“You would be pretty if you didn’t have that … You just have to take what you can get since you got strikes against you!”Tineya has experienced a lot of trauma in her short life. Losing both parents has left a broken, weak soul. As if that’s not enough, she’s left with physical wounds that no woman should have to deal with. More than just bad memories, Tineya’s wound runs deeper.What would you do if everybody could see the remnants of one unforgettable night that changed yo...

“You would be pretty if you didn’t have that . . . You just have to take what you can get since you got strikes against you!”Tineya has experienced a lot of trauma in her short life. Losing both parents has left a broken, weak soul. As if that’s not enough she’s left with physical wounds that no woman should have to deal with. More than just bad memories, Tineya’s wound runs deeper.What would you do if everybody could see the remnants of one unforgettable night that changed...

Can you combine wanderlust and motherhood?Margo Weinstein did.For decades, Margo Weinstein escaped her demanding legal practice by kayaking, whitewater rafting, trekking, and climbing in remote regions. Then she had a son and found herself in the kiddie pool on a Disney cruise. Searching for a new path, a jalan-jalan, that could accommodate motherhood and satisfy her wanderlust, she dragged her young son to the other side of the world, moving first to Shanghai and ...

Biomimicry, the practice of observing then mimicking nature’s strategies to solve business challenges, offers a path to healthy profit while working in partnership, and even reciprocity, with the natural world. Other books have described biomimicry, its uses, and its benefits. This book is the first to show readers how they can successfully bring biomimicry and bioinspired design into their companies based on what other businesses have already achieved.Fashioned through storytellin...

What ingredients are needed to make a nourishing bean soup? Appealing text and illustrations will draw emergent readers into the story. Pairs with the nonfiction title Let's Look at Beans.

90% of net after-tax proceeds go to Mattie's Place Pet Rescue and Medical Recovery Center. http://www.mattiesplace.ca.This is the story of an old dog named Pearl, who is loving and kind. But later in life, she finds herself in an animal shelter. She goes from very happy, to confused and scared, and back to happy again - all because of a wise and kind-hearted little boy who knows the value of adopting an older dog. 90% of net after-tax proceeds go to Mattie's Place Pet Rescue and Re...

Sir Wolf is troubled. Though he thought Kit was nothing but a slip of a girl, a sprout, she’s strong, beautiful and truly brave. Not only that, he’s attracted to her. However, he’s just the king’s envoy, and cannot let her know his feelings. For her part, Kit is also troubled. On her journey to London on the king’s orders, she has fallen in love with Wolf. He’s different from her violent stepfather, and he's gentle and kind with both her and her elderly nursemaid. But now that she knows wh...

A new land, a new time . . .To protect his people from a great evil, Merrick Mac Lochlainn, newly crowned high chieftain of his clan, must travel forward in time nearly 1,000 years. But when he awakens in nineteenth-century England, he has no memory of his mission to save his race, nor can he recognize Jenny Keating, the spirited young beauty who calls herself his wife.A new love . . .Orphaned and on the run from a cruel headmaster, vulnerable and alone, Jenny never...

Though she’s merely an earl’s daughter, the king calls Kit to London. What could the king want with a simple country girl like her? She tries to run away but she’s caught by her stepfather and beaten. The black-haired knight, Wolf, who has come to take her on the king’s orders, is shocked by her bruised face and her muddy clothes. “This filthy uchin is Lady Catherine?” But despite her beaten face and dirty clothes, her eyes and hidden hair are beautiful beyond imagination….

A must-read for fans of Jenny Han! Acclaimed writer Margo Rabb’s Kissing in America is "a wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry, intelligence, and the inner lives of girls," raves internationally bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love).In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels—118 of them, to be exact—to dull the pain of her loss that’s still...

To escape the ghosts of his past, warrior Lachann MacMillan will forge his place in the world through battle and cunning. What he doesn't count on is the passion of a lifetime . . .For Lachann, safeguarding his clan comes before life, limb, and especially love. A political marriage in Kilgorra will ensure that MacMillan lands are protected; so much the better that his bride doesn't stir his blood. But what of the intriguing woman who arouses so much more . . . and lives in the very...

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments - the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of post-racial America - Jeffe...