She's fleeing scandal. He's given up on love. Can a proper gentlewoman and a salt-of-the-earthsingle dad embrace a second chance at forever?England, 1916. Elizabeth Edwards's humiliation is complete. Jilted by her cheating beau beforehe flew off to war, she bolts to her grandparents' house in Boston away from the luridnewspaper stories. And when her ex-fiancé tries to kidnap her, the frantic woman hops a train toNebraska to answer a charming ran...

She’s fleeing scandal.He’s given up on love.Can a proper gentlewoman and a salt-of-the-earth, single dad embrace a second chance at forever?England, 1916. Elizabeth Edwards’s humiliation is complete. Jilted by her cheating beau beforehe flew off to war, she bolts to her grandparents’ house in Boston away from the luridnewspaper stories. And when her ex-fiancé tries to kidnap her, the frantic woman h...

Amidst the turbulent backdrop of a manufacturing town in the grips of the Industrial Revolution, Elizabeth Gaskell penned the timeless passion of Mr. Thornton and Margaret Hale. A mixing of contemporary and Victorian, this short story anthology by twelve beloved authors considers familiar scenes from new points of view or re-imagined entirely. Capturing all the poignancy, heartbreak, and romance of the original tale, Falling for Mr. Thornton is a collection you will treasure again and agai...

Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world.

Your drive to create change, catalyze impact, and build relationships all come from neuroelectrical energy—real, electrical impulses—firing in your brain. Who you are as a person depends on how you work with this energy. When this energy rises within you, you feel empowered and dynamic. But when this energy falls, you feel down, stressed, and defeated.You may feel as if you don't control your emotional energy, that it's an inevitable consequence of the world around you and the forc...

NSTA Best STEM Books for K-12 SelectionNSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books SelectionDolly Gray Children's Literature Award RecipientA Mighty Girl Book of the YearIf you’ve ever felt different, if you’ve ever been low, if you don’t quite fit in, there’s a name you should know… Meet Dr. Temple Grandin—one of the world’s quirkiest science heroes!When young Temple was dia...

A 2022 Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Traditional Western Novel.Out of nowhere Comanches attack, and sixteen year-old Jane narrowly survives the slaughter of her family and the kidnapping of her baby sister. Driven by grief and fury, she rides headlong into Indian territory, seeking vengeance.But the odds are stacked against a young girl on the trail, and Jane soon realizes she must disguise herself as a boy to join forces with a to...

Every December Plum Hayes writes the kind of Christmas rom-com movies her readers watch and love. Too bad she stopped believing in holiday magic the night her own happily-ever-after fell apart.Two weeks from deadline and out of holiday spirit, she's been packed off to Pine Tree, a snow-globe town with all the charm and few of the Christmas traditions it used to be known for. There she finds the typewriter. And the typewriter magically manifests her a leading man — named, dressed, a...

Empowering poems for all emotionsThis collection of 50 poems will help children to understand their feelings and embrace each and every one of them.Beautifully illustrated, it is filled with poems for children to read alone or enjoy with the whole family.With poems on joy and jealousy, curiosity and confidence, embarrassment and excitement, and everything in between – it’s the perfect gift book for children to treasure.From poet, Daniel Thom...

Accidental poisonings. Unexpected tidal waves. Jealous stepsisters. Brides caught cheating in the coatroom at the reception. Just a typical day at work when you're a wedding protector.Nessa Martini, the newest and youngest member of staff, is doing her best to fix it all. Starting with her own chaotic life.A one-night stand with a hot bodybuilding social media influencer who turns out to be a minister is not Nessa's idea of personal growth, no matter how mu...

Most of the chapters in this book are extended papers from Research Learning in Virtual Environments (reLIVE08), an international conference held by the UK Open University in Milton Keynes in November 2008. Authors of the best papers and presentations from the conferences were invited to contribute to Research Learning in Virtual Worlds, the first book to specifically address research methods and related issues for education in virtual worlds.The book covers a range of research und...

They invaded her planet. They ambushed her unit. They’ll have to pry Earth from her cold, dead hands…When Lieutenant Cam Alvarez is called to investigate a desert massacre in the US Green Zone, she prepares for the worst. Once her team of soldiers arrives on the scene, she realizes the violence wasn’t committed by human hands. Alien invaders already dominate Earth’s expanding polar regions, but Cam had never seen Ringheads survive exposure to heat… until they storm her troops and...