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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens.

Light from Other Stars

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

A parent's love is like a brilliant diamond, shedding its light on a child in countless ways-and who better to write about it than Thomas Kinkade, the beloved Painter of Light(TM), and his wife Nanette? Their own experience with four daughters has taught them how a parent's love can take many forms: vigilant, focused, creative, compassionate, tough, playful, visionary, and releasing. Through every beautiful scene the couple illustrates our ultimate goal-a love like our heavenly Father's, giving us the ability and the will to love our children as He has loved us

The Many Loves of Parenting

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Florida

Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children

Now in paperback, the national bestseller that's changing America, one student at a time fter publishing his New York Times bestseller The Essential 55, award-winning teacher Ron Clark took his rules on the road and traveled to schools in 49 states. He met amazing teachers, administrators, students, parents-all kinds of people involved in bringing up great kids. In the best of them, he noticed the same qualities that he'd observed in many of the outstanding individuals he'd worked with during his time teaching in North Carolina and Harlem.

The Excellent 11 

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Missouri

Having lost her beloved valedictorian son in a tragic car accident, Alice Peterson begins to experience encouraging visions of her son, which are also witnessed by the late boy's troubled nine-year-old brother.

Johnny Angel

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Illinois

An irrepressible ten-year-old must reconcile her fantasies with reality in this beautifully written novel about facing the future.

Although eleven-year-old Kobi's parents sailed into a storm at sea five years ago, she knows they are alive. If she says "Avanti!" she can see them. Now that her wealthy Parisian Grandmama is sending Kobi and her sister away to live with Uncle Wim in Iowa, she will need the magic words her mother left her more than ever. To fit in at her new American school , Kobi tells lies that soon catch up with her, and leans heavily on her magic. In a heart-wrenching climax, she must confront not only the untruths she has told others but the stories she has made herself believe. Only then will she be able to grieve for her parents and move on with her life.

27 Magic Words

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A raw, absorbing, tender, and witty novel about a woman's long-overdue reckoning with memory, truth, and the multiverse of familial love.

Elin Henriksen is a middle-aged single parent under pressure. Her formidable mother's health is declining, her fearless teenage daughter wants to leave but won't say where, and the new high school principal has problems with her unorthodox teaching of physics.

And then there is the upcoming ceremony at the Art Museum. In ten days, a gallery will be named after her late father, Tig Henriksen, a modernist furniture designer whose sought-after cult pieces hide a troubled narrative. With a mixture of anticipation and dread, Elin prepares to reunite with her once-estranged siblings--Mette, a free-spirited singer-songwriter, and the serious, emotionally distant architect Casper--hoping they'll finally grapple with hard truths they've so far refused to accept.

In the countdown to the event, as her daughter's risk-taking mounts, her mother's fragility intensifies and strange packages land on her doorstep (including a yellow-eyed dog), Elin's only relief is confiding to a dead physicist.

Struggling with the paradoxes of truth and clarity, love and witness, genius and ambition, and her own ambivalent connection to her confessor, she inches toward confronting not just the explosive potential of memory but the costly fallout of silence.

Told with dazzling insight, intelligence, and compassion, Half Life is a beautifully rendered story about family truths and the profound human need to be believed.

Half Life

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Kansas

From Preschool to High School--How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence

Bestselling author and parenting educator Barbara Coloroso explains the phenomenon of bullying and the explosive proportions it has reached in our society, explaining what parents and other caregivers can do to recognise and help bullies and their victims before the violence becomes entrenched or tragically escalates.

Barbara Coloroso draws on her decades of work with youth, parents, and educators, to reveal the dynamics that give rise to bullying and what parents, schools, and communities can do to stop, heal, and prevent it. She reveals:

. the essential triad - the bully, the bullied, and the bystander - that allows bullying to happen;

. the difference between bullying and teasing;

. what to do if your child is the victim of a bully;

. what to do if your child bullies - how to mend and restore rather than isolate and punish the bully;

. how to defuse hostility and teach six steps for conflict resolution;

. a constructive alternative to zero tolerance.

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander

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New Hampshire

A Novel

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

Room

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California

An American sailor courts a young Japanese woman and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

How My Parents Learned to Eat

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Many kids today are more afraid of becoming "fat" than they are of war, cancer, or losing their parents.Body image issues are often the precursor to eating disorders, which have been skyrocketing for young kids. Studies indicate that 80% of 10-year-olds have already caught the "I Feel Fat" Spell. Mirror, Mirror teaches kids (and you) how to break that spell. Written by two psychotherapists, this insightful book begins with a story about a Mirror Witch who casts the "I Feel Fat" Spell on children. A series of "Spell Breakers" will then help kids to question their "Unkind Mind" and learn how to love their bodies. If you know any children who are suffering from painful body image issues, this is the book for them.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

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Georgia

From Malls to Meals to Messaging and Beyond





Let's face it, how we behave is a choice, and as you move into adult life, the choices get more complicated. You are out in the world, meeting all kinds of people and going different places on your own. Questions of etiquette seem to pop up everywhere you go:

 * What's the latest on cell phone use and netiquette
 * How can you make a good impression at college and job interviews
 * What fork do you use
 * How do you attach a boutonniere without sticking your prom date
 * And what is a boutonniere, anyway

Not to worry, help is at hand!

Teen Manners: From Malls to Meals to Messaging and Beyond is a useful guide that answers questions that come up in real life from the most trusted name in etiquette: Emily Post.

Teen Manners

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Updated March 2016. All too often, trying to help students prepare for, select, and be accepted into the right college or university feels a bit like a roll of the dice . . . plain old luck. Instead, allow The College Advising Handbook to assist you in getting a handle on the process. This short handbook covers the following subjects:- Helping your college-bound kid- Deciding on a college- Preparing for a college in 11th grade- Preparing for a college in 12th grade- Deadline checklist for juniors and seniors- Researching colleges- What colleges actually want- Checklists for visiting and interviewing colleges- Early Decision programs- Preparation for standardized testing- Writing and submitting your college applications- Financial aid and scholarshipsand much more!

The College Advising Handbook

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Maryland

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Arizona

Ruth loves to bake cakes. When she is alone, she dreams up variations on recipes. When she meditates, she imagines herself in the warm, comforting center of a gigantic bundt cake. If there is a crisis, she bakes a cake; if there is a reason to celebrate, she bakes a cake. Ruth sees it as an outward manifestation of an inner need to nurture her family—which is a good thing, because all of a sudden that family is rapidly expanding. First, her mother moves in after robbers kick in her front door in broad daylight. Then Ruth’s father, a lounge singer, who she’s seen only occasionally throughout her life, shatters both wrists and, having nowhere else to go, moves in, too. Her mother and father just happen to hate each other with a deep and poisonous emotion reserved only for life-long enemies. Oh, yes indeed! Add to this mix two teenagers, a gainfully employed husband who is suddenly without a job, and a physical therapist with the instincts of a Cheryl Richardson and you’ve got a delightful and amusing concoction that comes with its own delicious icing. One of Jeanne Ray’s specialties is giving us believable, totally likable characters, engaged in the large and small dramas and amusements of life.Eat Cakeis whimsical, warm, and satisfying.Eat Cakeis Jeanne Ray at her best. Pull up a chair and eat cake!

Eat Cake

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Michigan

A Caldecott Award Winner

Winner of the 1991 Caldecott Medal 



Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story?

Black and White

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New York

The Science of Raising Happy Kids

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Essays

Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena is a collection of lyric essays exploring the ways grief forces us to transform our memories into stories in order to survive. Written in the wake of the early deaths of her parents, this book follows Melissa Wiley as she crisscrosses countries and continents to escape her pain before she begins the quieter work of acceptance at home.

Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena

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10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness, and Thug Culture

“At this very moment, through no fault of their own, our boys are caught in the vortex of four powerful, insidious, often invisible forces which conspire to rob them of their future.” We medicate, discipline, suspend and expel our boys from school at quadruple the rate of girls. We let double the number of boys drop out of high school than girls, and of those boys who do graduate, they are far more likely than their sisters to be illiterate, to fail to go to college, or to drop out of college if they do go
 
SWAGGERis a wakeup call for parents about the real world our boys inhabit right now, but it offers solutions as well. From how to teach your boy humility (the swagger anti-venom), to “making your home a reading mecca,” creating an expectation of college graduation, and how to teach your boy to be critical of the media onslaught in his life, this book is also packed with research-proven, parent-tested, teacher-approved practical solutions, delivered in the author’s trademark no-nonsense, often humorous, take-charge voice.

 

Swagger

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Pennsylvania

A Keepsake Book

Our Family Tree 

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And with Parents in Difficult Situations

This book helps teachers, principals, superintendents, and all educators develop a repertoire of tools and skills for comfortable and effective interaction with parents. It shows you how to deal with the parent who is bossy, volatile, argumentative, aggressive, or maybe the worst - apathetic. It provides specific phrases to use with parents to help you avoid using "trigger" words which unintentionally make matters worse. It will show you how to deliver bad news to good parents, how to build positive credibility to all types of parents, and how to foster the kind of parent involvement which leads to student success.

Dealing with Difficult Parents

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"A few weeks after Dad passed away," says H. Jackson Brown, Jr., the compiler of A Father's Book of Wisdom, "we found eight shoeboxes in his closet filled with scraps of paper all covered with ideas Dad thought were profound, interesting, or merely amusing."The result is one father's view of life and what he thought about the importance of self-reliance, commitment, love, generosity, and success. It contains 159 quotes from Socrates, Eleanor Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Mother Teresa, and many others covering such topics as achievement,courage, happiness, parenting, success, and values.Quotations such as "If you're looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem" and "Life doesn't come with an instruction book - that's why we have fathers" communicate an upbeat, positive view of the world that will inspire and charm the reader. It is the perfect gift book for Father's Day, graduation, or any time of the year, and may even inspire you to jot down a few notes of your own.

A Father's Book of Wisdom

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North Carolina

Hannah tries to avoid behaving like her embarrassing parents, but her plans become complicated when she falls hard for a cute coworker but then discovers that another, the one who annoys her the most, has fallen hard for her.

Something, Maybe

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Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Thongs: Stupid underwear. What's the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell. Full-Frontal Snogging: Kissing with all the trimmings, lip to lip, open mouth, tongues ... everything. Her dad's got the mentality of a Teletubby (only not so developed). Her cat, Angus, is trying to eat the poodle next door. And her best friend thinks she looks like an alien -- just because she accidentally shaved off her eyebrows. Ergghhhlack. Still, add a little boy-stalking, teacher-baiting, and full-frontal snogging with a Sex God, and Georgia's year just might turn out to be the most fabbitty fab fab ever!

Erika Swyler

Light from Other Stars

Thomas Kinkade

The Many Loves of Parenting

Ron Clark

The Excellent 11

Danielle Steel

Johnny Angel

Sharelle Byars Moranville

27 Magic Words

Krista Foss

Half Life

Barbara Coloroso

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander

Emma Donoghue

Room

Ina R. Friedman; Allen Say (Illustrator)

How My Parents Learned to Eat

Andrea Wachter; Marsea Marcus

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Cindy P. Senning; Sharon Watts (Illustrator); Peggy Post

Teen Manners

Larry Stephenson

The College Advising Handbook

Emma Donoghue

Room

Jeanne Ray

Eat Cake

David Macaulay

Black and White

American Parenting Society

The Science of Raising Happy Kids

Melissa Wiley

Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena

Lisa Bloom

Swagger

Barbara Briggs Morrow

Our Family Tree

Emma Donoghue

Room

Todd Whitaker; Douglas J. Fiore; Douglas Fiore

Dealing with Difficult Parents

H. Jackson Brown

A Father's Book of Wisdom

Elizabeth Scott

Something, Maybe

Louise Rennison

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging