Having spent years looking after her younger sisters when their parents died, Valentina felt like the moment to take control of her own life had finally come. She wanted to see the world, have some fun and finally turn all the plans she’d thought would never be more than dreams into a reality.She had to take a deep breath and force herself to actually go online and book a flight and somewhere to stay. After all, she’d spent years surrounded by her younger sisters, and travelling to...

Christmas Surprise is a romantic comedy full of heavenly twists, unlikely encounters and lessons in love, where laughter and hope appear as unexpected gifts at a time as magical as Christmas.If you like Christmas romances, grumpy x sunshine, fast burn, soulmates, redemption, romance with a fairytale, family of the heart, small town, romance between neighbors and instalove, this romance is for you! Helô's life has changed drastically. The doctor, who should be enjoying the best year...

Crush. subst. 2 gen. Definition: Internet slang originating in the English language. Flirting, passion, crush, crush on someone. Pedro's crush on Tati. Or is it what Tati is to Pedro? After a love disappointment, Tati leaves the countryside of São Paulo and moves to a new city in search of new horizons. In her new city, she goes to work in an advertising agency alongside Pedro, her crush from adolescence and the last person she expected to see after so many years. In her new job, she is gi...

Many factors contributed to the Protestant Reformation, but one of the most significant was the debate over the doctrine of justification by faith alone. In fact, Martin Luther argued that justification is the doctrine on which the church stands or falls. This comprehensive volume of 26 essays from a host of scholars explores the doctrine of justification from the lenses of history, the Bible, theology, and pastoral practice—revealing the enduring significance of this pillar of Protestant ...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America.This new second edition of the b...

Brother against Brother: 140 Civil War Memoirs assembles a vast documentary chorus from the American Civil War, illuminating combat, command, captivity, nursing, naval service, campaigning, and the unsettled moral terrain of national rupture. Ranging from terse battlefield recollection and military analysis to reflective autobiography and eyewitness narrative, the volume preserves the varied registers through which participants made meaning of war. Accounts of major operations stand beside...

For more than a decade, the widely used Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children has been helping early educators use research‐based practices to boost social‐emotional development. Now there’s a practical guide that makes it easier than ever to implement this highly effective framework in preschool classrooms.Created by the Pyramid Model developers and experts with extensive training experience, this is the first book to prov...

Why the "life story" of the Dalai Lama? It is a story of one man taking on an empire, calling for truth, peace, and justice for his Tibetan people. Here, in full color for the first time, people can come to know the whole drama of his lifelong struggle.Since the age of 15, the Dalai Lama has defended his people against one of the last great empires, the People’s Republic of China. Under its "dictatorship of the proletariat," China began to invade Tibet in 1950, dec...

On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission—this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned.Jacky has survived battles on the high seas, the stifling propriety of a Boston finishing school, and even confinement in a dank French prison. But no adventure has quite matched her opportunistic street-urchin desires—unti...

The intrepid Jacky Faber, having once again eluded British authorities, heads west, hoping that no one will recognize her in the wilds of America. There she tricks the tall-tale hero Mike Fink out of his flatboat, equips it as a floating casino-showboat, and heads south to New Orleans, battling murderous bandits, British soldiers, and other scoundrels along the way. Will Jacky's carelessness and impulsive actions ultimately cause her beloved Jaimy to be left in her wake?

When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock.In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the myster...

Enter the life of a young man whose world is about to change. From the fertile lands of the Grand River Valley, the United States government has a plan to resettle his family to northern lands. This creates a monumental upheaval in all that was familiar. As he tries to cling to the old ways, reality forces him into something vastly unknown. Follow the progression of his development and education the progression of his development and education as he watches his people face challenges of li...