Poems in reaction to losing a friend to breast cancer, of having more friends go through it, and having a touch of it myself.

Avery isn't acting like himself...When his dad, Derek, brings home a strange totem, Avery becomes obsessed. Soon, he stops sleeping. Then he begins speaking in tongues and consuming his classmate's blood.Derek does his best to support his family, but living on a meager salary comes with its own stresses, and Avery's new hobbies are just one more burden on an already heavy load.Can Derek uncover what's making Avery act like this and save his family? Or is this the ne...

Freddy is like no other fork! He can walk, run, jump, see, think and imagine. Freddy dreams about the day he can have his very own. playmate and become a part of the family he lives with. Come along with Freddy on his fun- filled adventure!

A well-rounded curriculum needs to address the more formalized development of leadership abilities that will ensure that young people acquire the knowledge and skills essential to assuming leadership roles. Changing Tomorrow 3: Leadership Curriculum for High-Ability Students offers instructional activities for high-ability high school students based on the Common Core State Standards that emphasize critical and creative thinking skills and gives gifted students an opportunity to a...

Patrick is a peanut from the Planet of Gooberville, where he lives happily with his family! Until one night a storm jolts the planet! Patrick was then awakened when his room begins to shake tremendously and cracks the floor. He tried to hold on, but Patrick's home began to tilt and he fell through a hole in his bedroom floor. Patrick became unconscious as he plummeted through space down to an unfamiliar place known as Planet Earth, in a peanut factory. Here the unfamiliarity Patricks exper...

Draven est le PDG égoïste, arrogant, bourru et fermé d'ElectroPower Industries. Il travaille dur pour obtenir ce qu'il désire. Il a tout ce dont il a besoin sauf une chose : un assistant personnel jusqu'à ce qu'Ally prenne le poste. Malheureusement, ils se méprisaient. Elle le remet à sa place pendant qu'il appuie sur ses boutons. Cependant, la petite fille d'Ally saisit le cœur de Draven et pourrait lier Ally et Draven ensemble. Ally est une femme caustique, indépendante, opiniâtre et aff...

Monica has a theory about love: it starts electric and ends in watching Netflix in matching pyjamas. She's seen the evidence. She's lived it.So when she moves to Rome, the last thing she's looking for is a relationship. What she gets instead is Alexi: calm, confident, with an unparalleled lust for life. Their arrangement is simple — the summer, nothing more. No future. No expectations. No slow decay into domesticity.It works. Then it starts to work too well.A litera...

Two neuroscience experts explain how their 4-Step Method can help break destructive thoughts and actions and change bad habits for good.A leading neuroplasticity researcher and the coauthor of the groundbreaking books Brain Lock and The Mind and the Brain, Jeffrey M. Schwartz has spent his career studying the structure and neuronal firing patterns of the human brain. He pioneered the first mindfulness-based treatment program for people suffering f...

From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our livesWe've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-consuming, and fun. But as Dr. Stuart Brown illustrates, play is anything but trivial. It is a b...

The world knows Avery Sterling as the Ice Queen: a brilliant, ruthless lawyer who claimed her hollow victory in a glass tower of the Metropolis. Her life is a fortress, perfectly crafted to keep the ghosts out. But every fortress has a crack.When a new conquest, Patricia, seems to see past the armor, Avery's control begins to frustraterather than fracture. The boardroom dominance she wields like a weapon fails to translate into the intimate connect...

Ce livre audio est narré par une voix numérique.Dans un monde de plus en plus complexe, le plus beau cadeau que nous puissions offrir à nos enfants n'est pas simplement l'éducation, mais aussi un profond amour pour l'apprentissage. La joie d'apprendre : inspirer la curiosité chez les enfants est un guide complet qui éclaire le chemin permettant aux parents, aux éducateurs et aux soignants d'allumer les flammes de la curiosité et de l'exploration chez les jeunes esprits qu'ils nourr...

**“Heartfelt and ever-endearing—equal parts information and inspiration. This is a book to keep by your bedside and return to often.”—Amy Dickinson, nationally syndicated advice columnist "Ask Amy"More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness.**After a chance encounter with an extraordinary ninety-year-old woman, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer began to wonder what older peopl...