Medina, Juana
Summary: Remind yourself every day how amazing you are with this joyful celebration of ... YOU! The words and pictures in this book are here to remind the reader how wonderful they are! Focusing on helping to build emotional literacy, self-esteem, and self-worth as well as improving communication skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MEDMarkey, Charlotte N.
Summary: "From early childhood boys often feel pressured to be athletic and muscular. But what impact does this have on physical and mental well-being through their teens and beyond? Worryingly, a third of teen boys are trying to 'bulk up' due to body dissatisfaction, and boys and men account for 25% of eating disorder cases. What can we tell our boys to help them feel happy and confident simply being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.4 MARFarina, Katy
Summary: Deciding a new haircut will give her the boost she needs, Karen is devastated when the hairstylist cuts her hair all wrong and wonders if she will ever get back to feeling like her usual confident self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC FARBrogaard, Berit
Summary: "The Superhuman Mind takes us inside the lives and brains of geniuses, savants, virtuosos, and a wide variety of ordinary people who have acquired truly extraordinary talents, one way or another. Delving into the neurological underpinnings of these abilities, the authors even reveal how we can acquire some of them ourselves--from perfect pitch and lightning fast math skills to supercharged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 BROLancaster, Jen
Summary: Every day, Americans are bombarded with terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and the health consequences of the foods we've been enjoying for years. We're judged by social media users, pressured into maintaining a perfect home, and expected to base our self-worth on retweets, faves, likes, and followers. Our collective FOMO (fear of missing out), and the disparity between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little a 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 LANHallerman, Elisa
Summary: "On her fifth anniversary of sobriety, Elisa Hallerman still awoke with a hurting heart. This is not right. I am not happy. Sobriety was supposed to fix her, right? Isn't that what sobriety is all about? Hallerman quickly realized that though she had freed her addiction to substances, she had not freed her soul. After years of trauma and substance abuse, she had only covered up the wounds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 HALHurst, Chrystal Evans
Summary: "What do you do when your life is not turning out the way you thought it would? In [this book, the author] shares poignant personal stories as she offers an outstretched hand and the assurance that you can still be the woman God gifted you to be."--Publisher website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 HurSokol, Leslie
Summary: Self-confidence shapes the way you see the world. When you have healthy self-esteem, it helps you move through life and boosts your resilience against stress. On the other hand, negative thinking has negative consequences: low self-esteem and self-doubt can hold you and back and lead to self-sabotage, along with an increased risk of anxiety, depression, and self-destructive behaviors. With The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2016
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Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MYEGaines, Joanna
Summary: "In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story--and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own--guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth. We've all dropped anchor in places that suited us for a time: a city, a perspective, a lie we mistook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Select 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAINES, JOANNA GAICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GAINES GAIBerns, Gregory
Summary: "It's a commonplace to say that we each tell stories about ourselves, trying to shape how others perceive us, and how we perceive ourselves. And the commonplace is true, as far as it goes--which isn't very far at all. As neuroscientist Gregory Berns shows in The Self Delusion, you, I, we don't just tell stories about ourselves. We are the stories--there's no stable personality to tell stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 BERRubin, Harriet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 RUBGibbons, Brittany
Summary: A plus-sized blogger shares anecdotes about her life as a weird, overweight girl growing up in rural Ohio, including stories about dating, relationships, dieting, and finally accepting her curves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St. an imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIBBONS, BRITTANY GIBLifford, Tina
Summary: "An inspiring study in inner self care, told through 14 personal stories from award-winning actress Tina Lifford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 LIFPhillips, Adam
Summary: Offers advice for letting go of ideas about how life might have been in order to make the most of what life has to offer in the here and now by embracing failure, frustration, and other apparently negative, but necessary, elements of our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 PHIDelisle, Deb
Summary: These creative and fun activities can be used with students in grades 3 to 8 to build skills in problem-solving, decision making, cooperative learning, divergent thinking, and communication.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Pub. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.39 DELHarden, Greg
Summary: Greg Harden changes lives. This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, business leaders, college students, and professionals from all walks of life have come to him for advice and direction--including 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, 23-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps, Heisman Trophy winners Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson, CEOs of major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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Summary: Explores the themes of longing, self-denial, and nourishment within the broader context of women's experience, drawing on her own healing to analyze the aspects of appetite and its impact
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ROTDyer, Wayne W.
Summary: Describes how one can truly change the concept of self, embark upon a God-realized way of living, and fulfill the spiritual truth that, with God, all things are possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 DYEAxelrod, Howard
Summary: "On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod left his dorm-room to play a pick-up game of basketball. In the skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and severed his optic nerve. Permanently blinded in his right eye, Axelrod returned a week later to the same dorm-room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AXELROD, HOWARD AXESeth, Anil K.
Summary: "Being you is an unprecedented tour of consciousness thats to new experimental evidence, much of white comes from Seth's own lab. His radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random house LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 SETSchab, Lisa M.
Summary: Provides practical advice and activities to help teens gain confidence, respond effectively to criticism, be assertive, and set and achieve goals. Promotes acceptance, compassion, and validation as powerful confidence-building techniques, and contains 40 activities to help the reader make positive changes in his or her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 155 SCHFeinstein, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 FEIJudd, Naomi.
Summary: "At 78 million strong, baby-boomers have become America's largest demographic. Here, Judd debunks society's harmful myths about aging and finds more meaningful ways we can define ourselves so we can enjoy (rather than dread) getting older. She offers tips on finding simplicity, streamlining possessions, disengaging from "energy vampires," and discovering the most effective ways to support your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007