This memorable classic about friendship follows eternal optimists George and Lennie who share a common dream – to own some land of their own.

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A delightful picture book with simple, playful text, perfect for the preschool set to learn about friendship. Before the book came along I was just filling sketchbooks with my observations and there wouldn’t have been so much of a narrative, but when the book came along and we talked about creating this story that’s more relatable for people, it increased the excitement around an idea of creating a body of work that had a flowing narrative. If you don’t believe loneliness is a universal malady with significant personal and societal consequences, read this book and you shall be convinced. In my stories and this selection of books, we find families pretending everything is under control, when the reality is nobody knows what they are doing. Years later, after having a family of my own, I realized that in my own selfishness and pride, I didn’t appreciate or learn from those shared experiences the valuable opportunities to be together with my family.This is a great primer on how to recognize and express your own attachment style and use that self-knowledge to become a better partner and find the right one for you. The book will be a welcome resource for everyone working in these fields as well as for the informed readers who wish to obtain a thoughtful update on the current developments of these interventions. Just as vocalists harmonizing together moves us emotionally, praying together in unity moves God and unleashes his power in our lives. Through the years of reconstructive surgery, Ann and Lucy’s bound remains strong only to be separated by Lucy’s death at a young age. This text opens us up to the power of collectiveness and how practitioners have applied the group approach to support individuals and communities heal and overcome emotional difficulties, suffered as a result of rights violations and abuse.

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He’s surely doing a public service by shining the light and lightening the stigma from something that’s very real and we all experience at one time or another. It found that people with strong social relationships are 50 per cent less likely to die prematurely than people with weak social relationships. By creating better connections with our friends and our communities, we can lead healthier lives and help our friends be healthier. A Move Towards Groupwork: Addressing Complex PTSD in Survivors of Torture through Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and LGBTQ Peer Support Groups. During the early days of World War II, Southern boy Gene Forrester attends an elite New Hampshire boarding school.

Socially awkward Eleanor Oliphant has the habit of saying exactly what she thinks and much prefers to spend her weekends at home talking on the phone to her mother. In the United States, which prides itself as an individualistic culture, loneliness has become the disease people don't want to talk about because it makes them seem weak. Profound, empathic, ultra-savvy about the plight of disconnect and the power of human connection in the digital age, Murthy has his finger precisely on the pulse of what ails us as a nation and as a world, and what we can, and really have to all do about it, each in our own way—together. Each book chapter presents a very unique country context which enables the reader to broaden their understanding of groupwork and how it can be applied in multiple contexts. If you are looking for books about friendship for your children to read, you can’t go wrong with the acclaimed novel, Wonder.

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In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini covers thirty years in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion to the post-Taliban years. He gives voice to the plight of most 10-year-olds: realising that his parents are not all-powerful superheroes, that they cannot save him from the world, and they may not be able to save themselves.Jude Boylesis a psychological therapist who specialises in working with refugees and survivors of human rights abuses. This family story could have been played for tears, but the writing is tight and unsentimental, and all the more powerful for it. It also discovered that the impact of loneliness on reducing life span is equal to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and that it poses a greater risk than obesity or excessive alcohol consumption.