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Explore, create, and imagine like a girl! Girls can do anything, and Adventure Girls! proves it! Packed with exciting activities and crafts for girls ages 6 to 12, this book inspires young adventurers to be curious, innovative, and bold. From stargazing and animal tracking to making a pinhole camera and building a shadow theater, Adventure Girls! is not one of your typical craft books. It empowers girls to: Develop independence―Many of the activities are designed to be parent-assisted as girls learn to explore and create safely on their own. Delve into science―Discover scientific ideas and…

The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the injustices of residential school. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir’s 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book’s impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A Stranger at Home. New content includes a foreword from Dr. Debbie Reese, noted Indigenous scholar and founder of American Indians in Children’s Literature, while Christy Jordan-Fenton, mother of Margaret’s grandchildren and a key player in he…

Transform Your Relationship with Your Difficult Narcissistic Mother “An empowering book that offers clarity and validation as well as strategies for freeing yourself from the control of an unhealthy mother relationship.” ―Susan Forward Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents and Mothers who Can't Love #1 Bestseller in Codependency The best news on the planet is that your mother doesn't have to change in order for you to be happy. In fact, author Karen C.L. Anderson takes it a step further to say, your difficult narcissistic mother doesn't have to change in order for you to be free, peaceful, content…

Max et Cam sont amis. C’est une de leurs seules certitudes. Sauf que la ligne entre l’amour et l’amitié, c’est comme de la peau : au fil du temps, elle s’amincit. Max a un peu le syndrome de l’enfant-roi, cela dit c’est un gars cool, sociable et insouciant. Sa relation avec ses parents est complexe. Il aime les femmes et les femmes le lui rendent bien. Max aime Cam, surtout, mais il ne sait pas comment s’y prendre avec elle. C’est dur d’aimer quelqu’un quand on a peur de tout gâcher. Cam est brillante, sensible et meurtrie. Son monde est petit, son coeur énorme. Elle termine une maîtrise, i…

"[U]ndeniably one of the greatest stories of a bygone era." - Wall Street Journal The true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica's deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot Summer, 1856 Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their first clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshua as captain. If they could win the race to San Francisco that year, their dream of building a farm…