Charlotte eagerly glances around the restaurant. The pitying stares of bystanders fuelling old insecurities as the crowd relishes her humiliation. Her confidence is at an all time-low as she realizes she's been stood up. Cheeks flaming red and tears prickling her eyelids, she gets up to leave. Suddenly a dark shadow passes over her table. She looks up to finds herself staring into a beautiful pair of green eyes and the most gorgeous smile she's ever seen. She gasps as she instantly recogni...

Sports are an amazing environment in which to raise children. The benefits they gain from athletic participation are many, including physical, personal, and social. Yet, there is also a dark side to today’s youth sports culture, as an emphasis on winning has made what was once fun become a burden for many young athletes. As a result, parents can’t always be certain their children’s athletic involvement will be safe and enjoyable.In Raising Young Athletes: Parenting Your Children to...

A sizzling night of passion refuses to fade away in this steaming hot romance novel.Melissa Masters had the perfect life: a luxury lifestyle, a high-powered corporate career and a dashing British lover ready to pop the question.That is, until it all comes crashing down when she discovers her London paramour is hiding a devastating secret, one that will change the course of her life forever.Determined to reinvent herself and leave the past behind Melissa takes on her...

Planning with Young People presents educators, urban planners, and designers with an alternative vision of how to build cities for young people, challenging readers to imagine cities that truly serve their youngest inhabitants. This book argues that great cities can only emerge when they are good for all members, especially young people under 25, who are often marginalized in urban design. The first half of the book explores the competing, sometimes conflicting, and often incomple...

"Jampacked and delicious, crammed with a cast of selfish, feckless, darling, talented, almost terminally eccentric, good-looking men and women." —Carolyn See, The Washington PostBefore the media circus of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and our modern obsession with celebrity, there were the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites who romped through the gossip columns of 1920s London. Evely...

Pocket Guide for Young Men Without Fathers is designed to give ten-year-old and up boys without dads self-confidence and teach them what fathers teach their sons. Divided into four main sections—Being a Man, Respecting Yourself, Your Future, and Other Important Lessons—it consists of twenty-eight short, easy-to-read chapters including:• Walk with Confidence• Respecting Your Mother and Other Women• How to Shave• Table Manners• The Difference Betw...

She traveled to another time and place to changing destiny...Enjoying a day of sailing, Taylor Maxwell never expected after a suffering a concussion she would wake up in another century. A resilient independent woman in the twenty-first century, the blond beauty is ill prepared for life in the 1800s. Her first sight of the naval captain who rescues her makes her heart stop, giving her hope for her future.His life is transformed by a woman who appears from nowhere......

The day Liz Evans went for a run in the forest, she didn't expect to die.She didn't expect to turn into a vampire, either.Her world is turned upside down in an instant, and her dreams of college and falling in love have gone right out of the window. Now all she can think about is blood.But with a little help from her vampire boyfriend Sam and his brother Zac—the guy she’s definitely not meant to have feelings for—he...

Get inside the head of one of the most influential musicians of our time, a pop music phenomenon turned titan of industry and cultural icon: Taylor Swift.This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Swift's numerous public statements—interviews, op-eds, social media posts, and more, specifically geared toward middle and high school readers. It's a comprehensive picture of her meteoric rise to the top, her ever-savvy business sense, and her increasingly...

Learning about ICT has all sorts of benefits for young people with SEN but for anyone planning a course, knowing where to start can be difficult. This manual is packed full of practical know-how. It includes: 36 planned sessions ready to deliver; Which hardware software to get and how best to use it and Time-saving photocopiable and downloadable resources.

This book examines young men’s precarious education-to-employment transitions as they navigate educational, occupational and emotional challenges in the shadow of deindustrialisation and austerity.Using a mixed-methods approach, Gülgeçer draws on survey and interview data to explore young men’s perceptions and experiences of employment, unemployment, education and training in two post-industrial British cities. The book analyses how structural inequalities – fragmented labour marke...

WELCOME TO THE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG SUPERVILLAINS.Sixteen-year-old Theo Palmer always believed he was destined for greatness-just not the kind that lands him in handcuffs. When a late-night convenience store robbery forces him to reveal his powers, Theo finds himself on the wrong side of the law and labeled as a potential threat. Right when he thinks his life is ruined, he's given a rare opportunity: to enroll in the prestigious Academy for Young Superheroes. However,...