When Adanne accepts a last-minute job as a makeup artist for a movie filming in her small Alabama hometown, all she wants is a steady paycheck to keep her family’s legacy alive. But the money hardly seems worth having to face the actor who got her fired from her last job in Hollywood.After turning his life over to God and enduring a messy breakup, John Pope is ready to start rebuilding his career. Imagine his surprise when the woman called in to cover for his usual makeup artist is...

A heartbreaking yet hopeful novel about one girl’s journey through grief and the family, first love, and shocking truths she finds on the other side—perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Every Last Word.All her life, it’s just been sixteen-year-old Skylar and her rockstar dad against the world. But this year, a horrible accident cuts the summer short and upends her life.As Skylar grieves her dad, she discovers a huge secret: her mother is still aliv...

A botched promotion, an awkward reunion, and a fake-dating scheme they never planned to fall for.Kenya Stewart is so close to getting her dream position at an event agency. When a scheduling blunder risks her promotion, she hopes an upcoming pitch will allow her a second chance. Then an accident at her cousin's wedding sends her to the emergency room in the care of another wedding guest, Solomon Anruchi, the handsome doctor who ghosted her after their first date.

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureMargaret loves her parents and hanging out with her best friend, Maizon. Then it happens, like a one-two punch, during the summer she turns eleven: first, Margaret's father dies of a heart attack, and then Maizon is accepted at an expensive boarding school, far away from the city they call home. For the first time in her life, Margaret has to turn to someone who isn't Maizon, who d...

Reading your Bible doesn’t have to be complicated. All you need is fifteen minutes, a Bible, a pen, and this devotional.Have you ever told yourself that this would be the year you actually read the Bible on your own, only to give up before you even began? Have you just started following Jesus or want to learn more about life with Him, but you don’t know where to start?The How to Read the Bible Devotional, which leads you through the book o...

ONE BOY’S DISAPPEARANCE WILL CHALLENGE A TRADITION AND IGNITE A REVOLUTION!In a world where tradition rules and secrets are buried deep, one boy’s disappearance will unravel it. Kamboda, a boy with physical impairments, lives in an African village where such children are believed to be evil spirits.When Kamboda mysteriously vanishes, his cousin Maladho sets out to uncover the truth, challenging deep-seated beliefs and uncovering government complicity. As Ma...

An operational playbook for maintaining control as AI agents scale across the enterpriseAI agents are rapidly becoming embedded across enterprise systems. They schedule meetings, generate reports, approve transactions, interact with customers, and make decisions across digital environments. Organizations have, in effect, created a new kind of insider: software trusted to act on the company’s behalf.Seventy-nine percent of executives report that AI agents ar...

When the game changes, love finds a way to score.Jabari Hall has spent his entire life chasing victory on the ice—but one devastating hit leaves him benched, not just from hockey but from the future he thought he had. Now, as he struggles with deteriorating eyesight, his well-meaning teammates set him up on a date, hoping it will cheer him up—only the date they choose is none other than Val Elliott, his ex's sister.Val never expected to be sitting across fr...

This fascinating addition to the best-selling Who Was...? series does not settle questions of theology. Instead, it presents young readers with a biography that covers what is known historically about Jesus and places in his life in the context of his world when Jerusalem was part of the Roman Empire. In an even-handed and easy-to-understand narrative, this audiobook also explains the early origins of Christianity and how it became a major religion.

Readers will want to grab a telescope and explore the night skies after finishing this overview of our solar system.Our solar system consists of eight planets, as well as numerous moons, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. For thousands of years, humans believed that Earth was at the center of the Universe, but all of that changed in the 17th century. Astronomers like Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton proposed the unthinkable th...

The average reader instantly recognizes 30,000 to 70,000 words-with no need to sound them out. How does that happen? Through a process called orthographic mapping. This audiobook explains the process by which readers embed words into their long-term memories, and the instruction necessary to help K-5 students do just that. Teachers will learn how to connect decoding, encoding, and meaning through a four-step, research-based, classroom-tested routine that accelerates students' abilities to ...

**"This is a slim and modest book, a volume of oral histories in the vein of Studs Terkel’s Working (1974), but everyone who eats out regularly should know about it...Voices From the Kitchen is an optimistic book — it reminds you that if many restaurant careers begin that way, they don’t have to end there."— Dwight Garner, New York Times27 personal histories of immigrant restaurant workers in New York City whose stories of persistence, hope, and en...