A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at...
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"Say NO to demanding friends. NO to parties you don't want to go to. NO to being tied to your phone. NO to unwanted hugs. This is an empowering, essential and playful guide to setting boundaries. Growing up is a minefield. You have to navigate new friendships, new teachers, your ...
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at...
"A scarecrow stood in the garden. Tall, proud, and smiling. Every day a girl brought her favorite books to the garden and she read to him. He heard tales of courage and of hope. And when she said, "The End," the scarecrow always felt a little bit taller and braver. Year after yea...
A big city dreamer returns home to testify for an old friend on trial for murder. Once home, he struggles between an urge to reignite his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, and his friends' expectations for him to save the trial.
Inside the brutal battle to defeat ISIS in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. Filmed across the entire nine-month campaign, the documentary features extraordinary combat footage of one Iraqi Special Forces unit that bore the brunt of the fighting. Includes "Inside Yemen," a rare...
"Fostering well-being in today's library workplaces is no longer a luxury but a necessity, particularly for managers tasked with guiding and supporting their teams. Amidst budget cuts, attempts to ban or restrict books, attacks on library staff online and in-person, and potential...
"This book is intended to give a broad overview of this radical landscape for public libraries in which librarians are creating innovative, interactive, participatory programming for children and youth by examining seven critical domains that occur across programming as a whole i...
Clare's Mortal Instruments series has captured the imaginations and loyalty of hundreds of thousands of YA readers, and a feature film is planned for 2013. In this edition, a collection of YA authors write about the series and its world.
When Sam is murdered in a remote lake, his consciousness begins to travel through the bodies of his friends in an effort to protect them from his killer. This dark passage leads him on a greater journey, discovering his own true identity.
"It was decided; survival was key. Ryan, Michael, and Henry would return to the outside. So they headed north toward LoDo and the richer suburbs, like Cherry Hills Village. Ryan splintered from the group, hoping for more success. He found Jesska. She had a secret. Who else could ...
With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during the Japanese internment in World War II. Further reading on Japanese internment and a note from the author add to readers' understanding of this underrepresented peri...
Survivors begin to accept their new reality seven days after "The End," which came with no warning except from the predictions of Nostradamus.
Teenagers Cecilia and Ryan and their group of survivors continue to struggle after a natural disaster and come across a man who may have answers explaining what really happened.
It's New Year's Eve in NYC and everyone's getting ready to party. Watching, waiting, a man called Hollander has a different kind of party in mind. Alone in her high-rise apartment, Sara has no idea that her boyfriend was a thief. But what he stole - and from whom - is about to pu...
Teenagers Cecilia and Ryan and their group of survivors continue to struggle after a natural disaster.
"A quick, clever, warm-hearted debut about growing up in an Egyptian-Muslim family. Sara is growing up in a family with a lot of rules. Her mother tells her she's not allowed to wear a bikini, her father tells her she's not allowed to drink alcohol, and her grandmother tells her ...
Having survived "The End" and after finding an abandoned snow shelter home, Ryan and Cecilia are joined by other survivors.
"The burgeoning multidisciplinary field of social and emotional learning (SEL) now has a comprehensive and definitive handbook covering all aspects of research, practice, and policy. The prominent editors and contributors describe state-of-the-art intervention and prevention prog...
"What happens when making an elderly Amish couple very happy means going along with a lie that gets bigger by the day? Michelle Taylor is not who her new family in Lancaster County believes her to be. The Lapps were looking for their long-lost granddaughter when they met Michelle...