Perfect for desktops across America, Busy Office Pad is the double-duty accessory that promises to work just as hard as you do. First, there's the notepad: lined, generously sized, and divided into a to-do list (10:00 AM meeting—check! Client lunch—check! Conference call—check!) and blank spaces for writing down notes and miscellaneous stuff. Then there's the fun part: On the left side of each page is a business-related New Word, an On This Day, a list of Famous Birthdays, Take a Break!—a joke or other entertaining time waster—and a quote: "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."—Robert Orben
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Cat is a mesmerizing study in grace, attitude, and singular beauty. Each day brings a stunning new photograph, exquisite in composition and meticulously reproduced. A white cat lounging on a polka-dotted sofa. The sleek profile of a Bengal. A quartet of perfectly matched brown kittens. A calico trotting through a snow-covered field. And a pampered gray cat posing on an elegant cushioned chair. The portraits, in color and black and white, capture their subjects in the finest detail, evoking the cat's unique character and mystique.
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The ingenious calendar that doubles as a dartboard, Darts! returns with a full year of challenge and entertainment for the entire family. Printed on each month's spread is a full-color, visually striking board for a lively dart game, like Roulette, Mulligan, Go for the Gophers, and 01 Countdown. Instructions for each are included. The calendar comes with six colorful, totally safe, blunt-tipped darts that contain strong magnets that are attracted to a metal insert in the calendar. Whether you hang it in the office, the dorm, or the game room, this is all you need for hours of fun.


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Do your part for the planet, one day at a time. With hundreds of simple ways to make a big difference, Living Green proves it's easy to lessen your impact on the environment—at home, at the office, and on the go. Unplug that appliance: The average family burns 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity on things that are plugged in but turned off. Think before you bite: It takes 600 gallons of water to grow the corn that feeds the cow that produces one 1⁄3-pound hamburger. "Air fresheners" do nothing but pollute your indoor air: Scent your house safely by boiling herbs or citrus slices in a small amount of water. Improve your toilet's efficiency by placing a soda bottle in the tank. It's a great calendar for the eco-minded family.
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An awesome stocking-stuffer for dads of all stripes, Busy Dad's Pad marries the great looks and lively content of a Page-A-Day calendar with a roomy lined notepad, including a daily checklist for writing down all the stuff dad needs to remember, from business meetings to school plays, from golf games to that appointment with the lawn mower. No more forgetting to buy a quart of milk on the way home! On every page is a cool word to know, an On This Day, famous birthdays, plus insightful and witty quotes and jokes for dads and by dads, including Mark Twain, Tom Wolfe, and Clarence Budington Kelland: "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
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Inspirational, meditative, and—with a full-color nature photo on every page—beautiful in appearance, 365 Bible Verses is, year after year, the best and bestselling Bible calendar. Each day soothes the spirit with a message of insight, faith, and wisdom cited chapter and verse from the Old and New Testaments of the King James version. Galatians celebrates God's spiritual bounty, illustrated by a fruitful peach tree. A brilliantly colored sunrise accompanies John's exaltation of the true light. A message of peace from Leviticus is enhanced by a bucolic green landscape. It's daily guidance from the most trusted source.
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It's the essential desktop accessory for every busy mom (what mom isn't busy?). This ingenious calendar-meets-notepad offers a whole day's worth of fun information on each page: a smart new word to jazz up mom's vocabulary, an On This Day, famous birthdays, jokes, trivia, plus witty and inspiring quotes from women worth listening to, including Maya Angelou: "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." But there's also plenty of room for that to-do list that, okay, won't make your life less busy, but will make it more manageable.
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Packed with hundreds of great reads, Book Lover's is the calendar that keeps you reading. So many books to choose from: There's Union 1812, the definitive, richly detailed account of America's "second war of independence." A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini's poignant followup to The Kite Runner. Plus where to start with Jorge Luis Borges, Lincoln Child's page-turning oceanic thriller Deep Storm, and a fascinating portrait of the life and times of Benny Goodman
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Now this is getting away from it all. Islands is the gift of instant relaxation in this, a tranquil year of scenic island retreats. Exquisitely photographed in full color are pristine tropical escapes, like Whitsunday Island and its brilliant white sand of pure quartz. Mediterranean wonders, including the cliffs of Santorini and the golden shores of Majorca. Plus a dramatic Nantucket sunset, the rice fields of Bali, and New Zealand's Milford Sound—acclaimed by Rudyard Kipling as the "eighth wonder of the world." One glance, and you're there.
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Start spreading the news! Introducing New York, a sophisticated gallery calendar for the tens of millions of people who love the city that never sleeps. With hundreds of full-color photographs, the calendar is a tribute-in-pictures to the glamour and glittering lights, the architecture, the rhythms, the pockets of solitude, the icons past and present. Coney Island's Wonder Wheel on a brilliant spring day. The ubiquitous yellow cab. The view from behind home plate at Yankee Stadium. A lone person traipsing through fresh snow in Central Park. The Chrysler Building. The Statue of Liberty. The bustling crowds in Times Square. In every image, the beauty and energy of New York shine through.
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The perfect gift for a favorite teacher, die-cut in the shape of a shiny red apple, Just For My Teacher is filled with a lively year of humor, quotes, advice, and fun activities to make class time more engaging for teachers and students. Boredom Busters: Have your students develop a plot for a movie and describe it in 25 words or less (if you have time, have them "cast" it). From the Mouths of Babes: "People used to think the world was flat, but then they went to Montana." Plus Weekend Wisdom, Classroom Chat, and smart quotes: "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being" (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe).
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Oh yeah, the cats are back and for 2010, they are in glorious full color. Based on the funny #1 New York Times bestseller, Bad Cat features a year of felines who take pleasure in biting the hand that feeds them. And that's just the beginning. Here are haughty cats, surly cats, cats with inappropriate ways of showing affection. The lazy, the entitled, the manic, the rude. Plus Bad Cats in Show Business, Bad Cat Fortune Cookies, and Bad Cat Secrets: "I think about you all day and dream of you at night. . . . Now where's the tuna tartare?"
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Bad is getting badder! Now in drooling full color, Bad Dog is a hilarious year of sheer canine lunacy, based on the howlingly funny New York Times bestselling book. It's a veritable rogues' gallery of dogs gone bad: the lazy, the mean, the mangy, the morose. The smelly, the excitable, and the inappropriately costumed. These mutts don't want to roll over, don't want to wear a leash, and certainly don't want to be your best friend. With Bad Dog Career Opportunities, Good Advice for Bad Dogs, and Bad Dog Early Warning Signs: Dog resents having to feign excitement for lousy treats.
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Two identical photos—or so it seems. At second glance, not at all! Based on the runaway New York Times bestselling Life Picture Puzzle books, this obsessively entertaining calendar will draw the whole family into the fun, all year long. Each month features a pair of full-color photographs sprinkled with subtle differences. Look very, very closely, and see how many discrepancies you can spot. The puzzles come in four levels of difficulty: Novice, Master, Expert, and Genius. And in case your hunting skills aren't up to par, solutions are printed inside the front cover.
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Man's best friend? Don't count on it. Adapted from Bad Dog, the wildly hilarious New York Times bestselling book, this calendar presents in full color hundreds of dogs who aren't eager to please anyone. Meet dirty bichons. Forlorn-looking labs. Badly dressed boxers. Clearly guilty (of something) pugs. Plus schnauzers costumed unconvincingly as superheroes, dalmatians "forgetting" their potty training, and lots of dogs who could roll over, but just won't. It's a disturbing showcase of canine misbehavior. Includes 12 fullcolor postcards and a centerfold poster.
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Hey mom, you deserve some praise! With a daily dose of mom appreciation, Love You Mom celebrates the woman who makes the world go round. Die-cut in the shape of a Gerbera daisy, the calendar showers her with tender tributes, accolades, proverbs, witticisms, and loving remembrances. Here are Overheard Moms and Moms Anonymous. Mom Facts. Evidence as to why Mom Is Always Right, What All Moms Know, plus quotes from Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker, Lucille Ball, and Bill Cosby: "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."
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