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“If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?”
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.”
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.”
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Executive Power
― Executive Power
“The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing threats too readily.”
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
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When anyone on the TODAY team is looking for a book recommendation, there is only one person to turn to: Jenna Bush Hager. Jenna will select a book a ...more
Mock Printz 2026
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Reading the best of the best in Young Adult literature published in the previous year. Our goal is to find the book the American Library Association's ...more
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