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Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
43) Bad kitty
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad.
45) How to hold a grudge: from resentment to contentment : the power of grudges to transform your life
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This first and only comprehensive examination of the universal but widely misunderstood practice of grudge-holding will show you how to use grudges to be your happiest, most optimistic, and most forgiving self.
Secretly, we all hold grudges, but most of us probably think we shouldn't, and many of us deny that we do. To bear a grudge is too negative, right? Shouldn't we just forgive and move on? Wrong, says prolific crime novelist and self-appointed...
46) The busy beaver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A very busy beaver learns a lesson from his friends.
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright faces his all-time enemy, Gina, when they are paired to work on a research paper together and she also gets a position on his intramural team.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the quiet coastal town of Fairhope, Alabama, a mysterious old man named Jones has set up shop to do the one thing he knows best: "noticing" the little things that make a big difference in people's lives. This time, however, he's doing it in front of an audience--a parenting class.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sometimes we find ourselves feeling like an old penny. Worthless. Forgotten. Discarded. Flattened. Ugly. Yet, like the penny, we still have value, we can make a difference.
We have the power to smile.
We have the power to be kind.
We have the power to be courteous and pleasant.
We have the power to praise.
We have the power to listen.
We have the power to try.
We have the power to care.
We do not lack for power. We just need to recognize what we...
50) I am honest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is not always easy to be honest, but it is the right way to be. Readers discover all the ways that honesty needs to play a role in their lives. From the classroom to the backyard, they explore situations where telling the truth matters, with the help of spirited photographs. Being trusted is very important, and this book shows readers what it takes to become a trustworthy person.
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiii, 257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A smart, funny, and essential survival guide that you didn't know you needed. But you do. As any current or former 20-something knows, adult life can get a bit weird because no one tells you what to expect. Many of us spend a decade or more figuring out how the world works, hoping that by age 30 our friends are too old to remember what happened. Unfortunately, Andy Boyle does not have it all figured out. But the funny and useful advice and observations...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the wildly popular bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens comes the go-to guide that helps teens cope with major challenges they face in their lives - now updated for today|s social media age. In this newly revised edition, Sean Covey helps teens figure out how to approach the six major challenges they face: gaining self-esteem, dealing with their parents, making friends, being wise about sex, coping with substances,...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"AS SEEN ON THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARIES MINIMALISM & LESS IS NOW How might your life be better with less? Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, less stress and debt and discontent-a life with fewer distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and contentment-a life of passion, unencumbered by the trappings of the chaotic world around you. What you're imagining is an...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Picture-perfect newlyweds Alice and Jake are unexpectedly initiated into a mysterious organization designed to keep marriages happy and intact through seemingly sensible rules that become increasingly exacting and subject to brutal enforcement.
Author
Publisher
North Star Way
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First North Star Way hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google's [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google's futuristic "dream factory." Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. Then he solves for happy,"--Amazon.com.
58) Saying I'm sorry
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explains what an apology is and how and when to make one.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Joy Behar, comedian and cohost of ABC's The View, offers a follow-up to her Joy Schtick with this compilation written by 100 of her friends, associates, and role models, including Barbara Bush, Donald Trump, and James Earl Jones. Behar asked her celebrity friends to share whatever picks them up when they're down in the dumps, and as each celebrity offers his or her advice on how to cope with the blues, it soon becomes clear that most of us are driven...
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