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2) The warmth of the heart prevents your body from rusting: a French recipe for a long life, well-lived
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013, 2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A leading clinical psychologist from France outlines a groundbreaking approach to aging that encourages positive awareness, wisdom and spiritual enrichment while urging readers to resist media-driven impulses to fight the aging process. By the award-winning author of Intimate Death.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simon the rabbit does not want to go to his first day of school, but by the time his mother comes to take him home, he is having such a good time that he does not want to leave.
8) Persepolis
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution....
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
[2008], ©2008
Language
English
Description
Portrayal of palliative caregiver Stephen Jenkinson. This film shows Tim Wilson's dealing with his denial of his own death where he almost succumbed to an illness, and coping with the near death of someone close to him. Jenkinson explains something that is uncomfortable for most Westerners to hear, that death and grief are woven into the fabric of life and that death is something to be 'befriended'.
11) On a Clear Day
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's the ultimate personal challenge--swimming the English Channel. As Frank Redmond (Peter Mullan_ plunges headlong into his new life, his friends get swept up in his quest, filling his training with laughter and camaraderie as he prepares for the most extraordinary test of human endurance.
13) To Die For
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
In a small town in New Hampshire, a media sensation erupts over a murder case against Suzanne Stone, in which she is accused of persuading teenagers to kill her husband, Larry Maretto. Obsessed with becoming a TV personality, she viewed her husband's desire for children as an impediment to her career.
15) The natural
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A once-promising baseball player on his way to stardom in the big leagues, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy," comes back to baseball, joins the roster of the lowly New York Knights to see if he can overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him and lead his team to the pennant.
16) Life, animated
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ron Suskind describes how his high-functioning autistic son, Owen, learned to cope with his handicap from a young age by memorizing the dialogue of Disney movies and having his family play the roles of the animated characters.
17) The parakeet
Author
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press/Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An account in graphic novel format, based on the author's own experiences, of a boy coping with his mother's suffering from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, showing how mental illness can both tear families apart and reaffirm the bonds of love"--
18) Persepolis
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane "Marji" Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
Language
English
Description
For Sergeant Adam Schumann (Miles Teller) -- and many soldiers like him -- the process of leaving combat back in Iraq was as seemingly simple as getting on that plane. But standing on the tarmac again in the arms of loved ones would turn out to be merely a first step in the long and exacting journey of actually returning home. Follow a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living...
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