Pear Press: 34 books
Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded)
How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.
In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work-and why we...
Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded)
12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know-like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do...
Brain Rules for Aging Well
10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts, and the prescription...
Joy at Work
Bible Study Companion
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Back in the Garden, work was fun. Yet, in today’s fallen world, joy and work are rarely used in the same sentence. But God really does intend for us to find joy in our work. Join Raymond Bakke, Brad Smith, and Bill Hendricks as they explore what the Bible says about the purpose of business and our...
Joy at Work
A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor....
Europe on a Budget
Real Stories from Studying Abroad and Backpacking Around Europe That You Wont Find in Any Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
This collection of 42 first-person accounts about backpacking in Europe will awaken a taste for adventure in those who have yet to travel, and bring back memories for those who have. Romance, surprise, discovery and wisdom all bubble through these authors’ riveting pieces.- Find a surprise romance...
Zero to Five
70 Essential Parenting Tips Based on Science (and What Ive Learned So Far)
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
When you’re a new parent, the miracle of life might not always feel so miraculous. Maybe your latest 2:00 a.m., 2:45 a.m., and 3:30 a.m. wake-up calls have left you wondering how sleep like a baby” ever became a figure of speech-and what the options are for restoring your sanity. Or your child...
Kitchen Yoga
Simple Home Practices to Transform Mind, Body, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
An inspiring twist on integrating yoga and life, the author of Kitchen Yoga cooks up poses and practices to do wherever you are. From a modified Down Dog while waiting for your morning coffee to steep to detox practices in the bathroom, Locust Pose in the living room and many more. Finish your day with...
The Decision Maker
Unlock the Potential of Everyone in Your Organization, One Decision at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Who makes the important decisions in your organization? Strategy, product development, budgeting, compensation-such key decisions typically are made by company leaders. That’s what bosses are for, right? But maybe the boss isn’t the best person to make the call.That’s the conclusion Dennis Bakke...
The Murderer's Maid
A Lizzie Borden Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Bram Stoker Award finalist Erika Mailman brings the true story of the brutal murder of Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother into new focus by adding a riveting contemporary narrative.
The Murderer’s Maid interweaves the stories of two women: one, the servant of infamous Lizzie Borden,...
Dream House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Lush with sensory detail and emotional complexity, Dream House is about family, home, and an architect’s journey to understand the crippling hold one house has on her.
In the months following her parents’ fatal car accident in Maine, architect Gina Gilbert is coming apart: anxious with...
Catarina's Ring
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The New York Times best-selling author Lisa McGuinness interweaves the stories of four generations of strong, vibrant women and has created characters both idiosyncratic and adventuresome. Born at the end of the Nineteenth Century and nestled in South Western Italy, Catarina Pensbene’s life in Perdifumo...
by Cindy Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Every family has things they can’t talk about. Or won’t.
For Clara Martin, the prospect of moving to New York from snowy Chicago is her only option after losing her bakery job. Resigned to her fate, she prepares to go…until a chance encounter with endangered horses reminds her of a letter...
by Melissa Storm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
True love never stops believing...
When two young lovers part on the eve of war, they are forced to forge their lives without one another and form families that will carry on their legacy of finding true love. But many years later, they find themselves together again. Will the circle be unbroken?...