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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Blending cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling, The Breakthrough Years offers readers a paradigm-shifting comprehensive understanding of adolescence. Almost every adolescent has said to parents, "You JUST don't understand." In The Breakthrough Years, child development expert Ellen Galinsky explains why that is so often true. Galinsky's seven-year inquiry into the adolescent brain and behavior, including conducting original studies-uniquely...
5044) Quackers
Author
Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Quackers has always believed that he is a duck, but when he meets new friends who look like him and call themselves cats, he has to find a way to combine the best of both worlds"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
“A funny, seasoned take on dashed illusions.”—O Magazine
“I love everything Meredith Maran writes. She is insightful, funny, and human, and the things she writes about matter to me deeply. Her memoir, The New Old Me, is a book I don’t just want to read—I need to read it. So does everyone else who’s getting older and wants to live fully, with immediacy and enjoyment,...
“I love everything Meredith Maran writes. She is insightful, funny, and human, and the things she writes about matter to me deeply. Her memoir, The New Old Me, is a book I don’t just want to read—I need to read it. So does everyone else who’s getting older and wants to live fully, with immediacy and enjoyment,...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever felt happier after a walk in the woods or fiddling with houseplants but your hectic life stressed you out again? In our rushed, tech-based, indoor society, we may yearn for a break but only manage to get through a noisy day and collapse in bed. Regaining a peaceful mind seems beyond reach. But what if there were easy, low-cost activities to heal the soul? What if we could regularly access tranquility? How would we do that? The answer...
Author
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Modern life tells us that it's up to us to forge our own identities and to make our lives significant. But the Christian gospel offers a strikingly different vision-one that reframes the way we understand ourselves, our families, our society, and God. Contrasting these two visions of life, Alan Noble invites us into a better understanding of who we are and to whom we belong"--
Author
Series
Largo recorrido volume 117
Publisher
Editorial Perifaerica
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
5051) Bad habits
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A grad student becomes embroiled in a deadly rivalry that changes her into someone unrecognizable to her struggling family, her ambitious academic friends, and even herself"--
"Claire "Mac" Woods - a professor enjoying her newfound hotshot status at an academic conference - finally has the acceptance and admiration she has long craved. But at the conference's hotel bar, Mac is surprised to run into a face from a past she'd rather forget: the moneyed,...
5052) Butterfly on the wind
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nervous for her talent show performance, Aurora spots a butterfly and is inspired to conjur a magical butterfly with her hands which sets off a chain reaction of support and empowerment among the global Deaf community.
5053) When Carrot met Cookie
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Friends Carrot and Cookie try to see past their differences before their friendship spoils.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Conecta
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"¿Te sumarías a un proyecto que te apasiona y te recompensa con prestigio y dinero a costa de sacrificar gran parte de tu tiempo y libertad? El ±sí» exige un sacrificio personal; el ±no» deja pasar un tren que no sabes si volverá. Es una decisión difícil, pues las alternativas no son equivalentes. El éxito de una carrera laboral es el resultado de un cúmulo de disyuntivas profesionales y personales en las que elegimos usando la inteligencia...
5056) Maestría
Author
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Los pasos de Leonardo, Mozart, Edison, Einstein y tantos otros distan de ser inalcanzables. Según Robert Greene, todos tenemos la posibilidad de desarrollar nuestras facultades para lograr la maestría. La vocación, el aprendizaje y la práctica rigurosa son las claves para tomar las riendas de nuestro destino, explotar nuestro potencial y satisfacer nuestros anhelos de crear y de llegar a la cima."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
¿No sabes poner límites? ¿Te sometes a relaciones que no te hacen feliz? ¿Regalas tu poder o tu trabajo? ¿Al mirarte al espejo sólo ves tus fallas y no tu pureza? ¿No has logrado perdonarte ni perdonar a otros? ¿No vives en paz y tus miedos te gobiernan? ¡Libérate! te hace las preguntas correctas, te induce a la reflexión y te da ejercicios para que puedas encontrar el camino a casa, el camino a la libertad. En este libro, Alejandra Llamas...
Author
Publisher
Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Make room for your dreams and revolutionize how you manage your time and energy using this innovative framework for finding work-life harmony from an accomplished entrepreneur and business strategist. Throughout her multifaceted career, Tina Wells has always found a way to transform her dreams into reality. She turned a business that she launched at sixteen into an award-winning marketing agency, led boardroom meetings as the youngest (and sometimes...
5059) The rules do not apply
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for listeners of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article, Thanksgiving in Mongolia.
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Everyone's favorite grump, Jim Panzee, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling Grumpy Monkey series, has caught a bad case of spring fever and wakes up feeling very silly in this delightful new picture book. When Jim runs through the jungle laughing and shouting with glee, the other animals are very concerned. This just isn’t the grumpy Jim they know. Soon Norman diagnoses Jim with a bad case of spring fever and tells Jim that he needs to...
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