James Gould-Bourn

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Utah

A Novel

A heartwarming, poignant, and charming debut novel for fans of Nick Hornby and The Rosie Project, about a father and son overcoming their grief in surprisingly inventive ways. Danny’s life is falling apart. He’s become a single father to eleven-year-old Will—who hasn’t spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash a year earlier—and Danny has just been fired from his construction job. To make matters worse, he’s behind on the rent and his nasty landlord is threatening to break his legs if he doesn’t pay soon. Danny needs money, and fast. After observing local street performers in a nearby park, Danny spends his last few dollars on a tattered panda costume, impulsively deciding to become a dancing bear. While performing one day, Danny spots his son in the park, and chases off the older boys who are taunting him. Will opens up for the first time since his mother’s death, unaware that the man in the panda costume is his father. Afraid of disclosing his true identity, Danny comforts his son. But will Danny lose Will’s trust once he reveals who he is? And will he be able to dance his way out of debt, or be beaten up before he has a chance? Filled with a colorful cast of characters, Bear Necessity is a refreshingly unpretentious and ultimately uplifting story of a father and son reconnecting in the most unlikely of circumstances.

Bear Necessity

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Illinois

Reflections of Childhood

Designed for maximum eye appeal and strong impulse sales, Cherish Moments feature today's most popular themes. Blended with full-color Victorian images from museums and private collections around the world and gift boxed, they bring to mind the quiet pleasures of life and special moments with friends.

Once upon a Memory

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New Jersey

Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World

REVISED WITH NEW MATERIAL TO HELP PARENTS THROUGH THE PANDEMIC ERA

The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well explores how today's parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future--and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health and happiness.

In The Price of Privilege, respected clinician, Madeline Levine was the first to correctly identify the deficits created by parents giving kids of privilege too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things. Continuing to address the mistaken notions about what children need to thrive in Teach Your Children Well, Levine tore down the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. In Ready or Not, she continues the discussion, showing how these same parenting practices, combined with a desperate need to shelter children from discomfort and anxiety, are setting future generations up to fail spectacularly.

Increasingly, the world we know has become disturbing, unfamiliar, and even threatening. In the wake of uncertainty and rapid change, adults are doubling-down on the pressure-filled parenting style that pushes children to excel. Yet these daunting expectations, combined with the stress parents feel and unwittingly project onto their children, are leading to a generation of young people who are overwhelmed, exhausted, distressed--and unprepared for the future that awaits them. While these damaging effects are known, the world into which these children are coming of age is not. And continuing to focus primarily on grades and performance are leaving kids more ill-prepared than ever to navigate the challenges to come.

But there is hope. Using the latest developments in neuroscience and epigenetics (the intersection of genetics and environment), as well as extensive research gleaned from captains of industry, entrepreneurs, military leaders, scientists, academics, and futurists, Levine identifies the skills that children need to succeed in a tumultuous future: adaptability, mental agility, curiosity, collaboration, tolerance for failure, resilience, and optimism. Most important, Levine offers day-to-day solutions parents can use to raise kids who are prepared, enthusiastic, and ready to face an unknown future with confidence and optimism.

Ready or Not

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Tomie dePaola

Pennsylvania

In the third book following the Newbery Honor-winning 26 Fairmount Avenue, Tomie takes us back to his childhood once more, enchanting readers with more of his warm and funny stories. Whether he's starring in the dance recital, praying for his brand-new baby sister to get over pneumonia, placing his hands in the wet cement to make his mark in the sidewalk forever, or finally learning to read, Tomie dePaola proves to be as winning a storyteller in the chapter-book format as he has been for so long with his beloved picture books. In this third set of delightful adventures the dePaola family continues to welcome readers of all ages into their home.

On My Way

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Great condition. Small black mark on out bottom pages (see pic)

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

The Story of an African Childhood

A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirsRobyn Scott's story of moving at the age of seven to Botswana with her adventure-seeking parents is described by Alexander McCall Smith as "beautifully written" and "acutely observed." It is that and more. Twenty Chickens for a Saddleis an exquisitely rendered portrait of Africa, and of childhood, written by an astonishing new talent. The Scotts are truly one of the most unusual families you are likely to meet. Robyn's father is a flying doctor who always wanted to be a vet. Her mother believes in holistic medicine and homeschooling. Both are deeply eccentric, and under their affectionate but relaxed guidance, life for the children is a daily adventure of the kind usually confined to storybooks. Storybooks-or being read to from them-comprise, it turns out, most of their homeschooled education. That, and searching the surrounding bush for animals (poisonous and otherwise) to let loose in their schoolroom. As a result of the absolute freedom of spirit, thought, and movement that they are given, all three children grow into fascinating, if rather eccentric, characters in their own right. When the family moves to a game farm bordering South Africa, the children become more aware of the darker undercurrents of life in Africa. Here the apartheid mind-set lives on in many of their white South African neighbors. And when at fourteen Robyn begins conventional school in neighboring Zimbabwe, she sees more of the racism initially only glimpsed in Botswana. AIDS also rears its head. Long witnessed by Robyn's father at his village clinics, the existence of the disease is acknowledged by the government too late-only as death, on an unprecedented scale, begins to devastate this peaceful and prosperous African country. Robyn Scott is an extraordinarily gifted writer and storyteller. Like the witch doctors who compete with her father for patients, she weaves a spell from the start. Her funny, moving memoir, told with clear-eyed unsentimental affection, is about an idyllic childhood and a family's enthusiasm for each other and the world around them, with the essence of Africa-both beautiful and challenging- infusing every page.

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

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Michigan

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam's bestseller takes you inside the football genius of Bill Belichick for an insightful profile in leadership.

Bill Belichick's thirty-one years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success--most recently with the New England Patriots. In this groundbreaking book, David Halberstam explores the nuances of both the game and the man behind it. He uncovers what makes Bill Belichick tick both on and off the field.

The Education of a Coach

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#hardcover #romance #fiction #childhood #love #family

Florida

THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY DEBUT OF 2021



This is a story about taking a leap of faith

And believing the unbelievable

 

They say those we love never truly leave us, and I've found that to be true. But not in the way you might expect. In fact, none of this is what you'd expect.

 

I've been visiting my mother who died when I was eight.

And I'm talking about flesh and blood, tea-and-biscuits-on-the-table visiting here.

 

Right now, you probably think I'm going mad. 

Let me explain...

 

Although Faye is happy with her life, the loss of her mother as a child weighs on her mind even more now that she is a mother herself. So she is amazed when, in an extraordinary turn of events, she finds herself back in her childhood home in the 1970s. Faced with the chance to finally seek answers to her questions - but away from her own family - how much is she willing to give up for another moment with her mother?

 

Space Hopper is an original and poignant story about mothers, memories and moments that shape life.



*** Praise for Space Hopper *** 

'A nostalgic, time-travelling romp' The Independent



 'Uplifting' - Cosmopolitan



'A quirky book full of wisdom' - Woman & Home

 

'I really enjoyed Space Hopper. It's such an unusual, intriguing novel. It's the first in ages that actually *interested* me' Marian Keyes



'Prepare to be entranced by this slightly bonkers novel. [...] Brilliantly exploring themes of grief, love and loss, and peppered with cultural references that will delight anyone who grew up in the 1970s, Space Hopper will draw you in and keep you hooked right up until the last page' - Heat, Book of the Week



'Conjuring up Rowan Coleman's The Summer Of Impossible Things and The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Space Hopper is the story of Faye who has a happy and loved life but lost her mother as a young girl. Then she stumbles across a way to travel back through to time to 1977, where she meets both her mother and her younger self. It sounds bonkers but it's beautiful and explores grief, acceptance and love - providing much-needed solace right now'  Stylist

 

'This is a magical, moving story about past and present, grief and healing, choices and yearning. A heart-warming, touching novel'  Platinum

 

'It's hard to believe that this is a debut, it's so confidently written. This is a story that will sing to all'  Woman's Way



'A quirky story, full of love and laughter' Best

 

'Filled with nostalgic references, this heartfelt book is a lesson on living in the here and now' My Weekly

 

'Quirky, magical and wise. A wistful reflection on the love between a mother and daughter' Woman / Woman's Weekly



'Unprecedented times call for unprecedented novels...sounds odd but it works because of Fisher's beautifully clear writing and the radiant sincerity of the heroine...Love, childhood, motherhood; whether you can or should fix the past, it's all in this amazing book' Daily Mail



'A quirky, nostalgic tale' Daily Express

Space Hopper - Blackwells UK Title

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Minnesota

"On the outskirts of Fairbanks, six-year old Robbie meets a mesmerizing girl his own age, and together they explore the mysterious woodland surrounding their homes ... Told as a parable, and vividly observed, Too far is a ... story of an end to innocence that captures the triumphs and follies of the child's imagination as it struggles to remain boundless and free."--Jacket.

Too Far

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Texas

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The War Years

Another chapter in the author's autobiography describes his time as a child in Connecticut during World War II, discussing how he dealt with the war while trying to learn arithmetic and improve his penmanship.

Why?

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First-grader Tomie experiences uncertainty in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. What are the grown-ups talking quietly about at home and even at school? Why does his class have to go to the spooky furnace room for an air raid drill? Why does the family hang thick black curtains on the windows? Tomie's mother is there to comfort and explain the confusion, and Tomie feels better. But he's still scared.

Normal, everyday activities such as Tomie's first music lesson, dance class and Christmas shopping with Dad go on as usual, but the day-to-day effects of the war are always there.

An emotionally strong addition to an award-winning series.

I'M Still Scared

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Louisiana

Real news is a rare commodity in Stay More, Arkansas, but twelve-year-old Dawny -- inspired by his hero Ernie Pyle -- finds enough local color to keep the townsfolk reading his weekly newspaper, The Stay Morning Star. One fixture of the paper is Dawny's regular report on the war between the Allies and the Axis, two roving bands of boys and girls whose fledgling identifies are reflections of the global battles of World War II. Fighting with sticks and spears, and competing in scrap drives and verbal jousts, the children who call themselves "Japs" and "Nazis" know their true enemies to be the "Allies", who are also the town bullies: Sog Alan, Larry Duckworth, and Jim John Witter.

But the tenor of these games changes as developments bring the world's war closer to home: the crackle of the town's first radio delivers bad news on a daily basis, and a native son dies on Iwo Jima. For the first time ever, an airplane darkens the skies over Stay More, and soldiers occupy the isolated hills in training for an invasion of Japan. As the ways of outsiders seep into the tiny hamlet's routines, the texture of rural life is irrevocably changed.

By turns comic, sad, and violent, When Angels Rest is a masterful work, part American tall tale, part hillbilly Paradiso.

When Angels Rest

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Augusten X. Burroughs

Maryland

A Memoir

The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.

Running with Scissors

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#photography #fatherhood #father #children #childhood 

Massachusetts

100 Reasons

Why A Daughter Needs A Dad

George Bird Grinnell

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Frontier Classic of Childhood on the Plains

When Buffalo Ran tells the story of a young, mid nineteenth century Plains Indian, named Wikis. As Wikis grows, he encounters many wild buffalo and enemy tribes. Along the way, he is guided by his uncle, a mentor and tutor, who teaches him all the necessary skills to become an Indian Brave. After dedicating a lifetime to researching Native Americans, Grinnell’s compelling book artistically captures the voice of a young plains Indian, and his life on the plains. Readers will sympathize with Wikis throughout his adventures, laughing, crying and learning new things with him as he grows from a young boy to a skilled and fearsome warrior for his people. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

When Buffalo Ran

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Colorado

Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

Judy Moody

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In Search of Character and Calling

Offers a fresh and imaginative way of looking at the importance of our lives ; not only a new way of seeing, but a way to resurrect the unaccountable and thereby what has been lost of our intrinsic selves.

The Soul's Code

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Tilly Culme-Seymour

Memories of a Norwegian Childhood

A luminescent memoir about a Norwegian island and three generations of women.

Island Summers

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Why A Daughter Needs a Mom

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Washington

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Lizzie McGuire book #2

Someone has a crush on Lizzie McGuire: Larry Tudgeman, the biggest geek in North America. When he asks her out, Lizzie automatically says no, but soon her conscience makes her feel bad about it.

Totally Crushed!

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Lizzie McGuire

New Kid in School

#hardcover #Depression #childhood #friendship #NorthCarolina #lovely #heartwarming

Both delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own.

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James Gould-Bourn

Bear Necessity

Unknown

Once upon a Memory

Madeline Levine

Ready or Not

Tomie dePaola

On My Way

Robyn Scott

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

David Halberstam

The Education of a Coach

Helen Fisher

Space Hopper - Blackwells UK Title

Rich Shapero

Too Far

Albert Lamorisse

The red balloon

Depaola

Why?

Tomie dePaola

I'M Still Scared

Donald Harington

When Angels Rest

Augusten X. Burroughs

Running with Scissors

Gregory E. Lang (author); Janet Lankford-Moran (Photographer)

Why A Daughter Needs A Dad

George Bird Grinnell

When Buffalo Ran

Megan McDonald; Peter H. Reynolds (Illustrator)

Judy Moody

James Hillman

The Soul's Code

Tilly Culme-Seymour

Island Summers

Megan McDonald; Peter H. Reynolds (Illustrator)

Judy Moody

Gregory E. Lang

Why A Daughter Needs a Mom

Megan McDonald; Peter H. Reynolds (Illustrator)

Judy Moody

Kiki Thorpe

Totally Crushed!

Jasmine Jones

New Kid in School

Tony Earley

Jim the Boy