Best of
New-Adult

2009

Thoughtless


S.C. Stephens - 2009
    When they head off to a new city to start their lives together, Denny at his dream job and Kiera at a top-notch university, everything seems perfect. Then an unforeseen obligation forces the happy couple apart.Feeling lonely, confused, and in need of comfort, Kiera turns to an unexpected source—a local rock star named Kellan Kyle. At first, he's purely a friend that she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does their relationship. And then one night everything changes... and none of them will ever be the same.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2010


World Almanac - 2009
    'The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2010' provides a complete overview of recent world events, describing diverse areas of public interest such as politics, entertainment, science and technology, and sport.

The Market Adventure


Kristin Cashore - 2009
    This curriculum for homeschooling brings together classic reading selections, fun activities and parent/teacher guides to help you develop lessons that boost your student's English and Language Arts learning. As with all levels of Reading Street, Grade 3 was created using educational research to ensure your child is guided through his or her work by age-appropriate and cutting-edge content.Each week, your child will work through a series of reading and writing activities that center around a Big Idea. This structure supports your child's critical thinking skills and ensures he or she builds knowledge suitable for a child in third Grade. By the end of the year, children at this level in their homeschooling program should be able to:Read third-grade level material at a steady pace. Identify errors when reading aloud and know how to correct them. Answer questions using examples from the text. Comprehend and explain main ideas found in the reading. Develop a point of view different than those of characters in stories. Edit writing after completing it. Use transitions in writing, such as "therefore," "for example" and "also." Reading Street: Grade 3 will give you the tools you need to achieve these learning goals during your homeschool program. Grade 3 comes in a two-volume set that's packed with engaging reading materials and helpful teacher tools. You'll be able to keep tabs on your child's progress through this level by using the assessment materials. If your child needs to revisit a certain lesson, you can ensure he or she does so and fully comprehends the subject.Check out these and other great components of Reading Street: Grade 3 by visiting the Features and Benefits page.

Ananse the Cunning Spider and the Magic Cook Pot


Charlotte Vdovychenko - 2009
    This particular one was my favorite as a child, and I decided to share it with my son, Mark. Mark also enjoyed this story so much he often requested that I tell him the story over again. As he got older, he suggested that we write our Ananse story so the whole world can enjoy it too.

Poe at the Gates


Diana Peterfreund - 2009
    Extra from Diana Peterfeund's website taking place about 3/4 into "Under the Rose", specifically, after the first scene in chapter 18, "Benefits".http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/books...

The Garden Key


Angela Dolbear - 2009
    Maddy doesn't even know his name. She's never spoken to him either.Peter is the guitar player in a local up-and coming-garage band, who has made a fresh recommitment to his faith. He vowed to stop treating the women he dates as "disposable." No more hit and quit it for him. When they finally bump into each quite literally (in keeping with rom-com criteria guidelines), and they start to date, Maddy will be the first woman Peter has dated in a year. Can Peter and Maddy wrestle with their desires and keep their thoughts in check, and their hands off of each other? Abstinence seems so old-fashioned, but is it the key to a meaningful relationship for Peter and Maddy?The Garden Key is a tale of pure sweetness and beauty, as two people learn to love each other without the distraction of physical relations. Their romantic comedy brims with relationship trials and triumphs which will have you laughing out loud, and you'll probably cry too, so keep a tissue or two handy.The Garden Key is the first novel in THE GARDEN KEY TALES series. This series in the Young/New Adult/Christian romance genre will move you as it illustrates the urgent need for faith in our lives, especially when it comes to love relationships.

Reading 2011 Leveled Reader 6-Pack 1.5.3 on


Kristin Cashore - 2009
    Reading Street Leveled Readers are available in print and online in the Scott Foresman Leveled Reader Database. Leveled Readers develop and deepen the understanding of the Unit Concept and Big Question. They allow for customization of vocabulary, and comprehension strategy and skill instruction to match student's instructional and, or independent reading level.Concept Literacy Readers These readers support and extend the unit concept. They are available each week to reinforce and build background for the weekly and unit concepts. They are leveled 2 years below grade level. In Kindergarten and 1st Grade, the levels range from Pre-K to Kindergarten. The text is repetitive; and there is a strong text to picture match.Below-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers range from1 to 11/2 levels below grade level.On-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers are 1/2 level below grade level.Advanced Level Readers These readers develop and extend the unit and weekly concept. Teachers can use this text to extend the weekly vocabulary and comprehension skills and strategies. These readers are 1 to 2 levels above grade level.

Reading 2011 Leveled Reader 6-Pack for 1.1.3 Below


Kristin Cashore - 2009
    Reading Street Leveled Readers are available in print and online in the Scott Foresman Leveled Reader Database. Leveled Readers develop and deepen the understanding of the Unit Concept and Big Question. They allow for customization of vocabulary, and comprehension strategy and skill instruction to match student's instructional and, or independent reading level.Concept Literacy Readers These readers support and extend the unit concept. They are available each week to reinforce and build background for the weekly and unit concepts. They are leveled 2 years below grade level. In Kindergarten and 1st Grade, the levels range from Pre-K to Kindergarten. The text is repetitive; and there is a strong text to picture match.Below-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers range from1 to 11/2 levels below grade level.On-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers are 1/2 level below grade level.Advanced Level Readers These readers develop and extend the unit and weekly concept. Teachers can use this text to extend the weekly vocabulary and comprehension skills and strategies. These readers are 1 to 2 levels above grade level.

Reading 2011 Leveled Reader 6-Pack 3.4.4 Advanced


Kristin Cashore - 2009
    Reading Street Leveled Readers are available in print and online in the Scott Foresman Leveled Reader Database. Leveled Readers develop and deepen the understanding of the Unit Concept and Big Question. They allow for customization of vocabulary, and comprehension strategy and skill instruction to match student's instructional and, or independent reading level.Concept Literacy Readers These readers support and extend the unit concept. They are available each week to reinforce and build background for the weekly and unit concepts. They are leveled 2 years below grade level. The text is repetitive; and there is a strong text to picture match.Below-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers range from1 to 11/2 levels below grade level.On-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers are 1/2 level below grade level.Advanced Level Readers These readers develop and extend the unit and weekly concept. Teachers can use this text to extend the weekly vocabulary and comprehension skills and strategies. These readers are 1 to 2 levels above grade level.

Reading 2011 Leveled Reader 6-Pack 6.5.4 Advanced


Kristin Cashore - 2009
    Reading Street Leveled Readers are available in print and online in the Scott Foresman Leveled Reader Database. Leveled Readers develop and deepen the understanding of the Unit Concept and Big Question. They allow for customization of vocabulary, and comprehension strategy and skill instruction to match student's instructional and, or independent reading level.Concept Literacy Readers These readers support and extend the unit concept. They are available each week to reinforce and build background for the weekly and unit concepts. They are leveled 2 years below grade level. The text is repetitive; and there is a strong text to picture match.Below-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers range from1 to 11/2 levels below grade level.On-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers are 1/2 level below grade level.Advanced Level Readers These readers develop and extend the unit and weekly concept. Teachers can use this text to extend the weekly vocabulary and comprehension skills and strategies. These readers are 1 to 2 levels above grade level.

Dream Catchers: A Rockstar Romance


Sandy Lo - 2009
    Growing up with a silver spoon in her mouth, her parents gave her everything she needed except freedom. Fate steps in at the bus station when Haley bumps into Jordan Walsh, literally. His unpolished manners and rock star attitude rile her, though she is oddly drawn to him.Haley and Jordan’s opposing personalities clash while on the bus–before they wind up stranded together! Haley finds herself in quite a predicament with no way to get home. Jordan challenges her to escape her wealthy conformity and go with him to New York, despite their disgust for one another.Haley is enthralled with the carefree, in control and gorgeous Jordan, yet he remains a stranger to her in many ways. With his help, Haley begins to discover who she is and what she wants. She finds herself at a crossroads: go back to her old life where she merely exists or take a stand and chase her dreams.

Reading 2011 Leveled Reader 6-Pack 1.1.3 on


Kristin Cashore - 2009
    Reading Street Leveled Readers are available in print and online in the Scott Foresman Leveled Reader Database. Leveled Readers develop and deepen the understanding of the Unit Concept and Big Question. They allow for customization of vocabulary, and comprehension strategy and skill instruction to match student's instructional and, or independent reading level.Concept Literacy Readers These readers support and extend the unit concept. They are available each week to reinforce and build background for the weekly and unit concepts. They are leveled 2 years below grade level. In Kindergarten and 1st Grade, the levels range from Pre-K to Kindergarten. The text is repetitive; and there is a strong text to picture match.Below-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers range from1 to 11/2 levels below grade level.On-Level Readers These readers support and extend the unit and weekly concept. They contain the same weekly tested vocabulary; and teachers can use this text to teach the same comprehension skill and strategy as the weekly selection in Reading Street. These readers are 1/2 level below grade level.Advanced Level Readers These readers develop and extend the unit and weekly concept. Teachers can use this text to extend the weekly vocabulary and comprehension skills and strategies. These readers are 1 to 2 levels above grade level.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition


American Psychological Association - 2009
    

Hunting Booger Bottom: Life Lessons from the Field


Michael Waddell - 2009
    Down to earth, clever, genuine, well-grounded, funny as all hell, kind, generous, decent, and surely one of the best natural hunters and woodsmen that I have ever grilled a sacred backstrap with.” —Ted NugentFrom hunting legend Michael Waddell, star of multiple Outdoor Channel programs, comes a poignant and funny book about growing up in rural Georgia: Hunting Booger Bottom. Waddell offers priceless anecdotes from his lifetime of hunting with the fascinating—and often hilarious—cast of characters he’s met along the way. Breathtaking and dramatic, filled with practical advice and indelible folk wisdom—and a foreword by Ted Nugent—Hunting Booger Bottom offers an impassioned defense of sport hunting and is a must-read for anyone who has ever wandered the woods with “a stick and a string” (as Waddell refers to his bow.)

So You Want to Be a Work-At-Home Mom: A Christian's Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business


Jill Hart - 2009
    In recent studies it was found that as many as 105 million people in North America alone were working at home. Considering this information, it is obvious that home-based businesses can be successful-and authors Jill Hart and Diana Ennen will help you succeed with your own.So You Want to Be a Work-at-Home Mom details all the basics of starting a business in a spiritual, motivational, and comprehensive manner. From deciding what type of business to start to keeping your family and faith first, this helpful tool details every aspect of establishing a business. With proven success tips utilized by the authors and others who own work-at-home businesses, this inspiration approach will provide you with the resources you need to start your own home-based business.So You Want to Be a Work-at-Home Mom includes: Detailed information on types of businesses to startIdeas and assistance for setting up, operating, and marketing your businessDefinitions and descriptions of work-at-home terminology and processesHelp for developing your Web siteExplanations of the business 'nuts and bolts, ' including bookkeeping, taxes, and moreClick here to listen to an interview with the author.

The Five-Minute Miracle: Discover the Personal Healing Symbols that Will Solve Your Problems


Tara Springett - 2009
    The system is a pleasurable self-help method that is designed to overcome all sorts of psychological problems, as well as easing chronic pain and tiredness. The method only takes five minutes each day and is so simple that it can be used by anyone, anywhere, even by children. A synthesis of Tibetan Buddhist principles and humanistic psychology, the core of the practice is to make contact with our Higher Consciousness (in whatever form we perceive it) and receive a healing symbol to overcome our problems. This symbol will be visualized (or sensed) in our heart, radiating loving light to ourselves and to everyone who is involved in the problem. It's a system that can be used over and over again for a new problem, ask for a new symbol. This system, which the author calls Higher Consciousness Healing, has brought extremely impressive and reliable results within days or a few weeks of beginning the practice to hundreds of individuals and families. Now everyone can learn and practice these principles through this extraordinary and miraculous book.

Powerless


Diana Peterfreund - 2009
    http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/books...

Nursing Homes and Assisted Living: The Family's Guide to Making Decisions and Getting Good Care


Peter S. Silin - 2009
    Silin wrote Nursing Homes: The Family's Journey to provide family members with practical advice and emotional support. This successor volume incorporates the new and sometimes baffling world of assisted living. Nursing Homes and Assisted Living focuses on the psychological, emotional, and practical aspects of helping family members and seniors make a difficult transition.Silin approaches his subject with compassion and sensitivity, guiding readers through the process of finding the best possible care. He describes how nursing homes and assisted living facilities work and outlines the selection process; he explains how to prepare for the day a relative moves into a facility and suggests ways to help the resident settle in; he focuses on the family member's role in solving problems, obtaining good-quality care, and visiting. The author’s insights help caregivers cope with difficult decisions and deal with emotional issues such as guilt and grief, while celebrating the tender, rewarding aspects of being a caregiver. Vignettes from real-life caregivers narrating their experiences amplify Silin’s advice and will resonate with families.This book provides caregivers, family members, and seniors with the information they need to effect successful transitions. It is also a valuable tool for social workers, nurses, and family therapists.

The Miracle of Wild Oregano


Cass Ingram - 2009
    Learn its immense powers through Dr. Ingram's thorough book, which covers all the latest scientific facts. Learn the historical use of wild oregano, including the fact that this is the healing "hyssop" of the Law (or ancient scriptures). Find out how wild oregano helps: reverse digestive complaints; boost the immune system; cleanse the body of dangerous germs, including fungi, yests, bactera, and viruses; preserve the body from aging and disease, because of its potent antioxidant action; protect people of all ae gfroups from common illnesses, including infants, toddlers, and even pets.