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Wonder

Audie Award Nominee, Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12, 2013

August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school – until now. He’s about to enter fifth grade at Beecher Prep, and if you’ve ever been the new kid, then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie’s just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, despite appearances? R. J. Palacio has crafted an uplifting novel full of wonderfully realistic family interactions, lively school scenes, and writing that shines with spare emotional power.

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Motivation Quotes For Your Best Life: 365 Days of wonder Happiness Success

Quotes Motivation For Your Best Life 365 Days of wonder Happiness Success This 365 Days of Wonder Motivation Quotes give your inspiration for your life, Daily Motivation for you Happiness Success. Start each day with a powerful dose of wisdom and inspiration as you are guided to take action.

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Wonder

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid–but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. Wonder, a #1 New York Times bestseller, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.

In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope. R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” –indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.

Join the conversation: #thewonderofwonder, #choosekind

#1 New York Times bestseller
USA Today bestseller
Time Magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time
New York Times Book Review Notable Book
Washington Post Best Kids’ Book

“In a wonder of a debut, Palacio has written a crackling page-turner filled with characters you can’t help but root for.” –Entertainment Weekly

“Rich and memorable.” –The New York Times

“A beautiful, funny and sometimes sob-making story of quiet transformation.” –Wall Street Journal

Amazon Best Books of the Month for Kids, February 2012: Wonder is a rare gem of a novel–beautifully written and populated by characters who linger in your memory and heart. August Pullman is a 10-year-old boy who likes Star Wars and Xbox, ordinary except for his jarring facial anomalies. Homeschooled all his life, August heads to public school for fifth grade and he is not the only one changed by the experience–something we learn about first-hand through the narratives of those who orbit his world. August’s internal dialogue and interactions with students and family ring true, and though remarkably courageous he comes across as a sweet, funny boy who wants the same things others want: friendship, understanding, and the freedom to be himself. “It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” From The Little Prince and R.J. Palacio’s remarkable novel, Wonder.–Seira Wilson

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The Wonder

In Emma Donoghue’s latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child’s life.

Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.

Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, THE WONDER works beautifully on many levels–a tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.

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365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne’s Precepts

WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY!

Over 5 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face.

In Wonder, readers were introduced to memorable English teacher Mr. Browne and his love of precepts. This companion book features conversations between Mr. Browne and Auggie, Julian, Summer, Jack Will, and others, giving readers a special peek at their lives after Wonder ends. Mr. Browne’s essays and correspondence are rounded out by a precept for each day of the year—drawn from popular songs to children’s books to inscriptions on Egyptian tombstones to fortune cookies. His selections celebrate the goodness of human beings, the strength of people’s hearts, and the power of people’s wills.

There’s something for everyone here, with words of wisdom from such noteworthy people as Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., Confucius, Goethe, Sappho—and over 100 readers of Wonder who sent R. J. Palacio their own precepts.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Prisms of Light & Vibration: An Intimate Sharing of Inspiration, Wonder & Power of Crystal Resonance

Prisms of Light & Vibration is more than a crystal reference book, it is an intimate and personal journey back to the heart.

Seeded deep within these pages is a love song of crystal frequency that will awaken your senses and memory of your true inherent crystalline nature.

Here are just a few of the many jewels of knowledge channeled within:

Develop your own crystal intuitionUnderstand your energetic body How to select and cleanse crystalsChakra balancing and crystalsHow to perform crystal dedicationThe importance of intention settingHow to create and use a crystal altarRemember Lemuria and your crystal pastHow crystals prepared me for an ET visitationThe connection between the Faerie Realm and crystalsLearn who Mother Earth is and understand her gift of healing to humanity 

Also included is a Crystal Metaphysical Properties Resource Guide cataloguing physical, emotional, energetic and chakra associations for more than 80 crystals.

Long before our souls incarnated on planet earth we sat with the cosmic council and co-created the blueprints of potential for the human experience. It is the intention of spirit that this sharing serves as a powerful bridge and portal of remembrance of who you are as Soul. -Karen Riley

Each chapter will assist you in awakening & cultivating a unique and powerful relationship with the mineral realm while introducing you to their wide and vast limitless potential. You will soon discover that each sentient crystal being of light holds its own unique message just for you and where to go from there to realize your own crystal healing.

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Wisdom and Wonder: A collection of quotes on love, hope, and the meaning of life

A curated collection of classic and rare quotes presented in a stunning package. In this beautifully produced book, poet Kylie Johnson shares quotes from renowned historical figures such as Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln and celebrated authors including Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with lesser-known ancient proverbs. Spanning everything from love and loss to family, friendship, and the whimsy of life, these quotes offer both solace and inspiration, moving from the melancholy to the bright. Illustrated with Johnson’s beautiful drawings throughout, Wisdom and Wonder is the perfect gift for anyone inspired by words of wisdom and truth.

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The Art of Wonder: Inspiration, Creativity, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

On the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 2015, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts asked some of the finest writers, photographers, and illustrators working today to muse about art—the nature of creativity and wonder. No instructions. No rules. The MIA commissioned these imaginative works not as a celebration of itself but of art as inspiration—an anthology of wonder.

The contributors rose to the challenge with fiction, essays, photojournalism, and illustrated stories, by turns delightful and reflective, a contemporary argument for art’s ongoing vitality. Interspersed in the book are personal reflections from the museum’s own director, curators, and staff on beloved artworks in its collection.