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Show your Spells pride with the official adult T-shirt. The front of our 100% cotton shirt is printed with the Spells Writing Lab logo, a writing quill dipped into an Erlenmeyer flask.
$10.00 + $2.00 shipping
Show your Spells pride with the official women’s T-shirt, featuring shorter sleeves for a more feminine look. The front of our 100% cotton shirt is printed with the Spells Writing Lab logo, a writing quill dipped into an Erlenmeyer flask.
$10.00 + $2.00 shipping
Show your Spells pride with the official youth sized T-shirt. The front of our 100% cotton shirts is printed with the Spells Writing Lab logo, a writing quill dipped into an Erlenmeyer flask.
$2.00 includes shipping
Show your Spells pride with the Spells Writing Lab logo without the words on a 2 1/4 inch button. Wear them on your coat, shirt, backpack, etc. and spread the word about Spells!
$90.00 ($199 value) | Reduced Price!
We had a few things left over from our silent auction, and we’re giving you a second chance to purchase them and help fund Spells programs at the same time!
Know someone on the Main Line? This offer is for 1 month of Boot Camp at Performance Fitness’ Wynnewood location. Keep in mind, this was rated the #1 Fitness Boot Camp on the entire Main Line by experienced men and women looking to get in shape and stay in shape. Check out more details on Performance Fitness here: http://mainlinefitnessbootcamp.com/
$50.00 ($120 value) | Reduced Price!
We had a few things left over from our silent auction, and we’re giving you a second chance to purchase them and help fund Spells programs at the same time!
Jackie Doyle is Philadelphia’s premier nutritional and acupuncture therapist. This item encompasses a nutrition and acupuncture treatment as well as a 1 hour health consultation. Pair this with our Bikram Yoga 10 Class Card for the ultimate health gift, for you or a loved one!
$90.00 ($200 value) | Reduced Price!
We had a few things left over from our silent auction, and we’re giving you a second chance to purchase them and help fund Spells programs at the same time!
Remodeling your home? Looking for a refreshing new look to your apartment? Busy Bee Consultation is here to help! This offer is good for $200 worth of consultation with Philly’s own, Busy Bee: http://busybeephilly.com/
$125.00 ($300 value) | Reduced Price!
We had a few things left over from our silent auction, and we’re giving you a second chance to purchase them and help fund Spells programs at the same time!
Whether it’s a bar mitzvah, wedding, or birthday party, Exceptional Events has you covered, with $300 towards your next event. This makes an excellent gift for an upcoming Summer wedding or birthday. Wherever you need help, Exceptional Events will take away the stress of planning and organizing small or large events!
$200.00 ($500 value)
We had a few things left over from our silent auction, and we’re giving you a second chance to purchase them and help fund Spells programs at the same time!
Now’s your chance to get your financial legacy in order, with 2 hours of estate planning consultation by President of Spells, Steven Wittenberg Esq/LLM in Tax/MBA/Director of
Legacy Planning at SEI Investments.
More info on Steve can be found at: http://www.linkedin.com/
$50.00 ($140 value) | Reduced Price!
We had a few things left over from our silent auction, and we’re giving you a second chance to purchase them and help fund Spells programs at the same time!
Need an extra pair of hands? This deal includes 4 hours of a trained doula to come to your house and help you take care of yourself or your newborn. Care is courtesy of Kate Beschen, a local, certified Doula with special services including: parenting consultation, sibling support, and infant massage education.
More information can be found here: http://doulamatch.net/profile/1775/kate-beschen
$50.00 ($120 value) *free shipping!* | Reduced Price!
We had a few things left over from our silent auction, and we’re giving you a second chance to purchase them and help fund Spells programs at the same time!
Stay in shape without spending a fortune, with this offer of 10 yoga sessions at a discounted price of just $60.00
Call for details!
$150.00 | Reduced Price!
We had a few things left over from our silent auction, and we’re giving you a second chance to purchase them and help fund Spells programs at the same time!
Ms. Bogan has over 20 years of legal experience in the areas of commercial litigation, real estate, and corporate matters, as well as in the representation of nonprofit organizations, business entities, and individuals in the entertainment, fashion, and arts industries. More information can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mary-elizabeth-bogan/9/947/911 – A $500 value.
$150.00 | Reduced Price!
We had a few things left over from our silent auction, and we’re giving you a second chance to purchase them and help fund Spells programs at the same time!
Buckley Chiropractic is conveniently located in downtown Lansdowne. Philip graduated from Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1983 and is the principal Chiropractic specialist of Buckley Chiropractic. More information can be found at http://buckleychiropractic.info/about-us/doctors/. A $500 value.
$2990.00
Sports Fan Getaway: Choose Your Favorite MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, Golf or College Bowl Game:
Enjoy 2 lower-level tickets to your choice of a MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, Golf or Non-BCS College Bowl game, a 2-night stay in deluxe accommodations and round-trip airfare for 2.
$7378.00
Paris Boutique Shopping Experience
Enjoy a 4-hour private shopping tour of Paris with a personal guide, $500 Amex gift card, VIP dinner with wine pairings and chef “meet-and-greet”, 5-night stay at a 5-star Resnaissance hotel, daily breakfast and round-trip airfare for 2.
$3705.00
Sonoma VIP Wine Experience
Support Spells and relax, with a Sonoma VIP Wine Experience. Enjoy a 3-night stay, including daily breakfast at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa. Includes 6 consecutive hours of chauffeured luxury sedan service, wine tasting and food at 2 award-winning wineries and round-trip airfare for 2.
$3965.00
New York Amazing Long Weekend
Enjoy a 3-night stay at the Hilton New York. Includes 2 orchestra seats to a Broadway show of your choice, a $200 gift certificate for dinner at the famed Tribeca Grill, and round-trip airfare for 2. The added bonus is that this vacation directly benefits Spells Writing Lab!
Here’s your chance to support Spells Writing Lab and grab books by bestselling authors who’ve also supported Spells. (Courtesy of Joseph Fox Book Shop)
Lisa Scottoline:
Save Me: $8.00 signed | $5.00 unsigned *free shipping!*
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Support Spells and get a thrilling read at the same time with an exclusive signed hardcover copy of Save Me, written by Spells Advisory Board Member and best-selling author Lisa Scottoline. Save Me will touch the heart of every woman, as its heroine, the unforgettable Rose McKenna, makes a split-second decision that alters the course of her life—and makes you wonder what you would do in her shoes.
Nobody could have foreseen what would happen the day that Rose McKenna volunteers as a lunch mom in the cafeteria of her daughter’s elementary school. Rose does it to keep a discreet eye on her third-grader, Melly, a sweet, if shy, child who was born with a facial birthmark that has become her own personal bull’s-eye. When a bully starts to tease Melly yet again. Rose is about to leap into action—but right then, the unthinkable happens. Rose finds herself in a nightmare, faced with an emergency decision that no mother should ever have to make. What she decides in that split second derails Rose’s life and jeopardizes everyone she holds dear, until she takes matters into her own hands and lays her life on the line to save her child, her family, her marriage—and herself.
Jennifer Weiner:
In Her Shoes: $15.00 *free shipping!*
Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she’s going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she’s beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up, semi-employed little sister to straighten up and fly right.
Meet Rose’s sister, Maggie. Twenty-eight years old and drop-dead gorgeous. Although her big-screen stardom hasn’t progressed past her left hip’s appearance in a Will Smith video, Maggie dreams of fame and fortune — and of getting her big sister on a skin-care regimen.
These two women, who claim to have nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that they’re more alike than they’d ever imagined. Along the way, they’ll encounter a diverse cast of characters — from a stepmother who’s into recreational Botox to a disdainful pug with no name. They’ll borrow shoes and clothes and boyfriends, and eventually make peace with their most intimate enemies — each other.
The Next Best Thing: $26.99 *free shipping!*
Actors aren’t the only ones trying to make it in Hollywood.…At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders left her childhood home in Massachusetts and headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to make it as a screenwriter. Six years later, she hits the jackpot when she gets The Call: the sitcom she wrote, The Next Best Thing, has gotten the green light, and Ruthie’s going to be the showrunner. But her dreams of Hollywood happiness are threatened by demanding actors, number-crunching executives, an unrequited crush on her boss, and her grandmother’s impending nuptials.
Set against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider’s ear for writer’s room showdowns and an eye for bad backstage behavior and set politics, Jennifer Weiner’s new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it’s like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come true.
Then Came You: $16.00 *free shipping!*
Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior on a full scholarship who plans on selling her “pedigree” eggs to help save her father from addiction.
Annie Barrow, a struggling Pennsylvania housewife, thinks that carrying another woman’s child will help her recover a sense of purpose and will bring in some much-needed cash.
India Bishop, thirty-eight (really, forty-three) and recently married to the wealthy Marcus Croft, yearns for a baby for reasons that have more to do with money than with love. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to Jules and Annie to make her dreams come true.
But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Bettina, Marcus’s privileged daughter, becomes suspicious that her new stepmother is not what she seems . . .
Told with Jennifer Weiner’s trademark wit and sharp observations, Then Came You is a hilarious, tender, and timely tale that explores themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and charity, the rights of a parent and the measure of a mother.
Buzz Bissinger:
Father’s Day: $26.00 *free shipping!*
The best-selling author of Friday Night Lights and 3 Nights in August journeys across country and into the psyche of his son and traveling companion, where he finds not only the remarkable skills and debilities known as savantism, but a host of qualities we should all emulate.
Elizabeth Gilbert:
Eat, Pray, Love: $15.00 *free shipping!*
This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls “Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister”) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.
Committed: $8.00 *free shipping!*
The #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to Eat, Pray, Love–an intimate and erudite celebration of love.
At the end of her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) never to marry. However, providence intervened in the form of a U.S. government ultimatum: get married, or Felipe could never enter America again. Told with Gilbert’s trademark humor and intelligence, this fascinating meditation on compatibility and fidelity chronicles Gilbert’s complex and sometimes frightening journey into second marriage, and will enthrall the millions of readers who made Eat, Pray, Love a number one bestseller.
Christina Pirello:
I’m Mad As Hell, and I’m Not Going to Eat it Anymore: Taking Control of Your Health and Your Life–One Vegan Recipe at a Time $20.00 *free shipping!*
Christina Pirello, chef, teacher, award-winning television host, and vocal advocate for healthy living, is mad as hell-and she’s going to do something about it!
In this, her most ambitious and passionate book to date, Pirello takes on the food establishment, big pharma, marketers, the government, and nongovernmental health agencies in a sweeping and well-argued indictment of the roles these organizations play in the demise of our collective health, our health care system, and our planet.
But she goes beyond an angry diatribe to show you how you can take responsibility for your own health and well-being even in the face of overwhelming odds. Step by step, Pirello guides you to an understanding of the causes of this country’s major health problems and offers solutions that show how to create change, whether you are taking the first tentative steps toward healthier eating or are ready for a full- on commitment to embracing a completely plant-based diet and vegan lifestyle.
Armed with the information and advice that Pirello has presented in her accessible signature style, which has already garnered tens of thousands of loyal fans for her books, shows, and articles, anyone will be able to take those first critical steps on the way to total health and wellness.
As practical as it is inspirational, this book also features cooking techniques, advice for stocking a pantry, and more than 125 vegan recipes, including “makeovers” of family favorites.
Jim Holt: 
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story $28.00 *free shipping!*
In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times.
Tom Wolfe:
Back to Blood $30.00 *free shipping!*
As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor’s life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin’ little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the ‘hoods, “de-skilled” conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, “spectators” at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night’s orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an “Active Adult” condo, and a nest of shady Russians.
Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe’s previous bestselling novels, BACK TO BLOOD is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.
Barbara Kingsolver:
Flight Behavior $29.00 *free shipping!*
Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman’s narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel’s inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science, faith, and everyday truces between reason and conviction.
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man. As she hikes up a mountain road behind her house to a secret tryst, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media. The bewildering emergency draws rural farmers into unexpected acquaintance with urbane journalists, opportunists, sightseers, and a striking biologist with his own stake in the outcome. As the community lines up to judge the woman and her miracle, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church, her town, and a larger world, in a flight toward truth that could undo all she has ever believed.
Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
Robert A. Caro:
The Passage of Power $35.00 *free shipping!*
Everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, The Power Broker was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, “Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” And The New York Times Book Review said: “In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.”
The first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power, was cited by The Washington Post as “proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro’s evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson’s unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are–let it be said flat out–at the summit of American historical writing.” Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called the second volume, Means of Ascent, “brilliant. No brief review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born.” And the London Times hailed volume three, Master of the Senate, as “a masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.” In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama.
Nate Silver:
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t $28.00 *free shipping!*
Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future.
In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good—or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary—and dangerous—science.
Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise.
With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver’s insights are an essential read.
We'll announce new orientations and training soon! Orientations are generally held on weeknights in Center City, and we are already planning one on Drexel University's campus as well.
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