This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish together? How does supporting educator wellbeing connect to teaching, learning, leading in schools? What characteristics, qualities and strategies support the wellbeing of the whole school commun...

A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK**“Wait for Me left me speechless...An absolutely gorgeous exploration of friendship, authenticity, and the power that a few strings and a well-written lyric can wield.” ―Shelby Van Pelt, author of Remarkably Bright CreaturesFrom the author of Mercury and Shiner comes a novel about the bond between two female folk singers, the love stories that haunt them, and the music ...

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar town—from Amy Jo Burns, author of the critically acclaimed novel ShinerIt’s 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone’s table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a ro...

They’ve both dug their roots deep…eight hundred miles apart.Zoe Griffin has a fresh new life—a hard-earned doctorate degree and a burgeoning nutritionist practice in Colorado. The only thing missing is the man she fell in love with.Cooper Flannagan did “new life” ad nauseam as an Army brat and shudders at the very mention of change. His fellow firefighters on San Amaro Island, Texas, are his family. He’s dug his roots deep, and he finally feels lik...

A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quietAmy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents’ generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines**,** and vacant lots. It wasn’t quite a ghost town—only because many people had no choice but to stay.The year Burns turned ten, this ...

'A gorgeous book' New StatesmanOld Songs fuses short stories, histories, lyrics and illustrations in an enthralling reimagining of traditional folk ballads. Sunday Times Bestselling historian Amy Jeffs and Illustrator Gwen Burns combine forces to create a rich compendium, singing of travel, mystery, magic and the essential urges of humanity.Featuring iterations of fairy tales and sinister descendants of Greek myths and bib...

In the red corner is a six-foot-three machine of pure mass, an ex-MMA fighter with a bad attitude and fists of steel.He is my best friend’s brother.But Sofia is not here anymore, and all that she left me were her instructions: take care of my kids.Not a simple task, especially when I have to open my doors to Sofia’s estranged brother.I spent my entire life dreaming about having a family of my own, but I didn’t think it would be thro...

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR“Amy Jo Burns writes a version of Appalachia that is one step removed from magic – all strychnine and moonshine and powerful wonder.”*—*NPR“[A] wrenching testament, told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal. . . This is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories.” —New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Wait for Me, an NBC Today Show / J...

Fame has a deadly price.Special Agent Amelia Storm, a seasoned FBI veteran, thought stepping away from the Organized Crime Unit and its mafia entanglements would lead to less complex and dangerous cases. She was wrong. Now in the Violent Crimes Division, Amelia is haunted by a chilling pattern that mirrors mob brutality.Murder as a message.How else can she explain why this serial killer murders everyone in the home but leaves the victim alive...an...

Addressing the explosive growth in ancestral travel, this compelling narrative combines intriguing tales of discovery with tips on how to begin your own explorations. Actor and award-winning travel writer Andrew McCarthy's featured story recounts his quest to uncover his family's Irish history, while twenty-five other prominent writers tell their own heartfelt stories of connection.Spanning the globe, these stories offer personal takes on journeying home, whether the authors are ac...

"Barbara Freethy’s Romantic Suspense books are explosively good!" –NYT Bestselling Author Toni AndersonA series of explosions. A city on edge. And two people with more to lose than they’ll ever admit…FBI Agent Kara Reid is new to the FBI Strike Team East—an elite unit built to move fast and take on the Bureau’s most dangerous cases. When a precision blast disrupts the streets of Manhattan, what begins as a search for answers quickl...

In 1967, US Air Force fighter pilot James Shively was shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief aircraft, he landed in a rice paddy and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. For the next six years, Shively endured brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy in Hanoi prison camps. Back home, his beloved girlfriend Nancy eventually moved on and married another man. Bound in iron stocks at the Hanoi Hilton, unable to get home to his loved ones, Shively conte...