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21) Freshwater
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Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents, Saul and Saachi, successfully prayed her into existence, but as she grows into a volatile and splintered child, it becomes clear that something went terribly awry. When Ada comes of age and moves to America for college, the group of selves within her grows in power and agency. A traumatic assault leads to a crystallization of her...
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Man's evident failure to make the most out of his material life suggests a study of the elements in each citizen that make him of value to his age and community. What are the measurements of mankind, and why is it that daily some add new treasures to the storehouse of civilization, while others take from and waste the store already accumulated?
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The author of 'The Highly Sensitive Person' and other bestselling books on the trait of high sensitivity has written an indispensable guide for the significant number of parents who are unusually attuned to their children; who think deeply about every issue affecting their kids and have strong emotions, both positive and negative, in response; and who find parenting far more stressful than parents who are not highly sensitive.
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"Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino. She spent summers there as a child with her beloved grandparents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her to heal. Yet the day she arrives, she learns a local teenage...
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2021.
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Empaths not only sense other people's emotions, but also absorb them-- sometimes to their own disadvantage, often leading to overwhelming sensory overload and feelings of confusion or low self-esteem. Their willingness to help and please others might make them prey to opportunists or cause them to give away more energy than they can afford. Moorjani argues that when traits like sensitivity, kindness, and compassion are sorely undervalued, empaths...
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The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL
"A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief." —NPR
"A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side." —The Boston Globe
"Powerful essays on loss, endurance,...
"A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief." —NPR
"A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side." —The Boston Globe
"Powerful essays on loss, endurance,...
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In Resilient, Eldredge provides skills and tools to strengthen your heart and soul--and reveals a path toward genuine recovery and resilience provided by Jesus himself. Drawing on wisdom from Scripture and Christian tradition, and illustrated throughout with powerful, true stories of grit and survival, Resilient will help readers recover from the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic; tap into "supernatural graces" like the river of life that God promises...
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"What makes us love Ellen DeGeneres and hate Anne Hathaway? How do politicians move away from policy talk and connect with their voters? Activist and former producer Steven Goldstein breaks down the industry of creating likability and how public figures manufacture their image"--
30) The good egg
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
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Scribner
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2023.
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A highly regarded professor of psychology at the London School of Economics, sharing contemporary evidence, explores how the pursuit of perfection can lead to burnout and depression and shows what we can do to resist the modern-day pressure to be perfect to led a more purposeful and contented life.
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Life is strange and hard to get on with. People believe in God to help them get pass any problem, situation, or disease. Well, some diseases are very difficult to understand because they are not just diseases; they are consequences of what people have faced and will be facing in life. Personality Disorders fall into this criteria. They are not diseases; they are just a state of mental disorder which people never tend to take in a positive way.
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"Even if you're walking through a difficult season or feeling overwhelmed with the chaos of life, you can build a peace-filled resilience that equips you with strength for today--and for every day ahead.Life is hard for all kinds of reasons. It's tempting to try to move past the pain as quickly as possible. Instead, what if we embraced our struggles to develop the strength of resilience not dependent on circumstances? Writing as a friend who has also...
35) The Introvert's Guide To Coping With The Real World : Adapt, Survive & Thrive In The World Of The
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You will learn what makes introvert the way they are, their neurology -- or how they are built, advantages and disadvantages of being one, and actual techniques to survive and thrive in this world where, extroversion or outgoing personality traits are rewarded, and introversion is considered weakness!
Introversion is actually something you are naturally born with. However, you can learn to adapt and manifest extroverted personality traits should...
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Menschen sind unterschiedlich. Das wollen und können wir nicht ändern. Doch wir können entscheiden, mit welchen Menschen wir uns verbunden fühlen. Wir möchten am liebsten nur mit Menschen in unserem engsten Umfeld verkehren, die uns gut tun und nicht schaden. Doch wie machen wir das?
Mit dem System des inneren Kreises, präsentiere ich dir, welche Möglichkeiten du hast, dieses Ziel zu erreichen. Aus eigener Erfahrung, zeige ich dir Wege auf,...
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Este volumen está basado en la historia real de Dibs, un niño con problemas que logró reconstruir su sí mismo con su propio esfuerzo. Esto fue posible también gracias a la terapia de juego, tal como se describe minuciosamente a lo largo del libro mediante la transcripción, una a una, de las sesiones terapéuticas. La terapia de juego llevada a cabo por la psicóloga Virginia Axline, proporcionó a Dibs las condiciones relacionales que le permitieron...
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Knowing oneself has, no doubt, beneficial effects. Not only for the person concerned, but also for those around them and, by extension, for society as a whole. This is what Nine Sapiens is about, a book that approaches the psychology of personality from an original perspective.
Moving at the intersection between Science and the Enneagram model of personality, this book draws a parallel between the nine personality types and recent breakthroughs in...
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