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This amazingly illustrated storybook explores how chess originated and became the world's most popular game. Chess has never been more popular. Fueled by the 2020 pandemic-induced increase in leisure time and the Netflix television series The Queen's Gambit, more people play chess than ever...

"Beware: once you start, you may not be able to put it down!"--Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of Independence and The Last Queen Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be further...

Author: Campbell BooksPublisher: Campbell BooksPublished: 11/07/2023Pages: 12Binding Type: Board BookISBN: 9781035016167Audience: Ages 4-8About the AuthorYujin Shin grew up surrounded by art, as her mother ran an art institute. Shin worked for Samsung Publishing and Sigong Junior for about ten years before embarking on a...

The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl holds the power to defeat the gods--but can she become one? Mere weeks after confronting the Gilded Ones--the false beings she once believed to be her family--Deka is on...

Set in 1980s suburban Chicago, A Reason to Run is a thrilling and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a teenage boy who learns how to live after a tragic accident nearly ends his life.Days before his senior year of high school, a violent bicycling accident...

The world has gone dark, but it's John Kerrigan's chance to rise... or his family dies.An EMP wipes out electronics and the total collapse of safety and law follows.Plunged into darkness, ex-Navy SEAL John Kerrigan, relies on training and instinct to protect those he...

When America shuts down in 2020 to deal with the oncoming pandemic, twenty-year-old college student Mike Wilson travels to Michigan to give support to the hospitalized father who abandoned him as a child. The job he takes pruning an orchard on a struggling farm...

One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their...

It's 1923 in Manhattan's Lower East Side, where a risky romance between a mistreated young woman and a boxer owned by the mob motivates self-discovery, loyalty toward passions, and a life-threatening struggle for freedom. A mundane life is far from Angelina's only suffrage. Pitying...

As gender identity, transgender experiences, and emerging gender identities continue to be normalized and celebrated, many parents are left struggling with what to think about these issues--let alone how to talk to their children about them.The leading Christian expert on LGBTQ+ concerns, Dr. Mark...

The second title in the critically acclaimed series for emerging readers is now available in paperback. In the tradition of Frog and Toad, this critically acclaimed early reader series features Fox and Chick - two unlikely friends who despite their differences always manage to...

Introduction to Health Care & Careers provides students beginning their health care education with the fundamentals they need to develop their personal and professional skills, understand their chosen profession, and succeed in the world of health care.Author: Roxann DelaetPublisher: Jones & Bartlett PublishersPublished: 06/03/2020Pages:...

Award-winning poet Jeanne Wagner is the author of several previous poetry collections. In this lively collection of poems, she goes beyond the surface of daily life to investigate what's hidden within. Everything Turns Into Something Else is an apt title for Wagner's book, which...

When firefighters visit Miss Heather's inclusive class to discuss exit plans, they take their teaching one step further. The firefighters take the children on a fictional learning adventure in their fire truck to see how each of their exit plans are unique. They visit...

Consumers of culture in the modern world -- whether high culture or popular culture -- discover before long that the Bible, its tales and its characters and its idioms, is woven into the culture. Most of us wish we knew the Bible better, and...

Hard Times Charles Dickens Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and highlights the social and economic pressures of the times. The novel was...

The current immigration crisis on our southern borders is usually debated from a safe distance. Politicians create a fear of the migrant to garner votes, while academicians pontificate on the topic from the comfort of cushy armchairs. What would happen if instead the issue...

A blonde, blue-eyed little girl, the only child of an educated Jewish family of Krakow, Poland. She was only 5 years old when the bleak years of World War II began and Nazi Germany occupied Poland. Separated from her parents, her grandparents never heard...

Learning to Work Cooperatively and Respectfully with Others Democratic life skills are skills that enable all of us-children and adults alike--to be caring, thoughtful members of families, schools, communities, and societies. But these emotional and social skills don't just happen. Teachers and families support...

Safety. It's a basic human need, a workplace right, a misunderstood concept with situational importance, and a challenging word to apply. It's also a science. To be safe, you need to know about things like electrical theory, ergonomics, and standards applicable to your work....