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Born to read : how to nurture a baby's love of learning : a planner's manual
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Born to Read Project.; American Library Association; Agency collaboration.; Libraries and infants.; Public services (Libraries);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Born reading : bringing up bookworms in a digital age--from picture books to ebooks and everything in between / by Boog, Jason.(CARDINAL)407242;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index.The Born Reading playbook, or, How to use this book -- Before your baby is born ; Interlude : How sign language can change your baby's life -- First year of life ; Interlude : Raising library babies -- Reading with a one-year-old ; Interlude : How to inspire reluctant readers -- Reading during the Terrible Twos ; Interlude : The joy of homemade books and projects -- Three-year-old readers ; Interlude : Why your kid should read comic books -- Learning with four-year-old readers ; Interlude : Mastering the art of storytelling -- Kindergarten and beyond -- How born readers can thrive with Common Core standards.A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children's book publishers, and reading recommendations for kids from birth up to age five.
Subjects: Children; Reading; Children.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Let's build it! / by Swerdlove, Larry,author.(CARDINAL)537837;
Born to build -- Heavy equipment -- Building a house -- Skyscrapers -- So many things to build -- It's coming down! -- Let's build! -- Glossary -- Let's talk about it.Most children like to build things, and this book gives them a realistic glimpse into construction projects from houses and skyscrapers to bridges and stadiums. Along the way, readers will learn about some of the planning and materials that go into building, as well as some of the jobs and heavy equipment involved in construction. Left-hand pages contain more complex text to be read by parents while right-hand pages feature text for children written at a specific early reading level.Guided reading level: F.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Building; Engineering; Construction equipment; Construction workers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Art-rageous / by Young, Jessica(Jessica E.)(CARDINAL)343324; Secheret, Jessica,illustrator.(CARDINAL)498267;
After a class field trip to the art museum, fourth-graders Finley, Henry, and Olivia are assigned a project that is supposed to define art, which is difficult, because they all liked very different paintings--but for their group project they come up with a presentation that captures their combined vision.4-86202-3.6-8.1-3.S620LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Art museums; School field trips; Aesthetics; Middle-born children;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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Being the person your dog thinks you are : the science of a better you / by Davies, Jim,author.(CARDINAL)615960;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-417) and index.About you. Productivity – An optimizer – Personal productivity – Sharpening the saw vs. cutting – Your mind, your time, your attention – The effects of distraction – Why are people sabotaging themselves? – Hacking your brain, hacking your life. How to hack your cognitive system – How to hack your habit system – How to hack your reward system – Working without distraction: I’m here to make an hour out of fifteen minutes – The project list – The half-hours method – The half-hours method: master class – Competing methods – How to read more effectively – Idea capture – How to sleep – Helping yourself by helping others – Happiness. Your life satisfaction – Habituation – Happiness is in-born – Happiness comes from within – Happiness comes from without – Hang out with friends and loved ones – A (good) marriage and (maybe) children – Happiness and memory – There is more to a good life than being happy – It’s not about you. What we think is right and wrong – Morality vs. selfishness – The expanding circle – The social group – The out-group and animals – Anything that can suffer – Morality, personality, and emotion – The good of the many vs. the rights of the few – Your identity as a charitable person – Doing bad is more powerful than doing good – Your brain on morals – What’s actually right and wrong – A work on progress – Having and not having children: moral issues – Ethical purchases – Think globally, act globally – The (numerical) value of human life – Choosing a career – Measure good done – Animals – Is life suffering& -- Helping animals – Comparing human to animal suffering – Environmental morality – Choosing charities – How to mobilize people to be good – How people give, how people donate – Are humans good for the world? – When giving gives back – Where does it all end? How much is too much? – The only local activism that makes sense.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-realization.; Happiness.; Cognitive psychology.; Human behavior.; Habit.; Brain.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The everything psychic book : tap into your subconscious power and discover your inherent abilities / by Hathaway, Michael R.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index.What is psychic ability? -- You were born psychic -- Keep yourself grounded -- Begin the connection to your psychic abilities -- Exploring your chakra centers -- Work with your guides -- Clairvoyance, or psychic sight -- Clairaudience or psychic hearing -- Clairsentience or psychic feeling -- Psychic senses and psychometry -- Astral projection and telekinetic powers -- Are you a medium? -- Psychic ghost hunting and animal communication -- Finding psychic information in your sleep -- Reading cards and stars -- Psychic tools that can assist you -- Develop your dowsing abilities -- Medical intuition and psychic healing -- Encourage children to use their psychic gifts -- It's time to share your psychic gifts.
Subjects: Psychic ability.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The talking hills / by Hedrick, Hazel Parker,author.;
Hazel Parker Hedrick is a mountaineer by birth, being born and raised in the John Hayes Hollow of Western North Carolina. More than that, she is a mountaineer in her soul. Her early training in life has stayed with her and guided her all of her life in everything she faced. As the oldest child in a family hat was poor financially, she was burdened with many responsibilities. But, she was blessed also because that family was richer than kings when it came to love. Read this heartwarming book and relive her experiences. It may be a way of life long gone, but the lessons learned have a value that would benefit anyone who reads it today and they would do well to follow the examples set by this honest hardworking mountain family. The world would be a better place if everyone had their integrity. Hazel is the mother of three children whose children are grown themselves. At an age when most people are thinking of retirement, Hazel began writing poetry and stories about her earlier life. She has taken creative and reminiscence writing courses and plans to go on to other writing projects. She is still a full time wife to her husband of over fifty years, Dennis Hedrick and gardens, putting up most of their food herself. In Hazel's writing you will notice immediately the straightforward honesty in dealing with her subjects. She is an optimistic person, but she doesn't sugar coat things either. You will like her style of writing and feel as though she is speaking directly to you. SO relax, open this book and get ready to meet the Parker family of John Hayes Hollow.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Parker family.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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A passionate mind in relentless pursuit : the vision of Mary McLeod Bethune / by Rooks, Noliwe,1963-author.(CARDINAL)279409;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index."My name is Mrs. Bethune" -- Remembering Bethune -- Meeting Bethune -- "Yours for Negro womanhood" -- Black: capital, capitalism, and relaxation -- On the soil and in the name of one's ancestors -- On peace."An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation When Mary MacLeod Bethune died,many of the tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the "Mount Rushmore" of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is the only Black American whose statue stands in the rotunda of the U.S. Capital, and yet formost Americans, she remains a marble figure from the dim past. Now, seventy years later, Noliwe Rooks turns Bethune from stone to flesh, showing her to have been a visionary leader with lessons to still teach us as we continue on our journey towards a freer and more just nation. Any serious effort to understand how the Black Civil Rights generation found role models, vision, and inspiration during their midcentury struggle for political power must place Bethune at its heart. Her success was unlikely: the15th of 17 children and the first born into freedom, Bethune survived brutal poverty and caste subordination to become the first in her family to learn to read and to attend college. She gave that same gift to others when in 1904, at age 29, Bethune welcomed her first class of five girls to the Daytona, Florida school she herself had founded. In short order, the school enrolled hundreds of children and eventually would become the university that bears her name to this day. Bethune saw education as an essential dimension of the larger struggle for freedom, vitally connected to the vote and to economic self-sufficiency. She played a big game, and a long game, enrolling Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and many other powerful leaders in her cause. Rooks grew up in Florida, in Bethune's shadow: her grandparents trained to be teachers at Bethune-Cookman University, and her family vacationed at the all-Black beach that Bethune helped found in one of her many entrepreneurial projects for the community. The story of how-in a state with some of the highest lynching rates in the country-Bethune carved out so much space, and how she catapulted from there onto the national stage, is, in Rooks' hands, a moving and astonishing example of the power of a will and a vision that had few equals. Now, when the gains and losses in the long struggle for full Black equality in this country feel particularly near-and centered on the state of Florida-, it is an enormous gift to have this brilliant and lyrical reckoning with Bethune's journey from one of our own great educators and scholars of that same struggle."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955.; Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962; African American women political activists; African Americans; African American women social reformers; African American women educators; African Americans; Social change;
Available copies: 30 / Total copies: 32
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Bigger, better, bolder [audio-enabled device] live the life you want, not the life you get / by Cohen, Jennifer,1975-author,narrator(CARDINAL)613924; Blackstone Audio, Inc.(CARDINAL)346395; Playaway Products, LLC(CARDINAL)868990;
Read by the authorJennifer Cohen, a superstar motivational coach, illuminates how to get the life you want by being bold, resilient, and creating specific goals and habits. I know what it takes to get what you want in life. Its a habit anyone can learn, a skill you can develop, a gift you dont need to be born with. The more experience you get, the more confident youll be. Even when you fail, youll feel stronger with each try you make. At work, at home, wherever your life unfolds--be bold. Take action. Ask for the right things. Chase what you want instead of taking what you can get. What do you want most in life, and why dont you have it? Think about the things that give your life depth, focus, and meaning: deeply satisfying relationships with plenty of give and take, physical health and emotional wellbeing, passion projects, self-esteem, and self-respect. Bold people have these things. Bold people recognize whats holding them back--and it's almost always a fear of failure. They train to overcome their fears, they embrace the 10% Target, and they create everyday, life-long habits to get what they want. Bigger, Better, Bolder brings readers one step closer to boldness, one chapter at a time. With practical takeaways and action steps--bite-sized Bold Moves--and real-life case studies of boldness in action, Jennifer Cohen teaches you how to get what you want.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Self-help publications.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-confidence; Self-esteem.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lost summers of Newport [audio-enabled device] a novel / by Williams, Beatriz,author(CARDINAL)355605; Flanagan, Lisa,narrator.; Maarleveld, Saskia,narrator.(CARDINAL)344518; Pressley, Brittany,narrator.(CARDINAL)347916; White, Karen(Karen S.),author.(CARDINAL)354497; Willig, Lauren,author.(CARDINAL)352337; Findaway World, LLC(CARDINAL)345268; Harper Audio (Firm)(CARDINAL)539013; Playaway Digital Audio(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by Saskia Maarleveld, Brittany Pressley, and Lisa Flanagan"2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer on Makeover Mansion, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historical houses. Andie's latest project features the once glorious but now crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport ... But the mansion's reclusive owner, Lucia 'Lucky' Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse. 1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother, John, has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport's elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl ... But demure Ellen has her own scandalous past, which catches up to her in one catastrophic night... 1957: In the years since Lucky Sprague and her grandmother--the American-born Princess di Conti--fled Mussolini's Italy and returned to Sprague Hall, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But an encounter in the mansion's old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth..."--Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction).; Dwellings; Family secrets; Heiresses; Historic buildings;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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