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Fifteen Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids

10 best books like Fifteen Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids (Rebecca P. Cohen): The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, So B. It, The Black Swan, Intrigues, Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life, The Underneath, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids, I Don't Want Curly Hair!

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
AuthorShawn Achor
ISBN0307591565
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken.
 
Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow....
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
AuthorMichael Moss
ISBN1400069807
Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from salt shakers. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales.

In Salt...
So B. It
AuthorSarah Weeks
ISBN0064410471
Now a major motion picture starring Alfre Woodard, Jessica Collins, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Cloris Leachman, and Talitha Bateman—in theaters October 2017!

From acclaimed author Sarah Weeks comes a touching coming-of-age story about a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey...
The Black Swan
AuthorMercedes Lackey
ISBN0886778905
As the only child of a powerful sorcerer, Odile Von Rothbart has studied the magical arts under her father’s stern tutelage all her life. Yet she feels only fear toward him. For considering his wife’s untimely death the ultimate betrayal, Baron Von Rothbart scours the land in the shape of a great...
Intrigues
AuthorMercedes Lackey
ISBN0756406390
"Spellbinding storyteller" (Rave Reviews) Mercedes Lackey continues her epic Valdemar series.

Magpie is a thirteen-year-old orphan chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar and taken to the capital city, Haven, to be trained as a Herald. Like all Heralds, Magpie learns...
Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
AuthorKatherine Hannigan
ISBN0060730269
Ida B. Applewood believes there is never enough time for fun.

That's why she's so happy to be homeschooled and to spend every free second outside with the trees and the brook.

Then some not-so-great things happen in her world. Ida B has to go back to that Place of Slow but Sure Body-Cramping,...
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
AuthorGretchen Rubin
ISBN0449014398
In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place.
 
One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing...
The Underneath
AuthorKathi Appelt
ISBN1416950583
There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend...
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
AuthorSarah Mackenzie
ISBN0310350328
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s...
I Don't Want Curly Hair!
AuthorLaura Ellen Anderson
ISBN1408868407
NO! I do not want this BIG CURLY HAIR!
It's messy and silly and just plain unfair.

All Curly Haired Girl has ever wanted is straight and luscious locks, but when she meets a little girl with the smoothest, silkiest hair, who says all she's ever wanted is spirally, squiggly hair, they are BOTH...
Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life
AuthorJudith Hanson Lasater
ISBN0962713880
If you think that you have to escape to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the events of daily life—all of them—as practice....
The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
AuthorJessica Joelle Alexander
What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and what are the secrets of Danish parents for raising happy, confident, succesful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical guide brings together the insights of a licensed psychotherapist and a mom -- a Dane and an American married to a...
Playful Parenting
AuthorLawrence J. Cohen
ISBN0345442865

Have you ever stepped back to watch what really goes on when your children play? As psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen points out, play is children’s way of exploring the world, communicating deep feelings, getting close to those they care about, working through stressful situations, and simply...
Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
AuthorDiana Butler Bass
ISBN0062659510
The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle.

If gratitude is good, why is it so hard to do? In Grateful, Diana Butler Bass untangles our conflicting understandings of gratitude and sets the table for a renewed practice of giving thanks.

We...
There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
AuthorLinda Åkeson McGurk
“A perfect antidote to the hyper-vigilant, extra-electrified, standardized-tested, house-arrested, 21st-century childhood.” —Richard Louv, bestselling author of Last Child in the Woods and Vitamin N

Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful...
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
AuthorKim John Payne
ISBN0345507975
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even...
Reflections of the Moon on Water: Healing Women's Bodies and Minds through Traditional Chinese Wisdom
AuthorXiaolan Zhao
ISBN0679314199
One of Canada’s most trusted and beloved health practitioners introduces Western women to the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine and the time-tested practices that have helped optimize physical and emotional health for centuries.

Since establishing her practice in Canada twelve...
Explorers of the Wild
AuthorCale Atkinson
ISBN1484723406
Boy and Bear both love to explore the outdoors. There are so many neat things to see, and so many strange things to find. These explorers are prepared for anything . . . except each other!

When Bear and Boy meet in the woods, they're scared at first. Really scared. But soon these kings of the wild...
Changes
AuthorMercedes Lackey
ISBN0756406927
Changes: Volume Three of the Collegium Chronicles
In Mercedes Lackey's classic coming-of-age story, the orphan Magpie pursues his quest for his parent's identity with burning urgency-while also discovering another hidden talent and being trained by the King's Own Herald as an undercover...
Foundation
AuthorMercedes Lackey
ISBN1423307941
Mags had been working at the Pieters’s mine, slaving in the dark, cold seams, looking for sparklies, for as long as he could remember. The children who worked the mine were orphans, kids who had been abandoned, who had lost their parents, or were generally unwanted. But Mags was different.

Mags...
The Secret Life of a Boarding School Brat
AuthorAmy Gordon
ISBN0823417794
I wasn't sure what I would think of this book but I liked it. In a way it's a world very much apart from that of the average middle schooler in that it's one girl's experiences in a boarding school she very much doesn't want to attend. However, Lydia's there because her grandmother has died and her parents...
Oz, Complete Collection, Volume 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / The Marvelous Land of Oz / Ozma of Oz
AuthorL. Frank Baum
ISBN1442485477
Discover the marvelous land of Oz in this collection of the first three books in L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairy tale series.

The first three books of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection!

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, find themselves in a strange...
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz; The Road to Oz; The Emerald City of Oz - Book 2
AuthorL. Frank Baum
ISBN1442485531
Delve deeper into the world of Oz in this collection of books four through six in L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairy tale series.The fourth, fifth, and sixth titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection!



In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard visit the...
Eeyore Has a Birthday
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0525447091
Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.

A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley...
After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again
AuthorDan Santat
ISBN1626726825
My name is Humpty Dumpty.
I'm famous for falling off a wall.

(You may have heard about it.)

But that's only half the story...
Because I decided to get back up.
And when I did, something amazing happened.

This story is about my life...
AFTER THE FALL.

Inspiring...
Brave Enough
AuthorCheryl Strayed
ISBN0345810872
From the best-selling author of Wild, a collection of quotes--drawn from the wide range of her writings--that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible to give as it is to receive.

Around the world, thousands of people have...
The Book of Gardening Projects for Kids: 101 Ways to Get Kids Outside, Dirty, and Having Fun
AuthorWhitney Cohen
ISBN1604693738
“What better way to begin to explore the natural world than to experience the magic and beauty of a family garden.” —Arden Bucklin-Sporer, author of How to Grow a School Garden

Many gardeners find that once they have children gardening goes the way of late-night dinner parties and...
Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing
AuthorPhilippe L. Gross
ISBN1580081940
This provocative, visually stunning volume draws upon Taoist teachings to explore the creative and spiritual dimensions of the art of photography. Excerpts from the Taoist classic the Chuang-tzu and the writings of Western aesthetes are complemented by over 60 photographs from the work of such...
Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision
AuthorDavid duChemin
ISBN0321605020
Within the Frame is a book about finding and expressing your photographic vision, specifically where people, places, and cultures are concerned. A personal book full of real-world wisdom and incredible images, author David duChemin (of pixelatedimage.com) shows you both the how and the why of finding,...
52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You
AuthorBrett Blumenthal
ISBN1612181392
Whether as New Year’s resolutions, birthday wishes, or daily promises, most everyone vows at some point to make a major life change. But change is easier said than done, especially when it comes to better managing our wellness amidst the chaos of everyday living. Fortunately, wellness coach and...
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