The Essentials for Achieving Rigor model of instruction and corresponding series of books were developed to help teachers provide that caliber of truly rigorous instruction. This guide, developed by authors of the Essentials series, brings it all together, with valuable tips and guidance to help teachers leverage essential strategies to:Conduct standards-based planning and instructionEstablish conditions for learning and criteria for successUse formative a...

Carla Moore hit a roadblock in life.She wasn’t heading where she always dreamed of going and it wasn’t until she hit an actual roadblock – a concrete median while cruising at 55 mph, to be exact – is when she realized each passing day was never coming back. If she wanted to live the life she imagined, she needed to make some changes.And so she did.Going from 300 pounds to triathlete, and armed with her small-town roots from Centerville, TN, Carla launched the next phas...

Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean aims to disrupt the conventional rendering of the Caribbean as uniquely and deeply homophobic by focusing on the experiences and agency of LGBTQ people in the region.Presenting a wide range of perspectives and approaches, this book grew out of presentations at two groundbreaking events on the Jamaican campus of the University of the West Indies: a symposium discussing LGBTQ experiences and research ...

SAINTS AND SINNERS by Josi S. Kilpack. When Neville Franklin’s best friend Burke wants to wager who can kiss Eloise first, Neville puts a stop to it. Eloise has been his friend since childhood, and, well, she’s off-limits. Especially to Burke. As Burke pursues Eloise and claims that she has a tendre for him, Neville becomes more and more protective of the girl he grew up with. On the night of the Christmas ball when Eloise appears in a dress that clearly shows that she is no longer a girl,...

The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism, and inequality. Case ...

From the publisher of the USA TODAY bestselling & #1 Amazon bestselling Timeless Romance Anthology series in Clean Romance, comes A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS.Three brand new Regency Romance novellas by Josi S. Kilpack, Carla Kelly, and Jennifer Moore.**Amazon Top 30 in Regency Romance****Amazon Top 20 in Victorian Romance**SAINTS AND SINNERS by Josi S. Kilpack. When Neville Franklin’s best friend Burke wants to wager who can kiss Eloise fi...

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: All Regency Collection. Readers will love this collection of six regency romance novellas.In The Wedding Gift: A Pride and Prejudice Story, an enchanting novella by Anna Elliott, the story opens two weeks before Elizabeth Bennet’s wedding to Mr. Darcy. He has given her the perfect wedding gift, and now she must come up with one for him. But what do you give a man who has everyt...

Moore spares neither landlords nor tenants, priests or nationalists in his narrative.

Three heart-warming forced proximity romance novellas to cosy up with this festive seasonThree snow-kissed Regency romancesIn one festive volume!In A Christmas Houseguest by Carla Kelly, when a snowstorm stops their mailcoach, Rosie offers a fellow passenger sanctuary at her farm. War-weary from the navy, Andy will find his Christmas angel hard to leave…In Their Yuletide Reunion by Joanna Johnson, rejecting Lieutenant Fitz...

"Holly and Ivy"- The Napoleonic Wars are over. Troops are returning home to a joyous Christmas, except for Surgeon Jake Frost, who must escort a hypochondriac captain, barely wounded at Waterloo. Jake prepares to hate every minute of the ordeal, until he meets the hypochondriac's fiancé."Yours Sincerely" - Madeline and her widowed mother live in genteel poverty, at the mercy of overbearing in-laws. Despite this, they have managed well. Years earlier, they befriend...

A deal with a notorious rake may be her only hope.In a desperate search for her missing sister, Lady Natalia Abbingale is out of money, out of options, and out of hope—until she spies the one man that may be the key to finding her sister—the Marquess of Lockston. He was a rake. A connoisseur of young widows. She knew that. But he was also the only man that could help her.Fletcher Williston, the eleventh Marquess of Lockston, had been minding his own busines...

She's a thief…Viscountess Gabrielle McCullough is desperate. Her late husband died, leaving her to pay off his enormous gambling debts. His creditors are growing impatient…and violent. In a bid to pay off one particularly vicious creditor, she attempts to steal a fabulous necklace at a Society ball. But she's not the only one after the jewels. Gabrielle used to long for the affections of the Earl of Sedgwick, but he's the last man she wants to see when trying to ste...