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Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media telling us who, what, and how we should be. We are led to believe that if we could only look perfect and lead perfect lives, we'd no longer feel inadequate. So most of us perform, please, and perfect, all the while thinking, What if I can't keep all of these balls in the air? Why isn't everyone else working harder and living up to my expectations? What will people think if...
2) Wonder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Brown explores the psychology of releasing our definitions of an 'imperfect' life and embracing living authentically. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, she provides ten 'guideposts' that can help anyone establish a practice for a life of honest beauty-- a perfectly imperfect life.
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"In The Practice of Groundedness, Brad Stulberg shares a new model for success that defies the "never enough" culture of the twenty-first century. At the heart of this model is groundedness - a mindset that values presence over productivity, accepts that progress is nonlinear, and prioritizes values over short-term gain. Ultimately, groundedness produces a deep, unwavering sense of self from which true success can be found"--
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English
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Offers advice to help parents guide teenage girls to recognize and reject perfectionist messages that lead to self-doubt, unfulfilling relationships, and fears of failure, and teach them self-compassion, how to take healthy risks, and the importance of finding support.
6) Four friends
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English
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr comes the story of four friends determined to find their stride. Ultimately, they'll discover what it means to be a wife, mother, lover, friend ... and most important: your true self. 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...
8) Fierce self-compassion: how women can harness kindness to speak up, claim their power, and thrive
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on research, her personal life story and empirically supported practices, the author of Self-Compassion shows women how to reclaim balance within themselves and use fierce and tender self-compassion to ensure their own wholeness and well-being.
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Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past decade, an overwhelming body of research has shown self-compassion to be a master key to good psychological and physical health... Through six sessions of teachings, Dr. Neff offers guided meditations, experiential practices, and on-the-spot techniques to help you build a strong foundation of self-compassion in your daily life"--Container.
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Series
Fudge volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
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English
Description
A summer in Tarrytown, New York, is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she does not want to admit.
12) Short
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Very short for her age, Julia grows into her sense of self while playing a munchkin in a summer regional theater production of The Wizard of Oz"--
13) The librarianist
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English
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"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
Author
Publisher
Nightingale Conant
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
No matter how much money, status, or success they may have, very few people experience true joy and personal freedom. In the midst of a normal and successful life, Byron Katie was sinking deeper and deeper into depression and despair until a sudden profound insight into how the mind works set her on the path to a life filled with love for everything life brings. Byron Katie teaches her method of self-inquiry, called The Work, to help question and...
15) Just because
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
16) I am enough
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Lexile measure
400L
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English
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This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another.
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English
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Nicole Lord wants to be a good wife, but there's a difference between being supportive and supporting her husband. He quit his job to write a screenplay she's never seen, leaving Nicole to run the house, work full-time, and care for their young son. Can she say enough is enough without losing the man she loves? Sacrificing a personal life for her career is how Shannon Rigg became V.P. at her firm, but she wonders whether she made the right choice....
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English
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"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding...
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Emotions like anger, anxiety, or doubt might be uncomfortable, but it turns out that they are also incredibly useful. The key lies in what the authors call b1semotional agility,b2s the ability to access our full range of emotions, not just the b1sgoodb2s ones, in order to respond most effectively to whatever situation we might encounter.
20) The Goldfinch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
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English
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"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...