A Letter to My DaughterMy daughter, My one of a kind princess, I knew you before you were conceived. I knit you together in your mothers womb and brought you forth on the day you were born. I chose you when I planned creation. You are not a mistake; I took great care and thought when I made you. I love you unconditionally. Prepare to start loving you again. Prepare to be made over from the inside out.Know that I have a plan for you; plans to prosper you, not to harm you, I ...

Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students' fascination to create unique learning opportunities. Some teachers engage with their students' ideas in ways that make learning collaborative--but not all students have access to these kinds of learning environments.In Segregation by Experience, the authors filmed and studied a a first-grade classroom led by a Black immigrant teacher who encouraged her di...

Together, the voices of early childhood educators, scholars, and professionals can sound the call to advance the profession toward more equitable educational experiences, systems, and practices for all children. This book showcases many of these voices from across the field of early childhood education and invites you to think about and discuss ways you can add your own voice to that call.Expanding on recommendations from NAEYC’s “Advancing Equity in Early Childhoo...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

Missing a piece of her soul won’t stop Shade from helping Scath with her murder weregild–whether Scath wants her help or not. After all, what self-respecting witch would let her friend face vengeful leannan sidhe twins alone?It’s not Shade’s fault a dead wizard possessed the person Scath needs to fulfill her weregild. Or that he refuses to leave until Shade and Scath solve his murder.Besides, solving a murder should be easy with the victim’s ghost right there to help. Right...

How do you rejoice when you're facing the greatest pain you've ever known?This book will help me trust and rejoice in the Lord's presence in all circumstances. I will have the patience and the faith to know that by His own righteous standards, God will right all the wrongs done to me.Shortly after her husband abandoned her and their child, Jennifer LeClaire found herself facing ten years in prison based on a false accusation for a crime she didn't commit. A...

Family can be tricky.In the Otherworld, tricky can get you killed.Shade’s latest case from her Unseelie master drags her into the home of a ruthless Seelie lord. A set of enchanted goblets has been stolen, and he wants her to find the thief. To make matters interesting, Flint has a relationship with the Seelie lord in question—He’s his stepbrother.Cael is proof that not all horrors come from the darkness. As the most infamous interrogator for...

It was supposed to be a simple theft.Scath’s next weregild should have been easy. Infiltrate a Seelie noble house posing as an unscrupulous witch and her large feline servant looking to purchase a new animal companion–or perhaps a slave. Spend the day wandering the Seelie’s stable full of rare and dangerous creatures and having lunch with happy slaves who demonstrate how effective the family’s training program can be. Then when darkness falls, locate the artifact and make a quick g...

She’s a common girl in a ruthless kingdom. He’s the king’s son—and her greatest danger.Seventeen-year-old Rema has learned to survive by keeping her head down. In a land where starvation and violence rule, even a wrong glance can mean death. But when she accidentally crosses paths with Prince Darmik—the ruthless commander of the King’s Army—everything changes.Their connection is instant. Forbidden. Dangerous.The Crown Prince will do anything to keep...

Shade’s latest case hits close to home when a witch shows up on her doorstep claiming her magic has been stolen. A fly-by-night coven is using an online message board to recruit inexperienced witches—only to vanish weeks later, leaving a trail of magicless women in their wake.And it only gets weirder from there.An offer of help from a familiar, but unwelcome source.Growing discord from Scath threatening to play right into their enemies’ hands.And the mutilat...

USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Blackstream unveils a new action-packed urban fantasy series that NYTimes #1 bestselling author Patricia Briggs calls "F**un, quirky and addictive.** It starts good and just gets better. Highly recommended.”As a witch with a dark past, Shade Renard knows the Otherworld isn't always successful at policing itself. Humans don't believe in magic anymore, and their ignorance renders them easy prey. So when ...