This narrative nonfiction title shows students using technology effectively at school and at home. Domain-specific vocabulary about app is used throughout.
Readers meet a lovable squirrel as she is getting ready for the encroaching winter. She gathers up her food supply and counts each item along the way. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title "Squirrels and Nuts" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.
All the great things about summer are summed up in this fun narrative about counting. Readers follow along as Joe enjoys all his favorite things, including ears of corn and hot dogs. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title "Corn in the Summer" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.
Readers will build their science vocabulary and learn about the basic processes, safety procedures, and tools used by various scientists. An open-ended question for discussion is included at the end of the narrative.
Playing tug of war is an excellent age-appropriate method of demonstrating how tension force works. This core physical principle is at work in science, technology, and engineering.
Caring for classroom pets and understanding the things they need to survive and thrive teaches children basic life science concepts. This narrative introduces readers to Bubbles, a young goldfish who is growing and enjoying being taken care of by the class. A picture-word glossary is included.
This STEAM-based text provides a procedural narrative to young readers. Photo illustrations show the creative process of an art project. Readers see collaboration between a teacher and a student.
Science, Math, and Technology concepts are introduced through a fun day at the track. Mac and his family count flags, learn about speed and velocity, and enjoy some yummy grandstand snacks. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title "The Race Car: Velocity" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.
This STEAM title provides facts and explanatory text about how engineers work and how bridges are built. The title focuses on collaboration and problems and solutions.
Getting lost is scary, especially when you're a baby duck and there's all kinds of creatures to encounter. Readers will learn not to judge a book by its cover, as this tale ends well because of a helping hand from the Wolf. This fiction title is paired to the nonfiction title "Frances Writes a Fable" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.
This explanatory text provides domain-specific vocabulary to describe a spider’s habitat. The function of the web in the environment is shown with strong photo illustrations and close-ups that allow for the interpretation of evidence.
This first-person point of view describes the unique features of a garden in spring, combining life science information with facts about specific flowers.
Science, technology, and math are subtly folded into the introduction of food, cooking, and kitchens. The end result is a fun recipe for children to try with their caregivers. A picture-word glossary is included.
A large, plump robin is ready to lay her eggs. Readers are treated to a very close look at the life cycle of robins. A picture-word glossary is included.
This study articulates the distinctive moral character of the Afro-American women's community. Beginning with a reconstructive history of the Afro-American woman's situation in America, the work next traces the emergence of the Black woman's literary tradition and explains its importance in expressing the moral wisdom of Black women. The life and work of Zora Neale Hurston is examined in detail for her unique contributions to the moral tradition of the Afro-American woman. A final chapter initiates a promising exchange between the works of Hurston and those of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering and multi-dimensional work, 'Black Womanist Ethics' is at once a study in ethics, gender, and race.
A man so gorgeous herds of thong-wearing women flock to him, a woman who has no intentions of putting up with his shenanigans, and a teen who brings new meaning to the word eccentric...welcome to the Billionaire Marriage Club. Bela Turner is a former teacher fallen on hard times. Now she’s working loss prevention at a department store where she’s a hair’s breadth away from losing even that job. But when a fourteen year old named Catarina storms into her life trailing chaos, Bela thinks things couldn’t get worse…until she meets Izán, Cat’s drop-dead gorgeous Spanish father. Now he’s all Bela can think about, which is problematic considering women are all but dripping off him. Izán is the only child of an eccentric Spanish family, one that desperately wants to see him remarried. Izán is no fool, however, and one bad arranged marriage was enough for him. But recently, it’s become clear that his daughter Cat desperately needs more than the companions, tutors, and coaches he provides, and instead, starts thinking of finding a nice maternal woman who can help him take Cat's chaotic life in hand. Izán is completely unprepared by his instant desire for the delectable woman who involves him with one of Cat’s crazy plans, but he recognizes that Bela isn’t like the other women who flock to him. While he’s perfectly comfortable with the idea of their instant attraction, Bela doesn’t seem to be of the same mind...which is a problem considering she has become integral in his life, and without her, he would forever regret what could have been. Now Izán and Cat must convince Bela that her life will be infinitely improved by joining their family…even with her weird taxidermied animal collection. Cherish is the third book in a series of instalove romcoms, and is written by New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister using a super secret pen name. Shhh. It’ll be our secret.
Can she hold on to hope? Liverpool, 1937 When Miranda awakes one morning to find her mother has disappeared, her life is about to change forever. She raises the alarm amongst the locals, but her mother's whereabouts remains a mystery. With nowhere else to turn, Miranda is forced to live with her aunt and cousin, who resent her presence and treat her badly. She struggles to hold onto hope until she meets Steve, a neighbour who promises to help her in her search - until war intervenes... Miranda will never forget the past, but can she find the courage to open her heart and forge the future she deserves? A classic Katie Flynn story of tragedy, triumph and love from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
This, the second book in the Beyond Trilogy, expands on John and Katie's experiences and photographs of the orb phenomena covered in their first book. It reveals astounding new photographs and opens up exciting new questions about the whole nature of paranormal phenomena in general. John and Katie's photographs of orbs, angels and other apparitions have brought them into worldwide contact with other experiencers and researchers: it is from this basis that they now take a major step beyond the visible photographable phenomena, and current New Age notions about orbs, to reveal new insights about the paranormal. Could it be that orbs are the indicators of a wider, "beyond" reality? Is the symbology of orbs as images of oneness, drawing our attention to the most important orb of all: the orb of Earth on which we all live? Their ongoing photographs, personal experiences, and the amazing synchronistic events they found themselves part of reveal a conscious, purposeful phenomena that can interact with us as individuals, whoever and wherever we are. This inevitably leads to a spiritual perspective that crosses all religious and cultural boundaries, helping us to see that this one blue orb of Earth on which we all live, is greater than all that divides us! Orbs & Beyond is the vital visual link between Beyond Photography, and the forthcoming Beyond Reality.
One of bestselling author Katie Flynn's contemporary novels reissued for the first time For the shopkeepers who work in the Arcade in the seaside town of Haisby, life is not always easy. Diane Hopgood has moved from the bright lights of London to start a fashion boutique, expecting a quiet life, she finds both love and drama. Anthea, her assistant, has finally managed to free herself of the dark memories of her father’s sadistic abuse. But a terrible event changes everything for her. Marj cooks and waits tables at the wine bar, under the watchful eye of Martin, a chef of undoubted genius, despite his passion for women. Why has he never noticed Marj, though? As the shopkeepers struggle to make a living, each of them finds their life changing over the course of one eventful year.
The women who appear in these pages are both well-known and unknown, real and invented. They include, for instance, the fiery Elizabeth Fitzgerald who defended her castle so successfully, and Granuaile, the pirate queen from Galway.
Grumble grumble went Dozy's tummy. He was hungry! 'I'll go and find some FOOD,' Dozy decided, and off he trotted into the woods. And that's how his adventure began! The curious little Dozy Bear learns the secret of food in this innovative, thoughtful picture book which encourages youngsters to try something new . . . Dozy is hungry, but he doesn't like the food that Mama and Papa bear like. He only wants fish! But can a food adventure with the other animals in the forest change his mind? This charming story gently introduces the idea that trying new foods can be fun - perfect for any parent who has ever struggled at dinnertime.
This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary history of the English-speaking world. Katie Trumpener recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of fiction to describe the history of the novel during a period of formal experimentation and political engagement, between its eighteenth-century "rise" and its Victorian "heyday." During the late eighteenth century, antiquaries in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales answered modernization and anglicization initiatives with nationalist arguments for cultural preservation. Responding in particular to Enlightenment dismissals of Gaelic oral traditions, they reconceived national and literary history under the sign of the bard. Their pathbreaking models of national and literary history, their new way of reading national landscapes, and their debates about tradition and cultural transmission shaped a succession of new novelistic genres, from Gothic and sentimental fiction to the national tale and the historical novel. In Ireland and Scotland, these genres were used to mount nationalist arguments for cultural specificity and against "internal colonization." Yet once exported throughout the nascent British empire, they also formed the basis of the first colonial fiction of Canada, Australia, and British India, used not only to attack imperialism but to justify the imperial project. Literary forms intended to shore up national memory paradoxically become the means of buttressing imperial ideology and enforcing imperial amnesia.
Lorina Liddel is terrified of embarrassing herself on national TV as the face of Dig Britain!, a new archeological reality show. Lorina would much rather keep her head down and her hands in the dirt underneath Ainslie Castle, but her on-screen partner is proving to be a major distraction. Brother to the castle’s current lord, privileged, perfectly sculpted Gunner Ainslie is a sure bet to keep viewers glued to their screens. Lorina intends to keep the ladies’ man focused on the job at hand, but Gunner is confident he’ll soon have the beauty falling into his bed. When an unexpected find turns the academic dig into an all-out treasure hunt, Lorina and Gunner get swept up in the excitement. But when their steamy tryst is caught on camera, it’ll take more than an award-winning performance to get them out of the hole they’re in…
These four tongue-in-cheek stories take place in the make-believe island of Mazita, off the Kenyan coast in the sixties. Our diffident hero, Bob Dukes, is a novice single parent of three adventurous young children and newly appointed Commercial Officer, assistant to the Governor of Mazita. Overwhelmed with the often-conflicting tasks of keeping his children happy and fulfilling his boss's demands, he turns for help and guidance to his mentor and ultimate employer, the Queen. After all, he is Her Man in Mazita. This edition has the addition of the author's background notes to her stories, which is not available in the individual stories in the series, “Our Man in Mazita”. Beau-ootiful Soo-oop! - Bob Dukes, diffident hero, is a recently appointed and inexperienced diplomat working for Her Majesty's Britannic Government in the early sixties on the island of Mazita off the East African coast. As well as learning his new duties, he is faced with the task of being a single father to his three children. Bob's first official task is to organize a dinner for his boss, the Governor Designate of Mazita, who wishes to establish cordial relations with local bigwigs drawn from the many different cultures. Add to this minefield a reluctant first course and you will see why readers enjoy this story. Something Spotted - This is the second story featuring Bob Dukes, diffident hero and single parent to his three children, Poppy, Suze and Charlie. Bob is now beginning to find his feet as the newly appointed Commercial Officer and aide to the Governor of Mazita. Life would be sweet if he could just get on with his real job, but every time he sorts out a problem, Sir Phillip comes up with another role to add to his job description. This time it is White Hunter, and Bob is instructed to rid the neighborhood of a marauding leopard. Bob has never actually shot anything but a stuffed target during his army service, long ago during World War II. He's not at all happy about having to confront a big cat. But his friends come to his rescue. He gives the situation his best shot, in keeping with the esprit de corps of the Diplomatic Service. Something Rotten - Bob Dukes lives on the idyllic tropical island of Mazita where he is the single parent of Poppy, Suze and Charlie. His boss, the Governor of this Crown Protectorate on the East African coast, is always calling Bob into his office and giving him some impossible task, well outside his job description as Commercial Officer and Aide. In this quirky tale the future success of the island as an off-shore center is threatened by the strong whiff of corruption. Bob attempts to get to the bottom of things and see the guilty punished while he staves off life threats to the islanders and his family. Money laundering is involved long before the term was even coined! Christmas in Mazita - In this offbeat Christmas story about Bob Dukes and his family, Bob is called upon to entertain the Royal Navy over the Christmas period. He is annoyed about this as he feels it is outside his remit as Commercial Officer to the Governor of Mazita, an off-shore island on the East African coast. The task proves to be even more challenging than expected especially for Poppy, Suze and Charlie who are called upon to display a compassion and knowledge way beyond their years.
Tabitha needs four dominant Highlanders to protect her. In 1876, something seems to have gone awry, because four strong Highland hunters get bonded with the same cat at the annual Highland Fling. Then they discover the cat is actually a lovely young woman called Tabitha, who is cursed to transform into a Scottish Wildcat on a monthly basis. And she finds out the four men are wolf-shifters. The men are instantly drawn to their beautiful, spirited new bride, and are eager to mate with her and claim her as their own. But their match belies a deep problem with the spirits that watch over the village. When stranger things begin to happen around them, threatening everyone in the village, can they find a way to solve the odd goings-on with the spirit world? This is not a serial, but a series of standalones. HEA guaranteed. Publisher’s Note: This light-hearted Scottish historical romance is a wolf shifter reverse harem. There are elements of ménage, power exchange, paranormal with a little mad science, and steamy sensual scenes. If any of these offend you, please do not purchase.
Now macramé is for making attention-grabbing jewelry, hot accessories, and other projects. Best of all, if you can tie your shoes, you can create any of these great-looking items. No expensive material to buy, no fancy equipment needed, and no experience required. The “Knots 101” course will show you how every stitch is done, so you can get started almost immediately.
A brilliant romance novel set in 1930s Liverpool, from one of Britain's bestselling saga authors. Life is hard in 1930s Liverpool, and Biddy O'Shaughnessy is left destitute when her widowed mother dies. Forced to work all hours for Ma Kettle, owner of the local sweet shop, she can soon take no more and runs away. At first luck appears to be on her side. Sharing a flat with Ellen, an old school pal who has a special 'friend' paying the rent, keeps the wolf from the door. But fate conspires against them and Biddy finds herself homeless once more, living rough on the mean streets of Liverpool. When she applies for the post of maid with the Gallagher family, Biddy starts to feel she might at last be able to lead a normal life. Especially when she meets Dai, a young Welshman working the trawlers. But Nellie Gallagher has a secret that will change all their lives... Liverpool Taffy is a heartwarming story of love and courage from a wonderful storyteller, and one of the most popular saga writers of our time, Katie Flynn.
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