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An astute, accessible, and fun guide that explains once and for all why all those organizing books only help 25% of us
Let your natural inclinations guide you toward gaining control of your environment and learn to live life on your own terms. Drawing on the science of brain function and her experience as a professional organizer, Lanna Nakone offers tailored and specific advice that will actually work to help you tame your desk, unclutter your closet,...
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"You Are Your Own Best Teacher! provides a remarkable variety of teachable antidotes to the punishing forces bearing down on youngsters from harmful marketing, the insidious grip of 'virtual reality' and the tyranny of peer groups. Apprehensive parents and burdened teachers will delight in the lessons of this book for Tweens (nine to twelve year olds). It will spark their innate curiosity, imagination and idealism. Tweens, who are whipsawed by relentless...
8) Homegrown
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A touching and stunningly illustrated ode to the homes—and loved ones—that raise us, perfect for fans of Christian Robinson, Oge Mora, and Ekua Holmes.
While her mother puts the finishing touches on her twists, a young girl asks what it means to be "homegrown". Touring precious memories and lively rooms warmed by family, Mama and Granny explain that home isn't just a place, but rather a reflection of people who support and love one another.
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"At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred....
11) Cress Watercress
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"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
12) Robert's snow
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Robert, a little mouse anxious to experience snow, falls out of his bedroom window in his family's boot home and has a snow adventure.
14) Safe Harbour
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When fourteen-year-old Harbour finds herself living in a tent in a Toronto ravine, she accepts the help of a homeless teen named Lise, who shows her how to navigate the shelter system while trying to unravel Harbour's mysterious past.
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"Washing the dishes is an ordinary, everyday task--but with examination and care, it can become can be much more. In this reverent guide to the household chore, Peter Miller shows us how washing dishes can become a joy, a delight, a meditative exercise, and an act of grace and rhythm. We pay so much attention to recipes but little attention to maintenance and clean up. Washing the dishes is as much a part of making a meal as prepping the vegetables,...
20) Itty Bitty
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Finding an enormous bone, tiny Itty Bitty the dog works hard to make it a special place to call his own, but after cutting out windows and a door, he finds it just too empty and so now must locate the appropriately sized decorations to fit inside his special home.
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