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09/30/2024

Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and taught at the University of Virginia for sixteen years. His research focuses on moral and political psychology, as described in his book The Righteous Mind. His latest book, The Anxious Generation, is a direct continuation of the themes explored in The Coddling of the American Mind (written with Greg Lukianoff). He writes the After Babel Substack.

Author Website: https://jonathanhaidt.com

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt explores the decline of play-based childhood in the 1980s and its impact on children's social and neurological development. Haidt explains that the "phone-based childhood" in the early 2010s has interfered with children's development, leading to issues like sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He also explains why social media damages girls more than boys, and why boys are withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world.

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09/29/2024

SUNYA MARA grew up in six different cities across five different states and now calls Los Angeles home. She studied film and business at the University of Southern California and went on to write and illustrate at Kobe Bryant’s Granity Studios. When not telling stories, she spends her time haunting old movie theaters and staring at museum walls.

Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.

There have been so many beautiful, rewarding moments — but there’s nothing like hearing from readers who’ve shared that The Darkening feels like it was written for them, that they dream about it, or even that they’ve cried reading it. Those moments feel so special — because it feels like this little story that I’ve nurtured in quiet has gone out into the world and found its people.

Author Website: https://www.sunyamara.com

09/28/2024

A rollicking, rhyming, and inspirational picture book for fans of Oh, the Places You'll Go! andevery child who is frustrated by what they can't do...YET!

Each of us, from the day we're born, is accompanied by a special companion—the Yet. Can't tie your shoes? Yet! Can't ride a bike? Yet! Can't play the bassoon? Don't worry, Yet is there to help you out.

The Magical Yet is the perfect tool for parents and educators to turn a negative into a positive when helping children cope with the inevitable difficult learning moments we all face. Whether a child or an adult, this encouraging and uplifting book reminds us that we all have things we haven't learned...yet!

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09/27/2024

Maddileh, a knight, faces a challenge when she must retrieve the fabled Fireborne Blade from its keeper, the legendary dragon the White Lady. Despite the sneering and contempt from her peers, Maddileh is determined to redeem her honor and save the dragon. The tale is filled with dragons, ill-fated knights, scheming squires, and sapphic love, with deceptions and double-crosses that keep readers guessing until the dramatic conclusion. The Fireborne Blade explores the roles we refuse to accept and our place in the world.

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09/27/2024

Little Nutbrown Hare is out exploring on his own. Off he hops along the path and through the grass until he reaches Cloudy Mountain, where something extraordinary happens: he discovers a new friend! Now the fun can really begin.

Twenty-five years after we met the Nutbrown Hares, this enchanting new tale about friendship is bound to capture the hearts of Guess How Much I Love You fans—and everyone else—the world over.

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09/27/2024

Captain Jim Clinton's world is turned upside down when the 18-year-old son of his mistress discovers his affair. As he attempts to resolve the issue, he comes to the realization that he is not motivated to do it.

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About the Book

Author Mark Levy is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, a college graduate, an insurance agent, and a second-degree black belt in kenpo karate. He hopes for his readers to find pleasure in his work of art.

Website: https://www.authormarklevy.com

09/26/2024

Jo Piazza is a bestselling author, podcast creator and award-winning journalist.

Jo is the national and international bestselling author of The Sicilian Inheritance, We Are Not Like Them, You Were Always Mine, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, The Knockoff and How to Be Married.

Her work has been published in ten languages in twelve countries and four of her books have been optioned for film and television.

Jo's podcasts have garnered more than twenty-five million downloads and regularly top podcast charts.

An editor, columnist and travel writer, her work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, New York magazine, Marie Claire, Glamour and many other publications.

She lives in Philly with her husband, Nick Aster and three feral children.

Author Website: https://www.jopiazza.com

09/26/2024

For author and artist Sheila Tanguy Tracey, there’s no limit to the imagination. What’s even more fascinating is if the imagination becomes a reality. She invites everyone, young and old alike, to join her and her cat in their wonderful travels from North America to Europe in The Adventures of Sheila and Gaston the Cat.

This is a true story about the travels of the Tracey family and Gaston, their cat. They travel to and explore Mexico, Canada, France, and Germany from 1966 to 1967, which takes 18 months. Both parents are artists and teachers, and the children are also artists. Their mother, Francoise M. Tanguy, is the favorite niece of her uncle, Yves Tanguy, famous French-American Surrealist painter of the 20th century and member of the Surrealist Movement.

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About the Author

Sheila Tanguy Tracey’s artist and witting training started at a very young age. She started painting when she was seven years old and started writing poems in junior high school. She started exhibiting paintings and ceramics with her brother in the Deyoung Museum in San Francisco, California. Both she and her brother entered the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade contest at ages seven and eight, in which they both won second place. She graduated from Monterey Peninsula College in 1997, took Women’s Studies, and wrote three books. She was also a student senator and graduated from CSU Monterey Bay in 2000. She took painting with muralist Johana Poethic and Stephanie Anne Johnson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Statistics with Ken Nash*ta. She has also painted five murals and written five books since then.

Website: https://sheilatanguytracey.com/index.htm

09/26/2024

Another new book in the Daisy and Friends children’s picture book series will entertain and inform young readers. In “Daisy and Friends What Happened to Yesterday: A Covid-19 Story”, author Barbara J. Meredith offers children an informative and vibrantly illustrated read as they discover how these animal friends faced Covid-19.

The author also hopes that kids everywhere will enjoy the other book titles of Daisy and Friends books series: “Daisy and Friends How To Stay Healthy”; “Daisy and Friends Rocky's New Friend”; “Daisy and Friends Outside Our Window”; “Daisy and Friends Waiting for the School Bus”. She shares, “The animals in the Daisy and Friends books are my actual pets. The inspiration for the books came from over 20 years as a pre-school teacher observing children’s behaviors.”

Author Website: https://www.barbarajmeredithbooks.com

About the Author

Barbara J. Meredith was co-owner of Kids Express Learning Center & Daycare, LLC until her retirement in 2013. She was also the director and head teacher for 14 years. Portions of the proceeds of this book will be donated to Kitty Angels of Coventry, Connecticut; Protectors of Animals in East Hartford, Connecticut; and Bandit’s Place, Inc. of Connecticut. Her first book in the series was Daisy and Friends: How to Stay Healthy.

09/25/2024

Spark of the Everflame is the first book in The Kindred's Curse Saga, a four-book epic fantasy romance series that follows our fiesty, bad*ss heroine Diem Bellator in her fight against injustice and oppression, her struggle to survive in a royal palace full of betrayal and intrigue, and her journey of self-discovery and finding true love. This slow burn, enemies-to-lovers series is perfect for fans of unique magic systems, dragons and other mythical creatures, angst and romantic tension, and hilarious banter.

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09/25/2024

The key to improving bone density is ensuring bones adjust to heavier loads placed on the body over time. This can be done through resistance training, utilizing Pilates spring-driven equipment, body weight exercises, and free weights. Exercise the Safe Way with The Better Back®, the new book from Erica Walters.

Buy the Book: https://amzn.to/3BdMDHW

About the Author

Erica Walters is a nationally known fitness expert; third-generation Classical Pilates instructor; GYROTONIC® Method teacher; and holds a B.S. in Exercise Science.

She mentors the next generation of Classical Pilates Teachers with Real Pilates of New York City. She has over 20 years of classical Pilates teaching experience.

Website: https://bit.ly/3BmI5if

09/24/2024

In Men Have Called Her Crazy, Tendler recounts her hospital experience as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed. As the title suggests, many of these moments are impacted by men: unrequited love in high school; the twenty-eight-year-old she lost her virginity to when she was sixteen; the frustrations and absurdities of dating in her mid-thirties; and her decision to freeze her eggs as all her friends were starting families.

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09/24/2024

How to overcome negative self-talk and take charge. A former director of the World Bank shares powerful life lessons on how to create a future that looks nothing like your past. She has lived and done so much. She has witnessed the extreme highs and lows of life. She has experienced amazing successes and heart-breaking failures. She defied the odds. In her book, My Life’s A Mess, But I Can Fix It!, high-level executive Andrea Lucas heartily shares the lessons she learned along the way and provides practical advice on how to move past your self-imposed limitations.

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Andrea shows that it’s not the people or the circumstances that stand in the way of having what you want but the invisible negative blueprint that you acquire in your early childhood. The good news is that any negative blueprint that’s blocking your ability to thrive can be changed for good. If you’re feeling stuck, frustrated or even trapped, and you want more out of your life, this easy-to-follow guide will help you remove your inner mental and emotional blocks so that you can create the life that you desire and deserve.

09/23/2024

Nonfiction: A Novel is a novel that explores the unresolved relationship between a mother and daughter, weaving past and present childhoods.

The mother, a novelist, grapples with her own uneasy relationship with her mother, navigating temptation and betrayal. The story explores maternal love, addiction, recovery, creativity, compassion, and love, highlighting the challenges faced by a mother, daughter, wife, and author in navigating the world.

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09/23/2024

After graduating from UCLA Film School I became a screenwriter for the next 30+ years, living in Venice, then in Marina del Rey where I happily raised a wonderful family.

I wrote films that starred such actors as Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Patricia Arquette, and Dennis Hopper, among others. As only insiders know, screenwriters are generally well-paid, but have no control over their material, and watch helplessly as their projects are changed to meet a director's or actor's whims, rarely for the better.

So I turned to writing novels, where the author's words and story are final. What a relief to no longer be relegated to the children's table.

Author Website: https://www.alexlasker.com

About the Book:

"The Memory of an Elephant" is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, perilous journey to find the humans who rescued him as an orphan some fifty years ago.

Interwoven with his narrative are the tumultuous lives of the family who raised and then lost him. This timeless story is alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking, spanning east Africa, Great Britain and New York from 1962 to 2015.

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09/23/2024

"Katie’s Mom” is the author’s way of imparting her learning and that of her family, as they devote themselves to improving Katie’s way of life. The author hopes that other parents and special education professionals who work with children with special needs will find value in the advice, knowledge, and encouragement they will get through the pages of this book.

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About the Author

Barbara B. Holdcroft is a parent of two children: a son, and a daughter with special needs. She earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Education, Theology, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. Her teaching background ranges from elementary school, high school, college, and adult education courses. For many years, they lived in Northwest Ohio, which is the location for the book. They now reside in Northwest North Carolina, where she has been involved in adjunct teaching at a number of local colleges. She enjoys hiking, skiing, boating, reading, and tennis.

09/22/2024

AMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. Her debut novel, The Berry Pickers, was the winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Amazon First Novel Award.

Author Website: https://amandapetersauthor.com

About the Book:

July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.

In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.

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09/22/2024

Letting Some Light in a Dark Room is never easy. In these pages, readers will witness the author’s journey of overcoming a turbulent, dysfunctional, and emotionally traumatizing childhood. He also shares the process through it, the lessons learned that turned everything around, and what happens when a person finally lets the light in.

How does one land in the Dark Room? Most people’s problems go back to what happened when they were children, especially with regard to childhood trauma. It then manifests itself in their decision-making and shows itself in relationships and communications that determine their quality of life. A person’s subconscious, where everything happens, gets filled with negative experiences. And one lands in the Dark Room if he or she hasn’t developed a way to reprocess negative childhood experiences.

People step into the Dark Room when they are not in control of their thoughts. They let their thoughts control them. The Dark Room becomes their comfort zone but also keeps them from being in control of their mind and not being present in the moment.

Through his personal story, the author hopes that he will inspire and help readers to free themselves by finding their way out of a Dark Room — or even by Letting Some Light in a Dark Room.

Buy the Book: https://amzn.to/3ZCbeAp

Website: https://www.charlesyvonnebook.com

09/21/2024

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, including Wish You Were Here, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.

Jodi Picoult is this year’s recipient of the legendary Hale Award. The Sarah Josepha Hale Award has been presented annually since 1956.

Author Website: https://www.jodipicoult.com

About the Book:

Olivia McAfee and Lily Campanello, both from Boston, experienced a do-over when their husband revealed a darker side. They moved to Adams, New Hampshire, for their final year of high school, hoping it would be a fresh start. Their paths cross when Asher falls for a new girl in school, and Lily falls for him too.

However, one day, Olivia receives a phone call stating that Lily is dead and Asher is being questioned by the police. She is adamant that her son is innocent, but she acknowledges the flashes of his father's temper in Ash.

As the case against him unfolds, she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her. Olivia and Lily's lives are forever changed, as they navigate the challenges of relocating and adjusting to new beginnings.

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09/21/2024

Who'll Bring Me Flowers? tells the life story of a woman who survived the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl with strength and grace. She overcame heartbreaking family conflicts and the cruelties of life to become a strong, independent woman who was an inspiration to those who knew and loved her.

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About the Author

Author Anita Rozzi was born and raised on a dry-land farm in southeast New Mexico. She attended the tiny country schools that were popular at the time and received extra tutoring from her father, who turned to farming after abandoning a career as a public school teacher.

09/20/2024

A USA Today bestseller! Give hedgehugs and kisses to your little squeakheart with this pun-tastic, funny baby book, the perfect gift for baby showers, new parents, or any occasion!

There's no better way to say "I love you" than with a sweet and heartfelt animal pun book! I Love You Like No Otter combines a warm message of love with beautifully illustrated animals families will love to read and share together. From baby shower gifts to bedtime read alouds all year long, this adorable board book is purrfect for anyone you love beary much!

I love you like no otter. You truly are the best.
My special little squeakheart, a step above the rest.

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09/20/2024

Shanora Williams currently lives near Charlotte, North Carolina and is the mother of three boys, has a fiercely devoted and supportive husband, and is a sister to eleven.

When she isn't writing, she's spending time with her family, binge reading, or running marathons on TV streaming services while scarfing down something sweet or salty.

Author Website: https://www.shanorawilliams.com

09/20/2024

In this testament to the human will to survive, author Norman T. Bradford brings forth a novel that depicts how interactive cooperation, coupled with love, will lead to survival. He hopes readers will find themselves enjoying being entwined in the lives and relationships of the special 7 infants in his book, The Kreuzvogel Experiment.

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About the Author

Norman Bradford was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Upon finishing High School he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and served for twenty-one years. Early in his career during the Cold War era, he was trained to intercept Russian and Eastern European radio communications. His assignments took him to Libya, Greece, Turkey, England, Germany and South Vietnam.

09/19/2024

All living things must one day die, and Earth’s largest creature, the majestic blue whale, is no exception. But in nature, death is never a true ending. When this whale closes her eyes for the last time in her 90-year life, a process known as whale fall is just beginning.

Her body will float to the surface, then slowly sink through the deep; from inflated behemoth to clean-picked skeleton, it will offer food and shelter at each stage to a vast diversity of organisms, over the course of a century and beyond.

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09/18/2024

Summer is here!
No dark clouds in the sky,
it's a perfect day for play.
What joy will summer bring me today?

Summer is finally here, and she's bringing the most perfect day! From sunup to sundown, there's so much to do on this lovely summer day. With summer comes fresh fruit, sweet and tangy, jump ropes for leaping and dancing, and friends at the pool swimming and floating. Summer brings family cookouts under shady trees, gardens overflowing, and the familiar song of the ice-cream truck. This beautiful ode to all the season's sensations follows one girl's perfect day in an exploration of joy, family, friendship, sunshine, and wonder.

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