Making a Family Home


Book Description

Making a Family Home is a book of real beauty, one both personal and universal. In describing her home and family life, Shannon Honeybloom shows how she made - and how we can make - a house into a real home as she shares her own efforts, hopes, and lessons in making a safe and healthy home that provides warmth and intimacy for the whole family.




The Made-Up Words Project


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Every family has random words they invent for things--like sticking cold feet under someone's butt ("nurdeling"). Author/illustrator Rinee Shah collected real-life phrases from families around the world, and then whimsically illustrated the results. * You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll eat some snufflins* (*sweet treats)* Knock Knock books are cool gifts that make you look cool, too* Hardcover; 5 x 6.5 inches; 208 pages; full-color illustrations




The Family Firm


Book Description

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Chart a child's path with less stress and more optimization for healthy habits and future success' Time From age 5 to 12, parenting decisions get more complicated and have lasting consequences. What's the right kind of school? Should they play a sport? When's the right time for a phone? Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Along with these bigger questions, Oster investigates how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family logistics. The Family Firm is a smart and winning guide to how to think more clearly - and with less ambient stress - about the key decisions of these early years.




The Lagotti Family Complete Collection


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Two generations and four decades in the lives of Frank, Mary Lou and the rest of the gang This digital box set contains the complete four-book saga of the Lagotti Family: The Heist: After leaving Baltimore Penitentiary, Frank's get rich quick scheme to rob a bank requires his girlfriend, Mary Lou to sleep with an inside guy and for his gang to stay together long enough to take down the vault. Meanwhile Mary Lou falls for the inside man and can’t decide whether to go with him or Frank. If she chooses the wrong fella she’ll be penniless and wind up dead. How would you choose between a fool and a dreamer? The Getaway: After ex-con Frank and his girlfriend Mary Lou rob a Baltimore Bank, they must flee across country before the Feds find them and the mob ices them for stealing from an organized crime boss. As they dash to California, trust becomes the most important currency as Frank and Mary Lou grapple to decide whether love is enough to keep them together. And by the time they reach their goal, they must fight to the death to survive hired guns and trained police shooters. If they don’t kill everyone in their way then they will die themselves. Would you risk everything for a sack of greenbacks? Powder: When Mary Lou takes the proceeds from a bank robbery to start up her heroin dealing business, old enemies circle overhead and threaten the lives of her twins. How will she keep them safe in such a dangerous place and what is she prepared to do to secure her new venture? Mama's Gone: When Mary Lou makes some bad decisions, her twins and her husband must decide whether she’s losing her mind. If they can get that cleared up then all they have to worry about is their feud with the Russian mob. And then someone goes and ices the old lady. Who would have the cajones to murder the head of the Lagotti family? What reviewers are saying: "A dark family saga soaked in blood" - "Chocolate 'n' Waffles "[A] thrilling and detailed insight to mob culture which is gritty, noirish and yet threaded through with a wry humour." - Rachel Read It "A crime novel that really delivers the mystery." - The Indie Express "I’m now kicking myself I haven’t read the other books in the series only because I enjoyed this one. It grabs your attention from the first page and one that keeps you intrigued into what is going on." - Lost in the Land of Books "There is a darker element to the novel that I loved. I also really enjoyed the authenticity of the crime element." - On a Reading Bender What readers are saying: ★★★★★ 'A very well written crime thriller book.' ★★★★★ 'This is a wonderful story and I recommend this to all.' ★★★★★ 'Interesting look inside a life of crime and love for family.' ★★★★ '[Borstinski] wasn’t afraid to let his characters live and die by their bloodthirsty, ruthless decisions.' ★★★★ 'A rollercoaster ride into the lives of drug mob parents and their adult kids. Live or die.' ★★★★ 'A thrilling conclusion to this crime novel.'




Making Books with Kids


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This illustrated guide features twenty-five projects to share with crafty kids who love to read—with simple techniques for book binding, pop-up books and more! In Making Books with Kids, master book artist Esther K.¬†Smith shares kid-friendly, easy-to-follow instructions for a variety of fun and creative bookmaking projects—all supported with step-by-step, full-color photographs and illustrations. Each sequence is accompanied by finished samples and variations as well as Smith's own inspiring work. Full of paper crafting techniques, including sewing, collage, pop-up assemblage and more, the lessons in this book are both practical and open-ended, offering plenty of room for exploration and variation. Colorful photos illustrate how different people using the same lesson will yield different results, exemplifying the way the lesson brings out each artist's personal style. Children of all ages and experience levels can be guided by adults and will enjoy these engaging exercises.




The Storm


Book Description

Pandora the cat becomes a lighthouse keeper and saves the life of Seabold the dog, and together the two of them create a family with three young mice rescued from the sea.




Young House Love


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This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.




Making a Baby


Book Description

This inclusive guide to how every family begins is an honest, cheerful tool for conversations between parents and their young ones. To make a baby you need one egg, one sperm, and one womb. But every family starts in its own special way. This book answers the "Where did I come from?" question no matter who the reader is and how their life began. From all different kinds of conception through pregnancy to the birth itself, this candid and cozy guide is just right for the first conversations that parents will have with their children about how babies are made.




Make Yourself Great Again - Complete Collection: An Introduction to Mindset Stacking Techniques


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You're Already Wired for Exceptional Success BUT: Those same programs also have given you your greatest failures. If you've ever had a complete melt-down, a real failure of your mindset, where the world has seemingly gone to hell and stayed there, you're not alone. It's just sad to tell you that it's your own damned fault. What makes it worse is to find out that all you need to succeed was already programmed into you - and has been since you were born. Then how did you get into that mess? By believing what people told you - as you were raised, - and in every school you went to, - all your on the job training, - every movie you ever saw, - or song you ever heard. All those lessons and examples just helped you believe in something other than your own ability to become great. This collection of 7 books now answers all the questions and more. Because this subject is as deep as you want to take it. And your life is guaranteed to never be the same... Get Your Copy Now.




The Family Recipe Collection Book


Book Description

Favorite Recipes come in many forms. This book helps collect the traditions of a lifetime easily and elegantly. Includes 12 sections, each with 4 way to organize Pocket Pages For Clippings Lined Pages for Written Recipes Clear Full pages for precious family recipes Clear pocket pages for recipe cards & photos comes with 24 recipe cards to get you started