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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her husband, Betta Nolan fulfills her promise to him to move to a small town and build a new life for herself, as she strives to cope with her grief and find pleasure and solace in the ordinary things of everyday life.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From the World of Eric Carle comes a brand-new book starring the Grouchy Ladybug, a favorite character for over 40 years! Perfect for fans of Love from the Hungry Caterpillar, this reminds us that that hugs and kisses truly make the world go 'round and that we all need love, even when we are grouchy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Waking up in a grumpy mood and feeling that nothing is going his way all day long, Pete the Cat dons a pair of rocking magic sunglasses given to him by Grumpy Toad and learns that a good mood has been inside himself all along.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From "a writer at the top of her game" (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman.
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Language
English
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Description
James Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. He draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.
Author
Publisher
Rodale Kids
Physical Desc
x, 84 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
We all want to bring more calm into our lives. We all want to feel more focused and positive. Mindfulness is the key to making it happen. Breathe like a bear guides us through fun exercises to help us relax and stretch our imaginations. Because just like we need to exercise our bodies, we need to flex our mindfulness muscles!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The greatest writer of his time."-Edmund Wilson
"One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art"-Edgar Johnson
"His characters are marvelous, his insights wonderful…you don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better."-Ruth Rendell
The Old Curiosity Shop was initially published in a weekly serial, "Master Humphrey's Clock", between 1840 and 1841. Charles Dickens' story of the frail and innocent orphan had become such...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The tenth-anniversary edition of the game-changing #1 New York Times bestseller, featuring a new foreword.
For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what’s now become a movement...
For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what’s now become a movement...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective.
93) A place of peace
Author
Series
Kauffman Amish bakery volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Miriam Lapp returns to the Amish community she once belonged to when she hears of her mother's death. Amidst her grief and some painful lies from her past, she is forced to face the people who rejected her. Losing her once fianc�e and being shunned by her father becomes an excruciating test of her faith.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose...
95) Every last one
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Mary Beth Latham puts everything else aside in order to focus on her one son who suffers from severe depression, but she is not prepared for the violence that follows.
96) Penguin problems
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little penguin argues that home, far from being free from worries and responsibilities, is freezing, filled with natural predators, and overrun by identical penguins that make it difficult to find one's mom.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy wants all of the pets in a pet store but he and his sister can choose only one, with end notes discussing Dr. Seuss's pets, his creative process, and the discovery of the manuscript and illustrations for "What Pet Should I Get?."
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Hurricane Elmer hits, Judy, Stink, and the entire Moody clan hunker down and ride out the storm, but when the power goes out, Grandma Lou proposes some activities to pass the time in the dark.
100) Poe won't go
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When an elephant plants himself in the road and refuses to move, the people of Prickly Valley try all sorts of methods to get him to go, but one thoughtful little girl works up the courage to do what no one else has done--ask him.