Robin Eller
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A khimar is a flowing scarf that my mommy wears. Before she walks out the door each day, she wraps one around her head. A young girl plays dress-up with her mother's headscarves, feeling her mother's love with every one she tries on. Charming and vibrant, this portrait of a young Muslim American girl's life showcases the beauty of a diverse and welcoming community.
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A khimar is a flowing scarf that my mommy wears. Before she walks out the door each day, she wraps one around her head. A young girl plays dress-up with her mother's headscarves, feeling her mother's love with every one she tries on. Charming and vibrant, this portrait of a young Muslim American girl's life showcases the beauty of a diverse and welcoming community.
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Astrid has loved the stars and space for as long as she can remember. "I want to be an astronaut!" she says to everyone who will listen. While her mama is away, Astrid and her papa have fun acting out the challenges an astronaut faces on a space mission-like being in zero gravity ("I can do that all day long!" she says), eating food from a kind of tube, and doing science experiments with the help of cookie sheets. When at last it's time to meet Mama...
4) Astro Girl
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Astrid has loved the stars and space for as long as she can remember. "I want to be an astronaut!" she says to everyone who will listen. While her mama is away, Astrid and her papa have fun acting out the challenges an astronaut faces on a space mission-like being in zero gravity ("I can do that all day long!" she says), eating food from a kind of tube, and doing science experiments with the help of cookie sheets. When at last it's time to meet Mama...
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Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.
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Simon & Schuster Audio, Inc
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[2017]
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English
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Learn the art of small talk for all types of situations. With simple advice, engaging visuals, and brief exercises, this book makes it easy to improve casual chitchat skills. From professional networking to first dates to casual run-ins with a neighbor, listeners will always be able to strike up a great conversation and leave a positive, lasting impression.
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Simon & Schuster Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Learn how to step away from distractions, overcome shyness, and be more successful and comfortable in social situations. With real-world examples, brief exercises, and simple tips, listeners will become more confident communicating in all situations from dating to work to large social events and parties.
9) Astro girl
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Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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After Astrid tells her father that she wants to be an astronaut, he tells her of all the things that astronauts have to do and they act them out.
10) The voting booth
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English
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The first year they are eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place and, over the course of one crazy day, fall in love.
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English
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Frederick, Paulette, and McKinley Baldwin have always been a family of "onlys" in their town of Hickory Grove, North Carolina. An only son... married to an only daughter... blessed with a one and only child, McKinley.
Paulette is determined her son will want for nothing, least of all a mother's love and attention, which her own skin color cost her as a child. But, all her striving leaves her husband on the outside looking in.
Frederick still struggles...
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""I know this wondrous little person has the potential to change the world-and I want him to know it too." In this collection of powerful letters to her young son, Jasmine Holmes shares about her journey as an African American Christian and what she wants her son to know as he grows and approaches the world as a black man"--
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Sister Outsider presents essential writings of black poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, an influential voice in 20th century literature. In this varied collection of essays, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, offering a message of struggle but also of hope. This commemorative edition is, in Lorde's own...
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Irresistible Love will help you on your journey to draw closer to Jesus. It's your invitation to hitchhike with an author who has spent decades counseling and encouraging millions of men, women, and students of all ages in their quest for intimacy, inner peace, purpose, and fulfillment.
This book is full of fascinating stories of people finding the love of God and learning what it means to grow closer to God through hardship.
Read this book. Watch...
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With the constant connectivity of today's world, it's never been easier to meet people and make new friends-but it's never been harder to form meaningful friendships. In Frientimacy, award-winning speaker Shasta Nelson shows how anyone can form stronger, more meaningful friendships, marked by a level of trust she calls "frientimacy." Shasta explores the most common complaints and conflicts facing female friendships today, and lays out strategies for...
17) Mommy's khimar
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English
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"A young Muslim girl puts on a head scarf and not only feels closer to her mother, she also imagines herself as a queen, the sun, a superhero, and more."--
18) Passages of Hope
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English
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Discover the Story Behind a Secret Passageway
Walk through Doors to the Past via a new series of historical stories of romance and adventure.
Gracie Kingston begins renovations on the Philadelphia house inherited from her grandmother and finds a secret room. It is connected to a house nearby, the home of William Still, the man known as the father of the Underground Railroad. As she researches, she discovers a mystery in her house's ownership....
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From Fearful Living to Fearless Loving! Are you ready to see love in a whole new light, let go of your deepest fears and everyday stresses, and experience real joy and abundance? Choosing Love redefines the way you perceive love and teaches you how to connect with yourself--and others--in ways you've never imagined. Using her years of expertise as a psychologist, professor, and energy healer, Sherianna Boyle guides you through each step of your journey...
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Life Interruptions = Divine Interventions.Interruptions. Theyre aggravating. Sometimes infuriating. They make us want to tell people what we think of them. But how we handle interruptions actually tells us more about ourselves. The prophet Jonahs existence was interrupted by a call of God that would require a complete change of life. And it scared him enough to make him run in the opposite direction. Yet, what seemed to be an unnecessary and useless...