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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In “Desert Hearts,” a woman takes a job selling sex toys in San Francisco rather than embark on the law career she pursued only for the sake of her father. In “Pearl and the Swiss Guy Fall in Love,” a woman realizes she much prefers the company of her pit bull — and herself — to the neurotic foreign fling who won’t decamp from her apartment. In “How Am I Supposed to Talk to You?” a daughter hauls a suitcase of lingerie to Mexico...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 243 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel — and certainly our anger is no exception. "Anger is a signal and one worth listening to," writes Dr. Harriet Lerner in her renowned classic that has transformed the lives of millions of readers. While anger deserves our attention and respect, women still learn to silence our anger, to deny it entirely, or to...
103) Before I Fall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Like Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End and Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person's life can affect so many others. With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors of young adult fiction.
For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid
...104) Sisters
Author
Series
Smile volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three weeks. Two sisters. One car. A true story.Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England, home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It's not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The podcast host and author explores how people interact with strangers and why these exchanges often go wrong, offering tips for more accurate and productive interactions.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller!
Learn how to fight better and end your arguments with your partner feeling closer, more loved, and better understood.
We take our cars in for oil changes. We mow our lawns and pull weeds. Why don't we do maintenance on our marriages? This relationship is the most important one we will ever have, so why not get better at it?
For the last several years,
...108) Somebody's fool
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald “Sully” Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully’s son, is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him.
Meanwhile, the towns’ newly consolidated police...
109) The almost sisters
Author
Language
English
Description
Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She’s having a baby boy—an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old’s life. But before Leia can break the news of her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Lowcountry of South Carolina three amazing middle-aged women are bonded by another amazing woman's death. Through their shared loss, they forge a deep friendship, asking critical questions. Who was their friend, and what did her life mean? Are they living the lives they imagined for themselves? Will they ever be able to afford to retire? How will they maximize their happiness? Security? Health? And ultimately their own legacies? A plan is conceived...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 'The World Has Many Butterflies', a married woman flirts with a man she meets at parties by playing 'You think it, I'll say it', putting into words the bitchy things she guesses he's thinking about their fellow guests. But she is in for a shock when, in time, she finds out what was really in his mind. 'The Nominee' sees Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, confessing her surprising true feelings about a woman journalist she has sparred with over...
Author
Publisher
Hungry Mind Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The River Warren begins with a resounding crash, as a packed tractor-trailer plows through a hardware store, killing all the cattle aboard as well as the driver, Two-Speed Crandall, and his wife, LouAnn. The accident--or lack thereof--sends the little farming town of Cloten into a veritable orgy of speculation: "The talk goes around and around about Two-Speed Crandall, but the talk's all about something else, like a whirlpool still in its center and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tiny Beautiful Things collects the best of Dear Sugar in one volume, bringing her wisdom to many more readers. This tenth-anniversary edition features six new columns and a new preface by Strayed. Rich with humor, insight, compassion--and absolute honesty--this book is a balm for everything life throws our way."
115) Into the riverlands
Author
Series
Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themselves far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be. Accompanied by...
Author
Publisher
Educational Research Associates
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
xvi, 304 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The book spends a large amount of time in identifying the characteristics of "emotional porcupines." These emotional porcupines are usually people that seek to control their lives and the lives of others. They constantly throw emotional quills and consequently are difficult to hug without impaling one's self. The most intersting part of the book is on how to live with a "porcupine." The strength of this self-help book is that it gives you concrete...
Author
Publisher
Future Horizons
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
xix, 426 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Born with autism, both Temple Grandin and Sean Barron now live famously successful social lives. However, their paths were quite different. Temple's logical mind controlled her social behavior. She interacted with many adults and other children, experiencing varied social situations. Logic informed her decision to obey social rules and avoid unpleasant consequences. Sean's emotions controlled his social behavior. Baffled by social rules, isolated...
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xx, 316 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In these pages you will hear from Steven Pinker, who asks, “Why is there peace?”; Robert Sapolsky, who examines violence among primates; Paul Ekman, who talks with the Dalai Lama about global compassion; Daniel Goleman, who proposes “constructive anger”; and many others. Led by renowned psychologist Dacher Keltner, the Greater Good Science Center, based at the University of California in Berkeley, has been at the forefront of the positive...
119) I was born for this
Author
Series
I was born for this volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The Ark, a boy band, is the center of life for super-fan Fereshteh (A.K.A Angel) Rahimi, transgender front man Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, and friend and bandmate Rowan, but their relationships become complicated when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and self-possessed Bobbi. At a poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi meet Melissa, a well-known photographer. As the girls are drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. Frances and Nick's flirtation...
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