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Step right up, step right up! Come see one of the most amazing, astounding, stunning, and stupendous wonders of the world. Behold: a baby! A loving father reveals a baby's fantastic feats (smiling, eating a banana, babbling) that cause adults to go insane with joy and wonder. The only audience member who remains unimpressed? His big brother.

Winter is the time for making Snowman friends! The perfect board book gift--with a foil-stamped cover and handle--for little hands and big hearts to carry everywhere!An adorable little board book filled with snowy fun and friends--snowmen, reindeer, cheerful birds, and more! A fantastic addition to holiday gift bundles, its handy size and handle make it easy for little ones to carry wherever they go.

The instant cult classic about biking, road racing, and the bicyclists who love their sport. Originally published in Holland in 1978, The Rider went on to sell more than 100, 000 copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute to the art of bicycle road racing. Tim Krabbé begins this story at the very start of the Tour de Mont Aigoual, ready to race his rivals thro...

This guide's 11 easy-to-use chapters each focus on a different element of the writer's craft--character, plot, point of view, theme, setting, description, voice, and dialogue.

In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and inspiring, this is a groundbreaking book written with the elegance and power to change the way we teach and read.

Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively." -The Wall Street JournalA paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated ...

This #1 bestselling, beautifully illustrated story of unconditional love is now perfectly packaged as a padded board book.When you love someone, you want the whole world to know. I love you wild, I love you loud, I shout it out and I feel proud.When you love someone, you know when they need extra encouragement.I love you big, I love you tough, When the path is smooth and when it's rough.When you love someone, it's unconditional.I love you clos...

Secret letters spark true love in this emotionally compelling romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Brigid Kemmerer.Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. It's the only way Juliet can cope.Declan Murphy isn't the sort of guy you want to cross. In the midst of his court-ordered community servi...

In the finale of the Spacejackers trilogy, the galaxy is experiencing a full-on war. With his friends and trusted allies captured, it is up to Jake Cutler -- the young space pirate, and ruler of a secret planet -- to restore peace. In order to do so, Jake must confront secrets and enemies from his past. Now, more than ever, it is every pirate for themselves! Will Jake finally be able to fulfill his destiny and save the entire universe from des...

An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and memoir--from a Booker-longlisted author.Evocative, sensual, and tender, these stories confront our reality culture and interrogate our relationship with iconic figures, coming to life at the boundary between reality and fiction.A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life. A p...

Lucy Hansson was ready for a perfect summer with her boyfriend, working at her childhood Bible camp on the lake and spending quality time with her parents. But when her mom's cancer reappears, Lucy falters-in her faith and in her ability to cope. When her boyfriend "pauses" their relationship and her summer job switches to a different camp-one for troubled kids-Lucy isn't sure how much more she can handle. Attempting to accept a new normal, Lu...

Introducing the Read & Bloom line for newly independent readers with a charming and quirky story about two unusual best friends . . . Celebrate with Agnes and Clarabelle!Agnes the pig and Clarabelle the chicken are best friends who love to celebrate holidays! They wear flower crowns and dance around the Maypole, perform in the Fourth of July parade, make the spookiest Halloween costumes, and count down the New Year in style. Three . . . two . ...

This lighthearted, insightful handbook is written as if intended for Jane Austen's original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors.

When an orphan girl named Creel befriends a dragon, she unknowingly inherits a pair of slippers that could be used to save her kingdom, or destroy it. Perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Cornelia Funke's "Dragon Rider, " the light tone and charming characterizations bring this heartwarming fantasy to life. Older middle grade readers and young teens alike will appreciate the adventure, fun, and dragon-drenched action!

Step-by-step instructions and cooking tips are compiled in this cookbook for teens that features more than eighty recipes for healthy, tasty meals, treats, and desserts.

From Buffett to Bono, how today's leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world.For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists--the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give--it's like business. Largely trained in the corporate world, these "social investors" are using big-busi...

In this absorbing historical thriller . . . Sally Gilmartin, born Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree recruited into the British Secret Service in 1939, reveals her clandestine past in an autobiography that she gives to her daughter, Ruth, a graduate student and single mother living a dull civilian life in Oxford in 1976.--"The New Yorker.

From the legendary basketball coach who inspired generations of athletes and businesspeople, an inspiring book about the power of mentoring and being mentored.After eight books, many of them bestsellers, A Game Plan for Life was the one closest to John Wooden's heart: a moving and inspirational guide to the power of mentorship. The first half focuses on the people who helped foster the values that carried Wooden through an incredibly successfu...