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The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
2) Slade house
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Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a divorced policeman,...
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Conservative columnist David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to...
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In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she's LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can't imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try. Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea's biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins...
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Drawing from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history and education, one of the nation's leading writers and commentators helps us become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen.
As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society : the ability to see...
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Isabella enjoys shouting out her thoughts, ideas and feelings so much, it's earned her the nickname "Decibella!". Young readers will be entertained as she learns the "five volumes" of voice-- whisper, 6-inch, table-talk, strong speaker, and outside-- and that different situations require a different tone.--Publisher.
10) Treasure hunt
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Billie B. mystery volume 6
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Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"The school principal has given Billie and the Secret Mystery Club a very important mystery to solve. Many years ago, a time capsule was hidden in the school somewhere, and it's up to the SMC to find it!"--Back cover.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In The Power of Strangers, journalist Joe Keohane takes us through an inquiry into our shared history, one that offers surprising and compelling insights into our own social and political moment. But if strangers seem to some to be the problem, history, data, and science show us that they are actually our solution. In fact, throughout human history, our address to the stranger, the foreigner, the marginalized, and the other has determined the fate...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From excited to scared from worried to confident-emotions can shift in a moment! Acclaimed picture book creator Mike Wohnoutka's simple words and tender illustrations demonstrate the highs and lows of a single day at school and open the door for readers to talk about their own contradictory, unpredictable ever-present emotions."--Front cover jacket.
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"This collection of 100 original dares will help boys expand their worldview, inspire more respect toward girls and non-binary kids, and generally develop a healthier idea of manhood."--Amazon.
Being a boy isn't just about building forts or beating the high score on a video game or being tough. It's about being true to yourself, treating everyone fairly, and helping those around you. From "Dare to include girls in sports" to "Dare to care about the...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Harvard University's Joseph Henrich, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, delivers a bold, epic investigation into the development of the Western mind, global psychological diversity, and its impact on the world"--
Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you're rather psychologically peculiar. Henrich illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures,...
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Cody Koala, an imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The concept of boundaries is important for children to learn early in life. This title explains to readers how to set their own and understand others. A few everyday situations serve as examples of boundaries and pair with colorful images and an infographic."--
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Tiny Town Press
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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This book was written and used as an educational tool when Jacob was being mainstreamed with neurotypical children for the 1st time. The book was read to the children before Jacob started each grade at school and before joining any recreational activity. A marked difference was seen in how Jacob was received and accepted when the children were educated on his specific disability. We were encouraged to publish this book so it could be used as an educational...
19) Let me finish!
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Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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When our young hero settles in to read, the last thing he wants is for some noisy animals to ruin the ending of the story. But ruin it they do. And as it turns out, the boy is quickly approaching a surprise ending of his own! Maybe he should have listened to the animals after all.
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Nicholas Brealey Pub
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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"A collection of memoirs of deeply personal experiences from South America to Africa, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's global citizens. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by the famous and the new - many published here for the first time - make universal the experience of growing up without the opportunity to ever "put down roots.""--Jacket.