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Author
Series
No place for monsters volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Cowslip Grove seems like the perfect place to raise a family until the children start disappearing. Nobody looks for the children because nobody can remember them. Nobody except Levi and Kat. Now they must figure out what terrible presence is taking the chilren and fight it to save the missing kids, before the whole town disappears.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As you have probably noticed, there are quite a few investing books out there. Many of them were written by some of the world's greatest investors. So, why should you read our book? Stock investing is more prevalent than ever, whether directly or indirectly through brokerage accounts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, or retirement plans. Despite this, the vast majority of individual investors have no training on how to pick stocks. And,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Part collage, part book art, part mixed media exploration, the Altered Books Daily Challenge uses simple skills like cutting, gluing, inking and painting to transform old texts into new and extraordinary works of art. Creativebug staff instructors, Courtney Cerruti and Faith Hale, are book lovers and paper fanatics. In this 28-part series, they share their favorite techniques for altering found books to create unique pieces of art. Once you learn...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our country's great naturalist writers, Why I Came West explores how Rick Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West (and the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana in particular) as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, and as a way of life. In a series of moving chapters, Bass describes his own transformation into the writer, hunter, and environmental activist that he is today. He profiles how the...
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This pretty and sweet adornment adds a midsummer night's feel to any season. Working with felt in bright color combinations creates a wearable bouquet of plush happiness - but you can equally create a bracelet, garlands, or decorate the edge of a lampshade. Beads add texture to the bohemian feel of this project.
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Kristin teaches Fair Isle -- a traditional color work technique where two colors are knit in one row to create a geometric pattern. Although it looks complicated, it's actually very easy to follow Kristin's step by ste instruction and the chart to make this colorful hat. You'll learn how to do an elastic cast on, knit a garter stitch band in rows, and join the knitting to work the hat in rounds. A chart is used to build the colorwork pattern, decreases...
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Easy to acquire and simple to use, fine-point markers are a wonderfully accessible tool. Illustrator Sasha Prood loves their bold colors and ability to make intricate patterns, and she shares her patient enthusiasm in this daily practice class. She walks you through swatching, making patterns, and building compositions, all while emphasizing experimentation and play. Finally, take your doodling to the next level by learning strategies for sketching...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
""[Insert Name Here] has written a game changer for [Insert Industry Here]. Drop everything and read this book!"-Famous author who hasn't read this book" ""This author has paid $8,000 to be part of my 'bestselling author program' and he gets a testimonial as part of his fee. This is it."-Bestselling author who has written a testimonial for every biz book out there" ""This book has a great amount of words."-Fortune 500 CEO who was at an open-bar event...
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Believe it or not, your paintbrushes and tools can serve you well for years as long as you clean and care for them properly. In this quick class, Lisa Solomon demonstrates how to clean your tools like a pro. You will learn how to scrape your palette clean, and how to thoroughly clean and care for your brushes between uses.
12) Rosita Pillow
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This stunning zig-zag pillow will sharpen your cutting, sewing and patchwork skills. Liza patiently walks you through the step-by-step process of cutting parallelograms, with tips for accurate cutting and marking that will make the sewing process go smoothly. Each stripe sequence is created in a vertical row, then the rows are sewn together to create the striking chevron effect. Once you've practiced these skills on a pillow, you'll be ready to apply...
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For this month-long daily drawing challenge, we've added a twist. Artist and educator Lisa Solomon shows how to use overhead light and everyday objects to cast interesting shadows onto paper, then draw around the shadows to create outlines. What you do within the outlines is where the real fun begins. Each day, Lisa shares a new idea filling outlined shapes with color and texture, using everything from pens and graphite to watercolors and highlighters....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against...
Author
Language
English
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NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 42 languages) will change your life. There just isn't enough time for everything on our "To Do" list—and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning...
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 42 languages) will change your life. There just isn't enough time for everything on our "To Do" list—and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning...
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