Mind Your Own Beeswax


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Things are going well for beekeeper Story Fischer, whose hands are full with a successful local market, her Queen Bee Honey business, and a new boyfriend. But when she finds the dead body of local woman with a checkered past right near her hive, she's in a sticky situation indeed.




Mind Your Own Beeswax


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Mind Your Own Beeswax by Eunice Negron Four honeybees are determined to protect the honey from a bear with a wife and family to support. First, there is Joey Bee, who has the biggest eyes of all four. His job is to guard the honey. Second, Emily Bee, who is the smartest, reads a different book every day. Third is Josyln Bee, who likes to gossip and create chaos, and fourth, Pretty Bee who is the prettiest but also lazy. Can Joey Bee, Emily Bee, Josyln Bee and Pretty Bee make peace with this beast and his family? Let's all find out in Mind Your Own Beeswax.




A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue


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A Book that Helps Kids Learn the Difference Between Tattling and Telling No one likes "Josh the Tattler" because he tattles way too much. He tattles on his classmates, his brother, and even his dog! But one night Josh wakes up to find that his tongue is very long, yellow, covered in bright purple spots, and Itchy, Itchy, Scratchy, Scratchy... Will a bad case of Tattle Tongue teach him a lesson? A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue gives teachers and counselors a humorous, cleverly creative way to address the time-consuming tattling-related issues that often sap classroom energy and thwart teaching opportunities. Parents who "battle the tattle" at home, on the playground, in the grocery store, or anywhere else can use this book to both entertain and enlighten their children about "The Tattle Rules." Every adult who desires to help children understand the differences between tattling and the need to warn others about important matters needs this book!




Light Your Way: Make a Candle


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Explores the history and science of candles making. Includes step-by-step instructions for making beeswax and milk carton candles. Other topics include decorating candles and safety. Glossary, additional resources and index.




Let's Bring Back


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An illustrated A-to-Z tribute to old-fashioned items worth rediscovering: “Wistful . . . charming . . . like a stroll down memory lane.” —Elle Whatever happened to cuckoo clocks? Or bed curtains? Why do we have so many “friends” while doing away with the much more useful word “acquaintance”? All of these things, plus hot toddies, riddles, proverbs, corsets, calling cards, and many more, are due for a revival. Throughout this whimsical, beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of nostalgia, Lesley M.M. Blume breathes new life into the elegant, mysterious, and delightful trappings of bygone eras, honoring the timeless tradition of artful living along the way. Inspired by her much loved Huffington Post column of the same name and featuring entries from famous icons of style and culture, Let’s Bring Back leads readers to rediscover the things that entertained, awed, beautified, satiated, and fascinated in eras past. “Witty . . . recommended reading.” —Country Living “If you’re feeling lousy and you read this book, it awakens you to things that have made you happy in your life. It reminds you of a time when certain things ideas, gestures got you through . . . and revels in an idea of life that’s lived in 3-D, not 2-D.” —Sally Singer, editor, T: The New York Times Magazine




The Word Detective


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Literally Speaking


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Literally Speaking and Literally Speaking Too are books which consist of a total of 200 artistic depictions of clichés (expressions we've used so much that we take the meaning for granted), idioms (vernacular particular to a geographical region), plays on homophones (using identically-sounding words for their alternate meanings), and/or use of terms ironically (to express something other than the literal meaning). The website address is at least a quadruple pun (www.GetLiterallySpeaking.org): you get it (gain control of the book by picking it up), you get it (you understand it!), you get it (you buy it) and you get literally speaking (as in, you start doing it!). The website is designed for an ongoing exploration of language and a really good time.




365 Meditations for Teachers by Teachers


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365 Meditations for Teachers by Teachers offers a year’s worth of short daily meditational readings written specifically for teachers, by teachers. Four different writers of faith present three months’ worth of meditations each, providing a variety of topics and writing styles. Designed to be used by readers of all ages, each daily meditation is brief enough to be read in just a few short minutes, yet meaningful enough to prompt a longer time of reflection and prayer if desired. Each day’s reading includes a focus Scripture verse, a brief reflection, and a prayer.




The Privileges


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Smart and socially gifted, Adam and Cynthia Morey are perfect for each other. With Adam’s rising career in the world of private equity, a beautiful home in Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful. But for the Moreys, their future of boundless privilege is not arriving fast enough. As Cynthia begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk to ensure his family’s happiness and to recapture the sense that the only acceptable life is one of infinite possibility. The Privileges is an odyssey of a couple touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other. BONUS: This edition contains a The Privileges discussion guide.




Virble


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The innocence of youth left Virble filled with rich and wonderful memories of ordinary living done day to day during extraordinary times. Join this six-year-old, can-do, towhead as she shares her growing up years in the Mabry family during the 40's and 50's. Let her bring a smile to your face, or tears to your eyes while she warms your heart. While maintaining an Oklahoma flavor, she'll tell with embarrassing candidness of her march to young adulthood in Stockton, California. Learn to drawl like an Okie and accurately use phrases like "Sometimes she gits in trouble cuz she fits too soon." Discover the secret to making mud pies when water is short and uncover the significance of finding a button in your piece of birthday cake. Leave the 21st century behind and return with Virble to the small towns of Cedar Creek and Pioneer and Collegeville. Virble Kathleen Mabry Yeadon lives with her husband in San Jose, California. She is mother of three and grandmother of nine young adults. She started life in Oklahoma as Virble, the seventh of eight children of which five survived. She remained the "baby of the family" when a younger sister died soon after birth. As an adult, Kathy desired to memorialize her childhood for her kids and grandchildren, but as a divorced and working mother for eighteen years, she always ran out of time. When she retired, she registered for an adult writing class. The book you are looking at, started out as a collection of writing assignments, each a vignette covering a cherished childhood memory as seen through the eyes of little Virble or young Kathy. Those short stories delighted other class members and the instructor insisted that she write until a book was in hand.