Matthew J. Kirby

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Critically acclaimed author Matthew J. Kirby deftly weaves a stunning coming-of-age tale with chilling cleverness and subtle suspense that will leave readers racing breathlessly to the end.Trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig--along with her brother the crown prince, their older sister, and an army of restless warriors--anxiously awaits news of her father's victory at battle. But as winter stretches on, and the unending ice refuses to break, terrible acts of treachery soon make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst. Solveig must also embark on a journey to find her own path. Yet, a malevolent air begins to seep through the fortress walls, as a smothering claustrophobia slowly turns these prisoners of winter against one another.Those charged with protecting the king's children are all suspect, and the siblings must choose their allies wisely. But who can be trusted so far from their father's watchful eye? Can Solveig survive the long winter months and expose the traitor before he manages to destroy a kingdom?

Icefall

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Storm Horse

Evryday Disasters  and Impending Doom

Frazzled

Holly Jackson

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Finale to a Good Girl's Guide to Murder

"The final Good girl's guide to murder novel."

As Good As Dead

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Night Gardening

Yvonne R. Libby-Larson

Judy Herr

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Math

And evaluating creative, interactive bulletin boards. The book focuses on the growth of the whole child and includes theme goals, concepts, vocabulary words, finger plays, music, resources, and experiences in art, math, and cooking. This book is a must-have resource for anyone who works with young children. Book jacket.

Creative Resources for the Early Childhood Classroom

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Teaching reading Comprehension 

Revisit, Reflect, Retell

Practical Strategies to Differentiate your Math Instruction using Small Groups Instructio  and Math Learning Centers

Guided Math

Darlene Mannix

For educators, parents, and others involved in teaching adolescents with special needs, here is a unique collection of 190 illustrated activity sheets with related exercises, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions to help students acquire the basic skills necessary to achieve independence and success in everyday living.

Each activity sheet focuses on a specific skill within the context of real-life situations and includes complete teacher directions for its effective use, from objective and introduction through optional extension activities and ways to assess students' learning.

For quick access, all of these ready-to-use materials are printed in a big spiral-bound format for easy photocopying and organized into seven sections. Here's an overview of the major topics (and sample activity titles) covered in each section:

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS-30 activities focusing on Uniqueness of Myself and Others (Spotlight on Me)...Friendship Skills (qualities of a Good Friend)...Being Part of a Family (Members of a Family)

COMMUNICATION SKILLS-15 lessons that teach Understanding Others (Being a Careful Listener)...Expressing Yourself (Be Convincing)...Conflict Resolution (Compromising)

ACADEMIC & SCHOOL SKILLS-32 activities related to Reading (Reading on the Job)...Writing (Proofreading)...math (Improving Math Skills)...Study Skills (Taking Notes)

PRACTICAL LIVING SKILLS-39 activities focusing of Getting Information (What Do You Need to Know?)...Money Management (Making a Budget)...Travel (Using a Timetable)...Driving (Car Insurance)...Home Management (Home Repairs, Preparing a Meal)

VOCATIONAL SKILLS-22 lessons featuring Present Skills and Interests (What Are You Good At?)...School Record and Planning (Finishing High School)...Working (Interviewing)

LIFESTYLE CHOICES-27 activities covering Values (What Are Values?)...Personal Habits and Choices (Teens and Drinking)...Sexual Issues (Teenage Pregnancy, HIV and AIDS)...Reputation (How You Appear to Others)...Stress (Stressful Events and Situations)

PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS-25 lessons on Handling Problem Situations (Adjusting to Change)...Making Decisions (Needs vs. Wants)...Resource Management (Staying on Task)...Goal-Setting (Realistic Goals)...Risk-Taking (Learning from Mistakes)

Also included is a list of parent activities which can be reproduced and given to parents to use in conjunction with the activities being worked on in class. You may supplement thus list with your own activities and/or worksheets to provide extra reinforcement of new skills.

You'll find these activities are completely flexible. You can use them in any order for a variety of purposes-to introduced, teach and/or reinforce specific life skills. Moreover, the activities can easily be modified to meet individual or group needs.

Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs

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Sophie Kinsella

After the worst day of her life, Emma Corrigan spills her darkest secrets to a stranger on an airplane, but when he re-emerges in her life, she will have to face the things she said to him, and her growing feelings for him. 125,000 first printing.

Can You Keep a Secret?

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Michael White

Tom Corcoran

Practical Tools to Strengthen Your Preaching and Teaching

In Rebuilding Your Message, the award-winning authors share their carefully honed communication practices to help priests, staff, volunteers, and parishioners better proclaim the irresistible and life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ at every level.A parish doesn't just communicate its mission from the pulpit. Teaching and preaching also happen in classes and small groups, in bulletins, on the church website and social media, and through volunteers who welcome visitors through its doors. In Rebuilding Your Message, Michael White and Tom Corcoran--authors of the bestselling books Rebuilt and Tools for Rebuilding--share dozens of strategies to help Catholic parishes establish and sustain excellent communications.

Rebuilding Your Message

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Maria G. Dove

Andrea Honigsfeld

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

English Language Arts Strategies

"The elementary years are a critical opportunity to help students of all backgrounds meet the demands of the Common Core Standards. In this realistic, thorough book, Maria Dove and Andrea Honigsfeld show how to help every K-5 student, including English Learners, students with disabilities, speakers of nonstandard English, and other struggling learners, meet the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts (ELA)."--Publisher description

Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K-5

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Liesl Shurtliff

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.

Rump: the True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

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Gary Chapman

Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn’t love—it’s your love language. Each one of us responds well to a different type of expression of love. The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional is your daily guide for expressing heartfelt love to your mate in a way that he or she can appreciate it.

The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional

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Dakota Krout

Weapons, power, wealth! All of this can be found within the dungeons of the world. You just need to survive long enough to claim them.

Dungeon Born

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And Other Stories

The Unfinished World

Michael Mosley

Discover the Ideal Fasting Formula to Shed Pounds, Fight Disease, and Boost Your Overall Health

Discover the next major “health revolution” (The New York Times) with this cutting-edge new program from #1 New York Times bestselling author of The FastDiet that will help you lose weight, beat disease, and live longer with intermittent fasting. Millions of people worldwide have lost weight and reversed disease using Dr. Mosley’s The FastDiet, which revealed the incredible power of intermittent fasting. Clinical studies show that fasting not only helps you lose weight fast, but also improves blood sugar levels and heart health, boosts brain health and function, and is even proven to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence. Drawing on the latest research and his personal experience gaining and then losing 14 pounds, “the world’s top gut health guru” (Dr. Barry Marshall, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine) returns with an even more effective—yet easier to follow—diet plan designed to reap maximum fasting benefits. The Fast800 Diet pinpoints the ideal fasting calorie count for health and weight loss: 800. Built around a more manageable 800-calorie fasting day—whether that’s 800 calories every day until you achieve your goals, or 800 calories twice a week—Dr. Mosley’s powerful three-phase program is designed to supercharge weight loss and fast-track a healthier life: *Phase 1: a powerful jumpstart designed to accelerate weight loss. *Phase 2: fast twice a week to sheds pounds without slowing your metabolism. *Phase 3: discover how to keep the weight off—without calorie counting. Complete with over fifty-five delicious recipes, four weeks of meal plans, and inspiring success stories, The Fast800 Diet is a simple and life-changing program that gets you real-world results.

The Fast800 Diet

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Delia Owens

In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a heartbreaking coming of age story and a surprising murder investigation. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens's debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Where the Crawdads Sing

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Greg Smalley

Erin Smalley

12 Secrets for a Lifelong Romance

Every couple who wants a happy marriage will appreciate the revitalizing secrets in Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage. In it, Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley explore the traits of a healthy and thriving marriage.Based on research of thousands of strong couples across the country, the twelve essential elements outlined are not only biblically based; they also chart a course for a romantic adventure that will last a lifetime.With practical advice and stories from their own marriage and counseling experiences, Greg and Erin guide couples to find ways to work around roadblocks in their current relationship and to intentionally create communication patterns that will take them to emotionally safe places.Yes, marriage can have its twists and turns. But the detours don't necessarily have to lead couples off course. Greg and Erin help couples map out a journey for their marriages so that they can enjoy the passionate and intimate relationship that God has promised.

Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage

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James Frankie Thomas

A Novel

A BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO: NPR * Vanity Fair * The Paris Review * Vox James Frankie Thomas's novel Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, refracting the traditional coming-of-age story through queerness, trans identity, and the early days of the social Internet Idlewild is a small, artsy Quaker high school in Lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence. It is during one of those morning meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Fay is a prickly, aloof rich kid who is obsessed with gay men; Nell is a shy, sensitive scholarship student who is obsessed with Fay. The two of them bond fiercely over being the only two openly queer kids at Idlewild and spend their waking hours giddily parsing everything around them for homoerotic subtext. Then, during rehearsals for the fall play, they notice and befriend two sexually ambiguous boys, Theo and Christopher. The pairs become mirrors of one another and drive each other to make mistakes that they'll regret for the rest of their lives. Looking back on these events as adults, Fay and Nell, who haven't spoken in 15 years, trace that fateful school year in alternating perspectives, recalling backstage intrigue, antiwar demonstrations, boisterous teenage performances of identity, and smutty fanfic written over AIM and a shared dial-up connection--as well as the events that were, ultimately, both their making and their unmaking.

Idlewild

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Peter Haas

How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

With an entertaining blend of social-scientist-meets-sage, Peter Haas provides a penetrating look at our faith that just might reveal our own hidden Pharisees. Through a series of autopsies, Haas bypasses the cheap church-make-over solutions and cuts straight to our deepest need: a Pharisectomy.

Pharisectomy

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Derek Fridolfs

Field Trip Disaster

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Brendan Deneen

It's been a long day for baby Groot and he's ready to be tucked in for bed. Just as his eyes start to close, Rocket Raccoon bursts onto the scene! Groot can't go to sleep yet, there's a whole galaxy that needs to be defended and they must work together to save the day! Then maybe, just maybe, Groot will finally get the rest he deserves!

Night Night, Groot

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The Official Rubber Chicken Practical Jokes and Riddles Book

Bobby Washington

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