Jolene Hart

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

A Sunrise-To-Moonlight Guide to Feeling Joyful, Resilient, and Lit from Within

Light up your life -- and your self -- with this joy-filled guide to beauty, healing, and personal energy that includes delicious recipes, immune-strengthening wellness rituals, and practical steps for building a better world. Whether it's fresh flowers, old family photos, an intense sweat session, or a good friend, we all have things that light us up, that shift our energy and help us thrive. Ignite Your Light helps you shine, with the support of 13 key energy influencers in your life -- from relationships and environment to food, creativity, and mindset. Start with a Define Your Energy quiz to learn what influences your energy at each time of day, from sunrise to moonlight. Then, think back to your last amazing meal, or remember a great conversation you had. How will you make space for the things that grow your beauty and resilience through life's varied chapters and challenges? Each page of this immersive guide is packed with inspirational, actionable ways to bring life-changing happiness and healing into your life. If you've been struggling with self-care and want to boost your daily joy, Ignite Your Light has ideas and inspiration for you, including: Delicious recipes that support glowing skin and optimal health Fresh takes on self-care rituals, from yoga nidra to skin care as energy release Support for releasing negative energy and stuck habits Inspiration-packed profiles of the 13 leading factors that influence your energy and power your inner light Simple shifts that improve your long-term happiness via your mindset, actions, environment, and relationships Filled with colorful illustrations and photos, Ignite Your Light is both a beautiful and practical guide for anyone who wants to positively influence their own energy, grow the beauty in their daily life, and shine their light on the world around them.

Ignite Your Light

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Sheryl Sandberg

Adam. Grant

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

"The author's experience with grief after the sudden death of her husband, combined with social science on resilience"--

Option B

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Louisiana

Sonia Manzano

Minnesota

Pura Belpré Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy Award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and nosy neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an alcoholic father. But it is Sonia's dream of becoming an actress that keeps her afloat among the turbulence of her life and times. Spiced with culture, heartache, and humor, this memoir paints a lasting portrait of a girl's resilience as she grows up to become an inspiration to millions.

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

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Karen Duffy

Living with Chronic Pain Without Turning into One

An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain.

For two decades, Karen Duffy --New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress-- has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy has sarcoidosis, a disorder that causes the growth of inflammatory cells on different organs of the body. In her case, her sarcoidosis is located in her brain, causing her unimaginable pain. In this powerful, inspirational, funny, and important manual for surviving pain, Duffy draws on her experience as a patient advocate, certified recreational therapist, and hospital chaplain to illuminate gratifying methods people can use to cope with chronic pain and reinforces the sentiment that "circumstances determine our lives, but we shape our lives by what we make of circumstances" (Sir John Wheeler Bennet).

More than one-third of the US population--nearly 113 million Americans--is currently living with chronic pain, while another 133 million Americans live with some form of chronic illness. Half of the US population lives with the challenges of these invisible illnesses where their symptoms are not always obvious to the casual observer. Addressing a country ravaged by both chronic pain and opioid addiction, Backbone offers a salve of self-sufficiency, spunk, and perseverance. With a light tone, deft wordplay, and interactive gems such as the Bill Murray Pain Scale, Mastectomy Paper Dolls, and a crown to wear just for getting out of bed, Duffy's serious--and seriously funny--book is for the massive population living with chronic pain who are eager to be understood and helped, and sends the message that despite the pain, there is a way to a good life.

Backbone

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Ariel Levy

Florida

A Memoir

When Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. A month later, none of that was true.

The Rules Do Not Apply

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#hardcover #protectivecover #formerlibrarybook #resilience

California

A Novel

From Jennifer Mathieu, the author ofThe Truth About Alice comes a novel about the courage to believe and what it means to be truly devoted.

Rachel Walker is devoted to God. She prays every day, attends Calvary Christian Church with her family, helps care for her five younger siblings, dresses modestly, and prepares herself to be a wife and mother who serves the Lord with joy. But Rachel is curious about the world her family has turned away from, and increasingly finds that neither the church nor her homeschool education has the answers she craves. Rachel has always found solace in her beliefs, but now she can't shake the feelingthat her devotion might destroy her soul.

Devoted

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Oregon

Colorado

Letting God Reignite Your Spiritual Passion

Today, many believers are afraid to engage life'and grasp hold of the fullness of "Christ's "life. Their flame of expectation about the future is smothered. But God has not given up. He wants to fuel the red ember and rekindle authentic passion for life. Bestselling author and pastor Lloyd John Ogilvie doesn't give exhausted readers another formula, but points them to the living and active Holy Spirit. As they rely on Him, they will "be stirred up "to allow God's power to flow through them "be enabled to love" when the culture says ?protect yourself? "be healed in their attitudes and imaginations" so the past can't drag them down and the future is filled with hope

The Red Ember in the White Ash

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New Hampshire

Lisa Genova

Massachusetts

When a beloved Irish-Catholic police officer is diagnosed with Huntington's Disease, his grown children witness their father's demise and consider whether they want to be tested to see if they have inherited the condition. By the best-selling author of Still Alice.

Inside the O'Briens

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Christina Baker Kline

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

Orphan Train

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Nathan Filer

North Carolina

Struggling to understand what happened to his brother years earlier after they both snuck out of the house during the middle of the night, Matthew believes he has found a way to bring his brother back by going off his meds, in this beautifully complex story that exposes the awful parts of life and the darkness of the heart. 50,000 first printing.

Where the Moon Isn't / The Shock of the Fall

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Gabriel Tallent

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF NPR’S ‘GREAT READS’ OF 2017 A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A BUSINESS INSIDER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Impossible to put down." —NPR "A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” —The Washington Post "The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." —Stephen King A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her own hero—and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.

My Absolute Darling

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Lý Tran

"A ... memoir by 25-year-old Ly Tran about her immigrant experience and her recent family history in the aftermath of the war that spans from Vietnam to Brooklyn, and ultimately to the Ivy League"--

House of Sticks

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AUSA TODAYBest seller!

Bestselling author Nicole Dweck brings to life one of history's greatest yet overlooked stories of love and resilience.

In 2002, thirty-two-year-old Selim Osman, the last descendant of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, flees Istanbul for New York. In a twist of fate, he meets Hannah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and an artist striving to understand the father she barely knows. Unaware that the connection they share goes back centuries, the two feel an immediate pull to one another. But as their story intertwines with that of their ancestors, the heroic but ultimately tragic decision that bound two families centuries ago ripples into the future, threatening to tear Hannah and Selim apart.

From a sixteenth-century harem to a seaside village in the Holy Land, from Nazi-occupied Paris to modern-day Manhattan, Nicole Dweck'sThe Debt of Tamar weaves a spellbinding tapestry of love, history, and fate that will enchant readers from the very first page.

The Debt of Tamar

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Jenny Lecoat

Maryland

Inspired by true events, the riveting story of a young Jewish woman trapped on the occupied island of Jersey during World War II. Summer 1940: Hedy Bercu fled Vienna two years ago. Now she watches the skies over Jersey for German planes, convinced that an invasion is imminent. When it finally comes, there is no counterattack from Allied forces--the Channel Islands are simply not worth defending. Most islanders and occupying forces settle into an uneasy coexistence, but for Hedy, the situation is perilously different. For Hedy is Jewish--a fact that could mean deportation, or worse. With no means of escape, Hedy hides in plain sight, working as a translator for the Germans while silently working against them. She forges a tentative friendship with a sympathetic German officer who is likewise trapped by circumstance. But as the war intensifies, Hedy knows she is in greater danger each day. Soon, her survival will depend not just on her own courage but on the community she has come to cherish and a man who should be her enemy. Vividly recreating little-known events, this is an unforgettable tale of resilience and bravery, and of the extraordinary power found in quiet acts of heroism and love.

The Girl from the Channel Islands *like new

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Steve Pemberton

An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home





"Pemberton's beautifully told story is a rags to riches journey--beginning in a place and with a jarring set of experiences that could have destroyed his life. But Steve's refusal to give in to those forces, and his resolve to create a better life, shows a courage and resilience that is an example for many of us to follow."

--Stedman Graham, author, educator

Home is the place where our life stories begin.  A Chance in the World is the astonishing true story of a boy destined to become a man of 

 * resilience
 * determination
 * and vision.

Down in the dank basement, amidst my moldy, hoarded food and beloved worm-eaten books, I dreamed that my real home, the place where my story had begun, was out there somewhere, and one day I was going to find it.

Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Klakowicz lives a terrifying existence. Caught in the clutches of a cruel foster family and subjected to constant abuse, Steve finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a kind stranger. In these books, he discovers new worlds he can only imagine and begins to hope that one day he might have a different life, that one day he will find his true home.

A fair-complexioned boy with blue eyes, a curly Afro, and a Polish last name, he is determined to unravel the mystery of his origins and find his birth family. Armed with just a single clue, Steve embarks on an extraordinary quest for his identity, only to find that nothing is as it appears.

Through it all, Steve's story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.

A Chance in the World

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South Carolina

Stephanie Gangi

"Powered by insight and true wit." --Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion

"I can't remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman." --Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are...

Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, she and her brothers were the subjects of an explosive series of images in the 1960s known as the Marx Nudes. Disturbing and provocative, the photographs shadowed the family long past the public outcry and media attention. Now, decades later, both the Museum of Modern Art and Hollywood have come calling, eager to cash in on Bea's mother's notoriety. Twice divorced from but still entangled with aging rock star Gary Going, Bea lives in Manhattan with her borrowed dog, Dory, and sort-of sister, Echo. After years of avoiding her past, Bea must make a choice: let the world in--and be compensated for the trauma of her childhood--or leave it all locked away in a storage unit forever.

Carry the Dog sweeps readers into Bea's world as the little girl in the photographs and the woman in the mirror meet at the blurry intersection of memory and truth, vulnerability and resilience.

Carry the Dog

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Kenneth R. Ginsburg

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Alaska

Giving Kids Roots and Wings

NEW 2nd Edition! This award-winning book shows parents how to help kids bounce back from life's challenges!

Building Resilience in Children and Teens

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Ignite Your Light

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Sonia Manzano

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

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Backbone

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The Rules Do Not Apply

Jennifer Mathieu

Devoted

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The Red Ember in the White Ash

Sheryl Sandberg; Adam. Grant

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Lisa Genova

Inside the O'Briens

Christina Baker Kline

Orphan Train

Nathan Filer

Where the Moon Isn't / The Shock of the Fall

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My Absolute Darling

Lý Tran

House of Sticks

Nicole Dweck

The Debt of Tamar

Jenny Lecoat

The Girl from the Channel Islands *like new

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A Chance in the World

Christina Baker Kline

Orphan Train

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Orphan Train

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Orphan Train

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Kenneth R. Ginsburg

Building Resilience in Children and Teens