Jean Oram

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Free and Low Cost Crafts, Activities, Games and Family Fun That Will Help You Raise Happy, Healthy Children

Beat the boredom blues and turn those frowns upside down with over 1,000 easy, fun, cost-effective play ideas for toddlers to school-aged kids. There's something for everyone--even parents--in this tried and tested one-stop book from NY Times bestselling author, Jean Oram.

1,001 Boredom Busting Play Ideas

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Christina Schul

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Science

50+ Exciting STEAM Projects to Design and Build

Build Excitement for Engineering Make engineering for kids fun and inspiring. From toothpick towers and marble runs to egg drops and water rockets, Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids is filled with exciting projects that will challenge and delight kids ages 5-10. Kids learn how and why things work as they explore amazing projects all by themselves. These engineering for kids activities also help them discover important STEAM connections, showing how engineering relies on science, technology, art, and math. Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids features: MORE THAN 50 PROJECTS-Learn about different kinds of engineering for kids by constructing shoebox foosball, rubber band race cars and more. EASY-TO-FIND MATERIALS-Create a makerspace-a place to freely start and explore projects-with items readily found around the house. STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS-Engineering for kids is easy with detailed steps that make it simple for kids to take the lead on activities and build on their own. Unlock the world of engineering for kids with Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids.

Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids

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Andrew Clements

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nick Allen has has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned the classroom into a tropical island? But now Nick is in Mrs Granger's class, it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over.

Frindle

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A book to fill out together

Me, You, Us

Kate T. Parker

Life Lessons from the Soccer Field

Life lessons from the soccer field, from the bestselling author of Strong is the New Pretty. A bruised shin, a bloody nose. Racing across the field into the arms of your teammates. Leaping high to save a goal. Getting up at dawn to kick ball after ball into the net. Making friends for life. Teaching your younger sister how to dribble. Sharing cupcakes at practice on your birthday. Going to sleep in your jersey. That’s what it means to be fearless, dedicated, confident, resilient, proud, persistent. It doesn’t matter whether you’re 3 or 63––that’s what it means to play like a girl. “Kate T. Parker is my hero. She moves me. The whole world she has created moves me.”––Drew Barrymore

Play Like a Girl

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John Conrad

Hilarious, Funny, Silly, Easy, Hard, and Challenging Would You Rather Questions for Kids, Adults, Teens, Boys, and Girls!

Would You Rather Questions 4 Everyone!

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W. Bruce Cameron

A Puppy Tale

Now in paperback! Bailey's Story is an irresistible illustrated novel for young readers inspired by the New York Times bestselling A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron Every dog has work to do. Every dog has a purpose. When Bailey meets eight-year-old Ethan, he quickly figures out his purpose: to play with the boy, to explore the Farm during summers with the boy, and to tidy the boy's dishes by licking them clean (only when Mom isn't watching). But Bailey soon learns that life isn't always so simple—that sometimes bad things happen—and that there can be no greater purpose than to protect the boy he loves. Bailey's Story is a moving tale about a dog and his boy for young animal lovers by W. Bruce Cameron, bestselling author of the acclaimed novel A Dog's Purpose. Adorable black-and-white illustrations by Richard Cowdrey bring Bailey and his world to life. A discussion and activity guide at the end of the book will help promote family and classroom discussions about Bailey's Story and the insights it provides about humankind's best friends.

Bailey's Story

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Mary Pope Osborne

Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash.

Vacation under the Volcano

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Judy Blume

When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read hertiger eyes.

Tiger Eyes

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Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a 12-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God. Reissued with a fresh new look and cover art. Simultaneous.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

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Joydom Joydom Coloring

Some use with opening the book but it is not drawn in, no folded edges. 

How to Draw Harry's Characters for Kids: Learn to Draw 40+ of Your Favourite HP Characters (Unofficial)

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Lia Louis

A Novel

In this charming and poignant novel that “oozes charm and wit and speaks beautifully about friendship and love, and the differences between the two” (Laura Pearson, author of I Wanted You to Know), teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it. But fourteen years later, everything Emmie has planned is up in the air. At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached address, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens. Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship—she’s given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, she’s convinced this is the moment he’ll reveal his feelings for her. But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it? Filled with heart and humor, Dear Emmie Blue “beautifully captures the heartache and frustrations of carrying our teenaged selves with us wherever we go” (Anstey Harris, author of Goodbye Paris) that is perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Evvie Drake Starts Over.

Dear Emmie Blue

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Stan Tatkin

Harville Hendrix

How Understanding Your Partner's Brain Can Help You Defuse Conflicts and Spark Intimacy

"What the heck is my partner thinking?" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with good reason. Every person is wired for love differently, with different habits, needs, and reactions to conflict. The good news is that most people's minds work in predictable ways and respond well to security, attachment, and rituals, making it possible to actually neurologically prime the brain for greater love and fewer conflicts.

Wired for Love is a complete insider's guide to understanding your partner's brain and enjoying a romantic relationship built on love and trust. Synthesizing research findings on how and why love lasts drawn from neuroscience, attachment theory, and emotion regulation, this book presents ten guiding principles that can improve any relationship.

Strengthen your relationship by:

* Creating and maintaining a safe "couple bubble"
* Using morning and evening rituals to stay connected
* Learning to fight so that nobody loses
* Becoming the expert on what makes your partner feel loved


By learning to use simple gestures and words, readers can learn to put out emotional fires and help their partners feel more safe and secure. The no-fault view of conflict in this book encourages readers to move past a "warring brain" mentality and toward a more cooperative "loving brain" understanding of the relationship. This book is essential reading for couples and others interested in understanding the complex dynamics at work behind love and trust in intimate relationships.

While there's no doubt that love is an inexact science, if you can discover how you and your partner are wired differently, you can overcome your differences to create a lasting intimate connection.

Wired for Love

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John C. Maxwell

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

Lack of self-awareness is the single greatest obstacle leaders face in their development, effectiveness, and advancement. Dr. John C. Maxwell will help any leader become more self-aware, focused, and confident.

With fifty years of leading and teaching experience, influential leadership expert and speaker John C. Maxwell can help you become your best leadership self.

In The Self-Aware Leader, Maxwell teaches you how to:

 * gauge your effectiveness as a leader,
 * make better choices that lead to success,
 * discover and correct your own mistakes,
 * improve your leadership with the team, and
 * make the right trades in your career.

Self-awareness is key for new and seasoned leaders who want to avoid micro-managing, handle criticism with grace, and give others the credit they deserve. Maxwell also aims to help current and new managers looking to identify their strengths, become a better learner, and improve listening skills.

When leaders don't see themselves clearly, understand their strengths and weaknesses, or recognize their negative interactions with their team, they limit their influence and undermine their own effectiveness. What's the solution? Become a self-aware leader.

The Self-Aware Leader

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A collection of recipes for making your own high end cocktails at home

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks

Cocktails

Melissa de la Cruz

A New York Times and Indie Bestseller--now in paperback! Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Red Queen, this is the first novel in a sweeping YA fantasy-romance duet about a deadly assassin, his mysterious apprentice, and the country they are sworn to protect from #1 NYT bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz. Caledon Holt is the kingdom's deadliest weapon. No one alive can best him in speed, strength, or brains, which is why he's the Hearthstone Guild's most dangerous member. Cal is also the Queen's Assassin, bound to her by magic and unable to leave her service until the task she's set for him is fulfilled. Shadow of the Honey Glade has been training all her life to join the Guild, hoping that one day she'll become an assassin as feared and revered as Cal. But Shadow's mother and aunts expect her to serve the crown as a lady of the Renovian Court. When a surprise attack brings Shadow and Cal together, they're forced to team up as assassin and apprentice. Even though Shadow's life belongs to the court and Cal's belongs to the queen, they cannot deny their attraction to each other. But now, with war on the horizon and true love at risk, Shadow and Cal will uncover a shocking web of lies that will change their paths forever.

The Queen's Assassin

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Bill Bryson

A Memoir

The author describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his remarkably normal 1950s family life.

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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Jessica Schmitz

Jessica Schmitz

@jessica245609

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