Steel, Danielle.
Summary: "Power Play takes readers into the boardrooms and playgrounds of top tier corporate America, exploring the costs of great power through the intersecting stories of three indelible women: a high-powered CEO, a long-time 'corporate wife,' and an aspiring artist struggling to raise a family with an absentee father. The lives of three women are linked in ways that none could have imagined. Fiona...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEHiggins, Kristan
Summary: Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they still carry as adults. For each of them, that means something different. For Marley, it's coming to terms with the survivor's guilt she's carried around since her twin sister's...
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 HIGCarey, Peter
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 CARSmith, 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 SMITygielski, Shelly
Summary: Shelly Tygielski shows that self-care can be a powerful tool for spurring transformative collective action. She shares her evolution from a Jerusalem-born child of traditional Sephardic Jewish parents to a middle-class American suburban youth who questioned her faith to a young executive in corporate America. As she used radical self-care practices to manage a serious chronic health issue, she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 155.2 TYGCain, Susan
Summary: Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death, bitter and sweet, are forever paired. With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 155.2 CAIDavis, Viola
Summary: In this memoir, award-winning actress Viola Davis shares her story, in her own words, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to the present day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DAVIS VIOLA DAVWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIForman, Gayle
Summary: For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who's so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn't even realize she's had a heart attack. Afterward, surprised...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORFishbach, Ayelet
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 FISAmen, Daniel G.
Summary: If you want to feel happier, more optimistic, more joyful, and resilient, Dr. Amen's groundbreaking new book is for you. We've all felt anxious, sad, traumatized, grief-stricken, stressed, angry, or hopeless at some point in life. It's perfectly normal to go through emotional crises or have periods when you feel panicked or out of sorts. It is how you respond to these challenges that will make...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 AMEMeeker, Meg.
Summary: The biggest book yet from Dr. Meg Meeker, the author of the hit Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, focuses on the author's years of expertise with mothers and what she's learned about creating new, healthy emotional habits that will vastly improve women's lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 646.70085 MEEPerry, 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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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 616.85 PERSaujani, 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 SAUBlankson, 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 BLAJones, Dennis Merritt
Summary: Whether we're striving for a new job, a higher salary, or a better relationship, Dennis Merritt Jones explains in The Art of Abundance that we all essentially want the same thing: freedom, inner peace, and a life filled with purpose and meaning. He argues that a life of wholeness and peaceful satisfaction is readily available to us--we just need the eyes to see it and the faith to claim it. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 299 JONMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she thought she would. Now a widow and an empty nester, Joan is content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to get back out into the world. With her encouragement, Joan makes big strides, taking care of her overgrown lawn, making new friends through a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MACChödrön, Pema.
Summary: "Life has a way of provoking us with traffic jams and computer malfunctions, with emotionally distant partners and crying children--and before we know it, we're upset. We feel terrible, and then we end up saying and doing things that only make matters worse. But it doesn't have to be that way, says Pema Chödrön . It is possible to relate constructively to the inevitable shocks, losses, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.1 CHOClanton, Ben
Summary: Rot is a mutant potato. Like most mutant potatoes, Rot loves all sorts of games and contests. So when he sees a sign for the Cutest in the World Contest, he cant wait to enter. But when Rot realizes who hes up againstan itty-bitty baby bunny, a little-wittle cuddly kitten, and an eenie-weenie jolly jellyfishhe loses confidence. Will the judges find room in their hearts for an adorable mutant...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CLAHale, Shannon.
Summary: While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Full Cast Audio 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HALPennypacker, Sara
Summary: Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PENForman, Gayle
Summary: "Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family's secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It's a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FORJacobson, Jennifer
Summary: Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012