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Actualisation de soi chez la femme Romans, nouvelles, etc Large type books Life change events Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction Self-realization in women Self-realization in women Fiction SuccessHollis, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Hollis is sounding a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people--whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee--instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.1082 HOLSmith, Maggie
Summary: "Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2023
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, MAGGIE SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMITH SMIGrainger, Jean
Summary: As someone raised in an orphanage, Carmel knows she should be grateful for a roof over her head and a respectable family, but she would love nothing more than to escape Birr, Co Offaly and get away from her husband, the monosyllabic Bill and his horrible sister forever. Life as Mrs Sheehan should be bearable, all she had to do was look after the house and cook Bill's meals. She didn't even need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerHarts, Minda
Summary: "A guide for girls of color looking to find their voice and claim space as they prepare for high school, college, and their careers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 HARMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MONKinsella, Sophie
Summary: Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINRoberts, Sheila
Summary: Leaving Seattle and her cheating husband behind, single mother Karissa moves to Puget Sound where she meets her new neighbors, who are also dealing with their own crises, and together they start a book club as a distraction until it becomes a way to build a better life together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBGrainger, Jean
Summary: "Carmel Sheehan was raised in an orphanage in Dublin, and always believed what she was told, that her unmarried mother abandoned her as a newborn. Forty years later, living in rural Ireland, in an unfulfilling marriage, and she has no reason to suspect that version of her past was untrue, until she gets a Facebook message one day from a stranger claiming it was all lies. Carmel begins a journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerBedrick, David
Summary: Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belly Song Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 BEDCenter, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENPorter, Jane
Summary: "In the wake of a tragedy that tore her life down to the foundations, Dr. Alison McAdams has lost her way. So when she's summoned to Napa to care for her ailing father, she's not sure she has anything to offer him--or anyone else. What Ali finds in Northern California wine country is a gift--an opportunity to rest, and distance from her painful memories. Most unexpectedly, she finds people who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORBrown, Eleanor
Summary: "Madeleine is trapped-- by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears-- in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been-- elegant, reserved, perfect. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016White, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIParker, Miriam (Miriam Rebecca)
Summary: Hannah is finally about to have everything she ever wanted. With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she and Ethan have to do is make it through the last couple of weeks of grad school. But when, on a romantic weekend trip to Sonoma, Hannah is spontaneously offered a marketing job at a family-run winery and doesn't immediately refuse, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARMead, Terri Hanson
Summary: Are you feeling blindsided by midlife?You're not alone and you're not crazy. Our current culture tells us that midlife (ages 40-65) is a time of unraveling, chaos, and uncertainty for women. This doesn't have to be true. MIDLIFE IS AN OPPORTUNITY, NOT A CRISIS.Our bodies, minds, and lives are changing. Many of us feel off balance, wondering if this is all there is? Some of us feel completely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help MeadDurst-Benning, Petra
Summary: "In 1905, on her twenty-sixth birthday, Mimi Reventlow receives a marriage proposal from the vicar of her family's church. But a future of housework, childcare, and servicing a parish doesn't appeal to the restless and unconventional Mimi. She has ambitions of her own - to follow in the footsteps of her beloved uncle Josef and become a traveling photographer. Leaving behind all that has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2020Shipstead, Maggie
Summary: After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHIBeazley, Lisa
Summary: "Two sisters share the surprising highs and cringe-worthy lows of social media fame, when their most private thoughts become incredibly public on the Internet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEABurdette, Lucy
Summary: Thirty-two-year-old 'happiness guru' Dr Cooper Hunziker has it all - a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect man. But there's a problem. Cooper isn't happy. Of course, it doesn't help that she's facing cut-throat competition for her tenure at Yale, an accusation of plagiarism that could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURMaynard, Frances
Summary: "Elvira Carr believes in crisp schedules, clear guidelines, and taking people at face value. She lives at home with her overbearing mother, who has deemed her unfit to interact with the rest of society. But when her mother has a stroke, Ellie is suddenly forced to look after herself. She quickly comes up with an ingenious way of coping with the world: the seven social rules spreadsheet....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYHurley, Blair
Summary: "Nicole has become sexually and emotionally entangled with her mentor. To break free, she must retrace her entire life's journey--from her strict Irish Catholic upbringing to her drug-fueled year as a teenage runaway. Even as she reinvents herself in New York City, her master's intoxicating voice pursues her, whispering dangerously in her ear. Somehow, he knows everything. A hypnotic and daring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURRaymer, Beth
Summary: ""Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night." That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burns down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC RAYCorlett, Anne
Summary: "All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn't forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit ... Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that's left of the dead....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORChickering, V. C.
Summary: "Recently divorced, 40-something single-mom, Lucy, is lonely, bored and craving physical connection. So, when her trusted long-time married friend, Nancy, begs Lucy to sleep with her husband to save her marriage, Lucy goes for it. It's such a success, the two friends invent a town-wide underground barter system whereby Nancy's married girlfriends sub-contract Lucy's divorcee friends to sleep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2016