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Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Mindfulness for the Wandering Mind, Pandit attempts to debunk the myths people have about the practice of mindfulness and show how it can be utilized in all aspects of life and especially the workplace to improve their mental health, focus, lower stress levels and enhance emotional intelligence. To remove any mystical or religious component of what mindfulness is, he compares the human mind to a smart device which, these days, is something none...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway...but when Riley takes her mom's car without permission, she's grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad's game shop. Riley can't waste her time working...so she convinces Nathan--a nerdy teen employee--to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she'll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous...Soon, Riley starts to...
10) Argylle
Author
Language
English
Description
"A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most...
Author
Series
Studies in critical social sciences volume Volume 202
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
12) The grimmer
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"After his father returns from treatment for addiction, highschooler Vish -- lover of metal music and literature -- is uncertain what the future holds. It doesn't help that everyone seems to know about the family's troubles, and they stand out doubly as one of the only brown families in town. When Vish is mistaken for a relative of the weird local bookseller and attacked by an unsettling pale man who seems to be decaying, he is pulled into the world...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it's determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts. FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman's stolen young adulthood and her journey to self-acceptance, and a rare look inside Hugh Hefner's final days. Crystal offers a vulnerable and clear-eyed look at how her experience with Hugh Hefner catalyzed her transformative journey from someone who prized external validation over all else to a person who finally recognizes her true worth. This candid...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
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Language
English
Description
"All rise for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black female United States Supreme Court. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson knew from the very beginning that "You can do anything. You can be anything." Driven by those powerful words and her parents' love, Ketanji refused to let naysayers stop her from rising to the top. Her perseverance and her wits led her to become the first Black woman to become a US district judge and eventually the first Black female...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Assistant District Attorney Dan Fielding is listed as missing and presumed dead when his plane crashes in the Arctic Ocean. Judge Harry T. Stone cautions the others against expecting Dan to still be alive after two weeks of search-and-rescue efforts, but Legal Aid Attorney Christine Sullivan refuses to give up hope and prays for Dan's safe return. Dan, meanwhile, is alive on a remote island, saved by a seal. And that's just the start of the season....
19) Cape Rage
Author
Series
Danny Barrett novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The FBI has a hundred undercover agents who can work in the city, but Danny Barrett is the one they call when they need someone to investigate crimes in the wilderness. This case is a particularly difficult one. For more than a century the Danby family have ruled as kings in their corner of the Pacific Northwest. The Feds were mostly willing to look the other way while the family smuggled everything from liquor to cigarettes across the border, but...