From The Neck Up

“Feels like a major collection” – The Washington Post A short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners. The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin and The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley. In 16 stories Whiteley deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life through beguiling gardens, rebellious bodies and journeys across familiar worlds, with her trademark wit and compassion. Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies; the alien invasion through our language to the Chantress and her twists on the fairy tale. Fascinating and always unexpected, Whiteley is unlike any other writer working today.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Why then do we think we can fix our brokenness in one day? It takes time to heal, grow, and transform. This book of short stories and sassy wisdom will give you the space and time you need to breakdown old thought patterns and see the world through new eyes. Become your best teacher by using the guided journal sections as a way to reconnect to the parts of yourself you've lost, one week at a time.Wife, mom, grandma, army vet, yoga teacher, program manager, motivational speaker, and international cosmetics business leader, Marie Helton Triplett has become a master life juggler. After overcoming a childhood of adversity built on sexual abuse, devastating loss, and founded in poverty, Marie clawed her way out of hardship. She set out to create a life she always dreamed of despite the odds. Marie is impassioned to help people speak up and speak out in their lives, and her heart is dedicated to inspiring others to find and take back their power.

Check Up From the Neck Up is a modern motivational guide. It invites readers to explore, reflect and interact with the pages to provoke their thinking and find the layers of distinction that exist within their own life. Providing the steps to allow everyone to take control of their future and accept the delights and responsibilities of being 'true to self', this book is about empowering the reader to achieve their own dreams and goals in a fresh, innovative way.

Using beautiful full-color tutorials, Jenny Pfanenstiel teaches the basics of hat-making, from materials and fabric selection to stitching and finishing. All of the projects are scaled for difficulty so that readers can learn each of the highlighted skills while creating their own hats. Styles include cloche, fascinator, straw-brimmed, and other hats.

It's not easy being the youngest of three kids, especially when you're a vampire who hasn't gotten his fangs. Colin isn't even allowed to sleep in a coffin yet and his big sisters tease him about being a baby. On his first night at Shiverwood Academy, he decides to run away to the human world. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

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