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Antisocial personality disorders Borderline personality disorder Determination (Personality trait) Determination (Personality trait) Fiction Determination (Personality trait) Juvenile fiction Personality Personality disorders Picture books for children Resilience (Personality trait) Resilience (Personality trait) Juvenile fictionBreen, Steve
Summary: "Benny the woodpecker makes a brilliant plan to eat a tasty plate of waffles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: As Little Red travels from the Christmas shop to the North Pole, seeking Santa in hopes she can be his sleigh one day, good advice helps her discover her true purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GUECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday GuendelsbergerRose, Emily
Summary: "Told in narrative nonfiction, this book teaches young readers how to handle difficult situations. Books help build a foundation for students to develop into capable and compassionate individuals and, through examples, show them how to make the choices that will let them grow their soft skills. All books in the 21st Century Junior Library encourage readers to Look, Think, Make a Guess, Ask...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 155.4 ROSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Emo Intel RoseSanders, Jayneen
Summary: "Meet Emmi! She is resilient, independent and courageous. She always tries her best, and even when the going gets tough, Emmi never gives in. This charming story uses verse and beautiful illustrations to model resilience, persistence, and the ability to face challenges with tenacity. Children who are resilient are brave, curious, confident and problem solvers. Nurturing these traits in our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Educate2Empower Publishing, an imprint of Upload Publishing Pty Ltd 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This 48 Hours report uses a pair of violent incidents to challenge assumptions about road rage and air rage. A highway encounter between two middle-aged women that ends in a conviction of manslaughter: road rage or self-defense? An incident in which a young man tries to force the cockpit door of an airliner in flight, only to be brutally subdued by passengers-a trauma that leads to his death:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Swanson, Matthew
Summary: After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frankie is an African-American go-go dancer with dissociative identity disorder (DID). She struggles to retain her true self while fighting against two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist named Alice. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRASummary: A new Dr. Jekyll has an old problem: Mr. Hyde. But they have a deal, a body share, and an impossible life is somehow lived. What Hyde doesn't know is that Jekyll is married. There's a wife and two children that Dr. Jekyll will do anything to protect from his dark side. What neither of them know is an ancient organization is monitoring their every move, and a plan over a century in the making is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2 entertain 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JEKSummary: An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANJay, Meg
Summary: "Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 JAYMeiners, Cheri J.
Summary: "Resilience--the ability to recover or "bounce back" from problems, hurt, or loss--is critical for social and emotional health and helps people feel happy, capable, and in charge of their lives. Foster perseverance, patience, and resilience in children with this unique, encouraging book. Young children learn thought processes and actions that are positive, realistic, and helpful for bouncing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing 2014
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Summary: Reach your peak psychological potential with 120 activities that challenge and build emotional strength, flexibility, and resiliency, so you can overcome any obstacle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2021
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Summary: Celebrating uniqueness, this delightful picture book follows Jeffrey the Giraffe as he searches for a place to belong, then realizes that although he may be different, he is perfect just the way he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Genius Books 2021
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Summary: Many people often say yes to something when they'd rather say no. They offer cooperation through words but follow up with how they really feel-in actions that contradict their words. That's passive-aggression. At its heart, passive-aggression is about being untrue to oneself, which makes it impossible to have a clean relationship with others. Passive-aggression as a communication method doesnt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions--"a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power" or "a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times" (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A&M University Press 2020
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Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARFromm, Erich
Summary: "To have or to be? is one of the seminal books of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revelation to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Erich Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 FROGilbert, Leah (Leah Rose)
Summary: Maya plans to build the perfect treehouse, but after doing research and selecting the perfect spot, she finds she must recruit helpers to get the job done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GILMeddour, Wendy
Summary: Henry loves talking with Grandpa, but Grandpa has stopped listening. Mom says to just give him time. But Henry wants to talk to Grandpa now. So Henry tries his favorite game--Top Threes. And something amazing happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MEDSchwartz, Richard C.
Summary: "Dr. Schwartz is the creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a paradigm-changing model of consciousness that has been transforming psychology for decades. Here, you'll learn why IFS has been so effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction therapy, depression, and more. IFS overturns the idea that we have one "true" identity and recognizes that having multiple parts is not a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2021
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Summary: This book leads you step-by-step through the process of determining and verifying your personality type, providing real-life case studies of people who share your type and introducing you to the key ingredients your work must have for it to be genuinely fulfilling. Using workbook exercises and explaining specific job search strategies, Do What You Are identifies occupations that are popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 TIESummary: How long can mental illness stay hidden, especially from the eyes of trained experts? This program rejoins a group of ten adults-five of them healthy and five of them with histories of mental illness-as psychiatric specialists try to spot and correctly diagnose the latter. Administering a series of collaborative and one-on-one tests, including assessments of personality type, physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: For reasons still being explored, a growing number of children, teenagers, and young adults regularly and willfully cut, burn, and otherwise harm their own bodies. This film follows three young people as they confront the violence they have inflicted upon themselves. Bullied at school, 15-year-old Beth has been cutting for the past two years. After a decade of self-harm due to academic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Supported and cajoled by psychologist and cognitive behavioral therapist Paul Salkovskis, three agoraphobic Londoners have tentatively confronted their fears-but they still have a huge amount of work to do. This program shows what happens when the experiment moves to the next level. After frantic preparations, Simon, Su, and Archana accompany Professor Salkovskis on a 13-hour airplane flight to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009