Summary: In the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter van Tilburg Clark explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism through the story of a lynch mob that targets three innocent men, exposing a dark authoritarian impulse at work the American frontier. Set in Wyoming in 1889, a time when ranchers and cattle companies waged war with each other, Jack Schaefer's iconic Shane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: W WESAlber, Diane
Summary: Kids experience frustrating situations everyday, whether it's someone taking their toy or they feel like they can't do something. This story shows them that instead of yelling or stomping their feet, they can practice some fun ways to help them stay calm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diane Albert Art LLC 2019
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 152.4 ALBAmarotico, Alexandra.
Summary: Spread hygge happiness throughout your life.The Secret Joy of Hygge (HOO-gah) shows you how to make small changes to bring more warmth and joy to your everyday life. Sipping a cozy cup of tea. Nesting at your desk surrounded by your favorite plants and pictures. Gathering loved ones around your table. All are the hygge way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Althea Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 AMAArthur, Alua
Summary: "A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America's preeminent death doula"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.9 ARTBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: Draws on the author's roller-coaster experiences with limited opportunities, successes, and failures, to offer darkly humorous advice on surviving everything from riding elevators and gaining weight to finishing drinks and finding love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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Summary: Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal property line that marks those things for which we are responsible. In other words, boundaries define who we are and who we are not. Boundaries impact all areas of our lives: physical boundaries help us determine who may touch us and under what circumstances; mental boundaries give us the freedom to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 CLOFarina, Katy
Summary: Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister! Karen is having a terrible day. Her favorite jeans are missing, there's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box, and Boo-Boo the cat won't play with her. She even gets punished and sent to her room! Karen tries everything to make her day better, but nothing is going right and her bad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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Summary: Growing up in a military family, journalist and news anchor Harris Faulkner experienced firsthand how success in life is rooted in the knowledge, integrity, and duty that came from her military surroundings. She shares the formative lessons in leadership and work ethic she learned from a lifetime spent absorbing the military mindset, and offers recommendations for how all families can benefit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAUFrazee, Marla
Summary: A picture book celebrating both the highs and lows that everyone experiences in the course of a life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE FRAGarcia, Hector
Summary: "Learn to make every moment a once-in-a-lifetime experience with this definitive guide to the Japanese art of ichigo ichie (pronounced itchy-GO itchy-A), from the bestselling authors of Ikigai. Every moment in our life happens only once, and if we let it slip away, we lose it forever--an idea captured by the Japanese phrase ichigo ichie. Often spoken in Japan when greeting someone or saying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 GARGilbert, Elizabeth
Summary: "Coming September 22nd From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you've dreamed of. Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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Summary: In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 GLAGreive, Bradley Trevor.
Summary: The deceptively simple, imaginative story line reflects a child's sensibility about the symptoms, causes, and cures for those times when children feel tired, grumpy, left out, or think that nothing ever goes as they planned. Even on days when Brussels sprouts are served at dinner ... a cherished toy must be shared ... a homework avalanche looms ... or a silly mistake is made in front of friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2005
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Summary: "Written by a hospice doctor with a unique front-row seat to the regrets of his dying patients, this book will remind you to take stock of life now, before it is too late. The goal of financial independence is to have the economic fuel to live a full life and avoid regret. Taking Stock is your guide to taking control of your finances and investing in yourself "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 GRUHill, Napoleon
Summary: The Law of Success was a precursor to Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. Hill was well known for researching what made millionaires different from the common man. The sixteen lessons in this book perfectly crystallize everything you will need to know to succeed during these hard economic times. Many of today's best known self help books take their core concepts form this book. The Secret, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sublime Books 2015
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Hische, Jessica
Summary: Illustrations, hand-lettering, and easy-to-read text reveal a child's bedtime promise to strive the next day to be adventurous, strong, curious, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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Summary: The story of a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birth. Bears taught her to eat, birds to speak, foxes to play; she is unabashedly, irrefutably, irrespressibly Wild. That is, until one day she meets a new animal that looks oddly like her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "Danny is a real-life superhero in training, learning about his most important super power of all: 'the power to choose.' In this book, YOU decide how the story will end by making choices for Danny. You'll have a blast trying to reach all nine endings!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elon Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVLewis, John
Summary: "In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront questions of social inequality there's no better time to revisit the lessons of the '60s and no better leader to learn from than Congressman John Lewis. In Across That Bridge, Congressman Lewis draws from his experience as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 LEWLewis-Jones, Huw
Summary: Apple bullies the others as he pinches, steals, breaks and takes, but he meets his match when he runs into snake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEWLewis-Jones, Huw
Summary: "It’s Christmas day and everyone is just so . . . jolly. Granny Smith has kick-started the caroling, and the Cheese family’s merriness is grating to say the least. But it’s the arrival of Pea and his extended family that really puts Bad Apple’s goodwill to the test. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas . . . but how long can the Peas last? Packed with witty wordplay and illustrated with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Ltd 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE LEWMarcus, Aubrey
Summary: "A single day has never been so powerful. From Aubrey Marcus, founder of the human performance behemoth Onnit, comes a guide to revolutionizing your life by turning one single day of positive choices into a lifetime of concrete strategies for better living, optimal performance, and a stronger mind, body, and spirit. [This book] cuts through the clutter and noise surrounding nutrition, fitness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. This book is an album, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCMcGarey, Gladys
Summary: "Dr. Gladys McGarey, a centenarian still-practicing doctor and the mother of holistic medicine, reveals her powerful and life-changing secrets for how to live with joy, vitality, and purpose at any age. On these pages, Dr. McGarey shares her six actionable secrets to enjoying lives that are long, happy, and purpose-driven. She talks about how to embrace your life fully and feel motivated every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023