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The midnight library / by Haig, Matt,1975-author.;
Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Future life; Libraries; Choice (Psychology); Decision making; Life change events;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 4
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The friends we keep / by Mallery, Susan,author.;
"After five years as a stay-at-home mom, Gabby Schaefer can't wait to return to work. Oh, to use the bathroom in peace! No twins clamoring at the door, no husband barging in, no stepdaughter throwing a tantrum. But when her plans are derailed by some shocking news and her husband's crushing expectations, Gabby must fight for the right to have a life of her own. Getting pregnant is easy for Hayley Batchelor. Staying pregnant is the hard part. Her husband is worried about the expensive fertility treatments and frantic about the threat to her health. But to Hayley, a woman who was born to be a mom should risk everything to fulfill her destiny--no matter how high the cost. Nicole Lord is still shell-shocked by a divorce that wasn't as painful as it should've been. Other than the son they share, her ex-husband left barely a ripple in her life. A great new guy tempts her to believe maybe the second time's the charm ... but how can she trust herself to recognize true love?"--
Subjects: Chick lit.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Change (Psychology); Divorced women; Female friendship; Interpersonal attraction; Life change events; Man-woman relationships; Pregnant women; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Self-realization in women; Women; Working mothers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A life in light : meditations on impermanence / by Pipher, Mary Bray,author.;
In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher taps into a cultural moment, to offer wisdom, hope, and insight into loss and change. Drawing from her own experiences and expertise as a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effect of our culture on our mental health, she looks inward to what shaped her as a woman, one who has experienced darkness throughout her life but was always drawn to the light. Her plainspoken depictions of her hard childhood and life's difficulties are dappled with moments of joy and revelation, tragedies and ordinary miseries, glimmers and shadow. As a child, she was separated from her parents for long periods. Those separations affected her deeply, but in A Life in Light she explores what she's learned about how to balance despair with joy, utilizing and sharing with readers every coping skill she has honed during her lifetime to remind us that there is a silver thread of resilience that flows through all of life, and that despite our despair, the light will return. In this book, she points us toward that light.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Pipher, Mary Bray; Pipher, Mary Bray.; Change (Psychology); Conduct of life.; Hope.; Insight.; Mental health.; Psychologists; Resilience (Personality trait) in women.; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.; Wisdom.; Women psychologists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Edie [videorecording] / by Brannigan, Paul,1986-actor.; Guthrie, Kevin,1988-actor.; Hancock, Sheila,1933-actor.; Hunter, Simon,1969-film director.; Manson, Amy,1985-actor.; Music Box Films,publisher.;
Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie, Paul Brannigan, Amy Manson, Wendy Morgan.Following the death of her husband, Edie breaks free from years of his control and rebels against her daughter's wish for her to move into assisted living by embarking on an adventure she and her father had always longed for: a trip to the Scottish Highlands to climb the world-famous Mt. Suilven. Along the way, she hires young camping shop owner Jonny to be her guide. Despite the generational differences, Jonny encourages Edie to fulfill her dream.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Control (Psychology); Hiking; Older people; Widows; Life change events;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Winners : a novel / by Steel, Danielle.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Courage; Fathers and daughters; Life change events; Self-actualization (Psychology); Teenage girls;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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My favourite mistake / by Keyes, Marian,author.;
Anna Walsh had a dream life - according to everybody else. She lived in New York, had a long-term boyfriend, and had The Best Job In The World working as a highly successful beauty PR. So why did she decide to take a flamethrower to the lot? Because now she's back in Dublin, living with her parents. She's undeniably forty-eight, with no partner, no job, and no direction. Anna's lost her purpose. She needs a new challenge to help her fall back in love with life again. When an opportunity arises to solve a PR crisis in the tiny town of Maumtully, Anna leaps at the chance. But will the appearance of an old love interest derail her plans?
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Life change events; Man-woman relationships; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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One hundred daffodils : finding beauty, grace, and meaning when things fall apart / by Winn, Rebecca,author.;
"A reflection on human resilience and nature's ability to teach, inspire, and heal after an unexpected life upheaval. One Hundred Daffodils is told through the lens of the author's personal experiences with grief and heartbreak on her journey toward self-discovery and empowerment"--
Subjects: Winn, Rebecca.; Divorced women.; Divorce; Life change events.; Self-realization in women.;
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In winter I get up at night / by Urquhart, Jane,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart's brilliant new novel, will leave the reader forever changed. Moving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, In Winter I Get Up at Night brings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie storm--the "great wind" that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a children's ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including a child performer who stars in a travelling theatre company, the daughter of a Dukhobor community, and the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three nursing sisters and two doctors, whom the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. Emer's tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mother's entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher; her brother's dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood; the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her; and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp--a brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world. In luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century--colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. In Winter I Get Up at Night is a major work of imagination and self-exploration from one of the greatest writers of our time.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Country life; Families; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Recollection (Psychology); Women teachers; Women;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Close to Hugh / by Endicott, Marina,1958-author.;
Subjects: Accidents; Conduct of life; Death; Friendship; Generations; Life change events; Life; Maturation (Psychology);
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The difference / by Endicott, Marina,1958-author.;
From one of our most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers comes a sweeping novel set on board the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the South Pacific in 1912. Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world. At the heart of The Difference is a crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea, still mourning a miscarriage, forms a bond with a young boy from a remote island and takes him on board as her own son. Over time, the repercussions of this act force Kay, who considers the boy her brother, to examine her own assumptions--which are increasingly at odds with those of society around her--about what is forgivable and what is right. Inspired by a true story, Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder, and in its darkness, prejudice and difficulty, too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay's examination of the idea of "difference"--between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs and species. The Difference is a breathtaking novel by a writer with an astonishing ability to bring past worlds vividly to life while revealing the moral complexity of our own.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Sisters; Life change events; Ocean travel; Interethnic adoption; Difference (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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