What if youth wasn't wasted on the young...? It began as a father's middle-of-the-night fear; One son leaving for college, two more close behind--the nagging feeling that for all his success as a CEO, husband, provider--he was about to fail his biggest mission: the chance to give his sons the keys to finding success and happiness in the "real world". What if you could give life's wisdom to your children, thirty years ahead of time? If you captured the lessons of living, loving, career building, winning and losing--the one's it takes a successful person thirty years to learn--and offered it all to your children, how would their lives be different? How would yours be different? The answer filled this book... Carl Nichols turned on his night light and began writing a letter to his sons. The result is in your hands. In the practical, informal style of a dad who is also a professional communicator, Carl tells you... - How to discover what you really want to do - How to succeed with people in business - How to create the brand YOU in an increasingly competitive world - How to find and live with your soul mate - How to lead, how to follow, how to create, how to negotiate ...and much more.

Common Core standards, OER, STEM, and collection development—where to begin? This book investigates these critical topics together to give you the power to transform your collection and practice and put your school library at the center of STEM. Curricula that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas of study aren't just important for furthering competency and careers in these fields; STEM helps ensure that future generations include inventive and critical thinkers. Digital resources offer a current, exciting direction to involve school librarians with their STEM teachers. With its specific focus on open digital multimedia learning resources, this book will enable school librarians to take advantage of this opportunity and evaluate, build, and maintain their STEM collections. The book comprises three sections: an overview of policy initiatives; a thorough exploration of STEM education policy, digital materials, and collection considerations; and detailed explanations of strategies for collection development and promotion. You'll learn how to perform a collection analysis to determine the age and extent of your STEM collections and make priorities for enriching them with appropriate digital multimedia resources as well as how to classify resources using Dewey and Sears and with regard to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards.

Will Barb be back for Cade and Andie's wedding? Victory should be sweet for pro quarterback, Cade Prescott. He's won the Super Bowl MVP, has a baby on the way, and is marrying the love of his life, librarian Andie Wales. Raised by foster parents, Cade yearns to be part of a real family. Unfortunately, his mother is running from the law, and Andie refuses to plan the wedding unless her future mother-in-law is included. Meanwhile, their enemies have not given up, and unbeknownst to Andie and Cade, they are on their way to exact revenge. Will Cade and Andie's special day result in reconciliation or utter ruin? -- No cliff-hanger. The Hard-Won Happily Ever After for Andie, Cade, and their families.

Natalie Pierce awakens to find herself buried in a box that strongly resembles a coffin. After some initial confusion she remembers that she has become a member of a very exclusive club; the living dead. Natalie has three important tasks ahead of her. One: escape from her underground prison. Two: hunt down the creature responsible for imprisoning her. Three: discover who or what is behind the cause of the sentient shadows that only she can see. According to an ancient prophecy, it is her destiny to wipe out the vast bulk of her own kind. Despite all of the weird and wacky powers that Nat has gained, it seems that not even Mortis can avoid her fate. (paranormal romance, fantasy romance, dark fantasy, vampire series, dark fantasy series, paranormal romance series)

Bon Temps’s psychic waitress takes a dangerous road trip in the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood. There’s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and it’s Bill Compton. But recently he’s been a little distant—in another state, distant. Then his sinister and sexy boss Eric Northman tells Sookie where she might find him. Next thing she knows, she’s off to Jackson, Mississippi, to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead, a dangerous little haunt where the elite of vampire society can go to chill out and suck down some Type-O. But when Sookie finally finds Bill—caught in an act of serious betrayal—she’s not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.

Traumatized and estranged siblings reunite against an ancient evil: “Southern-flavored horror . . . so well-written that I found myself re-reading sentences.” —Stephen A. North, author of Dead Tide Fifteen years ago, siblings Coil and Cassiopeia suffered an incident in the woods behind their family home. An incident that neither of them are willing to remember. Something that nearly killed Cass and left Coil accused as her abuser. An act that robbed young Coil of his artistic potential, yet boosted his little sister into an almost overnight sensation in the art world. Now, the self-exiled Coil has come home to deal with his world-famous sister as she suffers from sundowning; severe and violent personality shifts after the sun sets. Coil’s reluctant loyalty to his family is rewarded with an unexpected return to his artistic roots, as he wakes each day to find he has painted a brilliant but disturbing masterpiece in his sleep. As the siblings struggle to heal old family scars, something is reaching out to the small town of Ellenville, driving the townsfolk mad and leaving chaos, mayhem, and death in its wake. And the key to stopping the madness lies in Cass’s sundowning and Coil’s blooming talent . . .

Fantasy fiction. The entire Spiderwick Chronicles story in one book, including brand new material!

All 15-year-old Alice and her sisters Emma, Clara and Lily wanted to know was where they came from. Who had brought them to their secluded orphanage home and why did they each wear a mysterious golden pendant? The question seemed simple enough, but when posed to their strict headmistress Ms. Craddock, the girls discover far more than they expected. Now Alice and her sisters find themselves on a dangerous question to free the kingdom of Algernon from the grip of a demon ruler, before he conquers all the lands of Fadreama. Guided by a powerful wizard, the girls make their way across the kingdom meeting friend and foe alike, all the while realizing that destiny never brings the expected. Pursued by a witch and running out of time, Alice must learn how to harness the power of her inner light in order to stop the terror before it is too late.