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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Late August is a beautiful time on the Southern coast--the peach trees are ripe, the ocean is warm, and the sweet tea is icy. A perfect time to enjoy the rocking chairs on the porch. But beneath the calm surface bubbles a threat: it's also peak hurricane season. When a hurricane threatens the coasts of Florida and South Carolina, an eclectic group of evacuees flees for the farm of their friends Grace and Charles Phillips in North Carolina: the Phillips's...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connections, whether that's with family, partners, friends, colleagues or most importantly yourself. If you can get those relationships in balance, then the other tricky stuff that life throws yourway becomes easier to manage. In this warm, practical and witty book, international bestselling psychotherapist Philippa Perry shows you how to approach life's biggest problems: How do you find and...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Renowned psychologist and bestselling author of The Dance of Anger sheds new light on the two most important words in the English language—-I’m sorry-—and offers a unique perspective on the challenge of healing broken connections and restoring trust.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It's time to take our lives back from a world of narcissism, entitlement, and toxic relationships. "Don't You Know Who I Am?" has become the mantra of the famous and infamous, the entitled and the insecure. It's the tagline of the modern narcissist. Health and wellness campaigns preach avoidance of unhealthy foods, sedentary lifestyles, tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, but rarely preach avoidance of unhealthy, difficult or toxic people. Yet the health...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money in a daring play that wins him an abandoned house and a vineyard an ocean away. Mauro travels to Andalusia de Jerez in Spain with every intention of selling the property and returning to Mexico. That is, until he meets the unsettling Soledad Montalvo, the widow...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the lighthouse sporting a huge wreath to the Christmas Stroll along its quaint streets, holidays on Nantucket are always magical. However, while the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but Kennedy's yet...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book explores how to develop better communication skills, particularly at a time when conversations can be highly polarized. Our conversations about diversity or inclusion, about equity and fairness, or about power relationships take place in a historical context of injustice, injury, and pain, which is difficult to navigate. These conversations are made more challenging by the fact that injustice is still very real. In spite of the potential...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of bestselling explainers like The Tipping Point, the first popular book based on cutting edge science that breaks down the idea of extreme conflict, the kind that paralyzes people and places, and then shows how to escape it"--
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as FT Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Rosenberg and Silvert help you discover the DISC (dominant, interactive, supportive, conscientious) four-style model of human behavior, and how to use it to become a far more effective leader, salesperson, or teacher. Part I is a fable that uses birds to help you identify behavioral styles , and the best ways to interact with others. Part II helps you create a personal action plan for improvement: making the most of your strengths, working around...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Who hasn't had to deal with a jerk at work? Whether it's a toxic team member who loves nothing better than to suck the life and excitement out of her colleagues or a bad boss who causes his employees to constantly dream of telling him to "Take this job and shove it!" or the difficult co-worker who isn't happy unless the office is filled with mayhem and drama, we've all had to deal with people on the job we would rather not. Based on proven approaches...
13) Dark wyng
Author
Series
Erth dragons volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The dragon Wearle is deeply divided because of the human boy, Ren, who has bonded with a pair of baby dragons and developed extraordinary new powers; but the war with the humans is not really over, and the humans have a mysterious new leader, Tywyll, who plans to lead his followers back into dragon territory--and unknown to both sides an ancient power is beginning to stir.
Author
Publisher
Rainbow Ridge Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
For most of us, difficult people are the bane of our existence. They annoy us, they throw us off balance, they test our patience, and to one degree or another, they provoke reactions that are decidedly unhealthy. But it is also true that difficult people mirror our own dysfunctional mental states and provide us with wonderful opportunities to understand ourselves, heal ourselves, and learn to live in the moment.
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Offers quick solutions to the most common relationship problems. Dr. Lana Staheli and Dr. Pepper Schwartz present 40 practical, immediate fixes (or snaps) that partners can use to end the fighting, leave the baggage behind, and move their relationship forward.
18) The Terranauts
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Sealed inside a glass enclosure designed as a prototype for a possible off-Earth colony, eight Terranauts in the 1990s Arizona desert test their skills in five biome environments that they must protect from skeptics who would sabotage the mission.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide what's best for their daughter Scarlett is to have a "normal" family Christmas. They can't agree on whose idea it was to go to the Happy Forest Holiday park , or who said they should bring their new partners. But someone did--and it's too late to pull the plug. Claire brings her new boyfriend Patrick (never Pat), a seemingly sensible, eligible from a distance, Iron-Man-in-Waiting....
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