Crushing the SAT is the ultimate guide to the New SAT. The New SAT has a unique structure and scoring system that you can use to your advantage. Knowing when to guess and how to save time can raise your SAT score by hundreds of points. Brain-ruining test anxiety diminishes your ability to remember and think, both of which are needed for optimal performance on high stakes tests. Crushing the SAT uses proven psychological techniques to lessen anxiety and elevate you to a higher level of thinking. If you only have a few months, weeks, or even days to prepare, then Crushing the SAT is where you must start.

The first book to apply growth mindset strategies to SAT prep. Preparing to take the SAT can seem overwhelming and stressful, making it all too easy to give up or zone out on your prep work. However, if you follow the growth-mindset approach outlined in this book, you will stay focused and driven and continue to improve until you surpass your highest expectations on test day. Research has shown that adopting a growth mindset is directly linked to increased test scores, so the authors of this helpful study guide have interwoven this revolutionary approach to teaching into every aspect of their SAT prep. In addition to the test prep and practice questions, the authors impart powerful advice on how you can overcome stress and anxiety while staying positive and setting goals during the months leading up to the test. The strategies in Crush the SAT with Growth Mindset will be invaluable tools for your SAT test day and for your life moving forward into college and beyond.

It seems that every boy Linda Berman likes wants to be with someone else. And Linda is not interested in the boys that like her! It’s hard to learn all the rules for meeting, dating and breaking up, but this year Linda and her friends are getting a lot of practice…. Previously published as We Only Like Older Boys.

Katie Kisment never thought much about going home after she left for college. Truth be told, she couldn’t leave town fast enough. But life goes on and being there to see her oldest friend get married was something she wasn’t going to miss. All of the focus would be on the bride-to-be so no one would probably even recognize her. How bad could it be? As a photographer, Katie was used to hiding behind the camera. But not even her camera could hide her from the only person she ever had feelings for, even if he never knew. As a cowboy on the Kisment Ranch, Levi knew the three unbreakable rules: no fighting, no drugs, and no dating their only daughter. Levi was happy for his sister, he really was, but he didn’t see why he had to be so involved in her wedding. It was bad enough she had him toting balloons around like a child, what could she come up with next? Saddle up and hang on tight for the wild ride in this sweet and clean western romance story set in Sunnydale, TX. Will Katie survive the wedding weekend in her old home town? Will Levi be able to keep his composure and not make a scene at his sister’s wedding? Or will fate have something entirely different in mind for both of them?

Do you think one-sided love stories ever exist? Do you think true love can be one-sided? And maybe its not true, but someone can love someone truly yet fate doesnt meet up at the end. What is that feeling called if not one-sided true love? Or maybe you feel it is the love of your life, but you have to let him go. But she more than loves him and cannot cease to love him, maybe. Think of her. Sometimes the Alps and oceans would divide them, but they never will unless he wishes to. And his wish is temporary as he is unaware of her undying love for him, or maybe she would be happy without him in his life. Heres the story of a happy yet scared yet funny Mayra who falls for Rehan and their talea one-sided love story.

In the USA Today–bestselling author’s “addictive second Karen Vail thriller,” the FBI profiler tracks a serial killer through California wine country (Publishers Weekly). In this follow-up to the standout bestseller The 7th Victim, Karen Vail ventures to Napa Valley, where a serial killer has been crushing his victims’ windpipes and leaving their bodies in caves. But when the Crush Killer learns that an FBI profiler has joined the Major Crimes Task Force, the newfound attention emboldens him, and he sets in motion a plan that wreaks havoc on the town—as well as the task force. Although a sudden break in the case helps Vail zero in on the identity of the killer, she senses that something isn’t right. If she doesn’t figure it out in time, the consequences will be dire. In a rousing climax that leaves readers breathless, and which Publishers Weekly termed a “shockeroo ending,” Vail must pick up the pieces—and clean up the carnage left behind by the Crush Killer. Meticulously researched during years of work with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, this high-velocity thriller from national bestselling author Alan Jacobson features the kind of edge-of-your-seat ending that inspired Nelson DeMille to call Jacobson “a hell of a writer.” Crush is the first installment of a two-part story that concludes with Velocity, book three in the Karen Vail Series.

Sportswriter Miranda Penney knows all about men with balls and big sticks, but she hits all the wrong notes when she finds herself reluctantly falling for rock star Lucas Fletcher. No stranger to the pitfalls of dating a celebrity, Miranda would rather shun true love than risk having her heart broken by the one man with whom she might find it. The daughter of an African-American baseball player who frequently cheated on her beautiful, accomplished Brazilian mother, Miranda also bears the wounds of having been cheated on by the ballplayer she herself dated. Although she can't deny her attraction to Lucas, Miranda can't force herself to accept the love the handsome Welshman wants to give her. Their careers keep them surrounded by gorgeous, wealthy men and women of every color and description, but for Lucas and Miranda, when it comes to love, race doesn't matter. . .but fidelity and trust do,and those are the two things Lucas is determined to teach Miranda to believe in.

The day Finn Maguire discovers his dad bludgeoned to death in a pool of blood, his dreary life is turned upside down. Prime suspect in his father’s murder, Finn must race against time to clear his name and find out who hated his dad enough to kill him. Scouring the sordid, brutal London underworld for answers, exposing dark family secrets, and facing danger at every turn, Finn is about to learn that it’s the people you trust who can hit you the hardest. . . Crusher is this year’s most talked-about debut thriller.

A Teacher's Passion... She's spent years teaching students English, changing their lives and igniting a love of learning. Her passion for her job is not only fueled by a love of teaching, but a desire to escape a lifetime of personal loneliness. A survivor of sexual assault, she's also mastered the art of "self-medicating" and looking for love in all the wrong places. All that changed the day Marley walked into her class. He was just as wounded as she. . . but there were just some lines a teacher didn't cross, especially when she knows the damage that can be caused by lines that are blurred too early. That was then. This is now. Time changes everything? There's nothing young and innocent about Marley now. When she bumps into him many years later, Marley admits the crush he had on her has never gone away. And now that he's a man, he wants to help heal her broken heart. Can the student she knew become the man she loves? Is it even possible to accept love from such an unseemly source? In her signature vignettes, Nicole Bailey-Williams returns with a riveting story of redemption after ruin and the indomitable nature of love.

Grace Madison compared her life to a snow globe. Just when she thought she had a direction… when she thought things were settled, everything turned upside down, the pieces slowly settling where they would. Conner Worthington fell in love with Grace the first time he saw her. After barely even a conversation with him, she became engaged to his best friend. But that conversation left an indelible impression on his heart. When Grace's fiancé died, leaving her alone, would Conner step up and confess his feelings for her. Or would that be too awkward? An emotional and touching sweet rom com taking the reader on a roller coaster ride of feelings.