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"A small book for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of encouragement. 'Happiness occurs when you forget who you're expected to be. And what you're expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It's the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are.' Years ago, Matt Haig began writing notes to his future self. These notes were meant as gifts to his future self: offerings of...
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Language
English
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The Danes are famously the happiest people in the world, and hygge is a cornerstone of their way of life. Hygge (pronounce Hoo-ga) loosely translates as a sense of comfort, togetherness, and well-being. You know hygge when you feel it. It is when you are cuddled up on the sofa with a loved one, or sharing comfort food with your closest friends. It is those crisp blue mornings when the light through your window is just right. It is about gratitude...
4) Full circle
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
The 1960s. Tana Roberts comes of age in this turbulent decade and begins a journey that will lead her from New York to the South during the heat of racial unrest. A thoroughly modern young woman, she yearns for a career and is willing to sacrifice everything to get it. It's only much later that Tana discovers that she can have it all. Careerr, love and peace of mind. As she comes of age, at last, and comes full circle.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A perfect square that is perfectly happy is torn into pieces, punched with holes, crumpled, and otherwise changed but finds in each transformation that it can be something new, and just as happy.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment :
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Tana is haunted by a memory that keeps love at a distance. When she becomes attracted to a fellow attorney, she puts all good sense aside. Can the one person who truly cares for her help her to find hope for future happiness?
7) Princess Pig
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A pig believes herself to be a princess and behaves accordingly, but soon learns that being royalty has a price.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel are all unhappy, but when they decide to switch places for a day each discovers what she likes--and what she can change--about her own life.
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
Description
Mikko the hedgehog is perfectly content living in his garden until Grandfather Tarek suggests that he should accomplish something important in order to be happy like the other animals.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When life on the Tucker farm is disrupted by the arrival of a peacock, whose shrieking and strutting bring many welcome visitors, the hens complain that they are doing all of the work until the hound suggests a trade.
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
What if a person could change everything they thought was not as they hoped in life? That's what's offered to Stewart when he's at his lowest point. He could have been the football hero, the TV star, the investment king, and the perfect dad and husband. Faced with losing his father's toy factory to a greedy business mogul, Stewart discovers a ticket for a special one-night-only train ride with a mysterious conductor to visit his past, present, and...
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Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A Course in Miracles (ACIM)--the self-study spiritual-thought system that teaches the way to love and forgiveness--has captured the minds and hearts of millions of people, and delivered inner peace where fear and pain once prevailed. Its universal message is unsurpassed in its power to heal. Yet many students report that they have difficulty grasping the principles, or encounter resistance to the lessons. So, even while they yearn for the spiritual...
16) The hacking of the American mind: the science behind the corporate takeover of our bodies and brains
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"We all know that we can't put down our sodas or our cell phones. But what if these cravings are engineered--by design? And what if these desires actually cause damage--not just to ourselves, but to our families, our friends, and our entire society? While researching the toxic impact of sugar on our health for his New York Times best seller Fat Chance, Robert Lustig made a discovery that reaches beyond the politics of food. Our seemingly innocent...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"So nobody knows more about happiness--what the Danes call lykke--than Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen and author of the bestselling sensation The Little Book of Hygge. But he believes that, while we can certainly learn a lot from the Danes about finding fulfillment, the keys to happiness are actually buried all around the globe. In this captivating book, he takes us on a treasure hunt to unlock the doors to the...
19) Three by the sea
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cat, Dog, and Mouse live together contentedly in a cottage by the sea, dividing the work between them, until A. Stranger, Esq., a fox from the Winds of Change company, arrives and stirs up trouble.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 2014, Liz Thames and her husband, Nate, were conventional young urban professionals working nine-to-five jobs. But the rat race had worn them down, and they dreamed of becoming modern-day homesteaders in rural Vermont. Determined to retire as early as possible in order to start living each day--as opposed to wishing time away working for the weekends--they enacted a plan to save as much money as they could. In less than three years, Liz and Nate...