Download or read book A Life of Bright Ideas written by Sandra Kring and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret tore best friends Evelyn “Button” Peters and Winnalee Malone apart. Now, nearly a decade later, a secret brings them back together. Nine years ago Button and Winnalee began recording observations in their Book of Bright Ideas, a tome they believed would solve the mystery of how to live a mistake-free life. Now it’s 1970, a time of peace, love, war, and personal heartbreak. Button’s mother is dead and her grieving father has all but abandoned his children. Quiet, thoughtful Button has traded college for a sewing job in her mother’s bridal shop to help her Aunt Verdella raise her whirlwind six-year-old brother. In Button’s free time, she writes letters to the boy she loved from afar through high school, hoping he will come to love her as more than a friend. Then, like that magical Wisconsin summer of ’61, Button is greeted with the wild, gusty arrival of Winnalee. Now a beautiful flower child, Winnalee is everything Button is not. She’s been to Woodstock and enjoys “free love,” but their steadfast bond of friendship is tested as Button begins to notice the cracks in Winnalee’s carefree façade. And then Winnalee’s mother arrives with a surprise that Button never sees coming, and the fiery determination to put things right in both families once and for all.

Download or read book The Book of Bright Ideas written by Sandra Kring and published by Delta. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sandra Kring's A Life of Bright Ideas. Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn “Button” Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town–and from the moment she sees them, Button knows this will be a summer unlike any other. Much to her mother’s dismay, Button is fascinated by the Malone sisters, especially Winnalee, a feisty scrap of a thing who carries around a shiny silver urn containing her mother’s ashes and a tome she calls “The Book of Bright Ideas.” It is here, Winnalee tells Button, that she records everything she learns: her answers to the mysteries of life. But sometimes those mysteries conceal a truth better left buried. And when a devastating secret is suddenly revealed, dividing loyalties and uprooting lives, no one–from Winnalee and her sister to Button and her family–will ever be the same.

Download or read book Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore written by Matthew Sullivan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia Smith, a clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, calls the lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves "BookFrogs." When Joey Molina, a young BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's upper room, he bequeaths his meager worldly possessions to her. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But they seem to contain a hidden message. As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey's suicide, she unearths a long buried memory from her own violent childhood.

Download or read book A Life of Bright Ideas written by Sandra Kring and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret tore best friends Evelyn "Button" Peters and Winnalee Malone apart. Now, nearly a decade later, a secret brings them back together. Nine years ago Button and Winnalee began recording observations in their Book of Bright Ideas, a tome they believed would solve the mystery of how to live a mistake-free life. Now it's 1970, a time of peace, love, war, and personal heartbreak. Button's mother is dead and her grieving father has all but abandoned his children. Quiet, thoughtful Button has traded college for a sewing job in her mother's bridal shop to help her Aunt Verdella raise her whirlwind six-year-old brother. In Button's free time, she writes letters to the boy she loved from afar through high school, hoping he will come to love her as more than a friend. Then, like that magical Wisconsin summer of '61, Button is greeted with the wild, gusty arrival of Winnalee. Now a beautiful flower child, Winnalee is everything Button is not. She's been to Woodstock and enjoys "free love," but their steadfast bond of friendship is tested as Button begins to notice the cracks in Winnalee's carefree façade. And then Winnalee's mother arrives with a surprise that Button never sees coming, and the fiery determination to put things right in both families once and for all.

Download or read book Bright Ideas written by Eric Coble and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: How far would you go for your child? For Genevra and Joshua Bradley, the question is no longer hypothetical. Their three-year-old son, Mac, is next on the waiting list to get into the Bright Ideas Early Childhood Development Academy--and

Download or read book Ruby Goldberg s Bright Idea written by Anna Humphrey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby is determined to win the gold with her fifth-grade science fair project, a Rube Goldberg machine to help her grandfather, but the real prize turns out to be something completely unexpected.

Download or read book Bright Ideas written by Emily Lewin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe that there is something more for you and your creativity but you're not sure how to access it? Are you burned out trying to live as a creative person or artist? Or do you wish you could dream about having a creative business or passion? Whether you are a student, parent, professional, artist, wannabe creative, or anyone in between, we believe that everyone is creative and that every life can benefit from creativity! We also believe that your unique creative expression has the power to change the world. Not one other person can see the world in the exact same way that you can! This book is an invitation to discover your unique creativity. From working through past experiences, to interpersonal relationships, and finally living a lifestyle of creativity, we empower you to unlock and express all of your creativity. Using practical tools and exercises, you can develop positive habits and begin to express your creativity in a way that is authentic to you. Together we can silence the naysayers with gratitude and creative confidence. We can tame comparison and perfectionism in order to free you to work with wholehearted excellence in your craft. You can learn to build and maintain creative momentum to carry you through a long, happy creative life. If you are already a working artist, we believe that there is more creativity available for you too! If you're feeling burned out trying to keep up with your creative pursuits, or caught in a comparison trap, we are here to help! You may find ideas here for starting your next creative business venture or entrepreneurial endeavor. Our goal is not to make you a professional artist, although that's great too, we want to see you freely expressing your creativity as a natural part of your lifestyle. We believe that your unique creative expression has the power to change the world and we want to help you learn how to be more creative, and see you be free to express your creativity! If you are in a book club or want to form a creative community, this book is a great way to start! Originally designed as a twelve-week course, each chapter has practical actions at the end, as well as group exercises and group leader notes in the appendices. The actions provide a platform for vulnerability and wholehearted communication. You don't have to be an expert to lead a group through this powerful book! Bright Ideas Collective exists to help you discover your own creativity and to empower you to express your creativity in authentic, balanced, and active ways. You can read more about us and our work at http: //brightideascollective.com.

Download or read book Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas written by Philippe Coudray and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Bear, accompanied by his faithful rabbit friend, continues to share his observations and questions about the world around him.

Download or read book The Day Glo Brothers written by Chris Barton and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discovery that made the world a brighter place! Joe and Bob Switzer were very different brothers. Bob was a studious planner who wanted to grow up to be a doctor. Joe dreamed of making his fortune in show business and loved magic tricks and problem-solving. When an accident left Bob recovering in a darkened basement, the brothers began experimenting with ultraviolet light and fluorescent paints. Together they invented a whole new kind of color, one that glows with an extra-special intensity—Day-Glo. This cover reproduction is not printed with Day-Glo colors. The actual book, however, is printed using three Day-Glo colors: Saturn Yellow, Fire Orange, and Signal Green.

Download or read book Bright Ideas 20 Double Ended Colored Brush Pens written by Chronicle Books and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With premium-quality color and a snazzy, sturdy, and travel-ready package, these pens will add flair to bullet journals, coloring books, or any other creative projects.

Download or read book Albert Einstein s Bright Ideas written by Frederic Morlot and published by Diaphanes. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willing to consider life's "big questions," however strange or impractical. Plato & Co. introduces children--and curious grown-ups--to the lives and work of famous philosophers, from Socrates to Descartes, Einstein, Marx, and Wittgenstein. Each book in the series features an engaging--and often funny--story that presents basic tenets of philosophical thought alongside vibrant color illustrations. In Albert Einstein's Flashes of Inspiration, the young Albert Einstein has a very important job: he must deliver electricity to the big Oktoberfest celebration in Munich. As he hurries from one merry-go-round to another, nothing seems to be going as planned. With his sister, Maja, Heinrich the dog, and Niels Bohr, a qualified dwarf-thrower, can he win a battle against the laws of the universe? The key just may lie in the question of whether a dumpling can fly faster than light?

Download or read book Thank You for All Things written by Sandra Kring and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twelve, Lucy Marie McGowan already knows she’ll be a psychologist when she grows up. And her quirky and conflicted family provides plenty of opportunity for her to practice her calling. Now Lucy, her “profoundly gifted” twin brother, Milo, her commitment-phobic mother, and her New Age grandmother are leaving Chicago for Timber Falls, Wisconsin, to care for her dying grandfather—a complex and difficult man whose failure as a husband and father still painfully echoes down through the years. Lucy believes her time in the rural town where the McGowan story began will provide a key piece to the puzzle of her family’s broken past, and perhaps even reveal the truth about her own missing father. But what she discovers is so much more—a lesson about the paradoxes of love and the grace of forgiveness that the adults around her will need help in remembering if their family is ever to find peace and embrace the future. By turns heart-wrenching and heart-mending, Thank You for All Things is a powerful and poignant novel by a brilliant storyteller who illustrates that when it comes to matters of family and love, often it is the innocent who force others to confront their darkest secrets.

Download or read book Chasing the Bright Side written by Jess Ekstrom and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One flicker of hope. That’s all it takes to catapult yourself into the life you’ve always imagined. Success is not born out of skill, school, where we’re from, who we know, or what we scored on the SAT. None of us were born ready. None of us started life knowing how to fly a plane or launch a company or knit a sweater for our dog. But we are born with something more important than skills. We’re born with optimism—the initial seed for success. Optimism fuels the belief that you can be the one to create the good the world needs. But you’ve got to hone it. And practice it. And determine to live from it. In Chasing the Bright Side, Jess Ekstrom shares her own inspirational story of how optimism helped her overcome multiple challenges, and the dynamic ways her mind-set propelled her as a young entrepreneur, international speaker, and philanthropist. Do you have dreams for yourself and the world that are tucked away in your box of somedays? What would happen if today was the day you opened the box? And what if that box was the key to a better tomorrow? Jess’s journey will inspire you embrace the power of optimism in your own life, and help you reimagine your purpose so you create good in the world while fulfilling your own dreams—right where you are.

Download or read book What s Your Bright Idea written by Tim Campbell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting your own business can be the most liberating, fulfilling step you've ever taken but you need a trusted guide, particularly in the tricky, early stages. Many start-up books focus on the mechanics of running a business, without really giving you insight into how you get to that point in the first place.That's where WHAT'S YOUR BRIGHT IDEA? comes in. Both authors have considerable experience of new business ventures. They offer an honest, waffle-free assessment of what's required to set up a business, and give you plenty of sound advice along the way. Going into business involves a lot of hard work, but it should also be fun too, and WHAT'S YOUR BRIGHT IDEA? will help stimulate the vital sense of adventure required to make a success of possibly the most significant journey of your life.

Download or read book 1 001 Bright Ideas to Stretch Your Dollars written by Cynthia Yates and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynthia Yates interviews grocers, merchants, financial consultants, and others to show you how to make your dollars stretch.

Download or read book Spark Creativity written by Chronicle Books and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity in a box: accessible prompts in a pick-me-up package that are applicable to any type of creative pursuit, be it visual art, music, writing, or any other practice that requires idea-generation. It's the gift of inspiration, with effective strategies to spark creativity and get unstuck. Includes 50 faux matchsticks with printed prompts. Fans of Spark Adventure, Spark Happiness, or The Creativity Project will love this gift. This gift is ideal for: • Artists and Musicians • Writers • Creative Business People

Download or read book The Life of Ideas written by Gahmya Drummond-Bey and published by Evolved Teacher Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an Idea chooses you, it will do anything to find you because you're the perfect person to set it free! Follow Story and Song's adventure as they meet the kids who will bring them to life, even if they need a little help.