Random House at ALA Midwinter

Re-resolve: If you're anything like us, you've already broken your New Years resolutions and are feeling down about it. There's no need to. Remind yourself and your patrons that January 1st is really just an arbitrary point in the Earth's orbit around the sun, and you can re-resolve any time you like. Enlist these books for help!

Heather K. Jones
What's Your Diet Type?: Use the Power of Your Personality to Discover Your Best Way to Lose Weight

978-1-57826-287-8 | $19.00 |
Hatherleigh | HC

With a short, simple Quiz based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), the world’s most trusted and widely used personality type assessment, you can match your personality to one or more of the four Diet Types: the Diet Planner, Diet Player, the Diet Feeler, and the Diet Thinker.

Eva M. Selhub, M.D.
The Love Response: Your Prescription to Turn Off Fear, Anger, and Anxiety to Achieve Vibrant Health and Transform Your Life

978-0-345-50652-8 | $25.00 |
Ballantine | HC

Fear, anger, and anxiety–effects of life’s everyday stresses–are natural and sometimes helpful, but left unchecked they can lead to a host of debilitating ailments that are now so common we assume they are unavoidable. A practical life-healing program, the first of its kind, The Love Response is the result of Dr. Selhub’s years of research–and clinical practice–on how to reverse the destructive physical effects of fear and stress, and banish emotional wounds from the past.

Jan Chozen Bays
Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

A Few Starred Reviews!

Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (Doubleday): "An enlightening foray into industrial ecology reveals how new forms of analysis determine precisely how the manufacture of such disparate items as toys, shampoo, and paper contributes to natural resource depletion, chemical pollution, and global warming. Brimming with intriguing, useful, and galvanizing information, this is an exceptionally sharp, innovative, and realistic approach to raising the demand for environmentally safe merchandise." -Booklist Magazine

A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White, Jr. (Random House): "[White] reveals a Lincoln whose evolving attitudes toward race, slavery, and war aims culminated in his magisterial second inaugural address on March 4, 1864, which proclaimed that slavery was at the heart of the fraternal holocaust and that the time had come for all Americans to bring forth a new nation "with malice toward none; with charity for all." An exceptional work that belongs in every public and academic library." -Library Journal (full review)

Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill (Pantheon): "Readers may find it difficult to adhere to the title's admonition as they navigate the devastating territory covered in Gaitskill's latest collection....While this collection won't be every reader's cup of tea, the author's exquisite use of language and metaphor is enough to recommend it to all libraries with a serious literary bent." -Library Journal

Win a free advance readers' copy of April Benson's new self-help book, To Buy or Not to Buy!

In plain and encouraging language, Dr. Benson helps overspending readers to identify their “overshopping sequence”—the pattern of triggers, actions, and aftershocks (or negative consequences) that plague compulsive buyers. With this awareness of the dynamics of their shopping problem, readers gain the ability to address the root causes. Dr. Benson demonstrates how unaddressed emotional pain can drive us to overshop, as can limited and unrealistic concepts about what will make us truly happy in life.

Be entered to win a free advance readers' copy of To Buy or Not to Buy when you answer the following: How many Americans currently find themselves with an overshopping problem? (hint)

Please email your answer along with your address to library@randomhouse.com with the subject line, "To Buy."

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