Stories we tell ourselves

Stories We Tell Ourselves

An examination of how we make sense of the world, from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Stories We Tell Ourselves

A thought-provoking and playful examination of how we make sense of the world, from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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We Are All Constellations

A heartbreaking but hope-filled tale about the stories we tell ourselves to survive...

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Lies We Tell Ourselves

Lie #1: I'm not afraid Lie #2: I'm sure I'm doing the right thing

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Nettles

Nettles is a powerful exploration of memory and violence, excavating the stories we tell ourselves to escape our past.

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May Cause Side Effects

An unforgettable memoir about the turmoil of antidepressant withdrawal and the work it takes to unravel the stories we tell ourselves to rationalize o

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Con Artists

A darkly comedic graphic novel about friendship, fraud, and the stories we tell about ourselves.

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Stories We Tell

Americans love movies and watch a lot of TV. Cosper helps readers effectively engage with and evaluate what they watch, highlighting how the stories w

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Stories We Never Tell

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Stories We Tell

'I thought I'd found myself in a world that, in order for me to fit into it, I had to fold myself up and break myself down. But it's a tight squeeze i

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Faraway Nearby

A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others

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Twist of the Knife

Can we trust the stories we tell ourselves about the past? This is the question tough ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn must ask herself when a cold case come

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Tell

The co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is a probing, exuberant and complex examination of the ways in which we make stories of our lives and of

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Stories We Tell Our Children

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Stories Old Towns Tell

A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history

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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (1472976185)

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Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love - Qureshi Huma, Qureshi Huma

Anotace: A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them.A daughter asks her mother to shut up, only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesn`t understand her; on holiday, lovers no longer make sense to each other away from home.Set across t...

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Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love

A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships.

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Black Vodka

How does love change us? How do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate,

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Time will Tell

Anotace: Time Will Tell is a collection of introspective poetry from bestselling author Courtney Peppernell. Come along and discover what it means to start inward and evolve into the version of yourself the universe knows you can be. From the bestselling author of Pillow Thoughts and Watering the Soul comes another deeply honest and moving collection of poetry and prose...

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Bones: And the Stories They Tell Low Intermediate Book with Online Access

Dinosaurs, Richard III, King Tut, the first humans to walk the earth ...discover what we can learn about the past by studying bones.

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The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe - Kohn Marek

Anotace: A fascinating journey through Europe`s old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent`s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War-some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace an...

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The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe - Marek Kohn

A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility...

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride: the haunting, atmospheric gothic page-turner - Chokshiová Roshani

Anotace: Every fairy tale must come to an end. In the tradition of sumptuous gothic novels like The Cloisters and The Bloody Chambers comes a dark fairy tale-infused story about a cursed friendship and a marriage steeped in secrets - from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi. Once, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman na...

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Reality and Other Stories

In Reality and Other Stories discover how the stories we tell reveal our deepest desires, and point to the meaning of the reality we live in.

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What We Left Behind

â€A moving YA book. And an important one’ – The Telegraph on Lies We Tell Ourselves What if discovering who you really are means

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The Slavic Myths - Noah Charney

<p>A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world. Slavic cultures are far-ranging, comprising of East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and South Slavs (the countries of former Yugoslavia plus Bulgaria), yet they...

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride: the haunting, atmospheric gothic page-turner - Roshani Chokshiová

<p>'LINGERS LIKE A FEVER DREAM' V.E. SCHWAB'INTOXICATING' EMILY HENRYEvery fairy tale must come to an end.In the tradition of sumptuous gothic novels like The Cloisters and The Bloody Chambers comes a dark fairy tale-infused story about a cursed friendship and a marriage steeped in secrets - from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi.Once, a man who beli...

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Wild Card, Let the Tarot Tell Your Story Pan Macmillan

A practical, modern and inspirational illustrated guide to tarot, its stories, meanings and what the cards can teach us about ourselves....

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We Are Displaced

In this powerful and emotional New York Times bestseller, Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai shares various stories of displacement, including her own. Part memoir, part communal storytelling, We Are Displaced introduces readers to some of the incredible girls Malala has met on her many journeys and lets each tell her story - girls who have lost their ...

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How We Got to Today

A will-they-won't-they love story about how the people closest see us the best and, if we lose sight of ourselves, can tell us who we really are.

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On the Origin of Stories

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines HomerÂ’s O

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Trip of One's Own

If Joan Didion was right, and we do tell ourselves stories in order to live, then a travel story is the best story of them all.

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Self-Esteem (Lifebuilder Study Guides)

The world encourages us to love ourselves, believe in ourselves, and tell ourselves that we are beautiful, wonderful, intelligent and capable.

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Damages

A page-turning, thought-provoking novel about the lies we tell other people and the lies we tell ourselves....

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Fit Mind

By tuning into and becoming more aware of the stories we are telling ourselves, we can free ourselves from the thoughts and beliefs that are holding u

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Would I Lie To You? Presents The 100 Most Popular Lies of All Time

There are the lies we tell others, the lies people tell us and the lies we tell ourselves. Each entry in the book is laugh-out-loud funny, and fille

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Kit and Caboodle

Kits tell us more about our club, ourselves and the beautiful game's custodians than we often realise. From the colours, crests, designs and prices we

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Sanity Inspectors

"Who can tell exactly where the difference lies between those of us who imagine ourselves sane and those we call insane?" A novel about a psychiatris

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168 Hours

It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbie

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Somewhere Out There You

A romantic comedy with a twist, playfully unravelling the love stories we weave for ourselves. First performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, as part o

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Suburban Shaman

Presents stories that teach us about ourselves and our attitudes to health and illness, whether we are deliverers or recipients of health care. This b

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Contagious

Argues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have conseq

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How to Live. What To Do.

Instead, they invite us to look and listen - and to live in a way that lets us keep asking' TLSFrom the truths and lies we tell about ourselves to the

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Animal Biographies

What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? Eric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowledg

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You Get That From Me

Three women. Three generations. Three secrets... Emotional, hilarious and uplifting, this is a story of mothers and daughters, the stories we tell our

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Accessioning

Accessioning is an index of lives encased in museum glass, and then brought to life. This is a pamphlet of poems about the stories that we tell oursel

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Very Short Introduction for Curious Young Minds: Ancient Myths, Legends and Superheroes

Ancient Myths, Legends and Superheroes introduces a global selection of the stories we tell to make sense the world, where people came from, and why t

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Incarnation

Poems about children and the stories we tell them, about childbirth, innocence and responsibility and what it means to bring new human beings into thi

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Yarn

Sequel to his acclaimed debut The Crumb Road, Buddhist priest Maitreyabandhu's new collection is about the stories we tell: a vivid and at times distu

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Atlas of the Heart - Brown Brené

Anotace: In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Brene Brown, writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and each other, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories, and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection."In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a ...

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Atlas of the Heart

In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Brene Brown, writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and each other, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories, and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection."In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey th...

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Atlas of the Heart - Brene Brown

<p>In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Brene Brown, writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and each other, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories, and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection." In Atlas of the Heart, Brown tak...

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The Book of Mirrors

An "intelligent and sophisticated" (Lee Child, #1 internationally bestselling author) thriller in the vein of Night Film and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, this tautly crafted novel is about stories: the ones we tell, the ones we keep hidden

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Dominoes: Two: Eight Great American Tales

What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone

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Marseille Tarot

This book aims to cover four basic questions: Why do we read cards? What's so special about the Marseille Tarot? How can the cards uncover our blind spots? What does it mean to live a magical life, when we allow the stories that the cards tell us to offer

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Level 3: Canterbury Tales Book and MP3 Pack - Chaucer Geoffrey

Anotace: A group of pilgrims are travelling together for five days from London to Canterbury. On the way, each pilgrim has to tell a story to keep the others amused. Some stories are happy, and some are sad. But they all have a message, and we can learn from them.

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PER | Level 3: Canterbury Tales Bk/MP3 Pack - Geoffrey Chaucer

<p>A group of pilgrims are travelling together for five days from London to Canterbury. On the way, each pilgrim has to tell a story to keep the others amused. Some stories are happy, and some are sad. But they all have a message, and we can learn from them.</p>

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Empathy Exams

The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act of describing.

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Feminism: A Graphic Guide (1785784900)

Kniha - 192 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Cathia Jenainati, 192 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná What is feminism? Why are we still talking about it, and what can it tell us about ourselves, our societies and prejudices? In this unique, illustrated introduction, we’ll explore the early history of conscious struggle against sexist oppr...

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