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Does Your Child Know How to Help a Friend Who’s Struggling? Kids don’t just deal with their own problems — they carry their friends’ problems too. When a child sees a friend being bullied, overwhelmed, anxious, or hurting at home, they often want to help… but don’t know what to say or do. They worry about making it worse. They worry about betraying trust. Or they quietly carry everything alone. This book is for those kids.

In the desolate Nevada desert lies the tiny town of Perfection—population: 14. Life moves slowly in this forgotten speck on the map, until handyman duo Val McKee and Earl Bassett decide they’ve had enough of the dead-end town and hit the road.

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An elderly farmer learns the horrifying truth beyond the phrase “True love never dies”. Something sinister lurks behind the distant eyes of a mother’s traumatized son. And a gravedigger slowly descends into madness, as he grows obsessed with the corpse of a little girl.... Scare Street’s latest collection shines a flickering candle on the terrifying forces of darkness that haunt our dreams. Death, madness, obsession.... The darker side of the human psyche is revealed with each bone-chilling chapter of these 14 macabre tales.

Money issues are a frequent source of conflict in any marriage. But blended families are a monetary minefield. Debts, bills, and child support payments from previous relationships often influence the finances of a blended family. And planning for college expenses, retirement, and inheritance gets even more complicated in stepfamilies. 

Watching your child endure rumors, teasing, and school bullies is heart-wrenching. Kids targeted by gossip or mean kids often feel embarrassed, isolated, and anxious about going to school. As a parent or teacher, you’re desperate to help but might not know where to start. If you’re searching for books for kids about bullying or wondering how to help kids with rumors without lecturing them, this relatable guide is the answer. It speaks to kids on their level – with humor and honesty – so they’ll actually want to listen to it.

There are many books on parenting and behavior management. Most of them focus on the physical growth development or some generic solutions on what works with some children. This book is unique as it comes from a completely different perspective that opens the reader’s mind to new possibilities for helping children where they could not before. It is a personal exploration into what it means to be a human being and the true reasons why children act the way they do; not the adults’ perception of the situation. These are effective mental and physical programs that create wonderful ...

Scare Street is proud to present 14 diabolical new tales in this bone-chilling collection. Each ghastly short story unleashes a new nightmare, ripped from the depths of your psyche. It’s almost as if this book has a mind of its own; a monstrous, disturbed mind, a mind full of dark dreams, and twisted nightmares.

A recovering addict faces the ultimate test when an old friend puts him through a terrifying ordeal. Two brave souls spend the night in a haunted house, only to emerge forever changed. And a cursed photographer goes to horrific lengths when their vision slowly decays.... Scare Street is proud to present a new collection of diabolical delights. Twelve nightmarish tales of terror lurk within this sinister tome. Each one is a treat for shivers and shrieks. And the only tricks you’ll find are the ones your mind plays on you as you feverishly listen to another minute.

An ancient South American cathedral extracts a heavy price from a visiting photojournalist. Ghost hunters stumble across a cursed field from which there is no escape. And a friendly neighbor discovers the new girl in town is more than she appears. Peer into the depths of Scare Street’s latest collection, a fun house mirror full of terror and nightmares.

The Hell’s Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic is an important revelation in the legacy of Thompson, with letters that survived precarious shipping and travel over decades, cloaked away from the public. “If Hell’s Angels hadn’t happened I never would have been able to write Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or anything else . . . I felt like I got through a door just as it was closing,” Hunter told Paris Review.

Nightmares slither from the shadows in Scare Street’s latest spine-tingling collection. Thirteen tales of the macabre await in this chilling new volume - a never-ending stream of ghosts, ghouls, and other horrors to haunt your dreams.

Educator and multimedia reporter Marian Burnbaum interviews one of the nation's leading thinkers in education and video gaming, James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literary Studies at Arizona State University. Professor Gee explains how "good" video games in any genre, including violent video games, can be examples of active, deep learning at almost any age.

Not your average devotional for girls. This one was written for girls who feel deeply, think deeply, and want their faith to mean something—every day, in real life. Girl, God Gets You is a life-changing 40-day Bible-based journey packed with powerful short stories, relatable lessons, daily scriptures, guided journal prompts, and real-life faith challenges designed specifically for Christian girls navigating middle school, friendships, emotions, family, and self-worth.

In a time when global food production is at an all-time high, why does hunger, poverty, and malnutrition still devastate entire communities? Plenty is not just another book about world hunger—it’s a bold, eye-opening investigation into the broken systems, global corruption, and economic inequality that keep billions trapped in cycles of food insecurity, starvation, and injustice.

A sinister force threatens a teenage horror fan, and only a team of B movie monsters can come to his rescue. Fear stalks a group of punks when a scarecrow proves that birds aren’t the only things it can terrorize. And all hell breaks loose when a man discovers that his next-door neighbor possesses the power to reanimate the dead... Celebrate the music of the night with Scare Street’s latest collection of diabolical horror. Thirteen tales of paranormal horror haunt this new volume. More than enough to keep you listening on long after the sun goes down.

Few images evoke a more powerful or frightening reaction than that of the assassin. Silently creeping into your room while you sleep, they plunge a pick deep inside your brain, or fill your snoring nostrils with poisonous vapour. Or perhaps skilled fingers from the shadows strike a vital point during mid-step; the coroners say it was a heart attack. Assassins are people to be feared, no doubt. But what do they fear? What do they dream of? What life, what world, are they longing to achieve with their actions? Is the killing just a job or is there some deeper motivation that drives them? And ...

Battle-Tested is a 60-day Christian devotional designed specifically for boys ages 13–15 who want to grow stronger in their faith, confidence, character, and mental strength. Whether used at home, in youth group, or solo, each powerful devotion helps teen guys face real struggles—from temptation and insecurity to anger, pressure, and identity—while learning how to follow Jesus boldly and live with purpose.

Martin Richter, a pacifist history professor specializing in pre-WWII Germany, has two passions in his life: history and opposing nuclear weapons. Eric Sobol, a terminally ill Holocaust survivor billionaire, learns of a wormhole that leads back in time to 1938, and he decides to do everything within his power to change the past. Thanks to their efforts, a modernized Russian Typhoon-class nuclear submarine jumps the time barrier and appears in 1938, manned by 21st-century multinational experts and equipped with the best technology money can buy.

Im Gefängnis erhalten die Daltons Post von einem Notar: Das Gaunerquartett soll sich um "Junior", einen entfernten Neffen, kümmern! Unser Held lehnt die Aufgabe zunächst rundheraus ab, doch die Chance, Junior womöglich zu einem guten Menschen zu erziehen, reizt ihn am Ende doch. Und so begleitet er Junior und die Daltons nach Texas, wo sie in einem feudalen Haus unterkommen, das Juniors Mutter angemietet hat. Hier entpuppt sich der Kleine als wahrer Satansbraten, und auch Joe Dalton hat keine Lust, sich Luke unterzuordnen.