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OverDrive eBooks September 2018
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"There's no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story." -- Tobias Wolff
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Old School
by Tobias Wolff
During his senior year at an elite New England prep school, a young man who had struggled to find it with his contemporaries finds his life unraveling thanks to the school's obsession with literary figures and their work during a visit from an author for whose blessing a young writer would do almost anything. By the author of This Boy's Life. A first novel.
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The Chatham School Affair
by Thomas H. Cook
Nominated for a 1996 Edgar Award for Best Novel, a critically acclaimed crime story focuses on a young woman who becomes the center of a tragedy that shatters five lives in a Cape Cod village.
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Seven Ways We Lie
by Riley Redgate
A chance encounter tangles the lives of seven high school students, each resisting the allure of one of the seven deadly sins, and each telling their story from their seven distinct points of view.
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Accelerated
by Bronwen Hruska
Single dad, Sean Benning, begins to question the ethics and motives behind the administration at his son's accelerated school for the gifted and talented, when he is being pressured to put his son on medication for ADD.
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All We Ever Wanted : a Novel
by Emily Giffin
When her golden-boy son posts a controversial photograph of a scholarship student online, triggering a local scandal, a wife and mother finds herself sympathizing more with the girl's family than her own. By the best-selling author of First Comes Love.
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September 26th is National Women's Health and Fitness Day
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The Recovering Body : Physical and Spiritual Fitness for Living Clean and Sober
by Jennifer Matesa
"In our former lives as practicing alcoholics and addicts, we likely punished our bodies as much as our minds. And yet, recovery programs often neglect the physical, focusing primarily on the mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of staying sober.In The Recovering Body, popular health writer and Guinevere Gets Sober blogger Jennifer Matesa provides simple, effective ways for addicts to heal the damage caused by substance abuse, whatever our age, lifestyle, or temperament. Combining solid science and practical guidance, along with her own experience and that of other addicts, Matesa offers a roadmap to creating our own unique approach to physical recovery."
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Pick Your Yoga Practice : Exploring and Understanding Different Styles of Yoga
by Meagan McCrary
"Millions practice yoga, but what kind? Hatha, Ashtanga, Bikram, Iyengar? Hot room, flowing, or held postures, with or without meditation and chanting? And everyone practices for different reasons - weight loss, strength training, injury healing, relaxation. Those new to yoga should know they have choices (so as not to be put off by one bad fit), and regular practitioners should know that there are dozens of ways to expand or reinvigorate their routine. This is the first yoga book to help everyone interested understand all their options."
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Eat Move Sleep : How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
by Tom Rath
In Eat Move Sleep, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath delivers a book that will improve your health for years to come. While Tom's bestsellers on strengths and well-being have already inspired more than 5 million people in the last decade, Eat Move Sleep reveals his greatest passion and expertise. Quietly managing a serious illness for more than 20 years, Tom has assembled a wide range of information on the impact of eating, moving, and sleeping. Written in his classic conversational style, Eat Move Sleep features the most proven and practical ideas from his research. This remarkably quick read offers advice that is comprehensive yet simple and often counterintuitive but always credible.
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