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"Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient Stoics with modern psychological techniques to develop a surprisingly simple strategy for dealing with life's unpleasant surprises. By using the updated Stoic strategy, we can transform life's setbacks into opportunities for becoming calmer, tougher, and more resilient." -- adapted from jacket
2) Getting back to happy: change your thoughts, change your reality, and turn your trials into triumphs
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"[This book] reveals [the authors'] strategies for changing thought patterns and daily habits to bounce back from tough times. Sharing never-before-published stories and advice, the book shows us how to harness the power of daily rituals, mindfulness, self-care, and more to overcome whatever life throws our way--in order to become our best selves"--Amazon.com.
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TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Whether you're looking to manage panic, worry, stress, or phobias, or just want to pause your endless overthinking, Abs and Mags, a.k.a. The Anxiety Sisters, have insightful and practical research-based techniques--without the clinical, one-size-fits-all approach that isn't so helpful when your mind is racing, you're struggling with the physical symptoms so common with anxiety and your just want to get back to feeling normal (ish). The Anxiety Sisters'...
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Central Recovery Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Partners experience dire consequences as a result of being in a relationship with someone suffering from compulsive sexual behavior. Their emotional well-being requires developing new skill sets for self-care and self-protection as they confront the difficult and painful process of discovery, disclosure, and beyond. In other words--they need boundaries. This is the first book specifically for partners affected by addictive behavior that addresses,...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Focusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, 'Ordinary Jews' examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival material and hundreds of survivors' testimonies, Evgeny Finkel presents a new framework for understanding the survival strategies in which Jews engaged: cooperation and collaboration, coping and compliance, evasion, and resistance. Finkel compares Jews' behavior...
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Archie's life--and the whole world--is turned upside down by Covid-19. Suddenly there are no more Friday night dinners out, no more going to school, no more hanging out with friends . . . no leaving the house at all. Even though he's inside with his family all day every day, Archie can't help but feel more alone than ever before. While everyone else seems to be adapting to their new normal just fine, it's like Archie is permanently on mute, unable...
9) Ninja Nate
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2023]
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English
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"Nathaniel, or, as his friends call him, Ninja Nate, has been dressing like a ninja all summer long—even sleeping in his suit. And he doesn’t plan on stopping for his first day of fifth grade, especially when he has been hiding his robotic leg under his ninja costume. His friends may know about his accident, but they’ve never seen the new him. What if they treat him differently? With the help of his brother, Sensei Charlie, and ninja mom, Mama...
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It's a new school year, and something is different. The students' beloved librarian, Ms. Stack, has retired. The new librarian, Ms. Bangle, is not the same! She has different ways of doing, well, everything! How will the students ever adjust? Change isn't easy, but it can be a positive experience. With a bit of patience, and a lot of heart, it can be positively brilliant"--Book jacket flap.
A brilliant librarian helps students to welcome big changes...
11) All that shines
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Chloe's affluent family loses everything, she sets out to discover herself with the help of new and surprising friends.
12) Violet Shrink
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Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Violet Shrink doesn't like parties. Or bashes, or gatherings. Lots of people and lots of noise make Violet's tummy ache and her hands sweat. She would much rather spend time on her own, watching the birds in her backyard, reading comics or listening to music through her purple headphones. The problem is that the whole Shrink family loves parties with loud music and games and dancing. At cousin Char's birthday party, Violet hides under a table and...
13) Save me a seat
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Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
14) Give and take
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Family has always been important to twelve-year-old Maggie: a trapshooter, she is coached by her dad and cheered on by her mom. But her grandmother's recent death leaves a giant hole in Maggie's life, one which she begins to fill with an assortment of things: candy wrappers, pieces of tassel from Nana's favorite scarf, milk cartons, sticks . . . all stuffed in cardboard boxes under her bed. Then her parents decide to take in a foster infant. But...
15) On my own
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2016.
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English
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"In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
16) The wild silence
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2021.
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"The incredible follow-up to the international bestseller The Salt Path, a story of finding your way back home. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline; the cliffs, the sky and the chalky earth now feel like their home. Moth has a terminal diagnosis, but together on the wild coastal path, with their feet firmly rooted outdoors,...
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Willa likes certain things to be certain ways. Her socks have to be soft . . . and definitely can't have irritating tags on the inside. She loves the crunch of popcorn and nachos . . . but is grossed out by the crunch of a baby carrot. And slimy foods? Those are the worst. Willa can manage all these things -- but there are some things she can't deal with, like her father's big news. He's been keeping a big secret from her . . . that he's been dating...
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