Break up with your past so you can happily marry your future: the secret to never giving up, moving forward, overcoming obstacles, and building a brighter, happier future!Is it truly impossible to forgive what you can’t forget?Is resentment really the poison that you keep feeding yourself?Is fear the great equalizer? Or is it simply a state of mind?You’re about to find out!Forgiving What You Can't Forget by Ashley Taylor i...

She came back for the truth. They should have buried it deeper . . .Ten years ago, Sally was raped. She was young. She was reckless. Now she’s dead.The events from that fateful night fractured a friendship group that had grown up together. And before anything could be proven, tragedy struck, leaving behind a grieving twin.Now she is back for the ten-year college reunion. She’s come to pay honour to her dead sister. And she wants answers. But everyon...

A story of being broken by a person, and an indifferent system that sees people as numbers and held together by the never-wavering support of love. Because sometimes it takes two to survive.Dear Ashley,Right now, you are on your hands and knees under a twelve-tonne neon dragon on Oxford Street, hoping the world won't notice you. You think that if you stay quiet, the red dirt of Alice Springs and its whispering judgements can't hurt you. But hiding won't sav...

Through research, storytelling, curriculum development, and pedagogy, this book will help educators engage emergent bilingual and multilingual (EBML) students with social studies and citizenship education. Chapters are written by well-known and new scholars who are enacting teaching and research that center the needs, interests, and experiences of EBML youth. Drawing from multiple, intersecting, and interdisciplinary frameworks that focus on culture and language, chapters highlight social ...

Consumer Protection: Understanding Enforcement Actions Brought by State Attorneys General is a guide to a critical realm of consumer protection - enforcement investigations, litigation, and settlements by state attorneys general. These state officials and their enforcement staff are on the front lines of engaging with companies over practices that are alleged to be deceptive or unfair to consumers or otherwise unlawful. Whether on their own, or with other states as well as federal...

Sweet Dreams: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *When you lose everything, anything is possible.Lauren Grahame needs a whole new life. A simpler life. After leaving her cheating husband, she moves to Carnal, Colorado, takes a job as a waitress, and realizes she might have finally found the hometown she'd been searching for. Except things are about to get a lot more compli...

Is that sugar in your tea, or something else?And really, how would you know?Just how "life imitates art" is a perception we often take for granted, the ongoing fusion of technology into our daily routines may soon twist into wondering what is real, and what is not.Is AI really for our betterment … or the first steps towards subjugation?Artificial Sweetener is a collection of 17 speculative fiction short stories and poems from SpecFicNZ members exploring the w...

In the world of the Cartel, there are many pitfalls and family curses. In the city of Miami, the good die young and the bad live forever. The first family of Miami, the Diamonds, are back and more ruthless than ever. When the family has to deal with the sins of the father, karma comes back and rests on the shoulders of Carter “CJ” Jones II. The life his father never wanted for him calls him and the allure of family tradition sucks him in so deep that he falls victim to the game. This story...

Reframing behaviors for competence, confidence, and successful outcomesWith dysregulation and neurodevelopmental diagnoses on the rise, classrooms are more diverse than ever. Despite efforts to support each student’s needs and sensitivities, educators are often left frustrated and unsupported when strategies for managing all kinds of behaviors, from anxiety to acting out, prove ineffective, short-lived, or even detrimental to the students’ and teachers’ ha...

Creating Sensory Smart Classrooms introduces educators to the foundations of sensory processing and offers tools to meet the wide variety of sensory needs in each classroom. This comprehensive handbook helps readers understand the neurobiology behind sensory processing and regulation issues, recognize when a student is over- or under-stimulated, and integrate different sensory inputs into the school environment. Practical and accessible chapters foster an understanding of how sens...

Opposites attract when a bashful librarian and a ruggedly handsome cop with a dark past meet one day in the Colorado woods—and dare to test their chemistry . . .There's nothing like the first time . . .In Carnal, Colorado, Faye Goodknight is the town's quiet, shy librarian. She may also be Carnal's last remaining virgin. For years, Faye has had a crush on Chace Keaton, but the gorgeous cop has always been unattainable. She's resigned to live conten...