Kellie: 149 books

There are many books that provide advice and booktalks for adults who work with children and teens. However, Something to Talk About: Creative Booktalking for Adults is the first book to focus solely on adults. Working as Fiction Specialists in a public library, Ann-Marie Cyr and Kellie M. Gillespie...

CSR can help companies build customer loyalty, recruit and retain employees, and stand out in a crowded marketplace. But to be most effective CSR must be intimately connected to the corporate brand—it must reinforce a company’s unique identity, be an integral part of how a company tells its story....

Arella is an outcast in her tribe, white skinned and silver haired, bright purple eyes and a strong will, while the others are dark skinned and passive. She longs to be free of the chains of society, but does not realize the dangers of this. Arella will soon come to find that the real world is not...

Wren is a young woman who finds herself in a situation seemingly predetermined by circumstance and the nature of those that surround her. From a cold basement kitchen, she sits with a newborn on her chest, another beside her and wrestles with memories of how she arrived at this point. Wren is at the...

Life’s always better with a little bit of sparkle. Poppy and Ben have been best friends forever and now they’re embarking on a new adventure together – opening a joint unicorn gift shop and cafe. Ben has one rule; no unicorn paraphernalia is to cross into his tea shop. But Poppy has other ideas…...

The Gypsy Thief is set in modern day Rhode Island and is the story of Laura Calder and her love for two boys: Andrew Easton, a descendant of King George the First, and Miguel Dos Santos, a mysterious gypsy who has royal ties of his own. More than 300 years previously, a dying Portuguese princess named...

Not only the story of a colossus of a woman living in Kansas, Fat Girl, Terrestrial is also a meditation on God, treachery, and blind love.   In Kingdom Come, Kansas, a town from which children once mysteriously disappeared, there lives a giant woman. Wallis Armstrong is not a pituitary...

Just when she can’t take it anymore, Lena finally catches a break. But when things seem too good to be true, they often are. Finding her dream job went right out the window when Leta Breckenridge had to quit school to help care for her mother suffering from dementia. When a delinquent account...

Barrie Graeber has two great kids, a loving husband, and a respected job as the high school counselor in her close-knit community. Without warning, everything unravels when her teenage daughter, Pearl, is betrayed and lashes out. Nothing prepares this mother for the helplessness that follows when...

Have you ever wondered what your true purpose is in life? What are you passionate about? What are your gifts and talents? If you could walk out of your job today, what would you pursue? Do you feel that something is missing, but you cant quite put your finger on what it is? Perhaps you have the fine...

Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose "phantasmal stories," Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated...

Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays collected offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging...

Beyond The Salt Shaker - How Salt Changed Mankind is an intuitive look at how salt has helped humanity survive and thrive.Mankind depends upon salt.Consider the purpose of salt. It is amulti-purpose ingredient. It healsquickly and seasons perfectly.Salt in water.Salt on food.Salt on skin.Salt...

Every day, the newspapers reveal new, often conflicting advice about slimming and exercise. For those who want to live wholesomely, but don't know how to cut through the commentary, "501 Easy Health Tips" provides a wealth of simple, effective ideas for making positive lifestyle changes - one day...