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Fans of Fancy Nancy will delight in this festive fall adventure story from the beloved New York Times bestselling author-illustrator team Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. Join Fancy Nancy on the perfect fall field trip—to the apple orchard. Fall is an extra-fancy season. Even the...

Der Prolog ist der Auftakt einer Publikationsreihe von Caspar Schmitz-Morkramer und seinem Architekturstudio caspar: Der Nachhalt. Der Architekt Caspar Schmitz-Morkramer gesteht sich ein, dass er angesichts der eskalierenden Klimakrise seine Haltung überdenken - oder auch erst wirklich entwickeln muss! So wie die allermeisten Architekt:innen. Aber er hat Zweifel. Einerseits sagen alle das Gleiche, andererseits trifft man an jeder Ecke auf Widersprüche. Bevor Caspar Schmitz-Morkramer zu seiner Haltung findet, muss er mithilfe eines Leitfadens durch das Labyrinth.

How do you Seamlessly Integrate CPD Hours into Your Busy Schedule? EASY you do your CPD while driving, sitting on the train, walking the dog or while you're at the gym! Welcome to a new way to do CPD. Imagine you're racing against a deadline for a project pitch, but your CPD hours are looming large, untouched. Maybe you’re even spending your weekends poring over lengthy texts on circular economy principles, wishing there was a way to combine this with your CPD requirements without sacrificing precious downtime - well now there is.

""An emotional tale of a family’s grief and healing, full of courage and hope"" —Kirkus ""Faruqi renders this tender story of loss with a deft hand, employing vivid details surrounding Adnan’s Pakistani Muslim identity . . . and nuanced characterizations to present a tear-jerking ode to...

Taiwanese immigrant Anna and her family make a shocking discovery that puts their American dreams at risk in this searing companion to In the Beautiful Country, which Gene Luen Yang called “vivid and hopeful.” * A Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices List Selection * Anna’s family...

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is We Are Golden: 27 Groundbreakers Who Changed the World. Throughout history and to this day, people of Asian descent have been at the forefront of artistic brilliance, scientific advancement, and athletic...

Why some of the most interesting artists of our time committed themselves to some of the most devastating conflicts on Earth Why are some of the most interesting artists of our time committed to engaging with conflict and exploitation around the world? Beautiful, Gruesome, and True tells the...

A personal account of what it means to become a gardener. To make her new house in Connecticut truly feel like home, Catie Marron decided to create a garden. But while she was familiar with landscape design, she had never grown anything. A dedicated reader with a lifelong passion for literature...

Discover how to make purposeful design decisions that create renewing spaces for you to enjoy with family and friends. You don't have to live in your dream house to make your living spaces feel more like home. Home is meant to be a place to belong. A place to gather and connect. A place of...

This is celebrated architect Ken Tate’s creative memoir about his life. Beginning with his days growing up in Columbus, Mississippi, where he was surrounded by beautiful Greek Revival houses, the book journeys through Ken’s upbringing as a creative adolescent to his early days at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he started his architectural collegiate career. There, Ken struggled to keep up with the hard-edged modernism being taught in school and longed to design beautiful houses with soul.

Read by the author. Seven questions that will help you design a home that tells your unique story. Since the premiere of her first television show, Grace Mitchell has received thousands of messages from fans wondering how to tell their unique stories in how they design their homes. This design...

From two-time Newbery Honor and New York Times–bestselling author Kevin Henkes, this timeless novel about loss, loneliness, and friendship tells the story of the spring break that changes seventh-grader Amelia Albright’s life forever. Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring...

“(Garcia) now honors his parents in this brief yet profound memoir rendered all the more intimate in García's own voice.”—Booklist (starred review) “This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever...

From the award-winning, ALA Notable author of Unsettled and Lailah’s Lunchbox, this is a captivating coming-of-age middle grade novel in verse about seventh grader Aafiyah Qamar, a Pakistani American girl who hatches a special plan to help her family but finds that doing what’s right...

For fans of Other Words for Home and Front Desk, this powerful, charming own voices immigration story follows a girl who moves from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, and must find her footing in a new world. Reem Faruqi is the ALA Notable author of award-winning Lailah's...

From the award-winning author of Unsettled, meet Anisa, the adorable Pakistani American heroine of this irresistible younger middle grade novel about a girl who introduces her class to the art of mehndi for International Day. Filled with recipes, and activities and perfect for fans of Meet...

Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naiveté and dysfunction that would destroy...

“Utterly endearing!” —Annie Barrows, New York Times-bestselling author of the Ivy + Bean books ""Hilarious and heart-melting.” —Sara Pennypacker, New York Times-bestselling author of Pax Introducing eight-year-old Marisol Rainey—an irresistible new character from Newbery Medalist...

Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape. He argues that we can find solutions through the concept of biomimicry: emulating successful strategies found in nature. A better city is possible if we heed the lessons that forests and trees teach about how to store carbon, grow food, collect rainwater, and convert sunlight into energy.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting...