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21) Just for today
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"This decalogue for daily living from a beloved pope and saint offers the perfect reminder of how to make the most of every day"--Back cover.
22) Blubber
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 279 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Explores modern life and how to find meaning and purpose in personal and professional lives, providing research findings from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and through-provoking words of great thinkers including Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf.
25) The school of greatness: a real-world guide to living bigger, loving deeper, and leaving a legacy
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 250 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
When a career-ending injury left elite athlete and professional football player Lewis Howes out of work and living on his sister's couch, he decided he needed to make a change for the better. He started by reaching out to people he admired, searching for mentors, and applying his past coaches' advice from sports to life off the field. Lewis did more than bounce back: He built a multimillion-dollar online business and is now a sought-after business...
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You're probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let's face it: you could be a better person. We all could. But what does that mean for you? In a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair--and it's also easy to judge ourselves for not doing more. Even if we gave away everything we own and devoted ourselves to good works, it wouldn't solve all the world's problems. It would make them better, though. So is that what we have to...
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Series
Fudge books volume 2
Description
A summer in Tarrytown, N.Y., is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she doesn't want to admit.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, a new compilation of awesome things and small joys in our lives that bring us together. Award-winning writer Neil Pasricha brings back his trademark laugh-out-loud observations of the world and encourages us to be positive and find gratitude in the simple, free, odd, and silly."--
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient Stoics with modern psychological techniques to develop a surprisingly simple strategy for dealing with life's unpleasant surprises. By using the updated Stoic strategy, we can transform life's setbacks into opportunities for becoming calmer, tougher, and more resilient." -- adapted from jacket
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
164 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"A magical formula for happiness doesn't exist nor does it come in this book... The book doesn't offer any lessons of ancient wisdom, but rather it offers guidance on how to learn from our own mistakes and those made by others, but above all, lessons on how to live every second of our lives deeply and passionately. This book doesn't seek to change anyone's life or discover any guiding threads; if anything, it seeks to get a laugh out of you, and in...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi is a go-to source for smart takes on pop culture. I'm Judging You is her debut book of humorous essays that dissects our cultural obsessions and calls out bad behavior in our increasingly digital, connected lives--from the importance of the newest Shonda Rhimes television drama to serious discussions of race and media representation to what to do about...
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