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If I asked you to name your favourite things-the things you love-how long would it take for you to name yourself? If you're anything like me, you've tried to love God and love others without thinking too much about yourself. Wanting to avoid self-centeredness, I doubted myself and condemned myself-I even hated myself-until I noticed the ancient words of Mark 12:31, "Love your neighbour as yourself." A gentle whisper led me in a new direction and everything...
42) Focused
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Clea can't control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework…but she gets distracted. She knows she can't just say whatever thought comes into her head ... but sometimes she can't help herself. She know she needs to focus ... but how can she do that when the people around her are always chewing gum loudly or making other annoying noises? It's starting to be a problem-not just in school, but when Clea's playing chess or just hanging out...
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Embrace The Courage to Be Yourself Authentically
"As a Clinical Psychologist, I have frequently recommended this book. It is very well written. It is clear and highly beneficial. The author states that it is written for women. I have found that most of the book can also be useful for men." ─Amazon review
This self-growth focused motivational book teaches you how to find yourself. In The Courage to Be Yourself, learn to set boundaries, make peace,...
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"Feel Good & Shine On, A Lifestyle" is your empowering guide to constructing a life abundant in love, energy, abundance, adventure, and freedom. Embark on a transformative journey that begins with cultivating self-love and making mindful lifestyle choices to explore the nuances of human energy.
Discover the practical steps of the laws of attraction, allowing you to manifest desires and achieve specific goals. The spotlight on embracing adventure...
45) The Seventh Step
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This book, which describes the author's one-man crusade for a new penal rehabilitation program, known as The Seventh Step, takes you right into the drama of prison life. In 1963, Bill Sands, an ex-convict, and the Reverend James Post formulated a self- help group in the Kansas State Prison. This first pre-release program adopted a slogan and guidelines that are the basis of The Seventh Step programs today.
This was a danger-charged mission of an ex-inmate...
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the story of James Sveck, a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. James is eighteen, the child of divorced parents living in Manhattan. Articulate, sensitive, and cynical, he rejects all of the assumptions that govern the adult world around him—including the expectation that he will go to college in the fall. He would prefer to move to...
47) Blackbird fly
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
48) Understood Betsy
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First published in 1917, "Understood Betsy" is the well-known children's story by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The prominent social activist, educational reformer, and prolific author is famous for bringing the Montessori style of schooling to the United States. Her popular novel "Understood Betsy" is the story of a scrawny young 9-year-old orphan by the name of Elizabeth Ann who relocates from her city home to live with her cousins, the Putneys, on a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!
When a log falls in the pond, an unlikely group moves it. At the skate park, everyone is doing jumps. But someone does the biggest jump. Young readers discover fun, silly stories in this leveled text.
50) Little Dumplings
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When Little Dumpling accidentally rolls away from her family's tent at a Dumpling Fest, she is surprised to discover that there are lots of different ways to be a dumpling! As she tries to find her way back to her home, she meets and makes friends with dumplings from all over the world, taking delight in their similarities and differences, and developing a new taste...for adventure! Young children will love this delicious tale of discovery, diversity,...
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Kaitlyn is a top-notch babysitter: she's organized, disciplined, and efficient. And she needs her regular babysitting gigs to pay for new clothes, bedroom decor, and of course, her cell phone. So when the Sweet family decides to replace her with a new, fun sitter named Doc, she's determined to beat her new competition...if only she could figure out who he is. As the story unfolds, Kaitlyn realizes that even an experienced sitter like her can learn...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
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Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.
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The Game of Life and How to Play It is a short work of metaphysics by American artist, illustrator, and New Thought teacher Florence Scovel Shinn. Published in 1925, this book explores the foundations of Shinn's philosophy - that what one puts out into the world is what one receives back.
Shinn began her career as an artist and illustrator, drawing for Harper's magazine and several popular novels. After her marriage to artist Everett Shinn ended...
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A guide to the modern woman on finding the rules to living a sweet life by being fierce, confident, and by believing in yourself. Hoping to help inspire woman and men on finding inner peace, trusting your intuition and going after what you want. You will be taken on a spiritual journey onto different ways of looking at life. A series of life stories that will help find meaning to life, motivate those who want to give up, and inspire others to always...
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As a parent, you can use certain strategies to help your teenage daughter when she struggles with worry and anxiety. But it is also important that she learns how to work through her emotions on her own, especially as she approaches adulthood.
This guide-created for girls ages 13 to 18-will help your daughter understand anxiety's roots and why her brain is often working against her when she starts to worry. With teen-friendly information, stories,...
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You're not a mediocre person, so don't live as if you are. If you're tired of spinning your wheels or feeling like you're just here," it's time for a major change! Miko Marsh's Stop Surviving and LIVE! is helping people to transform their lives. Journey with the author as she walks you through the process she used to transition from poverty to provision mentally, emotionally, and financially. Use her process to consider how you can empower and revitalize...
57) I, Emma Freke
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I, Emma Freke is a charming search-for-identity story about Emma-the only "normal" member of her quirky family. While Emma desperately tries to find her niche, she discovers that perhaps it's better to be her own "freak" than someone else's Freke.
58) The Fat Girl
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Jeff Lyons can't stand Ellen de Luca, the fat girl in his ceramics class. She's huge, clumsy, can't throw a pot to save her life, and stares at Jeff all the time. But he's a "nice guy" and feels terrible when Ellen overhears his hurtful remarks about her. The "crumbs of kindness" he tosses her way soon turn into advice on weight loss, college, clothes, hair . . . and, to everyone's surprise, good-looking Jeff actually dumps his pretty girlfriend to...
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If you want to get the job without lying about who you are, then keep reading... Are you looking to get a new job?
Would you like to discover how to answer questions with confidence?
Are you interested in making the interview fun while also making the interviewer's job easier?
If you answered yes to these questions, then you are in the right place.
You see, the best candidates for a job aren't necessarily the most gifted.
They don't have some...
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Meet Sticky Icky Vicky, a girl who wants to get over her fear-once and for all In Sticky Icky Vicky: Courage over Fear, the first book in the Sticky Icky Vicky™ series, authors Alysia and Michael Ssentamu introduce readers to Vicky, a fun-loving girl who doesn't mind getting a little sticky and icky. She loves rolling down hills and playing in mud-but when it comes to water, Sticky Icky Vicky's fear prevents her from joining in the fun. Then Vicky...
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