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All I want for Christmas is . . . a new GEEK GIRL story! Harriet Manners knows a lot about Christmas: • She knows that every year Santa climbs down 91.8 million chimneys. • She knows that Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was almost definitely a girl. • She knows that the first artificial Christmas...

When you think of a life changing event, does a toothpick come to mind? One might think of a car accident, a plane crash, a natural disaster, but a toothpick? Seriously? Please join me on a journey about how a regular ole toothpick and a little black kitten came together and wreaked havoc...

Determined to take control of her life, sheltered Gracie Antes leaves her unhappy home in 1925 to pursue her dream of a singing career. On her way to the big city, she accepts a job as a housemaid at the bustling Crestmont Inn. Once there, Gracie finds a life-changing encounter with opera singer Rosa...

**A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: welcome to summer on the Cape in this powerful debut.**Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a married father of two. But on the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil's wife was found murdered—and...

How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions—and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and...

Draw 50 Princesses teaches aspiring artists how to draw with ease by following simple, step-by-step instructions. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows us how to draw an enchanting variety of beautiful princesses, including beloved favorites from fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow...

The poems in this collection were inspired by and are descriptive of the overwhelming joy and challenges that accompany a romantic relationship between a spirit and a living human being. Many of the poems in this collection came to the author through the dream state, and each of the poems were originally written as songs in the genre of folk and Keltic music.

With 60,000 children in the care system and national child protection scandals hitting the headlines at an alarming rate, adoption and fostering are typical issues. It can be hard for prospective adopters and foster carers to get comprehensive, no-nonsense advice and guidance. This book...

Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one’s own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz’s pluralistic, self-questioning approach to...

“A mother is just a woman who gave birth to you. You don’t need her to like you, or love you. Because a mother’s just another person. She was. And now she’s dead.” Growing up, Rae played the good girl, hoping to win her mother Marlene’s love. But Marlene favored Rae’s dangerous...

Elle Campbell is a glossy, lycra-clad mum with washboard abs, a ten-year plan and a secret past. Abi Black has quit sugar, moved to the country and is homeschooling her kids. Leisel Adams slogs away at her office job each day before rushing home, steeped in guilt, to spend precious moments...

‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’ Antonio GramsciIs New Zealand’s political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we’re entering the interregnum, that ambiguous...

About 13 percent of Americans are sixty-five or older, according to the most recent census. As baby boomers continue to age, retirement communities and senior living centers will need to expand to meet their needs. Today’s modern seniors are looking for social events and challenging educational...

The 2012 congressional elections played an equally vital role in determining the future course of America as the presidential race that topped the electoral ticket. Readers of this book will gain insights about the formative aspects of the 2012 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races...