This children's storybook follows the journey of one small stone picked up by a child, gently washed and painted, then hidden for another child to find. Finding Sally the Stone brings such joy to this little boy that he gathers his friends to paint other stones to hide at various animal exhibits at the local zoo. While hiding these newly painted stones, the children learn about kindness, sharing, and friendship. As the story concludes, learn how these beautiful acts of kindness and sharing come full circle. You will enjoy the colorful, whimsical illustrations as the book captures the wonders of childhood. Perhaps you might start painting and hiding your own stones to join in this global movement.
This children's storybook follows the journey of one small stone picked up by a child, gently washed and painted, then hidden for another child to find. Finding Sally the Stone brings such joy to this little boy that he gathers his friends to paint other stones to hide at various animal exhibits at the local zoo. While hiding these newly painted stones, the children learn about kindness, sharing, and friendship. As the story concludes, learn how these beautiful acts of kindness and sharing come full circle. You will enjoy the colorful, whimsical illustrations as the book captures the wonders of childhood. Perhaps you might start painting and hiding your own stones to join in this global movement.
Sixteen year old Regan Stone has her life all mapped out. Every choice, from her dual credit classes to the out-of-state university she's selected is deliberate. She even has a no-romance stipulation to avoid dangerous distractions. What Regan didn't anticipate was the sudden change in her best friend, Lane, leaving only glimpses of the boy she grew up with. The bombshell Lane drops on her weeks before he leaves for college compels Reagan to come to terms with her own feelings. This summer may change everything.
When Stick rescues Stone from a prickly situation with a Pinecone, the pair becomes fast friends. But when Stick gets stuck, can Stone return the favor? Author Beth Ferry makes a memorable debut with a warm, rhyming text that includes a subtle anti-bullying message even the youngest reader will understand. New York Times bestselling illustrator Tom Lichtenheld imbues Stick and Stone with energy, emotion, and personality to spare. In this funny story about kindness and friendship, Stick and Stone join George and Martha, Frog and Toad, and Elephant and Piggie, as some of the best friend duos in children's literature.
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . “[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”—Entertainment Weekly SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST • WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Slate • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD “Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as they’re figuring out how to be adults.”—Celeste Ng, Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast “The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they’re suspenseful.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, The Week “Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions.”—New York “A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.”—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker “This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I’m not alone.”—Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)
"Inspired by her near-death experience, Stone guides us to the high vibration of golden words and provides down-to-earth tools and stories for using them to transform your life. A treasure for anyone who wants to revolutionize their consciousness." --New York Times Bestselling Author, Sonia Choquette Golden Words shows you how to use hypnosis/meditation techniques with empowering words to create a bridge from painful life circumstances to the goals and dreams you want to experience. Stone shows you how to trigger a significant shift in how you feel in body, mind, and spirit to reduce stress and pain, breakthrough false walls, and move into your intuitive flow. The stories, tools, and principles Stone shares illustrate step-by-step how to make these meaningful shifts in your life whether they are obstacles to reaching important goals; physical, emotional, or spiritual pain; or a restless, stressed out mind. These tools and techniques assist with breakthrough on every level. In this book are more than thirty ways for combining powerful words and simple self-hypnosis techniques trigger relaxation, reduce pain, and cultivate brain states that improve health and well-being. These practices soothe, uplift, and make space for more peace, joy, and well-being in your life. In this book, you'll learn to: * Identify your golden words (2,000+ golden words inside) * Reduce stress, pain, and food cravings * Overcome mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical pain * Remain balanced in challenging situations * Create effective mantras and affirmations * Organize long-term goals into manageable steps * Use the trance state of self-hypnosis and meditation to relax, build confidence, and gain insight * Enhance & rely on your intuitive flow * Take control of your self-talk and your brain state for maximum living Life brings ups and downs, but every experience holds opportunities. Golden Words shows you how to grab those opportunities and make them into blessings. If you're already a positive person, Golden Words will provide you with a treasure chest of tools to expand the positive energy in your life.
Summers on The Cape in A Place Like This When newly engaged Sally Buffington is introduced to Craigville, she meets an expansive Cape Cod cottage that is virtually a family member itself. She quickly finds herself competing for airtime among the talkative, assured band of brothers and her new mother-in-law-the cottage's lively and confounding matriarch. Sally, a Cape Cod local, soon wonders how she'll ever maintain her independence, let alone her sense of self when the day's agenda and every detail is already set in stone. But, she navigates her new life with quiet persistence and a boundless curiosity that guides her to explore life through the creative lens of her camera and her pen. Sally writes with a whimsical candor that is both honest and humorous. Through poetic prose and heart-felt reflection, A Place Like This reveals the beauty of Cape Cod and shows us that sometimes the simplest of moments bring us the most lasting joy.
This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.
It started with a kiss. Straight-laced Regan Stone is breaking the rules by kissing her best friend. But when her family fills her head full of doubts, it only takes three little words for Regan to forget about her family and the rules. Lane Cary is an honest guy, and honestly, he couldn't care less about rule number three. He'll do just about anything to keep Regan at a more-than-best-friends status. But when someone from his past walks back into his life, Lane's secrets threaten the only future he's sure of ... Regan. Caught in two separate worlds of high school and college, this romance is falling toward failure. With her fear of not being enough and his past colliding with his future, the only chance for Regan and Lane's romance to survive is to do the one thing they've been avoiding. Will Regan and Lane do what it takes to continue beyond friendship? Or will her parents' predictions come true and ruin everything, including their friendship? Don't miss More Than A Kiss, the second book of the continuous More Than Best Friends Series by Sally Henson. If you like rollercoaster teen romance steeped in best friends, loads of kissing, and swooniness, then this young adult/teen story will have you turning the pages! Grab your copy today!
When Sally falls asleep while reading books about a certain juvenile wizard, she dreams that she is a student at Frogbull Academy of Sorcery. There she meets Headmaster Albatross Underdrawers, Gamekeeper Ruebenon Ryebread, and Professor Shiftia Shape. But danger is lurking, and it's up to Sally and her new friends Dave and Harmonica to defeat the schemes of the evil Lord Murderdeath. Will she become the hero like the one in her favorite series? And who is the mysterious Censor who keeps rewriting the story as it goes along? This loving parody will thrill fans and newcomers alike.
