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Anxiety

Book cover of 'The Mountain Is You' by Brianna Wiest, featuring a stylized mountain graphic and a quote from Jenna Black.
Cover of the book 'How to Do the Work' by Dr. Nicole Lepera, featuring abstract colorful background and text stating it is a New York Times bestseller.
Book cover of 'The Happiness Trap' by Russ Harris, showing butterflies and an open jar, with text 'Stop Struggling, Start Living'. New edition label and note on over a million copies sold.
Book cover of 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari' by Robin S. Sharma, featuring a landscape illustration and a quote by Paulo Coelho on the top.
Book cover of "The Resilience Project" by Hugh Van Cuylenburg highlighting themes of happiness through gratitude, empathy, and mindfulness.
Book cover of 'The Body Keeps the Score' by Bessel van der Kolk, featuring a blue background with a black abstract human figure surrounded by yellow shapes.
Cover of the book 'A New Earth' by Eckhart Tolle, 10th Anniversary Edition, orange background.
Book cover of 'Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention' by Johann Hari with blue background and testimonial quotes.

Business

"Shoe Dog" book cover by Phil Knight, featuring Nike logo and reviews.
Book cover of '$100M Leads' by Alex Hormozi, Volume 2, featuring a red magnet and lightning bolts illustration. Subtitle: 'How to Get Strangers to Want to Buy Your Stuff'.
Cover of the book 'Good to Great' by Jim Collins, featuring a red background with text highlighting its bestseller status and subtitle 'Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't.'
Cover of 'The E-Myth Revisited' by Michael E. Gerber, featuring a large letter "E" and a gold badge stating 'More Than Two Million Copies Sold.' Subheading: 'Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It.'
Book cover of 'Purple Cow' by Seth Godin, featuring a purple background with white cow spot patterns, an illustration of a cow in an oval frame, and text promoting business transformation through being remarkable.
Book cover of 'The Diary of a CEO' by Steven Bartlett, featuring bold black text and a white background.
Book cover of 'The Almanack of Naval Ravikant' by Eric Jorgenson, featuring a foreword by Tim Ferriss. It includes a subtitle 'A guide to wealth and happiness.'
Cover of the book 'Zero to One' by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters, featuring the subtitle 'Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.'

Communication

Book cover of 'Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion' by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D., revised edition.
Cover of 'The 48 Laws of Power' by Robert Greene with orange and blue colors.
Book cover of 'Never Split the Difference' by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz, featuring title in bold yellow and red colors.
Book cover of 'How to Listen' by Oscar Trimboli, features a testimonial by Michael Bungay Stanier and an award finalist badge for 2023.
Cover of the book 'How to Win Friends & Influence People' by Dale Carnegie, featuring red and white design.
"Supercommunicator" book cover by Charles Duhigg, featuring gradient text and subtitle "How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection."
Cover of the book 'Talking to Strangers' by Malcolm Gladwell. Features a gradient background with dark lips outline and Penguin logo. Includes a quote from Oprah Winfrey.
Book cover of 'Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life' by Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD, 3rd edition. Features speech bubbles highlighting 'empathy, collaboration, authenticity, freedom' with a foreword by Deepak Chopra.

Discipline

Book cover of 'The Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg featuring a hamster wheel and a rat
Book cover of 'Do Hard Things' by Steve Magness, featuring mountain outline and silhouette of a person climbing.
Cover of 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' by Stephen R. Covey
"The Miracle Morning" book cover by Hal Elrod, yellow circle with title, text about six habits that transform life before 8am.
"Can't Hurt Me" book cover by David Goggins, featuring a man in a military uniform with service ribbons and medals.
Book cover of 'Endure' by Cameron Hanes featuring a rugged outdoor theme with bold text and an intense face.
Book cover of 'The 5 AM Club' by Robin Sharma featuring an orange circle with the title and a heart illustration.
Cover of 'Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual MK1-MOD1' by Jocko Willink, featuring a high-contrast, black-and-white image of a face.

Entrepreneurialism

Cover of the book 'This Is Marketing' by Seth Godin, with a bright orange background and black text. Subtext reads 'You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See.'
Book cover of 'The $100 Startup' by Chris Guillebeau featuring a red bicycle with a money bag on the rack.
Close-up portrait of a person with hands together, with text 'Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson' above.
Cover of 'Crushing It!' by Gary Vaynerchuk showing the title, author's name, social media icons, and a photo of the author smiling.
Cover of 'Blue Ocean Strategy' book, expanded edition, by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne featuring a blue ocean graphic background and text promoting over 4 million copies sold worldwide.
Book cover of 'The Courage to Be Disliked' by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga.
Cover of the book 'The Lean Startup' by Eric Ries, featuring a blue background and a white brushstroke circle.
Book cover of 'Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0' by Jim Collins and Bill Lazier, featuring a yellow background with bold gray and black text.

Fiction

Cover of "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London featuring two wolves engaged in a fierce interaction against a snowy, forested background.
1984 book cover by George Orwell featuring eye illustration
Cover of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky showing a portrait of a seated man with a beard in a suit.
Cover of the book 'Starship Troopers' by Robert A. Heinlein, featuring a green background with yellow text and a silhouette of an insect-like creature in a crosshair.
Cover of 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley with a spiral design and a globe illustration. Quote from Margaret Atwood at the bottom.
Cover of "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, featuring a silhouette of a girl standing near a tree, with a bird on a branch and decorative lettering. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize is noted.
Cover of 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card featuring a spaceship and planet.
Cover of 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck, featuring stylized landscape with house and windmill, sunset in background, and silhouettes of two men.

Gratitude

Cover of 'The Happiest Man on Earth' by Eddie Jaku featuring an elderly man in a plaid suit and tie, smiling with arms crossed.
Book cover of 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, featuring black and white photo of a man in a dimly lit room, with minimalist text design.
Cover of "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl, featuring a bird on barbed wire and a concentration camp fence.
Book cover of 'The Girl Who Fell From The Sky' by Emma Carey, featuring a woman in a white dress and hat smiling, standing in a grassy field.
Smiling person in blue attire with text "Dinesh Palipana STRONGER: How losing everything set me free."
"The Tattooist of Auschwitz" TV series poster with hands clasped in front, striped clothing, and title text by Heather Morris, available on Stan.
Book cover of 'The Art of Happiness' featuring the Dalai Lama, 10th Anniversary Edition.
Book cover of 'Factfulness' by Hans Rosling with contributions from Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Features bold, large text with an orange and blue design. Includes a quote from Barack Obama and a '#1 Sunday Times Bestseller' badge.

Happiness

Title page of 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods' by Henry D. Thoreau.
Book cover of 'Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself' by Dr. Joe Dispenza, featuring an abstract human head design with neural network imagery.
Book cover of 'Think Like a Monk' by Jay Shetty featuring a smiling man against a blue background.
"The Blue Zones of Happiness" book cover by Dan Buettner, blue background, yellow and white text.
Book cover of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' by Mark Manson featuring orange background with bold text.
Cover of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 25th anniversary edition, red and gold design
Book cover of "Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything" by Viktor E. Frankl, featuring a textured background.
Cover of 'Rising Strong' by Brené Brown, featuring a subtitle about resetting to transform living, loving, parenting, and leading.

Intelligence

Book cover of "Ultralearning" by Scott H. Young with a yellow background, lightbulb icon, and subtitle "Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition."
Book cover of 'Emotional Intelligence' by Daniel Goleman, featuring illustrated gears with heart symbols inside a silhouette of a head.
Cover of the book 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport with a desk lamp illustration shining on the title.
"The Laws of Human Nature" book cover by Robert Greene with red background and blue circle.
Cover of the book 'Think Again' by Adam Grant, featuring a lit match with a blue water-like flame. Text includes '#1 New York Times Bestseller' and 'The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know.'
Cover of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman, featuring a pencil drawing a line.
Book cover of 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear, featuring the subtitle 'Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results' and a circular badge stating 'Over 15 Million Copies Sold.'
Book cover of 'How Successful People Think' by John C. Maxwell

Journalling

Cover of 'The Daily Stoic' book by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, featuring title, subtitle, and authors' names
Book cover of 'The Art of Explanation' by Ros Atkins, featuring subtitle 'How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence' and a quote from the Guardian.
Cover of "On Writing (and Writers)" by C.S. Lewis. Book subtitle: A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions. Features a red background and an illustration of a quill and inkwell.
Book cover of 'Quiet' by Susan Cain, featuring a large red letter 'Q' on a gray background with the subtitle 'The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.'
Cover of "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King, 20th Anniversary Edition, featuring a black and white photo of King sitting at a cluttered desk with a dog.
Book cover of 'The War of Art' by Steven Pressfield featuring a poppy flower in a concrete block.
Book cover of 'Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole' by Allan Ropper and B.D. Burrell featuring illustrations and text titles.
Cover of "The Warrior Ethos" by Steven Pressfield, featuring a textured shield design.

Knowledge

Cover of 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' by Jared Diamond featuring text and images of bullets, a mosquito, and a metal nut.
Book cover of 'The Black Swan' by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, second edition, with a red border and a black swan silhouette.
Cover of 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' by Yuval Noah Harari, featuring a fingerprint.
Book cover of 'Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?' by Dr. Julie Smith, featuring bold black text on a light background and colored circles with additional text 'Everyday Tools for Life’s Ups & Downs' and 'New Updated Edition.'
Cover of the book 'Mastery' by Robert Greene featuring large gold letters on a black background.
Cover of "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell, featuring small purple jewels.
Cover of the book 'Enough' by John C. Bogle, focusing on money, business, and life.
Book cover of 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson, featuring a stylized illustration of Earth with orbiting spheres and a thinker statue on a blue background.

Leadership

Book cover of "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli featuring a portrait of a man.
Cover of the book 'Dare to Lead' by Brené Brown, featuring the title and subtitle about brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts.
About Face book cover featuring a military helmet, authored by Colonel David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman.
Book cover of "Leaders Eat Last" by Simon Sinek, featuring a table setting graphic and a badge about Millennials.
Cover of 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu with warrior statue.
Cover of 'Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win' by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, featuring a red banner stating '#1 New York Times Bestseller' with a black background.
Book cover of 'On the Psychology of Military Incompetence' by Norman F. Dixon, featuring an illustration of a military officer with historical military imagery.
"Call Sign Chaos" book cover featuring a man in military attire, text includes 'Learning to Lead' and authors Jim Mattis and Bing West.

Mindfulness

Cover of "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle, featuring a blue background with white sunburst rays and text.
Cover of 'Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life' with cherry blossom illustration.
Book cover of 'Think Like a Monk' by Jay Shetty with blue background and author's smiling face.
Cover of 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius, Penguin Classics edition, featuring a statue of a Roman emperor bust with a patinated surface.
Book cover of "101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think" by Brianna Wiest.
Book cover of 'The Courage to Be Disliked' by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga with a red brushstroke circle.
Book cover of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by Robert M. Pirsig, featuring a stylized motorcycle design divided into grid sections with a red-orange color scheme, commemorating the 40th Anniversary Edition.
Cover of "Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca, featuring a marble bust of an older man with a rugged expression, part of the Penguin Classics series.

Never gets old

"The Hobbit" book cover illustration with mountains, a red sun, and J.R.R. Tolkien's signature.
Cover of 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry featuring the titular character standing on a small planet with stars and a flower.
Book cover of 'A Fortunate Life' by A.B. Facey, featuring a silhouette of a man walking on a railroad track, with a starry sky background.
Cover of 'Night' by Elie Wiesel, featuring a barbed wire fence and concentration camp silhouette.
The cover of "The Odyssey" by Homer, retold by Geraldine McCaughrean, featuring an illustration of an ancient ship, sea monsters, and mythological figures, with a circular wave pattern.
Cover of 'Lord of the Flies' educational edition by William Golding, featuring an abstract illustration of a boy holding a conch shell.
Cover of 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz, featuring bold red and white stripes, and a silhouette of a hand holding an axe.
Cover of "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, featuring falling dominoes and a hand pushing one over.

Optimism

Cover of 'Tuesdays with Morrie' by Mitch Albom, 25th Anniversary Edition, featuring the subtitle 'an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson.'
Book cover for 'How I Learned to Understand the World' by Hans Rosling with Fanny Härgestam, featuring a face made of colorful dots.
Cover of 'The Happiness Advantage' by Shawn Achor, featuring an upward arrow on an orange background, with text about positive psychology and work success.
Book cover of 'Zero Negativity' by Ant Middleton; features author's portrait and text emphasizing positive thinking.
Book cover of 'Enlightenment Now' by Steven Pinker with a turbulent ocean scene in the background. The text highlights the book's focus on reason, science, humanism, and progress.
Cover of the book 'Learned Optimism' by Martin Seligman, featuring a butterfly illustration.
Book cover of 'The Optimism Bias' by Tali Sharot featuring eyeglasses with one lens tinted pink.
Cover of Voltaire's "Candide, or Optimism" by Penguin Classics, featuring a whimsical illustrated scene with characters in a chaotic village setting.

PTSD

Book cover of 'The Body Keeps the Score' by Bessel van der Kolk, featuring abstract art of a black figure on blue background with yellow shapes.
Book cover of 'What Happened to You?' by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey, featuring a watercolor silhouette of a person.
Book cover of 'Lost Connections' by Johann Hari, featuring raised hands holding sparklers against a dark background and text highlighting its themes on depression.
Book cover of "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture" by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté, featuring abstract colorful design.
Cover of the book 'The Choice: Embrace the Possible' by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, featuring an illustration of an orange flower and dark vine.
Book cover of 'How to Change Your Mind' by Michael Pollan, depicting a person on a swing in a clear sky.
Book cover of 'Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy' by Sadhguru, featuring an illustrated blue figure.
Book cover of 'Psycho-Cybernetics' by Maxwell Maltz, highlighting key themes like self-image, achieving goals, and the power of rational thinking. Updated edition introduction by Matt Furey.

Resilience

Book cover of 'Grit' by Angela Duckworth with a blue paint splash background.
Courage Is Calling book cover by Ryan Holiday, featuring a lion and mosaic border.
Book cover of 'The Obstacle is the Way' by Ryan Holiday with the subtitle 'The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage,' featuring a laurel wreath design on a blue background.
Book cover of 'Resilient' by Rick Hanson Ph.D., featuring a stylized tree illustration and subtitle: 'How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness.'
Book cover of 'The Resilience Shield' by Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk DSC, and Tim Curtis featuring a golden shield emblem.
Book cover of 'The Art of Resilience' by Ross Edgley, featuring a man with a serious expression, and yellow text highlighting strategies for an unbreakable mind and body.
Cover of "Never Finished" by David Goggins, featuring a runner on a road with mountains in the background.
Cover of 'The Resilience Project' book by Hugh van Cuylenburg featuring text about happiness, gratitude, empathy, and mindfulness.

Support veteran authors

Book cover of 'Drugs, Guns & Lies: My Life as an Undercover Cop' by Keith Banks with Ben Smith.
Book cover of 'Havoc-06: A Combat Controller on Operations' featuring two military personnel in uniform with gear, and an aircraft in the background.
Book cover for "Vendetta" by Tony Park featuring a soldier silhouette and green jungle background with weapons overlay.
Book cover of 'Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! The Lindt Café Siege' showing a close-up of eyes and text detailing a dramatic event.
"Ghosts in the Fog" book cover, featuring a soldier silhouette with a foggy backdrop, part of the Damien Hunter action novel series by Nathan Best.
Book cover of "The Coaching Leader" by Clifford Morgan featuring paper planes on a red background.
Book cover of 'In Plain Sight' by Shaun Austin featuring colorful abstract art and a quote by Tony Park.
Book cover of 'Dauntless' featuring a woman with face half in camo paint, dressed in military attire, split with civilian clothing.

Toxic relationships

Book cover featuring large text "IT'S NOT YOU" with a subtitle about narcissistic people and the author's name, Ramani Durvasula, PhD, set against a colorful, abstract background.
Cover of "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" by John Gray, Ph.D.
Book cover of 'Taming Toxic People' by David Gillespie.
Cover of "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara featuring a black and white photo of a person with a pained expression, National Book Award Finalist seal, text "A Little Life" and author's name.
Cover of the book "Whole Again" by Jackson MacKenzie, featuring a bold orange background with white text.
Book cover of 'Surrounded by Psychopaths' by Thomas Erikson, featuring silhouettes of four people in red, yellow, green, and blue circles, with the subtitle 'How to Protect Yourself from Being Manipulated and Exploited in Business (and in Life).'
"How to Be the Love You Seek" book cover by Dr. Nicole LePera, featuring abstract purple and pink background.
Book cover of 'When to Walk Away: Finding Freedom from Toxic People' by Gary Thomas.

Unforgettable

Cover of 'The Diary of a Young Girl' featuring a photo of Anne Frank.
Cover of 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne, 10th Anniversary Edition
Cover of "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury featuring a dragon design.
Cover of 'The War of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells, Great Illustrated Classics edition, depicting a scene with people running from a large, tripod alien machine in an urban setting.
Cover of 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini featuring a boy flying a kite against a mountain backdrop.
Cover of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, with a vintage photo of a dimly lit room.
Book cover of 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy featuring two figures in winter attire with a fiery background.
The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition book cover by S.E. Hinton, featuring a leather jacket.

Violence / War

Cover of book 'War' by Sebastian Junger, showing a partial face with text overlay.
Book cover of 'Ordinary Men' by Christopher R. Browning, featuring black and white photo of uniformed men with red overlay. Includes text about Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, along with a quote from Newsweek.
Cover of 'Band of Brothers' by Stephen E. Ambrose with soldiers resting against a wall.
Cover of the book 'American Sniper' by Chris Kyle, displaying a sniper rifle and military insignia, with the subtitle 'The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.'
Cover of 'On Combat' by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, featuring a sword with wings, subtitle about psychology and physiology of deadly conflict.
Book cover of 'On Killing' by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, featuring a soldier's face and helmet in sepia tone.
Cover of "Storm of Steel" by Ernst Jünger, featuring soldiers, tanks, and flames.
Book cover of 'Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging' by Sebastian Junger.

Wisdom

Cover of the book 'The Wisdom of Insecurity' by Alan Watts with an introduction by Deepak Chopra.
Cover of "Poor Charlie's Almanack" featuring a stylized face made of blue and beige lines
Cover of the book "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz featuring abstract floral artwork on a colorful background with text highlighting it as a Toltec wisdom book and a practical guide to personal freedom.
Book cover of Penguin Classics edition of 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius featuring a statue of a bearded man.
Book cover of "Outwitting the Devil" by Napoleon Hill, annotated by Sharon Lechter, with a foreword by Mark Victor Hansen.
Cover of "Tao Te Ching" by Laozi with ancient Chinese script.
Book cover of 'As a Man Thinketh' by James Allen featuring 'The Thinker' sculpture.
Book cover of 'The Almanack of Naval Ravikant' by Eric Jorgenson, featuring minimalist black and white design with text and a foreword by Tim Ferriss.

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