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Overweight Kids: Spiritual, Behavioral and Preventative Solutions
by Linda MintleRaising Healthy Kids in an Unhealthy World teaches parents how to raise healthy kids in an over scheduled, fast-food, video-game world by making simple choices, easy changes and instilling good habits that will improve everyone's life today and forever. This positive, practical, and inspirational guide will help parents find spiritual and behavioral solutions to help their kids achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Acclaimed specialist, Dr. Linda Mintle, gives parents the information and encouragement they need to raise happy, healthy kids. As childhood obesity rises to epidemic proportions, every parent is faced with challenges that were not an issue a decade ago. Dr. Mintle addresses the toxic environment that impacts every family - overscheduling, eating on the run, sedentary options instead of active play, even school systems that no longer include physical activity. She then presents real life solutions that have immediate and long-term results for every family.
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
by Brigid SchulteAccording to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is “that place in which we realize our humanity.” If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but “contaminated time”?<P> Schulte first asked this question in a 2010 feature for The Washington Post Magazine: “How did researchers compile this statistic that said we were rolling in leisure—over four hours a day? Did any of us feel that we actually had downtime? Was there anything useful in their research—anything we could do?”<P> Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration. She investigates progressive offices trying to invent a new kind of workplace; she travels across Europe to get a sense of how other countries accommodate working parents; she finds younger couples who claim to have figured out an ideal division of chores, childcare, and meaningful paid work. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out.
Owen
by Kevin HenkesOwen is attached to his fuzzy yellow blanket--and he won't give it up. But when school starts, Owen's mother knows just what to do. <P><P> 1994 Caldecott Honor Book.
Owen Foote, Frontiersman
by Stephanie GreeneSecond grader Owen Foote is looking forward to spending time with his friend Joseph in their tree fort, until some bullies visiting his neighbor, Mrs. Gold, threaten to wreck the fort.
Owen's Best Intentions
by Anna AdamsShe always knew this day would come When her former boyfriend shows up at her Vermont home, Lilah Bantry is terrified that Owen Gage will take her child away. Four years ago, she sent him packing, dead certain that Owen couldn't be the father their unborn baby needed. Now he's stirring up powerful emotions and vowing he'll never leave the son he's determined to get to know. Lilah spent decades trying to overcome her own traumatic past. Is Owen's warmly welcoming Tennessee hometown a place where she can finally stop running? First, she needs to be convinced that people really can change...
Owen's Family (All Kinds of Families)
by Elliot RileyBook Features:• 24 pages, about 8 inches x 8 inches• Ages 4-7, PreK-Grade 1 leveled readers• Simple, easy-to-read pages with vibrant illustrations• Features vocabulary and pre- and post-reading comprehension activities• Includes reading and teaching tipsThe Magic of Reading: Introduce your child to the magic of reading with Mia's Family. This 24-page Ready Reader book features colorful illustrations and short, simple language to practice early reading comprehension skills.Hands-On Reading Adventure: Owen’s mom passed away when he was young. His dad raises him and his brothers with the help of his grandparents. Learn about diverse families, hardships, and what makes his so special.Features: More than just an engaging book about a single-parent family, this kids book also includes a vocabulary list, a picture glossary, reading and teaching tips, and fun, end-of-reading comprehension and extension activities.Leveled Books: This early reading book engages preschoolers through first graders with leveled text, vocabulary, colorful illustrations, and important, high-interest topics like family, diversity, and loss to promote essential early reading skills.Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.
Owl Babies
by Martin WaddellThree owl babies whose mother has gone out in the night try to stay calm while she is gone.
Owl Moon
by Jane YolenCelebrating 30 years of the beloved classic Owl Moon from renowned children's book author Jane Yolen and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator John Schoenherr!Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird. But there is no answer. Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling, you don't need words. You don't need anything but hope. Sometimes there isn't an owl, but sometimes there is. Distinguished author Jane Yolen has created a gentle, poetic story that lovingly depicts the special companionship of a young child and her father as well as humankind's close relationship to the natural world. Wonderfully complemented by John Schoenherr's soft, exquisite watercolor illustrations, this is a verbal and visual treasure, perfect for reading aloud and sharing at bedtime.
Owl Song at Dawn
by Emma Claire Sweeney&“Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel about familial love and stoicism in the face of heartbreak.&”—Carys Bray, award-winning author of The Museum of You Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing 80, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her parents did during Morecambe&’s 1950s heyday. But now only her employees and regular guests recognize the tenderness and heartbreak hidden beneath her spikiness. Until, that is, Vincent shows up. Vincent is the last person Maeve wants to see. He is the only man alive to have known her twin sister, Edie. The nightingale to Maeve&’s crow, the dawn to Maeve&’s dusk, Edie would have set her sights on the stage—all things being equal. But, from birth, things never were. If only Maeve could confront the secret past she shares with Vincent, she might finally see what it means to love and be loved—a lesson that her exuberant yet inexplicable twin may have been trying to teach her all along. Stylist Magazine Top &“Books to Read on a Staycation&” &“Funny, heartbreaking and truly remarkable.&”—Susan Barker, New York Times bestselling author &“I found the novel most poignant and tender in its depiction of disability, without a whiff of sentimentality . . . it crept under my skill and will stay there for a long time.&”—Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Grace Williams Says It Loud &“Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply moving . . . an important and very beautiful book.&”—Edward Hogan, Desmond Elliot Prize-winning author of Blackmoor &“Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else.&”—Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author of The Crime Writer
Owl's Fall Feast Fiasco
by Kristen RemenarOwl is hosting a Fall Feast, and Platypus—his favorite didgeridoo musician—is joining! But what do you serve someone who is mammal, bird, and reptile? A funny and relatable picture book perfect for Thanksgiving and for parents looking to teach 3-7-year-old kids about accepting differences, looking beyond stereotypes, and friendship.Owl is so excited to meet Platypus—his favorite didgeridoo musician, who just confirmed he'd be part of Owl's Fall Feast! Owl is over the moon! But there is just one problem: What does Platypus eat?Checking in with his friends offers no good insight. In fact, he learns that Groundhog is lactose intolerant, Hare has an allergy to carrots, Sparrow is a vegetarian, and Tortoise prefers to eat the flower centerpiece!Will Owl be able to see past his preconceptions of his friends and other species, and be accepting to everyone's differences? Full of humor and tenderness, this book teaches readers valuable social-emotional lessons of accepting others for who they are.
Owls Do Cry: A Novel
by Janet FrameOwls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose days are marred by the velvet cloak of epilepsy; Chicks, the baby of the family; and Daphne, whose rich, poetic imagination condemns her to a life in institutions. 'Janet Frame's first full-length work of fiction, Owls Do Cry, is an exhilarating and dazzling prelude to her long and successful career. She was to write in several modes, publishing poems, short stories, fables and volumes of autobiography, as well as other novels of varied degrees of formal complexity, but Owls Do Cry remains unique in her oeuvre. It has the freshness and fierceness of a mingled cry of joy and pain. Its evocation of childhood recalls Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, as well as the otherworldly Shakespearean lyric of her title and epigraph, but her handling of her dark material is wholly original' Margaret Drabble
Owls Do Cry: A Novel (Virago Modern Classics #144)
by Janet FrameOwls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose days are marred by the velvet cloak of epilepsy; Chicks, the baby of the family; and Daphne, whose rich, poetic imagination condemns her to a life in institutions. 'Janet Frame's first full-length work of fiction, Owls Do Cry, is an exhilarating and dazzling prelude to her long and successful career. She was to write in several modes, publishing poems, short stories, fables and volumes of autobiography, as well as other novels of varied degrees of formal complexity, but Owls Do Cry remains unique in her oeuvre. It has the freshness and fierceness of a mingled cry of joy and pain. Its evocation of childhood recalls Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, as well as the otherworldly Shakespearean lyric of her title and epigraph, but her handling of her dark material is wholly original' Margaret Drabble
Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Novel
by Eva CarterFrom the author of How to Save a Life comes a heartfelt story of two people finding the courage to choose love, no matter how hard it may be.Gemma thought she had her future all mapped out. She had a wonderful husband, a cute apartment, and plans to start a family. But just months after their wedding, illness took her husband from her. And now she finds herself trying to think up new dreams, when all she really wants are her old ones back.Across town, Dan&’s also rethinking his life. He&’s about to meet his twelve-year-old daughter, Casey, for the very first time. She&’s tracked him down because she needs a place to stay for the summer while she receives treatment for a brain tumor at the city hospital, and Dan is terrified he won&’t be up to the task of taking care of her; after all, he&’s structured his entire life so that no one has to rely on him.But when fate (with the help of Gemma&’s scruffy terrier, Bear) brings these three strangers together one scorching July morning, there&’s an instant connection among them. And it soon becomes clear that this summer could change everything—if only they&’ll let it.Will Gemma, Dan, and Casey be brave enough to let love in and build a new life together? Or will they let fear keep everything they&’ve ever wanted just out of reach?
Owning Our Struggles: A Path to Healing and Finding Community in a Broken World
by Minaa B.Discover the power of collective healing in this research-based and real-world guide to moving past trauma and adversity—together.Adversity comes in many forms, and can make us feel alone in our pain, even years after the fact. But as wellness coach and licensed therapist Minaa B. observes, we can&’t heal in isolation. The best way to move past individual trauma is through connection and community—healing ourselves and one another. In this powerful and practical guide, Minaa shares therapeutic tools, client stories, and actionable insights to help you on your healing journey, along with reflections from her personal experiences. Each chapter focuses on a common emotional struggle—from overcoming dysfunctional family patterns to developing emotional maturity, finding our village, navigating racial trauma, and moving past isolation and despair. Through her unique mix of deeply honest personal stories, proven practices, and prompts for writing and reflection, Minaa helps readers finally face their struggles, get unstuck, and transform their thinking—to claim agency in their own lives and circumstances, and to use that power to help heal a broken world.
Owning Up: From the writer/producer on The Wire, The Deuce and We Own This City
by George Pelecanos'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' Stephen KingAfter the Carusos family home is destroyed by police with a no-knock warrant, the family struggle to return to normal. Two former inmates reunite on a TV set. They're both back on the straight and narrow ... until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, and awakens to the bloody history of the place she grew up. Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, Owning Up grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take.Praise for George Pelecanos:'Triple-distilled excellence. Pelecanos is the undisputed poet laureate of America's most secret city. Not just recommended: this is essential reading.' LEE CHILD'Every time I read one of George Pelecanos's novels I'm left a little awed and a little envious. The guy's a national treasure.' DENNIS LEHANE
Owning Up: From the writer/producer on The Wire, The Deuce and We Own This City
by George Pelecanos'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' Stephen KingAfter the Carusos family home is destroyed by police with a no-knock warrant, the family struggle to return to normal. Two former inmates reunite on a TV set. They're both back on the straight and narrow ... until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, and awakens to the bloody history of the place she grew up. Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, Owning Up grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take.Praise for George Pelecanos:'Triple-distilled excellence. Pelecanos is the undisputed poet laureate of America's most secret city. Not just recommended: this is essential reading.' LEE CHILD'Every time I read one of George Pelecanos's novels I'm left a little awed and a little envious. The guy's a national treasure.' DENNIS LEHANE
Owning Violet: The Fowler Sisters 1 (Fowler Sisters)
by Monica MurphyMonica Murphy, the New York Times bestselling author of One Week Girlfriend, begins a sexy contemporary romance series - perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Emma Chase - that introduces three sisters born to wealth, raised to succeed, ready to love, destined to make waves.One stolen moment, a kiss, a touch . . . and she's hooked.Violet Fowler has moved through life doing what's expected of her. The dutiful middle daughter, she's devoted herself to her family's business empire, Fleur Cosmetics, and the ambitious man who would one day run it with her. That is until the offer of a promotion exposes his disloyalty - and leaves her alone. But another man is waiting for Violet. Wanting Violet. He has an overwhelming thirst for success. He's ruthless. And mysterious. Violet knows nothing about Ryder McKay except the fact that he makes her feel things she's never experienced before. And soon she's willing to risk all to be with him - her heart, her soul...her everything.For more of the fabulous Fowler Sisters look for Stealing Rose and Taming Lily.Don't miss Monica's emotionally powerful One Week Girlfriend series: One Week Girlfriend, Second Chance Boyfriend, Three Broken Promises, Drew + Fable Forever and Four Years Later and her breathtaking Reverie Series.
Oxota: A Short Russian Novel
by Lyn HejinianOver the course of nearly a decade (1983–1991), author Lyn Hejinian visited the USSR seven times, staying frequently with her friends the poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and his wife Zina in Leningrad. During this period, she embarked on translating into English several volumes of Dragomoshcheko's poetry, and the two poets began an extensive correspondence, exchanging hundreds of letters until Dragomoshchenko's death in 2012. During her fifth visit, in conversation with Dragomoshchenko and other poets, she decided to write a novel reflecting her experiences of literary and lived life in Leningrad and Moscow. Cognizant of a general sense that the Russian novel is stereotypically "long," she determined that hers would be "short." What resulted is an experimental novel whose structure (284 chapters, each 14 lines long) pays homage to Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, which is generally regarded to be the first Russian novel: a verse novel composed in 14-line stanzas. From time to time, various members of Dragomoshchenko's circle of friends offered suggestions for the novel, as readers will note. There's abundant narrative content, but anecdotes and events are presented in non-linear form, since they unfolded over extended periods of time and thus came to Hejinian's attention piecemeal. Oxota (which means variously "huntress," "hunt," and "desire" in Russian) is a novel in which contexts, rather than contents, are kept in the foreground. Allen Ginsberg, who himself visited the USSR, did not like Oxota. He said that it wasn't realistic; Hejinian thinks that it is.
Oxygen: A Novel
by Carol CassellaJodi Picoult meets Atul Gawande in this bestselling novel that blends compelling women&’s fiction and medical drama to create an &“involving debut that&’s just what the doctor ordered&” (People).Dr. Marie Heaton is an anesthesiologist at the height of her profession. She has worked, lived, and breathed her career since medical school, and she now practices at a top Seattle hospital. Marie has carefully constructed and constricted her life according to empirical truths, to the science and art of medicine. But when her tried-and-true formula suddenly deserts her during a routine surgery, she must explain the nightmarish operating room disaster and face the resulting malpractice suit. Marie’s best friend, colleague, and former lover, Dr. Joe Hillary, becomes her closest confidante as she twists through depositions, accusations and a remorseful preoccupation with the mother of the patient in question. As she struggles to salvage her career and reputation, Marie must face hard truths about the path she’s chosen, the bridges she’s burned, and the colleagues and superiors she’s mistaken for friends. A quieter crisis is simultaneously unfolding within Marie’s family. Her aging father is losing his sight and approaching an awkward dependency on Marie and her sister, Lori. But Lori has taken a more traditional path than Marie and is busy raising a family. Although Marie has been estranged from her Texas roots for decades, the ultimate responsibility for their father’s care is falling on her. As her carefully structured life begins to collapse, Marie confronts questions of love and betrayal, family bonds and the price of her own choices. Set against the natural splendor of Seattle, and inside the closed vaults of hospital operating rooms, Oxygen climaxes in a final twist that is as heartrending as it is redeeming.
Oye: A Novel
by Melissa MogollonA coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you won&’t want to hang up on. &“A portrait of love, heartache, and hilarity that transcends its medium.&”—Elle (The Best Literary Fiction Books of 2024, So Far)&“Brilliant . . . Melissa Mogollon did not come to play.&”—Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun AgeLONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE&“Yes, hi, Mari. It&’s me. I&’m over my tantrum now and calling you back . . . But first—you have to promise that you won&’t tell Mom or Abue any of this. Okay? They&’ll set the house on fire if they find out . . .&”Structured as a series of one-sided phone calls from our spunky, sarcastic narrator, Luciana, to her older sister, Mari, this wildly inventive debut &“jump-starts your heart in the same way it piques your ear&” (Xochitl Gonzalez). As the baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana is usually relegated to the sidelines. But now she finds herself as the only voice of reason in the face of an unexpected crisis: A hurricane is heading straight for Miami, and her eccentric grandmother, Abue, is refusing to evacuate. Abue is so one-of-a-kind she&’s basically in her own universe, and while she often drives Luciana nuts, they&’re the only ones who truly understand each other. So when Abue, normally glamorous and full of life, receives a shocking medical diagnosis during the storm, Luciana&’s world is upended.When Abue moves into Luciana&’s bedroom, their complicated bond intensifies. Luciana would rather be skating or sneaking out to meet girls, but Abue&’s wild demands and unpredictable antics are a welcome distraction for Luciana from her misguided mother, absent sister, and uncertain future. Forced to step into the role of caretaker, translator, and keeper of the devastating family secrets that Abue begins to share, Luciana suddenly finds herself center stage, facing down adulthood—and rising to the occasion.As Luciana chronicles the events of her disrupted senior year of high school over the phone to Mari, Oye unfolds like the most fascinating and entertaining conversation you&’ve ever eavesdropped on: a rollicking, heartfelt, and utterly unique novel that celebrates the beauty revealed and resilience required when rewriting your own story.
Ozzie (The Puppy Place)
by Ellen MilesWelcome to the Puppy Place! Where every puppy finds a home.Lizzie knows that this Australian Shepherd pup is special the moment she sees those blue eyes! Ozzie loves to run and bark – but he needs a job to keep him busy. What kind of home will be best for such a bundle of energy?
Ozzie on His Own
by Johanna HurwitzWhen Ozzie's best friend, his niece Roz, goes away for the summer, he makes some new friends, but then his father has a heart attack, and he feels very much alone. Ozzie Sims is all alone for the summer. Roz Sasser, his best friend, niece, and neighbor, has gone to England with her parents. Ozzie worries he'll be bored. But is he in for a surprise! First Ozzie discovers an abandoned shed in his neighbor's backyard. Then he makes three new friends, Ryan, Ditto, and Candy. Presto! The Chicken Coop Club is launched--and it even has a furry mascot named Snow White. Then, one night, something terrible happens. And just when Ozzie needs Roz the most, his mother tells him not to write a word to her about it. Ozzie must decide what to do... entirely on his own. Johanna Hurwitz's memorable story picks up where Roz and Ozzie left off, with the same warmth, humor, and unforgettable characters. Pictures are described. There are dozens of Johanna Hurwitz's books in Bookshare's library. Check out Roz and Ozzie, The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein, Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found, Aldo Applesauce, Aldo Ice Cream, Aldo Peanut Butter, Rip-Roaring Russell, Busybody Nora, School Spirit, Class Clown, Class President and many, many more.
P. S. Wish You Were Here (Two of a Kind Diaries)
by Megan StineMary-Kate has decided to move back to Chicago, but Ashley refuses to leave their new boarding school, White Oak Academy. The twins have never been separated before--how will they cope? Written in diary format and featuring excerpts from the twins' letters and E-mails to one another, this super edition is sure to please. Don't miss this very special final installment of the three part super-special miniseries--Two Of A Kind Diaries!
P.S. Be Eleven
by Rita Williams-GarciaThings are changing in the Gaither household. After soaking up a "power to the people" mind-set over the summer, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern return to Brooklyn with a newfound streak of independence. Pa has a girlfriend. Uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam, but hes not the same. And a new singing group called the Jackson Five has the girls seeing stars. But the one thing that doesn't change? Big Ma still expects Delphine to keep everything together. That's even harder now that her sisters refuse to be bossed around, and now that Pa's girlfriend voices her own opinions about things. Through letters, Delphine confides in her mother, who reminds her not to grow up too fast. To be eleven while she can. An outstanding successor to the Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, P. S. Be Eleven stands on its own as a moving, funny story of three sisters growing up amid the radical change of the 1960s, beautifully written by the inimitable Rita Williams-Garcia.<P><P>2014 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
P.S. I Hate It Here: Kids' Letters from Camp
by Diane FalangaHeartwarming and hilarious real-life letters from kids at summer camp sure to amuse anyone who’s ever been a homesick child or a parent of one.In the bestselling tradition of nostalgic looks at classic rites of passage, such as Camp Camp and Bar Mitzvah Disco, P.S. I Hate It Here: Kids’ Letters from Camp captures a childhood experience shared by millions. This collection of real letters written by children ages eight to sixteen to their parents about their adventures at summer camp are laugh-out-loud funny and will have readers reminiscing about their own camp days.More than 150 letters cover all the imaginable scenarios of sleep away camp, from acing the cabin lice inspection, to rowing in the “ricotta” race, to breaking the bad news about a retainer lost in the wilderness. These letters reveal that kids are wittier and more sophisticated than we might assume, and that the experience of being away from home for the first time creates hilarious and lasting memories.“Trust me when I tell you that not only will your kids get a kick out of the amazingly funny letters contained in this book, you and your friends will too.” —Chicago Parent Magazine“P.S. I Hate It Here”compiles notes home from camp with love—a handsome, actually quite beautiful, little book.” —Chicago Tribune“Whether your kid is in camp or you cherish your own memories of s'mores and Color Wars, you'll get a kick out of P.S. I Hate It Here!, a book of real-life, laugh-out-loud letters from camp.” —Redbook Magazine