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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Some people live in a constant state of worry, upset, and negativity because they let everything in. They listen to the news all day, go to lunch with judgmental people, or get cut off in traffic, leaving the rest of their day pretty sour. They're not ruling their day. No one can keep all bad things from happening, but you can stop them from getting down in your spirit. The less time you spend in bad situations or with small-minded people, the better...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
No is an acceptable answer, and it's time to start using it. Whether you're a People-Pleaser, Overachiever, Pushover, or have serious FOMO, bestselling "anti-guru" Sarah Knight helps you say what you really mean without being really mean or burning out for fear of missing out. Life is so much better when you say no with confidence and without guilt, fear, or regret. F*ck No! delivers practical strategies that give you the power to decline, and concrete...
43) Anger danger
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Have you ever been so angry that you felt out of control? It’s difficult to remain calm and think rationally when you are really mad! In this book, readers in grades 4-9 will learn helpful techniques for controlling anger so it doesn’t control them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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A memoir of a father obsessed with control and the daughter who fights his suffocating grasp, House Rules explores the complexities of their compelling and destructive relationship as Rachel fights to escape, and, later, to make sense of what remains of her family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When a man showers all of his attention on a woman, it can feel incredibly romantic, and can blind her to hints of problems ahead. But what happens when that attentiveness becomes domination? For certain people, the desire to control leads to jealousy, threats, micromanaging--even physical violence. Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to provide practical guidance and support for readers who find themselves...
51) The giver
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"How can so many women feel "good and mad" yet still reluctant to speak up in a meeting or difficult conversation? Why do women often feel like they're too much--and, at the same time, not enough? What causes us, at the most critical moments in our lives, to freeze? Kasia Urbaniak teaches power to women--and her answers to these questions may surprise you. Based on insights from her experiences as a dominatrix, her training to become a Taoist nun,...
Author
Series
For her novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Landing one of the most coveted internships in the United States, Mallory Sullivan, believing that fate determines who you fall in love with, meets the man of her dreams in Oz, a strong, possessive man who makes her lose control, only to discover that it wasnt́ fate at all.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"A deeply researched account from an award-winning journalist that uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest-and most intimate-ways imaginable We fear dark alleys when in truth, home is the most dangerous place for a woman. Of the 87,000 women killed globally in 2017, more than a third (30,000) were killed by an intimate partner, and another 20,000 were killed by a family member. In the US, that rate is 2.5 women killed by their...