"Makes a distinct contribution to the field and will be a very useful resource for universities and school districts."—Susan Villani, Senior Program/Research Associate, Learning InnovationsAuthor, Mentoring and Induction Programs That Support New Principals"Will improve the training and practice of future school administrators and the learning of students across the country."—Jim Lentz, Superintendent, Augusta Public Schools, KS

Inclusive Leisure: A Strengths-Based Approach blends theoretical and practical information to prepare students to apply the concept of inclusivity to all aspects of the leisure and recreation field.Inclusive Leisure delivers foundational content to help readers understand inclusion and applies this knowledge to practical and applied scenarios. Grounded in a strengths-based approach, which focuses on a person’s abilities rather than their limitations, the comprehen...

Modeled on Fitzroy Dearborn's highly successful International Dictionary of Historic Places , the International Dictionary of University Histories provides basic information on 200 institutions--location, description, sources of further information--followed by an extensive 3000 to 5000 word essay on each university's history. Entries on each university conclude with a Further Reading list, and most entries are illustrated. Coverage is world-wide, and entries range from the great medieval ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.From the ashes of despair rises a new beginning.Trapped in a world of darkness, a young woman makes a desperate gamble for survival. But death is not the end for her. Awakening to a new reality, she finds herself haunted by four enigmatic beings and thrust into a hidden world of extraordinary individuals.A world where magic and danger intertwine.Enrolled in the mysterious academy, she embarks on a perilous journe...

From the National Bestselling author of The Boat Runner comes a poignant, luminous novel that follows one family over decades and across the world—perfect for fans of the film Boyhood.Western New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents’ destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track ani...

This bundle contains the best Harlequin comics! Vol. 2 is Scandal Love Stories. "The Billionaire's Secret Baby", "Billionaire Bachelors: Stone", "The Billionaire Boss's Forbidden mistress!", "The Billionaire's Virgin Mistress", "The Millionaire Meets His Match", and "A Date With a Billionaire".Please check "[FREE] Harlequin Comics Best Selection Vol. 2" for free preview.

Ecuador, 1969: An American expatriate, Fay Fern, sits in the corner of a restaurant, she and her young son Wright turned away from the television where Vincent Kahn becomes the first man to walk on the moon.Years earlier, Fay and Vincent meet at a pilots’ bar in the Mojave Desert. Both seemed poised for reinvention—the married test pilot, Vincent, as an astronaut; the spurned child of privilege, Fay, as an activist. Their casual affair ends quickly, but its consequences linger....

The first novel in a new series from bestselling author Nan Rossiter tells the moving story of a couple struggling to start a family and the young foster girl with a heart condition who changes their lives forever.“A multi-leveled, beautifully written story that will glow in readers’ hearts long after the last page is turned.”—Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling authorCan the course that they’ve set for the future handl...

"Hassib, herself an Egyptian immigrant living in West Virginia, articulates the full-bodied chorus of Egypt's voices."--The New York Times Book Review"Exquisite. . . . Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. . . . A lovely novel that does a remarkable job of bringing troubling realities to light, and life."

When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. "I can only hope," she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, "that his waters being so very still, they a...

The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruinJerome ""Corky"" Corcorn. A money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day weekend, and we are about to live with him, breathe with him, and sweat with him in a nonstop marathon of mounting desperation as he tries to keep his financial empire from unraveling, his love life from shredding, and his rebellious daughter from...

**ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAROne of Christian Science Monitor's BEST FICTION OF 2019"Funny and tender but also provocative and wise. . . One of the most hopeful and insightful novels I've read in years." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post"Serious yet joyous comedy, reminiscent of the Pultizer-winning Less" - Out MagazineA novel about wh...