Spanish Peaks Library District

Classroom management just got easier. If you'd like to spend more time teaching and less time disciplining students, you need the practical techniques you'll find contained in Teaching With Love and logic.This book is an essential resource for every teacher searching for new ways to gain student cooperation and for more positive discipline techniques.

Learn about all the different jobs at the zoo.

*The basis for the wonderfully funny and moving TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions*

A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.
In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning "death" and städning meaning "cleaning." This surprising and invigorating...

"Poetic language captures the Voyager 2 probe's groundbreaking journey past Earth, into deep space and beyond"-- "A poetic odyssey through space with the groundbreaking Voyager 2 probe-past Earth, into deep space and beyond. In 1977, a space probe was built to help human beings learn a little more about outer space. Soon, along with its twin, Voyager 2 slipped through the clouds and left Earth behind. The spacecraft traveled for years through the...

Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...

Here are the pioneers who lived, worked, loved, grew rich, and sometimes died in the "Gulch of Gold." The intrepid discoverer John H. Gregory, idealistic little Mary York who loved the dashing sheriff, William Z. Cozens, fiery bonanza baron Pat Casey, the society belle and her aristocratic husband, Harriet and George Randolph, the cultural leaders, Carrie and Frank Young, and finally the glamorous blonde, Baby Doe -- all contributed to their large...