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Brooks, Arthur C. Brown, Damon Cain, Susan Knapp, Jake Olivera, Lisa Volf, Miroslav Wiest, BriannaVolf, 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 New Non-fiction, Call number: 113 VOL1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 113 VOL
Wiest, Brianna
Summary: "This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it-for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thought Catalog Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 WIEKnapp, Jake
Summary: Do you ever wonder where your day went? Or daydream about activities you'll get to "someday"? Knapp and Zeratsky share their tactics for a four-step daily framework that you can use to systematically re-design your days. Highlight, Laser, Energize, Reflect. You may not be able to add more hours to your day-- but you can learn to make your life your own, day by day. -- adapted from jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 KNAOlivera, Lisa
Summary: This guide will help you identify, understand, and reframe your life story in order to live a more whole and meaningful life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 OLIBrooks, Arthur C.
Summary: "Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey combine their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle to show readers how to improve their lives right now, instead of waiting for the outside world to change. They offer a research-based work plan that shows the reader how to manage their emotions so they no longer control their outlook and behavior; turn life's inevitable difficulties and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2023
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BRO1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BRO
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BROCain, Susan
Summary: "With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, connection,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 155.2 CAICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 155.2 CAIBrown, Damon
Summary: An author, two-time start-up founder and four-time TED speaker offers testimonials, plans of action, and road-tested insight to encourage job seekers to use their existing skills and resources to change careers, manage transitions, and thrive in the current job market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2022