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41) The magic
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Step by step, day-by-day, secret teachings, revelations, and scientific law are brought together to form 28 simple practices that open the reader's eyes to a new world, and lead them to a dream life.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, a member of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at POPSUGAR creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters and she{u2019}s the number one soccer mom who loves reading bedtime stories every night. How did she do...
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English
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"From Tyler Henry, celebrated medium, comes the ultimate self-help guide detailing the insights the departed have communicated about how to live our best, most meaningful lives. Do you want to live more meaningfully, and in turn fulfill your life's potential? Do you want to have the capability to transform your life and make it infinitely better, by paying attention to what those who have lived and died have come to understand about the meaning of...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Are you living each day as your best self? What can you change, today? If you dream of a better life, now is the time to turn your dream into reality. Bayer shows you the tools you need are within your grasp, and he shows you how to design a life that is fulfilling on the deepest levels. By working through each of the Seven SPHERES of life, this focused guide will ignite your desire for change. and help you break through to live a passionate life...
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Language
English
Description
"By accessing our personal power, we can achieve 'presence,' the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves. As [this book suggests], we don't need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Instead, we need to nudge ourselves, moment by moment, by tweaking our body language, behavior, and...
46) The goldfinch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Top meditation teacher Sarah Blondin shows us that our restlessness, our unhappiness, our quickness to anger or frustration or sadness comes from being cut off from the heart. And she has a remedy at hand. Whether we are feeling overwhelmed, indecisive, self-loathing, disconnected, lonely, afraid, confused, anxious, or depressed, she reminds us, we can turn toward our hearts and regain a sense of equanimity and ease. In a blend of commentary and...
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English
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"A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into...
51) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?
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English
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Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesn't understand why her glory days ended. Back then, she was worshipped-- beloved-- feared. Present day, not so much. She's been pink-slipped from her high-paying job, dumped by her husband and kicked out of her condo. Now, at thirty-seven, she's struggling to start a business out of her parents' garage and sleeping under the hair-band posters in her old bedroom....
55) Angel lane
Author
Series
Heart Lake novels (Shelia Roberts) volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gayle King shares her favorite inspiring letters from the popular CBS This Morning segment Note to Self, in which twenty-first century luminaries pen advice and encouragement to the young people they once were. What do Congressman John Lewis, Dr. Ruth, Kesha, and Kermit the Frog wish they could tell their younger selves? What about a gay NFL player or the most successful female race car driver? In Note to Self, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King...
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"What's standing int he way of you living your best life? Most people would reference things like relationships with other people, money, their job, or unfortunate circumstances. None of these explanations make any difference. Through decades of working with people as a personal development coach, Gary John Bishop has discovered that the barrier is one thing only: you. If you're easily offended, stop reading now. This isn't the book for you. But if...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury - bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood - is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
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