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"After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset--those who believe that abilities are fixed--are less likely...
2) Restart
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Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
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Clementine volume 2
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Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.
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""To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . . 'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace." -Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum"--
"Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with...
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
9) Monster
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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"Liz and Sarabeth were girlhood neighbors in the suburbs of northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother. In the decades that followed their relationship remained a source of continuity and strength. But when Liz's adolescent daughter enters dangerous waters, the women's friendship takes a devastating turn, forcing Liz and Sarabeth to question their most deeply held beliefs about their connection."--Page 2 of...
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Very fairy princess volume 1
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Despite her scabby knees and dirty fingernails, Geraldine knows that she is a princess inside and shows it through her behavior at home and in school.
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"I am beautiful. I am kind. I am loved. In this uplifting picture book, join TikTok sensation Scarlett Gray and Tiania Haneline to repeat exuberant affirmations that empower Scarlett throughout the day. Young readers will discover how they can use their own affirmations to remind them of who they are and what makes them special. Every morning as her mom brushes her hair, Scarlett recites her daily affirmations. Those powerful words travel with her...
13) Twelve
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Winnie years volume 2
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Winnie relates the events of her twelfth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
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Dolores has suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists. Her father is a violent, philandering liar, her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O, and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures. She is determined to rise above all of it.
15) Immortality
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Milan Kundera's novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnès becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore...
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Princess tales (Kate Lum) volume 2
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Three princesses, each with a particular skill, decide they are bored with what they do and swap jobs.
18) Flipped
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In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
19) Understood Betsy
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Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
20) Ten
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Winnie years volume Prequel
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Winnie's celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
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