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Darkness All Around

A Novel

By: Doug Magee

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Ten years after her alcoholic husband disappears on the same week her best friend is brutally murdered, Risa marries another man only to be confronted by her first husband, who shocks their Pennsylvania community with claims that he is the murderer, compelling Risa to risk everything to discover the truth.

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9781439154045

Never Wave Goodbye

A Novel of Suspense

By: Doug Magee

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Never Wave Goodbye

A Novel of Suspense

By: Doug Magee

A riveting family drama about the kidnapping of children en route to summer camp, Never Wave Goodbye is a fast-paced and thrilling debut. An innocent rite of passage turns into a nightmare for four couples, exposing their secrets and risking the lives of their children. After passing the bittersweet parental milestone of putting her daughter, Sarah on the bus to sleep-away camp for the first time, Lena Trainor plans to spend the next two weeks fixing all the problems in her marriage. But when a second bus arrives to pick up Sarah for camp, no one seems to know anything about the first bus or its driver. Sarah and three other children have been kidnapped, and within hours of the crime the parents receive an email demanding $1,000,000. When the specifics of the delivery terms throw suspicion on the parents of two of the abducted children, some of the parents begin to turn on each other, exposing fault lines in already strained marriages and forging new alliances. While the kidnapped children are living their parents' worst nightmare, the police are trying to sort the lies from the truth in conflicting stories and alibis that seem to be constantly changing. Deftly weaving the emotional story that pits the parents of the missing campers against the police—and each other—with the fate of the kidnapped children hanging in the balance, Never Wave Goodbye will keep readers holding their breath until the last page.

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1439160090

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9781439160091

Swish

By: Doug Leaman

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Swish

By: Doug Leaman

After World War II, when basketball courts sprang up in Philadelphia neighborhoods, thousands of young men devoted their teenage years trying to become superstars. During the 1950s and 1960s, players like Tom Gola, Ernie Beck, and Dippy Carosi, and later Hal Lear and Wilt Chamberlain, recreated the game of basketball into an East Coast love affair. In May of 1949, at age thirteen, author Doug Leaman fell in love with basketball, and his quest for stardom revolved around a pair of sneakers, a ball, and the swishing of a net. From that day forward, the art of basketball dominated every aspect of his life. In Swish, he tells how he devoted his first two years on the court working on his two-handed set shot, and how, after researching his goal, Leaman was able to shoot the eyes out of the basket during his high school, college, and service time in the Marine Corps. Leaman shares his story to show how a young athlete who participates in sports can achieve tremendous results by hanging in there and never giving up. He believes that although most athletes wont become superstars or all-Americans, the competitive experiences, the drive, and the determination to excel enriches ones life fully.

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1532042280

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Darkness All Around

A Novel

By: Doug Magee

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Louisville Slugger Presents Batting Around

A Comprehensive Collection of Hitting Achievements, Anecdotes, and Analyses

By: Doug Myers

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Louisville Slugger Presents Batting Around

A Comprehensive Collection of Hitting Achievements, Anecdotes, and Analyses

By: Doug Myers

Batting Around is a comprehensive history of more than a century's worth of major-league hitting in a lively narrative, not just a listing of names, dates, and numbers. This collection of greatest hits includes such topics as the 25 best hitters ever, the mammoth home runs, and the evolution of the bat. No sport is more suited to statistics and to the telling of stories, and this book offers both in an irresistible combination. -- The major leagues are in the middle of a golden age for hitters, and this is the first book of its kind dedicated entirely to hitting -- Baseball fans love to recite statistics and argue about the superiority of hitters. This book presents the names, dates, and numbers in an informative and entertaining manner -- Batting Around, backed by the prestigious Louisville Slugger "RM" brand name, makes a great gift for the rabid baseball fan

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NTC Business Books

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0809225190

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9780809225194

Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines

By: Doug Buehl

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Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines

By: Doug Buehl

Being literate in an academic discipline is more than being able to read and comprehend text; you can think, speak, and write as a historian, scientist, mathematician, or artist. Author Doug Buehl strips away the one-size-fits-all approach to content area literacy and presents an instructional model for disciplinary literacy, which honors the discipline and helps students learn within that area. In this revised second edition, Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines shows how to help students adjust their thinking to comprehend a range of complex texts that fall outside their reading comfort zones. Inside you'll find: Instructional tools that adapt generic literacy practices to discipline-specific variations Strategies for frontloading instruction to activate and build background knowledge New approaches for encouraging inquiry around disciplinary texts In-depth exploration of the role of argumentation in informational text Numerous examples from science, mathematics, history and social studies, English/language arts, and related arts to show you what vibrant learning looks like in various classroom settings Designed to be a natural companion to Buehl's Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines introduces teachers from all disciplines to new kinds of thinking and, ultimately, teaching that helps students achieve new levels of understanding.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003843867

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9781003843863

Cabins of Minnesota

By: Doug Ohman,Bill Holm

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Cabins of Minnesota

By: Doug Ohman,Bill Holm

This charming survey of Minnesotas treasured getaways features more than 120 color photographs of cabins by Doug Ohman and witty prose by well-known writer Bill Holm.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873515498

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The Reagan Era

A History of the 1980s

By: Doug Rossinow

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The Reagan Era

A History of the 1980s

By: Doug Rossinow

In this concise but thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald ReaganÕs presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in the 1980s achieved impressive success in their efforts to transform American government, politics, and society, ushering in the political and social system Americans inhabit today. Rossinow links current trends in economic inequality to the policies and social developments of the Reagan era. He reckons with the racial politics of Reaganism and its debt to the backlash generated by the civil rights movement, as well as ReaganismÕs entanglement with the politics of crime and the rise of mass incarceration. Rossinow narrates the conflicts that rocked U.S. foreign policy toward Central America, and he explains the role of the recession in the early 1980s in the decline of manufacturing and the growth of a service economy. From the widening gender gap to the triumph of yuppies and rap music, from ReaganÕs tax cuts and military buildup to the celebrity of Michael Jackson and Madonna, from the eraÕs Wall Street scandals to the successes of Bill Gates and Sam Walton, from the first Òwar on terrorÓ to the end of the Cold War and the brink of AmericaÕs first war with Iraq, this history, lively and readable yet sober and unsparing, gives readers vital perspective on a decade that dramatically altered the American landscape.

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Columbia University Press

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0231169884

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9780231169882

Now You Know Big Book of Answers

By: Doug Lennox

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Now You Know Big Book of Answers

By: Doug Lennox

Provides answers to trivia questions on the origins of common expressions and social conventions, covering such categories as politics, sports, religion, crime, and war.

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Dundurn

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1550027417

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Simply Beautiful Boxes

By: Doug Stowe

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Simply Beautiful Boxes

By: Doug Stowe

Doug Stowe's boxes are more than functional; they're inspired objects of beauty. Now you can recreate the same elegance in your own workshop with these 15 gorgeous boxes. Featuring a wide range of styles, these boxes embody the skill, artistry and innovation that has made Doug Stowe's work prized by collectors. From a simple ring box to an elaborate relief-carved jewelry box, you'll find, among others, these perfect pieces to suit your skills: • Inlaid Walnut Ring Box • Bracelet Box • Lathe-Turned Ring Box • Wedding Ring Music Box • Winter Woods Box • Triangle Ring Box • Pin Cabinet • Cherry Jewelry Chest • Tribute to American Linden • Reliquary & Reverence To help you craft each unique project, this guide includes step-by-step instruction, drawings, corresponding cutting lists, full-color photos and sidebars that detail the most difficult steps. Stowe also encourages you make each box your own by customizing his designs and selecting alternative woods and finishes. With Doug Stowe's guidance, you'll build more than boxes; you'll craft treasured heirlooms as precious as the objects you place inside of them. Take this guide and experience the satisfaction of creating simply beautiful boxes.

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Penguin

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1440316112

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The Laurel Fork Railway of Carter County, Tennessee

By: Doug McGuinn

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The Laurel Fork Railway of Carter County, Tennessee

By: Doug McGuinn

Lewis D. Gasteiger, vice president of the new Pittsburgh Lumber Company in Carter County, Tennessee conspired with William Flinn, president of Booth & Flynn, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania construction firm to build a spur connection the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina railway. The ensuing railway connected Elizabethon to Laban, Tennessee and enabled unfinished lumber to the Southern Railway. The Laurel Fork Railroad was incorporated in April of 1910 and abandoned in 1925.

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1329994655

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Practice Perfect

42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better

By: Doug Lemov,Erica Woolway,Katie Yezzi

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Practice Perfect

42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better

By: Doug Lemov,Erica Woolway,Katie Yezzi

Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession, but if we really wanted to see greatness—wanted to cheer for it, see it happen, understand what made it happen—we'd spend our time watching, obsessing on, and maybe even cheering the practices instead. This book puts practice on the front burner of all who seek to instill talent and achievement in others as well as in themselves. This is a journey to understand that practice, not games, makes champions. In this book, the authors engage the dream of better, both in fields and endeavors where participants know they should practice and also in those where many do not yet recognize the transformative power of practice. And it’s not just whether you practice. How you practice may be a true competitive advantage. Deliberately engineered and designed practice can revolutionize our most important endeavors. The clear set of rules presented in Practice Perfect will make us better in virtually every performance of life. The “how-to” rules of practice cover such topics as rethinking practice, modeling excellent practice, using feedback, creating a culture of practice, making new skills stick, and hiring for practice. Discover new ways to think about practice. Learn how to design successful practice. Apply practice across a wide range of realms, both personal and professional The authors include specific activities to jump-start practice Doug Lemov is the best-selling author of Teach Like a Champion A hands-on resource to practice, the rules within will help to create positive outliers and world-changing reservoirs of talent.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119422337

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Development Beyond Neoliberalism?

Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy

By: David Alan Craig,Doug Porter

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Development Beyond Neoliberalism?

Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy

By: David Alan Craig,Doug Porter

Development’s current focus – poverty reduction and good governance – signals a turn away from the older neoliberal preoccupation with structural adjustment, privatization and downsizing the state. For some, the new emphases on empowering and securing the poor through basic service delivery, local partnership, decentralization and institution building constitute a decisive break with the past and a whole set of new development possibilities beyond neoliberalism. Taking a wider historical perspective, this book charts the emergence of poverty reduction and governance at the centre of development. It shows that the Poverty Reduction paradigm does indeed mark a shift in the wider liberal project that has underpinned development: precisely what is new, and what this means for how the poor are governed, are described here in detail. This book provides a compelling history of development doctrine and practice, and in particular offers the first comprehensive account of the last twenty years, and development’s shift towards a new political economy of institution building, decentralized governance and local partnerships. The story is illustrated with extensive case studies from first hand experience in Vietnam, Uganda, Pakistan and New Zealand.

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Routledge

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1134363753

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9781134363759

Ships of the Line

By: Doug Drexler,Margaret Clark

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Ships of the Line

By: Doug Drexler,Margaret Clark

In celebration of one of science fiction's most beloved franchises, an updated edition of the acclaimed Ships of the Line hardcover collection. They dared to risk it all in a skiff of reeds or leather, on a ship of wood or steel, knowing the only thing between them and certain death was their ship. To explore, to seek out what lay beyond the close and comfortable, every explorer had to embrace danger. And as they did so, what arose was a mystical bond, a passion for the ships that carried them. From the very first time humans dared to warp the fabric of space, escaping from the ashes of the third World War, they also created ships. These vessels have become the icons of mankind's desire to rise above the everyday, to seek out and make the unknown known. And these ships that travel the stellar seas have stirred the same passions as the ones that floated in the oceans. While every captain has wished that their starship could be outfitted in the same manner as the sailing ship H.M.S. Beagle—without weapons—that proved untenable. From the start, Starfleet realized that each vessel, due to the limited range of the early warp engines, must be able to stand alone against any attack. Thus arose the idea, taken from the days of wooden sailing ships, that every Starfleet vessel must stand as a ship of the line. Through the actions of their captains and crews, countless starships have taken on that role. Here we remember some of those ships and their heroic crews. In celebration of one of science fiction's most beloved franchises, this updated edition of the acclaimed Ships of the Line hardcover collection now includes dozens of additional images brought together for the first time in book format—spectacular renderings featured in the highly successful Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar series. With text by Star Trek's own Michael Okuda, the story of each of these valiant starships now comes to life. ™, ®, & © 2014 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476792674

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9781476792675

Tiger Woods: Golf Legend

By: Doug Williams

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Tiger Woods: Golf Legend

By: Doug Williams

Tiger Woods: Golf Legend tells the story of the most gifted golfer of his time, a trailblazer who became the youngest Masters champion, conquered the golf world, and fell from grace but never stopped fighting his way back to the top. Features include a timeline, a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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ABDO

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1532174756

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From Metropolis to Wilderness: An Empowering Journey

By: Doug Williamson

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From Metropolis to Wilderness: An Empowering Journey

By: Doug Williamson

This is a book about a life, a life of travel and learning. Doug Williamson was born in South Africa. He has had several careers and lived in seven different countries. Now, he lives in Cambridge with his wife and much loved poodle.

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1483463702

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9781483463704

Ships of the Line

By: Michael Okuda,Doug Drexler

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Ships of the Line

By: Michael Okuda,Doug Drexler

Traces the influence of early ocean vessels on Starfleet ships and incorporates more than seventy-five additional images featured in the "Star Trek: Ships of the Line" calendar series.

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147678258X

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Putting Social Movements in their Place

Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000–2005

By: Doug McAdam,Hilary Boudet

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Putting Social Movements in their Place

Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000–2005

By: Doug McAdam,Hilary Boudet

The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and 'movement-centric'. When combined with the tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the frequency and causal significance of movements as a form of politics. This book reports the results of a comparative study, not of movements, but of communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. In stark contrast to the central thrust of the social movement literature, the authors find that the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects has been very low, and they seek to explain that variation and the impact, if any, it had on the ultimate fate of the proposed projects.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107379725

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9781107379725

Now You Know — The Big Books Bundle

Now You Know Big Book of Answers / Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2

By: Doug Lennox

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Now You Know — The Big Books Bundle

Now You Know Big Book of Answers / Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2

By: Doug Lennox

Presenting two books in the popular and exhaustive trivia series. They are a treasure trove of his favourite trivia culled from previous Now You Know books, answering such brain-teasers as: Why is an evil adversary called a "villain"? Why is football played on a "gridiron" and a leg injury called a "charley horse"? Why is a decorated parade vehicle called a "float"? Why is the rubber around a car wheel called a "tire"? Why are sailors known as "tars"? Why is confetti thrown at a wedding? Liven up your next gathering with the hundreds of interesting facts in these books. Includes Now You Know Big Book of Answers Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2

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Dundurn

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1459724801

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9781459724808

Never Wave Goodbye

A Novel of Suspense

By: Doug Magee

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Never Wave Goodbye

A Novel of Suspense

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Simon and Schuster

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ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing

By: Doug Elliott,Leanne Aitken,Wendy Chaboyer,Andrea Marshall

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ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing

By: Doug Elliott,Leanne Aitken,Wendy Chaboyer,Andrea Marshall

Developed in conjunction with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN), the text has been written and edited by the most senior and experienced critical care nursing clinicians and academics across the region. ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing is a resource that will foster the development of skilled and confident critical care nurses. This comprehensive text provides detailed coverage of a number of specialty areas within critical care nursing including intensive care, emergency nursing, cardiac nursing, neuroscience nursing and acute care. It will encourage students to be reflective practitioners, ethical decision-makers and providers of evidence-based care. Written by expert clinicians, academics, and educators Pedagogically rich chapters with learning objectives, key terms, case studies, practice tips, article abstracts, learning activities, research vignettes Heavily illustrated and referenced Reflects current clinical practice, policies, procedures and guidelines The text has a patient-centred approach and will provide students with a sound knowledge base and critical thinking skills Image bank of all illustrations from the text will be available to lecturers for teaching

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Elsevier Australia

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0729537706

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9780729537704

The Practical Guide to Weekend Parenting

101 Ways to Bond with Your Children while Having Fun

By: Doug Hewitt

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The Practical Guide to Weekend Parenting

101 Ways to Bond with Your Children while Having Fun

By: Doug Hewitt

Creative, Affordable, and Fun Weekend Activities Whether you’re divorced, separated, or just working long hours, it’s getting harder and harder to spend one-on-one time with your children. Instead of turning on the television and walking away, there’s now an easy way to strengthen your parent-child ties, take charge and teach, and have fun with your kids– all at the same time. Written by a divorced father of three, The Practical Guide to Weekend Parenting offers a no-nonsense approach to parenting and gives sensible advice from a parent who has walked in your shoes. Its collection of 101 projects is designed to help you actively raise, nurture, and guide your children. Each adventure is packed with suggestions to help you interact with your children: • Lists of conversation-starters to promote bonding • An aside to the parents with practical advice from the trenches • Activities included for every interest • Includes a variety of easy-to-search chapters • Fun facts to share with the kids, and more Filled with author anecdotes and including activities all ages can enjoy, The Practical Guide to Weekend Parenting will make sure you make the most of every moment with your kids.

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Hatherleigh Press

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157826233X

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Essential Cubs

Chicago Cubs Facts, Feats, and Firsts-- from the Batter's Box to the Bullpen to the Bleachers

By: Doug Myers

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Essential Cubs

Chicago Cubs Facts, Feats, and Firsts-- from the Batter's Box to the Bullpen to the Bleachers

By: Doug Myers

This informative and entertaining review of more than 100 years of Chicago Cubs baseball is a grand slam for any Cubs fan. Myers covers the most memorable moments, greatest performances, and oddest quirks in the team's history.

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