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Embrace the transformative journey that awaits within these pages, for it holds the key to unlocking your ultimate potential. Through the profound wisdom shared in this book, you will discover the remarkable ability to master your thoughts and shatter the chains of self-doubt. No longer will failure haunt your mind, for you will wield the power to transform those thoughts into resolute statements of success. Even in the face of adversity, you will...
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Ladies, have you ever felt that you weren't enough?
Not pretty enough…not talented enough…not sexy enough…not mom enough…
The "not-enough wife" is stuck trying to be everything in her life. And no matter how hard she tries, the feeling of not-enough remains. Well, it is time to stop. Looking outside yourself will never solve how you feel about yourself on the inside.
In The Not-Enough Wife, life coach Jolene Winn teaches you how to start...
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In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls--from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought--whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely...
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"In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination...
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TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2024]
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We all have stories inside us--whether or not we consider ourselves "creative." Poet and novelist Joseph Fasano has developed a remarkable tool that allows anyone to experience the joy of creative expression. The fifty simple yet powerful prompts in this book are poems that you complete yourself. By adding just a few words of your own, you create something beautiful and wholly new--that comes from within.
6) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...
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"This treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of motherhood have been shaped by literature. Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from-and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's...
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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2024.
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The kids in these humorous short stories each have a minor superpower they're learning to live with. One can shape-shift--but only part of her body, and only on Mondays. Another can always tell whether an avocado is perfectly ripe. One can even hear the thoughts of the animals in the pet store! But what these stories are really about is their young protagonists "owning" a power that contributes to their individuality, that allows them to find their...
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2023
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"Twenty-first-century parenting can feel ridiculously hard! As our world changes at a dizzying pace, we face challenges never before encountered. Raising emotionally healthy children is more critical than ever, yet parenting is the one area for which we are least prepared. We wonder: What do our children need? Why do they behave this way? How can we nurture the parent-child bond? Amid this swirling fog of confusion, Dr. Shalom Augenbaum illuminates...
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[Trista Mateer]
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[2022]
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"Featuring poems, prose, and truisms, [this work] shines a light on the parts of ourselves we thought were lost in the dark and implores us to trust ourselves and take up the space we deserve. With her trademark honesty ... poet Trista Mateer explores the intricacies of love, loss, trauma, heartbreak, and loneliness"--
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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English
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"Soft and woolly, shiny and smooth...this touch-and-feel book featuring the beloved Little Blu Truck and his farm animal friends provides fun and sensory exploration, while gently sharing that we don't have to be the same to be the best of ourselves--and the best of friends."--
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John Wiley & Sons
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[2024].
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"A quick and easy way to understand neurodiversity as written by neurodivergent people and our families. Neurodiversity For Dummies is your essential guide in understanding neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more. This quick and easy guide is perfect for anyone needing to know more about neurodiversity. And that's all of us--because recent estimates say that 15-20% of the world's population have some form of neurodivergence....
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Mayo Clinic Press Kids, an imprint of Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"We are full of thoughts, sensations, and emotions. By turning into our bodies and our minds, mindfulness can help us find ways to learn more about ourselves and what makes us special. Mindful Spaces guides children through exercises and activities that help them slow down and pay attention to their minds, their bodies, their feelings, and their emotions"--
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HarperCollins Publishers
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2024.
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English
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"In her writing for Harper's, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and influential critics of her generation, a talent whose judgments on works of literature--whether celebratory or scarily harsh--have become notorious. But what is the significance of being a critic and consumer of media in today's fraught environment? How do we understand ourselves, and each other, as space...
15) Green farming
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"This STEM-based set of True Books introduces students to the engineering innovations that can help us reach more environmentally friendly goals"--
"Envision a brighter future with this STEM-based subset of True Books.Thanks to the development of agriculture, our Earth can feed the almost 8 billion people that call it home. But the challenge facing us today is how to make the practice of large-scale farming sustainable. We have learned how to use...
16) Green energy
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"This STEM-based set of True Books introduces students to the engineering innovations that can help us reach more environmentally friendly goals"--
"Envision a brighter future with this STEM-based subset of True Books.We use a lot of energy to power our lives - from our homes and cars to our tablets and handheld games. The challenge facing us today is finding sustainable energy methods that will ensure a green future. There are seven different types...
17) Green homes
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"This STEM-based set of True Books introduces students to the engineering innovations that can help us reach more environmentally friendly goals"--
"Envision a brighter future with this STEM-based subset of True Books.Small changes over the years - from smarter light bulbs to energy-efficient appliances - have made our homes more environmentally friendly. In recent years we have learned how to make alternative energies and Earth-friendly building...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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As a young girl growing up in Houston, Margaret Juhae Lee never heard about her grandfather, Lee Chul Ha. His history was lost in early twentieth-century Korea, and guarded by Margaret's grandmother, who Chul Ha left widowed in 1936 with two young sons. To his surviving family, Lee Chul Ha was a criminal, and his granddaughter was determined to figure out why. Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History chronicles Chul Ha's untold story. Combining investigative...
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Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From Instagram's snarkiest Enneagram expert comes a hilarious and insightful book that shows how embracing our shadow side is our best path toward greater self-awareness and compassion. Most Enneagram books today focus on stroking ego rather than challenging it. These pages are filled with a no-frills, hilarious reckoning with the ways we cope when facing stress or fear--aka our shadow sides--while unlocking the life-changing wisdom of the Enneagram....
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Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2024.
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Español
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"¿Cuál es la mejor manera de envejecer bien y vivir más? En una colaboración sin precedentes entre tres de las mentes más poderosas de la actualidad, Deepak Chopra se une al físico Jack Tuszynski y al endocrinólogo Brian Fertig para ofrecer una obra visionaria que profundiza en el innovador mundo de la ciencia cuántica. En ella nos muestran cómo podemos revolucionar nuestra forma de vivir y envejecer y, en última instancia, erradicar la...