Franklin, DeVon
Summary: Expectations are the secret software, running on the hardware of our minds, controlling our emotions, decisions, and actions. How much more of the sadness you feel derives from what you think should have happened--than with what actually happened? How much more of the discontent you feel at work comes from your belief about where you'd be at this point--than with the progress you've actually...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 FRAClark, Andy
Summary: "A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build the world, learn from it, and sometimes deceive themselves For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that our senses determine what our mind perceives. But as our understanding of neuroscience and psychology has advanced in the last few decades, a new view has emerged that has proven to be both provocative...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 CLASchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: Ethan eagerly anticipates making maple syrup with his father, but it will not be time until the days are warmer, the nights shorter, and Ethan's loose tooth falls out.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Schmidt 2020Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHDuckworth, Angela
Summary: Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur genius grant recipient Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial, such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments. Drawing on her own story as the daughter of a scientist who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.1 DUCHarris, Alex
Summary: Two Christian teenage writers challenge their peers to create a brighter future, combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility and providing humorous personal anecdotes, practical examples, and stories of real-life "rebelutionaries"in action.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 HARRobson, David
Summary: "What you believe can make it so. A journey through the cutting-edge science of how our mindset shapes every facet of our lives, revealing how your brain holds the keys to unlocking a better you"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.TerKeurst, Lysa
Summary: Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a moment, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned, and we quietly start to wonder about the reality of God’s goodness. Lysa TerKeurst guides us to discover that our disappointments can be the divine appointments our souls need to radically encounter God....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 TERShukairy, Ream
Summary: Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she dreams of escaping her sheltered life to travel the world with her best friend. Leene Tahir is a Syrian refugee, doing her best to adjust to the wildly unfamiliar society of a suburban Detroit high school while battling panic attacks and family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHURose, Emily
Summary: Teaches young readers how to understand expectations and to ask questions in new situations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ruzzier, Sergio
Summary: Rather than fulfill the expectations of his persistent companion, an animal chooses to live as himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUZThurber, Christopher A.
Summary: "How parents can guide their kids on a path to success -- while avoiding burnout. It's a tough world out there and, in order to succeed, kids need to learn how to perform under pressure. But how can parents foster that resilience at a time when kids are already more stressed out and anxious than ever before? The Unlikely Art of Parental Pressure addresses one of the biggest dilemmas for today's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 THUBeattie, Melody.
Summary: We've all had situations in our lives that seem beyond our control or that have no clear remedy. In this concise, inspirational guide, bestselling self-help guru Melody Beattie shows us that we have the ability to make a miracle for almost any circumstance we're facing. She offers a distillation of what she knows about gratitude, surrender, and connecting with our essential power. She...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010