To the outside world, Cara's life seems perfect. The only one who knows the dark secrets inside her home is her best friend and next-door neighbor, Adam. Cara's only escape is by writing and sharing her stories with him through their facing bedroom windows late at night. Just when everything seems to get better, Cara's world shatters, causing her to spiral into a deep depression and writer's block. Even though Adam promises her "everything will be okay," she knows things will never be the same. As she clutches to the fractured wounds of the past, how will Cara ever be able to love or write again? Breathtaking is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that fans of John Green and Nicholas Sparks will love.
Frog is very worried about a speech that he has to give in front of his frog class on breath, until his animal friends teach him their different methods of breathing and how they can help him reach certain states of mind.
You never know how truly breathtaking you are... Sheatee Jared is a normal cheerleader. She has loyal friends, a gorgeous boyfriend. She and her younger sister, Melanata, live with their grandmother in a charming town. Perfectly typical, right? And, sure, not many teenagers have visions...er...dreams of the future and of the past, like Shea does, but that can be ignored. Everything is normal. Until... Aaron and Diana Aster. They are everything Lincoln Dexter High isnt: Aaron with his dark, lethal good looks and wry humor and Diana with her fierce sisterly love and chilling advice. They throw Sheas life upside down the moment they arrive, rousing questions and secrets that were always there to begin with. Then when Aaron attempts to claim Sheas heart, chaos ensues. Who are these beautiful, intimidating people and why do they cause such a stir? What is the secret they are hiding? The secrets suddenly everyone is hiding? Theres only one way to find out....
Carrying one stuffed elephant, six panniers and two tents, Paula and Lorenz Eber set off from Athens, Greece on two tandem bicycles with their eleven year old daughter, Yvonne, and her thirteen year old sister, Anya. Their dream: to circle the world by bicycle, raising awareness of asthma and the world's desperate need for clean air. Pedaling in an unbroken line through Europe and Asia, along Australia and the South Pacific and then across North America, the Ebers promoted a carbon free, environmentally friendly way to travel, encouraging others to try new, more sustainable and harmonious ways to interact with new places and peoples. Breathtaking is the exciting, hilarious and inspiring true story of their adventures. Readers follow the Ebers as they raise their daughters around the world, teaching them to cherish and respect our environment and other cultures. School is conducted outdoors on mountaintops and in historic castles. Dinnertime consists of strange international foods cooked on a simple backcountry stove in a meadow. And the responsibilities of parenting have been expanded to include hunting for an English copy of the latest Harry Potter book and holding a memorial service for one of Yvonne's most treasured (and only) possessions: a Polish bunny thermos. But the journey is also a test of the family's strength and endurance. As the family pedals further and further away from home, they struggle to work together through increasing hardships. They face a 100 degree heat wave in Italy, drug smugglers in Russia, a snowstorm at the Great Wall in China, and even the bite of a poisonous molokau in Tonga. To succeed, they realize that the greatest challenge they must face is not the journey without, but the one they must undergo within themselves.
From the Serengeti to the Arctic mountains, animals guide their little ones to sleep under the stars. Snuggle in with this bedtime breathwork book to lead your little one (and yourself) to a peaceful night's sleep. Beautifully written and illustrated, this book will provide everyone who reads and listens to it with a sense of calm and stillness.
Geared up with two tents, six panniers, two tandem bicycles and one stuffed pink pig, Paula and Lorenz Eber set off from Seattle, Washington to cycle the world with their two daughters, eleven-year old Yvonne, and her thirteen year old sister, Anya. Their dream: to pedal in a complete circle around the world using a carbon free, environmentally friendly way to travel. Their goal: to raise awareness of asthma – a disease that Paula has suffered from her entire life – and the world’s desperate need for clean air. Breathtaking is the exciting and inspiring true story of their adventures. Readers follow the Ebers across Europe, Asia, the South Pacific and North America as they raise their daughters around the globe. School is conducted outdoors on mountaintops. The responsibilities of parenting have been expanded to include hunting for an English copy of the latest Harry Potter book. And family togetherness takes on a new meaning as the Ebers must work together to survive a 100-degree heat wave in Italy, drug smugglers in Russia, a broken foot in New Zealand and a tornado in the U.S. Yet, as the family pedals farther and farther away from home, they realize that the greatest challenge they face is the journey that they must undergo within themselves. The Ebers returned home twenty-four countries and 14,931 km (9,332 miles) later – raising $65,000 for the non-profit organization, World Bike for Breath. They spoke about clean air and asthma to more than 150 newspapers, magazines, and TV stations, including Time for Kids, NPR, and PBS’s Roadtrip Nation. They are the only family on record to complete a full circumnavigation of the world by bicycle.
A useful scientific theory, claimed Einstein, must be explicable to any intelligent person. In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce Schumm has taken this dictum to heart, providing in clear, straightforward prose an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physics -- a theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of twentieth-century science. In this one-of-a-kind book, the work of many of the past century's most notable physicists, including Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, Feynman, Gell-Mann, and Weinberg, is knit together in a thorough and accessible exposition of the revolutionary notions that underlie our current view of the fundamental nature of the physical world. Schumm, who has spent much of his life emmersed in the subatomic world, goes far beyond a mere presentation of the "building blocks" of matter, bringing to life the remarkable connection between the ivory tower world of the abstract mathematician and the day-to-day, life-enabling properties of the natural world. Schumm leaves us with an insight into the profound open questions of particle physics, setting the stage for understanding the progress the field is poised to make over the next decade or two. Introducing readers to the world of particle physics, Deep Down Things opens new realms within which are many clues to unraveling the mysteries of the universe.
Frog is very worried as he has an important speech to make at his school assembly. The speech is about breathing and he doesn't know a thing about it! He asks his friends for help and they teach him all about the lion breath, the crocodile breath, the humming bee breath and the woodchopper breath. Can any of these breathing techniques calm his nerves before the big speech? This charming illustrated picture book teaches children four yoga breathing techniques in a fun and interactive way. The story successfully increases children's awareness of their breath and shows how breathing can be used to deal with anger, anxiety and tension. This book will be a great resource for teachers and teaching assistants in mainstream and special needs schools, children's yoga instructors, as well as parents looking for an engaging story to teach their children about coping with difficult emotions and stressful situations.
An elementary-level exploration of the human body’s respiratory system, focused on structures, function, diseases, and God’s wonderful designs Fast facts and important discoveries that help medical professionals understand the mechanisms of our lungs, sinus cavities, and diaphragm Find out why the common cold isn’t so common after all. Hundreds of viruses can cause the over 1 billion cases of the “common’” cold each year! With a loud piercing wail, most of us entered this world as a crying baby taking in our first big breath of air. Breathe in. Breathe out. You hardly notice your respiratory system at work every minute, day and night, awake or asleep, without fail. From our first breath to our last, breathing is truly essential to life. Come on a captivating odyssey through the wind tunnels of the body and be prepared to be amazed! What happens when we hold our breath? What powers the over 23,000 breaths each of us takes daily? The surface area of the alveoli in your lungs alone could cover the surface of an entire tennis court! Breeze in and learn more about these and the other incredible examples in the God’s Wondrous Machine series with The Breathtaking Respiratory System.
Frank, a young boy, was a native of Sicily living in Agathyrnum. His father's death caused the family to leave the city and move to a different town. In that town, Frank observes something strange and can't resist himself but to investigate. In the middle of his investigations, he gets captured by a foreign cult and is sent to Africa to serve their purpose. In Africa, he faced several difficulties as a hostage and was coerced to fight with the fort's army of the Salamon Empire of the African continent. There, he finds his old friends caught like him and manages to get out of the battlezone safely with his friends, and then informed about the cult to the royal Prince and brought an end to the existence of a long threatening force which had troubled his countrymen for years.
