Smith, Julie
Summary: Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 362.2 SMIPerry, Bruce D. (Bruce Duncan)
Summary: Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what's wrong with them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: A life-changing book that uses new research to challenge old beliefs about belonging, from the author of the landmark bestsellers Rising Strong; Daring Greatly; and The Gifts of Imperfection.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.2 BROKinsella, Sophie
Summary: Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REHM, DIANE RehBlankson, Amy
Summary: "Technology-at least in theory-is improving our productivity, efficiency, and communication. The one thing it's not doing is making us happier. We are experiencing historically high levels of depression and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't have to be that way. Technology can drive-not diminish-human happiness. Our brains receive 11 million bits of information every second but can only process 40...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 158 BLADamour, Lisa
Summary: Lisa Damour introduces the seven developmental transitions that turn girls into grown-ups and helps parents form happier, healthier relationships with their daughters.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 649.125 DAMPelzer, David J.
Summary: Amidst the towering redwood trees and the serenity of his childhood utopia of the Russian River, Dave Pelzer reflects on having the courage to move forward in your life, the peace to accept yourself, the vulnerability to strip yourself of facades, and to find the tenacity to carry on when life doesn't turn out the way you planned.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 PELZER, DAVID PELSaujani, Reshma
Summary: Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said or did might have offended someone? Have you ever passed up a big opportunity - a relationship, job, or a personal challenge - for fear you wouldn't nail it right away or look foolish trying? For you, is failure simply not an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 155.3 SAUWojcicki, Esther
Summary: The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK. Esther Wojcicki--"Woj" to her many friends and admirers--is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 649.1 WOJBrooks, David
Summary: Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and from the worlds of theatre, history, and education, to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. He helps listeners become more understanding and considerate towards others, and find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way he offers a possible...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Following a world war, a group of school boys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and creates a hellish environment leading to savagery and murder. Two leaders--one civilized, one depraved--epitomize the forces that war eternally in the human spirit.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GOLBrockenbrough, Martha
Summary: Frank the cat has it good. Then his people bring home a box with a puppy inside. A puppy who doesn't know the rules of naps, and slobbers and tackles and barks. This won't do. Frank will just have to find a better home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC BROBeaty, Andrea
Summary: "Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. After all, she's an engineer, and engineering is all about perseverance! But sometimes, Rosie has a really important project to tackle -- one that feels much bigger than herself. When Rosie's beloved Aunt Rose and her pals the Raucous Riveters -- a gaggle of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II --...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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Summary: With fascinating research from the field of motivation science, this book provides strategies for pulling yourself where you want to go, so you can achieve your goals while staying healthy and happy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 153.8 FISLencioni, Patrick
Summary: Patrick Lencioni provides the fastest way to help people identify the type of work that brings them joy and energy, and avoid work that leads to frustration and burnout. Beyond the personal discovery and instant relief that the Working Genius provides, the model also gives teams a remarkably simple and practical framework for tapping into one another's natural gifts, which increases...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Drawing from extensive research in the new science of persuasion, Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini, prove that small changes can make a big difference.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 658.4 MARMorrow, Bethany C.
Summary: "Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she's famous, stylish, gorgeous--and she's an Eloko, a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore. Everyone loves her--until she's cast as the villain who exposed a Siren to the whole world. Dragged by the media, and canceled by her fans, she feels that no one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, not even her fellow...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC MORMass, Wendy
Summary: After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: A report on the long-lasting effects of war on individual and national psyches shares the experiences of veterans working through post-traumatic stress disorder at a Christian rehabilitation camp.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.85 PERSnicket, Lemony
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Lemony Snicket sheds light on the way bad moods come and go. Once there was a bad mood and a stick. The stick appeared when a tree dropped it. Where did the bad mood come from? Who picked up the stick? And where is the bad mood off to now? You never know what is going to happen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG SNISutherland, Tui
Summary: "Blue the SilkWing is content. Life in his Hive is safe; he loves his family; he has enough to eat. And Pantala has been at peace for as long as he can remember -- SilkWings and HiveWings live and work together in harmony, and because they stay vigilant, no one has seen a dangerous LeafWing in years. Now that Blue's sister, Luna, is undergoing her Metamorphosis, Blue knows things are going to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARKinney, Jeff.
Summary: While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010