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A woman who longs to avoid risk at all cost learns that men who love danger are the most exciting. After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine. Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together. As the family moved from one city to the next, her mother warned her to beware of daredevil men and avoid risk at all cost. Following...
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RBA Libros
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 22 cm. + 1 sound disc (ca. 37 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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Español
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A lo largo de los últimos veinte años, Jorge Bucay ha buscado tanto en el pensamiento de los sabios como en la sabiduría popular de los cuentos mensajes para enseñar y divulgar la manera de enfrentarse a los desafíos de la vida. Enseñar a anticipar el puedo al quiero, para que el deseo no quede condicionado por la fantasía de una limitación de tiempos pasados. Ayudar a quien le lee a darse cuenta de que sus ideas de "no debes" o "no puedes"...
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Sounds True
Pub. Date
2016.
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xii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Imagine for a moment that all the pressures in your life were off — no problems to fix, no deadlines to meet, no struggles to overcome. Do you feel that sense of spacious relief? It’s not an illusion, teaches Mary O’Malley. It really is possible to live with that profound openness every moment, even while tending to our everyday tasks and obligations. What’s in the Way Is the Way is the new book from this highly regarded teacher, offering...
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Sounds True
Pub. Date
2021.
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pages cm
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English
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"In Motherhood, Marchiano draws from a deep well of Jungian analysis and symbolic research to present a collection of fairytales, myths, and fables that evoke the spiritual arc of raising a child from infancy through adulthood"--
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English
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Angela Russo finds herself in Maine thanks to a sailing instructor, an impulse, and an idea that in Maine, people live "the way life should be." But reality on Mount Desert Island is not what she expected. Far from everything familiar, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up. Relying on the flair for Italian cooking she inherited from her grandmother, she begins to discover the pleasures and secrets of her new small community -- and to...
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Editorial Paz México
Pub. Date
c2005
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xvi, 215 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Español
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Using parables, stories, and anecdotes, this guide helps readers confront their own mind and learn the mechanisms and manifestations that occur therein. Ignoring false beliefs and perceptions, the book discusses the importance of self-assessment in an honest, willful manner in order to be reborn as part of a divine whole. It also deals with the opposing ideas of nature versus nurture, all with the ultimate goal of discovering one's true self.
A través...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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The remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2006
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6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The world's foremost Buddhist leader teaches listeners how to recognize and dispel misguided notions of self and embrace the world from a more realistic, and loving, perspective. Step-by-step exercises help listeners shatter their false assumptions and ideas and see the world as it actually exists. His Holiness sets the stage for discovering the reality behind appearances. But getting past one's misconceptions is only a prelude to right action, and...
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English
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"Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me."
—Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
This program is read by the author.
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52) Dragon house
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New American Library
Pub. Date
2009
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354 p. : map ; 21 cm.
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English
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Dragon House tells the tale of Iris and Noah - two Americans who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. In the slums of a city that has known little but war for generations, Iris and Noah befriend children who dream of nothing more than of going to school, having a home, and being loved. Learning from the poorest of the poor, the most silent of the unheard, Iris and Noah find themselves...
53) Lottery
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English
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Having learned essential life skills from his grandmother that helped him overcome his low IQ, Perry finds himself without a caregiver at the age of thirty-one. He wins a fortune by playing the lottery, a windfall that brings him more family than he ever wanted.
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Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"Deepak Chopra's groundbreaking guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga will help you reach your highest potential and a deeper understanding of self"--
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 360 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is an uplifting, inspirational, and intensely practical manual for change, providing nine universal principles that offer a path for dealing with life's inevitable emotional and spiritual challenges. It's for anyone who wants to see her own life and the world around her change for the better. By combining tools that are psychological, political and spiritual, We takes readers on a life-changing journey. It asks:...
56) Why we work
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Publisher
TED Books/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace. Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent. We’ve long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we’ve shaped much of the infrastructure of our society...
57) Cages
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Schaffner Press, Inc
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English
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Two neurologists are engaged in divergent quests: one to locate the source of memory and the other to study speech patterns in humans by analyzing and manipulating bird vocalization. Both men use experiments on live songbirds in a laboratory on a university campus, and both become romantically intertwined with a woman lab assistant who takes issue with their methods. Overshadowing this trio are significant figures from their individual pasts — a...
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La Alameda Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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353 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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New York school teacher Charlotte Lambert is practical and predictable, and never allows life to veer off course. Until she
comes to New Mexico. During one summer in Agua Dulce, a village haunted by a phantom herd of wild horses and where ravens embody the spirits of ancestors, Charlotte's world is upended as she unearths the details of her mother's forbidden love affair, chilling murder, and courageous last act of redemption. Pursued by a madman...
59) Reputations
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges' decisions, destroying politicians' careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage. At sixty-five, after four decades of a brilliant career, he's at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he's paid an unexpected...
60) Nora Webster
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Widowed at forty, with four children, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice. Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning empathy and kindness, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven--herself.
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