After severing herself from her death spirit, Rin is left raw, clinging to her fragile circle of friends and family. Now a rift to the Lower Void has opened, offering her a viable path to the Hold, but the anomaly throws Emberstead into a province-wide lockdown and Alyxia emerges from the shadows.Even though Rin and Johanna know they are stronger together and strive to find the control they need to stop Alyxia, it never seems to be enough. With her ruthless manipulation, Alyxia sei...

Rinnaya has never known the land of Illyson to give her anything but loss. Her Ironskin Lineage, once powerful and prosperous, is now reviled. And while dealing with the unbearable loss of her parents, her older brother left her to raise her younger brother, Liam, alone. All she wants is to give Liam a happier, safer childhood than she had.But when she discovers her essence contains the same latent power that led to the Ironskins' demise, she is forced to leave Liam behind to recei...

As a Beastblood-Emberstead halfie, Adrianne McCarthy is no stranger to criticism. Without being able to shift into her beast form, however, her personal shame bleeds on to her family. She's Shadowless, linked to the world of the dead.In her final year of Guardian training, Adrianne is desperate to prove herself. Striving to exceed everyone's expectations, she agrees to help train a new advanced team on top of her Medic classes and gruelling clinical work. Despite her efforts, she i...

Rinnaya Burgheim played right into the Revival's hands when she survived the attack of undead clones and activated her death affinity. Now, her worst nightmare is her reality—they kidnapped Liam.Forced into isolation for her own safety, Rin battles to control her death affinity. But seclusion and unsettling discoveries about her family twist her power into a volatile force that threatens to consume her. Hiding won't help. To get close enough to foil the Revival's plans, they need t...

There is an epidemic of insecurity in society today. Many people suffer from an unhealthy need for affirmation. They are not capable of feeling good about themselves. For some the quest for approval becomes an actual addiction, as they seek self-worth from the outside world because they can't find it within themselves. Joyce Meyer understands the need for seeking approval from others to overcome feelings of rejection and low self-esteem. The good news, she says, is that there is a cure. Go...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

For fans of Elmore Leonard and Robert B. Parker, meet hockey scout turned private detective Brad Shade, from “one of the best sports writers on the continent” Brad Shade has been just about everywhere hockey is played. He has ridden the buses in the minors, shared dressing rooms with the legends of the game, closed bars with guys destined for the Hall of Fame, and dropped the gloves with journeymen like himself who’ll never get near it. And even though he’s retired after fourteen years of ...

School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools, 3rd Edition prepares future teachers and administrators to conduct effective and equitable programs of family and community engagement that contribute to student success in school. Renowned authors Joyce L. Epstein and Steven B. Sheldon present the theories, research, policies, and practices that have been shown to improve the design and conduct of partnership programs in diverse communities and...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers] - The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Woman in Whi...

Dubliners is a collection of picturesque short stories that paint a portrait of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. Joyce, a Dublin native, was careful to use actual locations and settings in the city, as well as language and slang in use at the time, to make the stories directly relatable to those who lived there.The collection had a rocky publication history, with the stories being initially rejected over eighteen times before being provisionally accep...

A neurologist grapples with the aftermath of his traumatic brain injury, forever changing how he treats patients and their families, in this moving examination of recovery and healing.Ralph Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his when a drunk driver rear-ended him on his motorcycle in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, “What’s a hospital? What’s a motorcycle?” His accident and subsequent struggle tow...

September's Moonlight Serenade is the 7th novel of the series, Twelve months, Twelve Love Stories. This Contemporary Romance Series takes place in the Midwest and has a little bit of everything ~ humor, some serious chemistry, lots of love, and lasting friendships. Each novel features a different love story, and every story ties into all of the other stories in the series, leaving you feeling like you're gaining a whole new circle of friends.A litt...