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Ocean Seasons

by Angela Leeper

Spring evokes images of blooming flowers and baby birds. Seasons bring transformations beneath the Pacific Ocean too in this inviting and informational book, as spring produces colorful plants, summer begets calmness, autumn’s growing... Read More

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Not in Room 204

“Knowing about Stranger Danger is important,” Mrs. Salvador tells her students. “But it’s not always strangers who touch children in ways they shouldn’t be touched. Usually, it’s someone the child knows … I know exactly... Read More

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Nokum is My Teacher

by Carolyn Bailey

At some point every child seeks reassurance that the academic challenges faced in school are meaningful. These questions become much more poignant when posed by an aboriginal child whose western—style schooling is so different from the... Read More

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If I Were a Tree

by Kaavonia Hinton

For millions of years life has depended on the wonderful gifts that trees provide, but how often does one reflect on the value of trees? Hosta pays homage to this important aspect of nature by highlighting its riches. Colorful mixed... Read More

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Your Power to Create

“No one ever applied the power to create to the soul,” according to bestselling author Caroline Myss (Anatomy of the Spirit, Why People Don’t Heal, Sacred Contracts, Entering the Castle) on this CD. Myss underscores the dangers of... Read More

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As You Think

“We do not attract what we want, but what we are”; the words of author James Allen might serve as an answer to the many who question why after having visualized, intended, and used many other tactics to attract desired results into... Read More

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The Outermost House

“Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science,” wrote Henry Beston in this 1928 classic, which chronicles the austere year he spent contemplating the natural world from a small cabin on the outermost beach of Cape Cod. Although... Read More

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