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Hildy is a very smart little girl, with a fantastic imagination. Hildy's imagination is so much a part of her that sometimes she forgets what is real and what is make-believe. What is Hildy supposed to do?MIMI'S STRATEGIES are educational and offer young children a universal new way of solving their problems and having their needs met. The stories are short and simple with the emphasis on the main character's growth outward in concentric circles from her nuclear family setting to her broader school environment. Learning to think strategically rather than reacting emotionally is a valuable problem solving skill that will empower any child throughout his/her life. Competence is the mother of self-esteem. Being resourceful, thinking independently, and behaving assertively are behavior traits that motivate children toward individual thinking, achievement, compassion, and fairness on their journey to adulthood.

After nearly a decade of sobriety, Pam Gaslow relapsed into a life of dependency on marijuana, a devastating downward spiral that shattered her. From bongs to pipes to flavored vape pens, she dove into a two-year-long 24/7 stoned void: a protracted journey to nowhere. Ultimately becoming sick from marijuana toxicity, Gaslow finally finds the willingness to save herself and seek treatment. Don't Bring Your Vibrator to Rehab is an emotionally raw memoir that reveals the terrifying and lonely world of addiction. She tells all with honesty, intelligence, wit, and a remarkable degree of self-deprecating humor.

Monogamy is for some, but it isn't for everyone. This memoir offers an unconventional approach to healing Black love through non-monogamous unions such as swinging, polyamory, and open relationships. This book offers readers a very tantalizing and seductive peak into non-monogamous culture, while offering suggestions on how to enter the Lifestyle. Join the author on her journey as she discovers her sexuality through her intimate experiences in the world of non-monogamy.

Working in senior care isn't for everyone. It isn't even for most. But for those rare few who find their passion in this multifaceted industry, the sense of job and life satisfaction are limitless. So too, however, can be the pervasive sense of loss and hopelessness. "Poopy Fingers: One Person's Account of Working in the Delightfully Strange World of Assisted Living" follows the lessons, the mistakes, the smiles, and the tears as Kevin Donner stumbles upon his own passion for working with, and for, this often undervalued and ignored demographic.

Animated state characters help bring to life a coast to coast journey of our USA states. This book is packed with engaging rhyming facts about landmarks, cultural and interesting facts unique to each individual state. This fun, book is filled with colorful images unique to each state in the USA, and the clever rhyme, and animated shape of each state will quickly assist students in remembering facts about each state. The catchy rap about the USA at the end of the book targets qualities of our American Heritage. A follow up engaging activity is included as well as a list of state capitals. Students are sure to be absorbed with unique ways to learn about our fifty states.

No one plays perfect chess. We all make mistakes that can put us in a bind. The players who recover and triumph, despite adversity, are looking for the last mistake, one made by their opponents. This book teaches essential strategies for defending, drawing, and even winning when your back is against the wall.

This is an adult coloring book. Target audience beginners to seniors. The illustrated pictures are a variety of flowers, animals, some children

Have you ever seen a coin or banknote from another country? Do you know the national currency of Switzerland? Join adventurous siblings Hao and Sabine as they tour the globe to discover different kinds of money used throughout the world. From Greenland to Easter Island and everywhere in between, young readers will learn about the currencies, cultures and histories of more than 260 countries from every corner of the globe. Filled with images of coins and banknotes in circulation today, this book will capture the minds of fellow philomaths--those who love to learn! Hao and Sabine Buy the World's Currencies not only teaches readers about money but the history, customs, ecosystems, people, languages, and cuisines that make each country and territory unique!

An overview of programming languages: assembly language, procedural languages, and functional languages.This book is intended for readers who have a good foundation in writing code in some high level language (C++ or Java would be fine). The goal is to introduce compiler and interpreter concepts and implement various languages within the four parts of the text.- Part I focuses on assembly language and builds an interpreter for KCODE- Part II focuses on introducing procedural languages and builds a compiler for CALC- Part III builds on Part II to elaborate on specific topics within compiler construction and builds a compile for KIZE- Part IV focuses on functional programming and ultimately builds an interpreter for SKEME

What do you do when your child dies? It's a scenario that nobody wants to think about. But for some of us, this unspeakable thought becomes a reality. So in June of 2000, my oldest son Joey passed away. How could we continue without him? It seemed impossible. Yet somehow, with a lot of love, faith, and determination, I, my husband John, and my younger son Jeremy, very slowly began to find ways to continue without Joey. About ten years ago, after a conversation with a mom who had also lost her son, I realized that maybe my story might help others deal with their loss. Maybe some of the concrete things I and my family found helped us, might help them. So soon after that light bulb moment, I began writing my story. I wrote this book out of love for Joey, John and Jeremy. It has been an extremely difficult process. Yet I feel it turned out to be a very important part of my grieving and healing process. So if you have lost a child or any loved one, and are having a difficult time finding your way, maybe my journey of survival might help. I want people to understand that you can be happy again after the death of your child. Getting there is not easy but possible. Your life will never be the same, it will just be different. But happiness is attainable

This book was written to help myself and hopefully others to release their baggage and pain. The book is dedicated and about two men who shaped my life into the woman I am today, my late father and late husband. Losing them gave me a feeling of being robbed. Robbed of love and possibilities. I start off introducing you to me and my upbringing. Then I let you into my world for you to understand my feelings of being robbed. This has been an emotional journey, but I am finally free.

"Reinvent Yourself" is a life-changing journal, guide, and activity workbook that will help you gain perspective of yourself and your environment. It is a tool to help you enhance and optimize your life - designed to assist you through the process of gaining a holistic understanding of yourself. This book shares the necessary insight for you to enhance your overall growth by avoiding myopic perceptions and applying comprehensive introspection to your everyday routine.

"Real Woman Real Talk" is a ground breaking new book jam packed with information that's going to open your eyes to the many traits of women! This book will not only educate you on female characteristics and mentalities but also may make you realize something about your self, all while having you bent over with laughter & excitement!

"Esto Lo Escribí Mientras Duermes" es el segundo libro del autor Khalil Otero (K H V L X L). En este nuevo libro, el autor nos lleva por el largo camino que es sanar el pasado y a su vez enamorándose nuevamente, y como esto cambia su vida.

Most Incredible's the blueprint is a great resource to design your own MOCs (my own creations) on graph paper that's well suited for brick building toys. This notebook includes 99 pages of studs out, and 99 pages of studs up, laid out in 1:1 scale to the brick, allowing for accurate sizing of your sketches. The blueprint has an overall size of 6" x 9" for ease of use on-the-go, whether you're a seasoned AFOL who loves that plastic building toy, or a burgeoning designer learning how to sketch with ratios and math in your creations.

The Love of Oliver is written from the heart of one fine Therapy Dog about some of his adventures in dealing with thousands of adults and children in need of love that only a dog is able to give. He set out on this journey when he was an eager young pup, who learned quickly that life wasn't all about him, but all about what he could do to help others. That kind of service is not taught. It is inherent in a good dog who loves to please people. The reward that is received from serving others is immeasurable.

It's Evan's first day at a new school in a new neighborhood. As a fifth grader, he's worried and nervous about making new friends and how he will be received as a new student. A New School for Evan is a story that teaches children how to embrace new friends, sharing, being kind, forming new friendships and building long lasting bonds.

In this book, Dr. Girgis addresses patients struggling with autoimmune diseases, with the ultimate goal of placing them in the driver's seat. Utilizing evidence-based research about food, nutrition, herbs, and environment, Dr. Girgis combines ancient wisdom with 21st-century science to connect the dots regarding the causes and treatment of autoimmune diseases.

Dear Black Boy is primarily a book for parents, caregivers, and trusted adults to begin a conversation surrounding race in America with their children. Although this book was not specifically written for children, it is our hope that the content in this book will create conversation between parents and their children, as well as community leaders and the communities they serve, in an effort to promote healing that has been caused by generations of racial trauma.

A family story of life before, during and after WWII in Zagreb, Yugoslavia

In Dear Miss Bossy, you are not the boss of me, you will observe how a few employees cope with the pressures of life and work. Drawing from real-life experience, Author Brenda "Smokey" McCray, presents interesting, dysfunctional, unapologetic and explicit examination of a day-in-the-life of eight office essentials that have had enough. Life, circumstance, loss, betrayal and pain have escalated to the point of explosion and expressed in letters to The BOSS! The book is not about "us versus them". Ms. McCray and Dear Miss Bossy takes a look at office relationships and ask you to consider your own actions and think about the ways in which you can work on improving your behavior and responses to difficult situations.

Hildy loves her pet birdie, Peetie Pie. She feeds him and sings to him and loves to hear him talk. One day Hildy finds Peetie Pie lying face up on the bottom of his cage. Peetie Pie will not get up. What is Hildy supposed to do?MIMI'S STRATEGIES are educational and offer young children a universal new way of solving their problems and having their needs met. The stories are short and simple with the emphasis on the main character's growth outward in concentric circles from her nuclear family setting to her broader school environment. Learning to think strategically rather than reacting emotionally is a valuable problem solving skill that will empower any child throughout his/her life. Competence is the mother of self-esteem. Being resourceful, thinking independently, and behaving assertively are behavior traits that motivate children toward individual thinking, achievement, compassion, and fairness on their journey to adulthood.

The book follows the story of Olive the dog. Who gets lost and finds out the things that make her unique are what help her find her way home. Teaching the lesson we are all created perfect.

Thirty characters--children, teens, young adults, parents, and grandparents--drive the twenty-four interconnected short stories that make up TransAtlantic Ties. The poignant narrative, which spans four generations--from 1945 to 2018--reaches from the Finger Lakes of New York to Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, and across the Atlantic to London, the Yorkshire Dales, and Madrid. Themes of family, friendship, love, and death affirm the importance of introspection and memory in the characters' lives and reveal the ties that connect each of them to an American woman living in modern-day London.

In his memoir, "Crossing Creeks, Bridging Rivers and Laying Cornerstones," Ronald Crutcher writes clever and poignant tales of his life -- some funny, some sad, others illuminating -- but all true and timeless. Readers will see a young Tennessee boy, the first in his family to graduate from high school, confront opportunities and obstacles in the post-World War II era. He reveals in subtle ways just how important it is to keep a steady pace, even when pressure seems overwhelming. From the tobacco farms of Williamson County, Tennessee to the bay of Cam Ranh in Vietnam to construction project sites throughout Middle Tennessee, Ronald Crutcher recounts the close calls and behind-the-scenes events that he encountered throughout his life.

Life is happening all around us even as one small thing takes all of our attention. Follow an unruly sock through a day of school and see how there is still something to be grateful for when the sock comes off.

This is a must-read collection of poetry written in various formats. Readers will enjoy the author''s experimental formatting that ranges from sonnet structure to lyrical, villanelle, terza rima, canzone, pantoum, and free form verse. Each poem is masterfully written to tell a unique story of love and life. This book is filled with rich themes and styles, as each poem is striking and rather unique. Reading "Museum Exhibit" is an experience like walking into a library to sit and enjoy the art of poetry. Embrace the visit as you embark on this poetic journey, and it will be cherished for life.

KC''s Cocktails Simple Sips of Bliss is a cocktail book filled with more than twenty unique recipes created by a home mixologist. Each drink makes you feel like you''re all dressed up and sitting at that swanky new bar, as you enjoy the unique combination of flavors. With every sip of your cocktail, sit back and slip away into the short stories that accompany each delicious libation. You''ll find yourself entertained and touched by the stories of KC''s life. The accomplishments and the challenges she has faced as a single woman are shared with the astute observations that only a therapist can make. Yes, KC is a psychotherapist who just so happens to make fabulous cocktails. Here''s your chance to peak into the world of a therapist, whose reflections and cocktails show us a way to appreciate the complexity of life. While the cocktails are upscale, the directions are easy to follow and were created by grabbing ingredients found in store aisles. Allowing you to stock up your dream bar in no time and make these fantastic libations at home, with entertaining tips and mocktail recipes also included. The stunning photos and charming layout make this a beautiful coffee table book. That you''ll want to peruse with or without a cocktail. KC''s Cocktails Simple Sips of Bliss is the perfect gift. Or share it on those Zoom calls with your friends. Suggest it as the book club read; it will be the best one yet. And of course, don''t forget to get one for yourself! You won''t regret it! Unless you''re a fast reader!

From my grandfather's time through my own years, the Fordyce family has been a constant presence in the Big Horn, Wyoming, ranching scene. I was born ranch, raised ranch, and feel ranch. For most of my life, I've been involved with the land that enchants me. In Let the Good Luck Happen, I cover some of the history of this region, but mostly you'll hear some great stories of growing up in the Big Horn Valley and my ranching ventures. The people in this book, along with the horses, dogs, pigs, and cattle, are the backbone of these stories. You'll get to know some real characters who made this valley what it is today. You'll also enjoy learning about Tepee Lodge, one of the high points of my ranching life. Tepee was a family-oriented dude ranch, and the stories that came from that experience are not to be forgotten. I'm also including a special section of my photography, a career I developed after my years in ranching came to an end. I learned from some of the best, like David Scheinbaum, Janet Russek, and Eliot Porter. These endeavors gave me great fulfillment. So enjoy the book. And may the good luck happen to you like it did to me.