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7) Chicken soup for the soul: think positive, live happy : 101 stories about creating your best life
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ix, 356 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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These 101 true stories will inspire you to think positive to live a happier life. Everyone can use a little more positive thinking--to create an even better life. Your attitude is a powerful tool, and these stories from real people show you how to think yourself into a more fulfilling, happier life. As co-author Deborah Norville says, "Change your thoughts and you'll change your world. Sometimes you need an example to follow, a how-to that works for...
8) The Yes
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A great, orange thing called the Yes leaves his cozy nest and sets out for a Where he must reach, but he is surrounded by swarms of Nos, flimsy creatures that try to stop him every step of the way.
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Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there's no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work at Grilled G's, the gourmet grilled cheese food truck built by her late husband. But when...
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xix, 218 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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"Drawing on advice and knowledge she gleaned from conversations with loved ones, spiritual practices, and life experiences, Robin offers a window into how she feeds her own mind, spirit, and soul and invites readers to do the same. With a deeply personal touch, she explains that just like any skill, optimism requires practice and demonstrates how we can shift our mindsets and give ourselves permission to let our best intentions take root and be true"--
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x, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Optimism demands action. Optimism inspires change. Optimism is not naive and it is not impossible. There are so many reasons for optimism in our changing world. We are the ancestors of our future: a generation either celebrated for its activism or blamed for its apathy. It is for us to choose optimism and prove what is possible.
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vii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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"One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone. When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery: it was the science of how past trauma creates present symptoms. Today, thanks in large part to Seligman's Positive Psychology movement, it is ever more focused not on what cripples life, but...
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288 pages : charts ; 24 cm
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English
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"Let's be honest -- none of us were given an owner's manual at birth. If you're having trouble solving a problem or making a dream happen, the problem isn't you. It's not that you're not hardworking, intelligent or deserving, but that you haven't yet installed the one key belief that will change everything. My mom, who has the tenacity of a bulldog and curses like a truck driver, explained it to me this way, "Nothing in life is that complicated. You...
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235 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Uncovering the dark side of the 'have a nice day' nation, Barbara Ehrenreich savagely attacks the tyranny of positive thinking in the United States. From contemporary religion to business and the economy, Ehrenreich argues that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely and dangerous inwards focus.
17) Rosie's glasses
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English
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Can't shake that bad mood? Maybe all you need is a new perspective ... and a pair of Rosie's glasses!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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English
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"When Maribel's family has to move in with Tía Carmen because Papi lost his job, Maribel and her sister feel unsettled. It's not always easy sharing a room or being in a house full of loud cousins, but Papi reminds the girls that it's only por un ratito -- just for a little while. In the meantime, there is always someone to play with, the mealtimes are filled with music and laughter, and bedtime is for snuggling in tight"--Provided by publisher.
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6 audio discs (6 hr., 52 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Español
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"It's the morning walk to school and it doesn't feel right. The day has started gloomy, when it's normally bright. And, so begins a series of changes that turns young Miles' day upside down. Once friendly and familiar, everything on that school walk now seems distant, sad, or stressed. The weather. The community workers. Even the neighbor's dog, Daisy. At school, things don't lighten up for Miles. There, he's introduced to a series of new rules meant...
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