self-realization

"We live in a culture where most of us suffer from feeling 'time poor': the feeling of sprinting from morning to night--stressing over too much to do and not enough time to do it. . . . With clear, actionable advice from how to be confident in choosing how to spend your time, to how to sidestep distractions and be present, 'Happier hour' gives you all the tools you need to feel time rich and confidently design your schedule"--Provided by publisher.

Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential.

Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves.

Facing imminent death from a parasitic infection, three teenagers elect to spend their final days on a madcap adventure, and discover a lot about themselves along the way.

Ten-year-old Julia and her family are spending their summer on the Shetland island of Unst, where her father has been hired to automate an old lighthouse. Julia's mother is a marine biologist and she hopes to spend the time finding and studying the elusive Greenland shark, a species that can live up to 400 years, but that has only been seen a few times. As her mother returns empty-handed each day and her grant applications rejected, Julia sees her fall into despair and begins to worry. When her mother's behavior takes a turn for the worse, Julia takes drastic action to find the shark on her own and places herself in grave danger.

Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.

Explores the literary work of Paulo Coelho, including the setting, time period, conflict, and impact of the novel.

"Misty is a sad ghost. The haunted house she lives in is cold and damp. Her living room is full of spiderwebs. And she's too CUTE to be spooky! What Misty needs to do, she thinks, is to be someone else. But will being spooky make Misty happy?"--Provided by publisher.

Provides a path for obtaining contentment, love, and happiness from meaningful work, personal relationships, healthy mind and body, a spiritual core, and a reason for living.

Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of freshman year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who "maintain order" at the new school.