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Dancing With Myself

This Valentine's Day, try a no-mance book and celebrate your solo joy!

Oakland Public Library

10 items

  • Single. On Purpose

    Redefine Everything : Find Yourself First

    Kim, John (Psychologist)
    Be in the best relationship of your life: the one with yourself.
    BookNew York : HarperCollins Publishing, [2021] — 155.642 KIM
  • All the Single Ladies

    Unmarried Women and the Rise of An Independent Nation

    Traister, Rebecca
    Wait, maybe don't put a ring on it.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. — 306.8153 TRAISTER
  • Sex and the Single Woman

    24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic

    Singledom reimagined.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2022] — 306.8153 SEX
  • The Art of Solitude

    a Meditation on Being Alone With Others in This World

    Batchelor, Stephen
    Finding company in yourself through mindfulness.
    BookNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2020] — 155.92 BATCHELOR
  • On My Own

    the Art of Being a Woman Alone

    Falk, Florence Arlene
    By choice or by circumstance, embrace a single life well-lived.
    BookNew York : Harmony Books, c2007. — 306.8153 FALK
  • Single at Heart

    the Power, Freedom, and Heart-filling Joy of Single Life

    DePaulo, Bella,
    Yeah, not everyone wants to be in a romantic relationship.
    BookNew York : Apollo Publishers, 2023. — 306.815 DePAULO
  • Solo

    a Modern Cookbook for a Party of One

    Lo, Anita
    Because fancy cooking can just be for you.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. — 641.5611 LO
  • The Lonely Hunter

    How Our Search for Love Is Broken

    Lutkin, Aimée,
    What if the problem isn't being single?
    BookNew York : The Dial Press, [2022] — 306.815 LUTKIN
  • Arrangements in Blue

    Notes on Loving and Living Along

    Key, Amy,
    Not that kind of blue, rather, the Joni MItchell album kind.
    BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2023. — BIO KEY
  • Going Solo

    the Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

    Klinenberg, Eric
    The sociology of the single lifestyle.
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, c2012. — 306.815 KLINENBER