Puddle Moon is a magical midnight adventure. A little girl and her dog, Mumbles, slip out of the house on a rainy summer's night and venture into the wondrous world of the Puddle Moon. Making a grand splash, Megan and Mumbles, Inches (the mouse), and Fumbles (the cat) tumble and float with the moon and the clouds, the rainbow bird and the twinkling star and discover the secret of the Puddle Moon. With an introduction by Astronaut David Scott, one of 12 men to walk on the moon, Puddle Moon is a magical world that reflects life's love, joy, and delight.

Puddle Moon

Children's Books

Gayatri Stein, Mari

Animals

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The Wine Seekers' Guide to the Livermore Valley is the first exclusive guide to this little-known wine region, introducing adventurous wine lovers to more than forty wineries, the owners and winemakers, and their superb wines. The guide provides directions, operating hours, and contact information for each winery, a map of the region, recommendations for where to stay, and a detailed restaurant guide. The Wine Seekers' guides lead readers to delight-filled locales where exceptional but perhaps unheralded wines are produced with old-world quality by families eager to share not only their award-winning products but also their harmonious lifestyle and welcoming communities with visitors.

The Wine Seeker's Guide to Livermore Valley

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Wilmer, Thomas C.

Beverages & Wine

Tucked away in verdant coastal canyons or nestled against the roaring Pacific, each one of these select vacation destinations offers the ideal California experience, enjoyed by stars and celebrities of every generation, including the same Montecito cottage John and Jackie Kennedy chose for their honeymoon in 1953. Romancing the Coast’s 68 ideal getaways range from urban luxury to rustic coastal charm. Descriptions include recommendations for spectacular wedding sites and honeymoon destinations, samplings of fine dining experiences, highlights of spa facilities and special services, tips on activities near each location, and notes on the unique characteristics and history of each fabulous locale.

Romancing the Coast: Romantic Getaways Along the California Coast

Travel

Reference

The Kentro Body Balance method reveals a radical, delightful secret: nature designed us to be supple and strong into our old age. This new and innovative approach to the body shines a soulful light on posture and movement. By practicing the remarkably simple Kentro centering movements while you sit at the computer, drive a car, or plant your garden, the activity itself stretches, relaxes, exercises, and tones your muscles. With the Kentro program, you do not have to correct” your posture or push your body into fitness. Your daily actions will let your body reshape into your own unique, powerful expression.

Kentro Body Balance: The Secret Pleasures of Posture

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Thusius, Angelika

Exercise & Fitness

What if our political leaders started talking to us as if we were grownups? That depends on who you ask. America's top political consultants tell their candidates that honest, realistic talk — talk that sidesteps the good old smiley-faced clichés, that reflects some of the complexities of today's issues, that holds voters accountable for their own actions and decisions instead of automatically praising them — will buy them nothing but heartburn on the campaign trail and a one-way ticket back to private life. In this collection of provocative speeches that high-priced consultants would call politically suicidal, Jeff Golden challenges that "realistic" cynicism head on. We are more than ready for leadership that treats us like responsible adults, he says. We are hindering for it.

As If We Were Grownups: A Collection of "Suicidal" Political Speeches That Aren't

Politics & Social Sciences

Golden, Jeff

Politics & Government

What Do You Know? originated at a young man’s 18th birthday party. He heard an older party goer wax eloquent about if-I-only-knew-at-18-what-I-know-today. The young man responded, "Okay, tell me, what do you know?" Jeanette Spires was inspired from that exchange to gather together wisdom from adults (ranging in age from late 30s to their late 80s), sharing their knowledge and expertise on everything from spirituality to careers, personal appearances to relationships. 
With a Foreword from popular ESPN anchor Stuart Scott and contributions by some of the leading figures of our time, What Do You Know? makes the perfect gift for young women and men celebrating their 18th birthday, high school graduation, or entrance into college life.

What Do You Know?

Spires, Jeanette

Psychology & Counseling

From the age of seven to the age of 22, Kathie Jordan’s deceased brother came to her at nighttime, pulled her from her body, and guided her to Heaven. In these nighttime journeys, she was taught about the purpose of life in the body, the meaning of death, and about the soul’s progress in the afterlife. In these moments out of her body, Kathie is taken to higher and higher levels of Heaven, where she meets a few great spiritual teachers, including Jesus.

The Birth Called Death: The Remarkable Story of One Woman's Journey to the Other Side of Life

Religion & Spirituality

Jordan, Kathie

New Age & Spirituality

In Letters to My Father, poet and storyteller David Kherdian expands the possibilities of poetry through his sensitive exploration and investigation of the joyous and sad, tumultous and transcendent relationship he shared with his father. He illuminates the cool distance and the warm intimacy that defines the relationship between fathers and sons. This is an excellent Father's Day poetry selection.

Letters to My Father: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Kherdian, David

Poetry

Ambrogio Smythe, a hypochodriacal British nobleman, is obsessed by childhood memories of Gypsies. Ambrogio leaves his ancestral estate and makes his way to Florence, always aware of the lurking menace of the hated Napoleon Bonaparte. In Tuscany, Ambrogio meets a wondering storyteller, hears a magical yarn about a Gypsy babe kidnapped by a demon, buys a shred of parchment as evidence, and begins to write his own version of the saga, vowing one day to publish it in the finest Morocco leather. Noble Smith has created a historical comedy within a historical comedy that is as absurd and enjoyable as Monty Python's The Holy Grail and Goldman's The Princess Bride. The characters leap off the page in full costume.

Stolen from Gypsies

Smith, Noble

British & Irish

In lyrical verse, which David Dunn and Carolyn Kleefeld wrote for each other over a five-year period, the poems of KISSING DARKNESS speak of the romantic ideal attainable as a relationship evolves and is experienced as touching the eternal within finite time. Beautifully illustrated with Kleefeld’s series of paintings titled "Immortal Letters" and Dunn’s color ink drawings.

Kissing Darkness: Love Poems

Arts & Photography

Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

Wayne David Dunn

History & Criticism

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