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Happiness Happens: How To Cultivate Contentment
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Vivek Hallegere Murthy
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Summary: The former Surgeon General addresses the overlooked epidemic of loneliness as the underpinning to the current crisis in mental wellness and offers solutions to create connection and stresses the...
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Call #: 158.2 MUR
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Jesmyn Ward
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Summary: For Tulane University's 2018 commencement, Jesmyn Ward delivered a stirring speech about the value of hard work and the importance of respect for oneself and others. Speaking about the challenges she...
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Call #: 158.1 WAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Glennon Doyle
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Summary: There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel...
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Call #: B DOYLE
Location: New Adult Biographies
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Dallas Hartwig
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Summary: Presents a paradigm-shifting plan that shows you how to boost energy, improve health, and feel happier by living more in tune with the seasons.
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Call #: 613.2 HAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Marie Forleo
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Summary: "Let's be honest -- none of us were given an owner's manual at birth. If you're having trouble solving a problem or making a dream happen, the problem isn't you. It's not that you're not hardworking,...
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Call #: CD BOOK 158.1 FOR
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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Ross Gay
(4,036)
Summary: One of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record...
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Call #: 152.42 GAY
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Rob Walker
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Summary: A compilation of 131 meditations and exercises to inspire us to find joy and expand the ways we engage with the people and places, the objects and tasks we encounter in our everyday lives. In a world...
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Call #: 153.7 WAL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Max Lucado
(1,738)
Summary: Only one-third of Americans surveyed said they were happy. How can this be? Education is accessible to most. We've made advancements in everything from medicine to technology, yet 66 percent of...
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Call #: 248.4 LUC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jon Gordon
(1,346)
Summary: An illustrated fable that teaches readers how to transform their environment, overcome challenges, and create positive change. Life is often difficult. It can be harsh, stressful, and feel like a pot...
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Call #: 150.19 GOR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Ben Courson
(149)
Summary: Op-ti-mis-fit, n.: a nonconformist, an adventurer, a person who lives with wild abandon, childlike wonder, and unapologetic optimism. You were never meant to fit in. You were made to stand out. With...
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Call #: 248.4 COU
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David Brooks
(5,695)
Summary: Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? David Brooks explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.
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Call #: 302 BRO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Janice Dean
(511)
Summary: Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces. Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she...
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Call #: B DEAN
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Shunmyō Masuno
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Summary: Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this to simplifying your life by a Japanese monk who embodies the wisdom of Zen.
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Call #: 294.3 MAS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Rachel Hollis
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Summary: Rachel Hollis is sounding a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people -- whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee -- instead of...
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Call #: 158.1 HOL
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Hot Picks
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Jennifer McCartney
(386)
Summary: For anyone who's ever heard a motivational speech and immediately vomited, this is a guide to ignoring society's obsession with success. Sit around, leave sh*t all over the place, drink, forget about...
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Call #: 817.6 MCC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Summary: Good morning. Do NOT get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, do, create the things. Let others tussle it out. Vamos! Before he inspired the world with Hamilton and was catapulted to...
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Call #: 811.6 MIR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jonathan Rauch
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Summary: Draws on cutting-edge scientific studies to discuss the U-shaped trajectory of happiness, which declines from the optimism of youth before surging upward again after age fifty, and offers ways to endure the slump during midlife.
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Call #: 152.42 RAU
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Anne Lamott
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Summary: "I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of this book. Despair and...
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Call #: B LAMOTT
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Summary: Always positive, Buni doesn't understand that the cute world he lives in is usually out to get him. The girl he loves, loves someone else. And his best intentions never seem to work. Yet he wakes...
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Call #: 741.56 PAG
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Light Watkins
(646)
Summary: A meditation practitioner and trainer clears up myths and misunderstandings about meditation and offers tips, tricks and hacks to help beginners learn how to get started in an effort to improve...
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Call #: 158.12 WAT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Lauren Graham
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Summary: In this expansion of the 2017 commencement speech she gave at her hometown high school, Lauren Graham, star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, reflects on growing up, pursuing your dreams, and living...
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Call #: 170.44 GRA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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John Leland
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Summary: In 2015, journalist John Leland set out to meet members of America's fastest-growing age group: 85 and up. He anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body,...
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Call #: 305.26 LEL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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