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Who moved my cheese? volume 1
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900L
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English
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From the Publisher: With over a million copies in print, the #1 New York Times bestseller Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (G.P. Putnam's Sons) has grown from a guide and training tool for America's top corporations and organizations to a cultural phenomenon that is changing people's lives. While a few analytical or skeptical people find the story too simple on the surface, the vast majority of...
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Slammed novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Layken and Wills love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers now married are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Still he cant resist his wifes pleas and so he begins...
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In this book the author takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Proctor & Gamble study videos of...
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Slammed novels volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
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Layken and Will's relationship has endured through hardships, heartache, and a cruel twist of fate, further solidifying the fact that they belong together. But the two lovers could not have expected that the things that brought them together may ultimately be the things that tear them apart. Their connection is on the brink of being destroyed forever and it will take an extraordinary amount of willpower to keep their love afloat.
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"Sinek is back to reveal the next step in creating happier and healthier organizations. He helps us understand, in simple terms, the biology of trust and cooperation and why they're essential to our success and fulfillment. Organizations that create environments in which trust and cooperation thrive vastly out perform their competition. And, not coincidentally, their employees love working there. But "truly human" cultures don't just happen; they...
7) The shack
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
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Five women from different walks of life have become close friends through their book club--enjoying one another's company even more than they enjoy the books. So when the leader of the book club unexpectedly passes away on the cusp of the Christmas season, the four remaining friends are stunned. When the group gathers "one last time" to open a bag Abby's husband gives them, they find Abby had made each of them an angel ornament for Christmas, crafted...
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The primary obstacle to making lasting changes in our companies is a conflict that's built into our own brains, say authors Chip and Dan Heath. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two systems - the rational and the emotional - that compete for control. Here the Heaths show how everyday people have united both minds and achieved dramatic results.
10) The leftovers
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When a bizarre phenomenon causes the cataclysmic disappearances of numerous people all over the world, Kevin Garvey, the new mayor of a once-comfortable suburban community, struggles to help his neighbors heal while enduring the fanatical religious conversions of his wife and son.
11) Daddy
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Three men from three generations of the same family deal with their relationships with women, including Oliver's widowed father who is involved with the woman next door, Oliver who has recently been divorced, and Oliver's teenage son who just had a child with his girlfriend.
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back...
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It's never too late for a new beginning. Look closely and you'll see that theme all through the Bible. Page after page, God delights in turning tragic endings into new beginnings. A childless woman conceives in her old age; a fearful, self-conscious shepherd becomes a leader of millions; and a prostitute becomes a wife and mother in the lineage of Christ. Every biblical fresh start reveals the amazing, awe-inspiring hope we have for our own new beginnings...
14) Waves of mercy
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Chicago socialite Anna Nicholson retreats to the Hotel Ottawa in Holland, Michigan, after breaking her engagement. Troubled and filled with questions about her new-found faith, Anna finds solace in Derk Vander Veen, a seasonal hotel worker who plans to go into the ministry. Prompted by her son's request, Geesje de Jonge is writing her memories of emigrating from the Netherlands almost fifty years ago. Her story captivates Derk, who sees similarities...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.8 - AR Pts: 35
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Gore argues that a rising global consciousness is causing people across the earth to rethink their basic assumptions about how the world works--and even more fundamentally, how it should and can work. He offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast identifying the emerging forces reshaping our world: ever-increasing economic globalization; the worldwide digital communications revolutions; the shift in balance of global political, economic,...
16) Meredith, alone
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"Meredith Maggs hasn't left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn't alone...She has her cat Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There's her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favorite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson, the internet, the Tesco delivery man and her treacherous memories for company. But something's about to change. Whether Meredith likes it or not, the world is coming to her door...Does...
17) Falling home
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Cassie Madison has it all: a high-powered advertising career, a stylish Manhattan apartment, and a sophisticated, rich, and gorgeous fiance. It's a far cry from her childhood in Walton, Georgia, home of the annual Kudzu Festival and hot, sticky summers. And then there are all the bad memories, the heartache. When Cassie's estranged sister calls to say that her father is dying, Cassie knows it's time to set aside her feelings and go home and face the...
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Goddesses Anonymous volume 2
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English
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Christy Haviland served eight months in prison, giving birth behind bars to the child of the man who put her there and might yet destroy her. Now she's free again, but what does that mean? As smart as she is, a learning disability has kept her from learning to read. And that's the least of her hurdles. Georgia Ferguson, talented educator, receives a mysterious charm bracelet that may help her find the mother who abandoned her at birth. Does she want...
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"If you're hesitant to pull the trigger when things obviously aren't working out, Henry Cloud's Necessary Endings may be the most important book you read all year." —Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author of The Total Money Makeover
"Cloud is a wise, experienced, and compassionate guide through [life's] turbulent passages." —Bob Buford, bestelling author of Halftime and Finishing Well; founder of the Leadership Network ...
"Cloud is a wise, experienced, and compassionate guide through [life's] turbulent passages." —Bob Buford, bestelling author of Halftime and Finishing Well; founder of the Leadership Network ...
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When it comes to the death of a loved one, divorce, or loss of a job, transformation seems impossible. Grief and uncertainty dominate your days. Hollis shares how to embrace the difficult moments in life for the learning experiences they are, and shows that a life well-lived is one of purpose and focused on the essentials. It is up to you how you come through your pain: you can come through changed for the better, having learned and grown, or, remain...
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