Calling all cat lovers! This perfectly giftable board book has fun with opposites in a colorful rhyming read-aloud.Hi cat, bye cat.Sad cat, glad cat.Small cat, big cat.This funny cat-centric board book by Jade Orlando is the purrfect rhyming read-aloud for teaching opposites. The lively text begs for repeat reading, and children will love spotting details in the vibrant art. With sleepy cats on the closing spread, Hi, Cat. Bye, Cat. is great for bedtime or anytime!
Calling all dog lovers! This perfectly giftable board book has fun with opposites in a colorful rhyming read-aloud.This dog’s clean, that dog’s muddy.These dogs are the best of buddies.This humorous dog-centric board book by Jade Orlando is the perfect rhyming read-aloud for teaching opposites. The littlest readers will recognize differences within themselves and within their favorite fur friends. Lively text begs for repeated reading and kids will love spotting funny details. With sleepy dogs on the closing spread, This Dog. That Dog. is great for bedtime or anytime.
A Japanese American woman is the greatest assassin in human history. A bleak, otherworldly account from the end of the age, as told by thirty nine year old Satari Sakara, a.k.a. Sarah Green, a wealthy suburban woman who is the world's most gifted and unique assassin. Sarah's grim and tragic voice is a warrior's cry from deep within, and a disturbing portrait of human pain and suffering. Raised in bitterness by her Japanese mother, Sarah uncovers a story of hidden, suburban depravity, descended through the generations of the Sakara family women. Sarah allows behind closed doors truth into the light, showing how it led her to become a merciless killer of shallow, upper class women and their daughters, the ones whom she deems most worthy to die. In a voice at times as sharp as a two edged sword, Sarah shines a light into the dark corners of the human spirit, while unveiling the details of her incredible journey from an innocent young Japanese girl in suburban Virginia, to an avenging angel of death, who swings her sword with the endtime wrath of God.
Haunted by dreams of a stranger with jade-green eyes for most of her life, eighteen-year-old Lizzy is shocked to find out that he's not just a figment of her imagination. Despite an immediate attraction, however, she's not here for romance. She has more important things to do, having come to the Victorian age in order to search for word of a mysterious and distant relative who will soon be hanged for murder. Lizzy knows that she has limited time to find her ancestor-and maybe even clear the woman's name-before she has to return home to her family, her friends, and her future...but will she be able to stay away from the man of her dreams?
This short novel, set after the events of The Book of Deacon, follows the blessed and cursed life of Jade Rinton. Stripped of her family and kept in a tall tower by a fierce dragon due to the scheming of a mysterious stranger, Jade seems to be living in a twisted fairy tale. She soon learns, though, that fate has its own ideas of who should play each part, and that family is where you find it.
Green-eyed supermodel Jade Michaelson quits at the peak of her career to return home to Charlotte to marry her childhood sweetheart. Twelve years later she learns he's a serial philanderer and high-stakes gambler. Now a divorced mother of four, Jade reconnects briefly in Monaco with Mac Reardon, an emotional relationship from her past. Although she is now single, Mac is very much married. Jade snags a good job with the city, and becomes a whistleblower when she finds rampant corruption in high places. This action results in her being almost murdered by the mayor, having a brush with the Mafia, becoming engaged to a reporter, and becoming the first female governor of North Carolina. But the fickle fates demand retribution. Knowing she was adopted as an infant, her newspaper reporter fianc searches out her birth mother in rural Mississippi. His findings are astounding. The resulting furor tests not only Jade's will and strength, but also causes her to rethink her entire life up to now. She has to make decisions and sacrifices that will impact her life for many years to come. An unexpected turn of events leads her to romance and a realization of her most cherished dream.
Discovering she has the power to teleport to anywhere or anyone in the world; Julie decides to use her abilities to help people. As a young college student she soon finds herself in over her head when she rescues Matt and five of his SEAL Team members, held hostage by insurgents. Will she be able to stay one step ahead of those who want to kill her? Or will she become a tool for those who want to use her powers? When the President is attacked, Julie is drawn into a battle to save the country. With the help of Matt and his Team, Julie struggles to stay alive.
It is the last Monday of the school year, and fourteen-year-old Jade Baker, could not be more excited. Besides it being a three day week, it is also her last day at Brunson Junior High School. Besides saying good bye to the eighth grade, Jade will also be saying goodbye to the bullying and torment that she endured the last three years. At this point, it is only natural that Jade thinks nothing could rain on her parade. However, things are not always as they seem. During lunch, Jade is attacked by her boyfriend and some of his teammates from the football team. The injuries are so bad, that they land Jade in the hospital. They have also left Jade with minor brain damage and Epilepsy. Even though she feels discouraged, she also feels strong and hopeful. As she will soon learn, never losing hope has it's advantages. When some long time best friends come to visit Jade in the hospital, she is given an educational opportunity that has the power to make her future the brightest that it can be.In this story of pain, recovery, change, hope, and finding the light at the end of a dark tunnel, follow a young girl on her journey of finding out the amazing things that can happen when you don't lose hope.
I left school to find myself. Instead, I found him.A research trip to Southeast Asia seemed like the perfect opportunity to get out of my academic rut. But then there was Oliver. Of all my roommates at the boarding house, of course he's the one I keep running into. Brilliant. Sexy. And charming enough to turn coal into diamonds with a quirk of his lips.He might specialize in precious stones, but I'm not going to fall for his act. I'm sure he thinks I'm an easy target - shy, nerdy and with plus-size curves to boot, who never gets attention from guys. But no matter how he makes me melt and quiver, I'm not giving in.It's going to be a long three months.
