Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 256 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspiring essays and thoughtful prompts that will keep you afloat in difficult times and sustain you in the everyday. Microjoys are a practice of discerning hope and joy in each and every moment of our lives. They are accessible to all of us, at all times, if we can hone the ability to look for them. They are the hidden wisdom, subtle treasures, and ordinary...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Description
In a world filled with inspirational know-it-alls and quotable blowhards, only one figure is indifferent enough to tell the cranky truth: Grumpy Cat. Following her bestselling debut, everyone's favorite disgruntled feline is back with this demotivational guide to everyday life, love, friendship, and more. Featuring many new photos of Grumpy Cat's famous frown and packed with uninspiring observations, The Grumpy Guide to Life will help anyone get in...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"In this poignant, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city. Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not always as fun. On the bus and at the grocery store, people are impatient and suspicious--sometimes they even yell. Sad, angry, and scared, the story's young narrator...
Author
Series
Pout-pout fish adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
The pout-pout fish believes he only knows how to frown, even though many of his friends suggest ways to change his expression, until one day a fish comes along that shows him otherwise.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Something has changed. We all sense it. Cultural pressure is increasing, especially on our kids. But even in a world of addictions, ever-present screens, and gender-identity questions, youth can have clarity and confidence. We must help them attain it. In this honest and practical guide for parents and Christian leaders, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle explore questions such as: What unseen undercurrents are shaping twenty-first-century youth culture?...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata, whose Convenience Store Woman has now sold more than a million copies worldwide, returns with a brilliant and wonderfully unsettling collection, her most recent fiction to be published in Japan. In these twelve stories, Murata mixes an unusual cocktail of humor and horror and turns the norms and traditions of society on their head to better question them. In "A First-Rate Material," Nana and Naoki...
11) Ode to a bad day
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 27 cm
Description
Told in rhyming text, a little girl is having a day where absolutely nothing goes right, a day filled with frustration and annoyances, but even bad days end eventually.
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.+ 1 set earphones, 1 AAA battery, 1 lanyard ; in container.
Description
PLAYAWAY: In this unabridged audio book, best-selling author and lecturer Wayne W. Dyer shows you how to restore balance in your life by offering nine principles for realigning your thoughts so that they correspond to your highest desires. This work is dedicated to the idea that we're a vital component of this creative process and have within ourselves the wherewithal to create all that we want if we recognize and revise our out-of-balance thoughts....
13) El pez pucheros
Author
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm
Description
"A veces todo lo que se necesita es un beso"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Y Is for Yet uses the ABCs as an accessible framework to introduce growth mindset and all its possibilities. From A to Z, or Ability to Zany, kids learn new vocabulary that expands their view of themselves as learners"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Martha Andersson may be 79 years old and live in a retirement home, but that doesn't mean she's ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new management of Diamond House starts cutting corners to save money, Martha and her four closest friends--Brains, The Rake, Christina and Anna-Gretta (a.k.a. The League of Pensioners)--won't stand for it. Fed up with early bedtimes and overcooked veggies, this group of feisty seniors sets about to regain their independence,...
16) Incognito
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Description
"Beatrice Zinker's Operation Upside is finally in full swing, but when her overenthusiasm puts the mission in jeopardy, she'll have to do her best to lie low for awhile--which, for Beatrice, is not going to be easy"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
vi, 212 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Your mind has incredible power over your success or failure. Joel Osteen offers a simple yet life-changing strategy for erasing the thoughts that keep you down and reprogramming your mind with positive thinking to reach a new level of victory. As a child of the Most High God, you are equipped to handle anything that comes your way. To claim your destiny, start thinking about yourself the way God does and delete the thoughts that tear down your confidence....
18) Santa Bruce
Author
Series
Mother Bruce volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm
Description
Grumpy and cold when his forest friends insist he stay awake to celebrate Christmas, Bruce the bear, wearing his long underwear and warm hat, is mistaken for Santa by the youngest forest creatures.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 19 cm
Description
As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she's distilled what she's learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words: find the good. It's that simple-- and that hard. Lende reminds us that we can choose to see any event as an opportunity to find the good.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
When Mr. Happy moves next door to Miss Grimm and begins planting gardens and making friendly gestures, Miss Grimm is not pleased but soon, she feels something strange taking over her bleak little house.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request