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Meg Gorton finds herself alone and lonely in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Three years earlier, she had packed what she could fit into her sister’s car and asked her estranged husband, Gary, to take care of Moses, their beloved black Labrador. Things between Meg and Gary hadn’t been the same after the loss of their only daughter many years ago. Even after raising their grandson, Troy, it was clear that if Meg wanted a new beginning, she would have to...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A powerful, moving memoir — and a practical guide to healing — written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own minds. Edith Eger was sixteen years old when the Nazis came to her hometown in Hungary and took her Jewish family to an interment center and then to Auschwitz. Her parents were sent to the gas chamber by Joseph...
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Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
127 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
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"Mucho se ha hablado sobre la relacion entre enfermedades degenerativas como el cancer y las situaciones de estres y traumas a los que se ven enfrentados los seres humanos. Infidelidades, tropiezos y decepciones laborales, discusiones con familiares que otro tiempo no surgian. Todo esto ha llevado poco a poco a la sociedad ha embarcarse en discusiones, peleas, malos entendidos que agotan y colman la energia de quienes participan en ellas. Quien no...
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Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xxii, 243 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Nine simple mindfulness practices anyone can use to generate compassion--toward oneself, others, and the world--and to live from that place of intelligent kindness in the face of life's difficulties.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Linda Fallon travels to a literary festival to give a reading from her latest work, but while she is there she encounters her former lover, Thomas James, and together, the couple share memories of their past affair.
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English
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When his wife and two children were killed in a drunk-driving accident, Chris Williams made the most important decision of his life. On a cold February night in 2007, a devoted father of four and a seventeen-year-old drunk driver both received life sentences. In one violent, devastating instant, both faced a drastically different and uncertain future. But as Chris Williams sat in his demolished vehicle, staring at the car that had just caused the...
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A television talk show host decides to bring together Alistair, a former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, and Joe, whose brother Alistair killed when he was a teenager, to attempt a reconciliation that both men are hesitant to face.
10) Calico Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Whatever happened to Calico Joe? It began quietly enough with a pulled hamstring. The first baseman for the Cubs AAA affiliate in Wichita went down as he rounded third and headed for home. The next day, Jim Hickman, the first baseman for the Cubs, injured his back. The team suddenly needed someone to play first, so they reached down to their AA club in Midland, Texas, and called up a twenty-one-year-old named Joe Castle. He was the hottest player...
11) Accident
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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When Lola accidentally knocks over a jug of juice all over her parent's favorite chair, her panic sets off a chain reaction that sends the whole town into chaos.
13) A winter dream
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A holiday tale inspired by the biblical story of Joseph and the coat of many colors follows the modern story of Joe, who after being forced out of the family business by jealous siblings becomes the chief advisor to the CEO of another company and his own family's savior in the face of a troubled economy.
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Publisher
Harper/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and grocery store. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Lizzie St. Claire wants to be invisible. Forced to move out of her home, she and her mom now live in a transitional housing shelter, Good Hope, until they can get back on their feet.Lizzie just wants to keep her head down at Good Hope and her new school, so she doesn't have to admit the real reason she and her mom lost everything.But when Lizzie finds herself at the nearby Birchwood Stables, some new friends-along with the arrival of a frightened...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found temporary work and shoots him, maiming and nearly killing him. Two other victims, at other gas stations, aren’t so lucky, dying at once. The True American...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a quiet corner of northern Edwardian England, Margaret Lounsbury diligently works in her grandmother's millinery shop, making hats and caring for her young sister. Several years earlier, a terrible event shattered their idyllic family life and their future prospects. Maggie is resilient and will do what she must to protect her sister Violet. Still, the loss of her parents weighs heavily on her heart as she begins to wonder if what happened that...
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English
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Fifty-four-year-old Laura Bartone, the happily married mother of two, is looking forward to her annual family reunion in Minnesota. But her vacation plans are marred when her father is felled by a stroke, and her sister, Caroline, at the urging of a therapist, confronts Laura and her brother with disturbing information about her relationship with their mother. As she details the verbal and physical abuse she was subjected to, Laura and her brother...
19) Noel Street
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Series
Noel collection volume 3
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English
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"The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting demons from his past, but may also have the answer to her...
20) All my rage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
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