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Books to Help With Mother’s Day Gifts
If you’re stuck on what to get your mom or mother figure in your life for Mother’s Day, here are some books to help you make handmade gifts and goodies.
Mother’s Day Gifts / Anastasia Suen
Easy to follow mother’s day gift craft instructions for maker spaces, home activities, and classrooms.
The daily cookie : 365 tempting treats for the sweetest year of your life / Anna Ginsberg
Collects a year’s worth of cookie recipes with a range of chewy, crispy, brownie-style, no-bake, vegan, and gluten-free options and shares culinary anecdotes, baking trivia, and tribute options for historical and pop-culture anniversaries.
Kids cook 1-2-3: recipes for young chefs using only 3 ingredients / Rozanne Gold
Using only three ingredients in each recipe, this simple cookbook teaches children how to make a collection of treats for every meal of the day, such as creamy tomato soup and fresh cherries with chocolate fondue.
No bake makery : more than 80 two-bite treats made with lovin’, not an oven / Cristina Suarez Krumsick
Features recipes for making quick, easy, and tasty desserts and treats that do not require baking, including truffles, clodhoppers, barks, fudges, bars, cold treats, puddings, candy, mini pies, cookies, and cakes.
Photocraft : things to do with the pictures you love / Caroline Herter, Laurie Frankel and Laura Lovett
Simple and stylish ways to use and display photographs.
Cool stuff for family & friends / Pam Scheunemann
Features how-to guides on making handmade crafts, including coasters, necklaces, and mouse pads.
Accessory projects for a lazy crafternoon / Stella Fields
Step-by-step instructions help readers create fashion accessories (alone or with friends) using basic craft supplies.
Super simple pressed flower projects: fun and easy crafts inspired by nature / Kelly Doudna
Loom magic! : 25 awesome, never-before-seen designs for an amazing rainbow of projects / John McCann & Becky Thomas
Provides twenty-five rubber band loom projects, from key rings and pendants to cell phone cases and slingshots.
Books Coming to Screens: April 2024
Someone like you / Karen Kingsbury
Based on the novel by #1 NYTimes bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, “Someone Like You” is an achingly beautiful love story. After the tragic loss of his best friend, a grieving young architect launches a search for her secret twin sister.
April 2nd/ Theatres/ Put on hold
The talented Mr. Ripley/ Patricia Highsmith
(Ripley)
A grifter named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to begin a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
April 4th/ Netflix/ Put on hold
The Tearsmith / Erin Doom
Sometimes our greatest fear is accepting that someone can honestly love us for who we are. Nica and Rigel are ready to find it out together.
April 4th/ Netflix
Parasyte/ Hitoshi Iwaaki
A group of humans wage war against the rising evil of unidentified parasitic life-forms that live off of human hosts and strive to grow their power
April 5th/ Netflix/ Put on hold
Scoops by Sam McAlister
How the BBC obtained the bombshell interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
April 5th/ Netflix
Wallbanger/ Alice Clayton
April 11th/ Passionflix/ Put on hold
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America/ Stacy Schiff
(Franklin)
Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklin’s career. At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778.
April 12th/ Apple TV
The Sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen
Near the end of the Vietnam War, a plant who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to secretly spy and report back to the Viet Cong.
April 12th/ HBO/ Put on hold
Under the Bridge / Rebecca Godfrey
Reena Virk, a fourteen-year-old girl went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Seven teenage girls and a boy were accused of the savage murder.
April 17th/ Hulu
The Spiderwick Chronicles/ Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
Follows the Grace Family, as they move into their ancestral home and unravel a dark mystery about their great-great Uncle who discovered the parallel, secret faerie world to their own.
April 19th/ RokuChannel/ Put on hold
Force of nature / Jane Harper
Five women participate in a hiking retreat but only four come out the other side. Federal agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head into the mountains hoping to find their informant still alive.
April 19th/ Theatres/ Put on hold
Churchill’s Secret Warriors/ Damien Lewis
(The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare)
The British military recruits a small group of highly-skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.
April 19th/ Theatres
Dead Boy Detectives
Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine decided not to enter the afterlife to stay on earth and investigate crimes that involve supernatural stuff.
April 25th/ Netflix/ Put on hold
2024 Reading Challenge: A book in verse or a book of poems
Are you participating in the 2024 Reading Challenge? We have 12 challenges to complete throughout the year and every month we’ll feature one of the challenge prompts. This month we’re featuring the prompt “Read a book in verse or a book of poems.” Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt but there are plenty of other books you can pick up!
Join the Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
Poetry Collections
An American sunrise : poems /Poems to live your life by / Claw the System: Poems from the Cat Uprising /Solstice to solstice to solistice : a year of sunrises in poetry / Shout : a poetry memoir/ Music I once could dance to
YA Books in Verse
Alma presses play / Me (Moth) /We are all so good at smiling / Wings in the wild / African Town/ Muted
JF Books in Verse
Aniana del Mar jumps in /Rez dogs / Odder /Alone/ Red, white, and whole/ Rima’s rebellion : courage in a time of tyranny