Helen Plum Library

"A brand-new edition for 2019 of the award-winning First Dictionary for children in grades K-2, with more than 2,000 age-appropriate words. This edition is completely redesigned in a two-column format and features hundreds of new words, photographs, and drawings, as well as colored note boxes to help beginning readers build vocabulary, identify synonyms and antonyms, and recognize sound-alikes"--

What's new about names? The new edition of 100,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, inlcuding: hundreds of newly popular names and variations ; the atest list of top 100 names for boys and girls ; the latest naming trends what's hot and what's not ; the most rapidly rising and falling top 1,000 names ; updated lists of names to consider, including names of newly...

In nearly 1500 entries, many of them illustrated, the author has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day. With over 200 illustrations and informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceania, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and...

Background information on the historical, literary, and theological dimensions of the Scriptures. Comprehensive Bible study system, including nearly 600 Reading Guide pages. Charts, outlines, and reading lists encouraging in-depth study. Complete Sunday and weekday lectionary readings and 36 pages of full-color maps with index

Presents a guidebook which provides identification tips, information on behavior and nesting, locator and range maps, and plumage and species classification data on over one thousand species of birds found in North America

The fully revised and updated version of the classic is based on the theme of the Blue Planet, with an emphasis on the natural world, as well as the latest record-breaking successes in music, TV, and sports

"The World Almanac® is America's bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2023 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2022 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific...

Provides identification information and color photographs of 508 birds of eastern North America

"A mind-blowing collection of TK new cookie recipes and inspiration to create your own masterpieces, from the founder of Milk Bar, host of Bake Squad, and inventor of the original Compost Cookie. In All About Cookies, Christina Tosi brings us into a cookie wonderland, with recipes from and inspired by Milk Bar fan favorites. No cookie form is left unturned, from classic crispies to sandies, sammies, chewies, bars, and even no-bakes. She revamps an...