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In-Depth Learning: Self-help and vital information for women

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Spotting red flags

  • Why Does He do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men || Lundy Bancroft

  • The Gift of Fear || Gavin De Becker

  • Emotional Blackmail || Susan Forward

  • Game's People Play || Eric Berne

  • In Sheep's Clothing & Character Disturbance || George K Simon

  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking || Malcom Gladwell

  • Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know || Eric Berne

  • Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception ||Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant

  • Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People || Joe Navarro

  • The Definitive Book of Body Language: How to read others' attitudes by their gestures || Allan Pease

  • What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-reading People || Joe Navarro

  • Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us || Robert. D. Hare

  • Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly || Evy Poumpouras

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Childhood Trauma

  • Complex PTSD || Pete Walker

  • The Human Magnet Syndrome || Ross Rosenberg

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents || Lindsay Gibson

  • Growing up Again || Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson

  • The Body Keeps the Score || Bessel van der Kolk

  • It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle || Mark Wolynn

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Healing

  • Boundaries || Henry Cloud, John Townsend

  • Psychopath Free || Jackson MacKenzie

  • When I Say No I Feel Guilty || Manuel J. Smith

  • The Art of Saying No || Damon Zahariades

  • Not Nice || Aziz Gazipura

  • Codependent No More || Melanie Beatty

  • Beyond Codependency || Melanie Beatty

  • Women Who Love Too Much || Robin Norwood

  • Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect || Jonice Webb

  • Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children || Jonice Webb

  • Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy || David Burns

  • The Sexual Healing Journey || Wendy Maltz

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Self Improvement

  • The Power of Habit || Charles Duhigg

  • Atomic Habits || James Clear

  • The Defining Decade || Meg Jay

  • Daring Greatly || Brene Brown

  • The Four Agreements || Don Miguel Ruiz

  • How to Break Out of Prison || John Wareham

  • Getting Things Done || David Allen

  • Highly Intuitive People: 7 Right-Brain Traits to Change the Lives of Intuitive-Sensitive People || Heidi Sawyer

  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People || Stephen R. Covey

  • The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up || Marie Kondo

  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck || Mark Manson

  • When Things Fall Apart || Pema Chodron

  • The Power of Now || Eckhart Tolle

  • The Bullet Journal Method || Ryder Carroll

  • Applying Psychology to Everyday Life || Kenneth Strongman

  • Why We Sleep || Matthew Walker

  • Insecure in Love || Leslie Becker Philips

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Health and Fitness

  • The Happy Kitchen: Good Mood Food || Rachel Kelly

  • Period Power || Maisie Hill

  • Mindful eating: a guide to rediscovering a healthy and joyful relationship with food || Jan Chozen Bays

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Female Empowerment, History & Education

  • Women who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype || Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings || Marlene Wagman-Geller

  • Outspoken: 50 Speeches by Incredible Women from Boudicca to Michelle Obama || Deborah Coughlin

  • Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women || Eleanor Mills

  • Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Women of Literature || Becca Anderson

  • The Warrior Goddess Training Program: Becoming the Woman You Are Meant to Be || HeatherAsh Amara

  • Goddesses in Every Woman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives || Jean Shinoda Bolen

  • Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World || Mackenzi Lee, Petra Eriksson

  • Bad Girls Throughout History || Ann Shen

  • In Praise of Difficult Women || Karen Karbo

  • Women and Power: A Manifesto || Mary Beard

  • I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban || Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

  • The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg||Susan B Katz (An inspiring biography about the famous female lawyer who fought to establish sex discrimination legislation in the US during the 70's)

  • The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love and Rebellion || Gloria Steinem

  • City of Omens || Dan Webb ( About the harms of the sex trade and the women who go missing at the South American border)

  • Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems || Audre Lorde

  • The Creation of Patriarchy || Gerda Lerner

  • The Suffragettes || Penguin Little Black Classics

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