Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections—“Reflecting on Community Partnerships,” “Reflecting on Classroom Practice,” and “Reflecting on Diversity”—so as to represent inte...

(Book One in the Dalara Series)Kira and Sophia have been best friends since they were five years old. They share an apartment together, and tell each other everything.Everyone loves Sophia, and she is often called "the advice girl" by people who know her. Kira believes she knows her friend better than anyone. But in a mysterious accident, Sophia loses her life.Kira is mourning the devastating loss when she finds a note addressed to her from beyond the grave. Kira re...

He was my brother's best friend… but my brother was never the problem. Everything else was.SloanHave you ever felt such a pull to one person that you cannot control yourself around them? Just one mention of their name and a fire ignites deep within?Well I, Sloan Barton, had that connection... with my brother's best friend.You see, I was in love with Wesley King long before I ever knew what love was. Always tagging along, adm...

As kids, we had an unexplainable bond. One I don't think we even understood back then.Over time, the pull between us developed into something we could no longer ignore.We were reckless, we were impulsive, we were… everything.Until it all came shattering down.Now, he's a single father, and I'm the estranged best friend who's still hopelessly in love with him—Eli Barton, America's favorite baseball pitcher and the man I walked away from.

The first night I met Parker Cole, he insulted me within five minutes of opening his gorgeous mouth.Between the banter and nicknames thrown at each other, a spark ignited that lingered well beyond that evening.Our next encounter was a night full of masked pleasure and fun, with no expectations. Well, maybe one… for him to stop being such a jerk.Now, much to his disapproval, he's my new boss.As time passes, his presumably impenetrable walls s...

Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated, that is until she saves her crush's life on a field trip, changing her High School status from loser to hero overnight. But with her new found fame brings misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light. For Mina is descended from the Brothers Grimm and has inherited all of their unfinished fairy tale business. Which includes trying to outwit a powerful Story from making her its next fairytale victim.To break the fairy...

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall,Who is the Fairest of them all?In the sequel to UnEnchanted, Mina Grime discovers that all is not fair when it comes to the Fae and their tales, especially when they don't all play by the rules. Barely surviving the Story's first fairy tale quest, Mina still has hundreds to go before she can end the curse on her family. But a new player arises to challenge Mina while new rules revamp the game she has just barely begun to understand.All the w...

"...'Stilts' is like 'The Hunger Games' meets 'World War Z'..." C.J. Pinard, author of the bestselling 'Enchanted Immortals' series.While eighteen-year-old, Tessa Dark was serving her prison sentence for murder, the world beyond her cell walls changed forever. The thunder came and destroyed the world she had once known. Trapped inside the prison and faced with no future, Tessa's only glimmer of hope is her friendship with fellow inmate Joe McBride....

Don't Close Your Eyes.Sophie Cavanaugh is not going to let her freak of a cousin's strange psychiatric condition ruin high school for them both. Not after all the work she's put into cultivating the right look, and friends, and reputation.But then, Sophie sees something so frightening she lets out a blood-curdling scream—and finds herself stuck in a bizarre parallel world where nothing is safe and deadly creatures lurk just out of sight, waiting for her to ...

"'Zip' is like 'Stilts' on steroids. A fast-paced, heart stopping, nail-biting ride that keeps you guessing until the very end!" C.J. Pinard, author of the bestselling 'Enchanted Immortals' series.Tessa Dark and her friends make it to the Island but her feelings are still torn between Joe and Richard. Tessa faces greater challenges when she is welcomed by the mysterious Duncan Grey.Finding themselves in a desperate game of survival, Tessa and her g...

After finally settling into her new life at the Citadel, Thalia is reunited with her father, Bearen, the leader of the reclusive Valdyrstahl Clan.Forced to leave the school and return home to the snowy mountains, Thalia is surprised to find she is engaged to a man she doesn't remember. When she rejects the betrothal, her father organizes a tournament for her hand in marriage.Thalia will risk everything, even banishment to try and win the tournament herself and prove that sh...

All that glitters is not gold.When something precious is stolen from sixteen-year-old Mina Grime, she will do anything in her power to get it back, even if it means traveling to the dangerous Fae plane and battling one of the strongest fairy-tale villains yet.However, nothing can prepare Mina for the dangerous obstacles she will face in the Fae world, or the choices she must make when love and life are on the line.