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Author
Publisher
Portfolio Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This book starts with a simple premise: there is a price behind each choice that we make, whether we're deciding to have a baby, drive a car, or buy a book. We often fail to appreciate just how critical prices are as motivating forces shaping our lives, but their power becomes clear when distorted prices steer our decisions the wrong way. Eduardo Porter takes us on a global economic adventure, from comparing the relative prices of a vote in corrupt...
2) Zero
Author
Publisher
KO Kids Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Zero learns how to accept her body shape and find value in herself and others.
4) Rude cakes
Author
Language
English
Description
A story about a rude cake who never says please or thank you or listens to its parents, and a Giant Cyclops who is polite.
6) Explorers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a family goes to a local museum, a boy notices a homeless man sitting outside, making brightly colored origami birds. He convinces his dad to buy a bird the man makes just for him. Once inside the museum, his little sister takes the bird and launches it into the air. Is it lost? Soon another boy helps him look, and the paper bird brings two families?and two new friends?together. With the style he used in Wolf in the Snow, Matthew Cordell shows...
Author
Language
English
Description
A truly Christmassy story, which has an important message about how although something may seem small to you, it might mean everything to someone else. A magical story, written in rhyme by prolific author, Lou Treleaven and illustrated by award-winning illustrator, Alex Willmore. A family of giants are enjoying a Christmas feast with an enormous Christmas Yule Log as the centerpiece! However, when the princess drops a crumb, she worries about wasting...
Author
Series
Grandma's attic volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of stories of life in the late nineteenth century, many reflecting the Christian faith of the author's family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With this inspiring and brightly illustrated guide to power, learn about the different types of power, what it means to have power, and what you can do with your own power to create positive change in the world, no matter who or how old you are. What makes you the boss of me? What makes a king a king, or a queen a queen? Why can some people vote for their leaders, but other people can't? Does having lots of money make you powerful? Why are there fewer...
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Language
English
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Description
Discover the power, joy, and love of living "Hands Free"
In 2010, special education teacher and mother Rachel Macy Stafford decided enough was enough. Tired of losing track of what matters most, Rachel began practicing simple strategies that enabled her to let go of largely meaningless distractions and engage in meaningful soul-to-soul connections. She started a blog to chronicle her endeavors and soon saw how external and internal distractions
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: A charming introduction to Saint Paul and his epistles Caldecott Medal- winner Chris Raschka breathes new life into the letters of Paul the Apostle with this inviting book. Each sumptuous page distills the main themes of Paul’s epistles into approachable, appealing language. Chris Raschka expertly depicts Paul’s sincerity and compassion, sadness and pain, giving readers a true sense of who Paul really was. Paul Writes (a...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Since the rise of globalism in the post-Cold War era, neoliberalism and free trade have generally characterized politics in democratic nations. However, in recent years, nationalism has been on the rise in countries around the world, including the United States. Events like the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election have brought the related issues of nationalism, nativism, and patriotism to the forefront, but much confusion exists...
18) 9 kilometers
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 2
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen has secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community but new threats arise, including the centuries-old Righteous Brotherhood that intends to exterminate all magical life, beginning with Brystal.
20) Pigeon & Cat
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Cat and Pigeon live in a city lot and while they do not have much they have each other, so when Pigeon goes missing after a storm, Cat leaves the safety of their lot for the first time and traverses the city looking for her.
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