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The Love Dare

by Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick

Too many marriages end when someone says "I've fallen out of love with you" or "I don't love you anymore." The Love Dare discusses how these statements reveal a lack of understanding about the fundamental nature of true love. As featured in the popular new movie Fireproof, from the team that brought us the #1 best selling DVD Facing the Giants, The Love Dare is a 40-day guided devotional experience that... (more)

Sticks (r/i)

by Joan Bauer

There's only one thing in the world Mickey Vernon really wants, and it's hanging in the window of his family's pool hall. It's an awesome shirt that says Vernon's Pool Hall Youth Tournament Champion, Cruckston New Jersey, and the winner of the tento thirteen-year-olds' nine-ball tournament will have the honor of wearing it. For a ten-year-old, Mickey is one fantastic pool player. But to win the shirt, he's going... (more)

My Sister's Keeper

A Novel

by Jodi Picoult

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her... (more)

Learning Disabilities - Understanding the Problem and Managing the Challenges

Learning Disabilities - Understanding the Problem and Managing the Challenges

by Etta Brown

http://www.understanding-learning-disabilities.com/

Susannah, A Lawyer - From Tragedy to Triumph

Susannah, A Lawyer - From Tragedy to Triumph

by Ruth Rymer

http://susannah-a-lawyer.com/

High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success

High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success

by Don Schmincke, Chris Warner

Leadership is often a risky, lonely role possessing nearly unbearable lows and fleeting highs. Despite this emotionally and intellectually draining roller coaster, a handful of leaders deliver stunning results, with great consistency. They push past current leadership trends in order to achieve the most extremely challenging goals. They don't fall prey to the platitudes or cliches we see so often see in leadership... (more)

Le Corbusier and the Occult

by Jan Birksted

When Charles-Édouard Jeanneret reinvented himself as Le Corbusier in Paris, he also carefully reinvented the first thirty years of his life by highlighting some events and hiding others. As he explained in a letter: "Le Corbusier is a pseudonym. Le Corbusier creates architecture recklessly. He pursues disinterested ideas; he does not wish to compromise himself.... He is an entity free of the burdens of carnality."... (more)

Too Much to Carry Alone

by Camille Fronk Olson

We all carry burdens or challenges that often defy resolution, writes Camille Fronk Olson. In this insightful little book, she discusses the promise found in Matthew 11:28 30, saying, By accepting the Lord's invitation to come to Him, we encounter the way to resolve every one of our problems. We are not talking about temporary, Band-Aid treatments, but eternal solutions. Each of us is personally invited to come... (more)

Danson: The Extraordinary Discovery of an Autistic Child's Innermost Thoughts and Feelings

Danson: The Extraordinary Discovery of an Autistic Child's Innermost Thoughts and Feelings

by Michele Pierce Burns, Danson Mandela Wambua

Danson is a collection of 50 poems by an 8-year-old non-verbal autistic boy, Danson Wambua, with commentary by his mother Michele. This book comes at a moment of intense public focus on the mysteries of autism. For the families of over a million autistic children, Danson's poems offer hope and illumination. Imprisoned by his autism for the first 7 years of his life alternately frustrated, angry and loving Danson... (more)

Harry Potter: Book 4

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal,... (more)

Caddie Woodlawn

by Carol Ryrie Brink

Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don't understand her at all. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real... (more)

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

by A. J. Jacobs

33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all... (more)

EVEREST Book Three: The Summit (Everest)

EVEREST Book Three: The Summit (Everest)

by Gordon Korman

Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. But they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. Supplies are low. Conditions are extreme. Once of the kids is trying to sabotage the others. And then the storm hits...

Fallen Angels

by Walter Dean Myers

Richie Perry, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner, and Peewee are all in Vietnam. They came there for different reasons, but now they share a single dream -- getting out alive.

Mensa Book of Puzzle ChallengesNone

Mensa Book of Puzzle Challenges

by None

Solo Girl (Hyperion Chapters)

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

As the new girl in town, Cass is desperate to join the neighborhood jump-rope club, and, with the help of her loving brothers, she practices and struggles to learn how to do double dutch just like the other girls in the group. Simultaneous.

The Womanly Art of Alligator Wrestling: Inspirational Stories for Outrageous Women Who Survive by Their Wisdom and Wit

The Womanly Art of Alligator Wrestling: Inspirational Stories for Outrageous Women Who Survive by Their Wisdom and Wit

by Ana Tampanna

Harry Potter: Book 7

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety , and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the... (more)

Write Me If You Dare! (Cricket Series)

by Emily Rhoads Johnson

When she's not helping her father with his bee-keeping business, 11-year-old Maddie Pruitt is on the lookout for signs. Ever since she spied a falling star the night her mother died, Maddie has relied on signs and rituals to keep herself, her father, and her grandfather safe. When Maddie finds a popped balloon with an address attached, she thinks it might be some kind of sign. She begins a correspondence with... (more)

Homeschooling The Challenging Child: A Practical Guide

Homeschooling The Challenging Child: A Practical Guide

by Christine M. Field

Often, families will choose homeschooling because they have children who cannot cope or thrive within traditional educational environments due to special physical or emotional needs. Homeschooling the

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by Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick

by Joan Bauer

A Novel

by Jodi Picoult

by Etta Brown

by Ruth Rymer

by Don Schmincke, Chris Warner

by Jan Birksted

by Camille Fronk Olson

by Michele Pierce Burns, Danson Mandela Wambua

by J. K. Rowling

by Carol Ryrie Brink

by A. J. Jacobs

by Gordon Korman

by Walter Dean Myers

by None

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

by Ana Tampanna

by J. K. Rowling

by Emily Rhoads Johnson

by Christine M. Field