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How to Live at the Beach

By: Sandy Gingras

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With delightful illustrations and simple prose, Sandy Gingras strips away the complicated, structured way of life we cling to and helps us find perspective and appreciation in simple things - like the beach. How to Live at the Beach is a gift book that is at home anywhere, on any coast, or far from it. For the beach is only a metaphor, and with every reading we are awakened: How we might live, how we can pace ourselves, how we can appreciate our world, how we can love.

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Down the Shore Publishing

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0945582730

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9780945582731

Walks on the Beach

By: Sandy Gingras

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Walks on the Beach

By: Sandy Gingras

Inside this inspiring little book, author and artist Sandy Gingras offers ways to find peace, hope, and healing at the beach. Each "walk" is a mini-essay about self-discovery, particularly a woman's self-discovery. Sandy muses about learning patience, leaving it all behind, taking risks and chances, recovering after storms, enduring and gaining strength, and loving and losing and loving again. Gingras finds inspiration in beachy moments and shows us that lessons are everywhere on her beach walks--in a split shell, in a dribble castle, in an upside-down horseshoe crab, in a green jetty, and in the freedom of wearing nothing but a bathing suit. Gingras's watercolors invite you to come along on her "walks." Even if you can't actually walk on the beach each day, Walks on the Beach gives you the sense that you have a little sand between your toes, a little beach in your heart, and a little beach philosophy in your everyday life.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449402054

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9781449402051

How to Live on an Island

By: Sandy Gingras

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How to Live on an Island

By: Sandy Gingras

This charming illustrated gift book encourages us to live happily on simpler terms. We are reminded to ''float'' and ''make a splash,'' to ''ebb and flow'' and ''run with waves'' or ''laugh like a gull''; to ''sugar yourself with sand,'' to ''walk tender'' and to ''thank.'' This book by author/illustrator Sandy Gingras is the first of seven in her very popular and uniquely inspirational ''How To Live'' series.

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Down the Shore Publishing

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0945582579

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9780945582571

Reasons to Be Happy

By: Sandy Gingras

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Reasons to Be Happy

By: Sandy Gingras

In Reasons to Be Happy, Sandy Gingras shares a heartfelt and eclectic list of things that should make everyone smile, all illustrated with her unique watercolor painting. From puppies in a basket to a walk in the garden to the quiet of early morning, each reason is a reminder that there is so much around us to be happy about. The perfect gift for any occasion, Reasons to Be Happy will put a smile on your face and a skip in your step! A few reasons to be happy: * That clean-as-a-whistle feeling of the world when the sun pops out after a rainstorm * Summer nights . . . catching fireflies on the lawn * Hearing an old song on the radio * When he calls you just to hear the sound of your voice * Politeness * Mini hot dogs at a fancy party

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740778773

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9780740778773

Thank You

(a book for teachers)

By: Sandy Gingras

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Thank You

(a book for teachers)

By: Sandy Gingras

A gift of gratitude for those who do one of the hardest jobs in the world and impact our lives in ways that are forever being revealed: educators. As artist and writer Sandy Gingras so aptly points out in the introduction to her book Thank You, a life lived well is perhaps the highest form of thanks a person can give to teachers as a way of repaying them for their attention and effort. A simple thank-you is also nice. Thank You is Gingras’s own delightful way of conveying this sentiment. This charming keepsake book features her soft, sweet watercolor artwork and thoughtful original text celebrating teachers and all they do for us. Always striking the right tone of gratitude without being overly sentimental, Thank You is a wonderful way to show appreciation to teachers for their enduring gifts to us both great and small.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449400450

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9781449400453

I Like You

(a little book of friendship)

By: Sandy Gingras

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I Like You

(a little book of friendship)

By: Sandy Gingras

Sandy Gingras evokes how good things can be when you and your environment are in happy agreement." --Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet An illustrated keepsake for your BFF that encompasses the ups, downs, and in-betweens of true friendship. Celebrating the fun and fulfilling, as well as the "flaws, fizzles, and foibles" of friendship, Sandy Gingras fuses her relaxed watercolor illustrations with an original narrative to craft the ultimate ode to friendship. With a special textured cover and heartfelt thoughts, Gingras reminds us that friends help friends forget and remember the bigger picture, they keep us in line, cheer us up through the gloomy times, respect our desire to be alone, and enable us to become a better version of ourselves. Without being overly saccharine, Gingras writes, "True friendship is bigger than anger . . . and we'll be friends until the end of always . . . because liking is a thing that grows and grows (even through the hard parts).

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740790366

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9780740790362

Lessons of a Turtle

(The Little Book of Life)

By: Sandy Gingras

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Lessons of a Turtle

(The Little Book of Life)

By: Sandy Gingras

Learn to channel your inner zen and enjoy the simple things in life with this beautiful, inspirational book from the author of Paradise Girls. Long ago, Sandy Gingras read “The Tortoise and the Hare,” a fable that teaches “slow and steady wins the race.” But she didn’t learn the lesson! Instead she lived the race of hurry-up and do-it-all every day. And it was tiring. But now, Gingras presents readers with a different kind of lesson from a different kind of turtle in the charming book Lessons of a Turtle. And it’s a good lesson: Go with the slow! Life is about enjoying what’s around you now and finding your own path. It’s about the beauty of the journey more than the achievement of the finish line. So be like the turtle . . . notice, savor, bask, risk, grow. Put some life back in your life! Gingras helps readers get through life by using charming “turtlisms” that complement her just-as-cute turtle illustrations. She teaches us about life’s little lessons with little treats like, “You can’t move forward until you stick your neck out.” and “The slower you go, the more you see.” The author’s little observations make a big difference on the journey through life. This book makes a lovely and inspiring gift.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740790439

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9780740790430

How to Live in Flip-Flops

By: Sandy Gingras

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How to Live in Flip-Flops

By: Sandy Gingras

The perfect gift for anyone who appreciates a simple, relaxed lifestyle. In How to Live in Flip-Flops, Sandy Gingras helps readers forget the complicated in favor of the simple, wonderful things in life. Gingras's delightful watercolors and poetic prose showcase the benefits of slowing down and finding happiness in the things that really matter. Whether or not you're at the beach, everyone can relate to the laid-back easiness that comes with living in flip-flops. Includes charming maxims such as: Lose the uncomfortable shoes Be thankful Smell like a coconut Go slowly to see the little things This is the perfect gift for family and friends - whether for those who already embrace an easygoing harmony with the world or for those who need a gentle reminder of what's truly important. "Sandy Gingras evokes how good things can be when you and your environment are in happy agreement." Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402224486

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9781402224485

Reasons to Be Happy

By: Sandy Gingras

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Reasons to Be Happy

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Thank You

(a book for teachers)

By: Sandy Gingras

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Thank You

(a book for teachers)

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Paradise Girls

A Novel

By: Sandy Gingras

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Paradise Girls

A Novel

By: Sandy Gingras

Sandy Gingras's Paradise Girls features a broken engagement. A ruined vacation in paradise. One adorable little girl. The perfect recipe for the chance of a lifetime... Mary Valley is in a funk. She’s a writer for home magazines, but she’s lost touch with what home means. Her life seems meaningless. The last house she wrote about was a gazillion-dollar mansion with a moat! Plus, she’s estranged from her daughter, CC and granddaughter, Larkin and mired in a dead-end relationship with her boss. Daniel is a man adrift since his son Timmy was killed in Afghanistan. He’s living on a houseboat in Florida with Timmy’s three-legged dog, Tripod and taking tourists out on fishing charters. But his life is on the edge. He’s painting his houseboat black, and he can’t stop thinking about “getting lost at sea.” When Mary’s boss tells her he’s spending Christmas with his ex, she books a trip with her family to The Low Key Inn, a hotel on the edge of the Everglades. But things go wrong from the get-go. CC bails out of the vacation, and Mary is stuck with an unhappy Larkin. The hotel is dated and down-on-its-luck, and perhaps its owner is a witch. Then Mary meets Daniel, casts a hook into his head and wrecks his boat. This is the story of how wounded people can help each other heal, how lost people can help each other find their way home. How life can become a love story...

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1250816726

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9781250816726

She Went Out on a Limb

A Book of Inspiration for Women

By: Sandy Gingras

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She Went Out on a Limb

A Book of Inspiration for Women

By: Sandy Gingras

A giftable read with a catchy title for anyone seeking promise, hope, solace, inspiration, and motivation through art and the power of words. “She went out on a limb, had it break off, and realized she could fly.” We’ve all been there on occasion. We’ve over-reached and achieved success by reaching deep within, rallying, and overcoming life’s difficulties and challenges that would keep us from our goals. For every woman who has said, “I can” in place of, “I can’t,” author and illustrator Sandy Gingras offers inspiration inside She Went Out on a Limb, an illustrated list book of positive and affirming phrases, some original, some quoted. She Went Out on a Limb offers the inspirational power of words for putting your heart on the line, the value of dreaming and hope, trusting yourself, combating fear and adversity, getting out of your own way, not thinking too much, avoiding procrastination, stirring up inspiration, loving yourself, believing in yourself, and just doing it. The thoughtful and poetic prose along with original watercolor illustrations combine to focus on the positive and remind you to combat fear and adversity through affirmation in your own beliefs and abilities. The limb may break, but the flight holds exhilarating promise.

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1449427286

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What a Woman Needs

By: Sandy Gingras

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What a Woman Needs

By: Sandy Gingras

I wrote this book because I needed to. . . . I had forgotten about life in the process of living. . . . What we really need in life is simple . . . and, most of it, we already have. This book reminded me of how full my life really is." --Sandy Gingras For the world's three billion-plus women, an illustrated list of what really matters most. Less gravity, good lighting, words of affection, to escape from her own head, romantic comedies, an off switch--these are among the charming and unique entries Sandy Gingras lists as necessities for the female existence. Chocolate and an elastic waistband are obviously included. Gingras's relaxed watercolor images meld with her compelling, poetry-like verse to help strip away life's day-to-day complications and strife. This is a book you will buy both to keep and to give as a gift.

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