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Empower kids to strengthen their social skills and emotional resilience with this engaging and interactive "You Choose" early chapter book for kids ages 6 to 9.What do you do if someone bullies your friend? What about when you hurt a friend’s feelings? Explore these questions and more in Lily and Nico, a collection of short stories about two kids who face conflict, navigate social and emotional growth, and learn about the true essence of friendship. Written by an educator and expert on social-emotional learning, these stories include an interactive “You Choose” element that allows kids to step into Lily’s and Nico’s shoes and decide what they do next. Share in Lily and Nico’s fun and engaging adventures with your child—and support their journey to stronger social skills, greater emotional intelligence, better problem-solving, and healthier friendships.Highlights of Lily and Nico:“You Choose” interactive book empowers kids. Making choices for the characters helps kids better understand consequences and develop their critical-thinking skills.Fun, educational stories tailored for young readers. These stories seamlessly blend fiction and social-emotional learning, helping kids learn to navigate social situations and manage their emotions. Relatable characters and realistic scenarios. From basketball practice and science fairs to bullies at a block party, these stories about two best friends will keep kids engaged and reading. End-of-the-book reflection questions and activities. Discuss these questions with your child to help deepen their understanding of each story and reinforce the social skills lessons taught.

Whether you want to spot wildlife in national parks, set foot on a glacier, or ski on world-class slopes, the local Fodor's travel experts in the Canadian Rockies are here to help! Fodor's Canadian Rockies guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been designed with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.Fodor's Canadian Rockies travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and doMULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your timeMORE THAN 30 DETAILED MAPS to help you navigate confidentlyCOLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust!HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, side-trips, and morePHOTO-FILLED "BEST OF" FEATURES on "Best Backcountry Lodges in the Canadian Rockies," "Family fun in the Canadian Rockies," and moreTRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and moneyHISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, politics, art, architecture, cuisine, music, geography and moreSPECIAL FEATURES on "What to Watch and Read Before You Visit" and "Wildlife" LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gemsUP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Banff, Jasper, Yoho, and Kootenay National Parks, as well as Banff and Jasper towns and Kananaskis Country Planning on visiting other destinations in Western Canana? Check out Fodor's Vancouver & Victoria: with Whistler, Vancouver Island & the Okanagan Valley*Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition.ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor's has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!

Whether you want to drive Route 66, head out on the Pacific Coast Highway, or explore the Blue Ridge Parkway, the local Fodor's travel experts across the United States are here to help! Fodor's Best Road Trips in the USA guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor's Best Road Trips in the USA travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do52 ROAD TRIP ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your timeMORE THAN 60 DETAILED MAPS to help you navigate confidentlyCOLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust!HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, and moreTRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, driving there and back, and recommended pit stops along the wayHISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, politics, art, architecture, cuisine, music, geography and moreLOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gemsUP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming Planning on visiting certain destinations in the United States? Check out Fodor's Alaska, Fodor's Arizona and the Grand Canyon, Fodor's Black Hills of South Dakota, Fodor's California, Fodor's Carolinas and Georgia, Fodor's Chicago, Fodor's Colorado, Fodor's Florida, Fodor's Essential Hawaii, Fodor's InFocus Santa Fe, Fodor's Inside Nashville, Fodor's Las Vegas, Fodor's Montana and Wyoming, Fodor's Complete National Parks, Fodor's New England, Fodor's New Orleans, Fodor's New York City Fodor's Pacific Northwest, Fodor's Philadelphia, Fodor's Utah, and Fodor's Washington DC.*Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition.ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor's has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!

Chasing Peace is a guide for turning emotional breakdowns into breakthroughs with the insights of modern neuroscience. It’s the story of a lifelong seeker who suffered years of escalating depression and anxiety, then discovered that the latest practices from brain science offered a path to the peace he longed for.AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVERTom Rosshirt, like millions of people chasing peace, put his faith in the scripture of our culture: we find peace by becoming who we want to be. So Tom aimed high, worked hard and excelled. But instead of peace, he experienced debilitating anxiety, depression, and discouraging bouts of brain fog that forced him out of his life. He was one of a rising number of people now getting sidelined by conditions doctors can’t cure. Many sufferers never find their way back, but Tom got lucky. After another dead-end session with a psychiatrist, Tom heard about self-directed neuroplasticity—a daily practice of retraining the brain based on the discovery that pain and illness often start in the brain’s neural circuits, and what the brain learns, the brain can unlearn. After months of using this approach, Tom began to see an alignment between neuroplasticity and the principles of spiritual practice. Reversing the patterns that made him ill did more than make him well; it opened the path from stress to peace—from striving to be who we want to be to becoming who we are.Brimming with hope, Chasing Peace is for anyone who is sick of chasing peace—but might be willing to read one more book.

Flexible meal planning for your busy life! With weekly meal prep done in under two hours, you’ll have flavorful, nutrition-packed meals on the table quickly every night of the week.You lead a busy life and it can be tough to find the time and energy to make nourishing, flavorful meals every morning, afternoon, and night. Maybe you tried meal prepping and it zapped all the joy out of eating. Was it the rigidity? The repetitive meals day after day? The hours of work? Don’t give up: The Feel-Good Meal Plan has a fresh, flexible, and unfussy solution to get you ready for the week—with less than two hours of prep and meals on the table every night in 30 minutes or less.  With Registered Dietitian and mom of two Lindsay Pleskot as your guide, take the next steps on your meal-planning journey with:  A Four-Week Meal Plan: Dive into a month of lunches and dinners designed to save time, minimize food waste, and maximize taste and nutrition. Follow ready-made grocery lists and step-by-step meal prep instructions to simplify the process.  Affordable, Accessible Cooking: No fancy ingredients required— just everyday staples you likely already have on hand. These recipes and shopping tips will keep your grocery bill and food waste to a minimum.  100+ Family-Friendly Recipes: Try breakfasts like One-Pan Green Goddess Hash and Tiramisu Overnight Oats, snacks like Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Energy Bites and Mexican Street Corn–Inspired Guacamole, and heaps of mains, like Korean- Inspired Beef and Rice Bowls with Pickled Cukes, Sheet Pan Margarita Shrimp Fajitas, Best-Ever Veggie Bolognese, and Juicy Spinach and Feta Turkey Burgers.  Healthful, Intuitive Eating: Drawing on her certification as an Intuitive Eating Counselor, Lindsay has crafted meal plans and recipes that foster a balanced and joyful relationship with food, nurturing body, mind, and soul.  Ideal for busy families looking to alleviate the daily cooking grind, The Feel-Good Meal Plan gives you the freedom to enjoy mealtimes with ease!

The Alden children were searching for a home – and found a life of adventure! Beloved by generations of families, the second book in the Boxcar Children series—adapted into this Step 2 leveled reader—is full of wholesome fun, perfect for children who are learning to read simple sentences. The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's island! Joe, the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island―and to their new friend―than meets the eye. Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's Surprise Island chapter book, this early reader allows children to step into reading with a Boxcar Children classic.Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.

The Alden children were searching for a home—and found a life of adventure! Beloved by generations of families, the first book in the Boxcar Children series--adapted into this Step 2 leveled reader—is full of wholesome fun, perfect for children who are learning to read simple sentences. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are brothers and sisters. They're orphans too, and the only way they can stay together is to make it on their own. When the children find an abandoned boxcar in the woods, they decide to call it home—and become the Boxcar Children!Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.

Danger awaits Drizzt Do’Urden and Catti-brie on the high seas in the final installment of The Legacy of the Drow series and the tenth book in the greater Legend of Drizzt. It has been six years since the fateful Battle of Mithral Hall. For Drizzt Do’Urden and Catti-brie, this means six long years apart from their companions, and six long years of loss weighing heavily on their shoulders. But aboard Captain Deudermont’s Sea Sprite, there’s been no time for grief. Their days are consumed by the vastness of the Sword Coast, by salt spray and rolling clouds, and, more than anything, by the captain’s relentless pursuit of pirates. Yet just as Drizzt begins to settle into the patterns of life at sea, he receives a strange message, the contents of which send him and Catti-brie back to the very source of their pain—and into the clutches of a demon with vengeance on his mind.Passage to Dawn is the fourth book in the Legacy of the Drow series and the tenth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

The conflict between the Underdark and the Mithral Hall comes to a head in the third book of The Legacy of the Drow series and the ninth book in the greater Legend of Drizzt. While Mithral Hall teems with whispers of the war to come, chaos erupts both above and below ground. On the surface of Faerûn, the first signs of the Time of Troubles make themselves known, forcing deities to assume their mortal forms. Beneath them in the Underdark, only one ancient house of the drow retains its arcane power, and Lolth has handed the reins of leadership over to the demon Errtu. But this turmoil cannot keep the drow from rising up from the black depths of the Underdark to battle the heroes of Mithral Hall, Drizzt Do’Urden and Bruenor Battlehammer. These warriors won’t go down without a fight—but they will have to make their stand without Wulfgar and Catti-brie.Siege of Darkness is the third book in the Legacy of the Drow series and the ninth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

To protect his friends, Drizzt Do’Urden returns to the City of Spiders in the second book of The Legacy of the Drow series and the eighth book in the greater Legend of Drizzt.Though Drizzt Do’Urden is still reeling from an unexpected death, he is allowed little time to grieve. Dark elves hell-bent on destruction are gathering in the caverns deep under Mithral Hall. To keep his adopted home and family safe, Drizzt must now return to the dreadful city of his birth. Nicknamed the City of Spiders, Menzoberranzan is one of the most dangerous places in the already perilous Underdark. For Drizzt, a rogue elf with a price on his head, setting foot inside the city is no small risk—it’s certain death. But he and his companions are no strangers to such dire circumstances. Driven by their love for and loyalty to the dwarves of Mithral Hall, they will engage the dark elves in combat and willingly lay down their lives.Starless Night is the second book in the Legacy of the Drow series and the eighth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

Drizzt Do’Urden is hunted by the goddess Lolth in the thrilling first book of The Legacy of the Drow series and the seventh book in the greater Legend of Drizzt. Having found a measure of peace among the dwarves in Mithral Hall, Drizzt Do’Urden begins to know contentment for the first time in his tumultuous life. Bruenor has reclaimed his throne. Regis has been freed from Artemis Entreri. Wulfgar and Catti-brie are to be wed. But for a renegade who hails from the Underdark—where his people, the ruthless drow, are ruled by priestesses of the goddess Lolth—no peace can last forever. It is Lolth herself, the dreaded Queen of the Demonweb Pits, who musters her followers to pour up from the black depths of the Underdark to reclaim the one soul that managed to elude her: Drizzt Do’Urden.The Legacy is the first book in the Legacy of the Drow series and the seventh book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

A board book that introduces the youngest of readers to favorite Jewish foods — such as blintzes, kugel, and gefilte fish — brought to you by the musical band The Macaroons!What shapes do YOU see when you nosh?Dig in with the Macaroons as they rhyme their way through the shapes of your favorite Jewish foods, like triangular hamantaschen, circular bagels, square matzah, and more! Bright illustrations on each page celebrate favorite cultural traditions, in warm family scenes full of food and fun. It’s the yummiest way to introduce Jewish culture to babies and toddlers. And it's a great gift for Jewish holidays!

"While looking for the missing magical stones of Ravenwood, eight-year-old Dak, the magical llama Lucy, and their friend Fenn must gain the trust of shy winged unicorns called alicorns in order to find the star stone"--

"After the magical stones of Ravenwood go missing, eight-year-old Dak Evans goes on an adventure with Lucy, a magical llama, and Fenn, a mysterious girl, to help some dragons and find the fire stone"--

"Love is everywhere--even in the alphabet! Come along with Mrs. Peanuckle as she teaches young readers everything they need to know about love (and a little about the ABC's, too)"--

"Did you know that there are glasses to prevent motion sickness...Or that astronauts can get "space sick?" This hilarious and wacky illustrated book is jam-packed with silly facts, crazy activities, and even recipes (Barf-day cake, anyone?) that will have you learning all about the fascinating world of barf, our bodies, and beyond"--

"Meet The Fallbacks, a ragtag adventuring party travelling the Forgotten Realms in search of adventure! Made up of a magic-wielding wizard, a stealthy rouge, a brave fighter, a healing cleric, and a charismatic bard, each member of the team brings their own special skills and talents to a mission! And they'll need every skill they have as they journey into the Undermountain dungeon to save their beloved pet Uggie in this Little Golden Book. This storybook is perfect to introduce children to several iconic playable classes of Dungeons and Dragons and teach them that differences help make a great team! It's a great book for kids ages 2 to 5 years old as well as collectors and Dungeons and Dragons fans of all ages"--

"Sixth-grader Bess Stein brings together friends and a group of rockstar librarians called the Book Warriors to fight a book ban happening at her middle school"--

"An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." This phrase, arguably Thomas Edison's most famous quote, has been drilled into the minds of generations of Americans. A fairly straightforward iteration of the idea that innovation, discovery, and ingenuity are the result of drive and grit above all, it has also come to represent much darker myths: that hard work always leads to success and that achievement is the product of individuals and not communities. In this model, those who come out on top are there because they earned it, and everyone else needs to buckle down, glove up, and, maybe one day, they'll get there too. As the wealth gap widens, communities crumble, and Americans work more for less, Adam Chandler raises the question: What happens when perspiration isn't enough? To answer it, he crisscrosses the country interviewing mayors, teachers, generals, pastors, construction workers, and entrepreneurs, to reveal just how untenable relying on "perspiration" as a strategy has truly become. He also delves into America's past to reveal how our government, education system, and culture at large have woven the idea of meritocracy deep into the fabric of American society and how some of history's most famous so-called bootstrappers really built their wealth. From George Washington to Seattle,Washington, Jay Gatsby to Bill Gates, 99% Perspiration unpacks the misguided obsession with hard work that has come to define both the American dream and nightmare, offering insight into how we got here and hope for where we may go"

"Virginia Woolf's classic extended essay, first published in 1929, arguing for a world in which women can fully make use of their gifts, in a new Vintage Classics edition with an introduction by Lauren Groff"--