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• Before We Forget Kindness

  Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-

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  Tucked within a small back alley in Tokyo is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. The regular patrons know the café's legend by heart: if they follow the rules, they'll be allowed the unique…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell Me Everything

  Strout, Elizabeth,

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  From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" ( The Boston…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Channel Kindness

  Stories of Kindness and Community

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  For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kindness can change the way we view one another, our communities, and even ourselves. She embodies this mission, and through her work,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Little Kindness

  Bartolj, Marta,

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  When one act of kindness sparks another... anything is possible! As a girl searches for her lost dog, a simple act of generosity ripples into a wave of good deeds. In the course of a single day, this considerate action weaves lives…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• EO

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  Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let's Fill This World With Kindness

  True Tales of Goodwill in Action

  Stewart, Alexandra (Alex),

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  Kindness is a superpower! We all feel the weight of the world on our shoulders sometimes. It's easy to forget how powerful we are. Through more than twenty-five true stories in these pages, you'll discover that no matter who you are or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Collected Regrets of Clover

  Brammer, Mikki,

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  What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vulnerables

  Nunez, Sigrid,

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  Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Living Kindness

  Metta Practice for the Whole of Our Lives

  Griffin, Kevin Edward, 1950-

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  A fresh look at the Buddhist principle of metta, or loving-kindness. Dharma teacher Kevin Griffin demonstrates that metta is not just a meditation practice-it's a radical, selfless way of life based in universal love for all beings. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Kindness

  Dean, Kim, 1969-

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  Kindness is cool! Pete the Cat shares some groovy words on kindness in this fun collection of his favorite famous quotes about sharing, lending a helping hand, and having compassion for others. Cool cat Pete adds his own spin on well-known…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brownstone

  Teer, Samuel,

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  When her white mom gets the opportunity to tour as the star of an international dance show, Almudena must spend the summer in the city with Xavier, the Guatemalan father she’s never met. To make things more complicated, Almudena doesn’t…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lala's Words

  Zhang, Gracey,

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  Every day, no matter how hot, Lala carries a pot of water around the corner to a patch of dirt and concrete, waters the tiny weeds sprouting there, and whispers words of encouragement to her plant friends; then, on the hottest day of all,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The War for Kindness

  Building Empathy in a Fractured World

  Zaki, Jamil, 1980-

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  A Stanford psychologist offers a bold new understanding of empathy, revealing it to be a skill, not a fixed trait, and showing, through science and stories, how we can all become more empathetic.