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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences....
3) Just Grace
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Misnamed by her teacher, seven-year-old Just Grace prides herself on being empathetic, but when she tries to help a neighbor feel better, her good intentions backfire.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 78 min.)
Language
English
Description
To forgive someone can be simple. But this simple act can have powerful consequences – and may lead to a personal and spiritual transformation. Recently, the study of forgiveness has come into its own. Researchers are examining the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness under an amazingly wide variety of conditions, ranging from petty insults to sexual assault to 9/11. Clinicians now help guide people to forgive transgressions and get...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 47 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Program highlights Nine rules for getting the best deal. How espionage and empathy get you prepared. How to gain credibility and the most common way to lose it. As a former federal mediator, Pat Cleary has been involved with just about every kind of negotiation. In this entertaining presentation, he shares gems of wisdom from his nearly 20 years of hands-on dispute resolution. Pat describes common negotiation mistakes that unnecessarily complicate...
6) Mockingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Can empathy be taught? The importance of empathy and its impact are explored in A Girl Named October. The title character, October, is ever present as the narrator navigates a life without realizing how even the smallest memories, interactions, and expressions can impact a very large, and often imposing, world. Touching the world is no longer an abstract idea, but a concrete action that reveals how everything we do affects everyone around us."--Provided...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Books in the Just Breathe series provide readers with tools on how to practice mindfulness throughout their day. In Stay Engaged: Practicing Empathy, students will learn about empathizing with other people and their different experiences and perspectives. Readers are provided with helpful exercises, tips, and activities to better manage their thoughts and feelings. The book is written with a high-interest level to appeal to a more mature audience...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Dark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious and spellbinding. Mike Mignola has won numerous awards in the comics industry and beyond. When strangeness threatens...
13) Shy Willow
Author
Language
English
Description
"Willow is shy. VERY shy. Her home is in an abandoned mailbox, and she'd rather stay put. Outside kids scream and soccer balls collide, trees look like monsters, and rain is noisy in a scary kind of way. It's much nicer to stay inside, drawing. But then a young boy drops a letter in Willow's mailbox: it's a note to the moon asking for a special favor. Willow knows that if she doesn't brave the world outside, the letter will never be delivered, and...
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness analyzes recent works of fiction whose principal subject is the attacks of September 11, 2001. The readings of the novels question and assess the validity and potential effectiveness of both the subsequent calls for a cosmopolitan outlook and the related, but no less significant, emphasis placed on empathy, and exhibited in such recent studies as Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilization, Karsten Stueber's Rediscovering...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 212 pages : illustrations, portraits
Language
English
Description
The best strategies in healthcare begin with empathy Revolutionary advances in medical knowledge have caused doctors to become so focused on their narrow fields of expertise that they often overlook the simplest fact of all: their patients are suffering. This suffering goes beyond physical pain. It includes the fear, uncertainty, anxiety, confusion, mistrust, and waiting that so often characterize modern healthcare. One of healthcare's most acclaimed...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As David Brooks observes, 'There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.' And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help...
17) Hellboy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 1940s, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin, who has used his occult powers to summon up a demon from the depths of Hell. However, the demonic creature is captured by American forces, and put in the care of Professor Broom. Under Broom's care, Hellboy develops the desire to do good. Sixty years later he takes action as part of an elite secret defense team alongside Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapian, an aquatic humanoid...
Author
Series
Publisher
Words and Pictures, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oh no, Daddy's nose is red and his eyes are sleepy, he isn't well! I'll be Daddy today and make him all better! Feel Better Daddy is part of Bright Start; a touching new series of board books which combines sweet stories with charming illustrations to nurture emotional intelligence. With parental guidance included, Bright Start introduces and nurtures the emotional qualities that children need in order to develop and grow.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books' previous owners--an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a startling incrimination, but the authors, Hemi and Belle,...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work the overnight shift in this picture book debut. Night after night, a young girl watches her mami set up a cot in the living room for guests in their Washington Heights apartment, like Raquel (who's boring) and Edgardo (who gets crumbs everywhere). She resents that they get the entire living room with a view of the George...
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