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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise August 2018
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| Changeable: How Collaborative Problem Solving Changes Lives at Home, at School... by J. Stuart AblonWhat it is: a fresh approach to tackling problem behaviors without exacerbating them, relying on empathy, skill-building, and collaborative communication.
About the author: J. Stuart Ablon is a renowned psychologist and the author of The School Discipline Fix.
Why you might like it: Featuring illuminating research in neuroscience, Changeable offers a "useful paradigm" (Library Journal). |
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The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good With Money
by Chelsea Fagan
The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don’t care about personal finance. Whether you’re in need of an overspending detox, buried under student debt, or just trying to figure out how to live on an entry-level salary, The Financial Diet gives you tools to make a budget, understand investments, and deal with your credit. Chelsea Fagan has tapped a range of experts to help you make the best choices for you, but she also knows that being smarter with money isn’t just about what you put in the bank. It’s about everything―from the clothes you put in your closet, to your financial relationship habits, to the food you put in your kitchen (instead of ordering in again). The founder of "The Financial Diet" blog outlines practical advice for securing a healthy financial life, explaining the basics of creating a budget, choosing worthwhile investments and managing credit responsibly while negotiating for raises and learning how to afford small luxuries.
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Yoga Fitness for Men
by Dean Pohlman
Mobility is one of the most important, yet overlooked elements of your fitness. Stretching and strengthening with yoga to improve mobility is proven to help you increase your gains in the gym, prevent and relieve aches, and help you beat your competition on the field. With straightforward language and easy-to-follow steps, Yoga Fitness for Men will teach you how to execute the yoga postures you need for greater endurance, flexibility, balance, and strength. Workouts and multi-week programs are tailored to your specific performance and health goals, such as increased core strength, rotational power, or back pain relief.
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Get Money: Live the Life You Want, Not Just the Life You Can Afford
by Kristin Wong
What it is: an introductory guide to personal finance management, brimming with humor and encouraging advice.
What's inside: game-like activities and assignments to help readers make sense of their spending habits.
Chapters include: "Power Up with an 'Oh, Crap, I Didn't See That Coming' Fund," "Learn to Negotiate Like a Shark (or at Least a Piranha)."
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The Organized Child: An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid's Potential-In School and in Life
by Richard Gallagher
Are you sick of nagging your child to write down homework assignments? Is his or her backpack a black hole that eats up papers, books, and gym clothes? Organizational skills problems aren't just frustrating--they get in the way of school success and wreak havoc at home. This unique resource presents a scientifically tested program to teach your 7- to 13-year-old how to organize school materials and toys, track assignments, improve time management, create and follow effective routines, and overcome brain "glitches."
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Plan and Finance Your Family's College Dreams: A Parent's Step-by-Step Guide from Pre-K to Senior Year
by John A Hupalo
Wondering how to best prepare and plan for your child's future? Learn about 529 Savings Plans, federal and private credit student loans, college planning and the college admissions process. Featuring age-appropriate guidance with grade-by-grade direction for children of all ages, and detailed information on financing and successfully applying to college, the book outlines the latest information and best strategies to save, plan and succeed in the college preparation and admissions process
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Middle School Makeover: Improving the Way You and Your Child Experience the Middle School Years
by Michelle Icard
Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. The book helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other issues that kids today face. Learn what is happening in the brains of tweens and how these neurological developments affect decision-making and questions around identity. The book also addresses social media, dating, and peer exclusion. Using both recent research and her personal, extensive experience working with middle-school-aged kids and their parents, Icard offers readers concrete and practical advice for guiding children through this chaotic developmental stage while also building their confidence.
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| Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You're Not) by Beth KoblinerWhat it is: a thorough and practical guide for parents to help their children develop financial literacy skills, empowering kids and parents alike to make informed decisions on everything from incentivizing chores to paying for college.
Did you know? Research shows that money habits are formed by the age of seven. |
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What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
by Taylor Mali
An impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever. Teacher turned teacher’s advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem “What Teachers Make,” a passionate and unforgettable response to a rich man at a dinner party who sneeringly asked him what teachers make. Mali’s sharp, funny, perceptive look at life in the classroom pays tribute to the joys of teaching…and explains why teachers are so vital to our society.
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Duneland Stamp Club
Thursday, August 9, 4:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
The Duneland Stamp Club meets the second Thursday of each month. New members are invited.
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Michigan City Chamber Music Festival Children's Concert
Saturday, August 11, 12:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
The Michigan City Chamber Music Festival presents a free concert featuring youthful performers from the Summer Choral Camp, the studio of Nic Orbovich, and music students from other teachers in the Michigan City area. It’s a celebration of sharing the love of music between generations, and nurturing the youthful response. Please come and support our young musicians!
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Bookmarks: The House Girl
Friday, August 17, 2:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
Hilda DeMuth Lutze will review The House Girl. The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia. Featuring two remarkable, unforgettable heroines, Tara Conklin’s The House Girl is riveting and powerful, literary fiction at its very best. This program will also be offered at the Westchester Township Museum in Chesterton on Thursday, August 16 at 2:00 pm.
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Movies in Washington Park: Paddington 2
Friday, August 17, Dusk
North Pointe Pavilion, Washington Park
The Michigan City Parks and Recreation Department and the library collaborate for the summer’s final Movie in Washington Park. Paddington Bear tries to buy an antique book for his aunt’s 100th birthday, but his quest brings him into conflict with an unscrupulous actor who also wants the tome. Rated PG. The movie will be shown in the North Pointe Pavilion at dusk.
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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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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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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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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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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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