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How to navigate life : the new science of finding your way in school, career, and beyond / by Liang, Belle,author.; Klein, Timothy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An essential guide to tackling what students, families, and educators can do now to cut through stress and performance pressure, and find a path to purpose. Today's college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They're performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they're "supposed" to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder. Then, their mental and physical exhaustion carries over right into first jobs. What have traditionally been considered the best years of life have become the beaten-down years of life. Belle Liang and Timothy Klein devote their careers both to counseling individual students and to cutting through the daily pressures to show a better way, a framework, and set of questions to find kids' "true north": what really turns them on in life, and how to harness the core qualities that reveal, allowing them to choose a course of study, a college, and a career. Even the gentlest parents and teachers tend to play into pervasive societal pressure for students to perform. And when we take the foot off the gas, we beg the kids to just figure out what their passion is. Neither is a recipe for mental or physical health, or, ironically, for performance or passion. How to Navigate Life shows that successful human beings instead tap into their purpose-the why behind the what and how. Best of all, purpose is a completely translatable quality to every aspect of life, from first jobs to last jobs and everything in between"--
Subjects: Academic achievement.; College student orientation.; College students; Educational psychology.; High school students; School-to-work transition.;
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Falling for Figaro [videorecording] / by Latif, Shazad,1988-actor.; Levine, Judi,film producer.; Lewin, Ben,1946-film director,screenwriter.; Lewis, Gary,1958-actor.; Lumley, Joanna,actor.; Macdonald, Danielle,1991-actor.; Palmer, Allen,screenwriter.; Skinner, Hugh,1985-actor.; Wade, Philip(Producer),film producer.; IFC Films,production company.; RLJ Entertainment,publisher.;
Danielle MacDonald, Shazad Latif, Gary Lewis, Hugh Skinner, Joanna Lumley.It follows a brilliant young fund manager named Millie, who quits her job and ends things with her long-term boyfriend to fulfill her dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She begins intense vocal training lessons with a renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan's students who is also training for the upcoming "Singer of Renown" contest. The competition between Millie and Max gradually evolves into something different and deeper.PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Competition (Psychology); Man-woman relationships; Opera; Singing; Voice culture; Voice teachers; Women singers;
For private home use only.
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Happy-go-lucky [videorecording (DVD)] / by Anozie, Nonso,1979-; Channing-Williams, Simon.; Fernandez, Karina.; Hawkins, Sally.; Le Touzel, Sylvestra.; Leigh, Mike,1943-; Maltman, Oliver.; Marsan, Eddie.; Martin, Caroline.; Niles, Sarah.; O'Flynn, Kate.; Roukin, Samuel.; Townsend, Stanley.; Zegerman, Alexis.; FilmFour (Firm); Ingenious Film Partners (Firm); Maple Pictures.; Miramax Films.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Summit Entertainment.; Thin Man Films (Firm); UK Film Council.;
Director of photography, Dick Pope ; editor, Jim Clark ; music, Gary Yershon.Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Stanley Townsend, Kate O'Flynn, Caroline Martin, Oliver Maltman, Sarah Niles, Samuel Roukin, Karina Fernandez, Nonso Anozie.Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social worker guiding one of her students.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; Dolby Digital ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Automobile driver education teachers; Comedy films.; Elementary school teachers; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Optimism; Roommates;
© c2009., Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed in Canada by Maple Pictures,
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Night school [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Butler, Brooke,1976-actor.; David, Keith,actor.; Haddish, Tiffany,1979-actor.; Hart, Kevin,1979-film producer,screenwriter,actor.; Killam, Taran,actor.; Lee, Malcolm D.,1970-film director.; Rajskub, Mary Lynn,1971-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Music, David Newman ; editor, Paul Millspaugh ; director of photography, Greg Gardiner.Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, Brooke Butler, Taran Killam, Keith David, Mary Lynn Rajskub.Suddenly unemployed, thirtysomething dropout Teddy (Kevin Hart) must get his GED so he can land a new job and continue fooling his girlfriend (Megalyn Echikunwoke) into thinking he's not broke. His high school nemesis-turned principal (Taran Killam) sticks him in a night school program run by a tough-as-nails teacher (Tiffany Haddish) who goes to hilarious lengths to whip Teddy and his misfit classmates into shape.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-X, 2.0 DVS ; DTS-HD Digital high resolution audio 7.1 ; Dolby digital 2.0.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; African American men; Evening and continuation school students; GED tests; High school dropouts; Man-woman relationships;
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The deceptions : a novel / by Bialosky, Jill,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A middle-aged poet finds herself adrift in her marriage and life now that her child has moved away to college. Her job teaching Greek myth to high school boys at a prestigious New York City academy has its small pleasures-her students offer surprising insights to stories she's studied for decades-but as her debut poetry collection approaches publication she starts to notice the seams of her life becoming unloosed. The chorus of voices in her life -- a mysterious neighbor in a potentially dangerous situation, a visiting poet at the academy struggling with writer's block, the word-starved dialogue with her distant husband --start to become overwhelming. She finds solace only at the Met, its history and sculptures beckon as a comfort and a warning for what happens to people who love wrongly, who love ambitions. The collapse of her life reaches a fever pitch just as betrayals are revealed all around her, and she must confront the realities of her life or be lost to its mythology forever. Suffused with the motifs of classic Greek mythology, especially the story of Leda and the Swan, The Deceptions is a seductively told, deeply moving exploration of female sexuality and ambition and a celebration of beauty and the invisible yet powerful ties that bind together a marriage, a life, work of art and its beholder"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Empty nesters; High school teachers; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Middle-aged women; Mythology, Greek; Poets; Women authors;
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Everything there is : a novel / by Vassanji, M. G.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada's finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire. Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the first step in a grand unification of forces and a Theory of Everything. A sensitive character, from a small town in undivided India, a family man profoundly influenced by his pious father, Nurul is happily married to Sakina Begum by an arranged marriage. They have three children. But when Nurul travels to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to give a public lecture at Harvard, he falls in love with a graduate student, Hilary Chase. At the same time Nurul Islam's outspoken, philosophical views about the nature of physics and God have earned him the ire of fundamentalist preachers in Pakistan. When approached to contribute to Pakistan's nuclear weapons project, he declines, recalling the catastrophe of India's Partition, thus making enemies of the political and military establishments. Meanwhile, a contingent of physicists begins a smear campaign, claiming that Nurul Islams's contribution to the unification theory was plagiarized from Rosenfeld. All these events link together and converge upon Sakina Begum who, smarting from her husband's betrayal, unwittingly commits a betrayal of her own. Everything that had worked together as though preordained since his childhood to take him to the pinnacle of scientific achievement suddenly falls apart. An intimate and intelligent account of love, honour, guilt and genius, Everything There Is gives us an engaging portrait of a traditional, spiritual man facing the onslaught of inescapable forces."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Betrayal; College teachers; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Physicists; Revenge;
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The wishing game : a novel / by Shaffer, Meg,author.;
"A retired bestselling author hosts a one-of-a-kind competition, with high risks and high rewards-- giving the winner a chance to change lives. Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young students, and one in particular, a seven-year-old orphan named Christopher, has her yearning for a family of her own. The Clock Island books were Lucy's passion and refuge as a child, and now she shares them with Christopher, who's become as big of a fan as she ever was. No matter how badly Lucy wants him in her life, even the idea of adopting him seems out of reach without proper funds and stability. Then a blue envelope arrives at her school, inviting Lucy to compete for the one and only copy of Jack Masterson's final novel in the iconic Clock Island series. No one has seen or heard from Jack Masterson in years, but now four diehard Clock Island fans have received the invitation of a lifetime to stay on his private island and compete for the final installment, and un-published manuscript, of the well-loved series. For Lucy, a chance to read the last-ever Clock Island book is a prize worth playing for, but the possibility of winning and securing a better future for her and Christopher means everything. But first, she must contend with opportunists, cheaters, and, perhaps most distressingly, Jack's illustrator and companion on the island, Hugo Reese, whom Lucy has admired since first reading the books as a girl. All the while, the master of ceremonies, the prolific author himself, has his own secrets to keep-- and a larger plan in the works that will change everything for all of them"--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Books and reading; Contests; Man-woman relationships; Orphans; Single women;
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God's not dead [videorecording (BLURAY)] : a light in darkness / by Corbett, John,1961-actor.; Harper, Shane,1993-actor.; Mason, Michael,film director,screenwriter.; McGinley, Ted,actor.; Taylor, Jennifer,actor.; White, David A. R.,actor.; Yost, Brittany,film producer.; GND Media Group,production company.; Pure Flix Entertainment,production company.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music, Pancho Burgos-Goizueta ; editor, Joseph Sandoval ; director of photography, Brian Shanley.David A. R. White, John Corbett, Shane Harper, Ted McGinley, Jennifer Taylor.A church destroyed. A congregation silenced. A relationship shattered. Yet even in life's darkest valleys, a small flame can light the way toward healing and hope. After a deadly fire rips through St. James Church, Hadleigh University leaders use the tragedy to push the congregation off campus, forcing the church to defend its rights and bringing together estranged brothers for a reunion that opens old wounds and forces them to address the issues that pulled them apart.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1, Dolby digital 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Christian films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Religious films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Jesus Christ; Christian college students; College teachers; Faith; God;
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The Maidens / by Michaelides, Alex,1977-author.;
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession, that further cements "Michaelides as a major player in the field" (Publishers Weekly). Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld? When another body is found, Mariana's obsession with proving Fosca's guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything-including her own life"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; College teachers; Murderers; Secret societies; Psychotherapists;
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Mr. Miracle : a Christmas novel / by Macomber, Debbie.;
"A heartwarming Christmas novel of romance, hope, and the comforts of home. Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help twenty-four-year-old Addie Folsom get her life back on track--and, if the right moment strikes, help her find love. Posing as a teacher at a local college in Tacoma, Washington, Harry is up to the task, but not even he can predict the surprises that lay in store. After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home to Tacoma for the holidays, but this time she plans to stay for good, enrolling in the local community college to earn her degree. What she doesn't plan to do is run into Erich Simmons. Addie and her next-door neighbor, Erich, are like night and day. Growing up, he was popular and outgoing while she was rebellious and headstrong, and he never missed an opportunity to tease her. Now she intends to avoid him entirely, yet when they're suddenly forced to spend Christmas together, Addie braces for trouble. Perhaps it's the spirit of the season or the magic of mistletoe, but Addie and Erich soon find they have more in common than they thought--and that two people who seem so wrong for each other may actually be just right. With a little prompting from a certain angelic teacher, the two are in for a holiday miracle they'll never forget"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Christmas stories.; Love stories.; Guardian angels; Man-woman relationships; Women college students;
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