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An infinity of lives, only one eternal love . . . . When Cole Kinsley asked Allie Knowles for her hand in marriage, he meant it. Death be damned. Nothing could keep them apart, not even a hundred years or more. Not even the vindictive spirit of Allie’s dead sister Grace. Released from her watery grave, she offers Cole a devil’s bargain. But to Cole, no price is too high when it comes to his beloved. Allie thinks it’s almost too good to be true. A week of bliss alone with Cole. His promise kept,...
| Автор | Odessa Gillespie Black |
With the traitor on the run, Ryleigh and Jackson can finally begin rebuilding their kingdom. But when a cryptic message suggests he was seen in Argonas, chaos creeps back into Cymmera once more . . . Jackson knows Cymmera will never be safe until the traitor, guilty of treason, is detained and executed. After ordering Cymmeran guardsmen to scour the land, he and the Death Dealer team brave the wilds of Argonas in search of the informant who spotted his foe. And in his absence, Jackson not only...
| Автор | Dani-Lyn Alexander |
Is ever lasting love a blessing—or a curse? Thanks to their adoptive parents, Allie and Cole have shared an unwavering connection since childhood. Now teenagers, they’ve been told their bond goes deeper than friendship. Allie and Cole are soul mates, destined to fall in love with one another again and again across the ages. For Cole, who remembers the past, the news is welcome. But Allie resists what she sees as a threat to her freedom, a ghost story, perhaps even a fantastical plan designed...
| Автор | Odessa Gillespie Black |
In order to fully inherit a millionaire’s fortune, Allie Knowles must survive a month on her property—easier said than done when the enormous house is haunted by a violent ghost who claims to know Allie. But the true mystery lies with Cole Kinsley, the handsome groundskeeper. Cole and Allie have never met, though he’s been driving her wild in her dreams for years. Yet now, every effort to get closer to him pushes him further away… Cole has only ever loved one soul and that love has endured for...
| Автор | Odessa Gillespie Black |
Libby and her friends are put in charge of the science booth at their school fair. There's only one problem: no one is visiting their booth! Does everyone think science is boring? Libby and her friends use teamwork, creativity, and just a bit of chemistry to turn things around and prove that science is for everyone. Perfect for aspiring scientists, story times, classrooms, home-schooling, and fans of Andrea Beaty's Ada Twist, Scientist, this STEM-themed companion to the popular Cece...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In this new ¡Vamos! title, Little Lobo is excited to take in a show with wrestling star El Toro in his bustling border town. After getting lunch orders from The Bull and his friends to help prepare for the event, Little Lobo goes on a tour of food trucks that sell his favorite foods, like quesadillas with red peppers and Mexican-Korean tacos. Full of easy-to-remember Latin-American Spanish vocabulary, this glorious celebration of food is sure to leave everyone hungry for lunch! The ¡Vamos! books...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
When you are a young adult in the Etheric Empire, your life can be changed in mere moments. Often for the better. Starting a business before you graduate school isn't exactly normal. Luckily, Anne has the support of Jinx, her friends-and a new mentor in the shape of Frank Kurns. The first steps into adulthood are never easy, especially when you have the responsibility that comes with being powerful to live up to. Anne realizes she has to step up her fighting game to be in the public eye. ...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
With a foreword by Zoella<br><br>Sometimes being a teenager can seem like a relentless merry-go-round of people telling you how to dress and behave, who to be friends with, what grades you must get in order to avoid a destiny of failure and, most importantly, why you’re spectacularly effing it all up.<br><br>The Self-Esteem Team know this – because they were teenagers once. Obvs. In fact, they were teenagers enduring bullying, chronic skin issues, ‘puppy fat’ that refused...
| Автор | Grace Barrett, Natasha Devon & Nadia Mendoza |
Since South Africa?s transition to democracy, many universities have acquired new works of art that convey messages about the advantages of cultural diversity, and engage critically with histories of racial intolerance and conflict. Given concerns about the influence of British imperialism or Afrikaner nationalism on aspects of their inherited visual culture, most tertiary institutions are also seeking new ways to manage their existing art collections, and to introduce memorials, insignia or...
| Автор | Brenda Schmahmann |
Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address. Written by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive collation...
| Автор | David Edwards |
The fallout from «Waiting for Superman,» the anti-union, teacher bashing documentary on charter schools; and the current economic crisis has placed teachers under the gun like no other time in history. Teachers pensions have been looted by banks and government institutions that have wrecked the economy. Budget shortfalls requiring the closing of dozens of urban schools across the country has unfairly created a pressure cooker situation for public school teachers. Requiring teachers to work...
| Автор | Lois Weiner |
Students are graduating from college with an unprecedented amount of debt. The Quebec student movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement proves that large numbers of students are demanding explanations for why they are crippled with debt and subject to ever increasing tution. Giroux shows the mechanisms by which schools are being reorganized to prioritize profit over people and competitiveness over compassion; and addresses the dystopian implications of these changes in policy and thought....
| Автор | Henry A. Giroux |
Despite being labeled as adults, the approximately 200,000 youth under the age of 18 who are now prosecuted as adults each year in criminal court are still adolescents, and the contradiction of their legal labeling creates numerous problems and challenges. In Courting Kids Carla Barrett takes us behind the scenes of a unique judicial experiment called the Manhattan Youth Part, a specialized criminal court set aside for youth prosecuted as adults in New York City. Focusing on the lives of those...
| Автор | Carla J. Barrett |
Rachel S. Schneider, M.A. и др.
In this illustrated book for children ages six through nine, and based on the article, How One Adult With SPD Wants to Explain this Condition to Your Sensory Child (http://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/how-one-adult-with-spd-wants-to-explain-this-condition-to-your-sensory-child/), SPD adult advocates Rachel and Kelly will lead kids and their parents through the basic ins-and-outs of what it means to have Sensory Processing Disorders(SPD). In this charming, colorful, and easy-to-read book,...
| Автор | Rachel S. Schneider, M.A. и др. |
Voted 2012 Book of the Year by Creative Child Magazine, Squirmy Wormy is a wonderful little children's book about a boy named Tyler, who has autism and SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder).  Together with Tyler, the reader learns about SPD, and what everyday easy therapys he can do by himself feel better.  For instance:  "I feel like running really fast, run run run! Maybe I just need a s-q-u-e-e-z-e between the couch cushions like a hot dog. ...
| Автор | Lynda Farrington Wilson |
The discovery of an old Ouija board sends three kids back in time to wartime 1915 to help a spirit find peace. Maggie’s life has been anything but easy lately. So when her best friend Gillian discovers a Ouija board in the attic, it’s a welcome relief. While they’d rather be at the mall than babysitting Maggie’s brother Cole, the girls figure it will be a fun way to spend a Saturday – asking questions about boys and other teenage dilemmas. After all, it’s just a game. Or is it? Thinking...
| Автор | Nancy Runstedler |
The Canadian General Election of 2004 is the definitive study of the campaign and the election. The 2004 edition includes analyses of: The campaigns of the 4 major parties and smaller partiesThe role of newspapers, television and the internet in the campaignsThe pre-election pollsVoting patterns across the countryThe rise in non-votingArticles are contributed from leading Canadian political writers, commentators and pollsters, including: Stephen Clarkson, Faron Ellis, and Peter Woolstencroft,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
On an icy evening in December, Kimberley Jamieson's world is shattered by a careless drunk driver who skids into her mother's car. In the three months since the accident, Kim has turned away from her old pursuits – she quit swimming, then the orchestra, and now she's even skipping school. Kim's father is no help either; a policeman constantly on call, he cannot spare a moment to listen. The road to recovery seems endless. Slowly, Kim does get back in step with the help of her...
| Автор | Virginia Russell |
It’s an exciting time for seventeen-year-old Libby, as she announces to her aunt that she plans to leave Toronto in the 1950s to spend the summer living alone in the empty family home in Pinkney Corners. Libby is determined to make it on her own and to spend some time honing her skills as a writer so that she can become a novelist and journalist like her deceased mother. But living alone can be a challenge. Libby makes a little money working at the five and dime, but the local paper can’t afford...
| Автор | Peggy Dymond Leavey |
Angus and his family are sent from Scotland in 1813 on a voyage to start a new life in the strange and cruel new land of western Canada. In 1813, cleared out from their beloved Scottish Highlands, 15-year-old Angus, his mother, father, small brother Rabbie, and 100 others sail for Canada to seek a better life with assistance from Lord Selkirk. Angus, his family, and their friends the O’Hares, with their aloof, unsmiling daughter Maggie, share the hardships and terror of the sea voyage only to be...
| Автор | B.J. Bayle |
This book is the product of a collective effort by some members of the Group of 78. The name of the group derives from the number of its founding members. Its activities comprise studies of and analysis of public issues which seem at the time to be of crucial importance not only to Canadians but to all the inhabitants of the planet. The issues are discussed at annual conferences and some of the discussions have been edited and published. The present effort was stimulated by the rapid changes in...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
How has the Ontario Agricultural College contributed to Canadian education? What role has the college played in the development of agriculture since it was founded in 1874? This history of Canada's oldest agricultural college revolves around these two questions. It shows that the college's mandate has changed in its attempt to serve both education and agriculture. The Ontario Agricultural College was established to enshrine science in farming, but it also became the testing and...
| Автор | Alexander Ross |
When The Ph.D. Trap was first published in 1987, it hit academe like a bombshell. Wilfred Cude dared to pull back the veil of graduate school life to expose the harsh realities of modern advanced study. Using statistics, academic history, and diverse intellectual traditions, Cude revealed the Ph.D. program in most disciplines to be savage, mechanical, and cruel – an exploitative construct that often frustrates legitimate intellectual inquiry, shatters viable career expectations, and mangles...
| Автор | Wilfred Cude |
Muslim Child is a collection of short stories, poems and prose that examines the world through the eyes of Muslim children. Each story represents a tenet of Islam in a way which is both entertaining and enlightening. Non-fiction sidebars help to explain and amplify the Islamic references. Some stories are centred around the major Muslim celebrations such as Eid and Ramadan, clarifying the customs and traditions. Another story is about a child getting separated from his parents while on the...
| Автор | Rukhsana Khan |