books: school, family ...     books:       Middle School: Get Me out of Here! - Free Preview (The First 19 Chapters) Little, Brown and Company, 2012 James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life --which the LA Times called "a perfectly pitched novel"--is another riotous and heartwarming story about living large. After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He's been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math-and-history-free fun zone. ...             Cougar Cub Tales: I'm Just Like You B & F Publishing, 2010 ALL NEW KINDLE VERSION Gold Award Winner/ MCA Best Picture Book Cougar Cub Tales: I’m Just Like You is about a cougar cub brother and sister who, one day, encounter a creature very unlike themselves. They have ungrounded apprehension about whether or not the blind bobcat is “a REAL cougar cub”. By the end of the tale, they realize that, despite their differences, they really ARE the same where it counts. They learn to overlook their ...             The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America George Packer Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013 A New York Times Bestseller One of the iTunes Bookstore’s “Ten Books You Must Read This Summer” A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political ...             Just Me and My Dad (Little Critter) Mercer Mayer Random House Books for Young Readers, 2001 This well-loved Little Critter picture book has become a modern classic. It's the tale of a father-and-son camping trip filled with Little Critter's mistakes and good intentions. In spite of difficulties, however, the happy father and son manage to put up their tent, catch fish for dinner, and sleep beneath the stars. In spite of minimal text, the story is full and rich, with endearing illustrations from start to finish.             Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel Little, Brown and Company, 2012 Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to ...             Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Brene Brown Gotham, 2012 Researcher and thought leader Dr. Brené Brown offers a powerful new vision that encourages us to dare greatly: to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly, and to courageously engage in our lives. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is ...             Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Sheryl Sandberg Knopf, 2013 Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense ...             I Funny - FREE PREVIEW EDITION (The First 13 Chapters): A Middle School Story Little, Brown and Company, 2012 Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian--even if he doesn't have a lot to laugh about these days. He's new in town and stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie, a bully who doesn't let Jamie's wheelchair stop him from messing with Jamie as much as possible. But Jamie doesn't let his situation get him down. When his Uncle Frankie mentions a contest called The ...             Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain Broadway Books, 2013 The book that started the Quiet Revolution At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.  In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue ...             Wonder R. J. Palacio Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2012 I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER , now a #1  New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas ...             Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know Meg Meeker Ballantine Books, 2007 In today’s increasingly complicated world, it’s often difficult for parents to connect with their daughters–and especially so for fathers. In this unique and invaluable guide, Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician with more than twenty years’ experience counseling girls, reveals that a young woman’s relationship with her father is far more important than we’ve ever realized. To become a strong, confident woman, a daughter needs her ...             Together: Devotions for Young Children and Families Conquest Publishers, 2013 Teach your children to pray, to learn Scripture and to understand the word of God with these fun, easy-to-read family devotions. This devotional is designed to help parents and guardians take the lead role in “training up a child”, and is intended for home and family use. Contains 110 devotions covering both the Old and New Testaments. Each devotional includes a scripture passage (including a simplied version of each passage for children to ...             The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg Random House, 2012 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.   Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are ...             Divergent Veronica Roth Katherine Tegen Books, 2012 In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying ...             The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family, and Ducks Built a Dynasty Willie Robertson, Korie Robertson Howard Books, 2012 Faith. Family. Ducksin that order. This book gives readers an up-close and personal, behind-the-scenes look at the family in the exploding A&E showDuck Dynasty. This Louisiana bayou family operates Duck Commander, a booming family business that has made them millions. Youll hear all about the Robertson clan from Willie and what it was like growing up in the Robertson household. Youll sample some of Willies favorite family recipes from Phil, Kay, ...             The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot Broadway Books, 2011 Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, ...             Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns Glenn Beck Threshold Editions, 2013 When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of Rights. So why aren’t more people listening? History has proven that guns are essential to self-defense and liberty—but tragedy is a powerful force and has led many to believe that guns are the enemy, that the ...             Reconstructing Amelia: A Novel Harper, 2013 In Reconstructing Amelia , the stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight, Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter—now. But Kate’s stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds ...             The Berenstain Bears: We Love Our Dad! Jan Berenstain, Mike Berenstain HarperFestival, 2013 In The Berenstain Bears: We Love Our Dad! , the cubs decide to spoil Papa Bear for Father’s Day. Papa Bear is, after all, the best dad there is.   He’s always there for his cubs, but will he let them treat him for a change, on his special day?   This full-color storybook brings another delightful adventure with the Berenstain Bears.             The Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeannette Walls Scribner, 2006 Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. 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