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1) Daring greatly: how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead
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Based on twelve years of research, thought leader Dr. Brené Brown argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagement, and meaningful connection.
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Elizabeth Gilbert digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity, offering insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing...
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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
4) Brave Irene
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Plucky Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, braves a fierce snowstorm to deliver a new gown to the duchess in time for the ball.
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.
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Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives -- experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. Now Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe...
7) Swimmy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a way of protecting them all from their natural enemies.
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Hey Jack! volume 13
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Kane Miller, a Division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"When Jack hurts his ankle, he tries really hard not to cry. He's not a baby! Surely he can be braver than that?"--Page [4] of cover.
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brene Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage, and rising strong our clearest path to a...
10) Noel the coward
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Windmill Books
Pub. Date
1977
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Coward powered Noel changes to a hero with the help of Charlie's School of Self Defense.
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Paramount
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A gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked in the U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
14) Try, try again
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Clavis
Pub. Date
[2022]
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A young girl overcomes her fear of falling off her bike so that she can finally join her friends.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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When her parents and the other quiet, shy wombats of the Northern Forest are captured by the traitorous, carnivorous Tassie devils, Lola Budge, a talkative, adventure-seeking young wombat, embarks on a rescue mission, joined by a swamp water rat and a baby penguin.
17) Lone wolf
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Wolves of the Beyond volume 1
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.
18) Cowardly Clyde
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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For a war horse, Clyde is an abysmal coward, but he finally decides that even if he isn't brave he can at least act brave.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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In this exhilarating conclusion to the critically acclaimed Luck Uglies series, the final battle between the Luck Uglies and the treacherous Fork-Tongue Charmers comes to Rye O'Chanter's doorstep. Filled with adventure, humor, friendship, and a hint of magic, this fantasy series is an irresistible cross between Chris Colfer's Land of Stories series and Joseph Delaney's Last Apprentice series.When Rye travels back home to Village Drowning to help her...
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