If other college guide books have interested you such as On Course, The Naked Roommate, or The Freshman Survival Guide, then Navigating College With the 7 Habits should be your next read! Also, be sure to check out these other great FranklinCovey titles: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.

Be Authentic and Aligned in Your Life

“It's never too late to pursue your dreams. Maki Moussavi guides us to take action and commit to the vision we have for our lives.” ―Robin Farmanfarmaian, CEO & cofounder of Applied Reality Overlays

Are you successful but feeling stuck, restless or unfulfilled? Does your life look great on paper, but it’s just not enough? You’re making money, have a career and lifestyle that you thought you always wanted, but now you’re there and it’s not all you expected it to be. The High Achiever’s Guide shows you how to get that out of that rut, find your purpose, and get that something more that you are searching for.

You have more power than you think. You have the power to rewrite the way you think and operate so that you can pursue what matters most. In this book you will get the tools, techniques and encouragement needed to create a meaningful life that you love.

The High Achiever’s Guide can help you:

• Discover what isn’t working in your life and define what you truly want
• Rewrite your mental programming with intention
• Go after what you want with confidence
• Update your mindset model from traditional success to deeply personal fulfillment
• Experience authentic happiness

From one high achiever to another. Maki Moussavi knows firsthand how it feels to be stuck in the rut of conventional success. A former corporate career professional, Moussavi's early life was filled with messages of working hard, chasing the dream, and making money. After creating the “success” that she’d been taught to value, she found herself questioning how she ended up feeling stuck, restless and unfulfilled. Through a journey of self-examination, she learned how to find her purpose and experience authentic happiness.

Readers of books such as Authentic Happiness, The Motivation Manifesto, or The Big Leap, will love The High Achiever’s Guide.

It Takes Small Steps to Bank a Big Idea

Debunking the “eureka” moment and other guru myths: We all want to know the secret to success. Matthew Mockridge is here to shed light on what really lies along the path to victory. There is no such thing as a eureka moment, where everything suddenly falls into place; instead, commitment, preparation, and hard work are the keys to pursuing a passion and making dreams a reality.

Inspiration comes from preparation: Mockridge, creator of one of the biggest electronic dance music touring giants in Europe, began as many young entrepreneurs do—in his dorm room. Everyone wants to find that million-dollar startup idea, and Mockridge reveals what he learned after years of research into creative processes. Vision, design, and construction are among the core aspects that go into making a “next big thing” game plan.

A holistic approach to entrepreneurship and relationships: While Mockridge’s advice comes primarily from his experience as a young, successful entrepreneur, the lessons he shares are applicable not only to starting a business but to social lives as well. This self-help book connects thinkers and disciplines in search of true patterns of greatness and is both instructional and conversational.

Matthew Mockridge’s Your Next Big Thing is your guide to discovering ideas that inspire. Open it up and find:

• An entrepreneurial rough-guide and “real world” paint-by-numbers approach to creating and running big ideas
• Advice on time management, business acumen, financial management, and building healthy relationships
• Practical chapters such as “Matthew’s 10 Favorite Idea-Testing Tools” and “Matthew’s 10 Tips for Mega-Mindsets that Produce Ideas and Get Them Done”

If you’ve enjoyed titles such as The 4-Hour Workweek, Zero to One, and Think and Grow Rich, then you’ll find more of the motivation you need in Your Next Big Thing: Creating Successful Business Ideas from Scratch.

Don’t Just Feel Good—Do Good & Feel Great

Readers of The Happiness Project, The Power of Moments and I Hear You won’t want to miss Hug Therapy.

The science behind hugging. Dr. Stone’s prescription is for a 21-second hug today and every day. One of the many benefits of hugging is that longer hugs have proven physiological benefits. Hugs are good for your immune system, your stress response, your sleep patterns, and so much more.

Hug Therapy brings to life the meaning of hugging. In this book, you will discover:

• What it means to really, truly give yourself and others the profound gift of a hug
• How to be powerfully in action and more aware of what matters to you most
• That you may choose to begin hugging some strangers…with their blessing of course
• And perhaps most importantly, that together, one literal or metaphorical hug at a time, we make the world a better, healthier, and more connected place.

Embrace life. Hug Therapy shares a full-on, unconditional hug from Dr. Stone Kraushaar. In this book, he invites you to wrap your arms around yourself, your life, and everyone around you in a whole new way. A good embrace—a hug—squeezes every ounce of fear, worry, and negativity out of your spirit, leaving you with nothing but warmth, inner peace, and a feeling of connection.

Give a hug, get a hug. Most people have difficulty remembering the last time someone gave them an all-encompassing hug. Hug Therapy encourages you to change that, one physical or metaphorical embrace at a time. It’s a “do good and feel great” book that will help you live more in the moment and stay tuned into what really matters.

Expert advice from a world-class hugger. Dr. Stone Kraushaar is a clinical psychologist known as The Hug Doctor™. Also the founder of Hug Therapy™, he warmly invites you to jump into the 21-Day Hugging Journey™ and transform your life.

How to Prioritize for a Productive Day

“Paula Rizzo shows us how to create the happier, more productive lives we want, one list at a time.” —Gretchen Rubin, author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project

Time management is important. Learn to prioritize your time for a less stressed, happy, and productive life.

Don’t waste a minute. A total of 1440 minutes. That’s how many minutes there are in a day. How are you spending those precious minutes? Do you feel drained at the end of the day or look back and can’t figure out where the time went? If you’re not feeling fired up and fueled by your lists, Paula Rizzo, best-selling author and Emmy-award winning television producer, delivers the solution in Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed You. 

Prioritize what really matters. Listful Living is the journal you need to get your life in order once and for all. Make sure you’re putting the right things on your list, not just lists of tasks but those things you truly want to do that will nourish your soul that ensure you have a good day, everyday.

Make lists work for you. Anyone can make a list. But can that list make you a calmer, more mindful, super productive and less stressed version of yourself? It’s easy to become overwhelmed by to-do’s, bucket lists and goals. The secret to success is not just about what you put on your list, but what you intentionally leave off. Less is more. Leading with intention and how you’d like your life to feel is key. 

In Listful Living learn to: 

• Tap into your own productivity style to get more done
• Curate your list making to best serve the lifestyle you want to lead
• Prioritize what's truly important and be mindful of where you spend your precious energy
• Create a roadmap to be less stressed

If you liked How to Get Sh*t Done, The Bullet Journal Method, or Dot Journaling―A Practical Guide, you’ll love Listful Living. Also read Paula Rizzo’s Listful Thinking.

Your Guidebook for Parenting Teens in the New Teenage Years

“If you are a parent―or have children in your life in any significant way and that you love―this book is required reading.” ―Michael Hainey, author of New York Times bestseller After Visiting Friends

#1 Best Seller in School Age Children, Parenting Teenagers, Child Psychology, Adolescent Psychology, Anxieties & Phobias, and Hyperactivity

A parenting wake-up call that could change how you raise your child.

Learn about the “New Teen” and how to adjust your parenting skills. Strategies for parenting teens are now beginning years too late. Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the internet, and unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion they are unprepared to process.

Unprecedented teenage depression and anxiety. Because of the exposure they face, kids are emotionally overwhelmed at a young age and often are continuing to search for a sense of self well into their twenties.

Urgent advice for parents of teens. Dr. John Duffy’s parenting book is a necessary guide that addresses the hidden phenomenon of the changing teenage brain. Dr. Duffy, a nationally recognized expert in parenting for nearly twenty-five years, provides a guidebook for parents raising children who are growing up quickly and dealing with unresolved adolescent issues that can lead to anxiety and depression.

Inside:

• Realize the overwhelming circumstances of today’s teens and understand the changing landscape of adolescence
• Find a revised, conscious parenting plan that addresses the needs of the New Teen
• Discover the joy in parenting again by reclaiming the role of your teen’s ally, guide, and consultant

If you enjoyed parenting books such as The Yes Brain, How to Raise an Adult, The Teenage Brain, Untangled, or The Conscious Parent, Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety should be your next read.

#1 New Release in Human Sexuality ― Transform the Way Conflict Affects Your Love Life

Want to bring more peace into your relationship―and also get back that “spark” that’s been missing?

From bad breath to infidelity, find resolution for issues that cause division. If left unresolved, sources of disconnect can lead to major rifts in a relationship. Authors CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke bring over twenty years of experience in family and marriage counseling and relationship coaching to this book. They cater their advice to romantic relationships and provide resolution strategies for women and men.

Bring back the “spark” that’s been missing. Passion is essential to relationships, and equally important across the spectrums of love, sex, and dating. Whether it’s our first love or last love, in order for our bond with our partner to thrive, there needs to be a sense of excitement present. By transforming the way conflict affects us, we create a space for the intimate relationship or passionate marriage we long for to take root and grow.

Conflict doesn’t have to be a deal breaker. While arguments with our partner can get tiring, looking at those disagreements as opportunities to strengthen our bond rather than weaken it can have a significant impact on their effect. With conflict comes the chance to communicate and solve problems together. This can restore a sense of intimacy and connection with our partner, both emotionally and physically.

In The Beauty of Conflict for Couples, you will find:

• Relatable stories that shed light on the common struggles of romantic relationships
• Practical tools that offer guidance for addressing conflict
• A source of hope for relationships that appear to be fated for failure

If you and your significant other have looked for guidance in books such as Mating in Captivity, The 5 Love Languages, Hold Me Tight, or Campbell and Clarke’s first book, The Beauty of Conflict, then you’ll find a further source of resolution in The Beauty of Conflict for Couples.