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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bruce Feiler has long been thinking and writing about the stories that give our lives meaning. Several years ago he began to notice a new pattern: the old stories about the major plot points of our lives were no longer holding true. Increasingly, he observed, the stories we all inherit to explain how our lives should unfold were clashing with reality and creating more anxiety than guidance. People felt they were living their lives out of the expected...
Publisher
Océano de México
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
¿Cuántas veces has dicho "no" a algo que realmente deseabas hacer? ¿En cuántas ocasiones el temor, la duda o la indecisión te han impedido intentar cosas nuevas? ¿Qué ocurriría si simplemente te atrevieras a decir "sí"? Los inspiradores testimonios contenidos en este libro te mostrarán qué sucede cuando dejamos atrás nuestros miedos y aceptamos los desafíos cotidianos. Se trata de historias reales protagonizadas por personas comunes y...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The ancient and scientific secrets to getting unstuck from negative habits. Joining Western psychological science and traditional Buddhism, experimental psychologist and Zen monk Douglas Cheolsoeng Gentile describes how our minds can be simultaneously our greatest weakness and greatest asset. We are controlled by both external forces and internal habits of mind, while simultaneously believing ourselves to be 'free'. This conundrum can be solved by...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the moment Chris Nikic was born, his parents knew he could achieve anything he set his mind to do. So when he became involved in triathlons with the Special Olympics, his dad, Nik, took on the role of coach and encouraged Chris to aim even higher. Together, they set their sights on making history--Chris becoming the first person with Down syndrome to complete an IRONMAN® triathlon."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Amidst the towering redwood trees and the serenity of his childhood utopia of the Russian River, Dave Pelzer reflects on having the courage to move forward in your life, the peace to accept yourself, the vulnerability to strip yourself of facades, and to find the tenacity to carry on when life doesn't turn out the way you planned.
Publisher
Riverhead Books an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the ten years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat Pray Love" has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought possible, in search of their own best selves. Here, in this candid and captivating collection, nearly fifty of those readers -- people as diverse in their experiences as they are in age and background -- share their stories. The journeys they recount are transformative...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Taken to live with her grandmother in the country, a young city girl finds a way to cope with the change brought about by her parents' separation when an owl, a frog, and a mouse take her on a nighttime tour of her extraordinary new world.
Author
Publisher
Two Roads
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Having spent the last few years in Denmark uncovering the secrets of the happiest country in the world, Helen Russell knows it's time to move back to the UK. She thinks. Maybe. Or maybe that's a terrible idea? Like many of us, she suffers from chronic indecision and a fear of change. So she decides to give herself a year for an experiment: to overhaul every area of her life, learn how to embrace change, and become a lean, mean decision-making machine....
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Every woman struggles to believe she is who God says she is and to believe the stunning promises He whispers to her heart. But when you're a hot mess (and we all are to one degree or another), it's hard to imagine things can be different--that you can be different.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lavender sees herself as the miserable but tough outsider at school, while Scarlet knows she is talented and popular, but insecure on the inside--then, on their mutual thirteenth birthday, they wake up in each other's bodies and are forced to learn what it means to walk in someone else's shoes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Building on the principles developed during her long career as a licensed marriage and family therapist, and addressing the chronic struggles of so many of her listeners and readers, Dr. Laura encourages "whiners" to reject negative thoughts, emotions, and attitudes; shift perspective; open up to gratitude and goodness; and embrace obligations to loved ones and the world in general.--From amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking, with Taylor tackling the rising popularity of socialism, the problem of automation, the politics of listening, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world, the future of the university, the temporal...
99) A dream of home
Author
Series
Hearts of the Lancaster Grand Hotel volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moving to Pennsylvania wasn't in Madeleine's original plans. She should still be in California and should have married her pilot fiancé a year ago -- but death has a way of changing everything. Now the former Air Force flight nurse is living alone in Paradise, Pennsylvania, and working as a maid at the Lancaster Grand Hotel. She isn't exactly a widow . . . but she sure feels like one. Saul Beiler isn't exactly a widower . . . but his wife is long...
Author
Publisher
El Grano de Mostaza Ediciones
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Enric Corbera nos explica cómo ver la crisis como una oportunidad para cambiar nuestra forma de pensar y crecer. Aunque pueda parecer contradictorio, la premisa de este libro no puede ser más contundente: el fracaso es éxito, pues son dos polaridades del mismo espectro, el espectro de la abundancia, del logro. Si aceptas el fracaso como una parte bendita del proceso, una parte que te ayuda a tener más éxito, experimentarás cómo es el sabor...
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