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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of your mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
In a practical guide to overcoming a debilitating personal history, the author uses his own powerful story to explain how people can move beyond personal suffering and painful memories to regain control of their lives.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With eye-opening science and fascinating real-world examples, neuroscientist Matt Johnson and marketer Prince Ghuman reveal what companies don't: how brands hack your psychology to drive your behavior. Their goal: to close the knowledge gap between consumer and brand, to let you consume on your own terms. Inside, discover: Why watch ads always show the time 10:10 How a simple equation (pleasure - pain = purchase) explains our buying behavior How...
8) Girl A
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Room and Dear Edward, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity--but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life"--
9) Sun house
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the...
10) Brood: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our nameless narrator stubbornly tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive and safe over the course of one savage winter in Minnesota. Woefully unprepared for the task, she battles the relentless predators, severe weather and unforeseen bad luck--all the while grieving a recent miscarriage, and coming to terms with her infertility and the accompanying uncertainty that her future holds. Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the book trade by St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xix, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains how to cope with difficult relatives--from critical in-laws to troublemaking siblings --providing advice on how to counter the toxic influence of such individuals and transform family gatherings.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In a powerful and intimate memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, and -- slowly, painfully, and miraculously -- her cautious return to hope and love after the death of her three young daughters in a traffic accident.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet Pipher shows most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. Here she offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like.' Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of MaidIn this deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her fifteen-year struggle with heroin, Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people...
15) The genius
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Making an ethically precarious decision to establish himself in the art world by illegally selling works by a missing genius, Ethan Muller finds himself targeted when it is revealed that the pieces contain clues about the artist's role in a forty-year-old murder case.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
787 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin--the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her--transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest "object visualizers" like Grandin herself,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 235 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An accessible guide to understand what trauma is, how PTSD is diagnosed, being aware that it can have a late onset, what can happen if it goes untreated--and how social media can be triggering our trauma"--
20) The sober lush: a hedonist's guide to living a decadent, adventurous, soulful life--alcohol free
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sober hedonist's guide to living a decadent, wild, and soulful life--alcohol-free. In a culture where sipping "ros�e all day" is seen as the epitome of relaxation, "grabbing a drink" the only way to network; and meeting at a bar the quintessential "first date," many of us are left wondering if drinking alcohol really is the only way to cultivate joy and connection in life. Jardine Libaire and Amanda Eyre Ward wanted to live spontaneous and luxurious...