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"From Daniel H. Pink, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of that crucial and misunderstood emotion, regret. "Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, it is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human," Daniel H. Pink writes in his provocative and eye-opening new book. "Done right, it needn't bring us down; it can lift us up." Drawing from new research in social psychology, neuroscience,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
950L
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English
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The events of the story occupy a single June day in Central London as wealthy and fashionable society hostess Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party she is to give that evening. Through her thoughts and memories, and the voices of others who have touched her life and will attend her party, Virginia Woolf shows her genius as a writer who is both accessible and popular.
5) Toad
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Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of godfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning suplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her body, and her wayward early twenties,...
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Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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When the king of Israel met with the ailing prophet Elisha, he was told to grab some arrows and strike the ground before him. He did so three times, then stopped even though more arrows were left. Often, we also have arrows in our hands, blaming God for our partial victories when it is we who gave up too soon. McManus drives an arrow into the ground and declares, "Never settle. It's all or nothing. Save nothing for the next life!" The only way to...
Series
Criterion collection volume 702
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
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Aging journalist Jep Gambardella wanders the streets of Rome as he reflects upon the promise of his younger days when he wrote a succesful novel.
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English
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On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
10) The sacrament
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims. A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two...
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Hay House
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English
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Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages.
After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later,...
After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later,...
12) Rhino ranch
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English
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Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor: the statuesque K. K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who's come to Thalia to open the Rhino Ranch, dedicated to the preservation of the endangered black rhinoceros. Despite their obvious differences, Duane can't help but find himself charmed by K.K.'s stubborn toughness and lively spirit, and the two embark on a flirtation that rapidly veers toward...
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Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Everyone makes mistakes, big and small. Sometimes our mistakes take us down the wrong path and send us spiraling into destructive life patterns, and sometimes we learn a lesson and never make the same mistake again. But how? How do we recognize our destructive patterns, make new choices, and then follow through? In Never Go Back, bestselling author Dr. Henry Cloud shares ten doorways to success-and once we walk through these new pathways, we never...
Publisher
CBC Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"We all have regrets and we've all made mistakes. But what if you could go back in time and fix them? Erica Strange can, and desperately needs to. She's 32 years old and facing a premature mid-life crisis. With no boyfriend, no job, no prospects, her life is in shambles, and she often blames her past mistakes for her current predicament. Enter Dr. Tom. Part therapist, part mysterious rogue, he comes into Erica's life at a time when nothing seems to...
Publisher
CBC Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-something Erica Strange is stuck between dead-end jobs and being perpetually single. With the help of Dr. Tom she has the chance to put right her list of regrets with the hope that it will change her life to how she really wants it.
17) The wish list
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad. Meg Finn is in a tough spot. Really tough. For her last act on Earth, she committed a crime - and lost...
20) Fools
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This collection of interconnected stories begins with the anarchist daughter of missionaries in Manhattan who runs away to be an activist and ends with a wealthy young adulterer in Paris who is outsmarted by the object of his desire.
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