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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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This searing graphic memoir portrays the impact of gun violence through a fresh lens with urgency, humanity, and a very personal hope.
Kindra Neely never expected it to happen to her. No one does. Sure, she’d sometimes been close to gun violence, like when the house down the street from her childhood home in Texas was targeted in a drive-by shooting. But now she lived in Oregon, where she spent her time swimming in rivers with...Author
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I feel numb.
Kay Gackle has heard these words for years as a therapist. Then one day, Kay found she was saying these exact same words.
The phrase feeling numb is a bit ironic. Is it a feeling if we "feel" nothing? Being numb can be considered a feeling the same as white is considered a color. The color white appears because it absorbs no color. White is literally the absence of color. In the same way, numb is the absence of feeling. The color white...
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Dead Zone volume 7
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English
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A serious case of appendicitis sends Johnny into another coma, and this time it's up to Sarah to save his life.
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The last time Pink Floyd got into trouble with a politician was in the 1980s, when their song Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 featured a choir of London inner city schoolchildren shouting a chorus of We don't need no education. In 2005, Live 8 was held to raise awareness about Third World deprivation and to urge world leaders to tackle the issue of poverty.
#2 The...
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中文(繁體)
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Of course, it's not that I intentionally dig for pain when I'm not busy. It's that in this colorful world, if some people live happily after drinking and dancing, some people will feel miserable. I firmly believe that everyone has a touching story, which is hidden in the place where my pen and ink are about to write!
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Written by a U.S. Army Infantry soldier, Uncomfortably Numb is an unflinching look at the issues of active military & veteran suicide from the military perspective. This direct, intense work tells hard truths; and leaves out everything people think they know about life after war.
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BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Award winning comedian, actor, screenwriter and presenter Simon Amstell puts his emotions on the line in this very special performance of his stand-up show, Numb, which he has toured round the UK and taken to New York. Recorded at the famous BBC TV Centre, it’s a stripped-down, intimate performance, as he reflects on his inability to connect with people, including family and lovers. Amstell attempts to heal himself in public in a raw and honest...
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Are you struggling to be who you are? Is making connections with others or even yourself a challenge?
If you're checking this book out, you're probably looking for a change. I bet you've read some self-development books in the past. Those hundreds of pages are full of useless talk and sugar-coated B.S.. Can you recall a single piece of advice that stayed in your mind? Did any of it change your life? I want to save you time. I'm going to cut out all...
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About losing one's life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that's achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness.
It begins with numbness in her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a "mass" on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O'Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her sixty-five-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks...
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A fascinating exploration of the profound loss of pleasure in our daily lives and the seven steps for restoring it. Pleasure. We know what it feels like and many of us spend our days trying to experience it. But can too much pleasure actually be bad for us? Yes, says Dr. Archibald Hart, clinical psychologist and expert in behavioral psychology. Backed by recent brain-imaging research, Dr. Hart shares that to some extent, our pursuit of extreme and...
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What would you do if your husband was taken?
"It's like free falling on the rocks..."
Get your copy of Numb and let Azita take you on an extraordinary emotional and hazardous trail, sometimes tortuous and downright dangerous, as she encounters the deathly turmoil during the 1979 Iranian Revolution and escapes the grasp of the new Islamic Republic fundamentalists, losing dearly loved family and friends to the cruel hands of those slaughterers, on...
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A fascinating exploration of the profound loss of pleasure in our daily lives and the seven steps for restoring it.
Pleasure. We know what it feels like and many of us spend our days trying to experience it. But can too much pleasure actually be bad for us? Yes, says Dr. Archibald Hart, clinical psychologist, and expert in behavorial psychology. Backed by recent brain-imaging research, Dr. Hart shares that to some extent, our pursuit of extreme and...
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Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate predictions and all sorts of political decisions and advice backed up by supposedly accurate numbers. Most of us do not even pause and question such figures even to ask what they really mean and whether they raise more questions than they answer. We let the figures...
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Getting stuck in a hole of pain if you open the floodgates of your emotions, is a myth. Your emotions are a tunnel, not a hole! This is a guidebook written for anyone who finds themselves to be...
• numb
• emotionally frozen
• tensing their stomach because they don't know what to do with the pain that wants to come up
• having trouble breathing deeply and freely
• stuck because professionals have told them to stuff their pain and "go outside"...