12 Books To Give To Your Best Friend | Books Your Best Friend Will Love

Finding your purpose in life will stimulate behavioral consistency; serving as the motivating force to overcome obstacles, seek alternative means, and maintain focus on the goal in spite of changes to the environment that may interfere with the pursuit. 

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Contributor: Nicholas Berson from Lobeline Communications

It’s an interactive, tech-friendly book with over 500 live hyperlinks to lyrics and performances of Grateful Dead music. It’s written in a light, lively style. The live links let a reader listen to the music while reading. We think it’s an unusual if not unique book.

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Contributor: Bob Trudeau from The Grateful Dead’s 100 Essential Songs

Deeply Holistic by expert holistic healer Pip Waller, offers straightforward and practical advice for anyone who wants a holistic approach to taking care of themselves. The perfect gift for a best friend, the book provides fundamental information and tips about exercise, diet, supplements, understanding and caring for your emotional and mental health, naturopathic principles from various traditions, and simple yet effective ways of working with spiritual energy.

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Contributor: North Atlantic Books

Aikido off the Mat draws from Kathy Park's more than 40 years of experience as an Aikido practitioner and teacher. The author explains how the principles of Aikido can be applied to everyday life, including our relationships. Perfect for the wellness-oriented among us, the book offers candid advice and insight for all.

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Women's Studies scholar Becca Anderson has gathered the wisdom from a chorus of fabulous femmes for this one-of-a-kind advice book. From housewives to Hollywood starlets, from standup comedians to startup entrepreneurs, from feminists to Facebook queens, these badass women offer unvarnished and unabashed opinions about love, life, word, men, and sex and share their very frank and forthright thinking on the wild world of relationships. 

This delightfully dishy gathering of gal pals is like having a heart-to-heart with 200 of your closest friends. Garrulous girls and loquacious ladies of from every walk of life unleash their wicked wit in this humorous and enlightening compilation and tell it like it is. Topics include What the World Needs Now, Love Hurts, Lost Love, and Are Men Really Necessary and cover sex, personal ads, blind dates, break ups, weddings, and the prerequisites for the perfect kiss. 

Sidebars include quizzes, love and sex bucket lists and topics like Size Really Does Matter, and Cry Me a River, The Weepiest Romantic Movies Ever. Wait, there's more--true tales about wild women of yore that entertain as much as they enlighten. From Anais Nin to Lily Tomlin, from Amy Bloom to Dorothy Allison, from Drew Barrymore to Chrissy Teigan and beyond, there's no shortage of sass, sarcasm, or sizzle and a few shocks along the way! 

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Contributor: Brenda Knight from Mango Media

It is an easy-to-read, simple story that contains tons of life lessons. This book is a great tool for anyone who wants to lead a more successful and significant life.

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Contributor: Marc Gooch from MentorHope LLC

Women hold up half the sky and, most days, do even more of the heavy lifting including childbearing and child-rearing. All after a long day at the office. Women have always been strong, true heroes - sheroes, oftentimes unacknowledged. As we shake off the last traces of a major patriarchal hangover, women are coming into their own. In the 21st Century, all women can fully embrace their fiery fempower and celebrate their no-holds-barred individuality. It is time to acknowledge the successful women of the world. 

From the foremothers who blazed trails and broke barriers, to today's women warriors from sports, science, cyberspace, city hall, the lecture hall, and the silver screen, The Book of Awesome Women paints 200 portraits of powerful and inspiring role models for women and girls poised to become super women of the future.

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Contributor: Brenda Knight from Mango Media

This is true crime at the top of its game. I know this genre is not for everybody but it’s a bestseller page-turner - not a self-help read destined to gather dust on the nightstand. It’s a tale of one woman’s obsession, passion and perseverance to catch a notorious serial rapist and killer in California. Sadly, the author Michelle McNamara did not live to witness the Golden State Killer brought to justice nor her book published. 

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Contributor: Nicholas Christensen from Lottery Critic

Books about WWII are plentiful but this offering by noted author Michael Ondaatje is worthy of a spot in one’s physical or digital bookshelf. It’s a tale of two youngsters, Nathaniel and Rachel, left in the care of two shady characters in war-torn London in 1945 as their parents debunk to Singapore for “work”. 

It’s part spy novel, a la John le Carré, meets Charles Dickens. Intrigue and secrets are revealed in two parts as Nathaniel recounts his misadventures first as a 14-year-old and later as a 28-year-old trying to make sense of who his mother was. 

Woven with colorful characters, kidnapping, sex and greyhound smuggling, Ondaatje does not disappoint. Find out if Nathaniel finds the answer to “What did you doing the war, mummy?”

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Contributor: Nicholas Christensen from Lottery Critic

This is a story of a black woman and the racism she endures. It forces readers to reevaluate their attitudes and the way they treat people. It’s a must-read for anyone who wants a different perspective on the issues that we are unfortunately still dealing with.

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Contributor: Caleb Backe from Maple Holistics

This is the story of how a ‘peeping Tom’ turns scary and dangerous. It shows the thin line between love and obsession. It has so many twists and turns, making it impossible to put down.

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Contributor: Caleb Backe from Maple Holistics

This is a story about friendship. You learn right from the beginning that the author's friend was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer at 42, meaning there isn’t a real “happy ending”. It is meant to show you that friends can remain friends and support each other through love and humor even when one of them is gone. 

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Contributor: Caleb Backe from Maple Holistics