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101) Four friends
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Gerri can't decide what's more devastating: learning her rock-solid marriage has big cracks, or the anger she feels as she tries to repair them. Always the anchor for friends and her three angst-ridden teenagers, it's time to look carefully at herself. The journey is more than revealing -- it's transforming... Andy doesn't have a great track record with men, and she's come to believe that a lasting love is out of reach. When she finds herself attracted...
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One afternoon, actor Zachary Levi couldn't bring himself to open his front door. Where are you going, Zac? Where are you taking us? What are we doing here? But he wasn't worried about what other people might do to him, he was worried about what he might do to himself. And that realization terrified him. Here, Zac shares his story of grappling with a lifetime of sometimes crippling anxiety and depression, including a one-month stint in a trauma therapy...
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"How do you break the cycle of negative thinking? This book offers much-needed relief to "chronic overthinkers" using a powerful combination of mindfulness, acceptance, and awareness. With this unique guide, readers will discover the key to breaking free from the negative thinking that keeps them stressed out, anxious, worried, and generally unhappy. Using the powerful, evidence-based tools in this book, readers will find a way out of their own head...
104) The skin you live in
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Diverse Books - Celebrating Diversity
Diverse Books - Celebrating Diversity
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Rhyming text and illustrations celebrate being content with the skin in which one lives, whatever that skin might be. With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers. Themes associated with child development and social harmony, such as friendship, acceptance, self-esteem, and diversity are promoted in simple and straightforward prose. Vivid illustrations of children's...
105) Physical challenges
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Examines the story of Jenny, a girl with cerebral palsy who must use a wheelchair, but who finds ways to stay active and face her physical challenges.
106) Back to me
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Owning a thriving business and having financial security may afford Paige McDaniels the finer things in life, but it does very little to ease the guilt and shame of her biggest regret. She spends as much time serving the needy and helping the poor as she does on her knees praying for another chance to right her wrong, yet peace eludes her. In the process of "working" her way into forgiveness, Paige evolves into the very thing she detests--a judgmental,...
108) Good luck with that
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"The newest heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author tells the story of two friends who make a promise to face their deepest hopes and greatest fears by agreeing to stop waiting to lose weight and start living now. Marley, Georgia, and Emerson met at fat camp as teens, and they never would have survived it without each other. They bonded against the disapproval of their family and friends by loving each other for who they were...
109) Every last word
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"Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club"--
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Pen Lupo is sick and tired of hiding who she is. On the outside, Pen is popular, quiet, and deferential to her boyfriend. On the inside, however, Pen is honest, opinionated--and not quite sure that she's like other girls. Do they have urges like she does?
His classmates may consider him a nerd, but Benedict Pendleton knows he's destined for great things. All he has to do is find a worthy girlfriend, and his social station will be secured. Sure, Benedict...
112) The greedy triangle
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Dissatisfied with its shape, a triangle keeps asking the local shapeshifter to add more lines and angles until it doesn't know which side is up.
113) Three sisters
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Buying one of the famed Three Sisters Queen Anne houses on Blackberry Island, Dr. Andi Gordon, deciding that both her life and home are in need of some major renovations, forms an unbreakable bond with her neighbors--two very different women who are dealing with their own struggles.
114) Have a new you by Friday: how to accept yourself, boost your confidence & change your life in 5 days
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You can change your life - in just 5 days! How many times have you tried to change your own habits, only to find that changing yourself is even harder than trying to change someone else? Now, what the best-selling Have a New Kid by Friday has done for families and Have a New Husband by Friday has done for couples, Have a New You by Friday will do for you. With his signature wit and commonsense psychology, Dr. Kevin Leman walks...
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"Willow Sparks and her best friend Georgia Pratt are at the bottom of the social ladder at Twin Pines High School, just trying to get through each day relatively unscathed. But when Willow finds a mysterious book that allows her to literally change her life, it feels like her luck is finally turning. Becoming more and more popular with each entry into the book, her old life, including her friendship with Georgia, seems miles away. Yet as Willow will...
117) The girls of summer
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"Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair's summer love affair on a remote, sun-drenched Greek island has consumed her since she was seventeen years old, obliterating everything in its wake. But as Rachel becomes increasingly obsessed with reliving the events of so long ago,...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Relationship Goals and Crazy Faith wants you to know that no matter how badly you've messed up, no matter what hardship or pain you've experienced, nothing can destroy the priceless, God-given value of your life"--
Underneath our designer clothes, makeup, jewelry, and photo filters are cracks left by abuse, mistakes, rejection, and disappointment. Bestselling author and pastor Michael Todd reveals his...
119) How we roll
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When Quinn is diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Nick, once a star football player, suffers a freak accident which causes him to lose both of his legs. When Quinn and Nick meet, their relationship gives them the confidence to believe in themselves again, and an unexpected chance at love.