THEY OWN THE ICE AND NOW THEY OWN MEI was the quiet girl with the perfect GPA and a future mapped out in ink. Then Gunner Cline forced his way into my life. He is the captain of the hockey team and a god at the rink. To save his failing grades and his toxic image, I have to play his wholesome fake girlfriend. I thought I was the one in control of the classroom, but he made it clear that he owns every inch of me.The game turned lethal when he brought his pro...

Celebrating a business anniversary? Try these 11 strategic methods designed to attract and impress customers, boost their loyalty to you, and secure your high status reputation. While you're helping your business, you will also be supporting local history and building your legacy! These are proven methods developed by a marketer/historian. Don't let the opportunity pass you by!

A 52-week interactive devotional that helps families and friends discover God enfleshed in the world.**WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD IN DAILY WISDOM“A devotional in the most all-encompassing sense, Seasons of Wonder sets readers on a path that leads to a year filled with more hope, more sweetness, more grace, and more love.”—Margaret Renkl, author of Late Migrations and PEN Award Winner**Seasons of Wonder is designed t...

A 52-week interactive devotional that helps families and friends discover God enfleshed in the world.Seasons of Wonder is designed to allow you to gather together weekly with your loved ones and expand your understanding of divinity, specifically the radical but faithful idea that everything is sacred. This devotional is designed around weekly contemplative activities as well as interactive and transformative practices that connect us to surprise, awe, and...

In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range of employments-from printmaking to running whole-sale businesses-although social and legal structures frequently limited their capacity to work independently. The contributors to Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France reveal how women at all levels of society negotiated these structures with determination and ingenuity in order to provide for themselves and their families.Recent historiography on women and wor...

An empowering guide to creative renewal and change, rooted in the belief that crafting can return us to our shared humanity and ignite a quiet revolution shaped by our own two hands.“This radiant handbook is hope made doable.” —Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author and illustratorIn a world that demands so much more of us than we can possibly give, where social, political, and technologica...

An empowering guide to creative renewal and change, rooted in the belief that crafting can return us to our shared humanity and ignite a quiet revolution shaped by our own two hands.“This radiant handbook is hope made doable.” —Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author and illustratorIn a world that demands so much more of us than we can possibly give, where social, political, and technologica...

Cats distract us. Cats make us think of things outside of ourselves. And cats love to involve themselves in human affairs.In this omnibus volume of WMG Publishing's notable series, The Year of the Cat, felines of all stripes pounce and play and stalk through 100 cat stories in genres ranging from light romance to dark crime and everything in between.Entertaining cats, loving cats, even super-talented and time-traveling cats grace the pages of these twelve volumes edited by ...

In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the middle class and confined them to a largely reproductive experience. Out of this, she suggests, they created their own world, centered on domesticity, family, and religion. To understand these women, the author argues, it is necessary to examine their world on its own terms as a coherent wh...

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women's relationship to world developments over the past five hundred years.Women have served the world as unfree people, often forced to migrate as slaves, trafficked sex workers, and indentured laborers working off debts. Diseases have migrated through women's bodies and women thems...

A thrilling and moving lyrical descriptive poem in the style of legendary Australian bush poets Andrew ‘Banjo’ Paterson and Henry Lawson. Australian bush ballads are renowned for their easy-flowing style and comfortable rhythmic pace, and this poem is a beautifully crafted example of that art.A desperate Australian farming family caught in a drought and under threat of mortgage foreclosure in a few days, form a plan to enter their horse Bonny Blue in a horse race ...

Books make great gifts.Treat yourself this holiday season to 10 entertaining Christmas stories for every occasion.Written by master storytellers and upcoming new voices these stories span various worlds. From women’s fiction to fantasy, crime to hot romance and mystery, you will find a Christmas story for everyone to enjoy.Whether you want to shiver, laugh, cry or sigh, give yourself, or someone you know, the gift of stories this holiday season and all year through....