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All for One and One for Fall!
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2025Ayasha's school is having a costume party and she is so excited! But when Ayasha arrives at school and sees other students wearing fake regalia, she is confused and upset. She doesn't understand why…Catalogue Item
2024Paddington Bear is getting ready for a Halloween party, strictly for family only. He can't wait for the party to start - as soon as he gets home from trick or treating! But nothing goes quite to plan…Catalogue Item
1999A well-to-do little mouse, exploring on her own, experiences both pleasant and frightening adventures before she is safely home again.Catalogue Item
2021Squirrel enjoys looking at the beautiful, colorful leaves, but everyday more and more disappear which makes him think someone is stealing them. Includes information on seasonal leaf loss in Autumn.Catalogue Item
2025"Fox and Mole live alone on a headland, in two houses, side by side. Mole is carefree and self-centred. Fox is responsible and self-sacrificing. As autumn draws in, the friends read a spooky story…Catalogue Item
2025One fall day Bear is getting ready to have a picnic with Mouse. But when it's time to leave together, there is no tap, tap, tapping on Bear's front door. Where is Mouse, small and gray and…
No More People Pleasing! Is It OK? Are You Mad? Sorry!
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Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--and How to Find Our Way Back2025"From a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning, an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma--explaining…Catalogue Item
And Find your Power2024"A practical, empathetic, and inspiring guide to breaking people-pleasing patterns that can harm our careers, relationships, physical, and psychic health."--Publisher.Catalogue Item
A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing, Reclaim Boundaries, and Say Yes to the Life You Want2022"Are you still playing a role you learned in childhood to please others, such as the Good Girl/Boy, the Overachiever, or the Helper? Though these kinds of roles may have gained us attention and…Catalogue Item
How to Stop People-pleasing and Transform the Way You Live2021"[The author] presents an alternative to people-pleasing. Through the stories of people-pleasers across all walks of life she offers insights and techniques that will help you understand yourself…
Mobile Libraries!
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A True Story From Pakistan2025Meet Roshan the camel! He spends his days carrying firewood with his human, Murad, to feed their family. One day, a pandemic sweeps through their home country of Pakistan, closing the schools and…Catalogue Item
2025"Traverse seas, cross deserts, and brave jungles in this adventurous book about real-life librarians. Discover how by boat, by bicycle, or even by biblioburro, these intrepid educators go to the ends…Catalogue Item
2020"Five-year-old Pari accompanies her mother on her library bus rounds for the first time, stopping at a village and a refugee camp so that girls there can exchange books and have a lesson in English.…Catalogue Item
A Librarian's Brave Journey to Deliver Books to Children2021A young librarian rides a pack horse through the mountains to deliver books to children in Appalachia during the Great Depression. Includes historical note on the packhorse library project.
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Library Cat has answers. Life, The Library... what's the difference? If it's out there, it's in here!
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