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Evan Scruggs made his millions pretending to be someone he's not: A sweet grandma with an affinity for writing America's favorite cookbooks. While executives love his food, it was very clear from the beginning that his prickly personality and people skills were not going to sell anything to the public.

Life does not come with a manual, but it comes with the living example of God’s love for mankind. Our needs and wants change every day, but God’s love remains constant through all the seasons of life. God loves us without any conditions attached, his desire is that we learn to love other people the way he loves us. The goal of this book is to remind the listener about the importance of little acts of love shown to others. That love should not be limited to family and friends, but should be extended freely to lonely strangers.

Teachers, are you prepared to design and build your classroom for a great new year? You will need these tips, advice, and anecdotes to guide your work and help you to avoid common pitfalls. Create Your Classroom is built on 25 years of classroom design and creating quality classroom environments that supported positive student connections and authentic learning. You will benefit from all the years of planning and preparation the author has compiled into the most essential tips you will need to create your classroom and have your most successful year.

Becoming a superhero isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Let’s be realistic, people don’t have superpowers. But if you have enough determination to make it through training, you have a chance to be the modern-day superhero, stopping one criminal at a time…or doing everyone else’s job and getting none of the credit. After Tanser Girl comes to terms with her non-celebrity level status in the superhero world, someone else from Level D decides it’s their moment to shine, shaking up the entire system, while leaving her to pick up the pieces.

Kara learns that the evil Seirs are slaughtering Sensitives that refuse to swear an allegiance to Lilith—the Netherworld’s princess and her diabolical half-sister. While on assignment, Kara discovers that Lilith is searching for an ancient weapon that can destroy mankind.

The Elemental Project is a modern young adult sci-fi inspired by alchemical history. The story follows Guardian Lucas Sawyer and four angelic elementals on their quest to create the philosopher’s stone.

When the biggest New Orleans real estate developer strolls into Marina Cormier’s newly inherited antique shop with a lost phone looking for its owner, Marina's heart is knocked clear into a past she’s been trying to forget. She should have locked the front door, flipped the sign to CLOSED, and turned out the lights when she spotted him on the sidewalk! Instead, Marina scrambles for cover behind one of her massive grandfather clocks.

Kara has lost her elemental power, and with her guardian angel days behind her, all is back to normal...or so she thought. But when she's injected with a mysterious substance by a shadowy man, she begins to change...but into what? As Kara deals with the change that brews inside her, a new menace threatens the angels and the mortal world: Reapers. And now back in Horizon, it's up to Kara and her friends to figure out who is powerful enough to control the Reapers and how to stop them.

An alien and a human must unite to save Earth. Nathan Bradley’s life is unraveling. The nightmares that haunt him aren’t just dreams—they’re prophecies of Earth’s destruction. When a mysterious woman named Isha appears, claiming to have the answers, Nathan is thrust into a battle for the future of the planet. She says he’s not just another lost soul—he’s the key to thwarting a sinister plot to destroy Earth. But Nathan isn’t a hero. He’s barely keeping his own life together.

Kara’s return to the world of the living is short-lived when she gets an unexpected surprise and finds herself back in Horizon—the Legion has given her a second chance. Kara and her friends face a new enemy: a Dark warlock, an ancient and evil adversary of the Legion. But when Kara finds out that their GA weapons have no effect on Dark magic, can she defeat the warlock and save the mortal world from Darkness? What’s worse, the Legion orders Kara to carry out her new mission undercover, as someone she never expected…

A pair of South Texas teens fascinated with survival television are put to the test when a mysterious disease tears across the country. They must do what it takes to survive on their own, and above all else, they must hide.

Kara has survived the threat of the Reapers, but at an unspeakable cost—the Archfiends have escaped their eternal prison. Now, with the mortal world on the brink of the apocalypse, with the threat of evil beings as powerful as gods, she must break the rules and travel across the mortal world on an unauthorized mission. Along the way she must face her darkest truth . . . a truth about the change inside her, a truth that she cannot stop.

Caitey Belgrave fears she’s taken on way too much when she agrees to create the perfect Mansion Mountain Wedding for her cousin and bestie, Jenna. When she drives into the luxurious Hearst Estate, the word “overwhelm” doesn’t do justice to the sudden panic attack. When she spies a gorgeous man materializing out of the woods like a ghost and watching her like a stalker, sheer terror turns her blood to ice.Wait a minute—a stalker in a $3,000 Armani suit? And yet, Jack the Ripper was handsome and charming . . . is she living in a Rom-Com or a murder mystery?