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Laugh your a** off as you color this hilarious and irreverent coloring book for adults only.
Honey Badger Don't Give a Sh*t!
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For adult only (NOT FOR CHILDREN)
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Printed single sided on bright white paper
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Some nice designs, but cheap paper After buying a book which used quality paper, the low quality of paper used by this maker's books simply couldn't be ignored. It changes the tone of the color, amount of bleeding, end result is usually...blech...compared to others, etc.Yet, I still like this series & have used my small allowance to buy some. But I've become a quality snob. LOLSo I scan these pages (after I use a blade to cut them out - none of these books are perforated) & print them out on quality art paper I bought seperately.PITA, but I had already bought the book, so... The results are 100% better than using the original pages.I will be paying more attention to the descriptions, reviews, & questions on any future books I purchase. It may be "fun" to color pages with curse words in the phrase, but if the paper is just a level above newspaper, it's a waste of ink & time.Swear words! Obviously there are swear words. I like the fact the back of the pictures are black, makes for a lot less bleed through. I always put a piece of paper or card stock paper between anyway. I love the little details you can color. I use a combination of gel pens, markers, color pencils, and water color pens. This is my favorite adult coloring book so far! I may not buy the same one again but i would buy another.Disappointing, wish I'd checked the 1 Star Reviews before ordering This one went straight into the trash. I've had several adult sweary type coloring books in the past, but this one literally went right into the trash can after I received it and flipped through. Poor printing on several pages and a lot of the words honestly weren't funny/felt like a stretch to be crass just for the sake of it. Definitely check photos before putting this one in your cart to make sure it's actually what you want to gift or keep.
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ISBN: 1732098700
Title: Adequate Yearly Progress Pdf A Novel
Author: Roxanna Elden
Published Date: 2018-08
Page: 320
Roxanna Elden combines eleven years of experience as a public school teacher with a decade of speaking to audiences around the country about education issues. Her first book, See Me After Class, is a staple in school districts and educator training programs throughout the country, and her work has been featured on NPR as well as in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Education Week, and many other outlets.
A workplace novel that captures teaching with insight, humor, and heart.
This perspective-hopping debut follows teachers at an urban high school as their professional lives impact their personal lives and vice versa.
Each year brings familiar educational challenges to Brae Hill Valley, a struggling high school in one of Texas's bigger cities. But the school's teachers face plenty of challenges of their own. English teacher Lena Wright, a spoken-word poet with a deep love for her roots, can never seem to satisfy her students that she's for real. Hernan D. Hernandez is confident in front of his biology classes, yet tongue-tied around thewoman he most wants to impress: namely, Lena. Down the hall, math teacher Maybelline Galang focuses on the numbers as she blocks out problems whose solutions aren't so clear, while Coach Ray hustles his football team toward another winning season, at least on the field. Recording it all is idealistic history teacher Kaytee Mahoney, whose blog gains new readers by the day but drifts ever further from her in-class reality.
And this year, a new celebrity superintendent is determined to leave his own mark on the school--even if that means shutting the whole place down. The fallout will shake up the teachers' lives both inside and outside the classroom.
You won't know whether to laugh or cry, especially if you are/were a teacher. A classroom is a magical place, unpredictable, adrenaline fortified, frustrating and more. And that's just when things are going well. Ms. Elden lets us see some of that, those moments when hope is kept alive and a student does or says something that reminds you why like the proverbial frog...you never give up. I saw myself in two of the characters, and all the others were at one time or another, colleagues whom I admired, found annoying, respected, enjoyed intellectually and socially and all the rest. Teachers are as varied and independent as the students they teach, and students learn best in an environment where the teacher loves their subject matter, empathizes with their students and shows them a path to knowledge. That path takes many twists and turns and good teachers know how to mold whatever they do best to "fit" the current craze. Roxanna addresses it all with humor and pathos. She is less kindly disposed to two-year wonders who volunteer to teach in inner-city schools and corporate takeovers of school systems across the country. She addresses the stress of evaluations but more importantly it is the dynamic between legislators (mostly lawyers whom I think really hated their teachers before law school), the school district, the taxpayers who think they know best how to corral 25 kids long enough for them to listen to what you are saying and do what you ask of them--to "trust the process" amidst the hard work that learning requires, the Superintendents who may have some truly absurd notions about just how much paperwork a teacher can handle before they implode, and those parents who do not EVER believe their child lies, cheats, is on drugs, plagiarized or poked someone with a pencil or worse. And the central "actor" in this book is its villain, a company that is attempting to produce cookie-cutter workers for the job market rather than people who are able to think critically, rise above roadblocks in their lives and simply become healthy and decent adults. And she reminds us to be thankful for the colleagues you spend day after day with...good, bad or indifferent...who have family issues to resolve, cultural and social differences to adjust to, a work ethic that never stops even though they are decidedly underpaid, and yet deal with all the other events that plague their lives while preparing lessons and grading papers ad infinitum. They are all here in this book, frail human beings who care only to provide others' children with an appreciation for all knowledge and to guide them in finding a niche where they can thrive. It is in its validation of all I learned from a 25-year teaching career that I loved this book.I really enjoyed this book!! Ever wondered what it’s like to be a classroom teacher? This funny and lighthearted novel offers a glimpse into the world of teaching, from the neverending barrage of new acronyms to the daily struggles that even the most seasoned veterans still have to face. Whether you’re a classroom educator or not, these characters are relatable and real. There is something for everyone in this book - you will find yourself identifying with the bubbly history teacher who learns that no matter how much you blog about your “perfect” classroom, all it takes is one unexpected circumstance to throw things into a hilariously cringeworthy disaster, or the science teacher who, despite his clever and effective teaching methods, still has to deal with bureaucratic evaluation methods that threaten his career. AYP is a novel that doesn’t waste the reader’s time with the usual portrayal of the teaching profession; this is an honest take on a job that few people truly understand, without the clichés you find on every apple-related “#1 Teacher” Hallmark gift. You’ll laugh, you’ll commiserate...but mostly, you’ll get a well-crafted lesson on what it can be like to do one of the most misunderstood jobs in America, and why it’s worth it to come back and do it again year after year.Funniest, snarkiest book about teachers, hands down. This is definitely the funniest book dealing with teaching I've read yet. I was a teacher for 6 years and I can totally relate to everything in here! The bureaucratic nonsense, the testing overkill, the student behavior problems that somehow become a reflection of the teacher who sees them for an hour and a half every couple of days...It's so relatable, but also hilarious. The humor is really snarky and sarcastic. Teaching is the backdrop, and part of the plot, but there are also all these interwoven subplots--relationships starting and faltering and ending, rebellious kids, difficult sibling relationships--that keep it really lively and entertaining. I finished reading this in a couple of days. I would highly recommend it to any teacher, especially middle school or high school teachers, but I think it would still be funny and entertaining to non-teachers, especially parents of teenagers.
ISBN: 0316284807
Title: Treasure Hunters Pdf Secret of the Forbidden City
James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson's books have sold more than 300 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.
The Kidds-treasure hunting family extraordinaire-are heading to China, on a journey that will lead them beyond the Great Wall and into the underbelly of Berlin.
Bick and Beck Kidd are desperately trying to secure the ancient Chinese artifact that will buy their mother's freedom from renegade pirates. But when the kidnappers force them to locate an even greater treasure-priceless paintings stolen by Nazis-the Kidds must rely on their own cunning and experience to outwit the criminals, all while their mom's life is on the line.
Treasure Hunters by James Patterson Not aware this was the first in a series of 3 of young adults books. However, read through all three of the books and am pretty sure that kids would like them. They had plot, action and were at a reading level that I think young people (8 to 12 maybe) could easily handle. I would consider them full of light-hearted adventureMy 8 year old son is in love with this series My 8 year old son is in love with this series! I read the books too and I think James Patterson has done a fantastic job with this series. Of course, we thought some of it was totally unbelievable BUT that is why we loved it! Don't want to spoil it with details. Eagerly anticipating a third book to see if the biggest treasure will be located! With older children that refuse to read, it is refreshing to watch my little guy spend tons of money downloading books to his Kindle every few days! I can say that any James Patterson series for kids is well worth the investment.Picky Reader Finds a Favorite! My 10 year-old son received this book as a gift. I was amazed at how quickly he read it, at how much of the story he demanded to share with me, and how excited he was to learn there were more books in the series. He has received so much enjoyment from reading this series of books. Fellow homeschoolers, pirates, guns, travel, suspense, drama, action and adventure. What more could a young boy ask for?!Finding a similar series that my son will enjoy is no small task.
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Title: Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) Pdf A Novel
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (TheNew York Times Book Review).
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017 A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award
Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.
"I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, TheWashington Post
"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review
Disappointing I'm encouraged to see that I'm not the only one who thought this book wasn't so hot. After reading all the pages of raving blurbs, I thought I'd really be in for a treat. But I couldn't believe in it (and this is from another aging--okay, old--gay man). I spent so much energy slogging through the writer's attempts to be clever in every single sentence that I couldn't get involved with the character or story. I will admit that I laughed out loud a few times, and that's a lot more than I get out of the majority of books I read, but overall it was tedious, difficult reading. I was left wondering if "winner of the Pulitzer prize" was just part of the title--a bit of irony based on Less's older lover's having won the prize.Couldn't care less about "Less". What was the Pulitzer group thinking?!? Based on the Pulitzer designation and based on some of the endorsements from favorite writers (Ann Patchett), my book club chose "Less". All six of us (college educated women ages 35 to 71) disliked it. The criticisms were that the main character was uninteresting, unsympathetic and unrelatable; that the paltry humor was only mildly amusing (not "hysterical" as one endorsement said), the ending was predictable and anticlimactic; and that we finished reading it out of duty to the club, not because the book was compelling. In other words, we couldn't care less about "Less". The only redeeming aspect was the interesting way the author would weave past and present together in the narrative. I cannot recommend this book and the Pulitzer people need to reexamine their standards.Less is More Arthur Less is hilariously well-named. In the opening salvo, he is waiting to be escorted to a literary event, sitting in a hotel lobby, while a woman he is meant to meet is circling the room looking for a woman, mistakenly thinking the author of the book she's read cannot be a man. On the eve of Arthur's fiftieth birthday, his partner of almost ten years has announced his upcoming nuptials, and in order to avoid this nightmare, Arthur has cobbled together a trip around the world accepting an odd congregation of invitations to host, attend, and teach various literary events. With each stop, he goes into his past, revealing more and more about himself and his history. Each experience generates memory, both poignant and absurd. Greer has a fine sense of character and irony, and this surpasses other books I've read by him.
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Children of God Storybook Bible Hardcover – August 14, 2010
Author: Archbishop Desmond Tutu ID: 0310719127
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Shortlisted for the Christian Library Book Award 2011 ‘Accessible and heartwarming…The Children of God Storybook Bible will draw in everyone who hears it’ – The Times
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“The Children of God Storybook Bible is a wonderful way to introduce my young grandchildren to our Christian faith.” — President Jimmy Carter, , President|Magnificently illustrated and beautifully written Scriptural wisdom from one of the churchs greatest heroes. This book is the one childrens book that every Christian family should own. This book will serve as the main devotional book for my children in the upcoming year. In Children of God, Bishop Tutu presents Biblical truths reflecting a much-needed global perspective. –Soong-Chan Rah Milton B. Engebretson Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism North Park Theological Seminary — Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, , Professor|“Desmond Tutu speaks to children and their elders in an inspiring and beautiful retelling of many of the central stories of the Bible. The artwork is a strong partner to the stories, and supports the challenge of the prayer that closes each one.” — Katharine Jefferts Schori, , Presiding Bishop and Primate
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Age Range: 4 – 8 yearsGrade Level: Preschool and upLexile Measure: 690L (What’s this?)Hardcover: 128 pagesPublisher: Zondervan (August 14, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0310719127ISBN-13: 978-0310719120 Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 0.6 x 10 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #12,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #28 in Books > Children’s Books > Religions > Christianity > Bible > Stories #137 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Children’s & Teens #2699 in Books > Religion & Spirituality
50 classic Bible stories retold in language easily accessible to children. This book is a paraphrase, not a translation. While it is appropriate for children, it does not shy away from traditional concepts. Creation, the Fall, Exodus, Jesus birth, ministry, death and resurrection are all included in ways that will make each child feel God’s love and God’s care for everyone and all creation. For example, though the Beatitudes are titled "Jesus Teaches the Secret of Happiness," each is given as "Blessed are." "Blessed are you who feed the poor, for you are the hands of God," for example. Each story has a simple one sentence prayer. For the Beatitudes, "Dear God, thank you for showing us the way to true happiness." Unlike many children’s Bibles, this one is true to the text–there won’t be things to unlearn when making the transition to a regular Bible. Nor, will one discover that many details didn’t really exist in scripture. As a paraphrase, stories are often presented in a fresh way while remaining true to the original intent. Anyone who reads this story Bible will know God loves them and how God wants people to live. The beautiful illustrations by twenty artists from around the world show the diversity of God’s people and how Jesus is seen in different contexts. I’ve reviewed children’s bibles for 35 years and this is the best I’ve seen. This book is a delight and a true gift for anyone who wants to share God’s love with a child.
Children of God Storybook Bible is a brand new children’s Bible-not even released yet retold by Desmond Tutu! (Yet by the end of this review, maybe you’ll be convinced to put it on your wishlist!) From the moment I opened this children’s Bible, I knew I liked it! The table of contents displays the clear titles (no guessing which story you want), Bible reference, and page number. The fifty-six stories are included in this children’s Bible all point to the gift of God’s love for children everywhere. The stories themselves are well-written and include enough details to help a child learn the actual Bible story. (For example, in "The Trial and Death of Jesus" the Garden of Gethsemane is named as where Jesus was praying, and it explains that Pontius Pilate was the Roman ruler.) The recommended ages for this Bible are 4-7, but some younger children may enjoy this. Each story (and illustration) is over a two page spread. There is a main title and then a subtitle explaining how it relates to God. (For "Jonah and the Big Fish" the subtitle is "God loves everyone, even our enemies" with the reference Jonah 1-4.) Each ends with a short prayer. Tutu titled the story of the Beatitudes "Jesus Teaches the Secret to Happiness," which I think is incorrect. I don’t think the goal here is for us to be happy, but to glorify God. The illustrations are amazing, and this Bible has twenty illustrators! They were invited by Archbishop Tutu to portray the stories with the style and richness of their own cultures. Though that means Jesus may look different from one page to another. Also, because the illustrators reflected their own cultures, Jesus is sometimes dark skinned and other times pale. I do not believe Jesus was a white man, nor do I believe that he was black, so some of the illustrations are misleading to me. All in all, I do recommend this Bible!
This Bible was provided to me from Zonderkidz for review purposes.
I bought this book for my Godson after having seen it in person. The vivid detail of the pictures, paired with the beautiful phrIDg by Archbishop Tutu makes for the perfect children’s bible. I highly recommend it as a standard bible for children under six years old. Jesus is depicted in many different skin tones, and with almost every ethnicity surrounding him. This book teach diversity without an agenda, and shares the love of Christ in colors almost as vibrant as the message.
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Open Mind, Open Heart Hardcover – Deluxe Edition, November 1, 2006
Author: O.C.S.O. Keating Thomas ID: 0826418902
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“The leader within the Catholic world in the task of recovering our Christian contemplative heritage.”Ewert H. Cousins, general editor, World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest (Ewert H. Cousins)
“My mother is a self-proclaimed ‘soul shopper’ from way back. We started going to St Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass when I was 7 years old. Several years later, Keating became a St. Benedict’s monk. He developed centering prayer, which is a lot like meditation and what this book is about. He says that meditation (or centering prayer) is a way of reducing the obstacles to the development of grace. I can sit for only five to ten minutes. It’s very hard for me. Still, when I get in trouble, it shifts my perspective. As they say, we don’t pray to change our circumstances; we pray to change ourselves.”-Felicity Huffman’s Bookshelf in “Oprah’s Books”
“The leader within the Catholic world in the task of recovering our Christian contemplative heritage.”Ewert H. Cousins, general editor, World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest (Sanford Lakoff)
“My mother is a self-proclaimed ‘soul shopper’ from way back. We started going to St Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass when I was 7 years old. Several years later, Keating became a St. Benedict’s monk. He developed centering prayer, which is a lot like meditation and what this book is about. He says that meditation (or centering prayer) is a way of reducing the obstacles to the development of grace. I can sit for only five to ten minutes. It’s very hard for me. Still, when I get in trouble, it shifts my perspective. As they say, we don’t pray to change our circumstances; we pray to change ourselves.”-Felicity Huffman’s Bookshelf in “Oprah’s Books”
About the Author
Father Thomas Keating is known throughout the world as an exponent, teacher, and writer on contemplative prayer. A Cistercian (Trappist) monk of St. Benedict’s Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado, he is a founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and of Contemplative Outreach. He is the author of numerous books, particularly of the trilogy Open Mind, Open Heart; Invitation to Love; and The Mystery of Christ. Among his most recent books is The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living, compiled by S. Stephanie Iachetta.
Hardcover: 176 pagesPublisher: Continuum; 20th Edition edition (November 1, 2006)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0826418902ISBN-13: 978-0826418906 Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces Best Sellers Rank: #2,429,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #8565 in Books > Self-Help > Spiritual #431373 in Books > Religion & Spirituality
I have a checkered spiritual past. Like many people of my generation, I have always felt that modern life was going in the wrong direction, and that the traditional answers we were getting from the government and institutionalized religion just weren’t quenching the spiritual drought in the contemporary world. So I went east, to Buddhism, the Sufis, Hinduism, looking for something that might help me fill the void I felt. Then I stumbled upon the Centering Prayer movement. Little did I know that the Christian tradition that I grew up in, would hold the secret to what I was looking for.
Centering Prayer is based squarely in the Christian tradition. It is based on forms of prayer that have roots in the earliest Christian monesteries of the 4th century. There are even tantalizing glimpses of it in the writings of St. Paul and even the Gospels, though not spelled out in so many words (which is probably what gives literalists conniptions.) It existed in the Benedictine monasteries of medieval Europe, in the Cloud of Unknowing, the 14th century manual of prayer, and in the writings of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. It is not, I repeat, NOT a "new age" spirituality, unless one thinks that all of Christian Spirituality is new age (and the case could be made that it is.) Centering Prayer is a simple method of prayer that is designed to help us consent to the presence and action of God in our lives. Through quite simple guildelines and a few adjustments of attitudes, Centering Prayer helps us to let go of our own ego and expectations and just "wait upon the Lord". For me, it has been key to reawakening my Christian faith.
Having been a practicing Buddhist for many years, I can say that readers who equate Centering Prayer with Buddhist practice are mistaken.
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