Selected Self-Help/Recovery Titles, September 2004—June 2005
Compiled by Judith Rosen -- Publishers Weekly, 10/18/2004
AGATE PUBLISHING
With The Real Lives of Strong Black Women: Transcending Myths, Reclaiming Joy (Oct., $22.95), life coach Toby Thompkins offers one of the few empowerment guides written expressly for African-American women.
ALPHA BOOKS
Hypnotherapist Roberta Temes’s The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hypnosis, Second Edition (Sept., $16.95 paper) offers tips on using hypnosis to solve love, career and health problems. In a new series, Alpha partners with Psychology Today Magazine on on a variety of subjects affecting well-being. The Psychology Today Here to Help books launch in December with three paperbacks at $17.95 each: Psychology Today Here to Help: Breaking the Bonds of Food Addiction by Susan McQuillan, ... Taming Bipolar Disorder by Lori Oliwenstein and ... Secrets of Sexual Ecstasy by Michael S. Broder and Arlene Goldman.
ANDREWS MCMEEL
Designed for people on the go, Meditation 24/7: Practices to Enlighten Every Moment of the day (Oct., $14.95 book-and-CD) by Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche offers 14 brief meditations that can be done at transitional moments throughout the day: waking up, falling asleep or even taking a shower. Rabbi Gershon Winkler helps readers unravel the mysteries of the Kabbalah in short daily readings, Kabbalah 365: Daily Fruit from the Tree of Life (Nov., $12.95), with a foreword by Andrew Weil.
AVERY
Geriatric psychiatrist Peter V. Rabins and writer Lynn Lauber discuss late-life anxiety and ways to treat it in Getting Old Without Getting Anxious (Feb., $24.95). Of course, maintaining well-being is important at any age and Andrea Pennington, M.D., shows how in The Pennington Plan: 5 Simple Steps Toward Vibrant Health, Emotional Well-being and Spiritual Growth (Dec., $24.95).
BANTAM
Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal (Sept., $25) by Belleruth Naparstek makes the case for using guided imagery, rather than talk therapy, to heal those with post-traumatic stress disorder. Acupuncture, too can play a role in alleviating PTSD and other types of anxiety, according to Michael Reed Gach and Beth Ann Henning, authors of Acupressure for Emotional Healing: A Self-Care Guide for Trauma, Stress and Common Emotional Imbalances (Nov., $20 paper).
BARRICADE BOOKS
Karen McConnell not only survived sexual abuse as a child, but has devoted her life to helping others. She chronicles her work in The House That Karen Built (Jan., $24.95), written with Eileen Brand.
BARRON'S
The Art of Quitting (Nov., $14.95 paper) by Evan Harris combines equal doses of humor and common sense in negotiating the shoals of modern life. Bob Brandt uses 3-D computer animation to illustrate how to stay safe from muggers, terrorists or driving in ice and fog in The Illustrated Manual of Personal Safety and Survival (Oct., $14.95).
BASIC BOOKS
The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: The Bliss and Benefits of Embracing Your Guilt, Repressing Your Anger, and Throttling Your Inner Child (June, $24) by Paul Pearsall takes on pop psychology’s most familiar bromides and offers scientifically supported alternatives in their stead.
BERKLEY
Shellie Anderson-Tazi shares her strategies for overcoming a variety of tough situations in Soul Beginnings: 8 Strategies for Overcoming Life’s Challenges (Oct., $13 paper). The Ten Commandments of Working in a Hostile Environment (Jan., $14.95) by Bishop T. D. Jakes uses Christian principles to turn workplace problems into opportunities. Richard O’Connor relies on his personal experiences as a therapist and suicide survivor to help those plagued by stress in Undoing Perpetual Stress: The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21st Century Illness (Feb., $23). Meanwhile, Betty Ford joins her commentary to that of six women who underwent treatment at the Betty Ford Center in Healing and Hope: Six Women from the Betty Ford Center Share Their Powerful Journeys of Addiction and Recovery (Nov., $14 paper).
BERRETT-KOEHLER
At a time when 10,000 people a day turn 50 in the U.S. alone, Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose (Oct., $14.95 paper) by Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro offers an important paradigm for aging. Bill Treasurer collects more than 50 stories about personal empowerment in Positively M.A.D.: Making a Difference in Your Organizations, Communities and the World (Nov., $12 paper). Alex Pattakos extends the ideas presented in Man’s Search for Meaning to the workplace in Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl’s Principles at Work (Nov., $22.95).
BLUEBRIDGE
The first book for this New York City publisher, Inviting Silence: Universal Principles of Meditation (Sept. $12.95 paper) by Gunilla Norris, offers step-by-step help for creating an oasis of silence in the midst of life’s noise.
BROADWAY BOOKS
If Only: How to Turn Regrets into Opportunity (Jan., $23.95) by Neal Roese argues that rather than banish negative thoughts people should use them as a tool for regeneration. Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation (Sept., $15 paper) by Lama Surya Das embraces change as an opportunity for understanding ourselves.
CELESTIAL ARTS
The 44 irreverent life lessons in Enough, Dammit: A Cynic’s Guide to Finally Getting What You Want Out of Life (Nov., $14.95 paper) by Karen Salmansohn are geared to doing away with self-sabotaging behavior.
CITADEL
Freedom From Fear: Overcoming Anxiety, Phobias, and Panic (Dec., $14.95 paper) by Howard Liebgold, M.D., offers a program for enjoying life without fear.
CROWN
Love Is the Killer App author Tim Sanders reveals why likeability is important for success in The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life’s Dreams (Apr., $23).
DA CAPO
Vice is definitely nice, especially as described by Michael Flocker in The Hedonism Handbook: Mastering the Lost Arts of Leisure and Pleasure (Nov., $12.95 paper). (What’s wrong with the three-martini lunch, the deep tan or the unfiltered cigarette?. he asks.) “Our society talks a lot about change; but it seldom deals with transition,” wrote William Bridges 25 years ago in the preface to Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, which has been reissued in an anniversary edition (Sept., $15.95 paper) with a new chapter on the workplace. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, poet Robert Bly proposed a radical change for men: named after the Grimm’s fairy tale, Bly’s Iron John: A Book About Men ignited a men’s movement. A reissued paperback (Sept., $14) features a new introduction by Bly.
DUTTON
The wit and wisdom of actress Audrey Hepburn are distilled in How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life (Sept., $17.95) by Melissa Hellstern.
FREE PRESS
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles (Sept., $24) by Caroline Myss explores the seven stages of spiritual development using hundreds of stories of acts of kindness. Seven has long been the magic number for leadership authority Stephen R. Covey, whose The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has sold 15 million copies since it was first published in 1990. Due next month is a 15th anniversary paperback edition ($15). Also due in November is Covey’s newest book, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness ($26 book-and-DVD), which is based on the information revolution of the past decade. After a 10-year hiatus, bestselling writer Anthony Robbins explores emotional fitness in Inner Strength: Harnessing the Power of Your Six Primal Needs (Dec., $26.95). Maria Rodale and Maya Rodale detail the importance of pleasure for both health and success in The Pleasure Revolution: Free Yourself to Live the Life of Your Dreams—A Mother and Daughter Journey Toward Self-Discovery (May, $25).
GALLUP PRESS
How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life (Sept., $19.95) by grandson and grandfather Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton uses the metaphor of a dipper and a bucket to show how even the smallest interactions can make a difference.
GOTHAM
Using Dante’s Divine Comedy as a metaphor for personal transformation—the sources of suffering are Hell; of growing self-awareness, Purgatory—holistic nurse Bonney Gulino Schaub and her husband, psychotherapist Richard Schaub, have successfully treated hundreds of patients. In Dante’s Path: A Practical Approach to Achieving Inner Wisdom (Sept., $14 paper), they distill their technique for those who, in Larry Dossey’s words, “are tired of psychology-lite.” Susan Piver’s own technique tends more to the Socratic method; in The Hard Questions for Adult Children and Their Aging Parents: Facing the Future Together, with Courage and Compassion (Oct., $15) she uses the same question-and-answer format as in her bestselling The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say “I Do. ” In Crunch Time: 8 Steps to Making the Right Decisions at the Right Time in Your Life (Jan., $25) career coach Ken Lindner shows how to turn decisions into opportunities. And psychiatrist and Buddhist Mark Epstein questions the role of desire in helping us find inner peace in Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life—Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy (Jan., $25).
HARMONY
I Need Your Love—Is It True?: How to Find All the Love, Approval, and Appreciation You Want (Mar., $24) by Byron Katie questions the quest for love and approval. Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy (Oct., $16) by John Tarrant uses Zen koans, or paradoxical stories, to examine the enigmas of knowing and not knowing, living and dying. Poet and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo offers a fresh perspective on living each moment to the fullest in The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life (Feb., $21). And Britain’s Dr. Phil, Paul McKenna, presents a program for embracing change in Change Your Life in Seven Days: The World’s #1 Hypnotist Shows You How (Mar., $23).
HARPER SAN FRANCISCO
Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit (Dec., $21.95) by Victoria Moran is a daily guide to turning back the clock both physically and spiritually. The Best Year of Your Life: Dream It, Plan It, Live It (Jan., $21.95) by Debbie Ford offers a call to action to live in the present and improve your life right now. Stress Free for Good: 10 Scientifically Proven Life Skills for Health and Happiness (Feb., $24.95) by Fred Luskin and Kenneth R. Pelletier, with a foreword by Andrew Weil, provides an easy-to-use stress management program that includes belly breathing and tensing to relax exercises. Marianne Williamson attempts to combat what she sees as the “collective anxiety” of our times with The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (Nov., $21.95). Like A Return to Love, it is based on A Course in Miracles. Journeys of Socrates: A Novel (Apr., $23.95) by Dan Millman continues the story of Socrates, the mysterious gas station attendant and teacher, and forms a prequel to the visionary novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior. Lawyer-turned-monk Julian Mantle also reappears in Robin Sharma’s new fable, Discover Your Destiny with the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Blueprint for Living Your Best Life (Apr., $19.95) about the seven stages of self-awakening.
HAY HOUSE
Not only is a cigar just a cigar, but sometimes a book is just a book. For improving spiritual health, kits can sometimes provide a more complete approach. Among the varied kits coming up this season are: The Better Memory Kit: A Practical Guide to the Prevention and Reversal of Memory Loss, Including Alzheimer’s (Nov., $19.95 kit) by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., which includes exercise cards and a CD with mind/body exercises, The Detox Kit (Jan., $24.95) by Jane Alexander, with affirmation and detox cards, tea and oil, and The Best Year of Your Life Kit (Jan., $24.95) by Debbie Ford, which ties in with her book of the same name to be published by HarperSanFrancisco. Hay House founder Louise L. Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life Affirmation Kit (Jan., $19.95) is also based on her bestselling book and includes affirmation cards, word magnets and a CD. The Good Night Sleep Kit: The Essential Tool Kit for Restful Sleep (Apr., $24.95) by Deepak Chopra, M.D., lives up to its promise for those wanting to draw more energy and rest from sleep. Simply ... Woman! The 12-Week Body/Mind/Soul Total Transformation Program (Dec., $18.95 paper with DVD) by Crystal Andrus promises a life filled with joy, serenity and thin thighs in just 12 weeks. While Joy Browne shares real-life stories of relationships gone awry in Dating Disasters and How to Avoid Them (Feb., $24.95), Lesley Garner shares her personal resource book, the one she turns to in emergencies, in Everything I’ve Ever Done That Worked (Feb., $14.95). You Can Have an Amazing Life .. in Just 60 Days! (Mar., $14.95 paper) by John F. Demartini contains 60 rules, one-a-day for 60 days. Motivational speaker Stedman Graham’s Who Are You?: A Success Process for Building a Foundation for Your Life (Apr., $12.95) offers a step-by-step blueprint for putting together a meaningful life based on self knowledge. In Passionate People Produce: Rekindle Your Passion and Creativity. A Blueprint for Business People (Apr., $14.95 paper), Charles Kovess substitutes the word “passion” in the adage to “follow your heart” and maintains that passionate people are happier in their personal and work lives. Drawing on 12-step meetings and his own meditations, Ben Stein shares the lessons he has learned about living in a state of peace in The Gift of Peace: Guideposts on the Road to Serenity (Apr., $12.95). The New Golden Rules: An Essential Guide to Spiritual Bliss (Apr., $17.95) by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., presents four deceptively simple steps for reaching spiritual bliss.
HAY HOUSE/SMILEY BOOKS
Through Empowerment Cards for Inspired Living (Oct., $15.95) talk-show host Tavis Smiley promotes positive change.
HAY HOUSE/PRINCESS BOOKS
Cracking the Coconut Code: 7 Insights to Transform Your Life (Jan., $14.95) by Mary Jo McCabe offers advice on taking control of the future by understanding the past, or “getting to the milk in the coconut.”
HCI
It’s been more than a decade since Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen stirred up their first bowlful of Chicken Soup for the Soul seasoned with inspirational stories. Now they have expanded the series with several new batches of soup: ... for the African American Soul (Sept., $12.95 paper) by Canfield, Hansen, Tom Joyner and Lisa Nichols; ... for the Girlfriend’s Soul: Stories Celebrating the Magic of Friendship (Oct., $12.95 paper) by Canfield, Hansen, Mark and Chrissy Donnelly and Stefanie Adrian; and ... for the Recovering Soul: Stories of Healing, Hope, Love and Resilience (Dec., $12.95 paper) by Canfield, Hansen, Robert Ackerman, Peter Vegso and Theresa Peluso. Fat, Stupid, Ugly: One Woman’s Courage to Survive (Sept., $12.95 paper) by Debrah Constance as told to J. I. Kleinberg, with a foreword by Penny Marshall, chronicles how a former California Woman of the Year (Constance) overcame the triple whammies of abuse, cancer and alcoholism to found a youth center in Los Angeles. Therapist Toni Raiten-D’Antonio uses Margery Williams’s children’s classic, The Velveteen Rabbit, as his starting point for leading a life of love and fulfillment in The Velveteen Principles: A Guide to Becoming Real (Hidden Wisdom From a Children’s Classic) (Oct., $14.95). “[Happiness] lies hidden in each and every moment. It is not made, captured or bought. It is simply uncovered,” writes Shawn Christopher Shea, M.D., in his look at the nature of happiness, Happiness Is: Unexpected Answers to Practical Questions in Curious Times (Oct., $19.95). Tian Dayton’s guide to experiential therapy, The Living Stage: A Step-by-Step Guide to Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy (Nov., $16.95 paper), is as the subtitle implies, an easy-to-follow guide for clinicians. Wellness counselor John Newport offers a step-by-step guide of his own for holistic recovery in The Wellness-Recovery Connection: Charting Your Pathway to Optimal Health While Recovering from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction (Dec., $12.95 paper). In Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out (Jan., $12.95 paper), written with Fran Harris, teenager Farrah Gray describes how he went from public assistance to a net worth of a million dollars and offers nine principles for achieving success. For women, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul coauthor Jennifer Read Hawthorne offers her own recipe, The Soul of Success: A Woman’s Guide to Authentic Power (Jan., $12.95 paper). Lost Fathers: How Women Can Heal from Adolescent Father Loss (Mar., $12.95 paper) by Laraine Herring explores how grown women can overcome the death of a father during their teen years. It may be nice to come home to a clean house, but as Paula Jhung shows in Cleaning and the Meaning of Life: Finding Happiness Through Simplicity, Cleanliness and Comfort (Apr., $12.95 paper), the simple act of cleaning can bring deeper rewards. In What’s Right With You: Debunking Dysfunction and Changing Your Life (Apr., $14.95 paper) Barry Duncan accentuates the positive and uses inner resilience to effect change. Your Life Only a Gazillion Times Better: A Practical Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams (June, $12.95 paper) by Cathy Breslin and Judymay Murphy, with a foreword by Sharon L. Lechter, offers advice for turning frustrations into stepping-stones, written in a sassy, chick-lit way.
HAZELDEN (dist. by HCI)
Addiction researcher and therapist Stephanie Brown offers women a road map to sobriety in A Place Called Self: Women, Sobriety and Radical Transformation (Sept., $12.95 paper). In Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder (Sept., $12.95 paper) Rachel Reiland writes about her psychiatric hospitalization and how she ultimately came to terms with being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The second edition of 12-Step Prayer Book: A Collection of Favorite 12-Step Prayers and Inspirational Readings (Sept., $9.95 paper) compiled and edited by Bill P. and Lisa D. includes 44 new prayers. Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: 52 Life-Changing Lessons for the 21st Century—Inspired by Ben Franklin (Feb., $12.95 paper) by Andrea Rains Waggener contains the tools needed to make positive, lasting change, one week at a time. Gary Stromberg and Jane Merrill bring together inspiring interviews with musicians, writers, athletes and other celebrities who overcame their addiction and have lived drug-free for decades in The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery (Mar., $21.95). God Grant Me ... More Daily Meditations from the Authors of Keep It Simple (Mar., $12.95 paper) by Anonymous weaves together daily meditations, prayers and calls to action for those just embarking on the road to recovery and those who have traveled it for a while. In the second edition of Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects (Mar., $10.95 paper) Bill P., Todd W. and Lisa D. provide a practical guide for overcoming obstacles to recovery, such as resentment, fear, anger and self-pity.
HOLT/OWL
This new edition of Organizing from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Home, Your Office, and Your Life (Sept., $15 paper) by Task Masters founder Julie Morgenstern, has been completely revised.
HYPERION
Woven into eight parts, Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (Jan., $24.95) by Jon Kabat-Zinn shows how all five senses not only contribute to mindful awareness and better health, but to an individual’s empowerment to contribute to the world. Karen Neuburger’s own Rx for fulfillment involves a good dose of friendship, which she prescribes in The Secret Language of Girlfriends: Talking Loudly, Laughing Wildly and Making the Most of Our Most Important Friendships (Apr., $19.95), written with Nadine Schiff. Natasha Munson was 21 and pregnant when she found out that her husband was secretly addicted to crack cocaine. She wrote (and originally published through iUniverse) Life Lessons for My Sisters: How to Make Wise Choices and Live a Life You Love! to help other young women. That book is being reissued as an April paperback ($11.95) along with a new guide, Spiritual Lessons for My Sisters: How to Get Over the Drama and Live Your Best Life! (Apr., $11.95 paper). Award-winning writer Elizabeth Swados describes her struggle to live fully despite her “little black cloud” in My Depression: A Picture Book (Apr., $16.95), and celebrated actress Brooke Shields recounts her own triumph over depression after the birth of her child in Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Post Partum Depression (May, $23.95). Upbeat messages about how to live are culled from the writings of a beloved TV personality: Life’s Journeys According to Mister Rogers (May, $16.95) includes an introduction by his wife, Joanne Rogers.
INNER TRADITIONS
Kabbalistic Healing: A Path to an Awakened Soul (Oct., $14.95 paper) by Jason Shulman is a guide to using the Kabbalah to transform consciousness, while Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming (Apr., $14.95 paper) by Catherine Shainberg shows how to become a conscious dreamer in both sleeping and awakened states.
JOSSEY-BASS
Grief Dreams: How They Help Us After the Death of a Loved One (Mar., $19.95) by T.J. Wray with Ann Back Price relies on dreams to heal those suffering from loss. Work and burnout do not have to go hand-in-hand, as Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach show in Banishing Burnout: Using the Worklife Profile for Self-Assessment and Action Planning (Apr., $19.95).
KENSINGTON
In Take It from Here: Growing Up, Getting Real, and Moving On (Jan., $15 paper) Sonya Friedman, the former host of Sonya Live on CNN, and C.B. de Swaan provide an action guide for women who think that something is missing from their lives. Healing Depression Naturally (Sept., $15 paper) by Lewis Harrison, with a foreword by Jack Canfield, provides a variety of alternative strategies to antidepressants. A Twin Streams Book.
MANDALA
The palms have it in Vernon Mahabal’s guide to assessing the strength and weakness of business partners or lovers based on palmistry, Crossing Paths: Reading Hands for Love and Work (Oct. $16.95).
MARLOWE & CO.
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now (Jan., $18) by Gordon Livingston, M.D., is likely to be the only book this season that boasts a foreword by Elizabeth Edwards. (Yes, that Edwards, the wife of the vice-presidential candidate; she and Livingston met in an Internet chatroom where both mourned the loss of a child.) In Do (Jan., $8.95 paper), the sequel to Be, A. C. Ping offers further advice on defeating the “demon of emptiness.” Erika B. Hilliard’s Living Fully with Shyness and Social Anxiety: A Comprehensive Guide to Social Phobias (May, $15.95 paper) provides hope for those who are painfully shy. Anneli Rufus, who previously chronicled loneliness in Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto, now turns her attention to making those who grieve comfortable with the gamut of possible responses in The Farewell Chronicles: On How We Really Respond to Death (Apr., $14.95 paper). Farrell Silverberg attempts to break patterns of self-destructive behavior Make the Leap: A Practical Guide to Breaking the Patterns that Hold You Back (June, $14.95 paper). In Life Could Be Sweeter: 101 Great Ideas from Around the World for Living Your Best Life (June, $12.95 paper) William Sinunu shows that it is possible to lead happier lives and calls for incorporating practices and beliefs from other cultures.
MCGRAW-HILL
The authors of Crucial Conversations—Kerry Paterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler—provide tactics for dealing with touchy issues at home and in the office in Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations and Bad Behavior (Sept., $16.95 paper), with a foreword by Tom Peters. Harriet B. Braiker breaks the cycle of manipulation in relationships in Who’s Pulling Your Strings? (Oct., $16.95 paper), while star-maker Larry Thompson encourages everyone to shine their brightest in Shine: A Powerful 4-Step Plan for Becoming a Star in Anything You Do (Oct., $19.95). The Power of Resilience: Achieving Balance, Confidence and Personal Strength in Your Life (Nov., $14.95 paper) by Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein offers strategies for overcoming adversity. Jamie Blyth describes how he dealt with social anxiety and went on to become a finalist on The Bachelorette TV reality show in Fear Is No Longer My Reality: How I Overcame Panic and Social Anxiety and You Can, Too (Feb., $21.95), written with Jenna Glatzer. For women who are doing too much, The Hurried Woman Syndrome: A Seven-Step Program to Conquer Fatigue, Control Weight, and Resolve Passion in Your Relationship (Feb., $21.95) by Brent W. Best, M.D., shows how to slow down and repair the physical and emotional fallout. Sometimes talking can be the best course of action, especially for healing troubled relationships, according to Matthew McKay and Barbara Quick’s The Commitment Dialogues: How to Talk Your Way Through the Tough Times and Build Stronger Relationships (Feb., $21.95). And for those afraid to speak, Rosalie Maggio’s The Art of Talking to Anyone: Essential People Skills for Success in Any Situation (May, $16.95 paper) provides the tools for being both charming and persuasive.
NAL
Simple Steps for Every Holiday(Nov., $12.95 paper) by Lisa Lelas, Linda McClintock and Beverly Zingarella focuses on stress-free celebrations. Emmy Award-winning talk-show host Montel Williams describes how he was able to keep going despite a diagnosis of MS in Climbing Higher (Jan., $13.95 paper), written with Lawrence Grobel.
NEW HARBINGER
Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time: The New Behavioral Activation Approach for Getting Your Life Back (Oct., $17.95 paper) by Michael E. Addis and Christopher R. Martell uses a step-by-step approach to relieving depression through behavioral activation therapy—or concentrating on the activities that the depressed person finds most enjoyable. In The Anger Workbook for Women: How to Keep Your Anger from Undermining Your Self-Esteem, Your Emotional Balance, and Your Relationships (Oct., $17.95 paper), author Laura Petracek maintains that women tend to deny anger at their peril and provides healthier outlets for it. The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World (Oct., $14.95 paper) by Ted Zeff is aimed at those with finely tuned neurological symptoms who get overwhelmed by bright lights, loud sounds and strong smells. Martin M. Antony and Randi E. McCabe provide powerful techniques for countering the symptoms of a panic attack with 10 Simple Solutions to Panic: How to Overcome Panic Attacks, Calm Physical Symptoms, and Reclaim Your Life (Oct., $11.95 paper). The Messages Workbook: Powerful Strategies for Effective Communication at Work and Home (Nov., $19.95 paper) by Martha Davis, Kim Paleg and D. Patrick Fanning includes step-by-step worksheets, fill-in exercises and case histories for helping people improve their communications skills and, by extension, their lives. Rather than focus on the whole spectrum of OCD symptoms, Overcoming Compulsive Checking: Free Your Mind from OCD (Dec., $14.95 paper) by Paul R. Munford is designed to help those who cannot leave home without repeatedly checking the stove, faucets, etc. Deborah S. Levinson’s Surviving the Death of Your Spouse: A Step-by-Step Workbook (Dec., $15.95 paper) relies on a three-step program for adjusting to life after the death of a loved one. The Courage to Trust: A Guide for Building Deep and Lasting Relationships (Dec., $14.95 paper) by Cynthia Wall proposes strategies for learning how, when and whom to trust. The second edition of Angry All the Time (Jan., $13.95 paper) by Ronald T. Potter-Efron includes two new chapters and plenty of tips on directing anger in positive ways. Drawing on her experiences as a psychologist, Kathleen Kendall-Tackett shows how to de-clutter the office and make time for the things that count—life, family and friends—in The Well-Ordered Office: How to Create an Efficient and Serene Workspace (Feb., $13.95 paper). Transforming Stress: The HeartMath Solution for Relieving Worry, Fatigue, and Tension (Mar., $10.95 paper) by Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman focuses on the positive, feelings that is, and shows how people can transform stress by shifting their heart rhythms. Even the busiest person can start the day right with Five Good Minutes: One Hundred Morning Practices to Help You Stay Calm and Focused All Day Long (June, $12.95 paper) by Jeffrey Brantley, M.D., and Wendy Millstine, or improve their memory with The Memory Doctor: Fun, Simple Techniques to Improve Memory and Boost Your Brain Power (May, $11.95 paper), a collection of puzzles and other exercises by Douglas J. Mason and Spencer Xavier Smith.
NICHOLAS BREALEY
Living the 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More (Jan., $17.95 paper) by Richard Koch incorporates the well-known business model—that 80% of sales comes from 20% of clients—into personal life.
W.W. NORTON
Biting the Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia (Oct., $35) by Richard Maisel, David Epston and Alisa Borden includes first-person accounts of those who have successfully fought back against anorexia and bulimia.
OPTIMAL LIVING PRESS
In Victorious Woman! Shaping Life’s Challenges into Personal Victories (Jan., $16.95 paper)—the first book from this small Rosemont, Pa., press—SkillBuilder Systems founder Annmarie Kelly uses the stories of nine women who have overcome adversities to uncover the common threads that lead to success.
PERIGEE
Single Jewish Female: A Modern Guide to Sex and Dating (Sept., $13.95 paper) by Leah Furman offers advice for women trying to balance their religious identity with dating. For those who want to get ahead, Mustang Sallies: Success Secrets of Women Who Refuse to Run with the Herd (Oct., $22.95) by Fawn Germer contains tips based on interviews with 50 female trailblazers, from Hillary Clinton to Erin Brockovich. Alexandra Robbins provides answers for young people who want it all, but aren’t sure how to get it, in Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis: Advice from Twentysomethings Who Have Been There and Survived (Oct., $14.95 paper). Been There, Done That: The Balls-to-the-Wall Checklist of Things Worth Doing (Nov., $13.95 paper) by Rob Cohen and David Wollock offers a very funny take on how to get the most from life—complete with quizzes to rate oneself against Frank Sinatra, Hunter S. Thompson and other icons of wild living. In another set of tests, this time for happiness, Louis H. Janda provides a measure for just about everything, from career to relationships, in Are You Happy?: 24 Self Tests to Assess Your Happiness and Scientifically Proven Techniques to Get Happier (Dec., $13.95 paper). A Marketing Plan for Your Life: 12 Essential Business Principles to Create Meaning, Happiness and True Success (Jan., $15.95 paper) by Robert Michael Fried helps readers identify their “authentic” selves and what matters most to them. Rhonda Britten promises a quick, month-long turnaround in Change Your Life in 30 Days: A Journey to Finding Your True Self (Feb., $14.95 paper). Tina Santi Flaherty looks to Jackie O. for life lessons for women in What Jackie Taught Us: Lesson from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Apr., $12.95 paper), with an introduction by Susan Lucci. And, lest there be any doubts, given the success of the Fab Five, David Singleton proves that Behind Every Great Woman Is a Fabulous Gay Man: Advice from a Guy Who Gives It to You Straight (Apr., $12.95 paper). For young women who want a different kind of advice—on how to find an apartment and meet friends—Cathy Che offers guidance in Girl About Town: Finding Success in the City (May, $14.95 paper).
PLUME
Breaking the Pattern: The Five Principles You Need to Remodel Your Life (Dec., $14 paper) by Charles Stuart Platkin helps people escape from the same old, same old in relationships and jobs—and even stick to health regimens. For those suffering from a mid-midlife crisis, Lia Macko and Kerry Rubin show how to become unstuck in Midlife Crisis at 30: How the Stakes Have Changed for a New Generation—and What to Do About It (Feb., $14 paper).
PRENTICE HALL
The How to Say It series adds three titles that offer help with communicating in difficult situations: How to Say It to Seniors: Closing the Gap with Our Elders (Sept.) by David Solie, ... to Girls: Communication with Your Growing Daughter (Oct.) by Nancy Gruver and ... for Executives: The Complete Guide to Communicating for Leaders (Jan., $15.95 each paper) by Phyllis Mindell.
PUTNAM
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life (Sept., $19.95) by John G. Miller is based on the premise that asking better questions, i.e. ones that avoid finger-pointing and blame, provide better solutions. Miller’s positive approach to achieving goals has already been well received; he sold 300,000 copies of a self-published edition of this book.
RED WHEEL/WEISER CONARI
From Red Wheel:The Blackberry Tea Club: Women in Their Glory Years (Sept., $12.95 paper) by Barbara Herrick weaves together essays, stories and poetry that celebrate midlife as a spiritual journey instead of a time for crisis. Shining Through: Switch on Your Life and Ground Yourself in Happiness (Oct., $12.95 paper) by Hugh Prather is a thirty-day course-in-a-book for finding peace and happiness. Joy, No Matter What: Make Three Simple Choices to Access Inner Joy (Mar., $16.95 paper) by Carolyn Hobbs helps people find happiness in the face of depression, anxiety or chronic pain. The Little Secret That Can Change Your Life: If You Win the Rat Race, You’re Still a Rat (Apr., $14.95) by Joann Davis encourages readers to stop working for the cheese at the end of the maze and to create a life that counts. In Friends Are Everything (Apr., $15.95), BJ Gallagher focuses on what it really means to be a true friend, and to have one. Each chapter of Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow: 12 Simple Principles (May, $14.95) by Karen Casey offers a principle to live by. Carol Setters encourages women to grow spiritually, don an imaginary leather jacket and become a real, or virtual, biker in Kick Start: A Cosmic Baker Babe’s Guide to Life and Changing the Planet (May, $12.95 paper).
From Conari: Each card in therapist Eric Maisel’s new series, A Little Everyday Deck, offers a daily idea and simple exercise to encourage creativity. The first three decks of thirty cards are each priced at $12.95: Everyday Calm: 30 Ways to Soothe Your Inner Beast, Everyday Creative: 30 Ways to Wake Up Your Inner Artist and Everyday Smart: 30 Ways to Spark Your Inner Genius. Guy Finley encourages readers to tackle the pain that prevents them from experiencing inner peace and happiness in Let Go and Live in the Now: Awaken the Peace, Power, and Happiness in Your Heart (Oct., $14.95 paper), which includes exercises based on teachings by both ancient and modern masters. A Hidden Order: Uncover Your Life’s Design (Nov., $16.95 paper) by Winter Robinson encourages readers to follow their own blueprint to create the lives they really want. The newest addition to the Just Try This series, Simply Happy Every Day (Jan., $9.95 paper) by Barb Rogers, encourages readers to accept happiness.
RIVERHEAD BOOKS
Long-time Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers daily guidance for freeing oneself from strong emotions such as fear and anger in Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions (Oct., $19.95). A Whole New Mind: The Rise of Right-Brain Thinking and the New Way to Succeed (Apr., $24.95) by Daniel H. Pink uses the right and left brain as metaphors for thriving in today’s uncertain times, where affluence is on the rise, as is the outsourcing of good jobs. The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D., also look to work-related issues as they continue the dialogue that led to their 1998 bestseller The Art of Happiness: The Art of Happiness at Work (Sept., $14 paper). In Infinite Life: Seven Virtues for Living Well (Feb., $15 paper), with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman shows readers how to take responsibility for their actions and their happiness.
RODALE
In Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others (Oct., $24.95), rabbi and international mediator Marc Gopin details a process for resolving conflicts that are so rooted in emotions that they cannot be solved by “rational” discussion. Phil Keoghan, host of the Emmy Award–winning The Amazing Race and of No Opportunity Wasted (NOW), combines adventure with self-help as he urges readers to face their fears and test their limits in No Opportunity Wasted: Creating a List for Life (Nov., $22.95), written with Warren Berger. Pitch Like a Girl: How a Woman Can Be Herself and Still Succeed (Jan., $23.95) by Ronna Lichtenberg encourages working women to stop trying to think like men and, instead, to build on their intrinsic strengths. Stephen Levine offers compassionate advice for those with unresolved grief in Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart (Feb., $23.95). Psychiatrist and neuroscientist David Servan-Schreiber provides alternatives to traditional depression therapy in The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy (Feb., $13.95 paper). The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making, and Keeping Friends When You’re Not a Kid Anymore (Mar., $12.95 paper) by Marla Paul explores the importance of friendship at every stage in a woman’s life. Unstoppable Women: Achieve Any Breakthrough Goal in 30 Days (Apr., $15.95 paper) by Cynthia Kersey shows how to identify a goal—whether it’s to write a book or lose weight—and break it down into daily actions that will lead to success. It is being published to coincide with the Unstoppable Women Challenge 2005, a year-long initiative to inspire one million women to make a change in their lives.
RONIN
Overcoming Job Burnout: How to Renew Enthusiasm for Work (Oct., $12.95 paper) by Beverly Potter has been revised for a third time since its original publication in 1980 and updated for the 21st-century workplace.
SHAMBHALA
In The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them (Jan., $18.95) psychotherapist David Richo proposes that “the five unavoidable givens of life ... are exactly what we need to gain courage, compassion, and wisdom.” Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul (Nov., $16.95 paper) by Shaun McNiff explores how the arts can transform individuals and groups, the healthy and the sick. Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work’s Chaos (Sept., $21.95) by Michael Carroll shows how practical Buddhist principles can lend greater meaning, and fulfillment, to work.
SHELDON (dist. by IPM)
Through action points and self-check questionnaires, Windy Dryden and Daniel Constantinou show how to learn assertiveness training in Assertiveness Step by Step (Sept., $12.95 paper). Coping with a Mid-Life Crisis (Nov., $12.95 paper) by Derek Milne, M.D., examines ways to deal with a time of life associated with challenge and change.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Ready or Not, Here Life Comes (Feb., $26) by Mel Levine, M.D., explains the perils of becoming an adult and shows how parents and educations can help teens make the transition. Hold My Gold: A White Girl’s Guide to the Hip-Hop World (May, $12 paper) by Amanda McCall and Albertina Rizzo offers a different kind of help, with tongue firmly in cheek, for the hip-hop illiterate.
S&S/FIRESIDE
In The Rhythm of Life (Nov., $19.95), Matthew Kelly offers help with transcending the chaos of daily life and living life more fully. Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, and People Who Would Really Rather Sleep All Day (Feb., $16 paper) by Sark (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) offers a 12-step program, one a month, for achieving your dream. 100 Ways to Beat the Blues (Mar., $19.95) by Tanya Tucker and Friends contains sure-fire remedies for fighting the blues from celebrities—including Garth Brooks and former First Lady Barbara Bush—and “regular folks.”
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Psychoanalyst Jeffrey B. Rubin demonstrates how analysis can be used to illuminate health, as well as illness, and affirm people’s values and creativity in The Good Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love, Ethics, Creativity, and Spirituality (Sept., $16.95 paper).
STERLING
A brand-new edition of Allen Carr’s guide to kicking the cigarette habit, Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking (Nov., $14.95), explores the psychological reasons behind smoking dependency.
From Collins & Brown: Improve Your Memory (Sept., $14.95) by Robert Allen brings together a number of memory-strengthening techniques and includes a month-long exercise plan.
From Hamlyn: The Life Coach: Become the Person You’ve Always Wanted to Be (Sept., $14.95 paper) by Pam Richardson shows how to transform your life using your “inner coach.”
STEWART, TABORI & CHANG
Looking Forward: An Optimist’s Guide to Retirement (Nov., $15.95 paper) by Ellen Freudenheim helps those in their post-career years get more out of life.
SILOAM/STRANG COMMUNICATIONS
In Midlife Meltdown: Spot It! Prevent It! Overcome It! (Oct., $13.99 paper) Janet Maccaro describes how to combat the Seven Health Zappers that cause emotional and spiritual depletion in middle age.
TARCHER/PENGUIN
Instant Persuasion: How to Change Your Words to Change Your Life (Jan., $17.95) by Laurie Puhn contains 35 rules for communicating to reduce stress and resolve conflicts with family and coworkers.
TEMPLETON FOUNDATION
Love That Works: The Art and Science of Giving (Oct., $14.95 paper) by Bruce Brander draws on history, theology, literature and psychology to show why romance is a poor basis for creating a stable, loving relationship.
THORSONS ELEMENT
Thank You, Your Opinion Means Nothing to Me: A Year of Hotflashes, Flashbacks and Finding My Voice (Sept. $24.95) by Nancy Blair offers a very funny take on the physical and spiritual transformations that accompany menopause. Come On, Get Happy: 365 Ways to Feel Good (Mar., $13.95 paper) by Jonathon Lazear provides a year’s worth of ways to make each day joyful. How to Pray Without Being Religious: Finding Your Own Spiritual Path (Apr., $14.95 paper) by Janell Moon contains advice on leading a spiritual life without the structure of formal religion. Josh Baran’s 365 Nirvana Here and Now: Living Every Moment in Enlightenment (Apr., $14.95 paper) is a wake-up call to live each day fully. The Little Prisoner: A Memoir of Childhood Abuse (Apr., $27.95) by Jane Elliott gives voice to other victims and survivors of childhood abuse. New Couple: The 10 New Laws of Love (May, $18.95 paper) by Maurice Taylor offers couples the tools they need for creating fulfilling relationships that last.
THREE RIVERS
Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrancy, Strength and Love (Apr., $14 paper) by Judith Orloff, M.D., helps eliminate energy vampires and rebuild vitality. Arthur Jeon provides a hip guide for maintaining one’s cool in the midst of a busy world in City Dharma: Keeping Your Cool in the Chaos (Apr., $12.95 paper). Craig Boreth ups the humor quotient in a tongue-in-cheek guide, How to Iron Your Own Damn Shirt: The Perfect Husband Handbook Featuring Over 50 Foolproof Ways to Win, Woo and Wow Your Wife (Apr., $12 paper)
ULYSSES PRESS
Stop Living Your Job, Start Living Your Life: 85 Simple Strategies to Achieve Work/Life Balance (Jan., $11.95 paper) by Andrea Molloy provides a roadmap for remaking your life to match your real priorities.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
In his memoir, Dancing Away an Anxious Mind: A Memoir About Overcoming Panic Disorder (Oct., $24.95), Robert Rand shows how he used Cajun dancing to overcome a serious anxiety disorder and regain control of his life.
WILEY
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse: How to Move Beyond Your Past to Create an Abuse-Free Future (Nov., $24.95) by Beverly Engel offers prescriptive advice for both abusers and the abused to stop the cycle of abuse from being passed on to the next generation, while Betrayed but Healing (Apr., $24.95) by Richard B. Gartner provides help for male victims specifically. Talk to the Mirror: Feel Great About Yourself Each and Every Day (Sept., $24.95) by Florine Mark details the practical steps women can take every day to change their lives, starting with making friends with themselves through their reflection in the mirror. Staying in Charge: Practical Plans for the End of Your Life (Sept., $14.95 paper) by Karen Orloff Kaplan and Christopher Lukas contains both practical and spiritual guidance for the seriously ill and their caregivers. Beverly Engel offers help with anger management in Honor Your Anger: How Transforming Your Anger Style Can Change Your Life (Nov., $14.95 paper). Getting organized can be every bit as important as controlling negative emotions, as Ronni Eisenberg with Kate Kelly show in Organize Yourself!: Revised and Updated Third Edition (Apr., $14.95). First Year, Worst Year: Coping with the Unexpected Death of Our Grown Up Daughter (Nov., $16.95 paper) by Barbara A. Wilson and Michael J. Wilson details how they coped with the grief of losing one daughter in a rafting accident. Addiction and Recovery for Dummies (Dec., $16.99 paper) by Brian F. Shaw, Paul Ritvo and Jane Irvine is a compassionate guide for alcohol and substance abusers.
WORKMAN
Lasting change, in both work and personal life, is made through simple steps, maintains Robert Maurer in One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way (Sept., $16.95), which incorporates the Japanese technique of kaizen, or small, steady steps, to achieve difficult goals.
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