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3) Just Grace
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Series
Just Grace volume 1
Language
English
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Misnamed by her teacher, seven-year-old Just Grace prides herself on being empathetic, but when she tries to help a neighbor feel better, her good intentions backfire.
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English
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"A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion. Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking, even as pundits argue over whether we should bother empathizing with our political opposites at all. Meanwhile, we are inundated with the buzzily termed "empathic...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"According to Michele Borba, the woman Dr. Drew calls "the most trusted parenting expert in America," there's an empthy crisis among today's youth, who she dubs the "selfie generation." But the good news is that empathy is a skill that can -- and must -- be taught, and in UNSELFIE (her first book for a general trade audience) Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood"--
"Bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For highly sensitive people, there are days when life's challenges seem to pile up and become completely unmanageable. This is especially true in an era as stressful and fast paced as ours. Few people know this as well as Dr. Judith Orloff, who has devoted her life to providing empaths and all sensitive people with the tools they need to avoid overwhelm and burnout, and also to thrive in every aspect of their lives. This in-depth, full-length audio...
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English
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"The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship. A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother,...
12) Starlight's edge
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Series
Language
English
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Following her time traveling boyfriend David into the future to New Earth, Zee struggles to find her place and continue her career as an empath, but when David vanishes during a mission to Pompei on the eve of the Vesuvius eruption, Zee must try to save him.
15) Wally & Freya
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Freya the fox takes the time to ask Wally, a known bully, why he acts the way he does, which leads all the animals to a surprising discovery.
16) Ride the wind
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Javier has a secret. On one of his father’s fishing trips, still hurting from the loss of his mother, he finds an albatross caught on the hooks—alive, if only barely. Against the orders of his father, who has been distant and disparaging, Javier smuggles the bird to safety and begins nursing it back to health. Every day the albatross accepts a little more food, but she shows no sign of wanting to use her wings. And if Javier's...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""A powerful book about how we can raise girls to become bold, ambitious women." --Adam Grant A former White House strategist and fighter jet pilot now at the helm of one of the premier schools for girls in the country illuminates the ways parents and educators can support audacity and ambition in girls everywhere What do girls really need to succeed? As a student at the all-girls Baldwin School outside of Philadelphia, Marisa Porges was raised in...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this bright and joyous picture book readers follow a day in the life of a young gender non-binary child. A child gets ready for a wonderful day. They gleefully get dressed, hug their parents, go to school, and play with friends. All the while, unapologetically reminding themselves that they are and can only be themselves. The non-binary experience is brightly illustrated as we follow our main character through their typical day. The story's bouncy...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As a journalist suddenly skeptical of the power of words to tell the deepest truths of other people's stories, Jeff Sharlet turned to taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram- images that he then reflected on in words of extraordinary intimacy and power. A visionary work of radical empathy, this collection of images and reflections is framed by the two years between his father's heart attack and his own, a time defined by insomnia and late-...
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