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2) The secret
Publisher
Prime Time Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
"...Leading scientists, authors, and philosophers will reveal The Secret [law of attraction] that utterly transformed the lives of those who lived it ... Plato, Newton, Carnegie, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Einstein."--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages cm
Description
"The Fully Charged Life is Meaghan's practical guide to bringing your best self to every moment, even when the pressures of daily life leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and wallowing in negative thoughts (and a pint of your favorite gelato). Spanning health, work, family time, and more, the book reveals small changes in outlook and habits that yield big results, without ever sacrificing who you are"--
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A book that challenges each of us to take control--to make our lives be about something while at the same time remaining clear-eyed about the commitment--The Happiness of Pursuit will inspire readers of every age and aspiration. It's a playbook for making your life count.
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"'When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,' begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without 'resources or voice.' Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn't have. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded...
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 167 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
E-Squared" is a lab manual with simple experiments to prove once and for all that there really is a good, loving, totally hip force in the universe. Rather than take it on faith, you are invited to conduct ten 48-hour experiments to prove each of the principles in this book. Yes, you read that right. It says prove. The experiments, each of which can be conducted with absolutely no money and very little time expenditure, demonstrate that spiritual...
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Appears on list
Description
For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she’d been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She’d spent so much time stuck in her head that she’d allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world rediscovered by seeing, hearing, smelling,...
14) Lavender morning
Author
Series
Edilean series volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
Jocelyn Minton is a woman torn between two worlds. Her mother grew up attending private schools and afternoon teas, but she married the local handyman. After her mother died when Joce was only five years old, her father remarried into his own class, and Joce became an outsider -- until she met Edilean Harcourt. Although she was sixty years Joce's senior, Miss Edi was a kindred soul who understood her like no one else ever had. When Miss Edi passes...
15) Happier now: how to stop chasing perfection and embrace everyday moments (even the difficult ones)
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Description
Nationally recognized happiness expert Nataly Kogan teaches readers how to stop searching for some elusive "big happy" in the future and start finding more joy in everyday moments. Drawing from science, Eastern traditions, her experience as a refugee, and her own failing search to find lasting happiness through career success, Nataly shares simple practices to help readers live happier and have greater resilience when times get tough. Readers will...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
Jocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special operations unit of the war in Iraq. In Discipline Equals Freedom he describes how he lives that mantra: the mental and physical disciplines he imposes on himself in order to achieve freedom in all aspects of life.
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xv, 133 pages ; 18 cm
Description
Through the insights of her own teachers and life journey, Pema Ch?dr?n offers us her heartfelt advice on how to face the unknown-in ourselves and in the world-and how our missteps can open our eyes to see new possibilities and purpose.
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Description
Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death-bitter and sweet-are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching television commercial all can bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind-and, ultimately, to greater kinship with our fellow humans....
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