True Girl

Two decades ago, Amber Glass's life changed forever. No-one had even known she was pregnant - including Joe, her date. Afterwards, she left town for good - and hasn't seen Joe since. But she knows he hasn't left, that he's working for his father's real estate company, married to a cosmetic surgeon. Child free. Now Amber is back, and as the two of them tentatively start to renew their once unlikely relationship, will their secrets and motivations finally destroy everyone around them?

In her first ever book, Trinitee Stokes - best known as Judy Cooper from Disney Channel's K.C. Undercover - features Trinitee's answers to real fans about friends, faith, and fame, empowering girls and boys to embrace that their big dreams are valuable, worth chasing, and within reach! Trinitee Stokes is an actress, singer, inspirational speaker, and fashion designer who knows how hard it can be to not back down in the face of peer pressure, choose friends who will have your back and treat you right, and discover your own unique talents...all while following your dreams!

Pursuing my dreams was worth all the sacrifices. Finding the secret to a happy, peaceful life in self-love was worth the 13-year journey in a foreign country, because without it, I may have never found it. Life is about the choices we make. Each choice decides about our destiny. We are in charge of our destiny, especially when it comes to love and relationships....

Alex Copeland is that kind of guy…and Jess knows it. She’s worked too hard to make detective, to be taken seriously, to be ready for that next promotion, to let an office flirt like Officer Copeland sway her. Jessica is so ready to say no, that she’s even told him she’s not available when he’s just asking for paperwork. Jessica Valverde is the only woman Alex would ever consider filling out HR paperwork for. Nothing he does gets her attention until a building fire puts him in harm’s way and her ambition puts him in her way. Maybe Jessica has kept her walls too high and maybe ...

A shattering, utterly immersive work of investigative journalism, The Good Girls slips behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honour in a village in northern India to tell the real story behind the tragic deaths of two teenage girls and an epidemic of violence against women.

Emma G.’s dream has come true! Her BFF has tickets to a Boyz3000 concert in the Bahamas, and Emma’s their number one fan. Her parents say she can go...if she pays for part of the trip. What? How? The concert’s in nine days! Determined, she enlists friends, pulls off crazy schemes, and discovers hidden talents that could change her life!

City Girl, Country Girl brings together the stories of women who have left lives in the city or other countries to build new futures in places where knowing how to milk a cow or drive a tractor stands them in far better stead than an ability to negotiate rush-hour traffic or find a good cappuccino. It ranges in scope from the classic outback story of Sarah Durack in the late 1800s to the author's own mother's experiences of swapping wartime Melbourne for a dairy farm on the Limestone Coast to the present day.

City Girl, Country Girl brings together the stories of women who have left lives in the city or other countries to build new futures in places where knowing how to milk a cow or drive a tractor stands them in far better stead than an ability to negotiate rush-hour traffic or find a good cappuccino. It ranges in scope from the classic outback story of Sarah Durack in the late 1800s to the author's own mother's experiences of swapping wartime Melbourne for a dairy farm on the Limestone Coast to the present day.

A gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, the detective determined to find her killer and a country's hidden secrets. On 17 August 2014, the body of 15-year-old Indigenous runaway Tina Fontaine was found weighted down in the Red River in the Canadian city of Winnipeg. The loss of Tina was a tragedy for her family and for the Indigenous community. But it also exposed a national scandal: Indigenous women are vastly more likely than other Canadians to be assaulted and killed.

The daughter of a seamstress and a cobbler, Jeanne Villepreux-Power began her career as a dressmaker, sewing beautiful gowns for the Parisian aristocracy. But her heart longed for more, and when she moved to the seaside, she became fascinated by the ocean's mysteries.

The only thing Charlotte loves as much as ballet is Christmas. So, when she gets the opportunity to play Marie in the New York City Ballet's The Nutcracker, she leaps at the chance. Dancing takes practice - hours of adjusting her arms and perfecting her jumps. With the help of her Trinidadian and Filipino families, encouragement from her sister, and a view of her mom and dad in the audience, Charlotte finds the strength to never give up.

Fourth Edition I Love You Baby Girl is a powerful and emotional true story about a girl we will call Sarah, who endured years of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse. Her experiences were heartbreaking, involving many abusers, including her father, who became violent after drinking, and others who took advantage of her vulnerability. In addition to her own suffering, Sarah faced the anguish of watching her youngest brother, Scott, endure severe mistreatment. Diagnosed with ADHD as a toddler, Scott was subjected to inhumane conditions, restrained and treated harshly, all of which ...

What secrets does the new sexy stranger hold, and will he be Anna’s knight in shining armor? Anna Shelby grew up in a small, rural town in the Midwest where everyone knew everyone. She was happy teaching her sixth grade class in her little town, but she’d always thought something was missing. She was glad she’d made one change—breaking up with Alan, who was nothing but controlling and mean-spirited. Meanwhile, there have been rumors about a handsome man renovating a small farmhouse on some acreage a few miles out of town. Who is this secretive man, and what is he doing in their ...

Uleyli is a princess - but she isn’t happy with all that comes with it. She’d rather daydream and create art than learn how to rule her people. When a Spanish boy, Juan Ortiz, is captured by Ulelyi’s father, she intervenes on his behalf and begins to plot her escape from her village. As she dreams of a new life in Cuba, Uleyli encounters a series of problems that put her dreams at risk. To solve her problems, she will need to use the power of her creativity to help her new friend, her village, and herself.

In 1938, when her diary begins, Helga is eight years old. Alongside her father and mother and the 45,000 Jews who live in Prague, she endures the Nazi invasion and regime: Her father is denied work, schools are closed to her, she and her parents are confined to their flat. Then deportations begin, and her friends and family start to disappear. In 1941, Helga and her parents are sent to the concentration camp of Terezn, where they live for three years. Here Helga documents their daily life - the harsh conditions, disease, and suffering, as well as moments of friendship, creativity, and hope - until, in 1944, they are sent to Auschwitz.

The picture didn't fit. On the surface, Alyssa Bustamante was a pretty 15-year-old girl who excelled in school. Behind closed doors, however, Alyssa was a deeply disturbed teenager with fantasies about killing someone. Her social media pages and diaries all painted the portrait of someone with an insatiable to desire to inflict pain onto the world. Her murderous impulses increasing by the day, Alyssa dug two graves in the woods outside her home and waited...waited for the perfect victim.

Learn How to Read People Instantly With This Life-Changing Guide to Deciphering Non-verbal Cues We all want to be able to read people, but it's not always easy. Especially when we want to know if they're telling the truth, or if they have bad intentions. We've all been in situations where we can't tell if the person we're talking to is being genuine or if they're just trying to manipulate us. It's frustrating, and it makes it difficult to trust anyone. It’s time to put your foot down and say, “Enough!” In How to Read People Like a Book, you will learn the basics of deciphering ...

Jennifer was born in 1997, when the consumer society had reached a golden age. She was born in a city that was being built on top of a valley that was a beautiful example of the gifts that Mother Nature presented to us. Jennifer's father had become addicted to heroin, while Jennifer's mother was struggling to make enough money to survive since she worked a retail job that only paid minimum wage.

In der ersten Geschichte des dritten Teils geht es darum, wie sich die sechs besten Freundinnen kennengelernt haben und wie sie mit Hilfsbereitschaft, gegenseitiger Unterstützung und Vertrauen sofort eine Basis für wahre Freundschaft schafften… und was ein Kindergarten voller Schlamm damit zu tun hat.

One photograph is all it takes for me to become obsessed. She's the prettiest little thing I've seen. I'll stop at nothing to make her mine. Even if it means moving clean across the country to find her. I'm going to do whatever it takes to make her mine.