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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 272 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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"The perfect gift and conversation starter for women who talk about dealing with failure and accepting not being perfect, this book features fascinating interviews with twenty-five women, including Keri Smith, Angela Duckworth, and Roz Chast, about triumphing over career setbacks and challenges. Jessica Bacal, the author of Mistakes I Made at Work, is a well-respected career-development professional at Smith College"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 183 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"There are issues, and there are issues--love, loss, success, failure, hope, regret, life, death. How can we even begin to think clearly about dilemmas so universally confounding? Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all face, and this profound book puts the conclusions he's reached at your fingertips. Stutz has been writing these remarkably insightful short essays since the late 1990s, and they are collected here for...
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English
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"Parenting doesn't always come naturally. This book provides expert guidance for caregivers who struggle with parenting because of adversity in their own lives, or simply because they are raising kids in an increasingly stressful world. As parents and caregivers, we want to shore up kids to help them through difficult or disturbing experiences. But if we or our child have experienced adversity or trauma, this can be especially challenging, and we...
64) La guitarrista
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Canta finds a guitar in the trash, she is one step closer to becoming a rock star. Even though the guitar is broken and she doesn't know how to play, nothing can stop Canta from going after her dreams!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
vi, 172 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Blending evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and profanity, this unexpected guide will show you how to respond to your negative inner voice with one very important phrase: Move on, mother*cker (MOMF)!
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
viii, 229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From renowned Zen Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim, a guide to turning life's challenges into opportunities for self-discovery Have you ever felt like life has thrown you a curveball? Are you struggling to overcome unexpected challenges and setbacks? While loss, heartbreak, and loneliness are all part of the human experience, in this warm guide, internationally bestselling author Haemin Sunim shows us that these moments can actually be rare opportunities...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully simple story about moving to a new home, exploring themes of change and permanence and told with warm illustrations from an award-winning illustrator. A young girl is moving to a new country, and there's so much that she wants to bring: an aquarium, a pear tree, her best friend, the ocean. As she moves through the list of the things she loves, she comes to understand that while we cannot always carry things with us physically-- maybe...
69) The microstress effect: how little things pile up and create big problems--and what to do about it
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"There is a force in our everyday lives that we aren't even aware of-and it's so powerful it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress. It's the hidden epidemic of small moments of anxiety that infiltrate both our work and personal lives. Because each individual microstress is so small, it doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, the microstress just embeds in our minds,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cassandra Lane's debut memoir WE ARE BRIDGES follows her late entry into pregnancy and motherhood. As she prepares to give birth, she traces the history of her Black American family in the early twentieth-century rural South, including the lynching of her great-grandfather, Burt Bridges, and the pregnancy of her great-grandmother, Mary. With almost no physical record of her ancestors, Cassandra crafts a narrative of familial love and loss to pass...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
One sunny day, Rabbit and his pals are playing outside and they couldn't be happier. But, oh, no!-- the sky starts clouding up and before they know it, it's raining, it's pouring, and everyone has to run home. How boring! What will they do for the rest of the day? It doesn't take long for Rabbit to realize that fun can be had in the rain. With raincoats, boots, and umbrellas, let the splashing games begin.--
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 unnumbered preliminary pages, 88 pages, 13 unnumbered postliminary pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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"Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan--something a simple operation would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery to find she can't move her legs, her entire sense of self begins to waver. Confined to a hospital bed for months, unusual things begin to happen. Psychedelic bugs crawl her hospital walls; strange...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young girl is thrilled to spend the day with her big sister, but things don't go as planned. It's so hot outside--legs-stick-to-the-seat hot--that her ice cream melts and then it rains. Their plans must change, and then change again as the library closes just before they arrive. But big sister knows just what to do next--even if it's nothing besides splashing in puddles and looking at the stars. The day isn't anything like little sister expected...
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English
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"The stories and lessons in this raw, revealing, unflinching memoir offer the reader a blueprint they can use to climb from the bottom of the barrel into a whole new stratosphere that once seemed unattainable. Whether you feel off-course in life, are looking to maximize your potential or drain your soul to break through your so-called glass ceiling, this is the only book you will ever need."--Back cover.
77) The white book
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
157 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A lyrical exploration of personal grief, conveyed through the prism of the color white, finds a nameless writer grappling with a haunting family tragedy involving the infancy death of her older sister.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Congratulations on the resurrection of your life," a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, a boy named Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience she wrote about in her first book, The Still Point of the Turning World. Since that time her life had changed utterly: She had left the marriage that fractured under the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ray Edwards was one of the top marketers and copywriters in the business with A-list clients like Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, and Michael Hyatt when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's. The diagnosis brought his life to a screeching halt and propelled Edwards to question everything he thought he knew about his Christian faith, his relationships, what kind of person he was, and how the world worked. Out of options and deeply depressed, Edwards decided...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a brief crash course in the latest research on trauma and the mind-body connection, we learn to access our innate resilience through body-based practices, mindful awareness, and generating compassion for ourselves and others"--
Trauma pervades every aspect of our lives, particular in recent years. Post-traumatic growth is not entirely possible but probably. Willard shows you how to discover the conditions and compassionate practices that make...
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