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IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published as a serial in Lippencott’s Monthly Magazine, and the publishers thought it would so offend readers that they removed nearly 500 words without Wilde’s approval. Wilde soon expanded it and republished it as a novel, including a short preface justifying his art. Even though his contemporaries considered it so offensive that
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Everyone has a hard time saying no, but doing so can vastly improve our lives and relationships. Enter the art of empowered refusal: the skill of strategically saying no from a place of personal power that gives voice to your principles, values, and priorities while protecting your relationships and reputations. In Power of Saying No, Professor and researcher Vanessa Patrick explains that empowered refusal is a much-needed framework that can be mastered...
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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We all yearn to look back to find we lived a life of significance. But is it even possible anymore? Considering the amount of distraction and pressure that exists in society today, living a fulfilling life may seem like an unachievable dream. But it is not--not with the nine habits outlined in this book. New York Times bestselling author and widely known blogger, Rachel Macy Stafford, reveals nine habits that help you focus on investing in the most...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Despite what Jordan Peterson says, there are more than twelve rules for life . . a lot more. Thankfully, you now have this witty guide to remedy every annoying little thing society throws at you. 488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book, because it's not you who needs help -- it's other people. Whether they're walking and texting, asphyxiating you on public transport with their noxious perfume cloud, or leaving one useless square of toilet paper...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Have you ever wondered about how best to live your life? Religions claim to have answers, but they are couched in faith and constrained by rituals that make each religion different from the next. The inevitable result has been conflict and war. Enlightened Living is neither religious nor spiritual, offering instead a rational and practical path that is available to everyone. Enlightenment isn't found by austerity or following rituals but by the sustained...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Even after her death, Erma Bombeck remains one of America's best-loved writers of all time. Eat Less Cottage and More Ice Cream is based on one of her most requested columns. In 1979, someone asked humorist Erma Bombeck, "If you had your life to live over, would you change anything?" Her immediate answer was no, but once she thought about it, she changed her mind. The result was a classic column full of Bombeck's signature wit and warmth. Now the...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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The Courage Way Leading and Living with Integrity Leadership can be exhausting, lonely, frustrating, disappointing, and downright discouraging. You have to make good decisions while balancing inevitable tensions and knowing when to take risks. You need to keep your values in sight regardless of the pressures around you and stay calm in the storms that arise. At its core, leadership is a daily, ongoing practice, a journey toward becoming your best...
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English
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu shares the source of strength and optimism that have helped him stay joyful and hopeful in the face of personal and professional challenges, arguing that God has programmed all people for goodness and they must simply follow God's path in order to achieve their calling.
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The Collective Book Studio
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Colorful and easy to implement, this book will be a resource for parents and guardians looking to try behavior contracting in their homes." --Library Journal When a child is struggling with a behavior challenge or wants to learn a new skill, a contract can be a surprisingly effective solution that leads to more peaceful family dynamics. To help families create contracts as a collaborative process, Let's Make a Contract offers an innovative combination...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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A professor of psychiatry and human behavior offers up a positive, humorous marriage guide for husbands that plays to their strengths. Dr. Scott Haltzman, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, has devised a proven method for improving relationships, based on a man’s special and unique skills, strengths, powers--as a responsible and motivated worker, manager, leader, problem-solver, partner, husband, and...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Hope is an interesting thing. Some think it's foolish, often misplaced, and at rarer times devastating; but more agree that hope is an integral and beautiful part of life, something that implicitly makes us human. We're always hoping for something--for change, for improvement, or to find peace of mind amid life's bustling demands. These things are often the subjects of our deepest desires, those things that can bring us true happiness. Fortunately...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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In Time and the Soul Jacob Needleman uses stories-of a middle-aged psychiatrist going back in time to encounter his younger self; of a mysterious meeting in the Central Asian desert; of the mystic master Hermes Trimegistus; as well as stories from the Bhagavad-Gita, the Bible, and other wisdom traditions-to illuminate the great mystery of time and to help us resolve our increasingly dysfunctional relationship to it. Nearly everyone feels stress and...
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A Noticer book volume 4
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
With rare insight, the author take readers on a journey that proves the importance of perspective, the power of connection, and the ability everyone has to make the impossible come true, through an inspirational story in which Jones, a mysterious elderly man with white hair and endless wisdom, opens an unusual business in Orange Beach, Alabama, that always seems to have exactly what visitors are looking for.
From New York Times bestselling author...
14) How Not to Act Old: 185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
How to be cool when you're afraid you've forgotten how ... Sure, you can try to stay younger by exercising, coloring your hair, and wearing stylish clothesor themselves.".
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Abbey Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Many of us are impatient; the responsibilities and hardships of life seem to try our patience at every turn. And sometimes, it's the little things that make us snap. However, scripture tells us that "God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it" (1 Corinthians 10:13). With those wise and hopeful words in mind, Growing in Patience...
16) Making Choices
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Stoddard, world famous interior decorator, author and lecturer, originally opened the eyes of millions to the beauty and grace of simplicity in her phenomenal bestseller Living a Beautiful Life and the books that followed. Now, in Making Choices, she teaches us to widen our horizons by helping us feel the pleasure, satifaction, and joy of creative decision making and self-reliance and to discover our inner being, our own destiny, the lifestyle...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Richard Leider and David Shapiro helped hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people discover the true purpose of their lives with their classic bestseller Repacking Your Bags. Now they focus their attention on the second half of life, showing readers how to claim their rightful place as new elders, men and women who, the authors write, "use the second half of life as an empty canvas, a blank page, a hunk of clay to be crafted on purpose." Claiming...
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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Drawing on ancient and contemporary wisdom, as well as modern research, Richard Leider and David Shapiro provide insightful ways of thinking and being that help us find meaning and purpose in the second half of life. This deeply reflective book uses a safari, (referencing a trip the authors took to Africa in 2006) as a metaphor to show how the second half of life can be a journey of discovery. In what may be their most personal book to date, Leider...
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Create the life you want, combine the law of attraction with mindfulness
The law of attraction suggests that our positive or negative thoughts bring about positive or negative experiences. The Mindful Guide to Law of Attraction pairs that belief with the powerful practices of mindfulness. Through intentional breathing, writing, and engaging, you'll hone a method for manifesting health, wealth, and love-the elements of happiness.
Let the law of...
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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stop Seeking Happiness; Just Get Out of Its Way! Happiness is our natural state, for each of us and for humanity as a whole, argues John Izzo. But that happiness is being stolen by insidious mental patterns that he depicts as thieves: the thief of control, the thief of conceit, the thief of coveting, the thief of consumption, and the thief of comfort. He discovered these thieves as he sought the true source of happiness during a year-long sabbatical,...
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