Soup Day: A Board Book


Book Description

Now in board book A young girl and her mother shop to buy ingredients for vegetable soup. At home, they work together--step by step--to prepare the meal. A little later, the family sits down to enjoy a special dinner. Melissa Iwai's Soup Day celebrates the importance of making a nutritious meal and sharing in the process as a family. A Christy Ottaviano Book




Book Love


Book Description

In Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader award-winning educator and parent Melissa Taylor gives busy parents of kids ages three to ten engaging, playful, out-of-the box ideas for growing a reader, assisting kids who are learning to read, and gently encouraging reluctant readers. Just a few of the many helpful insights and strategies she shares include: - The most common reasons why kids find it hard to learn to read or may hate to read (too boring, too tricky, too blurry, too "sitty")-and what to do about them. - Activities and product recommendations to facilitate letter recognition, rhyming, sight word skills, phonics, and fluency. - Approaches for improving word attack and reading comprehension. - Book lists organized by kids' interests. - Printable sight word flashcards and word strategy bookmarks. Packed with practical, bite-sized ideas that get children reading and loving books, Book Love can be your go-to guide for reading help for kids.




I Love You Melissa


Book Description

I Love You Melissa Blank lined Diary journal - 120 Pages - Large (6x9 inches) Everyone loves hearing original words from the people they love and care about. It is our hope to help bless your relationship with your Melissa through this journal, We know that taking the time to sit down and journal about those we love has become a lost art in the hustle and bustle of the 21st century. But we want to encourage you to give it a go. Order Now & Celebrate your unique and perfectly imperfect love with the one and only who has your heart.




I Love Melissa!


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I LOVE MELISSA! is a personalized book for any child named MELISSA. The name MELISSA is featured as the star of the story, as well as in the book's dedication. MELISSA (the main character) is a cute dog who shares the reasons why she is loved. In a surprise ending, she reveals a powerful source of love (herself!). Designed to boost confidence, positive thinking, and overall well-being, the story is full of positive affirmations for children -- as well as playful rhyming and adorable dog illustrations. ORDER THIS BOOK WITH THE NAME OF YOUR CHOICE at LiveWellMedia.com CUSTOMER REVIEWS Affirmations make a big difference: I just read this book and loved it! Although it's written for children, anyone (young or old) can benefit from its wisdom. I firmly believe that affirmations make a big difference in the way we see the world. And this book is written is such a way that kids of all ages will gain from it. Kudos, Suzanne, for writing it and for serving the world. ~ Jay Platt of Unstoppable Insights My 3.5 year old son received this book as a gift, but I have to say the affirmations spoke to me as well! You're never too old to be reminded that you should love yourself and celebrate all that is great about you! ~ Stephanie, Mother of Ben An AMAZING Gift! Everyone should have this book!: This book is truly special!! From the front cover to the back cover it is an amazing gift! The photos are bright and fun, full of life and love.... and isn't that what life is all about! This book would be a special gift for ANYONE young or old. We all need an extra reminder now and then of who and what makes the most impact on our lives. I will be filling my Christmas shopping list by ordering several more. This will be a gift with meaning and substance. ~ Anny I am ordering a duplicate set. I absolutely love these books. Will give to grandsons for Christmas gifts and keep one set at my house to read together when little boys come to visit. ~ Lauralee This book has a warm, playful theme that kids will love, adults will feel good reading such positive affirmation for their kids to read over and over again. I highly recommend a copy for home and as a gift for loved ones! ~ Sarah, Mother of Gabrielle and Annika As a mom of two little girls, I'm pretty picky about their toys and books. This book has been effective at helping her to build confidence in herself and around animals. What a great combination! ~ Amy, Mother of 2 Girls My twins give four thumbs up! Ms. Marshall has a gift for touching the hearts of her young readers, as well as those who are young at heart. ~ Leila, Luke and Sasha




In the Shape of Melissa


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Paradise is not a destination but a state of mind. Something Sammy had come to appreciate over time. He knew he was second best. Second to a man who died and left a world of confusion behind but he didn’t care. He loved Melissa more than simple words and grand gestures could ever describe. In their small town he had found his paradise. A paradise that he had carefully crafted within his mind but that beautifully constructed dream would soon be shattered by a simple discovery and an ugly truth. The only path left to take will be the one leading into the shadows and away from the life Sammy had grown to love. Love and betrayal, some of the building blocks in creating monsters but there are monsters within us all. Some more real than others. The hunger we carry should not always be fed and Sammy is about realize that setting your monsters free is far easier than conquering them. Who survives to tell the tale that monsters live and monsters fail?




To My Favorite Sister With Love: Melissa's Memory Book


Book Description

This book I wrote is about my sister’s life, every story is different in the book I talk about about my sister melissa, In the Beginning , Things to remember about Melissa, Recollections, My sister my mom and I in the kitchen, My sister’s wisdom , My sister’s gift, About myself , school days, after school, Melissa’s room, boys, sometimes it’s the little things and two poems written by my sister Melissa.




Melissa's Viking


Book Description

Wow! A Viking! This was Melissa Hillman’s first thought upon meeting Erik Lundstrom. But after an unfortunate verbal exchange, hopes for anything beyond a professional working relationship seem impossible. However, after working together at a volunteer site, she begins to see the kindness and decency in him. Although he is reluctant to have a new relationship after just ending a bad one, Erik finds himself attracted to the lovely Melissa. Can they ever get past their initial misunderstanding? Just when Melissa forgives Erik and wants to get to know him better, a sweet woman and her little boy threaten to steal Erik's heart. Readers of Lisa Smelter’s Love in Litton Series will find familiar faces in this Book 4 romance and make room in their hearts for a few more.




Melissa


Book Description

Melissa is a simple, average, everyday woman, struggling to balance a family, work, and herself. As she becomes more and more unhappy with her life, she meets a strange woman who promises to fix everything - by trading lives. Dreammaker promises a vacation from Melissa's troubles, and to have her life fixed to her idea of perfection by the time Melissa comes back. But can Dreammaker be trusted, or is the price for a perfect life more than Melissa can pay?




Melissa


Book Description

Listening to his voice and having him sitting across from me, I fought the urge to rush to him and into his lap; to smother him with kisses and to tell him how much I loved and wanted to be with him. Why was I being such a chicken? His eyes were saying everything and it was more than I could possibly have hoped or ever dreamed for. I didn’t care about the wife just as I didn’t care about Terry. I wanted to be with Tom and Bonnie already knowing the kids would feel the same way. All I had to do was say something, anything! Why wasn’t Tom saying anything? I could see it in his eyes how he felt about me. Was he scared of offending me or afraid I’d react badly? Did he think it better just to let things remain as they were? The questions kept popping into my mind and I was going crazy trying to find a way to let him know exactly what I felt. Tom gently moved forward on the couch looking me straight in the eyes, his eyes showing so much love and perhaps even hope— “I did see you that day in Coal Grove.”




My Melissa


Book Description

George and Arthur are identical twins, both are in college and living in late 1930s America. They come from a rich upper class Baltimore family. Their father had been taking the family on summer vacations to Miami Beach. Finding Miami Beach to be too crowded, the father changes directions and takes the family to a remote and less known vacation resort in South Carolina. There the boys meet and fall head over rich privileged heels in love with a beautiful local girl who works as a cleaning girl who cleans the rental vacation cottages. When they return the next year they start up a full blown love and sexual affair with the girl, Melissa. The girl falls in love with them; both of them. Both brothers want to marry the girl. The situation lead to quite a rivalry between the two brothers which could lead to a serious break between them in the family. The problem is that Melissa said she wants to marry BOTH men. She says that she loves them both equally and cannot choose between them. In the end she refuses to choose between them saying that if they will not agree to a three-way marriage she will live with them both in a menage-a-twa arrangement anywhere. While that could be worked out in backwoods mountain country, it would be totally unacceptable in straight laced conservative Baltimore Brahmin society. The boys do not want to leave their family home and situation. By a series of events that include a savage barroom between the brothers and locals over the girl, a fight in which one of the brothers seriously mutilates a knife welding redneck thug, facing possible serious danger from angry locals who falsely blame the girl for provoking the fight, the girl comes home with the boys to live with them as a cleaning girl in the family home in Baltimore, much to the chagrin of the boys straight laced mother. At home behind closed doors, the boys carry on in secret the affair they started in Carolina. At their sister's wedding reception both of the brothers propose to the girl with the one she does not choose agreeing to drop out of the picture. Sill as much of a stubborn hillbilly girl as she was when they first met her, Melissa again refuses to choose between them. The issue unresolved as ever, the affair otherwise continues in secret at the family house. The years roll on, Melissa marries out of necessity, but which one did she choose? Find out how this convoluted love affair ends.