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What if everything you thought you knew about yourself was a lie? Kailani Ericson's life pretty much sucks. Her mother is basically an indentured servant to a hateful old woman who thrives on terrorizing Kai while they live and work in her huge seaside manor. Her best friend and the ocean in her backyard are her only comforts. Then he moves in next door. Bryce Howell is gorgeous, every girl’s fantasy. He’s also arrogant, insolent, and strictly forbidden. But he’s not normal. He’s something different. Something strange and irresistible. When their forbidden relationship is discovered, Kai’s world is turned upside down. She discovers the truth about her ancestry and faces an uncertain future. The ocean waters beckon her, but therein lies the problem: swimming in the sea would mean certain death. But if she stays on dry land, she will die. Bryce wants to save her. He needs to save her, even at the risk of his own safety. Can the love of fated souls defeat the darkest magic? The Little Mermaid meets Beautiful Creatures in this paranormal romance with mermaids, witches and the true love of fated soulmates.
When life throws you a curveball, you hit it out of the park.I'd never been as wrong as I was when I assumed the Rogues had betrayed me. Now the true culprits were on my hit list-which was, at the moment, dormant. While an impossibly archaic threat hung over Stella's head, there was nothing to be done but wait.The Rogues were back in my life in private, but I had to endure the public spectacle of those intolerable Roguettes reclaiming their social positions...and my boys. Even though I knew it was a ruse, anger coursed through me every time the queen bee touched my man.Not fearing any consequences, Charlotte and her cronies pushed me past my breaking point. I gave them a beating they won't soon forget, but my satisfaction was short-lived. Jail had a way of sucking the pleasure right out of you.But not the determination.We would break the chains that bound us and be free. Free to be together. Free to live our lives.No more sitting on the bench. It's time to play ball.
Sometimes the ones who save us are the ones we need to fear the most.In a world where dark faeries have stepped in to save the planet from humanity's mistakes, seventeen-year-old December Thorne is nothing but a shadow. Shunned by her peers, bullied at school, and paid a little too much attention by her sleazy foster father, she lives in constant fear and perpetual solitude.Until the day everything changed.Offered a scholarship to the prestigious Oberon Academy, December finds herself living in a whole new world. Boundless food, clean clothes, a safe place to sleep, and the potential for true friendship make her new life seem almost too good to be true-but the school has a secret.The truth is, Oberon Academy isn't just a prep school for society's elite. It's a training ground for a secret race of magical beings no one knows exists. And they're preparing for war.Filled with fear and denial, December has a choice to make. She can either return to her pathetic life with her dangerous foster parents, try to survive on her own, or make Oberon Academy her home and discover the truth about who, and what she really is. And that truth could save the world.
Fool me once? Shame on you. Fool me twice? Not going to happen...Step one: Go back to school with a thick skin and an impenetrable heart.Step two: Make the queen bees pay.Step three: Bring down the Rogues of Everly Prep.Bullied, befriended, and betrayed, my life has been an emotional roller coaster since moving into the Kincaid Mansion and enrolling at Everly Prep. After everything they did to me and all I went through to prove myself innocent, they received a slap on the wrist and a stern talking to-their punishment wasn't nearly enough.So I had to take matters into my own hands.I had a plan and a few select friends I trusted to help me pull it off. Together, we were going to turn this school upside down.Last semester, they nearly destroyed me. This semester was Chaz Miller's time. The second move was mine, and it was going to be epic.
Sometimes, the ones closest to you are the ones you should fear the most.After surviving another face-off with Queen Sebille and discovering the truth about her past, December Thorne's life has changed dramatically. With everyone now knowing and accepting what she truly is, and her new relationship with her mentor, her life takes a turn for the better. She finally has what she's always wanted.But when a new face arrives at Oberon Academy, things go horribly wrong. The newcomer spills secrets best kept under wraps and every bit of the happiness she's fought so hard for is threatened. But the troublemaker has secrets of his own.It's up to December to figure out what he's up to and bring it to light, so she can reclaim the happy life she'd been building-and prove he's not the good faery he's pretending to be.Or is he?
The second title in the series about everyone’s favorite young entrepreneur, Wednesday Wilson! Sometimes the best business ideas pop up when you least expect them. Or that’s what happens to Wednesday Wilson, anyway, the morning her brother, Mister, locks himself in the bathroom because he’s nervous about a school presentation. When classmate Emmet convinces Mister that a worry stone will calm his nerves, Wednesday offers her marble — with the promise that a Worry Marble will fix all his problems! But then Wednesday starts thinking about how many things kids get nervous about. And, hmm. She has a whole collection of marbles. Has Wednesday hit entrepreneurial gold? Or maybe her brilliant new idea doesn’t make cents.
As friends Bear and Mouse share a day together, Bear counts various objects, from one to five, and the reader is invited to do the same.
Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. From its inception, neoliberalism flirted with authoritarian liberalism as it warred against robust democracy. It repelled social-justice claims through appeals to market freedom and morality. It sought to de-democratize the state, economy, and society and re-s...
When the owl detective Whobert Whover finds Perry the possum lying still on the ground, he sets out to determine who is responsible for his condition and questions the nearby wildlife.
This favourite tale of Christmas gone awry is now available for a new generation of readers! This year, Lorinda and her brother James want to buy their mother the best Christmas present ever. Lorinda has her eye on one very special item, but they'll need to come up with some brilliant money-making ideas if they want to get it in time for Christmas! Of course, nothing goes according to plan . . . but the siblings are determined to make this a holiday their mother will never forget. Young readers will identify with this familiar holiday dilemma, and delight in Lorinda and James's creative solution (not to mention all the bumps along the way). The Best Worst Christmas Present Ever is an earnest, uplifting story that will get kids in the holiday spirit at Christmas time -- and all year round!