The Tray of Togetherness


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A delicious ode to food, family, and togetherness that celebrates Lunar New Year A little girl and her family are hosting a New Year party, an event marking the Lunar New Year. There's a lot to do before the guests arrive! First, a trip to the market to fill up the Tray of Togetherness, a special candy box for the partygoers. Each of the eight lucky snacks in the Tray has an auspicious meaning: peanuts for a long life, pistachios for happiness, candied coconut for strong family ties...As the family returns home, they pass out delicious good wishes to the friends and neighbors they meet along the way. After the tray has been prepared and the decorations set up, it's time for the party! A diverse group of relatives and friends gathers, ready to celebrate the New Year with the Tray of Togetherness. This sensory, food-focused story is brought to life with eye-catching illustrations and a little girl's cheerful narration. Debut author/illustrator Flo Leung encourages readers to explore culturally specific Lunar New Year practices, while offering a universal message about carrying on traditions and creating community.




A Kid's Guide to Asian American History


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Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Asian American cultures and teach them about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped Asian American history. This book is broken down into sections covering American descendents from various Asian countries, including China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, India, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Topics include the history of immigration from Asian countries, important events in U.S. history, sidebars on famous Asian Americans, language lessons, and activities that highlight arts, games, food, clothing, unique celebrations, and folklore. Kids can paint a calligraphy banner, practice Tai Chi, fold an origami dog or cat, build a Japanese rock garden, construct a Korean kite, cook bibingka, and create a chalk rangoli. A time line, glossary, and recommendations for Web sites, books, movies, and museums round out this multicultural guide.




Celebrate Chinese New Year


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Simple text and color images present various aspects of the Chinese New Year celebration, including red decorations, the exchange of poems, Festival of Lanterns, Dragon Dance, fireworks, parades, feasts, and the remembrance of ancestors.




PoPo's Lucky Chinese New Year


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When her Chinese grandmother comes to visit, a young Chinese-American girl learns of and participates in the customs and beliefs celebrating an authentic Chinese New Year.




Adventures of the God Detectives


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For ages 6-10. When seven-year-old Tabitha hears a message from Jesus while listening to a Bible story, she tells her three best friends -- Emma, Jacob, and Fu-Han (who are aged eight and nine). Intrigued by her experience, the friends find themselves wondering about how God speaks to people, and to kids in particular. And with that simple question, the God Detectives are born. 'Adventures of the God Detectives' is about a group of young friends who form a club to discover the variety of ways God invites us into a relationship. The book contains seven stories. Each story includes 'Notes for Adults', and 'Questions to consider with Children', designed to help parents talk with children about spiritual experiences. The book chronicles the discoveries Tabitha, Emma, Jacob, and Fu-Han make, as they meet a native elder and a Franciscan monk, encounter a little sisters 'imaginary companion', interpret a dream, wrestle with their conscience, read the Bible, and pray.




Crayola ® Chinese New Year Colors


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What do red envelopes, green fireworks, and golden tangerines have in common? All are part of vibrant Chinese New Year celebrations! Celebrate the culture and customs of Chinese New Year by learning about the holiday's colors through eye-catching photos and engaging text. Back matter features the Crayola® colors used throughout the book and includes a reproducible coloring page.




Life's Like That


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In this collection of amusing meditations on Malaysian life and its complexities and contradictions, Lydia Teh dives into the depths of Malaysian life: family, pregnancies, babies, motherhood, hobbies, festivities, daily ablutions, pets and other calamities. Not only has she imbued her stories of homespun ordinariness and nostalgia with a luminous sheen, she also captures the essence of being Malaysian with wit and bracing honesty.




Daughter of Heaven


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In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically acclaimed Chinese-American writer, taste becomes the keeper of memory and food the keeper of culture when Nai-nai, her extraordinary grandmother, arrives from mainland China. Leslie Li’s paternal grandfather, Li Zogren, was China’s first democratically elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa in 1949. Nine years later, Li’s wife, Nai-nai, comes to live with her son’s family in New York City, bringing a whole new world of sights, smells, and tastes as she quickly takes control of the kitchen. Nai-nai’s tantalizingly exotic cooking opens up the heart and mind of her American granddaughter to her Chinese heritage—and to the world. Through her grandmother’s traditional cuisine Leslie bridges the cultural divide in an America in which she is a minority—as well as the growing gap at home between her rigid, traditional Chinese father and her progressive American-born mother. Interspersed throughout her intimate and moving memoir are the author’s personal recipes, most from Nai-nai’s kitchen, that add a delicious dimension to the work. A loving ode to family and food, Daughter of Heaven is an exquisite blend of memory, history, and the senses.




Togetherness


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Ketchup and mustard. Salt and pepper. Mickey and Minnie. Peanut Butter and Jelly. Milk and cookies. Things were meant to be together. God made it that way. He made us that way. This book is written to a specific part of your togetherness experience. The most intimate and enduring relationship you have on earth. The person you are married to. Your husband. Your wife. Your covenant partner. The one, whom you held their hand, looked in their eyes and made a covenant of commitment in front of God and witnesses. “Until death do us part”. This book will provide you with practical principles on Coming Together, Talking Together, Deciding Together, Fighting Together, Sleeping Together, Parenting Together and Staying Together. After you finish reading Togetherness, you’ll experience more love for each other then you could imagine. Together. Togetherness - that deep sense of being united, close and inseparable - is what every married couple longs to enjoy. And if you’re looking for a means to this kind of intimacy, you’ve found the right book. Wil Lake reveals the secrets to sweet communion as a couple. Don’t miss out on his message. – Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts No one lives togetherness in marriage like the Lakes. Chelsea and I would consider this couple one of our heroes and are we so excited they are sharing their marriage secrets with us. They have modeled this principle of living better together and practicing unity through the seasons of their marriage with care and fruitfulness. This book is real, practical guidance from the Lakes as they share some insightful help and tools to master togetherness in key areas of your marriage. – Judah Smith, Lead Pastor - The City Church, Seattle WA NY Times best-selling author of Jesus Is _____




Creating Prosperity and Abundance


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For many people the word prosperity means financial wealth. Real and lasting prosperity goes much deeper than your bank account. True prosperity is a state of mind, not just financial success or an abundance of material goods. Abundance also means something different to each of us. Abundance applies to love, power, knowledge, material goods, spirituality, health, a sense of wellbeing, or anything else that's important to you. All of these are aspects of personal abundance. Prosperity and abundance is available to anyone who has the consciousness and ability to attract all that their heart desires. Your prosperity and abundance is only limited by your imagination. One of the most important elements of successful manifestation is 'blind faith'. It's essential to believe that you're going to achieve something that isn't currently physically present. For people new to prosperity work this can be the toughest part. I dare you to dream and believe. Who knows what you will manifest!