The desert is too hot to stand still, so Hoppit and his friends keep moving. As more and more animals join, who knows where they're going to end up! It's a big surprise for everyone except the snake and eagle, who try to warn them what's ahead...Join in the rhythm and rhyme of the animal parade in this poem, written and illustrated by Steve Webb. * Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters * Text type: A poem * Children can follow the animal parade through the desert in the map of their journey on pages 14 and 15. * Curriculum links: Science: Habitats; Geography: Weather around the world; Music: Feel the pulse
HE’S AN ELITE NAVY SEAL LIVING A RISKY DOUBLE LIFE. SHE’S THE GORGEOUS REPORTER HOT ON HIS TRAIL. Nick Devane’s life is one big classified secret. Until Kaylee Smith busts his covert world wide open, threatening to blow his cover. Digging around where she doesn’t belong could get them both killed…especially when the beautiful journalist uncovers top secret information that could set off a global disaster if it falls into the wrong hands. Nick can’t let that happen, even if he has to battle deadly mercenaries and an irresistible attraction that is all consuming.… Kaylee didn’t expect her search for her missing ex-husband to lead to this sexy and dangerous warrior. Now she’s teamed up with Nick on a mission that takes them into deepest Africa—and into the middle of a massive government cover-up. With rogue agents hot on their trail, Kaylee’s going to unearth all Nick’s secrets. Before they both vanish without a trace. Before the passion burning between them sets off an explosion no one may survive…
When it comes to competitive cooking, Max Lunden is no stranger to winning...though he's never been great at working with a team. A master chef-and major hunk-he's traveled the world, picking up new cooking techniques as well as beautiful women. But when the prodigal chef returns home to his family's Greenwich Village restaurant, he discovers one too many cooks in the kitchen-and she's every bit as passionate as he is... Juliet Cavanaugh used to have a crush on Max when she was just a teenager, hanging out at Lunden & Sons Tavern, hoping to catch a glimpse of the owner's oldest, and hottest, son. Now a chef herself-competing in the biggest culinary contest in the country-Juliet will be cooking side by side with the one man she's always admired...and desired. But despite their simmering attraction, Juliet is determined to keep her cool-no matter how hot it gets...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
A fascinating and authoritative account of the controversies and possibilities surrounding nuclear waste disposal, providing expert discussion in down-to-earth language.
"I LOVED The Intuitives! I want more. I NEED more." - Teacher of YA Book Blog IMAGINATION JUST BECAME OUR GREATEST WEAPON. In Egypt, an archaeological team discovers the lost tomb of Alexander the Great. Seven years later, every public school student in America takes a strange new test, but only six are chosen to attend a summer program at the mysterious Institute for the Cultivation of Intuitive Cognition, where nothing is as it appears to be, including the students themselves. The Lonely Artist. Roman, 11. Sees things. Around people. Things he can never, ever tell. The Sarcastic Nerd. Samantha, 16. Isolated by a premonition even she doesn’t understand. The Shy Musician. Daniel, 17. Hides his private thoughts in the soundtrack of his mind. The Bubbly Engineer. Kaitlyn, 15. Can fix anything, except the one thing that matters most. The Disciplined Athlete. Mackenzie, 17. Armors her deepest fears against a world she can’t control. The Frustrated Gamer. Ashton, 17. Hoping to turn pro, and a constant disappointment to his father. But why is the U.S. government so interested in six outcasts? And what, exactly, is it teaching them to do? Now, they must band together to uncover the true purpose behind the institute—and the ancient secrets that lie hidden beneath its surface ... BEFORE HISTORY CATCHES UP TO THEM. "This book was so refreshing! It was so unique and diverse, and I adored the characters. ... I have to applaud Erin and Steven for their wicked writing skills!" - The Lovely Shelf Book Blog Recommended for fans of Stranger Things and Ready Player One. Also by the authors: Tales of the Wendy Prequel: Tigerlilja Book 1: The Wendy Book 2: The Navigator
She’d never had a real home… So it had never been about “what to keep” in her life; she’d not experienced that luxury. Then Juliette Carlton got a call, one that said she’d inherited a fortune—and could she please claim it? Juliette didn’t know what to do. She was a down-on-her-luck Las Vegas card dealer with $38 in her bank account. Had she hit the jackpot? Or was it just another loss? At first it seemed the latter. The “fortune” was a dilapidated 140-year-old antebellum house that belonged to an uncle she barely remembered. Beneath layers of dust, every inch of the ancestral home was shrouded in secrets—secrets that would put in doubt everything Juliette ever thought she knew. She would have to decide what to give away. But along the way, she found what to keep….
A messy PhD student and a hockey playboy fall for one another in this forbidden love sports romance. He’s spent a lifetime putting up walls to protect himself, but he never expected one woman to break them all down… Between working multiple jobs and tackling her dissertation, it's hardly unexpected PhD student Murray Silva is a hot mess. What is unexpected? Tyler Valentine. When the hockey playboy and former—okay, current—crush shows up in her summer school class, he immediately becomes the kind of distraction she doesn’t need. Want, however? That’s a whole other story. Tyler Valentine understands pressure. He’s faced it his entire career. Now that he’s getting older, the pressure to figure out life after hockey brings him back to the classroom. And back into Murray Silva’s life. The fact that she’s his teacher and his team captain’s sister—thus strictly off-limits—doesn’t stop him from following his heart. Even though the last time he did that, it almost destroyed him. As their relationship heats up, a real shot at a future together seems possible…but only if Tyler can face down his past, head-to-head, and Murray can learn how to open her heart to love again—no matter how unexpected. Firebirds Book 1: Too Much Man Book 2: Too Hot to Touch
It's not all fun in the sun this time around. Almost a year later, Summer still has a bitter taste in her mouth from the break up with Trevor. Although she's in a relationship with Mark, she reaches out to Trevor for some much needed closure. After meeting with him, he answers her questions and an unhealthy friendship flourishes between the two. After accepting gifts from Trevor, Summer realizes that things are getting out of hand and breaks things off, only to see a side of Trevor that she's never seen before. In the midst of the confusion, she receives a wedding invitation from Johaly. While mentally preparing herself for the event, she has mixed emotions about returning to Miami until Trevor sends her packing days earlier than expected. Reuniting with friends and family seem refreshing until the reality of being a part of a wedding that's not her own sends her on a downward spiral. Meanwhile, Summer encounters drama with Imani and Lester that makes her want to cut her vacation short.
In Too Hot to Handle, the sequel to Playing With Fire, the sizzling romance of Luke McCahan and Jasmine Brittany continues. Luke has become a superstar in the world of NASCAR Winston Cup racing. He tours cross country for ten long months, some 40 weeks where he and his crew race nearly 30 races on 16 different tracks across the nation. The circuit travels from northern New England to the southeastern most state of the union at Daytona. From Virginia to Sonoma, join Luke at each exciting event including exhilarating short tracks, road courses and breath taking super speedways. Experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. And even as Luke and Jasmine have married and consummated their partnership in the soulfully balmy Carribean their long, lonely separations have created an almost insurmountable rift between the dynamic young couple. Would Luke give up his glamorous, highly profitable career for an incomparably beautiful, Swedish blonde or would the two drift apart irreconcilably? Find out in this new, riveting contemporary romance. Too Hot To Handle.
