Friday, June 25, 2021

iTunes Store: Top 25 Books in Nonfiction 2021-06-25

Pamela Everett - Little Shoes artwork Little Shoes
The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret
Pamela Everett
Genre: True Crime
Price: $1.99
Publish Date: May 29, 2018
Publisher: Skyhorse
Seller: Simon & Schuster Canada

In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California triple murder stunned an already grim nation. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story. But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and former journalist, starts digging, following up a cryptic comment her father once made about a tragedy in their past. Her journey is uniquely personal as she uncovers her family's secret history, but the investigation quickly takes unexpected turns into her professional wheelhouse. Everett unearths a truly historic legal case that included one of the earliest criminal profiles in the United States, the genesis of modern sex offender laws, and the last man sentenced to hang in California. Digging deeper and drawing on her experience with wrongful convictions, Everett then raises detailed and haunting questions about whether the authorities got the right man. Having revived the case to its rightful place in history, she leaves us with enduring concerns about the death penalty then and now. A journey chronicled through the mind of a lawyer and from the heart of a daughter, Little Shoes is both a captivating true crime story and a profoundly personal account of one family's struggle to cope with tragedy through the generations.



Sam Cooper - Wilful Blindness artwork Wilful Blindness
How a criminal network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West
Sam Cooper
Genre: True Crime
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: May 20, 2021
Publisher: Optimum Publishing International
Seller: ECW Press Ltd.

In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. They would decide how Hong Kong would be handed over to the People’s Republic of China and how Chinese business tycoons Henry Fok and Li Ka-Shing would help Deng Xiaoping realize the Chinese Communist Party’s domestic and global ambitions. That meeting would not only change Vancouver but the world. Billions of dollars in Chinese investment would soon reach the shores of North America’s Pacific coast. B.C. government casinos became a tool for global criminals to import deadly narcotics into Canada and launder billions of drug cash into Vancouver real estate. And it didn't happen by accident. A cast of accomplices — governments hungry for revenue, casino, and real estate companies with ties to shady offshore wealth, professional facilitators including lawyers and bankers, an aimless RCMP that gave organized crime room to grow — all combined to cause this tragedy. There was greed, folly, corruption, conspiracy, and wilful blindness. Decades of bad policy allowed drug cartels, first and foremost the Big Circle Boys — powerful transnational narco-kingpins with ties to corrupt Chinese officials, real estate tycoons, and industrialists — to gain influence over significant portions of Canada’s economy. Many looked the other way while B.C.’s primary industry, real estate, ballooned with dirty cash. But the unintended social consequences are now clear: a fentanyl overdose crisis raging in major cities throughout North America and life spans falling for the first time in modern Canada, and a runaway housing market that has devastated middle-class income earners. This story isn’t just about real estate and fentanyl overdoses, though. Sam Cooper has uncovered evidence that shows the primary actors in so-called “Vancouver Model” money laundering have effectively made Canada’s west coast a headquarters for corporate and industrial espionage by the CCP. And these ruthless entrepreneurs have used Vancouver and Canada to export their criminal model to other countries around the world including Australia and New Zealand. Meanwhile, Cooper finds that the RCMP’s 2019 arrest of its top intelligence official, Cameron Ortis, raises many frightening questions. Could Chinese transnational criminals and state actors targeting Canada’s industrial and technological crown jewels have gained protection from the Mounties? Could China and Iran have insight into Canada's deepest national security secrets and influence on investigations? Ortis had oversight of many investigations into transnational money laundering networks and insight into sensitive probes of suspects seeking to undermine Canada’s democracy and infiltrate the United States, according to the evidence Cooper has found. Wilful Blindness is a powerful narrative that follows the investigators who refused to go along with institutionalized negligence and corruption that enabled the Vancouver Model, with Cooper drawing on extensive interviews with the whistle-blowers; thousands of pages of government and court documents obtained through legal applications; and large caches of confidential material available exclusively to Cooper. The book culminates with a shocking revelation showing how deeply Canada has been compromised, and what needs to happen, to get the nation back on track with its “Five Eyes” allies. “I’m astonished that some Hollywood production company hasn't already signed him for a big-screen treatment of this story. It's a huge story.” — Terry Glavin, National Post



Amanda Kloots & Anna Kloots - Live Your Life artwork Live Your Life
My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero
Amanda Kloots & Anna Kloots
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: June 15, 2021
Publisher: Harper
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

Amanda Kloots bravely reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star, and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with COVID-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world. In March 2020, Broadway star and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife, Amanda Kloots, believed to be a severe case of pneumonia. Entering the hospital, they had every reason to believe that Nick—a young father and otherwise healthy man—would return home. After an eventual diagnosis of COVID-19 that led to Nick’s being placed on a ventilator, Amanda took to documenting their journey on social media, showing the dangers COVID-19 posed to everyone, regardless of age. Her updates quickly captivated millions, inspiring people around the globe to dance each day to Nick’s song “Live Your Life” and offer positive thoughts and prayer. When he passed away after ninety-five grueling days in the ICU, the world grieved for Amanda, her infant son, Elvis, and the future COVID-19 had snatched away from them. Live Your Life is the story of Nick and Amanda’s life together—of their beautiful relationship, of Nick’s dramatic fight for survival, of those sudden tragic months that permanently changed her world and ours—and of their interrupted future as a family. From the confusing early days of his illness to searching for signs of hope in every update from the doctors to the healing sound of Elvis’s laughter, Amanda details how she approached even the most devastating moments with the personal optimism and faith that have shaped her life. Written with her sister Anna Kloots, who was with her every step of this journey, Live Your Life explores how Amanda’s willingness to accept help from an entire community of people—friends, family, and even total strangers—played a vital role in enduring this hardship. In the process, she offers a touching meditation on how even the worst times have silver linings that deepen our connections to the world around us and to the people who matter most.   What emerges is an inspiring and unexpectedly uplifting message for life in the time of COVID, a vision of courage for anyone coping with overwhelming loss or the collective trauma of what the pandemic has taken from us. A poignant reflection on love, hope, motherhood, and the transformational power of music, Live Your Life is a love letter to Nick and a reminder that, sometimes, celebrating life today is the only path through tomorrow’s darkness. Live Your Life includes 16 pages of color photos exclusive to the book.



Pat Allen & Sandra Harmon - Getting To 'I Do' artwork Getting To 'I Do'
Pat Allen & Sandra Harmon
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: August 19, 2014
Publisher: William Morrow
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

Dr. Patricia Allen's jam-packed seminars in Los Angeles have resulted in over two thousand marriages. Now you too can take advantage of this proven step-by-step program. Here's what you'll learn: How to attract the right man When you should make the first move...and when you should not Why equality in a relationship may not be what you're looking for Why sex before commitment is a bad deal How to have sensational sex What makes a man run away from a relationship How to know when you're giving too much How to get what you want without asking What makes a man want to commit How to be engaged to the right man within a year!



Scott Burnside & Alan Cairns - Deadly Innocence artwork Deadly Innocence
Scott Burnside & Alan Cairns
Genre: True Crime
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: November 15, 2008
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

Karla and Paul seemed like the picture-perfect newlyweds, but were really a pair of vicious killers who abducted, sexually tortured and murdered innocent schoolgirls, videotaping their evil acts in suburban Niagara Falls. Billed as the crime of the century in Canada, this case has received a great deal of media coverage on both sides of the border. Includes eight pages of photos.



Carolyn Woods - Sleeping with a Psychopath artwork Sleeping with a Psychopath
Carolyn Woods
Genre: True Crime
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: April 29, 2021
Publisher: HarperElement
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

‘You’re right. It is totally extraordinary. My life is like a film; you couldn’t make it up … But there’s something I have to tell you,’ he confided, as he leaned across the table towards me. ‘I’m not normal.’ After a job change and divorce, Carolyn Woods was living happily in a quiet Cotswolds village when an attractive stranger abruptly arrived in her life. Introducing himself as Mark Conway, he exuded confidence and much to her surprise Carolyn quickly became captivated by this mysterious man. A rich Swiss banker (who later confided he was a spy), he offered Carolyn the companionship she’d unwittingly been missing and introduced her to an exciting, glamorous world. In fact, some things were so astonishing she questioned her new lover. Was all as it seemed? The truth devastated Carolyn’s entire world. For a start, this man’s real name was Mark Acklom and he was rich but for one reason only… A real-life crime thriller, Sleeping with a Psychopath is a blow-by-blow account that shines a light on the power of manipulation and the human will to survive.



Louise Sigouin - Si on s'aimait artwork Si on s'aimait
Louise Sigouin
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: April 27, 2020
Publisher: Les Éditions de l'Homme
Seller: Messageries A.D.P. Inc.

Êtes-vous plutôt: • dépendant ou codépendant? • fusionnel ou solitaire? • rationnel ou émotif? • actif ou rêveur? • vite ou lent? Toutes ces caractéristiques en disent long sur votre ADN amoureux et votre dynamique en couple. Dans ce livre passionnant, la sexologue Louise Sigouin démystifie ces cinq dualités fondamentales qui, selon elle, sont au cœur de toutes les relations. Terreau fertile pour les conflits et les incompréhensions, elles peuvent laisser croire à l'incompatibilité d'un couple. Mais qu'en est-il vraiment? Grâce à des explications simples, agrémentées de mises en situation parlantes, l'Approche Sigouin nous amène à mieux comprendre ces cinq dualités pour en faire un élément constructif de la vie à deux. Le couple devient alors un fabuleux laboratoire humain, où chacun apprend à se connaître et à s'aimer davantage. L'approche mène ultimement à développer l'autonomie affective, véritable clé d'une relation amoureuse saine et épanouie.



Three Initiates - The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy artwork The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy
Three Initiates
Genre: Ethics
Price: $0.99
Publish Date: March 11, 2020
Publisher: Monteiro Publisher
Seller: robson monteiro de carvalho

The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy, originally published in 1908 under the pseudonym of "the Three Initiates", is a book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. The precepts of their philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded by obscure language and dense allegories. This guide offers a modern interpretation of Hermetic doctrine, distilling its teachings into seven compelling principles that can be applied to self-development in daily life.



Mark Manson - Models: Attract Women Through Honesty artwork Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
Mark Manson
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: May 27, 2012
Publisher: Mark Manson
Seller: Smashwords, Inc.

Models is the first book ever written on seduction as an emotional process rather than a logical one, a process of connecting with women rather than impressing them. It's the most mature and honest guide on how a man can attract women without faking behavior, without lying and without emulating others. A game-changer.



Chantal Heide - No More A******s artwork No More A******s
Your 7 Step Guide To Saying Goodbye To Guys and Finding The Real Man You're Looking For
Chantal Heide
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: January 01, 2016
Publisher: Chantal Heide
Seller: Chantal heide

Chantal Heide, the leading voice in Conscious Dating, helps singles hit the refresh button in the dating world with her sound advice and techniques offered up in No More A******s. Through simple explanations and anecdotal stories, learn the science of attraction and human behaviour, avoid dating pitfalls, and attract the ideal relationship you want faster. Chantal leads ground-breaking seminars designed to teach women how to connect with themselves and others, including the kind of partner who will treat them with the utmost love and respect. Her seven steps are invaluable tools for life, not just dating. You’ll gain a greater sense of your own true worth and increased confidence knowing how to communicate what you want in a relationship, without the fear of sounding needy or unrealistic. From getting over an ex to conflict resolution once you meet the right person, Chantal teaches you how to find and keep a loving relationship that will satisfy your soul. She helps you understand human behaviour and recognize our amazing ability to create a fulfilling spiritual connection. Chantal skillfully sets you on a path of intimacy with yourself and teaches you how to engage with others in a way that opens the door to a deeply loving and lasting relationship. If you’re looking for a book that will enrich your love life “for life,” this is the one! “Very, very effective. Great advice, and concise. What people really need to know to move into a really great love.” - Chris Patton, author of Showing Up, Becoming The Me I Want To Be



Chantal Heide - Fix That Shit artwork Fix That Shit
A Couples Guide To Getting Past The Sticky Stuff
Chantal Heide
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: June 01, 2016
Publisher: Chantal Heide
Seller: Chantal heide

Motivational Speaker Chantal Heide helped you pick the right partner in No More A******s, taught you how to keep little things from becoming big issues in After The First Kiss, and is now here to help unpack the emotional baggage you’ve been lugging around before it becomes a destructive force. Filled with the advice you need to rise above drama and become the emotional leader in your relationship, Chantal teaches you how to care for yourself and develop the ability to help your partner unpack too. You’ll create a relationship fortified against pain and fear and free from the fights that develop from misunderstandings, and set the example for lasting, functional love. Whether you’re just starting out and seeking to avoid downward spirals or dealing with struggles that are decades old, you’ll learn the tools that help you calm your minds, avoid conflicts, communicate effectively, and come together with love and intimacy even after the biggest fights. It’s never too early or too late to break through hurt and anger and keep the magic of love at your fingertips. Are you ready to savor the happiest relationship you’ve ever experienced, filled with joy and appreciation? Then this is the guide for you.



Facundo Conforti - Airbus A320 Emergencies artwork Airbus A320 Emergencies
Facundo Conforti
Genre: Transportation
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: June 05, 2021
Publisher: Biblioteca Aeronáutica
Seller: Facundo Conforti

Welcome again to the most successful collection about A320. In this book, we will learn all about A320 emergencies. Not only the ECAM ACTIONS but also each action taken by crew in a complex situation. A320 Emergencies has changed the way to study an aircraft and its procedures. Our team, a great staff of professional pilots with thousands of flight hours in A320, have written every each pages based on their experiences and knowledges. Enjoy every page, every example and remember, a good pilot is always studying all about his plane.



Susan Piver - The Hard Questions artwork The Hard Questions
100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do"
Susan Piver
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: January 05, 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

From Time magazine and USA Today to O , The Oprah Magazine , the media has raved about this life-changing New York Times bestseller. Now, just in time for Valentine's Day, comes this beautiful hardcover edition. Complete with new material, The Hard Questions is now being published in the same keepsake format as The Hard Questions for an Authentic Life .



Katherine Dykstra - What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl artwork What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl
Katherine Dykstra
Genre: True Crime
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: June 15, 2021
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Seller: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

A People Best Book of Summer A New York Times Most Anticipated Book of the Summer A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives. July 1970. Eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Four months later, her remains were discovered just beyond the mouth of a culvert overlooking the Cedar River. Her homicide has never been solved. Fifty years cold, Paula’s case had been mostly forgotten when journalist Katherine Dykstra began looking for answers. A woman was dead. Why had no one been held responsible? How could the powers that be, how could a community, have given up? Tracing Paula’s final days, Dykstra uncovers a girl whose exultant personality was at odds with the Midwest norms of the late 1960s. A girl who was caught between independence and youthful naivete, between a love that defied racially segregated Cedar Rapids and her complicated but enduring love for her mother, and between a possible pregnancy and the freedoms that had been promised by the women’s liberation movement but that still had little practical bearing on actual lives. The more Dykstra learned about the circumstances of Paula’s life, the more parallels she saw in the lives of the women who knew Paula and the women in Paula’s family, in the lives of the women in Dykstra’s own family, and even in her own life. Captivating and expertly crafted from interviews with Paula’s family and friends, police reports, and on-the-scene investigation, What Happened to Paula is part true crime story, part memoir, a timely and powerful look at gender, autonomy, and the cost of being a woman.



Jean-Luc Collieux - La fin des temps artwork La fin des temps
Jean-Luc Collieux
Genre: Social Science
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: October 25, 2017
Publisher: Atramenta
Seller: immateriel.fr

Les secrets de la Torah formulés par les cabalistes sont aujourd’hui dévoi­lés à un large public, cependant qu’une connaissance basique du judaïsme reste nécessaire pour les comprendre ; certains de ces secrets sont alors abor­dés dans ce livre dans leur « environnement naturel », la spiritualité hé­braïque. Ces secrets dévoilés, ou mystères éclaircis, sont ensuite illustrés par des exemples concrets de la psychologie et de la sociologie humaines, avant que l’auteur n’en propose des implications politiques qui leur donnent sens. Extrait: "Au début des années 1980, des éthologues américains de Stanford observèrent au Kenya la mort des mâles domi­nants d’un groupe de babouins après qu’ils eurent consommé de la viande avariée jetée d’un hôtel voisin. S’étant octroyé par coutume et comme de droit la pri­meur de la consommation de cette nourriture, les primates n’en laissèrent pas une miette à leurs congénères, les sauvant in­volontairement de la mort à laquelle eux-mêmes succom­bèrent tous. Quelle ne fut pas la surprise des scienti­fiques de remar­quer une évolution si atypique­ment pacifique de la troupe privée de ses an­ciens tyrans : les manifestations et signes de stress avaient disparu du sein de cette bande de ba­bouins. Ces animaux très socialisés dévelop­paient des re­lations paisibles entre eux de ma­nière si solide que même les individus venus de l’extérieur durent se plier et s’adap­ter aux nouvelles règles de vie sociale. L’étude de cette troupe de babouins ne per­met aucun doute quant aux possibilités de fonctionnements sociaux autres que ceux basés sur le rapport de force, chez les pri­mates en particulier, tant simiens qu’hominiens."



Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum - Causation: A Very Short Introduction artwork Causation: A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum
Genre: Philosophy
Price: $7.99
Publish Date: November 28, 2013
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Seller: The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press

Without cause and effect, there would be no science or technology, no moral responsibility, and no system of law. Causation is therefore the most fundamental connection in the universe and a core topic of philosophical thought. This Very Short Introduction introduces all of the main theories of causation and its key debates.



Edward de Bono - Think! artwork Think!
Before It's Too Late
Edward de Bono
Genre: Philosophy
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: July 28, 2009
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Seller: The Random House Group Limited

The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why can we not solve them? According to Edward de Bono, world thinking cannot solve world problems because world thinking is itself the problem . And this is getting worse: we are so accustomed to readily available information online that we search immediately for the answers rather than thinking about them. Our minds function like trying to drive a car using only one wheel. There's nothing wrong with that one wheel - conventional thinking - but we could all get a lot further if we used all four... De Bono examines why we think the way we do from a historical perspective and uses some of his famous thinking techniques, such as lateral thinking, combined with new ideas to show us how to change the way we think. If we strengthen our ability and raise our thinking level, other areas of our life - both personal and business success - will improve. De Bono is the master of the original big 'concept' book and his enticement to us to use our minds as constructively as possible should appeal to a whole new generation of fans.



J. D. Vance - Hillbilly Elegy artwork Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance
Genre: Sociology
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: May 01, 2018
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.



Sheri Fink - Five Days at Memorial artwork Five Days at Memorial
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink
Genre: Social Science
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: September 10, 2013
Publisher: Crown
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several of those caregivers faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. Five Days at Memorial , the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing. In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are for the impact of large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis. One of The  New York Times ' Best Ten Books of the Year



Neil Strauss - The Truth artwork The Truth
Sex, Love, Commitment, and the Puzzle of the Male Mind
Neil Strauss
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: October 13, 2015
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

This is not a journey that was undertaken for journalistic purposes. It is a painfully honest account of a life crisis that was forced on me by my own behavior and its consequences. "As such, it requires sharing a lot of things I'm not proud of—and a few things I feel like I should regret a whole lot more than I actually do. Because, unfortunately, I am not the hero in this tale. I am the villain." So begins Neil Strauss's long-awaited follow-up to The Game, the funny and slyly instructive work of immersive journalism that jump-started the international "seduction community" and made Strauss a household name—revered or notorious—among single men and women alike. In The Truth, Strauss takes on his greatest challenge yet: Relationships. And in this wild and highly entertaining ride, he explores the questions that men and women are asking themselves every day: Is it natural to be faithful to one person for life? Do alternatives to monogamy lead to better relationships and greater happiness? What draws us to the partners we choose? Can we keep passion and romance from fading over time? His quest for answers takes him from Viagra-laden free-love orgies to sex addiction clinics, from cutting-edge science labs to modern-day harems, and, most terrifying of all, to his own mother. What he discovered changed everything he knew about love, sex, relationships, and, ultimately, himself. Searingly honest and compulsively readable, The Truth just may have the same effect on you. If The Game taught you how to meet members of the opposite sex, The Truth will teach you how to keep them.



Kim John Payne & Lisa M. Ross - Simplicity Parenting artwork Simplicity Parenting
Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
Kim John Payne & Lisa M. Ross
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: August 25, 2009
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Today’s busier, faster society is waging an undeclared war on childhood. With too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time, children can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even be diagnosed with behavioral problems. Now internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne helps parents reclaim for their children the space and freedom that all   kids need for their attention to deepen and their individuality to flourish.  Simplicity Parenting  offers inspiration, ideas, and a blueprint for change:   • Streamline your home environment. Reduce the amount of toys, books, and clutter—as well as the lights, sounds, and general sensory overload. • Establish rhythms and rituals. Discover ways to ease daily tensions, create battle-free mealtimes and bedtimes, and tell if your child is overwhelmed.  • Schedule a break in the schedule. Establish intervals of calm and connection in your child’s daily torrent of constant doing. • Scale back on media and parental involvement.   Manage your children’s “screen time” to limit the endless deluge of information and stimulation.  A manifesto for protecting the grace of childhood,  Simplicity Parenting  is an eloquent guide to bringing new rhythms to bear on the lifelong art of raising children.



John Coston - To Kill and Kill Again artwork To Kill and Kill Again
The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer
John Coston
Genre: True Crime
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: October 18, 2016
Publisher: Open Road Media
Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC

The twelve-year rampage of “Missoula Mauler” Wayne Nance—and the shocking end to his murder spree To his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable, considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the “Missoula Mauler,” a psychopath responsible for a series of sadistic sex slayings that rocked the idyllic town between 1974 and 1986.   Nance’s only requirement for murder was accessibility—a preacher’s wife, a teenage runaway, a female acquaintance, a married couple. Putting on a friendly façade, he could easily gain his victims’ trust. Then, one September night, thirty-year-old Nance pushed his luck, preying on a couple who lived to tell the tale.   A true story with an incredible twist, written by former Wall Street Journal editor John Coston and complete with photos, To Kill and Kill Again reveals the disturbing compulsions of a charming serial killer who fooled everyone he knew, stumped the authorities, terrified a community, and nearly got away with it.  



Roy Hazelwood & Stephen G. Michaud - Dark Dreams artwork Dark Dreams
A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
Roy Hazelwood & Stephen G. Michaud
Genre: True Crime
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: April 01, 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Seller: Macmillan

The Evil That Men Do introduced readers to the lifework and the techniques of FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood. Now, in Dark Dreams , Hazelwood-- writing with bestselling author Stephen G. Michaud-- will take then deep into the minds of his prey, the world's most dangerous sexual criminals, and reveal the extent to which these individuals permeate our society. Profiler Roy Hazelwood is one of the world's leading experts on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders-- the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motive and thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes. He also catalogs the innovative and remarkably effective techniques-- investigative approaches that he helped pioneer at the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit-- that allow law enforcement agents to construct psychological profiles of the offenders who commit these crimes. Hazelwood has helped track down some of the most violent and well-known criminals in modern history; in Dark Dreams he takes readers into his world-- a sinister world inhabited by scores of dangerous offenders for every Roy Hazelwood who would put them behind bars: * A young woman disappears from the convenience store where she works. Her skeletonized remains are found in a field, near a torture device. Who committed this heinous crime? And why? * A teenager's body is found hanging in a storm sewer. His clothes are neatly folded by the entrance and a stopwatch is found in his mouth. Is he the victim of a bizarre, ritualistic murder...or an elaborate masturbatory fantasy gone awry? * A married couple, driving with their toddler in the backseat, pick up a female hitchhiker. They kidnap her and for seven years keep her as a sexual slave. The wife agreed to this inhuman arrangement in exchange for having a second child. Who was to blame? As gruesome as the crimes are and as unsettling as the odds seem, Hazelwood proves that the right amount of determination and logic can bring even the most cunning and devious criminals to justice. Dark Dreams is a 2002 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime.



Bill Eddy LCSW, CFLS - Biff artwork Biff
Quick Responses to High Conflict People, Their Personal Attacks, Hostile Email and Social Media Meltdowns
Bill Eddy LCSW, CFLS
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: June 01, 2011
Publisher: High Conflict Institute
Seller: DIY Media Group DBA BookBaby

We live in an age of rapid change and instant communication. We also live in a Culture of Blame and Disrespect. Managing your responses to high-conflict emails, texts, letters, and social media meltdowns is imperative. A BIFF response can be applied in any communication anywhere - on the Internet, in a letter or in person. It can be used at work, earning you respect and success. It can help you get along with difficult family members, friends, neighbors and others anywhere in your life.This little book gives over 20 examples of BIFF responses for all areas of life - plus additional tips to help you deal with high-conflict people anywhere. See if you can do a BIFF! Not everyone can.



David Whyte - The Three Marriages artwork The Three Marriages
Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
David Whyte
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $15.99
Publish Date: January 22, 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

A radical, "crystalline" ( Elle ) approach to integrating our work, relationships, and inner selves from the bestselling author, poet, and speaker. The author of Crossing the Unknown Sea and The Heart Aroused encourages readers to reimagine how they inhabit the worlds of love, work, and self-understanding. Whyte suggests that separating these "marriages" in order to balance them is to destroy the fabric of happiness itself. Drawing from his own struggles and the lives of some of the world's great writers and artists-from Dante to Jane Austen to Robert Louis Stevenson-Whyte explores the ways these core commitments are connected. Only by understanding the journey involved in each of the three marriages and the stages of their maturation, he says, can we understand how to bring them together in one fulfilled life.