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We all have stories to tell, but not everyone gets the mentoring and training or encouragement to become a great storyteller. Founded a quarter century ago, Girls Write Now has empowered young women and gender-expansive youth to harness their creative talents, gaining confidence, skills, and a community supporting them in sharing stories the world needs to hear.

This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners—gig workers, restaurant staff, early-career creatives, and minimum-wage laborers—do when the economy suddenly collapses. In Side Hustle Safety Net, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle builds on interviews with nearly two hundred gig-based and precarious workers, conducted during the height of the pandemic, to uncover the unique challenges they faced in unprecedented times.

When a summoning goes awry, suddenly book nerd Meena's summer job becomes something drastically different. Instead of cleaning eccentric Carol's house, she's bound to a demon as his soul-collector. Soon Meena discovers that the boring, pageant-obsessed, bonfire-loving town that she's never fit in to is a hotbed for soul-sucking demons, demon-hunting witches, and vampires who just wanna have fun . . . And then she comes into her own powers.

In Riverton Falls, a small New England town, globe-trotting bartender Celeste Fortune stands in her kitchen puzzling over last night’s frightening dream - a woman at a window, lilacs blowing in the breeze, someone’s hands tight around her neck. Celeste is sure the dream belongs to someone else. Perhaps she has finally broken through to the collective dreams of Dreamland cult. Hoping her therapist and cult leader will help her untangle it, she heads off into the cold November morning to her final appointment with him - or so she hopes.

Jessica Morrison’s parents were murdered sixteen years ago. Now the killer is coming for her. Looking back, Jessica had a picture-perfect childhood, but that was all ripped to shreds when her loving parents were killed. Eventually, the case went cold and Jessica realized the police barely investigated. She was too young to do anything about their inaction, so she concentrated on growing up as fast as possible under the care of her uncle. But life had never been the same after that day and her uncle never opened up about the details of her parents death. And he never will because now he’s dead.

Raising the perfect child...it's our dream as parents. But the reality is: the perfect child doesn't exist. Yet parents everywhere are putting the full-court press on their kids to be perfect, fixating on raising them to be smarter, faster, more successful, and more popular than their peers. And that's making today's parents and their children crazy. In Untying Parent Anxiety, nationally syndicated humor columnist and author Lisa Sugarman reminds us that our kids aren't supposed to be perfect.

Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews, and ethnographies, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine.

Monster slayer Sandra Barlowe ventures to Madrugar, Mexico to investigate the brutal death of a local rancher. While the signs initially point to a vampire, the deeper she dives into her investigation, the more the murder appears to be the handiwork of something else…something much more terrifying.

Have you ever looked at your life and felt like you needed to get rid of all the clutter? Are you caught up in the lifestyle of consumerism that plagues modern society? Do you sense that your life would be better and happier if only you didn't crave so much unnecessary stuff? Do you sense that you are struggling to achieve a work-life balance? Do you struggle to achieve your goals even if you put in all the effort you can muster?

I’m Iris Engels. I can see through magic. My grumpy shape-shifting partner, Adrian Williams, has a nose for trouble, but he's also frequently the cause.

After losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve struggles to protect the one child she has left, a teenage daughter who just might be pure evil. The dark side of magic is where the Ragman dwells. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called on that cunning conjurer eighteen years ago. Her daughter, Abbey, was the result.

Any parent can tell you how difficult it can be to travel with young children. Even the best child can have difficulty sitting in a seat for hours, on a plane or in a car. In this new book, Rachel Peachey offers tips and activities to keep your child learning while travelling. Montessori on the Go is a unique guide, carefully designed for fast, easy implementation of learning activities while on the go, inspired by the incredible teaching methodology developed by Dr. Maria Montessori.

The best approach to getting yourself a restful night of sleep is to ensure that your baby is also resting peacefully and safely. To do this, you will not only have to ensure that your baby falls asleep safely, but also stays asleep and is safe in his or her environment. I will show you how to make it happen for your little one and yourself. There are literally millions of parents worldwide right now who are beyond tired and at a complete loss on how to get their baby sleeping through the night.

Behavior Solutions for the Home is a tool for parents who have children whose behaviors are impeding their daily life. Once they see a particular behavior, they can quickly look up an in-the-moment solution, and then learn more about what could be causing that behavior, and more importantly, how to overcome it.

"Someday, Cornea, you're going to open your eyes and see the magic around you." Three kids have gone missing in Rochester, Minnesota. They didn't stay gone for long. But the location of the reappearance makes this more than your run-of-the-mill mystery. I'm Iris Engels, and I can't stay away. I need to know why the kids disappeared from the park and reappeared in graffiti graveyard. More than that, I need to know why on Earth there's a spruce tree in Quarry Hill Park.

Have you ever gotten a puppy that you loved but misbehaved? It barks all the time, chews everything in the house, potties in the house, and more? Well look no further because Alexa Hamilton has laid out all of the techniques that professionals use to train puppies to become loyal companions.

Parent's Questions About High School is an inspirational book about helping your child be successful in high school, specifically focusing on the ninth-grade transition. Also included is the award-winning formula for how to help your child improve their grades or help them strive for the grade point average they need to be part of any school sports teams. I have over 28 years of experience in high school, middle school, and vocational education administration.

Detective Fiona Fitzgerald is an unlikely force for justice in Washington, D.C.'s predominantly male police force. As a senator's daughter and top investigator in the homicide division of the Metropolitan Police Department, Fiona maneuvers between two vastly different worlds, moving quickly from opulent galas to gritty crime scenes.

Marty Sullivan's life ends, basically, when her parents enroll her in a private high school. A private, Catholic, girls-only high school. Meanwhile, at their local public school, her best friend, Jimmy, comes out of the closet and finds himself a boyfriend and a new group of friends.

Spiritual blogger (Ash and Starlight) and pastor Arianne Lehn provides encouragement for the spiritual journey in these honest and poetic prayers drawn from everyday emotions, joys, and frustrations of our days. Ash and Starlight features prayers for centering, confession and surrender, trust, comfort and strength, discernments and thresholds, waiting and struggle, and seasons and liturgical times of the year. The compilation of prayers will help listeners find connection and wholeness in their own spiritual pilgrimage.