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Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height of five feet and told her doctor, 'I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road.' Packing what she needed, Norma took off on an unforgettable cross-country journey with...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Descubre las memorias que han inspirado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo a través de la honestidad sin límites, la sabiduría no convencional y las lecciones aprendidas de éxitos y fracasos, alegrías y tristezas del actor Matthew McConaughey. He estado en esta vida durante cincuenta años, he intentado resolver su misterio durante cuarenta y dos, y he estado llenando diarios con pistas para ese enigma durante los últimos treinta y cinco....
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go. Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed. Like so many driven and talented women who have been brought up to believe that...
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Language
English
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Who is Jesus Christ? Spiritual leader Chopra provides an answer that is both a challenge to current systems of belief and a fresh perspective on what Jesus can teach us all, regardless of our religious background. There is not one Jesus, but three. First, the historical Jesus, who lived more than two thousand years ago and whose teachings are the foundation of Christian thought. Next there is the Son of God, who embodies an institutional religion...
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Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and jack Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find herself an interloper among her own people. More than simply an exploration of personal loss, Trespass is an elegy for a dying world, for the ruin of one of our most beloved and unique desert landscapes...
787) Desert elephants
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Language
English
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"Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. [This book is a] meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves ... [Zen Hospice Project cofounder Frank Ostaseski] ... distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering [a] ... guide that points to a radical path to transformation"--Amazon.com....
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time. "Make[s] the reader feel as if they were in the room with the great personalities of the age, bearing...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Rhythm of the Heart is a compelling memoir about Kim Heacox's 30+ year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska, a sister book to his 2005 Lyons book The Only Kayak, a PEN USA Literary Award finalist now in its seventh printing. Woven throughout the personal narrative will be stories on the human and natural histories of the Denali National Park, garnished with a conservation polemic, much as Edward Abbey did with Desert Solitaire, and...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"For one little girl, there’s no place she’d rather be than sitting between Mama and Mommy. So when Mommy goes away on a work trip, it’s tricky to find a good place at the table. As the days go by, Mama brings her to the library, they watch movies, and all of them talk on the phone, but she still misses Mommy as deep as the ocean and as high as an astronaut up in the stars. As they pass by a beautiful garden, the girl gets an idea . . . but...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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An international bestseller and TikTok sensation with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, The Courage to Be Disliked is a transformative and practical guide to personal happiness and self-fulfillment.
Now you can unlock your full potential and free yourself from the shackles of past traumas and societal expectations to find true personal happiness. Based on the theories of renowned psychologist Alfred Adler,...
Now you can unlock your full potential and free yourself from the shackles of past traumas and societal expectations to find true personal happiness. Based on the theories of renowned psychologist Alfred Adler,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"Para conquistar el mundo, uno debe conquistarse primero a sí mismo: las emociones, las acciones y los pensamientos. Eisenhower dijo que la libertad es la práctica de la autodisciplina. Cicerón definió la virtud de la templanza como el esplendor de la vida. Sin límites ni autocontrol, no solo nos arriesgamos a no alcanzar nuestro potencial y a perder lo que hemos logrado, sino que, además, nos aseguramos una vida de humillación y miseria. ...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
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"This book-the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains-provides an account of High Plains aquifer decline through an exploration of the different ways in which heartland residents inhabit and understand the imminent depletion of groundwater. This literary ethnography offers a vividly sketched look into the lives and stories of this community, based on interviews with members of the community such as fellow farmers and state regulators,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In 1935, Heinrich Himmler established a Nazi research institute called The Ahnenerbe, whose mission was to search around the world for proof of ancient Aryan conquests. But history was not their most important focus--rather, the Ahnenerbe was an essential part of the plan for the Final Solution. The findings were used to convince armies of SS men that they were entitled to slaughter Jews and other groups. Himmler also hoped to use the research as...
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Language
English
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"The first two limbs of the eight-fold path of yoga sutras--the basic text for classical yoga--are examined in this spiritual guide to the practice of yoga. Foundational to all yogic thought, they are considered to be the guidelines to the yoga way of living that free individuals to take ownership of their lives, direct them toward the fulfillment they seek, and gain the skills to choose attitude, thought, and action. The first five guidelines are...
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Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Español
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"En un convulso 1974, mientras el ejercito turco ocupa el norte de Chipre, Kostas, un griego cristiano, y Defne, una turca musulmana, se reunen en secreto bajo las vigas ennegrecidas de la taberna La Higuera Feliz, donde cuelgan ristras de ajos, cebollas y pimientos. Alli, lejos del fragor de la guerra, crece a traves de una cavidad en el techo una higuera, testigo del amor de los dos jovenes, pero tambien de sus desencuentros, de la destruccion de...
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