Cocktales: Stirred Stories and Shaken Desires is a collection of romantic, playful, and whimsically intoxicating short stories paired with inspired cocktail recipes. Each tale invites readers into a world where love is as carefully crafted as a drink-balanced, unexpected, and best savored slowly.From a lonely woman who finds connection through flickering film reels, to a woodland nymph who coaxes desire from a ruinous lumberjack, to a gelatin-wrestler heroine whose compass...

"In The Damn Way" is a true story about the life of the author Brandy Alexander. It describes the traumas that she experienced in childhood that spilled over into her adult life. Not only that but it highlights the spiritual aspects of her life that somehow she cannot see because of what she experiences in the natural. It takes 25 years for Brandy to get, understand, and decide how these things are affecting her and how she is going to overcome them. Once she does she has to figure out how...

Liven up your lesson plans and energize your students! Winner of a Teacher's Choice Award!To keep your students engaged in the classroom, you have to get them excited about learning. This award-winning resource offers hundreds of creative ideas to reenergize your lesson plans for any subject across grades K-6. You’ll find inspiration to help you wake up tired book reports and make math more fun. This new edition has been fully revised to align with the Common Core ...

Make your first year—and every year—a success with this essential guide!As a new teacher, you can be completely overwhelmed**—**feeling lost and not knowing where to start when you receive the keys for the first time. The Organized Teacher's Guide to Your First Year of Teaching, Second Edition will be your guide during these first few days and weeks and put you on the road to success.Written by an award-winning author team, this practical guide wil...

Unlock the secret to maintaining an organized and flourishing classroom!This bestselling guide has helped thousands of teachers just like you maximize their time and manage their classrooms more efficiently. This third edition has been updated with fresh ideas and tons of printable pages, checklists, and templates accessible in the book and online. You’ll find expert guidance on everything from inspiring students to arranging the desks in the classroom to organizin...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Give your lesson plans a jolt of creativity and get better results from your students.Winner of a Teacher's Choice Award!To keep your students engaged in the classroom, you have to get them excited about learning. From the authors of The Organized Teacher, this...

Everything you need to know to run an organized and flourishing classroom, even if it is your first year teaching!The Organized Teacher has been a faithful companion for thousands of new and veteran teachers alike. It has helped instructors like you get along with a principal, arrange the desks in a room, organize a field trip, and much, much more. Now this classic bestseller has been revised with fresh ideas and boasts a helpful download bursting with pri...

Painting with the watercolor medium is a partnership. You bring to the process your ideas and images and the medium takes them to another place all together. You can fight the medium and try to contain it within set boundaries or you can work with it and find unexplored territory when it shows you other ways of making color sing on the paper. Being able to set the medium free is all about understanding what will and what will not hurt you. This small ebook is big on helpful, empowering adv...

Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated is a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia covering 125 laws, guidelines, human biases, and general considerations important to successful design. Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, it pairs clear explanations of every design concept with visual examples of the ideas applied in practice. From the 80/20 Rule to the Weakest Link, every major design concept is defined and illustrated.Whether a...

Fun and Effective Home Learning Activities for Every SubjectAs a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching t...

Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today that everyone is continually learning. Many of us are also teaching, even when it's not in our job descriptions. Whether it's giving a presentation, writing documentation, or creating a website or blog, we need and want to share our knowledge with other people. But if you've ever fallen asleep over a boring textbook, or fast-forwarded through a tedious e-learning exercise, you know that creating a great learning experience is hard...

A unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity, encouraging experimentation and growth, and increasing sales for artists of all levels, from novices to professionals.Have you landed in a frustrating rut? Are you having trouble selling paintings in galleries, getting bogged down by projects you can’t seem to finish or abandon, or finding excuses to avoid working in the studio? Author Carol Marine knows exactly how you feel—she herself suffered from painter’s ...