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I'll Start Again Monday is a revised and condensed edition of Lysa TerKeurst's bestseller Made to Crave, reframing the struggle with unhealthy eating habits as a spiritual issue rather than a dietary one — best suited to Christian readers seeking motivation and accountability rooted in faith.
Apr 27, 2026
Dark Psychology Unlocked by Shaler Red is a self-help guide published independently in February 2025, designed to help readers identify manipulative tactics, understand the psychological mechanisms behind mind games, and develop strategies to protect their own mindset. It is available in paperback and as an audiobook narrated by Mike Peterson. This review is based on published descriptions and reader commentary from audible.com; LuvemBooks has not applied the material firsthand.
Apr 26, 2026
Gary A. Gallerstein, D.V.M., draws on his experience as a practicing veterinarian and owner of Acacia Animal Hospital in Escondido, California, to deliver a wide-ranging reference that spans bird selection, nutrition, behavior, emergency medical care, and preventative medicine. This review is based on published sources and the book's documented contents — not hands-on use.
Apr 25, 2026
Belonging to the World: A Journey from Grief to Connection in Every Country on Earth is a travel memoir by Barry Hoffner that chronicles his globe-spanning journey through grief, resilience, and human connection after the sudden death of his wife Jackie in 2017. A Readers' Choice Book Awards Bronze Winner in Adult Nonfiction, it is published by GFB and draws comparisons to the introspective travel writing of Paul Theroux and Cheryl Strayed's Wild. The memoir is candid, emotionally grounded, and rooted in a genuine quest to feel the pulse of the world again.
Apr 22, 2026
Patricia Bartlett's The Hamster Handbook (B.E.S. Pet Handbooks, 2nd ed., Sourcebooks, 2015) is a full-color practical reference designed to guide both new and experienced hamster owners through housing, feeding, healthcare, breed differences, and hamster behavior — drawing on the expertise that defines the long-running B.E.S. Pet Handbooks series.
May 11, 2026
Good Energy, co-authored by Dr. Casey Means and Calley Means and published by Avery on May 14, 2024, is a #1 New York Times bestseller — with over a million copies sold — that advances a sweeping argument: that poor metabolic function is the common root cause underlying conditions as varied as depression, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer, and infertility. Part memoir, part manifesto, and part practical guide, the book pairs its central thesis with a four-week action plan, data drawn from the health technology company Dr. Means founded, and six food principles designed to be usable across dietary philosophies from carnivore to vegan.
May 2, 2026
Mieshelle Nagelschneider's The Cat Whisperer, published by Bantam in 2013, is a practical behavior guide built around the author's two decades of experience as a cat behaviorist and her structured C.A.T. Modification plan, earning praise from Publishers Weekly and Booklist for its thorough, owner-focused approach to solving feline behavior problems.
May 10, 2026
How to Master Your Emotions: A 30-Day Workbook to Gain Emotional Freedom is the eighth installment in Manjul Tewari's Ultimate Mindset Mastery Series — a self-published companion workbook designed to guide readers through emotional awareness, negativity bias, positive psychology, and mental well-being across a structured 30-day program. This review draws on the book's verified contents and published descriptions; it does not reflect hands-on use or application of the material.
May 3, 2026
Help Your Self: The New Rules for Wellness, co-authored by Meredith Baird and Katerina Schneider and published by Harry N. Abrams in October 2025, is a holistic wellness guidebook that sets out to cut through the noise of wellness culture with research-grounded, actionable guidance covering nutrition, skincare, sleep, hydration, mental well-being, and more — designed for readers who want practical tools, not passing fads.
May 1, 2026
Jonathan Rosen's memoir The Best Minds is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Top 10 Best Book of 2023 that reconstructs the author's lifelong friendship with Michael Laudor — a Yale-educated legal prodigy diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia who ultimately killed his pregnant girlfriend, Caroline Costello. Drawing on court and police records, medical studies, interviews, and diaries, Rosen widens the lens beyond one devastating story to examine deinstitutionalization, the nature of mental illness, and the self-deceptions of an entire era.
Apr 27, 2026
Gary Gerlacher's debut medical thriller introduces Dr. AJ "Doc" Docker, a Houston ER physician whose determination to identify and seek justice for an unnamed young woman who dies in his emergency room pulls him into the criminal underworld — with his policeman friend and a police dog at his side. Published by Black Rose Writing in December 2023, the novel blends action-packed thriller plotting with lighter, episodic moments from emergency room life, with Gerlacher's real-world background as a pediatric emergency physician providing the authentic ER detail that grounds the series opener.
Apr 27, 2026
Sylvia Plath's only novel, The Bell Jar, follows nineteen-year-old Esther Greenwood from a promising summer internship in New York City into a harrowing descent through mental illness and institutionalization — a thinly veiled autobiography that became an instant bestseller in the United States and has since been translated into more than forty languages. First published in January 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas," and later issued under Plath's real name, the novel endures as a landmark of psychological fiction and a defining coming-of-age text, praised by USA Today for its "perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice."
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