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Mediocre
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May 25, 2026
UNSHRINKABLE: Why Strong Women Secretly Criticize, Diminish, and Thwart Themselves…and How to Stop
By Darby Bonomi, PhDRating:
4.2 / 5.0
Darby Bonomi’s UNSHRINKABLE: Why Strong Women Secretly Criticize, Diminish, and Thwart Themselves...and How to Stop offers valuable lessons and actionable steps to help women build...
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
Though it's a bit repetitive, THERAPY IS WEIRD sees Joshua Ericson offering a reliable and comforting look into the therapy process. Readers can confidently refer...
IR Approved
September 8, 2025
THE WARRIOR’S GARDEN: Tools for Guarding Your Mind Against Big Tech
By Richard RyanRating:
4.0 / 5.0
Richard Ryan’s THE WARRIOR’S GARDEN: Tools for Guarding Your Mind Against Big Tech diagnoses real problems in language that will both inform and compel its...
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August 18, 2025
THE OBJECTIVIST’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life, the Universe, and Everything
By Zoltan CendesRating:
4.3 / 5.0
Part philosophical inquiry, part scientific primer, Zoltan Cendes’s THE OBJECTIVIST’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life, the Universe, and Everything...
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
Deborah M. Foster’s WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT BEING POOR? is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand poverty beyond statistics and stereotypes—a vivid reminder...
IR Approved
February 24, 2025
I JUST WANT TO BE HAPPY: How to Get More of the Life You Want (And Less of the One You Don’t)
By Heidi McKenzie, Psy.DRating:
4.4 / 5.0
Those struggling with depression, anxiety, or stress will find many accessible forms of cordial encouragement in Dr. Heidi McKenzie’s highly organized I JUST WANT TO...
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Rating:
4.6 / 5.0
Raw, revelatory, and suffused with hard-won wisdom, Tracy L. Markley's I'M NOT STUPID, I HAVE HEARING LOSS is a must-read memoir that challenges entrenched myths...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Challenging but rewarding, Cindy Lee Neighbors’s TOO MUCH is an incisive memoir of the soul-crushing dysfunction of both medical and military culture in the US.
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Balancing harsh realities with more lyrical reflections, John Frederick Zurn's METAMORPHOSIS: From Mental Illness to Spiritual Awakening provides an insight into the author's psyche and...
IR Approved
July 18, 2022
PRACTICAL CLINICAL SUPERVISION FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS: A Self and Relational Approach
By Augustine MeierRating:
5.0 / 5.0
Augustine Meier's PRACTICAL CLINICAL SUPERVISION FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS is a well-researched, well-argued study of a subject that will only grow in importance.
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0
More accessible than some self-help books, but still a challenge to unravel, TRAVELERS WITHIN (Journeys Into Being Human And Beyond) by Val Jon Farris takes...
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Rating:
4.3 / 5.0
Utilizing her personal journey as a decades-long case study, Rebecca L. Brown’s SHELTER FROM OUR SECRETS, SILENCE, AND SHAME is a self-help-infused memoir that offers...