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From the number-one best seller of My Snow Day and Sparkly Me, get new ideas on what to do on a rainy day. When Gabi wakes up, she can hear the rain tapping on her bedroom window. Would she stay home all day or go out to seek new adventures? Put on your rain boots, and get ready to go on a splashy adventure with Gabi! This book is about friendship, fun, and creativity.

It's the first day of snow, and Gabi and her siblings are about to get creative. They have the most brilliant idea: they will build the best snow-woman ever! This book will not only empower your child by sending the message that children can trust their own thinking and ideas, and implement them all by themselves, but will also emphasize the importance of team work.

Meet June Dennings - her husband died, she's running out of money, there is no good local man left to marry. She takes a giant leap of faith accepts an offer of marriage and a train ticket to becoming a mail-order bride on a faraway dry, dusty desert town of Amarillo to marry a cattle rancher that she had corresponded with only four times and has never met!

Meet Summer Percy. She lost the only family she had, there's no work to be found for her in Pennsylvania, and her meager savings is almost finished. After her father died in a carriage accident, she finds herself traveling for three weeks by train to the tiny town of Laramie to marry the local US Marshal, which she has never met. She meets Mary, an older woman who was a successfully married mail order bride. She shares a secret that could change everything.

Thrust into an alternate reality, Kristyl must navigate a new past and different relationships, all while keeping the secret only she and Crystal Jamison know: In their attempt to find a powerful stone for the circle of witches to anchor to, they altered the past.

History is changing around 19-year-old Ben Spencer, and he's powerless to stop it. His sister has disappeared, his family thinks he's schizophrenic, and, worse yet, the girl he's madly in love with won't give him the time of day. Enter the mysterious Michael, who, years earlier, helped Ben's parents defeat a powerful sorcerer bent on destroying them and reclaiming a relic stolen from him years before. With Michael's help, Ben will travel back in time, to 1977, and attempt to set the past straight.

When a visit from the elusive Everest Sinclair brings more treachery than they could have predicted, Blue knows she must protect both her Vemreaux family and her Wayward family, no matter the cost.

Join the author on a journey to explore the fascinating and colorful dimensions of wisdom and examine the creation of a legacy of wisdom across generations. Practical scientific research and entertaining multigenerational family stories come together to offer a complex look at what the word wisdom truly represents, how individuals develop it, and how we pass it on. The world's greatest thinkers and the world's greatest grandmas are on the same page when it comes to the impact of applied wisdom in our lives.

Living in the free world is a lot more work than Blue Anders bargained for. While Sam is patient, Baird is not demanding the utmost perfection from his sister before she travels to the O-blood island to destroy the predator. With the crowned prince of Europe declared among the missing, the emperor teams up with Blue to bring his son home.

When Kyri Vantage, Phoenix Justiciar of Myrionar - with the help of her companions, Tobimar Silverun of Skysand and the unexpectedly dangerous little Toad, Poplock Duckweed - defeated monstrous killer Thornfalcon and unmasked a conspiracy of treacherous False Justiciars, she knew the job was only partly done.

Approximately four years ago (in 2010), I saw the most unbelievable happening. My adorable Yorkshire Terrier, named Wizzie, saved a drowning kitten from my family's pool in San Diego. It was an astonishing act of bravery for this 6 and a half lb. bundle of fur.

A new breakout fantasy epic filled with strong world building, engaging characters, and wondrous adventure. Kyri: a highborn young woman whose life is shattered by the murder of her kin. But even as Kyri flees her beloved land Evanwyl, she knows that she is her family's only hope for justice, and Evanwyl's only chance to escape a growing shadow of corruption and destruction. Now Kyri must venture across Zarathan, a world on the brink of a long foretold Chaos War. It is a struggle that may usher in a long age of darkness.

Lily just can't get it together. In her 30's, single and lonely, she dreads going to a bachelorette dinner party with her girlfriends from college. While they are leading fulfilling lives, Lily is still stuck on her college sweetheart, Devon, "the boy who got away". Things change when - through mystical events - Lily travels back in time to the week before college graduation. Guided by her best friend, Rose, Lily has that one week to get Devon to declare his love for her so she can have a second chance at happiness.

The Newbery Honor recipient best known for The Baby-Sitter's Club talks about inventing the life of a small town for her new series, Main Street. Three books and growing, the series follows two sisters who move to Camden Falls, Massachusetts, where their grandmother owns a sewing store. Martin wasn't sure she wanted to start another series until her editor told her it could be at least in part about sewing, one of her great passions in life.

The two-time National Book Award finalist discusses his historical novel about the New York City Draft Riots in 1863 with middle graders and teens ages 12 and up. The event includes a discussion with the audience.

Grace, a young nurse from the Midwest, has the perfect life - a great boyfriend, amazing friends, and a loyal dog. Yet when her boyfriend proposes, instead of feeling happy, her world is thrown into turmoil. She begins to question the overpowering, pre-scripted expectations of young women from the Midwest: attend college, meet a guy, marry after graduation, and start a family by the age of 25. Grace has to decide what she really wants from life. Does she have the courage to pave her own path?

New York Times best-selling author Cornelia Funke makes a rare appearance to talk about the stunning conclusion to the beloved Inkheart trilogy, a thrilling adventure series. Co-presented with Bank Street Bookstore, Thalia Kids' Book Club events are lively talks between children's book authors and their fans (ages 9-12) plus one event for teens.

The best-selling creator of the wildly popular award-winning series that travels back in time and to distant lands talks about her books with kids ages 6 and up. The event includes a discussion with the audience.

If you are eager to know about the book, 10 Ways to Become Your Best Version, it is necessary to cover the important chapters about the book. The author has given her best efforts to explain to you the significance of self-love. If you lack self-love, then it is great harm you do to yourself. Without self-love, you cannot have a peaceful life. Once you listen about the best self-help book by Latania Johnson, you can learn ways to self-love to bring positive energy into yourself.

James Stuart Donovan Hastings, Earl of Billingswood, has had one headache after another. First, his home is in disrepair, his nephew is too young for his own good, his best friend thinks he's gone round the bend, and now someone just tried to kill him. If it wasn't for the angel with strawberry blonde hair and amethyst eyes, he might well be dead. Blasted horse, thinks he knows more than the master!