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Title: I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Author: Lucy Sante

Narrator: Lucy Sante

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Release date: February 13, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate “Reading this book is a joy . . . much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance. ” —The Washington Post “Sante’s bold devotion to complexity and clarity makes this an exemplary memoir. It is a clarion call to live one’s most authentic life.” —The Boston Globe “Not to be missed, I Heard Her Call My Name is a powerful example of self-reflection and a vibrant exploration of the modern dynamics of gender and identity.” —Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 An iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was For a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, from drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly famous. Sante flirted with both fates on her way to building an estimable career as a writer. But she still felt like her life was a performance. She was presenting a facade, even to herself. Sante’s memoir braids together two threads of personal narrative: the arc of her life, and her recent step-by-step transition to a place of inner and outer alignment. Sante brings a loving irony to her ac­count of her unsteady first steps; there was much she found she still needed to learn about being a woman after some sixty years cloaked in a man’s identity, in a man’s world. A marvel of grace and empathy, I Heard Her Call My Name parses with great sensitivity many issues that touch our lives deeply, of gender identity and far beyond.

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Title: The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

Author: Rhaina Cohen

Narrator: Rhaina Cohen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Release date: February 13, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

'Author Rhaina Cohen’s vocal warmth and commitment to her ideas make this a touching audiobook. Her thinking and humanitarian spirit are well served by a performance that resonates with her broad sociological perspectives, as well as her desire to connect with listeners.'—AudioFile This program is read by the author. 'Rhaina Cohen’s moving, intimate portraits of people in unusually devoted friendships upend our cultural narratives about which relationships matter . . . an arresting work of compassion and insight.' —Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of Dear Therapists podcast Why do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet all our needs? And what can we learn about commitment, love, and family from people who put deep friendship at the center of their lives? In The Other Significant Others, NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner—these are friends who are home co-owners, co-parents or each other’s caregivers. Their riveting stories unsettle widespread assumptions about relationships, including the idea that sex is a defining feature of partnership and that people who raise kids together should be in a romantic relationship. Platonic partners from different walks of life—spanning age and religion, gender and sexuality and more—reveal how freeing and challenging it can be to embrace a relationship model that society doesn't recognize. And they show that orienting your world around friends isn't limited to daydreams and episodes of The Golden Girls, but actually possible in real life. Based on years of original reporting and striking social science research, Cohen argues that we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them, while we diminish friendships by expecting too little of them. She traces how, throughout history, our society hasn’t always fixated on marriage as the greatest source of meaning, or even love. At a time when many Americans are spending large stretches of their lives single, widowed or divorced, or feeling the effects of the 'loneliness epidemic,' Cohen insists that we recognize the many forms of profound connection that can anchor our lives. A rousing and incisive book, The Other Significant Others challenges us to ask what we want from our relationships—not just what we’re supposed to want—and transforms how we define a fulfilling life. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

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Title: Love by Design: 6 Ingredients to Build a Lifetime of Love

Author: Sara Nasserzadeh

Narrator: Sara Nasserzadeh, Nikki Massoud

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Release date: February 6, 2024

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

Redefine romance and build loving connections you yearn for with the help of this guide for couples—perfect for readers of 8 Rules of Love and the Love Prescription. Grounded in two decades of original research and work with couples from around the world, Love by Design introduces a groundbreaking new foundation for love: The Emergent Love Model. As Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh knows, successful partnerships do not thrive on love, at least as we know it. Instead of chasing our butterflies, we need to cultivate six core relational ingredients that make it possible for love to emerge: ·Attraction: What do you like and value about each other? ·Respect: How do you keep each other’s needs and priorities in mind? ·Trust: Do you know that you will show up for each other consistently? ·Compassion: Can you honor the other’s emotional experience without making it about you? ·Shared vision: Where are you committed to going together? ·Loving behaviors: How do you show your partner they’re special to you? Offering dozens of exercises and reflection prompts, this groundbreaking book gives readers a new foundation for a thriving, lasting coupledom.

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Title: Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime

Author: Julie Menanno

Narrator: Julie Menanno

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2024

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. What does a healthy relationship look like? A good question, in theory, but expert couple's therapist Julie Menanno wants you to ask a slightly different one: what does a securely attached relationship feel like? The answer to this question is the ultimate goal in Secure Love, a ground-breaking guide to secure attachment in adult relationships. While attachment style has grown in popularity to explain the relationship between children and their caregivers, it also helps us understand ourselves in relationships today based on that childhood attachment. How we attach-or don't-ultimately shapes our adult romantic relationship. Julie Menanno is the couple's therapist behind the popular Instagram account @TheSecureRelationship, which has one million followers dedicated to her wisdom. In Secure Love, Menanno tackles: - Why you and your partner have the same fight over and over (hint: it's called a negative cycle, and underlying every fight, argument, silent treatment, or passive-aggressive comment is an unmet attachment need). - The four attachment types, with exercises designed to help you understand your and any partner's attachment style. - How to improve communication in a relationship, including staying connected during conflict and prioritizing vulnerability-rather than protectivity-in communication. - 'Instead of that, say this' suggested scripts of how to approach difficult situations in a relationship from a more productive and vulnerable stance. - Why insecure attachment negatively impacts a couple's sex life and how to restore that sexual connection. Secure Love is a deep dive in understanding how you show up in a relationship and diagnosing the negative cycles you and your partner may get trapped in. It offers you the chance to learn how to establish and maintain a secure attachment to create a lifelong bond. ©2023 Julie Menanno (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: Find Love: How to navigate modern love and discover the right partner for you

Author: Paul Brunson

Narrator: Paul Brunson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2024

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Choosing a healthy relationship is one of the most significant decisions in life and it's crucial to get it right from the start. Changes to the modern dating landscape have flooded us with questions about the best pathway to find love. How do you improve your chances when there are so many elements - and people - to consider? From red to green flags, the best apps, attachment styles, trauma, dealbreakers, compromises and surviving the first date, we are swarmed with options with no clear guide. In Find Love, world renowned relationship expert and Head of Global Research for Tinder Paul Brunson provides you with vital advice for navigating and securing real connections. Whether you're single and looking for love or in a relationship and wondering if your partner is 'the one', this book will arm you with the information, skills, and tools you need to make an informed decision on how to simultaneously love yourself and find the perfect partner. ©2024 Paul Brunson (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection

Author: Julie Schwartz Gottman, John Schwartz Gottman

Narrator: Kiiri Sandy, Roy Worley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2024

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. World-renowned relationships experts, Dr John Gottman and Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman, bring decades of their ground-breaking research on the science of love to the urgent and timely topic of conflict. Conflict is the number one reason that couples seek help and resources. Fight Right will teach you how to avoid the five critical mistakes that couples often make during conflict, and instead, teach you how to 'fight right' and use conflict as an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love. Using decades of research, compelling case studies and a new international study, the Gottmans prove that even couples who are truly struggling in conflict and have really lost their way are able to recover and find their way back to each other. For those couples in crisis, or those who want to change their relationship dynamic, Fight Right is the go-to guide to understanding how to fight better, offering urgent and perennial lessons for healthy conflict. ©2024 John Schwartz Gottman & Julie Schwartz Gottman (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime

Author: Julie Menanno

Narrator: Julie Menanno

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

Create a lasting and loving attachment with this national bestseller, a “must-read for every couple, at any stage of their relationship” (Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone) from the expert couple’s therapist behind the popular Instagram account @TheSecureRelationship. What does a healthy relationship look like? A good question, in theory, but couple’s therapist Julie Menanno wants you to consider: what does a securely attached relationship feel like? The answer to this question is the ultimate goal in Secure Love, an “incredibly wise and helpful guide” (Jen Sincero, New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass) to understanding secure attachment in adult relationships. While attachment theory has grown in popularity to explain the relationship between children and their caregivers, it’s also the closest science has come to making sense of our adult romantic connections. In this book Julie Menanno, the expert behind the popular Instagram account @TheSecureRelationship, tackles: -Why you and your partner have the same fight over and over (hint: it’s called a negative cycle, and underlying every fight, argument, silent treatment, or passive-aggressive comment is an unmet attachment need). -“Instead of that, say this” suggested scripts of how to approach difficult situations in your relationship more effectively. -The four attachment types, with exercises to understand you and your partner’s attachment style. -How to improve communication, including staying connected during conflict by prioritizing vulnerability rather than protecting yourself. -Why insecure attachment negatively impacts a couple’s sex life and how to ignite that sexual connection. Secure Love is a crash course in understanding how you show up in a relationship and guides you on getting out of negative cycles to find safety in one another. In doing so, “you’ll be armed with eternal wisdom for strengthening your relationship” (Dr. Sue Johnson, founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and bestselling author of Hold Me Tight) and establish a secure attachment with your partner to create the bond you’ve been longing for.

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Title: Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection

Author: John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman

Narrator: Kiiri Sandy, Roy Worley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LEARN THE 5 SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL COUPLES Conflict is the top reason couples seek help—but it's also an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love according to this essential guide from the world’s leading relationship scientists and authors of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and Eight Dates. “An indispensable resource that couples will use over and over again.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone How we fight predicts the future of our relationships. Most of us blunder into conflict without knowing what we are really fighting about and then quickly become overwhelmed by physiological responses we can’t control and emotions we don’t anticipate. The truth is the happiest and most successful couples fight—all the time. Conflict is human, and necessary. Through decades of research, Drs. John and Julie Gottman, founders of the world-famous Love Lab, have identified the five common mistakes we make when we are at odds. In Fight Right, we learn the five secrets that help us to get back on track and harness conflict to build stronger, healthier relationships. With kindness, clarity, and a deep understanding of the struggles couples are going through, the Gottmans show us that we each have a unique conflict culture, borne of how we were raised and how we experienced past relationships, and they take us through all the possible combinations, from Avoiders, to Validators, to Volatiles, and how they can best work together.  Fight Right is an essential resource that will help couples escape the win-or-lose mentality in favor of a collaborative approach: calming down, staying connected, and really understanding, so that our fights can bring us closer.

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Title: Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

Author: Emily Nagoski

Narrator: Emily Nagoski

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.73 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Come as You Are and co-author of Burnout comes an illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship. “Emily Nagoski is a national treasure—helping us all understand how to finally build true, joyful, confident sex lives.”—Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed In Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski, PhD, revolutionized the way we think about women’s sexuality. Now, in Come Together, Nagoski takes on a fundamentally misunderstood subject: sex in long-term relationships.  Most of us struggle at some point to maintain a sexual connection with our partner/s or spouse. And many of us are given not-very-good advice on what to do about it. In this book, Nagoski dispels the myths we’ve been taught about sex—for instance, the belief that sexual satisfaction and desire are highest at the beginning of a relationship and that they inevitably decline the longer that relationship lasts. Nagoski assures us that’s not true. So, what is true? Come Together isn’t about how much we want sex, or how often we’re having it; it’s about whether we like the sex we’re having. Nagoski breaks down the obstacles that impede us from enjoying sex—from stress and body image to relationship difficulties and gendered beliefs about how sex “should” be—and presents the best ways to overcome them. You’ll learn: • that “spontaneous desire” is not the kind of desire to strive for if you want to have great sex for decades • vocabulary for talking with partners about ways to get in “the mood” and how to not take it personally when “the mood” is nowhere to be found • how to understand your own and your partner’s “emotional floorplan,” so that you have a blueprint for how to get to a sexy state of mind Written with scientific rigor, humor, and compassion, Nagoski shows us what great sex can look like, how to create it in our own lives, and what to do when struggles arise. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of visuals and resources from the book.

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Title: Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

Author: Michelle Horton

Narrator: Michelle Horton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Relationships & Intimacy

Publisher's Summary:

In this "incendiary" memoir, a woman fights the criminal justice system to release her incarcerated sister after she kills her longtime abuser (Publishers Weekly). In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton’s life: she learns that her sister has just shot her partner and is now in jail. Stunned, Michelle rearranges her life to raise Nikki's two young children alongside her own son.    During the investigation that follows, Michelle is shocked to learn that Nikki had been hiding horrific abuse for years. Michelle launches a fight to bring Nikki home, squaring off against a criminal justice system designed to punish the entire family.    Since Dear Sister’s original publication, Michelle’s fight—alongside a tireless network of supporters—has resulted in Nikki’s release from prison.  With a new chapter, an update from Nikki, and never-before-seen photographs documenting the homecoming, this edition provides a touching new conclusion to a profound, intimate story of resilience and the unbreakable bond of family.