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Spring into
Spring with these new and on-sale
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New: Farmyard Rhymes - Name and count the animals in these farming rhymes which include "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," "To Market, To Market" and "Six Little Ducks," all tailored to develop language, movement and relationship skills, Bedtime Rhymes - Lull little ones to sleep with this collection of soothing rhymes--perfect for bedtime! Includes "I See the Moon," "Brahms' Lullaby" and "Wee Willie Winkie.", Grandpa's Garden - This beautifully told story follows Billy from early spring to late summer as he helps his grandpa on his vegetable patch. They dig the hard ground, sow rows of seeds, and keep them watered and safe from slugs. When harvest time arrives they can pick all the vegetables and fruit they have grown. Children will be drawn in by the poetry of the language and the warm illustrations, while also catching the excitement of watching things grow!, My Mama Earth - Watch the wonder experienced by a small child journeying through the world and round the day taking in the many magnificent aspects of nature. This imaginative and lyrical picture book showcases the love between a mother and child, celebrating the ever-changing beauty of the natural world along the way.
On Sale: Kid's Garden - 40 Fun Outdoor Activities and Games. Get outside and grow with some child-friendly fun with gardening! Kids’ Garden includes forty activities and games and an eight-page booklet that contains information on gardening tools, year-round plant care and garden safety. These step-by-step instructions are enhanced by colorful collage artwork on each double-sided card and they create a fun and easy way for budding green-thumbs to plant, investigate, learn and experiment,
Bear's First Birthday - Join Bear as he celebrates his birthday in this latest addition to the bestselling Bear series. Help Bear count backwards from 10 to 0 and find out who is making his balloons disappear,
Tales from Old Ireland - Celebrate the wonder of Ireland with the seven enchanting stories in this captivating collection. The rich traditions of Irish storytelling are honored with larger-than-life characters, myths and legends around every bend, and plenty of magic. Book with double CDs include stories read by Grammy-nominated singer Maura O'Connell. |
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Here's what my book club is reading for April 2012:
Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education
of a Reluctant Chef by
Gabrielle Hamilton
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened
her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty
hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her
life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey
through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the
years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored
mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in
hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was
often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of
hospitality. By turns epic and intimate, Gabrielle Hamilton’s
story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humor, and passion.
(read more)
Other suggestions:
Midwives by
Chris Bohjalian
The time is 1981, and Sibyl
Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of
Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous
winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed
telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby's
life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother,
who appears to have died in labor. But what if--as Sibyl's
assistant later charges--the patient wasn't already dead, and it
was Sibyl who inadvertently killed her?
(read more)
Strangers on a Train
by
Patricia Highsmith
The inspiration for Alfred
Hitchcock's classis 1951 film, Strangers on a Train
launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction,
proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that
tremble beneath the surface of every day contemporary life.
With deadpan accuracy, she delighted in creating true sociopaths
in the guise of the everyday man or woman.
(read more)
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by
Jennifer Egan
Bennie is an aging
former punk rocker
and record
executive. Sasha is
the passionate,
troubled young woman
he employs. Here
Jennifer Egan
brilliantly reveals
their pasts, along
with the inner lives
of a host of other
characters whose
paths intersect with
theirs. With music
pulsing on every
page, A Visit from
the Goon Squad is a
startling,
exhilarating novel
of self-destruction
and redemption.
National Book
Critics Circle Award
Winner
(read more)
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by
Kate DiCamillo
Age
Range: 7
Once, in a house on Egypt Street,
there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was
very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by
a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and
adored him completely.
And then, one day, he was lost.
Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline take us on an
extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net
of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside
of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the
streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true
miracle — that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn
to love, to lose, and to love again. |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by
Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but
scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco
farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her
cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most
important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells
grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has
been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa
cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million
metric tons--as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa
cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered
secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped
lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning,
and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains
virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in
scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific
discovery, as well as its human consequences. |
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