The Christmas Weed

The Christmas Weed
Author: Joseph Kelley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2019-10-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781792131820

It was December, 2018 in Toledo, Ohio... this rustbelt City embraces people, places and things that are a bit quirky. So it should come as no surprise to anyone when a lonely roadside Weed became a touchpoint to bringing a renewed sense of the Christmas Spirit through Toledo, Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. When the passing Emrick family decided to decorate the Weed, they didn't have any clue to what extent the story would become a viral sensation, with reports in The Washington Post, CNN, Fox News and more! The Toledo community came together at Alexis and Secor, the big traffic corner where the Weed sprouted, to collect donations for Toys for Tots, canned goods, coats and more. The Christmas Weed was the most unexpected gift of the Holiday Season... a gift that brought a whole city together.Now, authors Nick Rokicki and Joe Kelley tell the story through their familiar cupcake characters. Bringing back Crusty the Carrot Cupcake and introducing a cast of new Holiday Cupcakes, this fun story is sure to become a Holiday tradition in your home or school classroom. Crusty Cupcake presents The Christmas Weed is the sixth book in the popular cupcake series by authors Rokicki and Kelley... joining Casey and Callie Cupcake, Crusty Cupcake's Happy Birthday, Crusty Cupcake's Christmas Catastrophe, Crusty Cupcake's Cool Cruise and Crusty Cupcake's Cops and Kiddos. Books by Nick and Joe all have a myriad of social and emotional lessons for children of all ages, while also leaving plenty of room for teachers to incorporate the books into classroom learning as they see fit.

An Old Man and His Penguin

An Old Man and His Penguin
Author: Alayne Kay Christian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781732893573

When João rescues a lifeless, oil-covered penguin (Dindim) and nurses him back to health, Dindim adopts João as an honorary penguin. The steadfast friends do everything together. They swim together, fish together, and stroll the beach together. But there are real penguins somewhere across the sea. So one day, Dindim leaves João. The villagers tell João the penguin will never come back. João cannot say if he will or will not until he does . . . again and again.

Butterfly Kisses for Grandma and Grandpa

Butterfly Kisses for Grandma and Grandpa
Author: Alayne Kay Christian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780981493800

Emily is upset to be leaving her grandparents, who live far away, until they give her a special book that tells her how to feel close to them, even when she is at home.

Marihuana

Marihuana
Author: E.L. Abel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1489921893

Of all the plants men have ever grown, none has been praised and denounced as often as marihuana (Cannabis sativa). Throughout the ages, marihuana has been extolled as one of man's greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Marihuana is undoubtedly a herb that has been many things to many people. Armies and navies have used it to make war, men and women to make love. Hunters and fishermen have snared the most ferocious creatures, from the tiger to the shark, in its herculean weave. Fashion designers have dressed the most elegant women in its supple knit. Hangmen have snapped the necks of thieves and murderers with its fiber. Obstetricians have eased the pain of childbirth with its leaves. Farmers have crushed its seeds and used the oil within to light their lamps. Mourners have thrown its seeds into blazing fires and have had their sorrow transformed into blissful ecstasy by the fumes that filled the air. Marihuana has been known by many names: hemp, hashish, dagga, bhang, loco weed, grass-the list is endless. Formally christened Cannabis sativa in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus, marihuana is one of nature's hardiest specimens. It needs little care to thrive. One need not talk to it, sing to it, or play soothing tranquil Brahms lullabies to coax it to grow. It is as vigorous as a weed. It is ubiquitous. It fluorishes under nearly every possible climatic condition.

The True Meaning of Christmas

The True Meaning of Christmas
Author: Irene Lynch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-10-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781736118351

The True Meaning of Christmas explains the importance of preparing for the birth of Jesus during the Advent season. Our birthday gift to Him is to follow His commandment by loving one another.

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367857

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

No Logo

No Logo
Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2000-01-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780312203436

"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.

Randall and Randall

Randall and Randall
Author: Nadine Poper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-06
Genre: Fishes
ISBN: 9780981493879

Two marine animals that go by the name of Randall find common ground and a friendship that helps them to survive.