Turn On the Power: How School is Limiting Your Child's Potential and What to Do About It provides the information and tools you need to blaze an individualized educational trail best suited to your family. Details regarding enrichment, homeschooling, and early college provide the foundation upon which informed decisions can be made. Empirical evidence is provided to dispel misconceptions regarding homeschooling, and to support the authors' shared position that traditional schooling is not ...

Turn On the Power: How School is Limiting Your Child's Potential and What to Do About It provides the information and tools you need to blaze an individualized educational trail best suited to your family. Details regarding enrichment, homeschooling, and early college provide the foundation upon which informed decisions can be made. Empirical evidence is provided to dispel misconceptions regarding homeschooling, and to support the authors' shared position that traditional schoolin...

There is one person on this earth I cannot stand: Ethan Taylor.Sure, he looks like he belongs on the cover of a magazine, but don't let his looks fool you. He is pretentious, arrogant, and self-absorbed. Unfortunately, he is also the son of a reality TV star, and designers who won't even glance at my portfolio are on his speed dial.But now he has a proposition for me: If I join him in New York City and pose as his date to his grandmother’s swanky benefit, he’ll take me to F...

On January 22, 2003, four men stepped onto a stage in Brooklyn and did something no one else was doing at that time, in that place. They played rock 'n' roll: old-fashioned rock 'n' roll with skyscraping riffs and sloppy solos, topped with extraordinary lyrics about an out-of-focus America, blurred by pills and powders, of crime and fear and desperation and redemption. Twenty years later, The Hold Steady are one of America's most beloved rock bands, famed for live shows that turn unbelieve...

Sarah Morgenthaler is back with a heart-mending contemporary romance featuring a single dad you'll fall for; a satisfying slow-burn love affair; found family you'll root for; small town holiday magic; and all the quirky animals and snowy rustic scenes your heart desires.Sienna Naples's family has taken care of their wild Idaho land for generations and Sienna can't imagine any other life. But at Christmastime, with her parents gone and her painful marriage finally o...

I like to live my life with no regrets. The only exception? Levi Carter.Five years ago we met on vacation and fell into an innocent flirtationship.And like all the women in cliche romance novels—*I’d know since I read them obsessively—*I fell in love.Then I promptly chickened out of admitting my way-too-soon-red-flag-feelings and left Levi behind, with nothing but his first name to remember him by.I thought I’d never see him again, but then ...

A psychological thriller with a heart-pounding twistI have my dream job,With a nightmare boss.At first, Nicole Barret seemed to be the perfect boss.I was dead wrong.It gets worse when I find out my husband knows her all too well. She's his ex-fiancé.She won’t let me quit without destroying my career and my marriage.It wasn’t a coincidence that she hir...

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection—Hartman’s firs...

Communicating Intimate Health presents an edited collection of original, empirical research, personal essays, autoethnography, critical reviews, and theoretical work showcasing advances in intimate health research from the field of communication studies. Intimate health includes sexual and reproductive health, sexual activity, sexuality, gender, and reproductive justice. The contributors vulnerably engage subjects including: parent-child, partner, patient-provider, and larger societal disc...

"Discover the inspiring story of Nikki Haley, a trailblazing figure in American politics. This definitive biography explores her ascent from the daughter of Indian immigrants to becoming South Carolina's first female governor and a dynamic U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. This book offers an unprecedented look into Haley's political journey, highlighting her leadership, challenges, and her vision for America's role in global politics. With exclusive insights and detailed analysis, th...

Six-year-old Gracie Lynn is perpetually curious and bighearted. Convinced she knows how to save her beloved grandfather John from the 'worm' that is eating his brain - a metaphor her mother once used to explain John's dementia and sundown syndrome - Gracie helps him break out of his nursing home, and the two disappear together on a quest to chase the sun.But what's an adventure for Gracie is a nightmare scenario for her estranged parents, LeeAnn and Dan. There's no way to predict w...

Leaving Home presents a method of family therapy at the stage when children are leaving home. It includes a special classification of young people with problems, and tackles family orientation, the therapist support system, the first interview, apathy, troublemaking, a heroin problem, a chronic case, and resolved and unresolved issues.Visit www.haley-therapies.com for additional resources by Jay Haley, including live videos of t...