Let Me Down offers a vivid and vulnerable account of an abusive relationshipAt 18, Callie’s encounter with Reed, a brooding and arty student four years her senior, begins a youthful infatuation, a casual “thing.” But as their relationship deepens, what once seemed like innocent passion soon morphs into a cycle of manipulation, control, and violence.Callie shares the complexity of falling in love with someone who also hurt her — emotionally, physica...

Youth have the answers, and we need to involve them in finding solutions.Canada’s patriarchal political system needs a revolution. And youth need allies, those who are willing to leverage their political capital to include youth in developing better policies and programs.In our legislatures, the House of Commons, the Senate, and the Prime Minister’s Office, leaders are standing up to say that we need to reclaim our democratic processes. Canada’s twenty-fift...

New Yorker Mara Bader moves to Zambia to teach teens Lifeskillz through soccer. Zambia offers her everything she was missing from her life in America–a sense of community and humanity. Enchanted, Mara wants to be Zambian. She learns to cook nshima like her Zambian sisters, dresses in local fabrics and falls in love with the charming, unpredictable son of an ex-minister.Kezzy unlocks the door to Zambian culture for her, in more ways than one. They marry, with two sons following in s...

'A deeply emotive and disturbing psychological thriller...will stay with you long after the final page.' Michael Wood, author of Evil in the FamilyWe lived in a house on Beech Avenue.Outside-People say we're safe now.But one of us wants to go back.Back to that house and the darkness it held.Police raid an ordinary house in a quiet suburban street and find a traumatised teenage...

Clementine is a girl in trouble. She's homeless, living in a conversion van at a campground tucked into a little stretch of riverfront on the Potomac. She's hungry, craving Pop-Tarts while forced to eat fried snake for supper. And she's pregnant. Daddy says he'll fix it. But unlike Mama and the folks who believe he can walk on water, Clem knows better than to trust Daddy.In Precious Ugly, Rae Clinedraws us into thestory of a thirteen-year-old girl seeking to escape her abu...

In vile act and siren's woe, a legacy of shadows sown.Two centuries ago, a siren's curse tainted the Teach bloodline—granting them a supernatural ability to wield the shadows, an unquenchable thirst for power, and a promise that every use of the curse's gift would carve away at their souls, feeding the darkness within.At fourteen, Willow Teach was cast into exile with nothing but a name: Blackbeard. Eight years later, she sails to reclaim her place...

When this book was originally published in 1984 there was little published data on the extraction or exploitation of strategic materials. The book surveys the entire range of strategic materials and considers both the economics of their extraction and the political issues involved in safeguarding Western access to these critical materials – issues which remain very pertinent in the 21st century and in an era of geopolitical turbulence.The book begins with a discussion of the mining...

Clean and wholesome, HEA Regency Romance.Amelia Sprinton has always known what her future is supposed to be. As the daughter of a baron in the quiet village of Edenbridge, her expected marriage to Harold Morton has long been arranged in the minds of their families. Yet, without a proposal, Amelia begins to wonder whether the life planned for her is truly the one she desires.Sent to Bath to spend six weeks with her grandmother, Amelia is introduced to a world far removed fro...

Raegan Oaks has spent her life fighting invisible battles of pain with no name, and grief that never lets her breathe. When betrayal shatters the fragile bridge she’s built with her flatmate, Ethan Zarik, she flees into the night towards an ancient oak, which mysteriously opens to the realm of Liravel: a world of magic long thought lost.There, beneath its epic sky and ancient peaks, embers of power begin to spark, shadows whisper her name, and a dangerous Fae warrior sees what she ...

Karina Jäger has spent twenty years running from her father's legacy. As the daughter of a notorious serial killer, she's built a quiet life far from the headlines. Even Aubrey Peterson, the tenacious true-crime author writing her father's biography, can't ruin what Karina has made for herself.But when fresh bodies appear in Karina's sleepy Wisconsin hometown, suspicion turns toward her. With a copycat killer at large, Karina must confront a darker truth: she may not be so differen...

**You’re ready for the wild.In this heartfelt, stunning picture book, a young child with a love for science discovers that while they don’t see other people like them working in nature, they do belong there.**Despite loving all things nature, Noa struggles to find her place in the wild. She loves watching nature shows, playing pretend with her stuffed animals, and recounting wildlife facts to her mom. But for some reason, Noa feels she doesn’t belong in the wild.

Cora has to perform the Fancy Shawl Dance in front of her whole school, but is she brave enough? This delightful Step 2 reader is perfect for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new ones with help.Cora and her family are Cherokee. She enjoys participating in Cherokee traditions with her family. She especially loves dancing in the children's Native American dance group. But when Cora has to dance in front of her whole school, she feels nervous. W...