Dominiak, Kristy.
Summary: On the outside, Kristy Dominiak appeared to have a seemingly perfect life—a devoted husband, three healthy children, financial stability, recognition in the community, and a beautiful, lakeside home with the proverbial white picket fence. But inside, she was falling apart. Inside, she was waging war against personal demons that were looking to take everything she held precious away from her....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kristy Dominiak 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 170 DOMTomeo, Teresa.
Summary: Scripture tells us only God knows the desires of our hearts. It was, after all, God who placed them there because they are designed to lead us to His will for our lives. Why, then, is it so challenging at times to figure out if we are on the right track when it comes to what we believe we want or need? God's Bucket List will examine what God wants for each of us: mercy, fruitfulness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 TOMTolle, Eckhart
Summary: To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the beginning of the first chapter we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where one breathes a lighter air, the air of the spiritual. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language and a question and answer format to guide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 1999
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.4 TOLBen-Shahar, Tal.
Contents: The question of happiness -- Reconciling present and future -- Happiness explained -- The ultimate currency -- Setting goals -- Happiness in education -- Happiness in the workplace -- Happiness in relationships -- First meditation: self-interest and benevolence -- Second meditation: happiness boosters -- Third meditation: beyond the temporary high -- Fourth meditation: letting our light shine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BENCarter, Christine
Summary: Drawing on what hard science says about the factors that breed happiness in childhood and beyond, here are 10 simple principles for fostering the skills and habits that will set the stage for optimism, emotional health, and confidence for kids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 646.7 CARJigme Wangdrak
Summary: "What makes you happy? What causes you to suffer? This book from an insightful new voice in Tibetan Buddhism offers practical wisdom and radical practices to embrace suffering-an inevitable part of human life-and find freedom, or happiness. Jigme Wangdrakis a contemporary teacher born and trained in eastern Tibet and based in California who is the unique holder of the Dudjom Lingpa lineage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Family camping trips are supposed to be fun, but for Parker, Annie, and the Walden family, they're an absolute nightmare! After a creepy, unidentified bird attacks their mom in the forest, Parker and Annie find themselves face to face with two strange creatures that suddenly enter the kids' brains and take control of their bodies. Can Parker and Annie break loose of this horrific mind control...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC STI Graphic NovelKnopfler, Mark.
Contents: Beachcombing -- I dug up a diamond -- This is us -- Red staggerwing -- Rollin' on -- Love and happiness -- Right now -- Donkey town -- Belle Starr -- Beyond my wildest dreams -- All the roadrunning -- If this is goodbye.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros./Nonesuch 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KnopfWalsh, Peter
Summary: "Lighten Up" offers a road map to creating a less-is-more life, and teaches readers how a life of less can actually be a life of great abundance. Features three audits designed to instigate life changes: a financial audit combined with assessments of the physical junk filling your homes and the emotional junk causing tension in your life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 WALSinger, Michael A.
Summary: Presents advice on ways to free oneself from habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit one's consciousness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 SINLomas, Tim
Summary: "A short, reader-friendly treatment of happiness from a leading figure in positive psychology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 LOMMiddleberg, Stephanie
Summary: "The only guide you need to nourishing yourself and your baby from the first through fourth trimesters, from the bestselling author of The Big Book of Organic Baby Food. When you found out you were pregnant, you were probably given a long list of things you were no longer 'supposed' to do. But what you really need is a practical guide to all the things you can do to feel as empowered and strong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 MIDDiener, Ed.
Summary: "In this book the authors present scientific evidence revealing that happiness is not overrated, and is good for people's health, social relationships, job success, longevity, and altruism. They advocate an optimal level of happiness in which people do not seek euphoria, but pursue life satisfaction, meaning, and frequent positive emotions, with recognition that some negative emotions are an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 DIEChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHAWalker, Alice
Summary: A book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the Pulitzer Prize-winner who has devoted her life to befriending the earth. Walker has long been a force for sanity in a chaotic world. Here she draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her political conviction and experience, and her literary gifts to offer a series of meditations filled with wisdom, hope, encouragement,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay WalkerChopra, Deepak.
Summary: In this manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, the authors show readers how to use the brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth. The authors are two pioneers: one a bestselling author and physician, and the other a Harvard Medical School professor and one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer's disease. They have merged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 CHOSimmons, Rachel
Summary: Offers advice to help parents guide teenage girls to recognize and reject perfectionist messages that lead to self-doubt, unfulfilling relationships, and fears of failure, and teach them self-compassion, how to take healthy risks, and the importance of finding support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018