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Heart-Centered Teaching Inspired by Nature: Using nature's wisdom to bring more joy and effectiveness to our work with children
Heart-Centered Teaching Inspired by Nature offers readers ways to use connections with nature to find strength and inspiration for their personal journeys so they can bring their best selves to their work with children. As author Nancy Rosenow describes, it is a guide to supporting children from "...a place of love for each other and a place of awe and appreciation for the wonders of the world around us."
Rosenow continues: "Over the years I've talked with many educators who've told me they simply could not find much time for themselves because the demands of work and home took every bit of time they could muster. I certainly understand. That was my own story for quite a while, but now I'd like to offer a new way of thinking. I'm convinced if we want to inspire children to become their best selves, we first have to become ours.
I believe the most important preparation for our work with children is to master the art of self-nurturing. For everyone's sake we simply can't afford not to make time for ourselves. We simply can't afford not to support ourselves in who we're authentically meant to be."
This quick read is filled with heartwarming photos and engaging ideas for making teaching more joyful and effective. This is an ideal choice for book clubs and educator groups.
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Forest Cuties (Color & Chill)
Color in more than 45 pages of adorable forest animals and outdoor scenes in this cozy coloring book!Welcome to a little corner of coloring joy! Discover the perfect way to relax with the cutest coloring book ever. Each coloring page features simple images with clear outlines to fill with your favorite colors.
Get cozy with over 45 bold and simple illustrations, including forest animals like deer, bears, bunnies, squirrels, and birds, plus other tree-filled forest scenes. This coloring book also comes with a sheet of full-color stickers for your notebook, water bottle, laptop -- anything that could use an adorable forest animal sticker!
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Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience
On September 6, 1970, twenty-year-old Mimi Nichter was on a flight home to New York from a summer in Israel when armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine crash-landed her plane in a remote desert in Jordan. Passengers were held on board for six days in sweltering heat without flushable toilets or running water. Most were sent home, but Mimi--accused of being an Israeli soldier--and thirty-one others were held hostage in Amman, fearing for their lives as a violent civil war erupted around them.
In Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience, Mimi recounts her survival of the hijacking of Trans World Airlines Flight 741, the first incident of international terrorism and one of the most significant events in aviation history.
After her dramatic release, Mimi returned to college a different person. Plagued with terrifying memories, she silenced her experience. One year later, striving to live in the present, she backpacked across Africa and Asia with her boyfriend and in doing so found a path forward, but her buried trauma resurfaced each time a new global hostage crisis occurred. Mimi finally realizes that to fully heal, she must explore how this trauma, and her silence about it, has shaped her life. Told with courage and empathy, Hostage is the story of how one's strength and humanity can flourish even in the most fearful and untenable circumstances.
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Sold outDragon Girl and the Awakened Flames
An orphan girl discovers she has dragon blood--the key to immortality. Hunted by an evil necromancer, she must learn to control her emerging powers if she is going to stop him.
"A hero forged in fiercest flame, A child of iron and pain. By blood shall heal and chasm seal A kingdom torn in twain."--The Final Prophecy from the Tome of Terrible Tomorrows*
*Also known as Odolf's prophecy. (But only by Odolf!)
All the best stories and adventures start with a knock at the door... Or the thwump of a dragon's tail at the entrance to her cave, in the case of Emba Oak. But then nothing about Emba's story is normal; from the scales on her arms and legs, to the shocking discovery that she hatched out of a dragon's egg. Even more shocking is the news that an evil sorcerer is after her dragon blood and will do anything to get his hands on it. Can Emba keep herself safe or will her loved ones pay the price?
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This Is Where It Ends (Anniversary Edition)
The tenth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller about a high school held hostage, and four teens--each with their own reason to fear the boy with the gun. Featuring printed edges, French flaps, updated author's note, and exclusive anniversary bonus epilogue.
10:00am: The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's High School finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.
10:02am: The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.
10:03am: The auditorium doors won't open.
10:05am: Someone starts shooting.
Told over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.
Praise for This Is Where It Ends:
- A Buzzfeed Best Young Adult Book of the Decade
- A Paste Magazine Best Teen Book of the Decade
- A Book Riot Biggest YA Book of the Decade
- A Professional Book Nerds Best Book of the Decade
- A Bustle.com Most-Anticipated YA Novel
- A Goodreads YA Best Books Pick
- A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Young Adult Fiction
- Kids Indie Next List Pick
"Marieke Nijkamp's brutal, powerful fictional account of a school shooting is important in its timeliness." --Bustle.com
"A gritty, emotional, and suspenseful read and although fictionalized, it reflects on a problematic and harrowing issue across the nation." --Buzzfeed
"A compelling, brutal story of an unfortunately all-too familiar situation: a school shooting. Nijkamp portrays the events thoughtfully, recounting fifty-four intense minutes of bravery, love, and loss." --BookRiot
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Bear Hunter's Daughters: A Tale of Seven Sisters
"Go jump in a lake! Bawdy, fantastic, and surprisingly poignant, The Bear Hunter's Daughters is the perfect book for the wildest person in your life. Told with brio and humor, this fable of the seven redhaired sisters settles deep in your bones. I loved it from beginning to end." - Keith Donohue, author of The Girl in the Bog and The Stolen Child
In this funny and unforgettable modern day fairy tale, seven sisters raised in the woods fight to keep their freedom.
Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of life in town, like cell phones and a social life outside their family. When on his youngest Elga's twelfth birthday the hunter is killed by his prey and their mother dies soon thereafter, the sisters are left with unpaid bills and a leaky house.
The tension between sticking to the wild ways their father taught them and submitting to well-meaning townsfolk's efforts to "help" threatens to divide the seven sisters. The eldest, Johanna, tries to wield control, Elga feels tempted by the pull to education, artist Laura spends all her time dreaming up sculptures and exploring nature--but the sisters' trips to the farmer's market to sell foraged mushrooms and their free time in their vast forest home bring them together in riotous fun. With evocative language and visceral scene-setting, readers get lost in world they've invented together and join the fight to protect it.
Inspired by Aleksis Kivi's classic Finnish novel Seven Brothers (1870), The Bear Hunter's Daughters is at once realistic and fantastical, an intensely sensory exploration of our essential bonds both with nature and with one another.
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Sold outFire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the courage to tell him a terrible secret about life with her mom and new stepdad? This contemporary novel is a must-read for fans of Leslie Connor and Ali Standish. A Schneider Family Book Award winner!
Maudie always looks forward to the summers she spends in California with her dad. But this year, she must keep a troubling secret about her home life--one that her mom warned her never to tell. Maudie wants to confide in her dad about her stepdad's anger, but she's scared.
When a wildfire strikes, Maudie and her dad are forced to evacuate to the beach town where he grew up. It's another turbulent wave of change. But now, every morning, from their camper, Maudie can see surfers bobbing in the water. She desperately wants to learn, but could she ever be brave enough?
As Maudie navigates unfamiliar waters, she makes friends--and her autism no longer feels like the big deal her mom makes it out to be. But her secret is still threatening to sink her. Will Maudie find the strength to reveal the awful truth--and maybe even find some way to stay with Dad--before summer is over?
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Sold outDear Manny
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin comes the thrilling final installment of the series, set in college and offering a new perspective on privilege, love, and our political climate. Jared Peter Christensen is running for president (of the Junior Class Council at his university, but still). His platform is solid--built on increased equity and inclusion in all sectors of campus life--and he's got a good chance of beating the deeply conservative business major he's running against. But when a transfer student enters the race, she calls Jared out for his big-talk/little-action way of moving. Dylan's accusations make him question just how "woke" he really is. But what's the right way to bring about change? As the campaign heats up, feelings are caught, and juicy secrets come to light, and Jared writes letters to his deceased friend Manny, hoping to make sense of his confusion. What's a white boy to do when love and politics collide? Will he have to choose between his head and his heart? ★ "Stone has done a brilliant job with this memorable character-driven novel. . . . Dear Nic: congratulations on another great success."--Booklist, starred review ★ "A startlingly effective snapshot of cis white male frustration and growth."--School Library Journal, starred reviewSold out -
My First Paint by Sticker: Construction Site
From the creators of the bestselling Paint by Sticker(R) Kids sticker-activity series, the next book in the brand extension developed especially for kids ages 3 and up: Construction Site! My First Paint by Sticker delivers the same screen-free, mess-free fun that makes the original series so irresistable. The fourth book in the series features construction site vehicles! From diggers to backhoes to cement trucks and more, kids will adore stickering these colorful machines. The Paint by Sticker Kids(R) series (for ages 5 and up) has sold more than 10 million copies to date. In My First Paint by Sticker, readers ages 3 and up can confidently paint by sticker, too! At a smaller trim size (8 x 8 inches, versus the original kids brand at 9 x 9), this brand extension features larger stickers for smaller hands--perfect for kids practicing their fine motor skills and learning to recognize their numbers. In the older kids series, the number of stickers per image ranges from 60-100; in My First, the number of stickers ranges from 17-25--an age-appropriate number to build patience and confidence while fostering independent play. Painting by sticker is easy, mess-free, and portable (plus, all the pages are perforated so multiple kids can create at the same time!). Created with smaller hands in mind, My First Paint by Sticker combines a lower sticker count with larger stickers for easy maneuvering, and no actual paint means no splatter, drips, or messy clean-up. All you have to do is 1) find the sticker, 2) peel the sticker, and 3) place the sticker on the corresponding numbered space. -
Next in Line (Original)
Next in Line by Amy Daws will be available Jan 27, 2026. Preorder your copy today! -
John 3: 16: A Meditation
Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, which is in the public domain. In addition to these verses, original commentary, reflections, and other written content have been provided by the author
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Creepy Presents: Bernie Wrightson
THE FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF BERNIE WRIGHTSON'S WARREN HORROR COMICS STORIES! With Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson, his classic horror stories from Creepy and Eerie are now collected in an affordable oversized paperback! These classic tales from the 1970s include collaborations with fellow superstars and Warren Publishing alumni Howard Chaykin, Nicola Cuti, Bill DuBay, Carmine Infantino, Bruce Jones, Budd Lewis, and Walt Simonson, as well as several adaptations and original stories written and drawn by Wrightson during one of the most fruitful periods of his career! The infamous "Jenifer" is included, as well as Wrightson's full-color story "The Muck Monster," and adaptations of Poe and Lovecraft classics--such as the unnerving "Cool Air." This tantalizingly twisted tome is also topped with a new introduction by Bruce Jones--a perfect aperitif to begin a hearty repast of horror! -
Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Volume 3
From James Tynion IV, the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-winning creator of Something is Killing the Children, and Batgirl's Tate Brombal comes this terrifying new arc of the hit GLAAD Media award-nominated comics series! The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos is an LGBTQ+, horror-hero, coming-of-age comics series that's Invincible meets Doom Patrol, that's a great jumping on point for new readers! A new school year begins for Christopher Chaos and his friends as he finds himself divided from his mentor, Adam Frankenstein, and searching for answers outside of any textbook. But when Dr. Henry Jekyll arrives in New Briar City with a mysterious hunter on his trail called "Helbound," a strange case develops that only Christopher can solve! Will the Monster Club survive their latest foe or will they be torn apart--piece by bloody piece? Tiny Onion Studios and Dark Horse Comics present a line of upcoming creator-owned work from the mind of James Tynion IV across a broad spectrum of his interests, from non-fiction supernatural encounters to high concept coming-of-age monster comics. Collects the Dark Horse Comics series The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night #1-#4. -
Baffle Book
The "brilliant" and baffling puzzle book that launched the "solve-it-yourself" mystery craze of the 1920s and '30s (New York Times). Calling all mystery puzzle fans! This is the book that launched the "solve-it-yourself" detective book craze of the 1920s and '30s, spawning numerous imitators and a four-book series of its own. These thirty short crime problems incorporate all of the clues needed to find their solutions, including maps, charts, cryptograms, and additional illustrations--but it's up to the reader to put all of this together and find out whodunit. (Correct answers included at the end of the book.) Challenging and entertaining, The Baffle Book promises hours of armchair sleuthing delights, either on your own or at a "Baffle Party" as the book's opening recommends. The authors award credits for each of the questions posed, depending on their difficulty, with a chart onto which scores can be added and a grade given for how well the amateur sleuth performed. -
Case of the Missing Blackfeet Women
Montana, Summer 2017. A 20-year-old woman disappears from the massive Blackfeet reservation in the northwest corner of the state. In June 2017, Ashley Heavyrunner Loring was seen on video at a family party on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. That same day she exchanged text messages with her older sister, Kimberly, who was in Morocco, visiting her fiancé. That was the last Loring's family heard from her. After a week went by, the family reported her missing to authorities from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but they were met with indifference. Even when witnesses came forward claiming to have seen a woman running from a vehicle and a sweatshirt similar to Loring's was found in a nearby dump, law enforcement did not seem to take her disappearance seriously--a situation far too common with Native women, who disappear and are murdered at much higher rates than women of other backgrounds. Kimberly Heavyrunner Loring took it upon herself to search for Ashley, scouring the rugged terrain of the reservation and searching for clues, asking questions in communities deeply affected by domestic violence and drug and alcohol abuse. In December 2018, Kimberly was invited to speak at a United States Senate committee meeting in DC about the disturbing number of unsolved disappearances in Native communities, raising nationwide awareness not just of her sister's case but of the larger crisis of missing Indigenous women. Anaïs Renevier explores the case, digging into the details of Ashley Heavyrunner Loring's disappearance as well as the tragic circumstances that have created a "black hole" into which so many Native women disappear. 50 States of Crime: France's leading true crime journalists investigate America's most notorious cases, one for every state in the Union, offering up fresh perspectives on famously storied crimes and reflecting, in the process, a dark national legacy that leads from coast to coast.