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1) Messenger
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Giver quartet volume 3
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now in an updated and expanded paperback edition.
Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Book Award in Science & Cosmology
In his groundbreaking work The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge introduced readers...
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now in an updated and expanded paperback edition.
Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Book Award in Science & Cosmology
In his groundbreaking work The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge introduced readers...
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Narrator Mashkawaji lies frozen in the ice finding freedom in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven primary characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator's will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman who represents their conscience; Sabe, the giant who represents their marrow; Adik, the caribou who represents their nervous system; Asin, the human who represents their eyes and...
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A liberating 12-step guide to recognizing the emotional issues that hold us back, with strategies to increase our energy and help us reach our potential by the health and spiritual advisor to Gwyneth Paltrow.
Based on the powerful mind-body strategy Dr. Habib Sadegh developed to help himself recover from cancer more than twenty years ago, The Clarity Cleanse will enable you to help your mind clear and your body heal. A regular Goop...
Based on the powerful mind-body strategy Dr. Habib Sadegh developed to help himself recover from cancer more than twenty years ago, The Clarity Cleanse will enable you to help your mind clear and your body heal. A regular Goop...
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The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
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Le 29 octobre 1999, Colette Portelance apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'une maladie «incurable». Ce diagnostic et surtout les souffrances physiques et psychiques causées par cette épreuve ont complètement transformé sa vie. Acharnée pendant des années à vouloir guérir son corps, c'est vers la guérison intérieure que la vie l'a conduite et qu'elle a trouvé la paix et la sérénité qu'elle recherchait.
Ce livre, vibrant du témoignage vécu...
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At 28 years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into homes in search of pills. Addled by addiction and chronic pain, Berg meets Alejandro, a reclusive, master boatbuilder, and begins to see a path forward....
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Think you have no time for mindfulness? Think again.
"Thoughtful and provocative.... The relevance of this work is unquestionable, as it leaves us inspired and optimistic that true healing really is possible" (Sharon Salzberg). For four decades, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream. Today millions of people have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as part of their everyday...
"Thoughtful and provocative.... The relevance of this work is unquestionable, as it leaves us inspired and optimistic that true healing really is possible" (Sharon Salzberg). For four decades, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream. Today millions of people have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as part of their everyday...
10) What we find
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Sullivan's Crossing volume 1
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"When a high-risk neurosurgery procedure results in the death of a teenager, Maggie Sullivan finds herself in the middle of a lawsuit. She knows she needs to slow down before she burns out completely, and the best place she can think to do that is Sullivan's Crossing, the land that now belongs to her eccentric father, Sully. But shortly after arriving, Maggie's world is rocked once again and she must take on more responsibility than she'd planned....
12) Witch trial
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Violet Mooney, owner of The Full Moon crystal shop, has inherited magical powers that she doesn't understand from both sides of her family, but when a reporter investigating her and a customer in her shop both turn up dead, she taps into these powers to help her solve the crimes.
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Many of us grapple with how to stay happy, calm, and focused in a world that seems to get more complex by the minute. How do we keep our wits about us, our mood stable, and our memory intact when our brains and bodies are bombarded with information and influences from every side? This one-of-a-kind resource combines cutting-edge science with compassion and wisdom to offer answers we can really use.
Heal Your Mind continues the three-pronged...
Heal Your Mind continues the three-pronged...
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In this book, Robert Bryson, a mechanical engineer specializing in automated manufacture and robotics, who certainly thinks outside the box, discusses aging, breast cancer, and AIDS. He explains how the solution to many of our health problems may be, easier to find than most of us have thought. Bryson reveals how a new type of medicine, which uses engineered viruses, could eliminate diseases that are presently, deemed incurable. He maintains that...
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Are there biological mechanisms that lead to some conditions that can cause a temporary facial paralysis? This is exactly what had happened to Bernice that felt like a dream, but it was far from that. It's looking deeply into the body of self which can open our eyes to our self-destruction, our habits, and our attitudes. It opens the door to identify the things in our lives that give us a sense of inner peace, comfort, strength, and connection. Looking...
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Do you have extreme sciatica? Do you feel as though you can't move without sharp pain? Do you need a break from unending discomfort? Do you feel stagnant, lacking a plan, and ready for a change?
Are you terrified of ending up old having wasted years of your life with sciatica?
If you keep doing what you've always done, your problem will only get worse.
Is this working for you?
“Sciatica: Pain Relief Guide” is a unique book that takes a deeper...
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Re-Membering is a memoir about being congenitally physically disabled and experiencing traumatic brain injury. Millett-Gallant recounts her accident, recovery, and consequential discoveries by engaging multiple genres of writing. Chapters are composed of personal narrative, research on brain injury and art therapy, disability studies and other critical theory, information from medical records, voices from other memoirs, and examples of her artwork....
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We will never forget the pain & loss of past and present experiences. In a time of depression, grief, and loss.
We give tributes to The First Responders and all essential workers for their invaluable service and tireless dedication to the public at large, saving lives and offering grief counseling to grieving families and loved ones so in need of a support system at this time. Just as we overcame all Pandemic in the pass: This too shall pass. In this...
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Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) was born in 980 in Buhara, and died in 1037 in Hamadan, Persia (now Iran). He is a physician, physicist, writer, philosopher and scientist. He was known in the West as the founder of modern science in the medieval ages, the leader of physicians and dubbed as the "Doctors' Doctor". His fame rests on his book, Al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb (The Canon of Medicine) which was regarded as the principal medical work in the field of medicine...
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After twenty-seven years treating patients in emergency rooms, Dr. Mona Balogh noticed a trend: from heart failure to addiction, people chronically use ERs to address disease. These "frequent flyers" are ER regulars with little understanding of their illness or how to help themselves. Dr. Balogh knew these patients deserved more from medicine-there had to be a better way.
In How to Stay Out of My Emergency Room, Dr. Balogh combines Western and Eastern...
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