New Releases by Shannon Smith

The Ultimate Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook helps your little one begin an intuitive, healthy relationship with food. This guide to baby-led weaning shows you how to introduce solid foods, encouraging baby to eat the right whole foods for their age and stage―served with a side of fun. Baby-led weaning sets the stage for healthy eating habits in the years ahead by helping babies learn to feed themselves, to gauge appetite, and to love a variety of nutritious foods. Now, with The Ultimate Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook, cooking family meals that your little one can share will be a cinch. -70 yummy recipes―Dishes are grouped stage-by-stage for months 6-8, 9-12, and beyond―but this baby food cookbook can be shared by the whole family.-Healthy ideas for quick snacks, delicious desserts, and meals for the whole family-Tips on minimizing the mess, keeping food the right size for little hands, and more!The Ultimate Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook will give you the recipes and the confidence to create exciting, enjoyable mealtimes that encourage little ones to develop at their own pace.

The Complete Guide to Pet Health is a holistic approach to health includes nutrition, as it sets up the foundation for your pet''s health. Leon Johnson cuts through the hype in the pet-food world and explains how to choose the best commercial foods and supplements, and even includes both raw and cooked dog- and cat-food recipes for general diet as well as to treat specific needs. He also explains how we can use the right foods and supplements to "hack" the body''s processes, including the immune system.The book that is the definitive guide to a natural lifestyle for dogs and cats.

Emotional healing is becoming a more popular subject but there is rarely advice on how it occurs. Through a series of quesitons, this book takes the reader on a journey of understanding and awareness how it can occur. Shame is an underlying factor for countless people and is another subject thoroughly covered as well. The first seven chapters progress from the beginning stages and encourage self-reflection with a unique approach. Our beliefs about who we are can drastically alter life''s choices and paths. Shame is consistently the catalyst that influences actions ranging from self-destructive to self-aggrandizing. The questions make us look deep within ourselves and examine our intentions as to why we did things in the past and how we can change those thoughts and actions in the future. The questions in this book were all carefully scrutinized by co-author Dr. Shannon Smith to give credibility to the book''s value. Because change happens when we change the way we think about ourselves.

In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness, and the racism of others in the group there may be a better life waiting for them at the end of the trail. Includes nonfiction material on the Oregon Trail, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.

Azaleah can''t wait for her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C., especially when her teacher announces the chance to earn extra credit. But when Azaleah gets home, she quickly realizes extra credit isn''t as easy as she thought. Azaleah''s younger sister Tiana can''t find Greenie, her stuffed animal, and she''s sure he''s been stolen. With Mama at the restaurant and Daddy at work on a big case, it seems Azaleah is the only one available to track down the stolen stuffie. Can Azaleah get to the bottom of the mystery in time to finish her extra credit?

Matthew, a young African American with asthma who dreams of becoming an Olympic runner like his hero, Jesse Owens, accompanies his journalist father to the 1936 Olympics in Germany.

Azaleah''s older sister Nia is going to be the star of the school musical but things keep going wrong at the rehearsals (missing batteries, disappearing props, microphones that suddenly do not work); Mr. Guidi, the director, blames the ghost of Thespis, but Azaleah suspects that somebody is actually sabotaging the play--and she is determined to use her detective skills to uncover the culprit, and set things right so the play will be a complete success for her stressed-out sister.

Twelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master falls into debt, he plans to sell both Ann and her younger brother to two different owners. Ann is convinced her family must run away on the Underground Railroad. Will Ann''s family survive the dangerous trip to their freedom in the North ? This Girls Survive story is supported by a glossary, discussion questions, and nonfiction material on the Underground Railroad, making it a valuable resource for young readers.

Thirteen-year-old Noelle feels like the luckiest girl in the world to be cruising the Atlantic aboard the famed Titanic. The trip is made even better by her new friend, Pauline, a girl who is traveling with her father to live in America. The girls spend the first days of the journey exploring, but on the fifth night, Noelle awakes to a sinking ship. Women and children will be rescued first, and Noelle realizes motherless Pauline will be left all alone. Despite her parents'' wishes, Noelle breaks away from her family to find and help her friend. Nonfiction information, a gloassary, and reader response questions make up the back matter of this Girls Survive story.

In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may endanger them all--or help free 400 Union soldiers who are being moved from Richmond further south.

When Jazmine and Jason''s younger brother''s bike gets stolen, they team up to compete in a treasure hunt TV competition so they can use the prize money to replace it. But when they realize they have different strengths and different competing styles, the treasure hunt becomes more challenging than they ever imagined. Will they be able to work together long enough to take home the prize?

Poetry. HOW TO KNOW THE FLOWERS by Jessica Smith is a poetry collection about processes: The process of naturally dyeing flowers, the process of dealing with trauma, the process of remembering. In her poems, Smith examines sexual harassment, female friendship, and grief, accepting the gaps and fragments that unavoidably occur while doing such work.

Heartstrings and Broken Things is a collection of poems, walking you through the author''s life...childhood, love, loss, hope, grief, parenthood and the moments in between.

Eighteen months felt like eighteen years to a recently paroled Ant Man. His whole world had changed. He had been duped into cooperating with the authorities, which made him a snitch. Pookie and Maurice were doing long sentences; D. Bad was back off in the wind since his now infamous shootout with Zek, that Tanya told the whole world about and resulted in the death of Killa, a/k/a Qwai Asadullah Shakur, b/k/n Jonas Stevens. Not to mention, Lyndra really was pregnant when he got out and Nyah was off in college at the University of Arizona, in Tempe Arizona. She wrote to him as promised and begged him to move to Arizona with her. She rented a two-bedroom apartment close to campus that she shared with two other co-eds. They all knew about Ant Man and couldn''t wait to meet him. What the hell am I going to do now, Ant Man thought to himself. He couldn''t'' go back to the projects right now. See, he was officially taking refuge at this auntie Roni''s house in Culver City, CA. Ant Man knew that showing his face in the Jordan Downs would be suicide at this point. You never went to war without any money, so he stood no chance at this point. He couldn''t see himself going out like that, so Ant Man decided to do the only thing that made sense at this point... go to Arizona.

The Struggle: 4 Girls & 1 Bathroom is the sequel to the book entitled The Struggle: Mom and the Summertime Blues. It is also about the lives of four sisters, Diamond, Shelia, Crystal, and Felicity. Previously, these sisters wrote about having to endure a long summer with their mom and her never-ending lists of chores and schoolwork. Now they are back to discuss their upcoming school year. But this time, no one is safe from their complaints!

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In the future, robots will be made to serve us. To better serve humanity they were made smarter, perhaps too smart. Follow the development of the HX01 robots through the eyes of one of the developers of it, Shannon, whom, while not a model of human behaviour, finds herself wrestling with the moral implications of her creation.

The Crisis grows worse.Though managing to avoid an inter-dimensional war, the incident at the Debrecen Airport has left Portal Command with a troubling question: If rogue portals could open from normal space into the world of dreams, what other horrors are waiting to be unleashed? The answer was not long in coming. For Sergeant Ivan Jast and Lieutenant Kayla Marro, the first few months of the Crisis were some of the best. Love always has a way of making the bleakest of days seem happy, but even the euphoria of love cannot hold off the darkness forever. When Éva Katona is sent to destroy a newly formed dimensional portal, events are set into motion that could mean the end of everything. This time it falls on Ivan to prevent catastrophe and save Kayla from a fate worse than death, but in order to do so he must trust a man claiming to be his future self and help kill one of his own - Éva.

A history of the organization of Double Springs Baptist Church located in Townville, S.C.

J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter novels are a coming-of-age story of a young wizard who learns and determines who he is amidst challenging and perilous circumstances. In this dissertation I look at all the Harry Potter novels from a literary criticism perspective. I examine the thoughts and actions of Harry Potter through the lens of Erik Erikson''s psychosocial stages. This dissertation draws on the theories of Erik Erikson, renowned developmental psychologist, who proposed that a person works through eight psychosocial stages during the course of a life to develop virtues necessary for healthy and successful emotional development. Harry Potter spends his formative years with relatives who horribly mistreat him. He is unable to develop any Eriksonian virtues due to his environmental deprivation. Harry Potter''s life changes when he is accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; for the first time he has surrogate parents, mentors, and friends who all genuinely care about him. There, Harry Potter is able to retroactively work through the stages in which he has deficits and to progress through the stages of the teen years. I trace the progression of Harry Potter through Erikson''s psychosocial stages, noting specific instances from the novels that illustrate his maturation from emotional ineptitude to emotional surety.

Turn papers into luxurious invitations and greeting cards suitable for any occasion. If you enjoy working with paper, you''ll love all our innovative ideas for cards and one of a kind invitations. Just combine cardstock, vellum, and printed paper to create unique and personalized greetings for any occasion. Add embellishments to complete your projects. Author Shannon Smith provides ideas for invitations for baby showers, birthday celebrations, and weddings. 15 card and invitation creation styles are both illustrated step-by-step and thoroughly detailed. Clay molds, marbled paper, sleeve cards, and metal decorations as well as ribbon-lace, punches, accordions, spinners, pull-outs, and paper casting designs are part of the creative process. Shannon provides envelope templates and designs if you want to make your own, but she also advises using commercial envelopes for your treasured works. With her advice, you can start creating stunning notecards and invitations for every season and reason by yourself without too much stress or confusion. Don''t wait. Start creating your own special invitations and note cards.