Accepting a promise ring doesn't feel like freedom.But there it is, in front of Dawn's face on the eve of high school graduation. While Dawn freaks out on the inside, she goes through the motions on the outside. She and Chris have been together almost three years. Her family-Mama, Daddy and all five of her brothers and sisters-expect them to be together forever, and Dawn's never gone against expectations.Mama picked her college, and her boyfriend's picking her life, so Dawn concocts a plan to pick her own summer-dumping Texas for a hotel job near Denali National Park. But Alaska is more than she bargained for. On her first solo hike she's cornered by an imposing moose. One co-worker pushes her too far during their night sharing a tent. Meanwhile there's a sexy cook from Dallas who friend-zones her even though she's conflicted about wanting more.Mama and Daddy arrive late-summer with her boyfriend and siblings in tow, pushing for Dawn to come on home, claiming she's needed to help with her oldest brother's shotgun wedding. But the wild beauty of Alaska has stolen her heart and she's not letting go of her chance to make her own choices. Dawn has to find the courage to stand up to her family and Chris to finish out her Denali summer or risk going back to small-town Texas, following everyone else's plan for her life.
Precocious Charlemagne Crosse had an idyllic childhood until the night her parents Sir Archibald and Lady Lavinia vanished in the aftermath of a solar eclipse. Shipped off to disreputable boarding schools, Charlemagne's life is bleak. However, on her sixteenth birthday, Charlemagne unexpectedly regains her wealth and freedom. Upon her return to the ancestral Crosse mansion, she's reunited with black sheep Uncle Alistair and his new family: his wife, the exotic Antoinette, and her peculiar daughter Simone. Charlemagne is summoned to a meeting with the mercurial Queen Victoria who still grieves for her late husband Prince Albert. Victoria reveals that Sir Archibald, an eccentric inventor, was under Crown orders to devise a way to contact Albert in the afterlife. The Queen is convinced that only Charlemagne can decipher the clues that her father surely left behind. Supported by a cast of diverse characters, Charlemagne embarks on a perilous journey through the seedy underbelly of an alternate Victorian London. And with another solar eclipse looming, it might be Charlemagne's best-and last-chance to reunite with her parents.
When her parents accept summer teaching jobs in Rome, talented, troublemaking, twelve-year-old Mia Moretti tags along. Eager to learn more about her surroundings, she drags her new friend, buttoned-up and straight-laced Grace, out to explore the Italian cityscape. But when they stumble upon a strange street carnival, Mia wins a mysterious prize: a fragment of a bone from an ancient conjuror, secured in a velvet pouch and strung on a necklace. Supposedly, it makes the wearer lucky in anything they attempt until nightfall. Sensing danger, Mia throws the bone into the dumpster. But the carnival disappears into thin air, and the bone mysteriously finds its way back to them. The only way to rid themselves of it is to reunite it with the decaying skeleton it came from before the sun sets.But by the time they locate the remains and attempt to return the bone, they're too late. Caught between life and death and trapped inside the nightmarish carnival, they discover an alarming plot that threatens more lives than just their own. Mia and Grace team up with another recently taken boy, Val, and the three of them must get their souls back into their bodies, in Rome, or else their spirits will be imprisoned for all eternity."This deliciously creepy story stars the impulsive, imaginative, deeply lovable Mia, a girl who does her best despite being haunted by things actual and metaphorical. With Mia, we discover that some specters can be defeated and others can only be acknowledged and lived with, but both acts are equally brave-and made a lot easier with good friends by your side. Exciting, resonant, fiercely original, and altogether wonderful."-Anne Ursu, National Book Award longlisted author of The Lost Girl
Hangabout, a puppy who has just grown into his long teardrop ears, believes.¿He believes everything is good.He believes what people tell him.He believes his keeper loves him.But when he is thrown into the outside world, Hangabout collides with a gang of hungry rats, a wily fox, a farmer with a BB gun, a kidnapper, and a lie. Everything he knows crumbles. Then, when Hangabout learns the truth about his keeper, he stops believing in anything.If Hangabout does not renew his belief that there is good in the world, he will lose the two things he loves most: the keeper he longs for and his only friend-a fact-citing, street-wise cat-named Bean.A story of homelessness, a friendship tried, and growing into oneself unfolds in this timeless journey.
Grief is a devastating emotion, leaving its mark on each of us. We struggle with loneliness and exhaustion, unable to cope with our daily lives. Reflecting on the changes to our lives, we discover the courage and strength to move forward, often with the help of others. We develop methods to continue with our unique journeys through life.Along the Shore is a collection of personal and touching strategies by thirty-eight people dealing with their grief at the loss of a loved one. They share their insights, along with their sorrow and their hope, as they reach out to others who are also attempting to move forward. It is the authors' wish that we can manage grief's control while remembering and honoring those whom we have lost.
Sweetwood Secret When her younger brother goes missing, New York City journalist Holly Blake is beckoned back to the small Georgia town of her youth. After losing both her parents the previous year, she is desperate to find Lucas-the only family she has left. But searching for her brother means two things Holly had not bargained for: reuniting with her ex-fiancé Max, the local sheriff, and following a trail that leads straight into the tangled web of lies and dangerous games played by one of the richest families in the State-the Sweetwoods. Sweetwood Scandal Following his ex-girlfriend to her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, Jacob Sweetwood is on the hunt for the thousands of dollars and the antique ruby ring Ava-Rose has stolen. After weeks of dead-ends and a puzzling meeting with Ava-Rose's father, Jacob heads back to Blairsville, Georgia. There, he finds comfort and solace in the company of Nancy Cooper-the straight-talking, beautiful owner of The Fox and Fig. Soon, though, Ava-Rose is back in Blairsville with no money, a story that is difficult to believe, and an undeniable tie to a scandal that threatens to upend the entire Sweetwood Syrups empire. Sweetwood Christmas When Zena Sweetwood is asked by her uncle Octavius to help him reason with his wife, her beloved aunt Adora who suddenly wants a divorce, Zena is certain this will be an easy fix. They're so in love, after all. Soon though, it becomes clear that Adora has her mind made up-having hired slick Manhattan attorney Gabe Da Silva to stay at their North Georgia mansion to draw up the papers. As Gabe and Zena embark on their separate assignments under the same roof, they are often drawn together. And the more they uncover, the more they are convinced Adora is hiding something. Will the two be able to bring the truth to light in time to reunite the elder Sweetwoods and have a happy holiday ending of their own?
In Alborada (Dawn): A Cross-Cultural Memoir in Poetry, Nylda Dieppa sketches the formative and transformative experiences of her lifetime-from childhood on the island of Puerto Rico through maturity in the continental United States-as paralleled by the sun's passage through the times of the day. This enhanced, newly retitled edition of Dieppa's award-winning Alborada: A Poetic Memoir Across Cultures adds fourteen new and ten revised poems to inspire the joys of spiritual and emotional healing.From the dawning innocence of a girl's first crush alongside the rise of a young woman's longing to belong and be loved, Dieppa shines daylight on the anguish and delights of both growing up and parenting at every age. Her lyrical and narrative poems highlight the shadows cast by culture shock, and they reveal the encroaching darkness of sorrow and betrayal as the sun sets on a thirty-eight-year marriage. Yet Alborada also illuminates the wonder of deliverance from midnight's despair to the hope and wholeness of a new day's dawn.
¿After getting dragged out of her school's winter formal, seventeen-year-old Percy Bloom needs to escape her controlling mother. Fleeing into the cold night, she's lost, alone, and freezing.Ditched by his date and attacked by bullies, Hayden Addams, wants nothing more than to be done with high school forever. He finds Percy shivering in the woods and brings her back to the first place he can think of: his family's funeral parlor.Percy is charmed by Hayden and his unusual family. Eager to help her get away from her problems and forget his own, Hayden offers Percy everything she needs, a truck, a destination, and the prettiest blue eyes she's ever seen.Together the two hit the road, letting their hopes, dreams, and sparks fly along the way. But, can the two arrive at a future without confronting their pasts?
Growing up in the Kitchen Witch Diner, twelve-year-old Millie Radford is close to the farmers, growers, and producers of Coal Hollow, Virginia that help supply her family's diner with ingredients. They are life-long friends and cherished neighbors.But, when a big peanut company starts industrializing the area and monopolizing peanut processing, small farmers can't compete and begin going out of business. The entire region experiences the negative economic consequences, including Millie's beloved Kitchen Witch Diner.Millie hopes winning an annual baking contest will help bring notoriety and customers to the struggling diner like it does every year. This year more than any other, the Kitchen Witch needs the boost in sales. It should be an easy win.Instead, Millie finds herself having real competition this year from Nicole Johnson, the daughter of the peanut tycoon and a past winner of a televised national baking show.When things don't go as planned, Millie decides to use the opportunity she's been given to highlight local food in Coal Hollow. If she can showcase the farmers and producers in her beloved community in addition to the diner, they may all stand a chance at saving their community.
In the near distant future, Emma's life revolves around the company's Mars terraforming fasttrack program. Stuck between her parents' never-ending Mars shuttle supply runs and her own coursework in the program, Emma dreams of adventure outside of the company's plan for her. Anything to get away from the constant bullying and boring coursework. She finds that adventure accidentally when she stumbles into a portal to a new world. On Merah, she finds two species, the secretive Kabiren, who create and run all technological advancement, and the Amethites, the native species of the planet. When the Kabiren inform her that a portal back to her world does not exist, she accepts a place in their society, as a Protector.Now she must navigate her new assignment of guarding her new planet from portal intruders while also figuring out what the Kabiren are hiding. Her acceptance of her new life without her family and friends is thrown into chaos when she meets a special portal intruder: her best friend from Earth. Now she must decide between accepting her adventure in this new world, or fighting for her old one.
¿It's 1999, and twelve-year-old Dani Collier is preparing for Y2K or, in her view, the end of the world. She spends most of her time poring over a survivalist blog written by the mysterious Professor Prepared and obsessively counting and straightening her emergency supplies.Despite Dani's repeated warnings, her classmates and family members don't seem worried about the new millennium. Dani ignores their skepticism and ridicule, vowing to do whatever necessary to protect the people she loves.But when January 1st, 2000, unfolds in a way that Dani didn't expect, she must instead come to terms with her new reality: her parents' recent divorce, a blossoming, awkward friendship, and repeated humiliation at the hands of a school bully. Will Dani learn to stand upfor herself? Will the embarrassment of her failed prediction haunt her forever?
Piper lives in a lovely garden and glows with her natural happiness and light. But when she ventures into the big city, she comes across strange, grumpy creatures. Their meanness covers her in goopy, gloppy uglies! Will she ever be able to find her glow again?This is a story of positivity and optimism that explores how the words of others can affect us. It shows that the best way to find your glow is by looking deep inside. **ADD REVIEW QUOTES HERE**Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
In From Burnout to Balance: A Nursing Resilience Journal, Angela created the fifth volume of the Focus Journal series so that busy nursing professionals could care for themselves to better care for others. With just 20 minutes of focused reflection each week, the nurse has the opportunity to self-assess and process their feelings, lighten their burden, and move from burnout to balance. 2020 was named the year of the Nurse. It was also the year that the Covid-19 pandemic placed extraordinary pressure on America's most trusted profession. Angela feels that now is the time when nurses need to take care of their most vulnerable and precious patient, themselves.¿Angela Hosking MBA MSN RN NE-BC is a women's leadership speaker, author of Woman on Top: Lead Like a Lady Boss, coach, and founder of Her One Tribe, LLC. Angela combines her 12+ years of nursing leadership experience with her expertise as a women's empowerment writer to deliver impactful workshops and motivational keynote speeches.
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