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121) The microstress effect: how little things pile up and create big problems--and what to do about it
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"There is a force in our everyday lives that we aren't even aware of-and it's so powerful it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress. It's the hidden epidemic of small moments of anxiety that infiltrate both our work and personal lives. Because each individual microstress is so small, it doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, the microstress just embeds in our minds,...
122) Move that mountain
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A whale has become stranded on the beach, but the tiny puffins are far, far too small to help. When Move that mountain is read in reverse, the puffins realize they are not too little to help; together they can fix the problem."--Provided by publisher.
123) SuperBetter: a revolutionary approach to getting stronger, happier, braver, and more resilient*
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A renowned game designer describes how she recovered from a debilitating concussion by turning her therapeutic process into a digital game that became the subject of a major NIH research study.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"This book assists parents and other lay caregivers in the prevention and healing of trauma by serving as a practical guide to "stress-busting" and building resilience in kids so they can easily cope with our fast-changing world of mishaps, increasing pressures and turbulence"--Provided by publisher.
125) Golden Threads
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A beloved toy fox is swept away from his best friend (human girl) Emi and their mountain home. He ends up tattered and alone on a distant shore. Fox is eventually found by a kind old man and given as a gift to his frail granddaughter, Kiko. It is shown, but not necessarily explained, that Kiko has a visual impairment and is recovering from a leg injury. Here in their valley cabin, the fox is lovingly mended with the most exquisite golden thread,...
126) The guilty one
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Shattered by her daughter's murder at the hands of a boyfriend, Maris walks away from her pampered Bay Area life when she receives a call from the killer's father, who informs her that he will commit suicide at her command.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
JJ Virgin reveals how one life-altering event taught her to tap into an indomitable mindset, trust her instincts and defy the odds, ultimately saving her son's life...and her own. She'll share the lessons she learned that can help you create your own resilient mindset"--
128) GUTS: greatness under tremendous stress: a Navy SEAL's system for turning fear into accomplishment
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A Navy SEAL veteran's proven, battle-tested guide for developing grit and resilience, overcoming obstacles, and living life to the fullest. What does it take to set a goal or have a dream, and then actually achieve it? What does it take to turn fear and stress into foresight, motivation, and action? It takes GUTS. No one knows this better than decorated Navy SEAL veteran Brian "Iron Ed" Hiner. During more than 20 years of service, Hiner witnessed...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"There are issues, and there are issues: love, loss, success, failure, hope, regret, life, death. ... Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all face, and this profound book puts the conclusions he's reached at your fingertips. ... Each [essay] will change the way you think, but taken all together, this book becomes something far more than the sum of its parts--a compendium of human experience and knowledge that will reframe...
131) The Bass Rock
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The lives of three women weave together across centuries in the dazzling new book from the Granta Best of Young British Novelist, author of All the Birds, Singing. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has always borne witness to the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries, the fates of three women are inextricably linked to this place and to each other. Sarah, accused of being a witch, is fleeing for her...
132) Ugly me
Author
Series
[Ugly me] volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"She yells. She curses. She fights. Her classmates say she's difficult. Her teacher's say she's the student from hell... Randi Lewis isn't your typical seventh-grader. She's a damaged girl with a secret life who just wants to be a normal, happy teenager. And on her first day of seventh grade, she vows to make this the year she turns it all around. This will be the year that she'll finally let go of her pain and her anger and be happy again. All she...
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"In 2012, on his third tour of duty, an improvised explosive device left Dan Crenshaw's right eye destroyed and his left blinded. Only through the careful hand of his surgeons, and what doctors called a miracle, did Crenshaw's left eye recover partial vision. And yet, he persevered, completing two more deployments. Why? There are certain stories we tell ourselves about the hardships we face -- we can become paralyzed by adversity or we can adapt and...
135) Adrift
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse storytellers for epic evenings of laughter, music, and hard-won wisdom to huge audiences across the country. Well-known womxn (and the occasional man) from all walks of life shared their most vulnerable truths in a radical act of love, paving the way for healing in the face of adversity. Now, off the stage and on the pages of Hungry Hearts, sixteen...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle "Smitty" Harris was shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965, he had no idea what horrors awaited him in the infamous Hoa Lo prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton." Harris was the sixth American POW captured in the air war over North Vietnam, and for the next eight years, Smitty and hundreds of other American POWs, including John McCain and George "Bud" Day, suffered torture, solitary confinement, and abuse. Their...
140) The grip
Author
Series
Marcus stroman volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Marcus, a young baseball pitcher, learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice--and some strikeouts.