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Mind and Body Fitness February 2017
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Volunteer Tutors Needed
Do you love to read? Share it with someone else. The Learning Center is in need of a few good people! We have students on a waiting list for tutoring assistance, especially for reading. Give just a few hours a week. You can make a big difference in the lives of students in our community. Reading is truly FUNdamental. Consider joining the fun! Volunteer! Call 219-873-3043 or stop by the library and see Jessica.
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Two Homes, One Childhood: A Parenting Plan to Last a Lifetime
by Robert E Emery
Researcher, therapist, and mediator Robert Emery, Ph.D., details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce, cohabitation breakups, and childbearing outside of marriage. Emery explains that a parenting plan that lasts a lifetime is one that grows and changes along with children’s—and families’—developing needs. Parents can and should work together to renegotiate schedules to best meet the changing needs of children from infancy through young adult life. Emery introduces his Hierarchy of Children’s Needs in Divorce and provides specific advice for successful parenting, starting with infancy and reaching into emerging adulthood. He advocates for joint custody, but notes that children do not count minutes and neither should parents. Himself the father of five children, one from his first marriage, Emery brings a rare combination of personal and professional insight and guidance for every parent raising a child in two homes.
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8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise
by Christina Hibbert
We all know that exercise is good for physical health, but recently, a wealth of data has proven that exercise also contributes to overall mental well-being. Routine exercise alleviates stress and anxiety, moderates depression, relieves chronic pain, and improves self-esteem. Christina Hibbert, a clinical psychologist and expert on women's mental health, grief, and self-esteem, explains the connections between exercise and mental well-being and offers readers step-by-step strategies for sticking to fitness goals, overcoming motivation challenges and roadblocks to working out, and maintaining a physically and emotionally healthy exercise regimen. This book will help readers to get moving, stay moving, and maintain the inspiration they need to reap the mental health benefits of regular exercise.
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ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life
by Stacy T. Sims
Because most nutrition products and training plans are designed for men, it's no wonder that so many female athletes struggle to reach their full potential. ROAR is a comprehensive, physiology-based nutrition and training guide specifically designed for active women. Complete with goal-specific meal plans and nutrient-packed recipes to optimize body composition, ROAR contains personalized nutrition advice for all stages of training and recovery. Customizable meal plans and strengthening exercises come together in a comprehensive plan to build a rock-solid fitness foundation as you build lean muscle where you need it most, strengthen bone, and boost power and endurance.
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Fusion Workouts: Fitness, Yoga, Pilates, and Barre
by Helen Vanderburg
Fusion Workouts: Fitness, Yoga, Pilates, and Barre combines four disciplines that will help you gain strength, muscle definition, flexibility, balance, and overall mind–body health. It guides you through a five-step system accounting for your fitness level, goals, time available, activity preferences, and more. Then select from 15 ready-to-follow workouts, or mix it up and create your own. You’ll find more than 100 exercises and poses along with easy-to-follow guidelines for sequencing them for maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and enjoyment.
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Focus on: Animals and Human Health
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| The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyIncapacitated at age 34 by a virus that wreaked havoc on her nervous system, author Elisabeth Tova Bailey was almost completely immobilized and had to rely on a caregiver and friends for everything. After someone brought her a wild snail with some flowers in a pot, Bailey became fascinated with its activities and found that observing it gave her a new purpose in her extremely circumscribed life. In The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, she relates details of her illness, but keeps her focus on the snail, adding scientific information about mollusks that she learned after she got better. Kirkus Reviews calls this memoir a "charming, delicate meditation on the meaning of life." |
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| A Dog's Gift: The Inspirational Story of Veterans and Children Healed by Man's Best Friend by Bob DruryAfter former military counterintelligence officer Terry Henry and his 12-year-old daughter saw what their golden retriever had to offer residents of a nursing home, they started a service dog organization to provide people in need of healing with assistance dogs. A Dog's Gift describes how they founded paws4people.org, details their training methods, and relates moving stories about matching the dogs with their new owners. This uplifting tale also relates how Henry found his own healing from PTSD through his paws4people work. Both dog-lovers and people-lovers will find inspiration here. |
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| Weekends with Daisy by Sharron Kahn LuttrellDaisy the Labrador retriever lived five days a week in a prison, where she was a pupil in the National Education for Assistance Dog Services program, which employs prison inmates as dog trainers. On weekends, Daisy went to live with journalist Sharron Luttrell, who volunteered to help with the dog's accommodation to life in the "real world." Keith, Daisy's trainer in the prison, and Sharron often consulted about training matters, and Sharron's family played a big role in Daisy's life at their house. Weekends with Daisy offers an inspiring and lively account of assistance dogs and the lives of their humans -- both in and out of prison. |
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| Comet's Tale: How the Dog I Rescued Saved My Life by Steven D. Wolf with Lynette PadwaComet's Tale relates how macho, workaholic attorney Steven Wolf refused to admit that his spinal condition significantly impaired his ability to work, until his law firm forced him to resign. Moreover, Wolf's attitude angered his wife, who wanted a separation. When Wolf moved alone to Arizona for its warm winter climate, loneliness and depression magnified his physical pain. Then he learned about greyhound rescue and adopted -- or was adopted by -- Comet, who began helping him with simple tasks. Wolf trained her to be his service dog, and their relationship healed both his psychological state and his marriage. Booklist calls this a "wonderful salute to the power of man's best friend." |
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Angels Among Us: A Valentine Feeling
Thursday, February 9, 2:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
Listen to and share inspiring stories about the presence of angels in our everyday lives. Ange Benz will guide you to connect with your angel.
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Duneland Stamp Club
Thursday, February 9, 6:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
The Duneland Stamp Club meets the second Thursday of each month. New members are invited.
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Cocoa & Coloring
Sunday, February 12, 1:30 pm
Library Meeting Room
Coloring isn't just for kids! It can be helpful for adults, too. It can help us de-stress as we focus on a particular activity and forget our worries. Coloring generates wellness, quietness and also stimulates brain areas related to motor skills, the senses and creativity. Join us for a relaxing afternoon of this activity. Light refreshments will be served. Coloring sheets and colored pencils will be provided. Adults only, please.
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Axis 360 eBooks
Find popular fiction, non-fiction, and picture e-books and e-audiobooks for children, teens, and adults! It's simple--just download the app on your device, search for "Michigan City Public Library", and log in with your library card number and PIN.
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Alt HealthWatch
Alt HealthWatch™ focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full-text articles for 200 international, and often peer-reviewed, journals and reports.
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Health & Wellness Center
Resource center for all levels of health research. Get instant access to medical reference and periodical materials that you can trust. Log in with your library card number.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
A collection of more than 300 consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. Also includes current health-related pamphlets, health reference books, Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Log in with your library card number.
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Library Catalog
Look up books and other materials, place items on hold, and more.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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