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Brilliance of Honeybees: How Bees Feed the World, And the Ways We Can Protect Them
Laura Littlefield Kelley is a beekeeper allergic to bee stings-yet she has spent more than twenty years caring for backyard beehives on Cape Cod.
Her book, The Brilliance of Honeybees: How Bees Feed the World-And the Ways We Can Protect Them, is a stunning blend of nature photography, personal storytelling, and environmental insight that celebrates the remarkable relationship between bees and flowers.
Drawn to the mystery of how the same insects that could harm her also sustain life on Earth by pollinating the food we eat, Laura began documenting life in her own backyard. With her camera by her side, she uncovered how pollinators support the global food supply-and how their survival is deeply connected to our own.
This beautifully crafted nature book offers an up-close look at the hive, the role of honeybees in the environment, and how bees pollinate food crops. From the ingenious ways flowers attract pollinators to the hidden dangers in soil, water, and air, each colorful page brings awareness to the fragile balance of nature.
Through beautiful imagery and personal beekeeping stories, readers will discover simple, meaningful ways to support pollinator-friendly gardening, protect bees, and practice environmental stewardship-while recognizing the importance of saving bees.
Part love letter to the natural world and part educational guide, The Brilliance of Honeybees is a call to action to care for these small but mighty workers who play such a vital role in our lives.
Perfect for readers interested in:
- Bees and pollinators
- Nature photography and environmental books
- How to help bees in your garden
- Backyard beekeeping and conservation
- Sustainable gardening and protecting pollinators
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Murder UnShelved
A fresh start was supposed to be simple.
Sisters Emma Dawson and Sydney Givens arrive in town ready to launch their dream business-Stitches, Perks & Pages, a quilt shop and bookstore under one roof. But before they can even begin unpacking, they find a dead body sprawled across their delivery entrance. Welcome to Fox Hollow. The victim, Evan Pritchard, had secrets-and someone is still searching for whatever he was hiding. With danger edging closer and another murder looming, Emma and Sydney realize they can't just shelve the problem and hope it goes away.
Open the doors. Welcome customers. Build a new life.
Fox Hollow, Texas, has other plans.
Luckily, Fox Hollow has a way of turning strangers into allies. With the help of a sharp-witted retired nurse, a determined Amish teen, an overachieving high school valedictorian, and steady-eyed Detective Noble Beck, the sisters may have a chance to catch a killer before their new beginning becomes their last.Discussion questions included--perfect for book clubs.
From NYT Bestselling author Vannetta Chapman, Murder UnShelved is a charming cozy mystery about sisterhood, second chances, found family-and discovering that home can be built in the most unexpected places. -
How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History
You have favorite baseball memories, games that live forever in your mind, ones you can still see perfectly. But could you recall every play? The exact sequence that made those moments possible? Now you can. Every play. Every game. Every season since 1871. For the first time in baseball history, it all exists in one place, and it's free for anyone to use. All thanks to Retrosheet.
In 1989, Dave Smith had a problem. He'd gathered 7,000 games in his Delaware basement, but over 130,000 more were scattered across the country: moldering in team archives, stacked in sportswriters' attics, at risk of being thrown away forever. No funding. No institutional support. Just one fan with an impossible vision: save baseball's history before it disappeared.What happened next changed how we understand the game. Smith recruited a volunteer army that tracked down scorebooks, decoded Allan Roth's revolutionary scoresheets, and digitized millions of plays. All that while refusing to charge a dime. Their work now powers your favorite websites like Baseball Reference and Fangraphs.
This is the story of Retrosheet: how baseball's greatest preservation challenge became its most democratic achievement, and connected you to every game ever played.
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Moon Tavern
The Moon Tavern takes the reader on a romantic and culinary journey through the Islands of Croatia, where dark family secrets are revealed, quirky friends and relatives are found, and love is discovered.
Vesna, or Ves, is a cookbook writer from Minneapolis who travels to the remote, exotic island of Lastovo off Croatia's Mediterranean coast to reconnect with her biological grandmother. She'd been adopted as a young child after her parents died in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Ves is also fleeing a frayed relationship with her live-in partner, Reed.
In Lastovo, she meets Dinko, a single, handsome, and wealthy vineyard owner, and his cute daughter Mia. With his help with the translation, Ves discovers her biological family's history and the dark secrets of what happened during the war. Romance, travel, and cooking ensue. She ultimately learns what matters most to her: simplicity in life, closeness with family, and someone to share love with. And, of course, food!
The Moon Tavern is a delicious hybrid - a historical novel . . . a contemporary romance . . . a travelogue . . . a celebration of food and wine! With humor and joie de vivre, Stephanie Hansen and Kurt Johnson bring to zesty life both the characters and setting, giving readers a book to savor, as well as the bonus recipes. - LORNA LANDVIK, bestselling author of Patty Jane's House of Curl, Your Oasis on Flame Lake, and The Tall Pine Polka
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Unshakable: 7 Proven 3-Minute Mindset Drills for Young Athletes to Master Mental Toughness, Crush Goals, and Forge Exceptional Character
Steph Curry was told he was too small. Giannis shared shoes with his brother. Pacquiao had not eaten in days.They became champions because they were MENTALLY TOUGH. They built it with drills rooted in science and Scripture.
Your kid does not have a talent problem. They have a mental game problem. Missed free throws when the gym gets loud. Unexplained slumps. Pregame anxiety. Lost confidence. It is exhausting.
This book fixes it. 7 drills. 3 minutes each. No extra screen time. No fluff.
What Is Inside- The identity drill Steph Curry used to build unshakable confidence rooted in Christ.
- The technique Kevin Durant used to study the greats.
- A Cleveland Clinic study showing 13.5% strength gains from mental practice alone.
- Navy SEAL breathing adapted for the free-throw line and batter's box.
- The goal-writing framework behind Serena Williams.
- 30 Scriptures organized for anxiety, slumps, and motivation.
Athlete Story. The Struggle. The 3-Minute Drill. The Science. The Scripture. A rhythm your teen will repeat under pressure without reminders.
Why Parents Choose UNSHAKABLE- Built for overscheduled teens. Fits before the first bell or after practice.
- Anchors emotions in God's Word instead of stats and scoreboards.
- Works for every sport and every level.
If they think mental training is soft: Read how Pacquiao used breath control against dangerous men. If overwhelmed: 7 drills, 3 minutes each. If they doubt their talent: Giannis, Tebow, and KD prove talent is never the only variable.
Your Teen's Mental Toughness Is One Decision AwayMost athletes lose to pressure and self-doubt. Your teen does not have to be most athletes. 3 minutes is all it takes to build faith, focus, and mental toughness.
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Messenger Bird and the Missing Frog
Meet Chloe-a spirited adventurer who loves hide and-seek, Nana's cookies, and catching frogs! During a backyard frog hunt with her brother Noah, his friend Mateo, and his loyal messenger bird, Luna, an unexpected surprise turns their day into a fun-filled adventure full of laughter, teamwork, and one very sneaky frog! -
Drowning In Paper Flowers: The Perfect Life Is Made Of Fragile Lies
Drowning In Paper Flowers Maeve Okafor builds beautiful things for other people's most important days. Paper flowers by the thousands, installations so precise and breathtaking that no one ever thinks to look at the woman making them. She prefers it that way. When Dara, her younger sister and the dreamer to Maeve's architect, fails to appear at a bridal fitting three weeks before her wedding, Maeve does what she has always done. She drives to Dartmouth. She looks at what was left behind. A coat on the hook. A cold cup of tea. A passport that is no longer in its drawer. And one small paper flower, hidden where only Maeve would think to look, with an address folded inside it. What begins as a search becomes a reckoning. Because Dara did not vanish. She walked away deliberately, quietly, and with a plan she had been building for eight months, inside a relationship designed to make her believe she was not capable of building anything at all. She did not tell Maeve because she knew her sister too well. Maeve would have arrived with answers. Dara needed to find her own. Tracing her sister's path from the back streets of Dartmouth to a women's shelter in Moncton to a farmhouse outside Fredericton, Maeve begins to dismantle more than a mystery. She dismantles the careful distance she has kept from everyone who has ever needed her, the wall she built from competence and called love, and the version of herself she has been constructing, like all her most beautiful work, so that no one could see the frame underneath. Drowning in Paper Flowers is a novel about sisters and silence, about the slow violence of control and the slower courage of leaving it, and about what it means to finally let someone see you mid-build, unfinished, honest, and still worth looking at. For readers of Liz Moore, Miriam Toews, and Ann-Marie MacDonald. -
Ethiopian Bible in English: The Complete 88-BookCollection: The Ancient Scriptures of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
This book presents a clear and engaging introduction to the Ethiopian Bible and its unique 88-book canon preserved by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It explains the historical background of the Ethiopian scriptures, summarizes the books contained within the canon, and highlights their spiritual themes and teachings. The book also explores the significance of texts such as Enoch and Jubilees, while offering practical insights on how the wisdom of these ancient scriptures can guide faith, prayer, and daily Christian life today. -
Investing for Teens: How to Save, Invest, and Grow Money
Start getting savvy about money--an investment guide for teens
You don't have to work on Wall Street to know that money is essential! Learn how to handle it responsibly--and how to make it work for you. Let this teen investing book be your guide to money matters ranging from the difference between stocks and bonds to ways to research potential investments. Soon enough you'll be throwing around terms like dividend and liquidity like a finance professional.
- Smart money moves--Learn how to set financial goals, create a budget, and recognize the difference between good debt and bad so you can make calculated decisions with your money.
- Master the market--Explore all the different ways people invest their money and assess their risk tolerance with a crash course in the stock market.
- Teen-specific tips--Get advice that's geared toward teens, including pointers on landing a summer job and creating saving plans for life after high school.
Manage your money like a boss and begin building personal wealth with Investing for Teens.
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Trowbridge and Fye
Fairy tales are fun...until your life becomes one.
It's 1987, and fifteen-year-old Frances Fye might be a little too obsessed with fairy tales. But when grief and the loneliness of small-town life threaten to overwhelm her, stories carry her off to magical adventures.
Then a new boy shows up at school-mysterious, magnetic, and shockingly similar to Fran's favorite fictional hero. And when a wrong-number phone call leads to friendship with Trowbridge, an exiled bridge troll with sinister intentions, Fran's world cracks wide open.
Suddenly, the fairy tales she's always loved aren't just stories anymore. They're real-and dangerous.
Entangled in the deadly schemes of fae royalty, she has little choice but to depend on the most unlikely allies: her middle-aged English teacher who's more than he seems, the secretly sensitive school rebel, and her less-than-charming ex.
To escape the mythical lands she once longed for, Fran must face the truth she's spent years avoiding: real courage isn't found in books.
It's found in her.
Carrie Anne Noble delivers a heartfelt, imaginative YA fantasy full of 1980s nostalgia, magical twists, and the bittersweetness of finding your courage. Trowbridge and Fye is a charming, clever adventure perfect for anyone who ever wished their favorite fairy tales could come to life.
PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE
- 1980s nostalgia meets fairy tale magic
- Grief-driven girls finding unexpected strength
- Portal fantasies with dangerous fae courts
- Bittersweet coming-of-age with heart
- Unlikely alliances against mythical schemes
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GM 6.6l Duramax Diesel V-8 Engines: How to Rebuild and Modify
By the late 1990s, General Motors realized that its old Detroit Diesel engine, which had been designed 20 years earlier, was due for a major update. The Detroit Diesel engine was never intended to be a serious horsepower or torque monster. It was just a steady and reliable workhorse that made credible power, met emissions standards, and achieved decent fuel economy. As Ford and Dodge released new designs of their Power Stroke and Cummins engines, respectively, General Motors needed to follow suit.
The first Duramax engine made its debut in 2001. Over the last 25 years, several versions were introduced, all displacing 6.6L and all producing ever-increasing horsepower, torque, and efficiency. As with any engine that is more than two decades old, many now need a complete overhaul. In GM 6.6L Duramax Diesel V-8 Engines: How to Rebuild and Modify, all aspects of a rebuild are covered in simple step-by-step fashion with more than 375 color photos. A brief history is provided, followed by diagnosis, engine removal, and disassembly procedures, which include the special tools that are required. Next are inspection and machine work, which are followed by reassembly and reinstallation. Finally, a performance chapter is included with commentary by Gale Banks.
Whether you want to tackle this project yourself or just want to know how it all works, this guide will help you along the way.
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Darker Days
"Darker Days is a meticulous work of terror, a harrowing drop into a moral nightmare. If you can imagine the philosophical oomph of Bergman's The Seventh Seal joined to the rustic shocks of Midsommer, and all of it transported to America's suburbia, you'd have something like Darker Days. It's a scream."--Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of King Sorrow
"One of the most vital and exciting voices in modern horror."--Film Director Mike Flanagan
From the author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller HEX comes a modern horror story with echoes of Paul Tremblay, Joe Hill, and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," about a gilded street in a small Pacific Northwest town where the charmed residents have made a frightening bargain . . . with devastating consequences.
Sometimes you think you can see things behind the fence. Bad things. So it's better not to look. . . .
In Lock Haven, a quiet little town in Washington State, Bird Street is a special place. The residents of this pretty cul-de-sac on the edge of the woods are all successful, healthy, and happy. Their children are prodigies: well-mannered, unnaturally smart, and enviously talented.
But come November, the Darker Days descend, bringing accidents, bad luck, conflict, and illness. Luana and Ralph Lewis da Silva prepare for this, and so do their children, Kaila and Django. It is in November when a stranger appears to collect on a longstanding debt. A price must be paid for the good fortune the Bird Street community enjoys the rest of the year. A sacrifice must be made.
So it has been for more than a century. To assuage their guilt, the residents of Bird Street choose carefully who will be sent into the woods. Usually, it is an elderly or terminally ill individual who wishes to enter the void with dignity.
But this year, things don't go to plan and events take a terrifying turn. . . .
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D: Heavy Water
From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb Light series--a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic weapons.
Europe, 1934. British journalist Owen Crisp-Upjohn is dispatched to Moscow, where his assignments quickly escalate from cultural reporting to international espionage. Before long, Owen finds himself pulled into the orbit of the enigmatic Earl of Suffolk, a maverick aristocrat, and Aurora, a curiously compelling woman with a shadowy past rooted in Soviet intelligence.
Their mission soon becomes clear: secure the earth's only supply of deuterium--"heavy water"--before it falls into Nazi hands. The high-stakes pursuit takes them from London's plush drawing rooms to Barcelona, ravaged by the Spanish Civil War; from far-flung Soviet aerodromes to the perilous, icy landscapes of occupied Norway. Over time, Owen evolves from a detached observer into a man forced to confront profound questions of honor, love, and moral responsibility as loyalties are tested and allegiances shift in an ever-tightening web of science, intrigue, and deceit.
Rich with historical insight, emotionally complex characters, and a relentless sense of urgency with a world on the edge of cataclysm, D: Heavy Water is a suspenseful and wildly entertaining tale of courage and consequence in which humankind's future is shaped by decisions made in the shadows.
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Detective Baby: Dance Team Drama: A Graphic Novel
Boss Baby meets The Baby-Sitters Club with a touch of Ocean's Eleven in Detective Baby--a laugh-out-loud, hijinks-heavy graphic novel series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot.
Jenny isn't your average babysitter. She has a secret superpower--she can understand baby talk. (A pretty lame superpower for a middle schooler, if you ask her.)
Rosie isn't your average baby--she's the most brilliant (and devious) detective in town.
Jenny would rather do anything besides babysit. But the money she raised for her dance team has been stolen--and Rosie is sure she can crack the case.
This itty-bitty investigator and her babysitting backup have no time to waste--there's a mystery to solve before nap time! And with all the humorous antics and endless fun of Katie the Catsitter, plus the feel-good middle grade heart of Click, the journey is sure to have plenty of surprises along the way.
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Daughters of Sea and Storm
"And what is your destiny, Little Bird? Who will you be?"
Sixteen-year-old Wren Vesper is just like every other kid she knows: trying to survive high school and figure out what she wants to do with her life. But when news of her grandmother's death reaches her, she discovers she is not like everyone else, and that question about what to do with her life may no longer be hers to answer. Wren and her mother return to Sedgwick Cove, the tiny coastal Maine town where her mother grew up, and there she learns the truth about the family she barely knows: the Vespers aren't just a family: they're a coven.
Centuries ago, a bargain was struck and a powerful spell cast: As long as three Vesper witches lived in Sedgwick Cove, the town would be safe from the dark forces that threatened its borders. Wren's mother reluctantly agrees to take her own mother's place as the third Vesper witch, but when she disappears under mysterious circumstances, it falls to Wren to navigate the dark and winding world of witchcraft she never knew existed.
Can Wren step into her own power before it's too late?
Daughters of Sea and Storm: The Vesper Coven Book 1, is the first in a thrilling new series set in the World of the Gateway by E.E. Holmes.
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I Stand Corrected
Growing up, I learned two things early: how to take a joke (even when I was the joke) and how to stay out of trouble (mostly) by telling a joke. This book is a collection of stories from a childhood where discipline was creative, money was scarce, and laughter was often the only thing that kept everything from falling apart.
Told with humor that doesn't apologize and honesty that doesn't waver, these stories find comedy in the chaos and truth in the mess. Some moments will make you laugh out loud. Others might make you wince, then laugh.
This is a feel-real story. For anyone who grew up fast and learned sarcasm before self-confidence, and figured out early that humor is a survival skill, this book will feel like home.