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44661) Damaged
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The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass...
Cathy, an experienced foster carer, is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months but Cathy decides to take her on to protect her from being placed in an institution.
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A Birthday Card in Book Form! Features nearly 90 witty and inspirational quotations, and a page for inscribing your personal birthday message.
Aries Joan Crawford is the outstanding example of the "Me First" fire sign. But no one is certain what year she was born! Fearless, passionate, a chameleon ahead of her time, and a lavish high roller: "I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend." Brave and bold, Joan didn't just personify the commanding...
44663) Unleash Your Goddess Voice: Build Your Resilience to Speak Up, Sing Out, and Spread Your Message
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Are you an empathic woman with a message to share? Have you already empowered yourself in many ways? Why then, do you still find yourself in habits of people-pleasing, doubting your gifts, or dimming your voice?
With playfulness and compassion, trusted voice coach Sara Giita Flores will help you heal the hidden blocks that keep you playing small. Whether you learned to downplay your power from experiences of criticism, rejection, discrimination,...
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Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry, amanda lovelace presents her new illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt." In this first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses the eternal question: Can you heal once you've been marked by a monster, or will the sun always sting?
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Blow Your Mindfulness
An encyclopedia for the curious and courageous, The Book of Highs catalogs the hundreds of ways humans can alter consciousness, minus drugs and alcohol.
Drawn from cultures around the world, here are positive techniques-Self-Hypnosis, Alterations of Breathing, Fervent Prayer, Spinning. And here are "negative" techniques-Self-Flagellation, Sleep Deprivation, Fire Walking. Methods derived from religious and mystic traditions-Transcendental...
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Do you yearn to make career or life changes, but don't know exactly, which direction to take? Are you feeling stuck in unfulfilling work that's not a good fit and searching for more meaning and purpose in your work life? Do you feel there is more you are meant to contribute but haven't yet, quite figured it out? Do you often ask yourself the question, What am I meant, to do with the rest of my life?
Whether you're just starting out in the work world,...
44667) Kindness
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Kindness - the little thing that matters most aims to motivate and inspire by showing readers what a difference even a small act of kindness can make. It uses the voices of those who have been helped by the author's charity - 52 Lives - to ground the ideas in real life action. The book is themed around 52 simple actions you can do to spread kindness. Interspersed throughout are nuggets of science explaining the positive effect kindness has on the...
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Napoleon Hill wrote the two most important books on success and becoming rich. We've gathered both of these landmark books in one binding. Well designed and easy on the reader's eyes with ten illustrations designed to help the reader visualize success. A perfect edition to your prosperity library. Think and Grow Rich is the bestselling financial book ever written. Napoleon Hill researched more than forty millionaires to find out what made them the...
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The Creative Interventions Workbook features useful and effective tools and exercises aimed for survivors of interpersonal violence, friends/family who want to help, and people who caused harm. This companion textto the Creative Interventions Toolkit, also published by AK Press, provides grounded, hands-on lessons to help readers confront and end interpersonal violence of all sorts-sexual, domestic, family, and more. Together they form the feminist...
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Make the time for what matters most by breaking up with busy Overbooking and under sleeping have almost become status symbols, and having it all seems to be synonymous with doing it all, yet what do we really accomplish with so much busyness? Yvonne Tally wants to give you back your life by helping you break the busyness habit. She offers realistic, step-by-step, and even fun ways to get off the busyness hamster wheel and reclaim your time. Yvonne...
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Quest for Eternal Sunshine chronicles the triumphant, true story of Mendek Rubin, a brilliant inventor who overcame both the trauma of the Holocaust and decades of unrelenting depression to live a life of deep peace and boundless joy.
Born into a Hassidic Jewish family in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while...
44672) Life Interrupted
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Teisha Rose was just twenty-two and on a fast track to corporate success when her life was interrupted by a huge and unexpected hurdle. For the next four years she grieved for her lost dreams, caught in an avalanche of endless hospital ordeals and gruelling rehabilitation. Her devastating physical condition came to dominate her identity … until she decided to turn her hurdle into hope. Teisha committed herself to finding joy where it seemed impossible....
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Shy and introverted people, it turns out, can be the sexiest.
In "From Shy to Oh My!", author Tyrus Gray shows how they can connect with others - and connect with their own experience - in the most meaningful and beneficial ways.
The book is a direct guide to having a rich life experience by learning how to:
• Step out from habit patterns that are no longer necessary
• Have fulfilling sexual expression
• Open up to a creative flow in...
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In this no-holds-barred, provocative book, Terri Laxton Brooks tells a story that often remains hidden, that of a successful professional who has many friends and family and yet all her life has struggled with a loneliness she's never revealed to anyone.
Terri thinks her feelings of isolation will end with her marriage to her childhood sweetheart and their move from a farm town to the city of Chicago. But once the sheen of newlywed passion wears...
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As Elyce Wakerman found in the scores of interviews she conducted, the loss of a father- through death, divorce, or abandonment-is the event that shapes a girl's life and all her future relationships. "In my fantasy," one woman commented, "he remains the perfect, all-giving man"-a difficult role for any other man to fill. Based partly on the author's experience, partly on her in-depth interviews, and partly on a questionnaire she developed with psychologist...
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“Pray. Trust. Ride”: encourages you to stay in the saddle and ride through life with a looser rein. We live more fully when we can let go-even when all looks bleak and our brains scream, Hang on and do something! Do anything! Fix this! Stop that! The truth is, those problems that strangle our hearts are the sort of problems that we can't fix. King Jehoshaphat understood that when he was boxed in by his enemy; at his most vulnerable moment, he...
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A proven-effective CBT approach to help you break the cycle of repetitive negative thinking
If you suffer from anxiety or depression, chances are you also experience unwanted, distressing, and repetitive thoughts. These negative thoughts are often grounded in anger, guilt, shame, worry, humiliation, resentment, or regret. And the more you try to gain control over these thoughts, the more they seem to spiral out of your control. So, how can you break...
44678) The Good Ally
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'I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis. Are you ready? Let's get started, we have work to do.' With social injustices rising in frequency, and an increase in far-right movements around the world, the rise in hate against "the other" is palpable. There is an urgent need to...
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« Savoir écouter est un art », disait déjà Epictète !
L'essentiel pour écouter est en soi, telle est la proposition de ce petit livre. Encore vous faut-il identifier de quoi il s'agit quand il est question d'écoute. Reconnaître ce qui est susceptible d'apporter une aide, rendre conscient ce qui est en jeu, trouver des repères pour parler de ce qui concerne autant la tête que le cœur.
Dans cet ouvrage l'auteure s'efforce de différencier...
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The 3K Movement shares with personal trainers to young entrepreneurs the driving forces behind overcoming challenges big and small and the keys to open the door to their success.
Many successful trainers have helped their clients reach basic fitness goals, but few have traveled the road of hard knocks and life challenges such as that traveled by Chideha Warner. His story offers powerful inspiration to fellow trainers and people of all backgrounds...
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