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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to rebuild her life, English teacher Maura Shaw comes to Newport Academy, an elite private high school, with her two children, but the ghosts of the past, including her estrangement from her sister, continue to haunt her.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller
“THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I’ve never felt...
“THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I’ve never felt...
Author
Physical Desc
xii, 345 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of one woman's struggle to care for her seriously ill husband--and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support.
Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
The newly expanded ed., Simon Spotlight Entertainment trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 187 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on an episode of "Sex and the City," offers a lighthearted, no-nonsense look at dead-end relationships, providing advice for letting go and moving on.
66) Prayer
Author
Language
English
Description
Discovering he played a key role in condemning an innocent man to death row, FBI Domestic Terrorism Unit agent Gil Martins struggles with family estrangement and a loss of faith while endeavoring to stop a religious zealot who is targeting secular public figures.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages.
Language
English
Description
"Research into sports fandom makes the sometimes counterintuitive case for why being a fan is good for us individually and is a force for positive change in our society"--
72) 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
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xii, 387 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julia Ross presents breakthrough solutions to many of the negative emotional states that are diminishing the quality of our lives. Ross's plan will help you to overcome depression, anxiety, irritability, stress, apathy, over-sensitivity, emotional eating and more. Eliminate insomnia, addiction, and hormone-related moodiness.
Author
Publisher
Harper Celebrate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 194 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Life is hard. But it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out. Discover your purpose, honor your story, and explore who you want to be. Dr. Corey Yeager offers you 40 questions to help you develop positive mental health strategies for anxious moments while increasing your confidence."
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. They postulate that they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari's journey took him from a series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the...
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:...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The authors examine female serial killers by focusing on the life of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. This book explores mental illness and forensic psychology while also providing a history of how American jurisprudence has grappled with such controversial issues as the insanity defense and mental competency to stand trial.