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Self improvement with the sources in the margin.

Forty-four guides on habits, focus, conflict and relationships. Every claim carries its citation, and where the evidence is thin the book says so instead of raising its voice.

The whole Library — all 44 guides

1,427 pages. Every shelf below, plus the four titles that sit on none of them.

$149 $199 founding price, before launch

Bought separately the 44 come to $751.

Bundles:

Each shelf lists everything in it. There is no bonus and no surprise extra.

Get Things Done

Cover of Executive Functioning for the ADHD Brain

Cover of How to Make Yourself Do Hard Things

Cover of The Habit Architecture Workbook

Cover of The Focus Sprint

Cover of The Identity Shift

Cover of The Morning Method

For the gap between deciding and doing.

$75 $99 6 guides

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When Willpower Runs Out

Cover of Reclaim Your Focus

Cover of How to Stay Motivated When the Feeling Is Gone

Cover of The Self-Compassion Workbook for Perfectionists

Cover of The Somatic Reset

Cover of Unhooked

For when trying harder is not the lever.

$69 $90 5 guides

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Social Confidence Library

Cover of Reading People

Cover of Social Intelligence for the Post-Isolated World

Cover of Social Confidence for Introverts

Cover of The Social Battery Assessment

Cover of The Art of Socializing

Cover of Heard

Cover of How to Make Friends as an Adult

Reading people, being read, staying in the room.

$79 $108 7 guides

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Secure Love

Cover of Arguments to Answers

Cover of How to Become More Securely Attached

Cover of The Open Relationship Starter Kit

Cover of From Partners to Parents

Cover of The 20-Minute Door

Cover of The Small Moments That Decide Everything

Cover of Why You Pull Away When Things Get Good

What long relationships actually run on.

$85 $123 7 guides

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Hard Conversations & Boundaries

Cover of How to Have a Difficult Conversation

Cover of Boundaries Without Guilt

Cover of The Boundary Script Book

Cover of Setting Boundaries with In-Laws

From the physiology of anger to the exact sentence.

$54 $71 4 guides

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Healing the Family Wound

Cover of Good Enough

Cover of The Parent Wound

Cover of When Family Hurts

Cover of Reparenting Yourself

The relationship you did not choose.

$54 $71 4 guides

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Design Your Life

Cover of The Life Goal Audit

Cover of The Regret-Proof Decision

Cover of The Quarterly Life Audit Workbook

Two audits and one hard decision.

$45 $57 3 guides

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Modern Dating

Cover of From Match to First Date

Cover of The Art of the Opening Line

Profile, opening line, first date.

$37 $47 3 guides

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All ebooks in the library

Every one of the 44, with what it promises and what it is built on.

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What the margin is for

Most self-improvement writing states its findings and stops. These books put the study next to the claim, grade how good it is, and mark where the research is contested or thin. You are meant to be able to check. It also means the books disagree with each other occasionally, and say where a professional is the better answer than a workbook.