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Talking about death won't kill you / by Morris, Virginia.;
The award-winning author of How to Care for Aging Parents addresses the cultural, personal, medical, and legal ramifications of death as it explains how prepare, along with loved ones, the living wills, advanced medical directives, DNRs, value history forms, letters, and wills that allow the dying to control their own demise.
Subjects: Death; Death;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The irresistible introvert : harness the power of quiet charisma in a loud world / by Chung, Michaela,author.(CARDINAL)414129;
Part 1: Coming home to yourself -- The extrovert's way: a road map to nowhere -- The way out is in: finding your inner compass -- Navigating energy roadblocks -- Overcoming mental obstacles -- Sidestepping communication conundrums -- Rediscovering your emotions -- Taking a turn toward self-love -- Part 2: Revealing your inner irresistible -- Peeling back the mask of extroversion -- Confidence is an inside job -- The inner game of intrigue -- Your voice: the gateway to connection -- The language of the body -- Crossing the circle: lessons in introvert dating -- Introverted intimacy."Learn the tools to shed your mask of extroversion, develop your own magnetism, and reveal the true you. One third to one half of Americans are introverts in a culture that celebrates-even enforces-an ideal of extroversion and a cult of personality. Political leaders are charismatic, celebrities bask in the spotlight, and authority figures are assertive. It is no surprise that a "quiet revolution" has begun to emerge among the "invisible" half of the population, asserting that they are just as powerful in their own unique ways. The Irresistible Introvert embodies the spirit of this revival and breaks down the myth that charisma is reserved for extroverts only. This mini manifesto shows introverts how to master the art of quiet magnetism in a noisy world-no gregariousness required! Within these pages, you'll discover how to shed the mask of extroversion and reveal a more compelling (and authentic) you. You'll also learn how to: [dot below] Master the inner game of intrigue [dot below] Manage your energy for optimal engagement [dot below] Create an emotional ecosystem for charisma [dot below] Establish introverted intimacy [dot below] Cultivate communication skills for quiet types As a "professional" charismatic introvert, author Michaela Chung demonstrates that you no longer have to forcefully push yourself outward into the world against your nature, but can rather magnetize people inward toward the true you. In the process, you'll learn to embrace your "innie life" and discover potential you never knew you had"--
Subjects: Introverts.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Success.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 5
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Little Rabbit / by Songsiridej, Alyssa,author.;
"Cleanness meets Conversations with Friends in this sly, sensual, daring debut novel about art, autonomy, and the thin line between power and submission. When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency in Maine, it's not a match. He thinks her serious, guarded, always running away to write. She finds him loud, conceited, domineering. But when he reappears in her life in Boston and invites her to his dance company's performance, she's compelled to attend. Their interaction at the show sets off a summer of expanding her own body's boundaries: She follows the choreographer to his home in the Berkshires, to his apartment in New York, and into submission during sex. Her body learns to obediently follow his, and his desires quickly become inextricable from her pleasure. She wants it; this must be happiness, right? Back in Boston, her roommate Annie's skepticism amplifies her own doubts about these heady weekend retreats. What does it mean for a queer young woman to partner with an older man, for a fledgling artist to partner with an established one? Is she following her own agency, or is she merely following him? Does falling in love mean eviscerating yourself? Then why has her writing never been better? Is this transcendence or surrender? Combining the sticky sexual politics of Luster with the dizzying, perceptive intimacy of Cleanness, Little Rabbit is a wholly new kind of coming-of-age story about female lust, punishment, and the language-defying desires that challenge the hard won boundaries of the self"--
Subjects: Erotic fiction.; Novels.; Choreographers; Women authors; Bisexual women; Multiracial people; Roommates; Sexual dominance and submission; Interpersonal relations; Self-actualization (Psychology); Bisexual women.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Love, again : the wisdom of unexpected romance / by Pell, Eve.(CARDINAL)173988;
"In Love, Again, Eve Pell beautifully and thoughtfully concludes that life experience adds dimensions to the art of connection--and that we all stand to learn something from unexpected romance. How do old people meet new loves? Eve Pell was 68 when she convinced a friend to set her up with Sam Hirabayashi. Ten years her senior, Sam, a fellow runner, was handsome and sweet. Soon Eve and Sam were plunged into a giddy romance that began with a date at the movies. "It was crazy," Pell writes. "It was wonderful." Pell wrote about their romance in a New York Times Modern Love column and received a wave of responses from people who recognized their own stories in hers. This thing, this late-in-life love: It's growing, it's everywhere, and it's transformative. In staggering numbers, old people are meeting and falling in love--in senior living facilities, in retirement homes, in bars, in grocery stores, on cruise ships, on the Internet--brazenly, quietly, unexpectedly. People once written off as too old for intimacy are having romances, beginning intense affairs once thought to be for the young. Part memoir, part journey to a new frontier, Love, Again is illuminating and heartwarming. Speaking with poets and artists, a retired nurse and a retired coach, environmentalists, philanthropists, and teachers--couples whose partners' ages range from 61 to 96--Pell reports on their relationships, from saying hello to knowing they'd found the one, from blending routines and traditions to overcoming judgments and challenges. These widows, widowers, divorces, and never-marrieds open up about old love versus young, the thrill of sex, and the looming shadow of mortality. At the core of this book is wisdom: what we all can learn from the experience, regardless of age. Fall in love with who someone is now--not who they someday might be. Always be honest, but don't feel pressure to share everything. And most of all: The heart can continue to expand. Advance praise for Love, Again "After several disappointing marriages and relationships, Eve Pell, in her seventh decade, dared to love again. Sam Hirabayashi, whom she loved and lost, was the inspiration for this book. She decided to seek out others who had found love in their final years. Her career as an investigative reporter served her in discovering such couples and learning their stories, which, along with her own love story, she imparts with fluency and zest. Love, Again is a joy to read, full of humor and heart and sweet collective wisdom, a book for all ages."--Susan Trott, author of the Holy Man Trilogy "I remarried at 75 and have followed one hundred marriages from age 50 on. Eve Pell knows what she is talking about. Her book is touching, eye opening, inspiring, and very wise. In addition, it is beautifully written."--George E. Vaillant, M.D., author of Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study "In this inspiring exploration of fifteen late-in-life romances, Eve Pell illustrates the human appetite and capacity for romantic love at any age. As these men and women--widowed and divorced, gay and straight--share their stories of forging deep connections in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and, yes, 90s, they deliver a heartwarming message: We are never too old for new love."--Jill Smolowe, author of Four Funerals and a Wedding: Resilience in a Time of Grief"--
Subjects: Older people; Love.; Love in old age.; Older people;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Henry Moore : sculpting the 20th century / by Kosinski, Dorothy M.(CARDINAL)197034; Andrews, Julian,1934-2010.(CARDINAL)156720; Dallas Museum of Art.(CARDINAL)175863; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.(CARDINAL)152526; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)(CARDINAL)141262;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Henry Moore (1898-1986) is arguably one of the most famous and beloved sculptors of the twentieth century, yet in recent decades his work has fallen out of favor in the world of contemporary art criticism. This handsome catalogue examines this intriguing contradiction and seeks to reassess Moore's crucial contributions to art of the last century. Looking at Moore's early engagements with primitivism, his 1930s dialogue with abstraction and surrealism, and his postwar interest in large-scale public sculpture, the authors show how the sculptor helped to define some of the most significant aspects of early modernism. The authors also contextualize within the polemics of early modernism Moore's emphasis on direct carving instead of modeling and the necessary balance between abstraction and what he called the "psychological human element." Moore's early sculpture--largely unfamiliar to the general public--is given particular attention, enabling the reader to explore the evolution of thematic and formal elements in his work and his ongoing response to different materials. The book traces the notable change in Moore's career, from private to public, and from radical to mainstream. It also explores Moore's embracing of large-scale work in bronze, as well as the role and meaning of his sculpture as prominent works in public spaces. Photographs, some by Moore himself, of over 200 works, including plasters, maquettes, carvings, bronzes, and drawings, are featured, many of which are previously unpublished."--book jacket.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Moore, Henry, 1898-1986;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The ice chorus : a novel / by Stonich, Sarah,1958-(CARDINAL)702911;
In this tender, elegantly told love story, Liselle flees her native Toronto for a small village on the coast of Ireland. As she slowly incorporates herself into the lives of the villagers, Liselle re-creates the circumstances surrounding the bitter breakup of her 18-year marriage. When she accompanied her workaholic husband on an archaeological dig in Mexico, she met Charlie, a gifted painter. Their intense affair prompts her realization of how she has avoided intimacy ever since she found her father dead and discovered that he had led a double life during her teen years. Although she is now aware of the many ways she has settled for less in her life and marriage, she is slow to act. Then Charlie mounts an art exhibit consisting of eight shockingly intimate portraits of her, forcing her to make a decision.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Romance fiction.; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The gift of limitations : finding beauty in your boundaries / by Hagerty, Sara,1977-author.(CARDINAL)408260;
"Are you feeling stretched to your limits and wish those limits weren't there at all? Bestselling author Sara Hagerty asks: "What if your greatest weaknesses--the areas of your life you resent the most, the places where you feel the most overextended and unfulfilled--are your doorway to rich intimacy with God? What if your limitations were, in fact, your greatest gift?"It's all too much. Too much laundry and too many bills. Too many appointments, meetings, and open tabs on our browser. Yet in the midst of so much, we feel deprived. Limited. We make another family dinner while shelving our passion for art. We tend our tiny patch of grass while envying the time our neighbor has to garden. We go to bed exhausted, too tired to enjoy a few minutes with our own thoughts.As a writer, speaker, and mother of seven, Sara Hagerty knows what limitations feel like. Yet she has also seen how the boundaries of our life circumstances can bring about growth and satisfaction we'd never experience otherwise. With the poetic voice, gentle validation, and deep spiritual insights that have made Sara's books so popular, The Gift of Limitations explores how to:Name the limitations that haunt us and how we have unknowingly given them power; Open our eyes to what God can do with the weaknesses we resent; Discover what God's Word says about living within our limitations; Understand what embracing our limits looks like in everyday life; Recognize when we are pushing ourselves too far; Understand how God sees weakness and how He has used it in the lives of great believers; Dream again while remaining tethered to God's best story for us; Release the shame and frustration of our weaknesses. In The Gift of Limitations, you will learn to see the beauty and peace God provides in the midst of our life circumstances--and the deep spiritual growth we can experience through the limitations that we once thought held us back"--
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology); Christian life.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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I can't believe I just did that : how seemingly small embarrassments can wreak havoc in your life-- and what you can do to put a stop to them / by Allyn, David(David Smith);
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Embarrassment.; Embarrassment; Courage.; Success;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Make your way home : stories / by Moore, Carrie R,1993-author.;
When we go, we go downstream -- Cottonmouths -- All skin is clothing -- Surfacing -- Morning by morning -- Gather here again -- In the swirl -- Naturale -- The happy land -- How does your garden grow? -- Till it and keep it."In eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities, Make Your Way Home follows Black men and women who grapple with the homes that have eluded them. A preteen pregnant alongside her mother refuses to let convention dictate who she names as the father of her child. Centuries after slavery separated his ancestors, a native Texan tries to win over the love of his life despite the grip of a family curse. A young deaconess who falls for a new church member wonders what it means when God stops speaking to her. And at the very end of the South as we know it, two sisters seek to escape North to freedom, to promises of a more stable climate. Artfully and precisely drawn, and steeped in place and history as it explores themes of belonging, inheritance, and deep intimacy, Carrie R. Moore's debut collection announces an extraordinary new talent in American fiction, inviting us all to examine how the past shapes our present-and how our present choices will echo for years to come"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Short stories.; African Americans; Interpersonal relations; Belonging (Social psychology);
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Mind-body medicine [sound recording] : the new science of optimal health / by Satterfield, Jason M.; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Includes bibliographical references in guidebook.Lectures by Jason M. Satterfield, University of California, San Francisco."Mind-body medicine--working in tandem with traditional medical practice--makes use of a large spectrum of psychological, physical, and behavioral treatments, drawn from many disciplines, in an approach to health care that aims to treat the whole person. It provides highly effective resources for preventing and treating a wide range of medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, stress, cancer, and depression--as well as for fostering the ultimate goals of health care: truly optimal and lasting physical health, and emotional and psychological well-being. A knowledge of this exciting field offers you critical understanding of the state of the art of health care and a significant new direction in medicine. But beyond valuable knowledge, a grounding in mind-body medicine gives you numerous practical, empowering tools for your own health care, as well as that of your family--tools that can make a profound difference for healthful, vibrant living. In Mind-Body Medicine: The New Science of Optimal Health, you'll study this subject in compelling depth, with the expert guidance of Professor Jason M. Satterfield of the University of California, San Francisco. These 36 eye-opening lectures offer you a comprehensive overview of the field, providing rigorous answers to the questions of what makes us sick, what makes us well, and what we can do about it"--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Mind and body.; Health.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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