Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott's honest, hilarious guide to the writer's craft. Learn to silence your inner critic, embrace imperfect first drafts, and write one small step at a time.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Learn how transcending ego-based consciousness can unlock personal happiness and end conflict. A spiritual guide to awakening to a new state of awareness.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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Learn how sleep affects memory, creativity, emotions, and health from a leading neuroscientist. Uncover what happens in your brain each night and why rest matters more than you think.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Learn how trauma reshapes your brain and body, and why new treatments from yoga to neurofeedback offer paths to recovery beyond traditional therapy.
The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

Learn the 9 lifestyle habits from the world's longest-lived people that could add up to a decade to your life. Plant-based eating, natural movement, and strong social bonds revealed.
How Not To Die: Discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease

Learn which foods can help prevent and reverse the top 15 causes of death in America. Dr. Michael Greger examines heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and more with evidence-based nutrition advice.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Why has nutrition science made us less healthy? Learn Pollan's radical answer: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. A manifesto that challenges everything you think you know about eating.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

What if you've been breathing wrong your whole life? Science journalist James Nestor reveals how simple changes to your breath can transform your health and performance.
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

Based on the research, I can now craft an accurate meta description. The key facts I've verified:
- The book examines links between animal products and chronic diseases (heart disease, diabetes, cancer)
- It's based on research from Cornell, Oxford, and Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine
- The book advocates for a whole food, plant-based diet
- The research involved 65 counties in China
- The book sold over 1 million copies
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What if changing your diet could reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes? Research from Cornell and Oxford reveals the link between nutrition and disease.
Meditations

A Roman emperor's private journal written 2,000 years ago reveals timeless Stoic wisdom on virtue, mortality, and inner peace that still resonates today.