How could she have screwed things up this badly, just when she thought she was finally getting her act together?Welcome back to Legend Valley Academy. Mal Jones is hoping for a quiet year at the Academy. All she wants is to hone her elemental magic, and get over Korou, the dreamy Naga prince who dumped her after he discovered who her father was. Instead, she's left scrambling to make things right after finding out her actions last year have cost her grandfather his job. But her old nemesis, Shadow, is still lurking around the Academy, and he's not done with her yet. Add in a rekindled relationship with Korou, along with a new Principal who hates her guts, and Mal's got her hands full this year. When Shadow finally makes his move, what will Mal sacrifice to save one of her best friends? Tenacious is the second exciting novel in the Legend Valley Academy series. If you like diverse fantasy featuring kickass heroines, unusual shifters, myths and legends from all over the world, and a story full of twists and turns, then you'll love this riveting fantasy academy series from Sudha Kuruganti! One-click Tenacious now and continue the adventure!
Jeremy Williams captured the nation’s imagination by coaching his high school football team to unprecedented heights while combating ALS and caring for a son with spina bifida. This is his family’s inspiring story. America first met Jeremy and Jennifer Williams when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition rebuilt their Depression-era farmhouse into a beautiful, handicapped-accessible haven. Friends, family, and neighbors from their west Georgia community—and all over the state—came together to support the ailing high school coach who had won their respect and their hearts. It made for compelling television but only told a little slice of the story. Tenacious gives you the rest—a tender love story, a thrilling sports story, and an unforgettable testimony to the power of faith and grit in the face of almost overwhelming adversity. In Tenacious you’ll meet: The distraught parents learning their son would be born with spina bifida. The young father facing his own devastating diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) with matter-of-fact courage. The coach who guided his underdog team to a 10–0 Cinderella season—while struggling to walk, talk, and even breathe. Packed full of faith, hope, love, and miracles, Tenacious is a story you don’t want to miss.
Welcome to Legend Valley Academy. Where monsters and myths from every culture in the world...are real. Percy Jackson Meets Bollywood in this Young Adult diverse fantasy. For Mal Jones, Legend Valley Academy is the perfect place to lay low. As the only child of a broke single mom, Mal has been using her magic to make a little cash on the side. So what if it's illegal? But when the police almost bust her, Mal needs an escape-fast. A magical academy in another freaking *dimension* is the best place to hide. Right? Wrong. All she had to do was keep her head down, but not standing out is harder than Mal thought. Turns out, her deadbeat dad is more famous than she knew. And something horrible is going on at the Academy. The worst part: Mal is one of the only witnesses... *** This box set includes all three books in the hugely popular LEGEND VALLEY ACADEMY series, a Young Adult Urban Fantasy trilogy that is a coming-of-age story about screw-ups and second chances, discovering yourself, and finding out where you truly belong. Perfect for fans of Star Daughter and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. This Complete Collection Includes: Book 1: Notorious Book 2: Tenacious Book 3: Righteous Includes 2 never-before-seen bonus short stories - Korou's POV of his magical first meeting with Mal, and the backstory to our favorite vampire. Don't miss your chance to binge the entire series. One-click today! If you love reading about slow burn romance, enemies-to-lovers, unusual shifters, and an intriguing supernatural mystery, then fall into this magical new series that's Bollywood meets Percy Jackson! Diverse Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Multicultural, Interracial romance, magic academy, Indian myths and legends An #OwnVoices book featuring a kick-ass POC heroine and an unusual shifter male lead, this series is for readers looking for diverse reads and multicultural fantasy. *** PRAISE FOR LEGEND VALLEY ACADEMY Mal is a strong-willed character with big ideas, a lot of personality, and an attitude that makes her funny, charming, and gives her room to grow and evolve. She discovers more to Legend Valley than what's on the surface which becomes a mystery at the root of the story and has her looking deeper at her new home. - Reader's Favorite ★★★★★ "...fully developed, three-dimensional characters with their own backstories and issues. A little bigotry, a little teenage romance, along with friendships - and an excellent storyline - makes this an engrossing read." ★★★★★ "..the integration of not just Hindu mythology, but other mythologies from all over the world, is brilliant. There was obviously a lot of research that went into this series and it shows." ★★★★★ "Sudha Kuruganti is a talented and gifted author. She will draw you into this world of enchanting beings and you will not want to leave. Her world-building is detailed and imaginative." ★★★★★ "Awesome, unique, suspenseful, hard to put down - not the same old stuff in fantasy!" ★★★★★ "Whenever you read a book by Sudha, you know you get certain things: the book is well-structured, well-proofed, and well-edited; the storyline is fast-paced, without trite or contrived scenes; the story is strongly written, the characters are complex and well-developed and the dialogue is honest and believable."
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe. Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning. In The One World Schoolhouse, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things: How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals/DIV How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning/DIV Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning. Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now. More than just a solution, The One World Schoolhouse serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.
In a voice that resonates with insight and humor, New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith tells the story of a teenage girl who must face down her grief and reclaim her place in the world with the help of her intertribal community. It's been six months since Cassidy Rain Berghoff’s best friend, Galen, died, and up until now she has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around Aunt Georgia’s Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again, with a new job photographing the campers for her town’s newspaper. Soon, Rain has to decide how involved she wants to become in Indian Camp. Does she want to keep a professional distance from her fellow Native teens? And, though she is still grieving, will she be able to embrace new friends and new beginnings? In partnership with We Need Diverse Books
From nineteenth-century whaling to a multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture finance reflects a deep-seated tradition in the deployment of risk capital in the United States. Tom Nicholas’s history of the venture capital industry offers a roller coaster ride through America’s ongoing pursuit of financial gain.
Fiendish suspense. Shocking twists. Twelve diabolical tales. New York Times bestselling author and highly acclaimed storyteller Jeffery Deaver-the undisputed "grand master of the plot twist" (Booklist)-returns with a dazzling new collection of short stories. In these twelve electrifying tales (including six written just for this anthology) Deaver proves once again his genius for the unexpected-in his world, appearances are always deceiving. A devoted housekeeper embarks on a quest to find the truth behind her employer's murder. A washed-up Hollywood actor gets one last, high-stakes chance to revive his career. A man makes an impulsive visit to his hometown, and learns more about his past than he bargained for. Two Olympic track hopefuls receive terrorist threats. And Deaver's beloved series characters Lincoln Rhyme, Kathryn Dance, and John Pellam return in stories now in print for the first time.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra Klein, The New York Times Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ari Shavit’s riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family’s story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. Shavit’s analysis of Israeli history provides a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape.
In a 25th anniversary, behind-the-scenes account of the making of the cult-classic film, the lead actor shares never-before-told stories and exclusive photographs as well as interviews with Robin Wright, Billy Crystal and more. 100,000 first printing.
