After being attacked by a grizzly bear in the Rocky Mountains, seventeen-year-old Abby Hughes' facial scars are all she can think about, and all that she thinks anyone else can see when they look at her. After months of hiding out...
Self-acceptance
- Author:Baugh, LeanneSummary:
- Author:Tugaleva, VironikaSummary:
After a decade-long struggle with mental distress, addiction, eating disorders, and profound self-hatred, Vironika Tugaleva faced a choice: change or die.Reluctantly, she chose to change. Nothing could have prepared her for what came...
- Author:Saikaley, SoniaSummary:
Amir Radi hates washing dishes. When he left Beirut, with a tightly grasped suitcase, he hadn’t expected he’d end up at a Middle Eastern restaurant with old cooks and dirty dishes. Amir knows his immigrant dream has somehow drowned in...
- Author:Brown, C. BrenéSummary:
When our embarrassments and fears lie, we often listen to them anyway. They thwart our gratitude, acceptance, and compassion—our goodness. They insist, “I am not worthy.” But we are worthy—of self-discovery, personal growth, and...
- Author:Portelance, ColetteSummary:
According to the CNDA (creative non directive approach) developed by Colette Portelance, individuals aiming to offer assistance or support to others in their personal or professional lives must first learn to know, understand, and...
- Author:Bergen, DavidSummary:
David Bergen has created an indelible portrait of a seemingly ordinary woman who struggles to accept herself as she is, and in so doing becomes unique.
- Author:Erskine, KathrynSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money...
- Author:Thomas, AlyssSummary:
This is the book that helps you help yourself. Using an easy-to-follow quiz format, the author gives clear direction of how to focus your positive energy, deal with stress and become more self-confident and self-assured.
- Author:Huser, GlenSummary:
Travis has been waiting to get to junior high. When that time finally comes, things are both better, and worse, than he had hoped. On the plus side are two great new teachers. On the minus side there's Shon Docker, Travis's old...
- Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:
Meet someone new... Harriet, who sees Mars and tastes pomengranates -- all in one day; Cluny, a girl who wants to publish a magazine for people with weird names; Ky, who lives in a geodesic dome deep in the country; Fletcher, the...
- Author:Negovetich, SarahSummary:
Straight-laced, sixteen-year-old Rebecca can’t wait for her Acceptance. A fancy ball, eligible bachelors, and her debut as an official member of society. Instead, the Machine rejects Rebecca. Labeled as a future criminal, she’s shipped...
- Author:Portelance, ColetteSummary:
Relation d’aide et amour de soi, est un livre de base de la psychologie humaniste qui, depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans, sert de référence importante dans les milieux de la relation d’aide, des relations humaines et de la pédagogie. Dans...
- Author:Kincy, KarenSummary:
Gwen Williams has been hiding a strange and fantastic secret: she's a shapeshifter. Although society may tolerate vampires, centaurs, and "Others" like Gwen, there are plenty of folks in her small Washington town who don't care for her...
- Author:Slipperjack, RubySummary:
A young Ojibway girl, struggling over the fact that her father has died, spends summers in the bush with her grandmother and finds her own identity and voice.
Eleven-year-old Ray feels like a misfit at school and in her family....
- Author:Qitsualik-Tinsley, RachelSummary:
In the time before animals were as they are today, Wolf spent his days admiring all the other animals. Not content to simply be a wolf, happy and hunting with his pack, he watches the owls, wolverines, and caribou with envy, wishing...
- Author:Portelance, ColetteSummary:
L’acceptation et le lâcher-prise se veut un hymne à la paix, autant à la paix intérieure qu’à la paix dans le monde. Ce livre vous propose différentes pistes accessibles pour dissoudre les guerres en vous et autour de vous, et pour...
- Author:Stevens, JanetSummary:
A jackrabbit who wishes to be feared asks his fairy godrabbit for horns and becomes the first jackalope, but there's one condition: he must not tell lies.
- Author:Ritter, John H.Summary:
In 1921 thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome.
- Author:Richer, MarcSummary:
Ce grand homme que je cherchais est le récit très humain de l’histoire de Maco, un enfant qui a grandi à la recherche de l’idéal, espérant trouver un grand homme à travers un modèle de vie socialement valorisé. Marié pendant plusieurs...
- Author:Kincy, KarenSummary:
Brock Koeman had always loathed werewolves and Others like them. Then, while tracking a werewolf suspected of murder, he and his brother Chris were bitten—and infected with the very disease they despised. Chris is now fighting for his...