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8142) Being the change: a guide for advocates and activists on staying healthy, inspired, and driven
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You can't take care of the world without taking care of yourself. Although therapy can often help alleviate anxiety or depression, activists can also apply therapy-based strategies as part of their self-care. This book provides empirically supported strategies from cognitive behavior therapies and other psychological interventions for coping with the challenges of difficult, yet meaningful work. Readers will learn how to clarify their values, identify...
8143) The dragon diary
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Dragonology chronicles volume 2
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Apprentice dragonologists Daniel and Beatrice Cook's mentor is called away at a crucial time, leaving the brother and sister alone to search for an ancient diary that could cure some gravely ill dragons.
8144) Coco
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"Sometimes Miguel thinks he's cursed. For generations, the Riveras have banned music from their home because of a terrible betrayal, focusing instead on their successful shoe-making shop. Miguel's abuelita, his parents, and his tios and tias all want him to join the family shoe business. And yet Miguel has a secret dream -- he longs to play guitar, just like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. But when a mysterious chain of events leads him to the stunning...
8145) German for dummies
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Learn German quickly and easily at home or on the road.
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"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy...
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Agatha is pregnant and works part-time stocking shelves at a grocery store in a ritzy London suburb. As the hours of her shifts creep by in increasing discomfort, the one thing she looks forward to at work is catching a glimpse of Meghan, the effortlessly chic customer whose elegant lifestyle dazzles her. Meghan has it all: two perfect children, a handsome husband, a happy marriage, a stylish group of friends, and she writes perfectly droll confessional...
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Julie eases your way into being more mindful, with her clear guidance and joyful approach. The net effect is calmer nerves, a brighter outlook, stronger memory, sharper focus and more balanced perspective. Repeated listening trains you to become more fully attentive to what is happening right now, neither resisting nor clinging to each moment, but letting experiences come and go and be just as they are. Julie's program offers a basic training track...
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Professor emeritus F.E. Peters compares the similarities and differences in the dual searches for the historical Jesus and the historical Muhammad. These quests have been the focus of considerable effort since the lifetime of each of these venerated figures. Using the primary tools of historical inquiry and the evidence discovered by both believers and unbelievers in the faiths established by Jesus and Muhammad, Professor Peters provides an insightful...
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Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 12
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Destination: the Arctic. A team of GPF scientists has vanished in the Arctic while doing research on global warming. While rescuing them from the jawes of a hungry polar bear, Secret Agent Jack Stalwart learns of the malicious Black Arctic Project: a group of mysterious villains are speeding up global warming by blowing up glaciers. Can Jack stop them before the entire planet is doomed?
8154) Get mooned
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Joey and Johnny the ninjas volume Fiction
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Congratulations! By turning this book over, you have effectively snuck up on the two ninjas on the front cover. STRIKE NOW! Find your own inner ninja and release the five-headed hydra palm, or perform the spinning ax-kick of One Thousand Band-Aids. Go ahead--you could use the training. I can tell. Perhaps I will let you take their places at my school, Kick Foot Academy. There you will learn the secret ways of the NINJA. Within this volume lay the...
8155) When clouds touch us
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Inspired by the authors experience, this stunning novel in verse, sequel to the award-winning #1 bestseller Inside Out and Back Again, picks up two years after Ha and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Vietnam War, and Newbery Honor author Rajani LaRocca said "is a gorgeous book about upheaval, the strength of family, and fiercely reaching for the future." Two years ago, Ha and her family arrived in Alabama as refugees from the Vietnam...
8156) Cars 3
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"La Copa Pistón es la carrera más célebre y Rayo McQueen, su competidor más admirado. Rayo está listo para comenzar otra temporada de carreras, pero hay una tormenta en su camino: ¡Jackson Storm!, un corredor de última generación con cualidades de alta tecnología que lo hacen casi invencible. Con ayuda de una nueva y experimentada entrenadora llamada Cruz Ramirez, Rayo tendrá que prepararse más que nunca para enfrentar su nuevo reto hacia...
8157) The suffragist playbook
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"Take the suffragist playbook quiz -- how many of these can you answer? Who was the first person to make fighting for women's suffrage her full-time job, despite being pelted with eggs and sprayed by a firehose? Which suffragist met with two presidents and published a successful autobiography? Who held the very first march on Washington, DC -- and were the first people ever to picket the White House? Which suffragist decided to defy racist laws and...
8158) Curse of the ancients
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Infinity ring volume 4
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The end of history. Sera has a secret. She's seen the future, and it is terrifying. Unfortunately, she can't do anything to prevent the Cataclysm while stranded with Dak and Riq thousands of years in the past. Their only hope lies with the ancient Maya, a mysterious people who claim to know a great deal about the future. Is there more to these ancients than meets the eye?
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After 40-plus years of delighting radio audiences each Saturday night with America's favorite live variety show, A Prairie Home Companion founder and host Garrison Keillor bids farewell with an unforgettable performance from the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California.