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"'How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free' offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy like to its fullest. The key to achieving an active and satisfying retirement involves a great deal more than having adequate financial resources; it also encompasses all other aspects of life -- interesting leisure activities, creative pursuits, physical well-being, mental well-being, and solid social support"--Cover, p. 4.
6) Blubber
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
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English
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United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's advice on government, business and life.
Throughout his long and distinguished career, Rumsfeld has collected hundreds of pithy, compelling, and often humorous observations about leadership, business, and life. First gathered as three-by-five cards in a shoebox and then typed up and circulated informally over the years, these eminently nonpartisan rules have been enhanced with fresh insights and...
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English
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Trent Shelton seemed to have it all together--until everything fell apart. A college football standout, his NFL dreams died when he was cut from multiple teams. With no job and no prospects, learning he had a child on the way and numbing himself with whatever he could find, Trent then found out one of his closest friends had killed himself. Life seemed without hope--until Trent discovered the secret to finding promise in the darkest of times. And...
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Conari Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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This is not the life I ordered is the culmination of weekly "kitchen table coaching" sessions that took place for more than a decade and were designed to support four extraordinary women through life's ups and downs. These women realized that their support of one another could help other women struggling with life's myriad issues of work, family, and love, as well as the big questions of life and death. The power and strength of their collective friendship...
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2004.
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English
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Outlines eleven themes specific to teaching and raising children, sharing anecdotal stories that explain how to motivate learning in young people by conducting field trips, drawing on works of literature, and providing life-skills instruction.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
16) Why not me?
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English
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"In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it's falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you're constantly reminded that no one looks like you. In "How to Look Spectacular: A Starlet's...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
©2010
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English
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"What really matters? How should we grapple with the many political, economic, medical, and spiritual crises we seem to encounter on a daily basis? What can we count on when everything around us seems so ephemeral? Coach, leadership legend and vitality expert Richard Leider argues that purpose is the answer to all of these questions. When all else seems unknowable or fleeting, purpose give us the will to live. In the end, it's all we can control....
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Alloy Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Offers advice on reacting to humiliating or embarrassing moments, including situations with family, police, and hygiene; when in love, public, and school; and on the computer. Mood swings, zits, strange new bodily functions, the prom. The teenage years are tough enough. But when something really mortifying happens, they can be unbearable. That's why Tucker Shaw and Alloy Books have put together the ultimate handbook for anyone who wants to get from...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2005.
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English
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Teaches young readers how individual acts of courage, even though small in appearance, can have a great effect on one's life and the lives of those nearby through a review of actions by others in the past and the effects they have had on the world in which we live today. Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures and peoples to compile these timeless stories, poems, songs, quotations, and folktales that speak to all children to let...
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