Fierce Joy

An athlete and cancer survivor tells her story of overcoming fear and becoming a warrior for joy in this inspiring self-help memoir. Susie Rinehart seemed to have it all: a beautiful family, a fulfilling career, and an impressive collection of ultramarathon championship medals. Yet on the inside she felt anxious and hollow, constantly obsessed with being perfect. Then Susie found out that a tumor on her brainstem threatened to take away her voice, and possibly her life. With so much at stake, Susie had to rethink how she wanted to live. In Fierce Joy, Susie tells the incredible true of how she left perfection behind and found joy every day. For anyone who has lost their voice in the never-ending struggle to please others, Susie offers hope. In each section of the book she offers a series of takeaways—lessons she learned when life forced her to slow down and step back.

Reminiscences and philosophical musings of a lifetime runner

A memoir discussing how the author found a way to be sick without suffering and transformed the loss of her place in the world of work into a quest for her soul.

If Fancy Nancy got angry. Really, really angry. Millie is quiet. Millie is sweet. Millie is mild. But the kids at school don't listen to her. And she never gets a piece of birthday cake with a flower on it. And some girls from her class walk right on top of her chalk drawing and smudge it. And they don't even say they're sorry! So that's when Millie decides she wants to be fierce! She frizzes out her hair, sharpens her nails and runs around like a wild thing. But she soon realizes that being fierce isn't the best way to get noticed either, especially when it makes you turn mean. So Millie decides to be nice--but to keep a little of that fierce backbone hidden inside her. In case she ever needs it again. With bright art and an adorable character, it's easy to empathize with Millie. Because everyone has a bad day, once in a while. Praise for MILLIE FIERCE “Millie Fierce is a delightfully naughty mix between Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and Molly Bang’s When Sophie Gets Angry.”--School Library Journal

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