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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing the competition, all while wearing a smile. But when she meets the incorrigible Firoze Darcy, a debater from an elitist private school, Leela can't stand him. Unfortunately, he'll be competing in the state league, so their paths are set to collide. But why attempt to tolerate Firoze when Leela can one-up him? The situation is more complicated than Leela anticipated, though, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Heat reveals a dead-on understanding--rare among non-chef writers--of the pleasures of "making" food; the real human cost, the real requirements and the real adrenelin-rush-inducing pleasures of cranking out hundreds of high quality meals. One is left with a truly unique appreciation of not only what is truly good about food--but as importantly, who cooks--and why.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Professor Williams demonstrates how all great villains are a distorted reflection of the hero, through movies including The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, The Silence of the Lambs, and Rocky. He unpacks why the antagonist may not always be bad, but must be present. Additionally, you'll explore the four thematic groupings (pathways) and how the protagonist and antagonist are utilized in each.
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Series
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English
Description
"Betsy Huckabee has big-city dreams, but nobody outside of tiny Pine Gap, Missouri, seems interested in the articles she writes for her uncle's newspaper. Her hopes for independence may be crushed, until the best idea she's ever had comes riding into town. Deputy Joel Puckett didn't want to leave Texas, but unfair circumstances have made moving to Pine Gap his only shot at keeping a badge. Worse, this small town has big problems, and masked marauders...
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Language
English
Description
After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations. I 've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It has been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents...
Author
Publisher
Venet Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on a national joy study, Jackie Kelm presents a 28-day blueprint to greater happiness broken down into 3 simple steps that take just a few minutes a day: The equivalent of a "pill for joy." These astonishingly simple exercises increased happiness for participants while doing them, but more importantly, created long-term changes in happiness that were still being measured six months later. The program is based on the principles of Appreciative...
11) Shapes
Author
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
2006, c1991.
Language
English
Description
Isolates the artistic element of shape, discusses what visual ideas and effects can be conveyed by different shapes, and examines how they contribute to a work of art through various examples.
12) Little Tug
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little Tug knows what to do when the tall ship, the speedboat, and the ocean liner need him, and at such times, he is indispensable.
13) Conversations worth having: using appreciative inquiry to fuel productive and meaningful engagement
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., a BK Life Book
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Conversations are at the core of how we interact. We all know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. This book shows how Appreciative Inquiry (AI)--one of the most widely used new approaches for fostering positive change for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities--can help everyone communicate better and flourish in all areas of their lives....
14) Clara Voyant
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Clara can't believe her no-nonsense grandmother has just up and moved to Florida, leaving Clara and her mother on their own for the first time. This means her mother can finally "follow her bliss," which involves moving to a tiny apartment in Kensington Market, working at a herbal remedy shop and trying to develop her so-called mystical powers. Clara tries to make the best of a bad situation by joining the newspaper staff at her new middle school,...
16) Begin with a bee
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Looking closely at the life cycle of one bee, this book helps readers of all ages understand and appreciate the contributions and significance of all bees"--
17) Love by Sophia
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Encouraged by her teacher to approach her art assignment from new points of view, Sophia produces a piece she is proud of, but can she persuade her hard-to-impress family to take a chance on a different perspective?
18) Stand off
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Now a senior at Pine Mountain Academy, fifteen-year-old Ryan Dean West becomes captain of the rugby team, shares his dormitory room with a twelve-year-old prodigy, Sam Abernathy, and through the course of the year learns to appreciate things he has tried to resist, including change.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present." Drawing on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, Richo offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships that focuses not on finding an ideal mate but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Here, he explores five hallmarks of mindful loving and how they play a key role in our relationships throughout life: Attention...
Author
Series
Cat Kid Comic Club volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Flippy, Molly, Li'l Petey, and twenty-one baby frogs each have something to say. Naomi and Melvin don't see eye to eye and Poppy perceives the world differently than her siblings. Will the baby frogs figure out how to work together and appreciate one another's point of view -- both inside and outside the classroom?
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