Silly Sara spills and slips and trips! Sara is sick of being silly, so she decides to become Super Sara in this beginning phonics reader that promotes word recognition through rhyme.
SARA HAS A surprise for her friends. With her journal at her side, Sara plots and plans, draws maps, and writes a poem as she makes her way from home to the secret destination. This sweet, sunny, rhymed reader—a companion book to the Step into Reading Phonics Reader Silly Sara— celebrates the joy of writing.
Silicon Valley in the 2030s is not so different from today, filled with vaguely sexist CEOs, contested inequality politics, and startups that are almost a joke. After she loses her job when her startup folds and loses her home to California's annual wildfires, Sara joins the latest thing: an unnamed tech giant's quasi-utopian community, floating above the drowned land that was once Monterey. Alone on the inside with a thousand mysteriously chosen strangers, Sara is insulated by an all-powerful corporation from the turmoil of crumbling governments and a changing climate. Everyone around her seems incredibly thankful, rescued from gig work and student loans and bad news, but she can't find her own gratitude. As she learns more about her new home, she begins to see the cracks in its perfect facade. She must choose between surveillance and lies from the anonymous algorithms that protect her or face a vulnerable life outside the system to which she has signed away her next five years. Leaving, she learns, may not even be an option.
When recently widowed Sara McDaniel reviews her life, she finds it wanting. For years she's played the expected role of helpmate to her successful physician husband and has been a caring mother to four now grown children.Long suppressed feelings and desires have played havoc with her former, exuberant self. As Sara seeks to discover the loving and beloved woman she knows she can be. Her personal growth is constantly in danger of being pushed aside as she helps those she loves grapple with their own marital and emotional problems.Her unfolding story is a warm testament to Sara's strength of character and heart.
Solve kid-sized dilemmas and mysteries with the Science Solves It! series. These fun books for kids ages 5–8 blend clever stories with real-life science. Why did the dog turn green? Can you control a hiccup? Is that a UFO? Find the answers to these questions and more as kid characters dive into physical, life, and earth sciences. Sara does everything fast - too fast. She builds a soapbox derby racer in one day and it falls apart. Then Sara discovers friction and not only wins the derby but has to slow down to do it! Books in this perfect STEM series will help kids think like scientists and get ahead in the classroom. Activities and experiments are included in every book! (Level Two; Science topic: Friction)
THE ULTIMATE…STUD Let's make a baby! Sara Johanson wanted a child and a family of her own more than anything. So when she showed up on her estranged husband's doorstep, she expected his signature on four-year-old divorce papers—not an enthusiastic offer to make babies with her. A whole passel of them no less! Something changed the driven businessman she'd married, but had hardly seen. With a menagerie of animals and an infant to baby-sit, Steve seemed more…domestic and more sexy than ever to Sara. But he still delivered knee-knocking kisses as skillfully as he'd negotiated deals. Steve always got what he wanted—and now he wanted to be a daddy. He's every woman's fantasy, but only one woman's dream come true.
THE MAN: Has Juan Martianos taken the phrase, "What can you do for your country?" to the extreme? How does a patriotic, Cuban sugar cane plantation owner end up in America as a high-ranking comrade in the A.C.P., and just how far will he go for the love of his country? THE COUNTRY: Beginning with marauding pirates, fierce Spanish conquistadors, greedy American capitalists, corrupt tyrants and Communists--at what price does the "Jewel of the Antilles," a beautiful, vibrant, but hostile country, whose motto is "Homeland or Death," get robbed time, after time, of its freedom? THE OPERATION: Masterminded by a man who is himself an orphan, how does an American-based orphanage, housing Cuban refugee boys, perform acts of treason against the powerful U.S.? THE CHILDREN: In a country whose advertised slogan is "Nada de muy importante de nino," - why must children pay for their fathers' sins? Meet Sara Martin, the beautiful daughter who is about to become entangled in the tumultuous, parallel relationship between Cuba and the United States.