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Publisher
Atria / 37 INK
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"A poet, artist, and speaker, Cleo Wade has carved out a reputation as the voice of a generation blending positivity with arresting honesty to inspire people of all ages. With Heart Talk, she's poured her spiritually and poetically infused wisdom into an accessible book you won't want to be without. Here you'll find your daily pep talk, a replenishing pause, or a motivational spark to start your day. Keep this book on your bedside table or leave it...
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English
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"Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....
Author
Series
Farsala trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When the rulers mistakenly believe that they can destroy the evil force approaching Farsala, Jiaan, Soraya, and Kavi must find a way on their own to stop their town from being led into the Flames of Destruction.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
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"Avram Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, damage to our relationships, widespread political and economic inequality, and destruction of the natural world. He describes how to move beyond greatness to create a society in which everyone flourishes. By competing less with each other, each of us can find renewed meaning and purpose, have our material and emotional needs met, and begin to lead more leisurely lives....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Forget your sign -- what's your design? Would you like a clear picture of your ideal life partner? Would you like to make better decisions, find your ideal career, and realize your highest potential? Would you like to know who you really are? More individually specific than horoscopes, Human Design is a revolutionary system that is changing people's lives around the world. Using the date, time, and location of your birth, it reveals the person you...
88) Exclamation mark
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Language
English
Description
A punctuation mark feels bad that he does not fit in with the others until a friend reveals the possibilities that exist when differences are accepted.
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English
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In the seaside town of San Benedetto, soccer (or calcio) is more than just a sport: it's an obsession. Twenty-two-year-old Etto, however, couldn't care less about soccer. His twin brother Luca, a rising soccer star, died tragically in a motorcycle accident, and their mother, unable to cope with her grief, drowned herself on the anniversary of Luca's death. But then Yuri Fil, a Ukrainian soccer star, takes refuge from the paparazzi in a nearby villa,...
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English
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Kondo encourages you to visualize your ideal life, from the moment you wake up until the end of each day. This mental picture becomes a touchpoint for helping you make conscious, mindful choices: from how you use every corner of your living space to how you take advantage of every moment. This will help you focus not on what to get rid of, but what to keep. This will empower you to embrace what you love about your life.
92) Love in mid air
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Risking her safe but lackluster marriage in an affluent Southern suburb to embark on an affair that she believes is more fulfilling, Elyse challenges the decisions her book-club friends have made about their own relationships and freedoms.
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English
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In small-town Michigan, Abby trudges to and from her job as a supermarket cashier. Each day she is taunted from the magazine racks by the success of her former best friend Elise, a rising Hollywood starlet whose life in pictures Abby obsessively scrapbooks. At night Abby escapes through the films of her favorite director, Auguste Perren, a cult figure known for his creative institute the Rhizome, while drawing fantastical storyboards based on her...
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English
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"Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora Webster has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has...
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Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation? White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, shows how this unmetabolized anger--and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath...
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Publisher
North Star Way
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-gang member-turned-inspirational messenger Preston Smiles shakes things up in the world of personal development, sharing a uniquely modern, love-based approach on how to live with more excitement, clarity, and confidence. Preston Smiles, born in Compton and raised in Los Angeles, is no stranger to a life of adventure. As a teen he joined a local gang that was first involved in petty burglary but later escalated into more dangerous crimes. One...
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Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Our world is filled with fake facades, from the unrealistic filters used on social media to the "holier than thou" personas seen in certain hypocritical believers. To combat the fake trends, a new trend has emerged--one that fights the facade with transparency and vulnerability. Instead of being filtered or super-spiritual, we're told to be real and honest. And rightly so. We should be getting real with each other about our junk. But should we stop...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind challenges everything you thought you knew about work, showing how aligning with your core values and fostering personal growth will lead to unimaginable success with a sense of ease"--
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