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Recommendations for a Brighter New Year

Library staff selected books, e-books and DVDs from our collection to help you stay healthy, happy and prosperous in 2012.

As the holidays speed by, it’s almost time to make New Year’s resolutions. With this is mind, Carlsbad City Library staff share reading and viewing recommendations to help you meet your goals for 2012.

DVDs

Rodney Yee’s Daily Yoga: Enjoy yoga at home with world-famous instructor Rodney Yee, who has designed five distinct practices to energize and strengthen the body and calm the mind.

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Jillian Michaels: Ripped in 30: Don’t have time to hit the gym? These four workouts mixing cardio and strength training feature celebrity personal trainer and reality show personality Jillian Michaels.

Books

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The Life You Want: Get Motivated, Lose Weight and Be Happy by Bob Greene: Resources, tips and inspiration for anyone looking to lose weight and keep it off.

The Women’s Health Big Book of Exercises: Billed as an “essential workout guide,” The Big Book of Exercises includes 619 exercises with detailed descriptions and color photos. From the publishers of Women’s Health magazine, this comprehensive collection also includes nutrition tips.

E-books

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor: Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work.

The Little Book of Leadership Development by Scott Allen: This compact book delivers 50 practical ideas to “bring out the leader in every employee,” including tips on sharing information, building accountability, stretching teams and providing feedback.

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