Xu, Ray
Summary: Kevin Lee is having a really bad week. Although he lives in a crowded Toronto apartment above the family’s alterations and dry-cleaning store, he mostly goes unnoticed. School isn’t exactly an oasis either—being one of the few Asian kids makes for some unwelcome attention. But when Kevin’s class plans a trip to Thrill Planet, a spectacular theme park, will he finally have a chance to turn his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2024
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Summary: "The book you need right now is finally here! From beloved spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Untethered Soul-this transformative and highly anticipated guide will be your compass on an exciting new journey toward self-realization and unconditional happiness. Now more than ever, we're all looking to feel more joy, happiness, and deeper meaning in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. / Sounds True 2022
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Summary: "Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying -- and often failing -- to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home bat invasions, an obsession with online personality tests, and the mortification of taking ballroom dance lessons with her actor husband. She describes hilarious red-carpet fiascos and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books Scr 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LEALinden, Rachel
Summary: "American chef Georgia May Jackson has one goal--to run her own restaurant in Paris. After a grueling decade working in Parisian kitchens, she is on the cusp of success. But in one disastrous night, Georgia loses her sous-chef position, her French boyfriend, and her sense of taste! Renowned for her refined palate and daring use of bold flavors to create remarkable dishes, Georgia is devastated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LINLinden, Rachel
Summary: "American chef Georgia May Jackson has one goal--to run her own restaurant in Paris. After a grueling decade working in Parisian kitchens, she is on the cusp of success. But in one disastrous night, Georgia loses her sous-chef position, her French boyfriend, and her sense of taste! Renowned for her refined palate and daring use of bold flavors to create remarkable dishes, Georgia is devastated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC LINBuswell, Dianne
Summary: n this enriching 21-day programme, Dianne Buswell shows you how to make joyful movement a habit. Forget gruelling exercise regimes or punishing diets – Dianne’s unique approach nourishes your body and mind using her four pillars of rest, movement, nutrition and positivity. Move Yourself Happy offers step-by-step explanations of core moves from yoga, Pilates and dance, including jive, tap and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins 2023
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Summary: "In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury - bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood - is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOWKondō, Marie
Summary: Kondo encourages you to visualize your ideal life, from the moment you wake up until the end of each day. This mental picture becomes a touchpoint for helping you make conscious, mindful choices: from how you use every corner of your living space to how you take advantage of every moment. This will help you focus not on what to get rid of, but what to keep. This will empower you to embrace what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home KondoWiest, Brianna
Summary: "This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it-for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thought Catalog Books 2020
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Summary: Judge Rosemarie Aquilina made headlines with her unprecedented judicial decisions during the Nassar sentencing hearing, but in a life filled with unconventional choices and bold decisions, this was only one of her many extraordinary moments. In this empowering memoir, Judge Aquilina finally shares her own deeply personal story. Every time Rosemarie was told she couldn't do something, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sabieha Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AQUILINA, ROSEMARIE AQUChavez, Julie
Summary: "For Julie, an elementary school librarian and mother of two boys, there was no time for debilitating anxiety. Yet, the aftershocks of her first panic attack left her grappling with questions about the causes of her mental health crisis and where it would lead next. What follows is a hopeful, honest account of love, loss, a husband who isn't a mindreader, disastrous family outings, and finding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books 2024
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Summary: "Brooklyn-based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book after personal losses. Her older sister, Sara, still lives in Chatham, Cape Cod, where they grew up, and is married with four children. Once a dedicated librarian, Sara dreams of reviving her love affair with literature, but instead, she is stuck with too many family responsibilities and a fizzling marriage. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2024
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Summary: One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky-and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then-through a combination of hard work and serendipity-she started a singing career, which catapulted her from St. Louis to New York City, from the English...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: "A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires Love Can't Feed You is a stunning, heartbreaking, and compressed look at coming of age, shifting notions of home, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SYPerry, Bruce D. (Bruce Duncan)
Summary: Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what's wrong with them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Brynn Haywood finds herself saying "I do" to a man she's known less than twenty-four hours. The dawn reveals a different truth, sending Brynn into a state of panic. She slips away and flees to Cape Cod in a swirl of uncertainty and self-doubt. Brynn realizes she's been yearning for a radical change in her life. Maybe she's found the answer here, in the quaint town of Chatham. With a newfound...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2024
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Summary: "When Jennine Hammond is found dead in a hotel in the picture-perfect town Oakhurst, newly-promoted Detective Jo Fournier is thrown into a disturbing case. Who would murder this shy, loving wife and leave her body posed like a ballerina? Jo wants to know why Jeanine's husband is so controlling about money, and where Jeanine"s wedding ring is, but before she and her team can get close to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire, Ltd. 2019
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Summary: "One of America's few female astronauts reveals the wisdom that helped her overcome the barriers of others' expectations--and learn to work on a team both in close quarters and remotely. In 2010, the day after her fiftieth birthday--and despite having faced feedback for years that she was not astronaut material--Cady Coleman boarded a rocket and blasted off into space for her third NASA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Life 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 COLGarcia, Kami
Summary: When Kori Anderson, who has a connective tissue disorder, and her popular older sister, Kira, participate in a pharmaceutical company's clinical trial, she begins to discover strange powers and hopes to discover the truth about these abilities--and her sister's boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics
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Summary: "A rallying cry for women to reclaim our feminine, intuitive soul power-and unshackle ourselves to pursue a life of fulfillment and meaning"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2022
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Summary: "Genevieve Prentice is learning to let go. Now settled in Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, she's forging new relationships with her adult children. She's even opening up her heart to a handsome widower, for the first time since her husband's death. But when her estranged eldest daughter moves to Lake in the Clouds, Genevieve's life is upended once again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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Summary: "Mabel Beaumont's husband Arthur loved lists. He'd leave them for her everywhere. 'Remember: eggs, butter, sugar'. 'I love you: today, tomorrow, always'. But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he's still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: 'Find D'. Mabel feels sure she knows what it means. She must track down her best friend Dot, who she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boldwood Books
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Summary: "Founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass, Highland Beach along the Chesapeake Bay is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones’s legacy. But Oliva’s legacy comes with thorns—intertwined are secrets of her aunt’s death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Center, Katherine
Summary: "A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020