Vibrant


Book Description

Stop thinking of your own well-being as something that's beyond your control. Today's view of wellness is far too often fragmented, focusing on specific symptoms rather than the whole person. In Vibrant, Dr. Stacie Stephenson introduces readers to a new and empowering way of looking at health. A recognized leader in functional and integrative medicine, Stephenson has helped thousands by focusing not on treating disease, but on creating health-by giving individuals the knowledge, confidence, and inspiration they need to do so for themselves. By the end of this life-changing book, readers will have the tools to transform their energy, weight, fitness, and general wellness, tackling everything from enhancing sleep quality to building an iron-clad immune system. Beginning with basics such as the truth about the best diet, the critical role of exercise in vitality and longevity, and the importance of human connection, Vibrant also dives deeper to give a holistic picture of health and how to achieve it. With helpful breakdowns on supplements, detoxification, and how to think about disease, this is much more than just another wellness book. It's also packed with practical, useful features, including: • Self-assessment tools to aid you in listening to your body • A foolproof two-week meal plan • 40 delicious, healthful chef-created recipes • 30 days of baby steps to start building the habit of health With Stephenson's candid and conversational voice, Vibrant is like having a friend who also happens to be a leading health authority take you under her wing. Along with practical advice, she shares powerful insights that will change the way you think about everything from exercise to relationships, and sends readers off with an inspirational chapter on how health has a ripple effect that can change your family, your community, and help to create a more vibrant world. With a step-by-step program for making foundational lifestyle shifts, Vibrant shows you how to reclaim your health and energy, reverse aging, and glow-not just on the outside, but from deep within yourself.




Moon! Earth's Best Friend


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From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Moon! Earth's Best Friend is a light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the moon—told from the perspective of the moon itself. Meet Moon! She's more than just a rock—she’s Earth’s rock, her best friend she can always count on. Moon never turns her back on her friend (literally: she's always facing Earth with the same side!). These two will stick together forever. With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Moon in this next celestial "autobiography" in the Our Universe series. Rich with kid-friendly facts and beautifully brought to life by Stevie Lewis, this is an equally charming and irresistible companion to Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years and Sun! One in a Billion.




Language Arts Mini-lessons


Book Description

Step-by-Step Skill-Builders for Your Classroom. make reading and writing more meaningful to children, with author studies! This photo-filled guide supports you through every step in the process: choosing author, nurturing independent readers, celebrating writers with innovative projects, setting up author visits, assessment, and more.




The Little Flower


Book Description

Everyday, children around the world worry if they will fit in at school or make friends. But when a bully lurks in the shadows and eventually pounces, a lonely child's insecurities can be made even worse. Christine Taing shares tales with moral lessons that will empower children to stop and aptly deal with bullying. Children learn appropriate reactions to bullying through stories that teach them to do the right thing, take a stand, and be a friend to a child in need. A little girl learns to be proud of her family and the meaning of a true friend. A fourth grader decides his bully is a person who needs a friend just like him. A musically-talented high school student discovers that when he sticks up for himself, no one can hurt him. A teenager, with help from a teacher, becomes a confident student who embraces his differences. In this collection of short stories, children learn to stand tall and strong against bullies and ultimately become the beautiful flowers they are meant to be.




This Night Wounds Time


Book Description

Shortly after midnight on March 20, 1988, Stacie Madison and Susan Smalley, two seniors at Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, Texas, ventured out into the night. Their destination was Forest Lane, the legendary cruise strip known to every Dallas teenager as the premier hot spot for meeting up with friends. The girls were never seen again. 22 years later, the riddle of what became of them remains perhaps the most infamous unsolved mystery in the history of North Texas. This book is the first expose on the subject and, based upon original research, tells the intertwined stories of: the lives of these two young women; what is known about that fateful night; theories and speculation regarding their final fates, including a chapter devoted to a person of interest whom original case investigators insist was "never properly eliminated as a suspect"; and the impact this haunting event continues to have on the Carrollton community twenty years later. Please also visit http://www.thisnightwoundstime.com




Dear Cancer, Love Stacy


Book Description

Stacy Middleman felt lucky. She had two great kids about to go to college, a hilarious husband and a future they were planning with excitement. Then, at forty-three, she was faced with the greatest challenge of her life: a second diagnosis of breast cancer. With fierce emotional grit, she confronts her disease by writing letters to cancer which she posted on Facebook in real time, disseminating her rage online. A compilation of those posts, Dear Cancer, Love Stacy demonstrates the remarkable, healing benefits of sharing one's story and how doing so can inspire others. Stacy's letters are vivid and raw, filled with pain, fear, humor and hope. They reveal a resilient woman with profound love for her family and life as she wages war with words against her disease and shines a light onto what it truly means to be a survivor.




An Absence of Conscience


Book Description

T O R C H B R E N N A N was born to be a cop, and especially, a homicide detective. He had the instincts and that gut feeling mentality that helps detectives sort out the good from the bad. Minneapolis was a city that gave him a lot of challenges but he was always up for it. Through it all, he tried to remain personally uninvolved with his cases and their victims, but that all changed one cold Christmas Eve. Mathew Halsworth Jr. was born with no moral compass. He was rich and intelligent and had every break in life one could ever want or need. But he grew up to be a ruthless, cold and uncaring born killer. He felt he was too cunning to get caught, and for a long time he was. That is, until he met Torch. While most detectives would have given up and stuffed this case in the cold case file, Torch could not and would not forget. He could forget a lot of victims, but not this one. This story will challenge your imagination with its many twist and turns, but in the end; no, I'm not going to go there. Read the book you will be surprised.




Not Now


Book Description

Depicts the personal struggles of the young student Stacie Galloway during the loyalty crisis at UC Berkeley, including Stacie's romantic involvements, dramatic events with her housemates, and family issues. The author weaves the experiences and escapades of fictional characters into historically real events.




If You Dance With The Devil


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A long-forgotten event once shattered the community. But that's just the beginning as demonic forces take their toll in this chilling church mystery. In the upscale college town of Newcastle, romance intertwines with the supernatural at St. Barnabas Church where Elliot Buchanan is a new Pastor, and Stacie Jordan is a Professor of Theology at a local university. Together they unravel a mystery that began with a bizarre death fifteen years earlier to one dropped at the very doorstep of their lives. This is a behind-the-scenes look at church life where the devil doesn't take 'no' for an answer.




The President's Daughter


Book Description

The President's Daughter This book tells the story of Jennifer Franklin, Daughter of President Robert Lloyd Franklin and her family. And the trials she goes through when she falls in love.