Staff Picks
“We Are Who We Choose To Be”
It's never too late, or too early, to make a resolution to improve yourself, even if you are Green Goblin, and the path to a better you can lead through the Des Plaines Library.
If you prefer your inspirational quotes to come from a good guy rather than a bad guy, we can all nod sagely with Albus Dumbledore as he states:
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Waiting for a new year is not the best time to choose to make improvements in your life: the optimal time is right now.
It can take a great amount of effort to change the smallest things in our lives, but once we are able to jump the track of our daily routine, new prospects abound.
And those possibilities also thrive here at our library in a spectrum of opportunities of our on-shelf items as well as all of our website resources (Lynda.com, Hoopla, Kanopy, etc.) that you can use from the comfort of wherever you're at!
Here are a few examples:
Exploring Nature in Illinois: A Field Guide to the Prairie State
by Michael Jeffords and Susan Post
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts - Becoming the Person You Want to Be
by Marshall Goldsmith
Tahini and Turmeric: 101 Middle Eastern Classics--Made Irresistibly Vegan
by Ruth Fox and Vicky Cohen
Kayaking
Edited by Jeremy Oyen and Pamela Dillon (Book + DVD)
Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
by Jaggi Vasudev