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Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
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."
82) Fortunate son
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In spite of their differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy, a black boy, is cursed with health problems, yet remains optimistic and strong. After tragedy rips them apart, their lives astonishingly diverge. In a story of resilience and redemption, the two confront separate challenges, and when circumstances reunite them years later, they draw on their...
84) Ship breaker
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Author
Series
Tacky the penguin books volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Notre Dame Philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have gone deep with that work in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course GOD AND THE GOOD LIFE, in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful. Now they invite us into the classroom to tackle such issues as what justifies your beliefs, whether you should practice a religion, and what sacrifices you should make for others--as...
Author
Series
Wolf Hollow volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xiv, 321 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author, leading spokesman for the scientifically based Positive Psychology movement, provides an understanding of positive emotions and how to increase them, and argues that authentic happiness comes from identifying and cultivating fundamental strengths and using them everyday in work, love, play, and parenting.
Author
Publisher
A TarcherPerigee book
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
10th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 335 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Power of Kindness is a stirring examination of a simple but profound concept. Piero Ferrucci, one of the world's most respected transpersonal psychologists, explores the many surprising facets of kindness and argues that it is this trait, and this trait alone, which will lead not only to our own individual happiness and the happiness of those around us, but will guide us in a world that has become cold, anxious, difficult, and frightening.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Third-grader EllRay is becoming famous for messing up, and when his little sister accidentally kills EllRay's class goldfish, and then he forgets his teacher's read-aloud book at home, it only makes matters worse.
93) Edge of eternity
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
96) Storm runners
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
99) In every life
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A picture book celebrating both the highs and lows that everyone experiences in the course of a life.
100) The shame: a novel
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Shame is a novel about technology, capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art"--
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