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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise June 2019
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Library Closed on Sundays The library is closed on Sundays between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend. The library will re-open on Sundays beginning September 8, 2019.
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Summer Reading Program Blast off this June and July and have fun participating in the Summer Reading Program. This all-ages program is a great way to earn prizes just for reading. Starting Monday, June 10, everyone is encouraged to begin reading and recording the number of hours spent reading. Watch as the hours build and your chances to win prizes increase. There are special family events on Thursday mornings at 10:00 AM beginning June 20.
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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
by Emily Nagoski
Explains why women experience burnout differently than men--and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. The gap between what it's really like to be a woman and what people expect women to be is a primary cause of burnout, because we exhaust ourselves trying to close the space between the two. How can you "love your body" when everything around you tells you you're inadequate? How do you "lean in" at work when you're already giving 110% and aren't recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a world that is constantly telling you you're too fat, too needy, too noisy, and too selfish? Sisters Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., the bestselling author of Come as You Are, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of overwhelm and exhaustion, and confront the obstacles that stand between women and well-being.
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Downhill From Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
by Katherine S. Newman
What it's about: the condition of America's retirement landscape, with a sobering look at the increasing financial struggles of retirees and the perils that lie ahead for younger workers.
Why you should read it: this is an issue that affects everyone eventually, whether they are already retired, have retired loved ones who might be struggling, or are young professionals just starting to plan for their own retirements.
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| Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity From Beginning to End by Tia Powell, M.D.What it is: one doctor's poignant exploration of Alzheimer's disease that is part medical history and part memoir.
Why you should read it: Dr. Tia Powell is blunt about the realities of the research into the disease, with particular concerns about when care of existing patients takes a backseat to the search for a cure.
Don't miss: The story of Dr. Solomon Fuller, a pioneering African American doctor who performed ground-breaking research into Alzheimer's in the early 1900s. |
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| Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting by Anna QuindlenWhat it's about: This heartwarming memoir is Anna Quindlen's examination of changing family dynamics and learning respect for boundaries as the author goes from parent to grandparent and must recalibrate her relationship with her child and her own understanding of herself.
Author alert: Quindlen is a Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist who is also known for her fiction, including Still Life With Breadcrumbs and Object Lessons. |
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| Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim HarfordWhat it is: a thought-provoking paean to messiness and chaos (both literal and figurative), which argues that while some things might not "spark joy," they can spark creativity and inventive solutions.
Topics include: the perils of being too organized and too automated; how over-streamlining can lead to a lack of diverse influences and a loss of resilience; some famous innovators whose "disruptions" created new paradigms, like composer Brian Eno and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. |
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Simple Organizing Wisdom: 500+ Quick & Easy Clutter Cures
by Laurie Jennings
In a book packed with tips and tricks, the experts at Good Housekeeping present an inspirational room-by-room guide to tidying up that features advice on finding a place for everything and putting everything in its place.
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| The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family From... by Margareta MagnussonWait, "death cleaning"? Or in Swedish, döstädning, which refers to reducing the clutter in your home (and your life in general) so that your loved ones won't have to do it later.
Sounds kind of morbid. Maybe at first, but the author argues that Swedes don't see it that way and presents her ideas with a surprising amount of charm and humor.
Why you should read it: to prompt conversations that can be as difficult as they are important; to help you reevaluate your relationship with your belongings and make the most of the life you're living now. |
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Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
by Gretchen Rubin
With clarity and humor, bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. And for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution doesn't work. In this easy-to-read but hard-to-put-down book, Gretchen Rubin suggests more than 150 short, concrete clutter-clearing ideas so each reader can choose the ones that resonate most. By getting rid of things we don't use, don't need, or don't love, as well as things that don't work, don't fit, or don't suit, we free our mind (and our shelves) for what we truly value.
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Beginning Spanish Class
Saturdays, June 8 - July 27, 10:20 am
Library Meeting Room
A beginning class in Spanish will be offered for eight weeks beginning June 8. The hour-long class will cover greetings, things around the house, in the house, shopping, traveling, and other topics. There is no charge for the class itself; however a $5 textbook is needed. The textbook will be available for purchase on the first day of class.
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Pokemon Go Community Day
Saturday, June 8, 3:00 - 6:00 PM
Library
Celebrate Pokemon Go Community day every month. The library gym will have a lure placed on it by staff. There will be Pokemon-themed giveaways while supplies last! Call Jonathan at 219-873-3045 for more information.
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First Day of the Summer Reading Program
Monday, June 10, 9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Youth Services
Blast off this June and July and have fun participating in the Summer Reading Program. This all-ages program is a great way to earn prizes just for reading. Starting Monday, June 10, everyone is encouraged to begin reading and recording the number of hours spent reading. Watch as the hours build and your chances to win prizes increase.
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Artist Tristan Vernum: Legend of the 1,000 Cranes
Wednesday, June 12, 4:00 pm
Library
Tristan Vernum has created a work of art featuring 1,000 origami cranes. It is on now display in the library. He will discuss the legend behind the crane and how the Japanese believe anyone who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted a wish from the Gods. Meet Tristan and learn what inspired him to make this beautiful piece of art.
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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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Business & Investing Resources
Find information and library resources on investing, starting and operating a business, business skills & training, forms, economic data, and grants & financing. Also includes contact information for local/national organizations.
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MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the National Institute of Health and other government agencies/health related organizations to answer health questions.
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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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Michigan City Public Library 100 E. 4th Street Michigan City, Indiana 46360 219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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