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3861) Side effects
Author
Publisher
Seismic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's Hannah's first year away at college, the first time she's been away from home, without a support network. Within the first month, the combination of classes and socializing and adjusting to college life sends her into a full-on breakdown. Fortunately, her roommate finds her, Hannah goes to campus mental health, and they prescribe her therapy and meds, though with every new medication, you've got to watch out for unexpected side effects" --
"HANNAH...
Author
Series
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
"Mariano Sigman gives account of the fabulous potential words have for reinterpreting our own history and thus change our emotional experience: what we do and what we don't do, what we feel and who we are, in order to look for the best versions of ourselves. Although we have devices that allow us to speak with thousands of people in the remotest locations simultaneously, dialogue seems to have lost its power at the same time. We discard it as useless...
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of original essays by fifty major American writers on one hundred essential short stories. 'A writer,' Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, 'is a reader who is moved to emulation.' That idea inspired New York Times bestselling novelistand memoirist Andre Dubus III to invite fifty acclaimed authors to write about the precise alchemy of emulation, about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it-short stories...
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The NBA great nicknamed "The Black Mamba" shares his knowledge and understanding of basketball, outlining his detailed approach to preparing both physically and mentally to succeed at the game and revealing the core of his "Mamba mentality."
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Dating is hard-but when you live with anxiety, OCD, and/or depression, dating can feel like a minefield. At last, a book that focuses solely on mental health and dating-an intersection that demands attention, given that one in five Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year. Overthinking About You is a memoir-driven self-help book that explores the complex connection between brain and heart, for an engaging, useful, and relatable...
3867) Stress-free productivity: a personalized toolkit to become your most efficient and creative self
Author
Publisher
A TarcherPerigee Book
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all productivity plan. The tricks that work for your colleague may not work as well for you. Or perhaps they don���t work at all. The fact is that everyone has their own productivity quirks to make them work efficiently and effectively. They just don���t know how to crack them. Enter former clinical psychologist Alice Boyes. In this innovative guide, she will help you diagnose your unique productivity...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Most books about emotional eating tend to focus on how to strengthen self-restraint or how to identify what triggers it. The former can make the problem worse, while the latter may be different each time it occurs. Both approaches fail to help emotional eaters understand why they feel compelled to do something that they dont want to do in the first place. This understanding is the key to changing this behavior. Howard Farkas, who has more than two...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of gardens. Best enjoyed in a single sitting under the shade of a tree, this inventive and curative book captures the moment when an adventurous young boy who traveled the world in his mind meets the old man he becomes. Together, they build a new garden from a neglected plot behind his house on the edge...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Chronic pain is an epidemic. 50 million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain. Psychotherapist Alan Gordon was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. He saw multiple doctors and received many diagnoses, but none of the medical treatments helped. Frustrated...
3873) Under the dome: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Formats
Description
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling...
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Real-life stories from survivors of cancer and other diseases who have used the 9 key factors from the New York Times best-selling Radical Remission, with updated research and a tenth key factor revealed. Following the publication of the New York Times best-selling Radical Remission, researcher Kelly A. Turner, Ph.D., has collected hundreds of new cases of radical remissions--from cancer and now also other diseases--from across the globe. In Radical...
3875) The bear: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A powerfully suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, 300 pounds of fury, is attacking the family's campsite, pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother's faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family's...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Blending science, historical research and personal experience, an award-winning author, after experiencing a series of losses and unable to sleep, discovered, during her wakeful nights, the darkness became a place of sanctuary, filled with creativity, reflection and wonder where she tapped into something mysterious and mesmerizing: her Night Self.
''Why women's brains work differently at night—and how we can harness that altered state for greater...
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She works at a women's self-defense nonprofit and lives alone. When her bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee -- the selfish, cruel blond bombshell -- who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly leads her to the love of a lifetime....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Goleman documents an astonishing fact: in determining star performance in every field, emotional intelligence matters twice as much as IQ or technical expertise. Readers also discover how emotional competence can be learned. Goleman analyzes five key sets of skills and vividly shows how they determine who is hired and who is fired in the top corporations in the world. He also provides guidelines for training in the "emotionally intelligent organization,"...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine year old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after she wanders off to escape the bickering between her mother and brother, boosts her courage by imagining that her hero, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is with her, helping her survive an unknown enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This was to be our first real vacation in forty years. I had finished what my family called the Book, and retired from Rutgers University after thirty years of teaching public health and public administration. I'd always wanted to "travel." I was scheduled for a heart valve-replacement. How many more chances would I have? No children were living with us. The cat had "disappeared" in the woods near our home a few months earlier and Becky, the dog,...
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