Specialty Books

Stopping Diabetes in Its Tracks brings you all of the latest diabetes facts, practical tips and strategies in one, convenient book. Broken down into two sections, you’ll first learn about lifestyle changes with “Start Right Now” and then gain hope through discussion of breakthrough medical studies in “Looking Ahead.” You’ll also find a clear, unbiased look at the latest tests, drugs, insulin therapy, surgery, alternative therapy, exercise, and diets that can bring your blood sugar into a normal range.

Keep your brain happy with Mind Stretchers Vol. 1, a fun collection of puzzles and activities that’s perfect entertainment for all ages. Inside you’ll find crosswords, word searches, trivia, logic and numerical games—all designed to inspire and stimulate the mind!

The days of inefficient, archaic, time-consuming, unsafe, and impractical fitness workouts are over. The 60-Second Sweat combines hot fitness trends High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and Metabolic Resistance Training (MRT) into a single efficient and effective training program, with each exercise requiring no more than 60 seconds. It is not a short-term fix, but, rather, a roadmap to the fittest, most confident you. You’ll learn how to attain phenomenal and sustainable fitness safely and realistically...1 minute at a time...

Reader’s Digest Homemade is your guide to saving a small fortune by making everyday household items yourself. Inside you’ll find low-cost, all-natural replacement recipes for more than 700 name-brand products that you buy week in and week out at the supermarket, pharmacy, or discount store. At the same time, you’ll fill your cabinets with fresh, super high-quality products that work or taste great—without all the chemicals and preservatives of store-bought versions.

The first in a new series, this fun book will boost your memory and mental sharpness with a variety of puzzles, word games, logic conundrums, trivia quizzes and more. Featuring favorites like crosswords, word searches, and Sudoku, each volume will also include less-familiar puzzle types to test your logic, spatial and numerical skills along with your knowledge of long-lost bits of history. With more than 250 challenges at varying levels of difficulty, there is sure to be something to delight everyone!

The Sugar Savvy Solution is more than a diet. It’s an eye-opening, confidence-building, life-affirming program that literally and scientifically helps remap your brain chemistry to change what you crave and want to eat. It’s a plan that will empower you from the top down and inside out. This one-of-a-kind plan beats obesity where it begins—in your brain. The Sugar Savvy motto: Eat whatever you want, but we will change what you want. Guaranteed!

In The Big Fat Truth, you’ll unearth the real reasons you’re overweight (and it’s not because you love food!). Author J.D. Roth will show you how to create your own reality show and shake up your life to do the impossible. Included throughout are inspiring stories, advice, and before-and-after photos from people J.D. has helped to lose weight (both on camera and off), along with quick tips for how to stay accountable and a 30-day plan for putting this advice into action.

Now, you have the power to change the course of your diabetes with every bite you eat, every walk you take, every pound you lose, and every positive move you make. With the step-by-step advice found in Reader’s Digest Reverse Diabetes, in just 12 weeks you can: Lower your blood sugar by up to 25%, trim inches from your waistline and lose dangerous belly fat and lower the need for diabetes medication. With Reverse Diabetes, you’ll learn how to improve your quality of life and control your blood sugar so that it doesn't control you.

Conquering Heart Attacks & Strokes arms you with everything you need to combat the potent cardiovascular enemies that make heart attacks and strokes the leading causes of death in North America. You'll learn how to recognize the danger signs, assess your own risk and adjust your lifestyle in easy steps. In some cases, you'll even learn how to reverse existing damage.

The Survival Doctor's Complete Handbook will take you step by step through the essentials of medical care during a crisis. Perhaps you’ve been stranded by a sudden storm when out camping. Maybe you live alone in a rural area and can’t easily get to a doctor when you hurt your arm. Or you just want to make sure you and your family are prepared to safely weather the next Superstorm Sandy, polar vortex, tornado strike, heat wave, earthquake, or other natural disaster. Whatever your situation and your health needs, The Survival Doctor's Complete Handbook is your must-have medical resource.

Most dads get their best material from their families. And that's what you’ll find here with Dumb Dad Jokes: a collection of riddles, jokes, one-liners, hilarious anecdotes and pointed wit that see families for what they truly are—a chief source of amusement! These family-friendly jokes can be shared across generations, around the dinner table or the camp fire. "Did you hear that NASA has launched several cows into orbit? It was the herd shot around the world!" Truly, there’s something for everyone from age 6 to 106!

Newly updated with the latest science, Reverse Diabetes Forever offers more than 700 tips, plans, and recipes to beat diabetes. In this comprehensive book, you'll find the latest science and expert advice that enables you—at long last—to take control. Learn how to shop, cook, and eat. Discover how to transform your favorite comfort foods into delectable, diet-friendly meals (your family won't know you've changed a thing). Then find out how you can defeat diabetes by learning how to be more active. With practical tips and simple solutions drawn from the latest science, Reverse Diabetes Forever will help you take charge of your blood sugar once and for all.

Doctor's Favorite Natural Remedies is a comprehensive A-Z guide that covers 90 everyday health conditions and includes 170 natural remedies to combat them. You’ll find safe and effective medically-approved ways to treat your ailments using natural healing methods such as herbal treatments, different types of exercise, dietary changes, and massage therapy. So, you can tackle stress, look and feel better, improve your sleep patterns and enjoy life more.

Use Your Words is an entertaining collection from Reader’s Digest that combines the best selection of content from two of the magazine’s most popular columns: Word Power Quizzes and Quotable Quotes. It’s packed with quotes collected from a variety of books, speeches, journals, and articles, plus word quizzes that will help you discover the meaning of unfamiliar words, add new or unusual words to your vocabulary, and help you stay up to date on new words entering the lexicon.

Get ready to laugh out loud with Fun Jokes for Funny Kids. This entertaining collection is loaded with family-friendly knock, knock jokes and riddles, one-liners, tongue twisters and puns that will keep kids ages 6-12 rolling in laughter for hours. Also includes illustrations and cartoons for extra giggles.

Outsmarting Alzheimer’s is for everyone affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Whether you are trying to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, already have it, or are caring or someone who does, you’ll find 75+ simple, low-cost solutions that will help you reduce stress, live life to the fullest and find peace of mind.

The right diet can actually act as preventive medicine. Now with Fight Back with Food, a health book from Reader’s Digest, you can find practical tips and information on how to load up your three-square meals a day with the right nutrients that can help you live longer and healthier. Divided into 3 sections, this A-Z comprehensive guide lays out all the foods with the most potential to treat and prevent disease. Plus, you’ll enjoy 100 tasty recipes for “meals that heal.”

Keep your brain happy with Mind Stretchers Vol. 3, a fun collection of puzzles and activities that’s perfect entertainment for all ages. Inside you’ll find crosswords, word searches, trivia, logic and numerical games—all designed to inspire and stimulate the mind!

Keep your brain happy with Mind Stretchers Vol. 4, a fun collection of puzzles and activities that’s perfect entertainment for all ages. Inside you’ll find crosswords, word searches, trivia, logic and numerical games—all designed to inspire and stimulate the mind!

Sharpen your mind one puzzle at a time with Brain Games for Brain Power, Vol 5. This fun book will boost your memory and mental sharpness with a variety of puzzles, word games, logic conundrums, trivia quizzes and more. Featuring favorites like crosswords, word searches, and Sudoku, you’ll also enjoy less-familiar puzzle types to test your logic, spatial and numerical skills along with your knowledge of long-lost bits of history. With more than 250 challenges at varying levels of difficulty, there is sure to be something to delight everyone!

Get ready to laugh out loud with the latest volume of Fun Jokes for Funny Kids. This entertaining collection is loaded with family-friendly knock, knock jokes and riddles, one-liners, tongue twisters and puns that will keep kids ages 6-12 rolling in laughter for hours. Also includes illustrations and cartoons for extra giggles.

Whether you want to learn how to grow lemon trees in pots or to create your very own salsa window box with chilies, dwarf tomatoes, scallions, and coriander, Small Is Bountiful will show how! This growing guide teaches you how to use the latest practices of high-density patio gardening to grow a cornucopia of mouthwatering fruits, delectable vegetables, and fresh herbs in large and small plant containers, window boxes, and hanging baskets. With just a few simple steps, you’ll be able to enjoy picking fresh ingredients from your patio almost all year long.

Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal, the newly updated best-selling Reader’s Digest health book, sets the record straight on what you can eat to help prevent or treat a wide variety of ailments. Divided into four sections, you’ll discover the real deal on nutrition, an A-Z list of foods that harm and heal, a condition-by-condition ailment guide, and a brand-new bonus section packed with 60+ recipes, all together in one big book!

Keep your brain happy with this 9^th edition of Mind Stretchers, a fun collection of puzzles and activities that’s perfect entertainment for all ages. Inside you’ll find crosswords, word searches, trivia, logic and numerical games—all designed to inspire and stimulate the mind!

Keep your brain happy with Mind Stretchers Vol. 7, a fun collection of puzzles and activities that’s perfect entertainment for all ages. Inside you’ll find crosswords, word searches, trivia, logic and numerical games—all designed to inspire and stimulate the mind!

Keep your brain happy with Mind Stretchers Vol. 8, a fun collection of puzzles and activities that’s perfect entertainment for all ages. Inside you’ll find crosswords, word searches, trivia, logic and numerical games—all designed to inspire and stimulate the mind!

YOU CAN DO IT! Remove ice from your windshield without a scraper. Save your keyboard after a coffee spill. Clear a blocked kitchen drain. It’s a snap with Easy Fixes for Everyday Things. Inside you’ll find 1,020 practical, no-nonsense solutions for fixing everyday “disasters” yourself using common items already in your house. So, you can count on these inventive tips to put you back in charge of your environment without spending much money or valuable time!

Who’s Who in the Bible is an A-to-Z biographical biblical reference book that furnishes in-depth portraits of some five hundred important biblical personalities, as well as concise identifications of nearly four thousand individuals from the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. All in all, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable companion to your family Bible as well as an outstanding reference book. You will turn to its attractive, fact-checked pages again and again for essential background information and spiritual enrichment.

Magic Foods, a Reader’s Digest health book, is packed with 57 foods that will help you to lose weight, increase your energy, slash your diabetes risk and generally make you feel better. Inside you’ll find 100+ delicious recipes specially designed to promote better blood sugar, plus meal makeovers that show you how. With a few simple fixes, you can transform any meal into a “magic”' one. You’ll also enjoy handy meal plans for three different calorie goals that will help you put the whole program together. Nothing could be simpler or more effective.

Take pride in your child's many accomplishments with the School Years Record Book. With guided pages and pockets for preschool to 12th grade, this keepsake album is the perfect place to jot down memorable events and milestones and keep photos, report cards, awards, essays, art and more. This exquisite book follows a simple yet charming template that will help you effortlessly record and organize your child’s scholastic and extra-curricular successes in one place and create a fantastic memory book they’ll cherish forever.

Keep your brain happy with Mind Stretchers Vol. 6, a fun collection of puzzles and activities that’s perfect entertainment for all ages. Inside you’ll find crosswords, word searches, trivia, logic and numerical games—all designed to inspire and stimulate the mind!

Over the years, Reader’s Digest has covered notorious crimes both large and small, and its latest collection, True Crime, has them all: petty theft, serial killers, lottery scams, kidnappers, art heists, and, of course, the granddaddy of them all: crimes of passion. Inside this gripping novel, you’ll find 24 tales of murder and mayhem that are guaranteed to surprise, shock, and fascinate as they offer a glimpse into the twisted minds of criminals and the dedicated crime fighters who catch them.

The all-in-one trip planner and travel guide will steer you down the most scenic road every time. From Florida's Road to Flamingo to Hawaii's Oahu Coastal Loop…from British Columbia's Sea to Sky Highway to Cape Cod's Sandy Shores…each featured road trip is pictured in stunning full color and described in vivid text, keyed to an easy-to-follow map. Whether you choose a drive in a far corner of the continent or a back road in your own state, this book is your ticket to North America's most beautiful byways.

Want to drop up to a pound a day? Stop feeling bad about your weight. Stop sabotaging your weight loss efforts. And stop starving yourself. Stop & Drop Diet, a Reader’s Digest health book, offers a mix-and-match, 3-phase meal plan that’s designed for fast weight loss along with balanced nutrition for good health. You don’t have to give up your favorite foods or become a slave to your stove. Just follow this easy guide to lightening up by making little tweaks to your breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

Now you can discover the joy and pleasure of growing your own herbs for spicing up meals, creating crafts, treating ailments, and more. In this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated herbal guide you'll find information on herb history, cultivation, propagation, and harvesting, along with a wealth of great ideas for using these wonder plants every day in a variety of ways. Extremely informative and fascinating, this book gives you instructions for creating bursting-with-flavor recipes, health care products, decorative craft ideas, insect repellents, cosmetics, cleaning agents, and much more.