Sometimes at night, I wake up and stare at the heart for hours. I think of how I collected each piece from the beach, how I glued it all together into one big sculpture. I wonder if Connor realizes what it means, that he'll always have a piece of me no matter what happens. Each piece of glass is another piece of myself that I gave to him. It's too bad I didn't keep any pieces for myself. At the beginning of senior year, Ann was a smiling, straight-A student and track star with friends and ...

Carter didn’t rape me. People at school think he did. Suddenly, new friends are rushing to my side, telling me that Carter hurt them, too. They say he’s getting what he deserves. Maybe I don’t want to fix this. Sam is in love with her best friend Nick, but she can’t seem to tell him. So she decides to flirt with golden-boy Carter Wellesley, hoping Nick will see it and finally realize his true feelings for her. On Monday, everyone at school is saying that Carter raped Sam. He didn’t, but Sa...

Summer is a perfectly ordinary 11 year old girl with a perfectly ordinary, needy, over-protective single mother. She always does what she is told and has become very good at listening and consoling her mother's fears, but finds the experience increasingly exhausting. Summer loves her mother and would never dream of running away, but wonders deep down if it wouldn't be nice to escape for just a little while and do something adventurous... maybe?Along comes the crone Baba Yaga in her...

The skeletons in her closet are twitching...Genius chessmaster and FBI consultant Artemis Blythe swore she'd never return to the misty Cascade Mountains.Her father—a notorious serial killer, responsible for the deaths of seven women—is now imprisoned, in no small part due to a clue she provided nearly fifteen years ago.And now her father wants his vengeance.A new serial killer is hunting the wealthy and the elite in the town of Pinelake. Artemis' father claim...

Chessmaster and FBI consultant, Artemis Blythe, will have to keep her wits about her as she visits her old man, the Ghostkiller, in prison.A notorious murderer who targeted seven women in the sleepy town of Pinelake.Artemis only wants one thing: to discover if her sister, Helen, is still alive.But her father is making moves of his own. And now, outside the walls of the prison, a giant of a killer is drowning the daughters of powerful men...Artemis pits her w...

These violent delights have violent ends.After surviving a shadowed childhood marked by ghost stories and loss, Mallory Webb is ready to start fresh as a theater major at her mother’s alma mater, a sanitarium turned liberal arts university in Rhode Island. Landing the lead role in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet feels like a dream – until the blood-soaked spirit she suspects caused her mother’s death resurfaces after years of quiet. With nothing to go on but cryptic symbols in an ol...

Olivia Daniels is desperate - desperate enough to kidnap her brother’s ridiculously handsome, yet undeniably dangerous boss and lock him in her basement. Austin Black is a criminal, a man with a reputation for being ruthless, and the reason her brother can’t leave The Unseen. Olivia has a plan: keep Austin hostage just long enough to negotiate her brother’s freedom. Simple, right?Wrong.Because Austin Black is not the man she expected. Instead of a cold, terrifying crime bos...

'Why should we care about philosophy?'Public philosophy, or 'doing philosophy' in the community, is an important and growing trend – revealed not only by the phenomenon of the Parisian philosophy café, but also the contemporary rise of multiple grassroots projects, for example the Philosophy in Pubs movement. This book is the first to offer academic examination of the theoretical contributions and practical applications of community philosophy.Bringing toge...

Includes 2019 RITA® Award Novella Finalist THE DRAGONS OF SUMMER! Now on sale for $2.99WINTER'S WEB BY JENNIFER ESTEPAn assassin at a renaissance faire. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, if you’re Gin Blanco. This Spider is trapped in someone else’s icy web—and it seems like they don’t want her to leave the faire alive . . .A WILDERNESS OF GLASS BY GRACE DRAVENThe stretch of sea known as the Gray rules the lives of those in the villa...

A midwinter holiday fantasy romance anthology…A Wynter Fyre by Darynda JonesIn a world where vampyres have been hunted to near extinction, the daughter of a demon is sent to save their race. Wynter ends the Blood Wars, but a single drop of vampyre blood accidentally crosses her lips. As punishment, she’s encased in stone for a hundred years. When she awakens, she vows revenge. Even if it means her demise. Her quest leads her to the vampyre prince who suppo...

This practical resource will help K6 practitioners grow their literacy practices while also meeting the needs of emergent bilingual learners. Building on the success of The Reading Turn-Around, this book adapts the five-part framework for reading instruction to the specific needs of emergent bilinguals. Designed for teachers who have not specialized in bilingual instruction, the authors provide an accessible introduction to differentiating instruction that focuses on utilizing stu...

We are actively mistaking false prophets for prophetic ministers.While reading this book, you will have the confidence to listen to the Lord without fear of misdirection. You also will have the tools to assess and test prophecies, knowing whether they are traps from Satan or truths from Christ.In The Revelationary War, Amanda Grace presents a constructive, confrontational warning for today's Christians. Now more than ever, the body of Christ needs ...