Broussard, Marc
Contents: Hurricane Heart (2:55) -- Dyin' Man (4:24) -- Perfect To Me (3:33) -- Man Ain't Supposed To Cry (4:07) -- Edge Of Heaven (4:12) -- A Life Worth Living (3:40) -- Honesty (3:59) -- Another Day (4:04) -- Weight Of The World (3:24) -- Shine (5:32) -- Give Em Hell (4:20) -- I'll Never Know (3:34).
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Publisher / Publication Date: VANGUARD (VAN) 2014
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Lehmann, Devra
Summary: "Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization's founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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Summary: Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Housden, Roger.
Summary: Celebrates human imperfection and temptation by introducing the seven sins that can make life more satisfying and pleasurable, including sensual pleasures, foolishness, doing nothing useful, and celebrating the ordinary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 171.4 HOUChaput, Charles J.
Summary: "With a balance of wisdom, candor, and scholarly rigor the beloved Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia takes on life's central questions: why are we here, and how can we live and die meaningfully?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 CHASummary: A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 ITVolf, Miroslav
Summary: "A guide to defining and then creating a flourishing life, based on the popular class at Yale What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning, as Yale professors Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Open Field/Penguin Life 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 113 VOLByrne, Rhonda.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The dream -- The call to adventure -- Refusal of the call -- Finding your dream -- Follow your bliss -- The hero -- Belief -- Vision -- The mind of a hero -- The heart of a hero -- The way of the hero -- Commitment -- The quest -- The labyrinth -- Naysayers & allies -- The road of trials & miracles -- The supreme ordeal -- Victory -- The reward -- A life worth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BYRContents: Spring tank fire (3:53) -- A life worth living (feat. U-Roy & Alice Russell) (5:11) -- Homeward bound (4:54) -- Ikey's vibe (3:42) -- Shuffle them shoes (feat. Hollie Cook) (3:29) -- Dusk (3:45) -- El disorden (3:18) -- 1000 watts (feat. Christopher Ellis) (4:41) -- Chambacú (feat. Nidia Góngora) (3:21) -- Night shade (4:58) -- Macondo (2:43) -- Flowering theme (3:40) -- Striding on Grand St....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE QUALawford, Christopher Kennedy
Summary: "More than 100 of the world's top experts interviewed by [Christopher Kennedy] Lawford share their research and wisdom on how to determine if your bad habit is becoming a dependency through self-assessments and symptom lists and how to determine which treatments will work best for you"--Flap p. 1 of dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 LAWTolstoy, Leo
Summary: This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alma Classics 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 087.1 TOLHoward, Linda
Summary: When Jenner Redwine wins the lottery, she never imagined how much it would cost her. Luckily she finds an ally-and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege in a shy, kind-hearted heiress who invites Jenner on a charity cruise. But what should have been a "Love Boat" cruise suddenly turns into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing danger, and Jenner finds herself taken hostage by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOWJones, Dennis Merritt
Summary: Whether we're striving for a new job, a higher salary, or a better relationship, Dennis Merritt Jones explains in The Art of Abundance that we all essentially want the same thing: freedom, inner peace, and a life filled with purpose and meaning. He argues that a life of wholeness and peaceful satisfaction is readily available to us--we just need the eyes to see it and the faith to claim it. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 299 JONDavis, Viola
Summary: "In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose and my strength, but also to finding my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ebony Magazine Publishing, HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, VIOLA DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio DavisBialosky, Jill.
Summary: "What do we prize most? Are integrity and ambition mutually exclusive, as we seek a place in the world? How do we value, ultimately, a piece of art - or a life? These are the questions at the core of the evocative new novel by New York Times bestsellingauthor Jill Bialosky. Talented, successful, blessed with a loving wife and daughter, Edward Darby has everything a man should hope for. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIASummary: "An anthology bringing together the testimony of over eighty theologians, religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers to present a diverse and compelling call to honor humans' moral responsibility to the planet in the face of environmental degradation, species extinction, and global climate change"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.1 MOORoberts, Nora.
Summary: For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians. Upon arriving at Jordan's impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan's forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan's shy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSummary: On February 22, 1984, Carol Ann Vetter touched her 12-year-old son's hand for the first time. And when David Vetter died, shortly thereafter, he was already world famous: the boy in the plastic bubble. Mythologized as the plucky child who defied the odds, his life story is in fact even more dramatic. This PBS American Experience episode, The Boy in the Bubble, raises some of the most difficult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Oates, Joyce Carol
Summary: A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OATBracken, Alexandra.
Summary: When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that had killed most of America's children, but she and the others have emerged with something far...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA SF Bracken 2018Boyd, Julia
Summary: "From the author of the international bestseller Travelers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy, and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 BOYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 BOYMoyes, Jojo
Summary: How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MoyesSummary: Anna Karenina: When the young wife of a statesman runs off with a young officer, she is outcast and forbidden to see her son. Desperate, the woman comes to believe that life is no longer worth living -- A farewell to arms: When an injured American ambulance driver and English nurse desert to Switzerland, the danger they've struggled to escape is replaced by a more serious threat. -- Les...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWESummary: As Eyal finishes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife Vicky urges him to return to their routine. But just because the shiva has ended doesn't mean it's life as usual. Each coping in their own way, Eyal and Vicky both attempt to regain a sense of control over their future, as they struggle to discover that there are still things in life worth living for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017