by Alec Posta

4.5 stars – 32 reviews

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A collection of inspirational, bite-sized lessons on creativity and life taught through LEGO® brick building.

A handful of LEGO® bricks can change the way you see the world. They can ignite your creativity, help you solve problems, focus, and find your flow. In LEGO® Build Every Day, Master Model builder Alec Posta show readers how to build their way through problems—by using LEGO techniques to solve real life challenges. Filled with bite-sized lessons on creativity, perspective, and process, each illustrated chapter explores a LEGO concept and follows with a building prompt to put the idea into practice. Its bold typographic design and thought-provoking topics and prompts make LEGO® Build Every Day a thoughtful gift for graduates of all ages, or anyone in need of inspiration at a milestone moment. What might you discover about yourself by simply sitting down and building something every day?

BITE-SIZED TOPICS: Readers can dip in and out or read all 22 mini-chapters in one sitting.

IDEAS INTO ACTION: Each inspirational topic is followed by a building prompt or activity, to motivate readers to put what they’ve learned to work, right away.

INSPIRATION FOR LIFE: The lessons in this book starts with LEGO building concepts, but translate to all parts of life—whether your writing, drawing, composing, acting, competing, or working toward a goal at school, work, or home. This book is meant to help readers overcome creative challenges of all kinds.

BOLD DESIGN: Each chapter is a visual treat, with bold typography, colors, and a modern take on iconic LEGO bricks and minifigures. The perfect LEGO gift for grads, dads, and all LEGO lovers of all ages.

GO BACK TO THE LEGO BIN: Rediscover what you can do with the bricks you already own. You can build something every day—no new sets needed!

Perfect for: Ages 12+, LEGO fans, adult LEGO fans, graduates, parents, dads

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by Gloria Chao

4.5 stars – 384 reviews

Everyday price: $8.99

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“Weepingly funny.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Delightful.” —Buzzfeed
“Charmed my socks off.” —David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Kids of Appetite and MosquitolandFour starred reviews for this incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate.At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents’ master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies.With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can’t bring herself to tell them the truth—that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese.But when Mei reconnects with her brother, Xing, who is estranged from the family for dating the wrong woman, Mei starts to wonder if all the secrets are truly worth it. Can she find a way to be herself, whoever that is, before her web of lies unravels?From debut author Gloria Chao comes a hilarious, heartfelt tale of how, unlike the panda, life isn’t always so black and white.