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English
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"Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey combine their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle to show readers how to improve their lives right now, instead of waiting for the outside world to change. They offer a research-based work plan that shows the reader how to manage their emotions so they no longer control their outlook and behavior; turn life's inevitable difficulties and challenges into opportunities for growth; strengthen their...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Spanning a wide range of distinct perspectives, voices, styles, and settings, the ten shimmering stories in Happy Like This offer lyrical, deeply felt, often humorous meditations on the complexity of choice and the ambiguity of happiness. Two identical twins watch their bodies and lives diverge as one of them takes up competitive bodybuilding. A part-time mermaid struggles with her fluid sexuality and turbulent romantic past when she finds herself...
6) The hacking of the American mind: the science behind the corporate takeover of our bodies and brains
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts and sounds the alarm to stop seeking the wrong kind of happiness.
10) Just one more
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Little Ruby learns a whimsical lesson about moderation when she asks for one more book, one more minute of sleep, one more push on the swing, and one more scoop of ice cream on her cone.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all. Many of us feel trapped in a grind of constant change: rolling news cycles, the chatter of social media, our families split along partisan lines. We feel fearful and tired, on edge in our bodies, not quite knowing what has us perpetually depleted. For Katherine May, this low hum of fatigue and anxiety made her wonder...
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
x, 354 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in India to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering?
14) Perfect square
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A perfect square that is perfectly happy is torn into pieces, punched with holes, crumpled, and otherwise changed but finds in each transformation that it can be something new, and just as happy.
15) The magic
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Atria Books trade pbk. ed.
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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2015, Leland set out to meet members of America's fastest-growing age group: 85 and up. He anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met lived with a surprising lightness and contentment, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise. Here are reflections on how to "live better"-- from those who have mastered the...
18) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Language
English
Description
"The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful...
19) The power
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xv, 250 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Power, dubbed the sequel to The Secret, is the highly anticipated follow-up revealing everything Rhonda Byrne has learned and attracted to herself since the release of The Secret in 2006. She shows how perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want comes from one positive source of power.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Lisa Olivera was just a few hours old, she was abandoned behind a rock near Muir Woods in Northern California. She was found by a man and a woman who were out bird watching with their toddler. Two days later, she was adopted. Growing up, she knew she was adopted. She later discovered she was abandoned. She often wondered about her birth mother, and why her birth mother abandoned her in the woods. Without any answers, Lisa came up with her own:...