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21) Perfect square
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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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.
22) Hoy estoy alegre
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 23 cm
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"A Tuno y a su amigo Benito les ha tocado explicar en clase quées la alegría. Tuno está muy contento, explicar la alegría es muy fácil! Está chupado! Pero Benito parece que no sabe qué es estar alegre. Será cierto? Tal vez, Benito siente la alegría de otra manera..."--
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It's 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. To make up for a past crime, he needs to get the priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. There Adam joins other troubled people trying to turn their lives around: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful Soviet emigre ; Farid, the lovelorn Palestinian farmhand...
26) Joy
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"Fern's Nanna has not been herself of late. When Mom remarks that all the joy seems to have gone out of her life, Fern decides to go on a joy hunt. With her catching-kit at the ready, Fern sets off and finds joy in all sorts of unusual places. But how will she bring it back to Nanna? Emotional, funny, and uplifting, this beautiful picture book is a pure delight. With its strong message about empathy and maintaining loving relationships with our grandparents,...
27) Grow happy
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Grow Happy is a gentle narrative about how the main character, Kiko, cultivates happiness. The story provides a metaphor that compares the cultivation of a garden to the nurturing of happiness"--
In this nonfiction picture book, Kiko describes all the tools she needs to grow a thriving garden. She also describes the tools she uses to nurture her own happiness, including informed choices, exercise, and social support.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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How can tomorrow ever be as good as yesterday? Boy doesn't think it can be and puts all his scientific knowledge to use, trying to work out how to go faster than the speed of light and make time go backwards. His granddad discovers him exploring the garden looking for wormholes, a possible shortcut back to yesterday - and reassures him that tomorrow will hold great experiences, which will become new treasured memories.
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A passionate film buff, our hero's life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and movie in his treasured small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness as he calls the hotline night and day to find out why he is the recipient of the...
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Magic tree house volume 37
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108 pages; 20 cm.
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Cuando Merlín se siente abrumado por las tristezas, Jack y Annie viajan de regreso al Japón feudal para aprender uno de los cuatro secretos de la felicidad.
When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, Jack and Annie travel back to feudal Japan to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.
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Magic tree house volume 37
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108 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, Jack and Annie travel back to feudal Japan to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.
32) Ode to an onion
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Sad about the subject of a poem he is writing, Pablo Neruda visits his friend Matilde who shows him, through a simple onion, that happiness can be found even through tears. Includes facts about Pablo and Matilde, and Neruda's Ode to the Onion in Spanish and English.
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
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When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, her normally attentive parents and neighbors are suddenly exhausted and distracted. At school, her teacher tells the class to look for the helpers-the good people working to make things better in big and small ways. She wants more than anything to help in a BIG way, but maybe she can start with one small act of kindness instead ... and then another, and another. Small things can compound, after...
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"First published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover their ways back to recovery. Among the women we meet in Dead-End Memories is one betrayed by her fiancé who finds a perfect refuge in an apartment above her uncle's bar while seeking the real meaning of happiness. In "House of Ghosts," the daughter of a yoshoku...
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334 pages ; 21 cm
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"It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong post-college European adventure. Since then, she's lost her mother to cancer and watched her sister marry twice, while Chelsea's thrown herself into work, becoming one of the most talented fundraisers for the American Cancer Coalition, and with the exception of one annoyingly competent coworker, Jason Knightley, her status as most talented fundraiser is unquestioned. When her introverted...
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276 pages ; 22 cm
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"This dark-comedic novel is about a woman, Janet, who wears a cloak of gloomy realism, until one summer when she learns of a new pill that offers even confirmed cynics a short-term taste of happiness. Her family stages an intervention, her boyfriend leaves her, and she decides to take the pill to get through the Christmas holiday. What follows is life-changing for all concerned, in ways no one expected"--
Janet works at a rundown dog shelter in the...
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356 pages ; 22 cm
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"Coco (Socorro, pues... pero no la llames así) está en un punto crucial de su vida. Su trabajo puede (o no) llevarla a una feria de moda en España. Su inminente matrimonio puede (o no) llevarla a una vida feliz como madre de familia mexicana. Pero, últimamente, sus expectativas de vida no parecen ser las mismas que las de su madre o las de su (tan perfecto, pero tan fallido) prometido. En esta divertida e irreverente novela, Juana Inés Dehesa...
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4 audio discs (5 hrs. 9 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Merlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone. The enchantress Morgan asks young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania for help. Jack and Annie know they have to search for one of the four secrets of happiness to help Merlin the magician find joy in his life again. And so they head off in the magic tree house for Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, then to a misty island in the middle of nowhere, then to the continent of Antarctica....
39) El billonario y el monje: una historia sencilla sobre c̤mo encontrar una felicidad extraordiaria
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97 pages ; 21 cm
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"La mayor sabidur̕a se encuentra a menudo en el conocimiento m̀s simple. ¿Qǔ pasa si aprende que todo lo que le han ensęado sobre la felicidad es falso? ¿Qǔ pasa si te das cuenta de que la felicidad no es una meta y, por lo tanto, no se puede lograr? ¿Qǔ pasa si descubre que es el camino ordinario el que conduce a un tesoro extraordinario? Esta es una historia sobre c̤mo dos hombres de diferentes m̀bitos de la vida aprenden que no se requieren...
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297 pages ; 22 cm
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"An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a young Black woman bereft after the loss of her newborn child, this hill becomes more than a safe haven -- it becomes a place to start over. She convinces her husband to help her construct a society underground, somewhere safe, somewhere everyone can feel loved, wanted, and accepted, where the children learn actual history, where everyone...
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