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The Eye Book: A Complete Guide to Eye Disorders and Health, second edition by Gary H. Cassel, MD

Winner
Health: General
2021 Best Book Awards

The Owner's Manual for Your Eyes: The most comprehensive guide to taking care of vision.

In The Eye Book, specialist Dr. Gary H. Cassel presents readers with trusted, evidence-based information they can rely on to protect vision and learn more about how to treat any eye problems that come up. This easy-to-understand volume takes a step-by-step approach, providing an overview of the eye's anatomy, a tour of healthy vision, and an explanation of what steps readers and health care providers should take to address vision issues. Drawing on years of clinical experience with patients, Cassel also looks at eye complications associated with common medical conditions (for example, diabetes) along with the best treatments for eye conditions, such as cataracts and glaucoma.

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New Mom Essentials: A Field Guide to Being Your Own Health Advocate Throughout Pregnancy and the Fourth Trimester by Dianna He Murray

Winner
Health: Women's Health
2021 Best Book Awards

A highly useful handbook for pregnancy and the first three months after birth that covers essential information for moms-to-be, helping them plan for childbirth and optimize their whole health (physical, mental, emotional) during this time. Based on interviews with 400+ health care providers, parents, and subject matter experts, it includes topics, checklists, and exercises that are presented in bite-sized chapters for easy reference.

At a time when more women than ever live far away from their closest family and friends, new moms-to-be need a resource like this to give them confidence and help them achieve peak vitality and health during this special season of their lives.

Author Dianna He Murray, MBA, PCC, is a mom, executive coach, and healthcare industry veteran who helps leaders define and pursue what matters most. She is also certified in plant-based nutrition and a registered pre- and postnatal yoga teacher who empowers new moms to become advocates for their own health during pregnancy and beyond.

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A Case of Culture: How Cultural Brokers Bridge Divides in Healthcare by Snigdha Nandipati

There are three major healing traditions in the world: Western biomedicine, supernatural healing, and holistic healing. In a world of increasingly blended cultures, languages, and traditions, what happens when these contrasting healing practices clash? In A Case of Culture, author Snigdha Nandipati delves into the unspoken challenges that immigrant patients face when seeking healthcare in the West, exploring how we can bridge these cultural divides in our healthcare system. The solution? Cultural brokers.

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Love, Only Better by Paulette Stout

Meet Rebecca, an adorable gal with an intimate secret…

For Rebecca, sex is a joke missing a punchline. No crashing waves. Only pangs of inadequacy. At twenty-eight, shouldn’t she have had one by now? Her snickering ex thought so. His taunts echo in her ears as he rolls out of her bed. Then out of her life.

After enrolling in an unconventional study for women, Rebecca is stunned by the power she holds inside. But her promise to avoid intimacy hits a snag when a handsome neighbor moves across the hall. Their chemistry is electric, but the timing couldn’t be worse!

If he learns her secret, she’ll lose her best chance at love. But if her intimacy lessons fail, she’ll be left eternally broken. Unlovable.

Can Rebecca find the answers she needs to love someone new—and finally love herself?




Eat Your Rice Cakes: Discovering Empowerment after a Life-Changing Diagnosis by Margaret Weiss, RD, CDCES

Finalist
Health: General
2021 Best Book Awards

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Margaret Weiss, RD, CDCES was happily raising her family in central New Jersey when she was diagnosed with celiac disease. With little support for what was then a relatively unknown condition, she was forced to face her reactions and behaviors as she navigated many, often unpleasant, life changes to accommodate this disease.

  • Are you experiencing a range of emotions and behaviors related to your own condition that you'd like to understand better?
  • Are you interested in behavioral theories that might help explain and guide your actions as you navigate significant change?
  • Are you looking for a way to transform your mindset about your diagnosis with constructive and reliable best practices that are forward-looking and healing?

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Embrace your Wobbles: Wisdom from the yoga mat by Priscilla Shumway

Finalist
Health: General
2021 Best Book Awards

No matter what we do in life, we will experience wobbles!

Wobbles are the physical and mental challenges we encounter both in our yoga practice and in our daily lives. The essays in this book, written by yoga teachers and practitioners, reveal their personal journeys in learning to accept and even be grateful for the wobbles they experience both on and off the yoga mat. Wobbles, these writers agree, are unavoidable, the key is to notice wobbles, not judge them. This book encourages us to think about the types of wobbles we experience both on and off the yoga mat, and challenges us to become more aware of our habitual, often unconscious, approach to managing wobbles. Finally, this book inspires us to embrace our wobbles as a source of wisdom to help us grow and live a satisfying life.




New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First by John C. Goodman

Finalist
Health: General
2021 Best Book Awards

The COVID-19 pandemic. The Great Recession. The dot-com bust. The early '90s recession. Every decade or so a disaster hits the United States and reminds us that many American families live one calamity away from financial ruin.

But what if there were a better way to help families protect themselves from life's risks? And what if that way did not further bloat large government bureaucracies and inflate even more their obscene budgets?

Fortunately, author, economist, policy entrepreneur, and Independent Institute Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, Ph.D., has forged just such a path.

In New Way to Care: Social Protections That Put Families First, Goodman offers a bold strategy for giving Americans more control over their destiny, while still promoting—at far less expense—the important social goals that gave rise to government safety-net programs in the first place.

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So Much More than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature by Kathy O'Shea

Finalist
Health: General
2021 Best Book Awards

“English,” wrote Virginia Woolf, “which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.”

Despite Woolf’s astute observation and the apparent dearth of writings on such subjects, editor Kathleen O’Shea has managed to gather a wide selection of helpful excerpts, chapters, poetry, and even a short play in this anthology—all with a view toward increasing our understanding and ending the stigma attached to migraines and migraine sufferers. Unlike clinical materials, this anthology addresses the feelings and symptoms that the writers have experienced, sometimes daily. These pieces speak freely about the loneliness and helplessness one feels when a migraine comes on. The sufferer faces nausea, pain, sensitivity to light, and having the veracity of all these symptoms doubted by others. O’Shea, a professor of literature and a migraine sufferer herself, also includes an original essay of her own reflections.

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The Athena Principles: Simple Wellness Practices for Overworked Professionals by Kathy Robinson

Finalist
Health: General
2021 Best Book Awards

On the outside, you have it all together, masterfully juggling everything that comes your way. You’re an accomplished professional, devoted to your family and active in the community.

But on the inside, things feel different. You’re overwhelmed by how busy you are, you’re tired of saying yes when you mean no and you’re starting to feel drained by the monotony of a routine that rarely brings you joy. In fact, sometimes you wonder if you even know what brings you joy.

The Athena Principles will help you reconnect with your mind, body and spirit by introducing you to simple wellness practices designed to:

  • Treat yourself with self-compassion
  • Uncover your deep, soul-level motivation for changing your lifestyle
  • Show up for yourself consistently with optimism and enthusiasm
  • Create a customized self-care plan
  • Develop a support system for success

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Understanding Bipolar Disorder: The Essential Family Guide by Aimee Daramus, Psy.D.

Finalist
Health: General
2021 Best Book Awards

A compassionate approach to understanding and supporting loved ones with bipolar disorder

If your loved one was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, you probably have a lot of questions and concerns about how to help them live the healthiest life possible. Understanding Bipolar Disorder answers those questions and offers helpful guidance with essential information, practical strategies, and support for families of people suffering from bipolar disorder.

Learn about what bipolar is, how it’s diagnosed, the science behind it, and the treatments available, including medication, therapies, and community support. You’ll find effective tools for dealing with a diagnosis as a family, advice for exploring therapy options as a team, and simple techniques for managing your family’s stress levels to prevent emotional burnout.

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Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs by Labar Laskie

Finalist
Health: Women's Health
2021 Best Book Awards

In 1999, a 49-year-old woman tended her garden outside of the Chicago suburban home she shared with her husband, daughter and pet dogs. Extended family lived close by. She had a job that she loved. Life didn’t get any better than this. One phone call changed everything.

A random blood test had just revealed that she had hepatitis C. She’d never heard of it before. Not only did she have it, but it had been swimming in her bloodstream for 30 years, contracted from a blood transfusion in 1969. Tests would reveal that her liver was engulfed in chronic active liver disease – almost cirrhotic. Hepatitis C in 1999 was a degenerative, often incurable and deadly disease. Something had to be done.

The only treatment at the time offered less than a 50% chance for cure and came with a plethora of nasty side effects. It was a yearlong regimen of chemotherapy that could trigger flu-like symptoms. And those patients who didn’t respond to this difficult protocol frequently found themselves immunocompromised when it was over and sicker than before. The “wonder drugs” were still a long way off.

While waiting 15 years for a cure, Labar Laskie took extraordinary measures – except the chemotherapy – to keep her symptoms at bay, calm her fears, and lift her spirits. Above the Din is her story.

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If My Ass Were Smaller Life Would Be Perfect and Other Lies the Mean Girl in Your Head Tells You by Julie Glynn, M.Ed., M.A.

Finalist
Health: Women's Health
2021 Best Book Awards

This is not a diet book. If you want to learn tips or tricks on how to flatten your tummy or reduce the amount of food you eat, this is not the book for you.

However, if you want to stop being so darn mean to yourself and find a better way to be with yourself, this book will be well suited for you. It's time to stop looking in the mirror and feeling discouraged.

This book is for women who are done dieting (or ready to give it up) but haven't taken the plunge yet. Get off the diet cycle and make peace with your butt. Julie Glynn's practical and charming book will help you heal your mind and develop a new mentality around your body.

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