Olympian Brenna Battle once had the fire. Now, she’s just burned out—and burned by love. She’s ready to retire from competitive judo and pursue a new dream in a new town, with her biggest supporter, her recently divorced little sister, Blythe. But on their first day in town, Blythe falls for local sleaze-bag reporter, Ellison Baxter, and their small-town welcome is stained by Baxter’s murder. The weapon—Blythe Battle’s hair brush.In this fast-paced, fun cozy mystery, Brenna, the pr...

Kaia Ross was a high school teacher. Until she lost her third job in four years, only to find herself with no prospects of employment in schools or otherwise. Searching for meaning, belonging, and a way to make ends meet, she's down on her luck and suffering through worsening depression, waiting for something to finally give. When she finds a compensated clinical trial for a new anti-depressant, she decides, "why not?" and takes a deep dive into the unknown with hopes it will at least ease...

"In the Family Way bursts with the complexity, drama, and warmth of Call the Midwife, but set at the canasta and kitchen tables of 1960s suburban America. This timely, timeless novel captures not only the reproductive horrors of that era but also political awakening and a kind of nostalgic hope: it's a changing world, and Roe, behind us now, was glimmering on the horizon then. Laney Katz Becker so beautifully reveals that where there are women's hardships, there is consol...

Jannika Peterson arrived in Grangeton, New Hampshire, with a broken heart and a new job managing the local bookstore. She has a gift for pairing readers with the perfect books, but her matchmaking skills don’t extend to her love life. Love doesn’t stand a chance against her well-protected heart.Eighteen years ago, Lee Thompson was Jannika’s summer camp counselor, and Lee has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the unusual name. Still healing from her wife’s sudden death, Lee ho...

Former Olympian and Arizona native Brenna Battle’s crazy dream of running her very own judo school for kids in tiny, historic Bonney Bay isn’t exactly off to a great start. She has a grand total of one student signed up, but she’s determined to succeed even if it means going door to door. Brenna’s search for judo recruits takes her inside the infamous haunted Reiner House, where she befriends a confused old man named Harvey, and finds herself at the scene of the second murder since her arr...

The foggy streets of london’swhitechapel district have become a nocturnal hunting ground for jack the ripper, and flower seller constance piper struggles to survive in a place where every woman fears the night.When a high-born stranger begs for her help in uncovering the truth behind a brutal murder, constance becomes entangled in a dangerous search that leads far beyond the headlines.As public hysteria mounts and the killings continue, constance follows a ...

Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride.What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years since the original protest, and what is now widely accepted to be the first Pride march – Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1970 – Pride events are now attended by millions each year, celebrating how far we've come, re...

Co-authored by Laney Sammons, a leading expert on the Guided Math framework, this essential classroom resource helps teachers successfully plan, organize, implement, and manage Guided Math Workstations. These effective and easy-to-implement workstation tasks help students practice, review and maintain mathematical concepts and skills during Guided Math Workshop. By implementing Guided Math Workstations, grades 6-8 students will develop a deep conceptual understanding of math, acquire compu...

Archaeologist Steve Carter has spent years chasing history's greatest mysteries, but nothing has prepared him for the discovery hidden deep within the jungles of Central America.When Archaeologist and ex-fianceeHannah Reeves uncovers a codex of a forgotten Mayan legend connected to the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatls chariot, Steve leads the expedition with his trusted companion Martin Jones former special-operations Hawk, Brainiac, Tiny, and tech specialist Pinky—to investigat...

Unexpected sparks fly and a back seat gets put to good use when a small-town sweetheart falls head-first for her ride-share driver.I’m supposed to be dating. Doing my level best to find The One™While I try to give all the guys on my dating app a fighting chance, I might accidentally be falling in love with my ride-share driver instead.Between disaster first dates and getting stood up and ghosted, I’ve become friends with one of the only car service ...

In this novel, of suspense and romance, boy-meets-girl but identifying Miss Right just starts his pursuit. As Michelle manipulates and their friends gossip, Sebastian is drawn by a woman he finds too tantalizing to resist, and too difficult to define. Even after he gets a date, Sebastian's challenges increase, to include surviving the worst Royal dinner ever and sharing rooibos tea. Accomplished columnist and storyteller, Kirby Laney, has crafted a novel of people living lives that could h...

After a few bumps—and mysterious deaths—former Olympian Brenna Battle’s new dream of running her own judo school for kids is finally rolling along. Business is good, and her little Bonney Bay Battlers are getting ready to put on a show for their small town’s Fourth of July parade. Things are heating up between Brenna and her favorite police officer, Will Riggins, too. But then Millie Brown, one of the new friends Brenna and her sister, Blythe, have made since moving to tiny Bonney Bay, tak...