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🩸 THE BLOOD SERIES MEGA BOX SET — BOOKS 1–8 Eight full-length novels; 3,000 pages. Over half a million words of dark fantasy romance. 🔥Save 50% compared with purchasing the individual books! TRUE BLOOD & ACOTAR meet TWILIGHT. One woman's extraordinary bloodline draws her into an ancient war between vampires and werewolves. As rival species battle for power, Julia Wade must confront dangerous alliances, forbidden love, and a destiny that could change their world forever. A Love That Shakes Worlds. A Destiny That Cannot Be Denied. From New York Times, USA TODAY, Amazon Top-15 and #1...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. With a new introduction by...

""With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice."" –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel...

Drawing on experience in general and special education, Victor Moody - Dean of Students, presents the PBIS Playbook, revealing the #1 school-wide positive behavior intervention system (PBIS) designed to improve student behavior, academic achievement, and school culture. This practical resource offers a proven, step-by-step system for successfully managing the most challenging students, classrooms, and schools in today’s toughest educational settings. PBIS Playbook contains premium information that can be used by educators in any school. However, this book is particularly sought after by ...

Teach magic, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. Yeah, well, they’re dirty rotten liars. When I told Tennessee we needed to have more schools than just Edenburg I thought they’d assign appropriate people to the task. Ya know, like actual adults. Not a sixteen year old who still has to finish high school herself. But then Tennessee became Coven Leader, and my great idea came back to bite me in the ass.

An alien cat turned me into a superweapon. I was homeless on the streets of Third York when it happened. Then the military arrived and gave me a choice. Enlist or die. The next thing I knew, I was fighting giant robots at the Xenoforce Academy's boot camp. Figuring out superpowers and energy levels was hard enough, but I had to deal with a mind-reading alien princess, a team of gorgeous women, and a femme fatale in charge of the whole operation. Oh, and a galactic conspiracy is threatening all of humanity. It's up to me and my new feline friend to set things right. A civil war's brewing on ...

Superweapon stud? That's what the doctor ordered. The Beastmasters are dwindling. The Mekanics are growing bolder. Everyone's desperate for the next magic bullet. With no more Chimerics arriving, there's only one way to make more Beastmasters. Me. I'm not against making baby Beastmasters with the hotties on my squad. The problem is that they're not telling me everything. The last time they tried this, things got pretty ugly... All hell's breaking loose. Secrets are spilling left and right. Even my alien cat Zoe can't keep all the facts straight. And everyone wants a piece of me. There's ...

The astonishing conclusion to the #1 international bestselling Vampire Academy series . . . “We’re suckers for it.”—Entertainment Weekly “Stands out from the crowded vampire genre.”—Associated Press “An obvious pick for the literary lover of all things bloodsucking.”—MTV’s...

📘 Expanded Edition — Now Includes Book 7, The Dark Savage - The complete conclusion to the Savage saga in one volume. 🔥Save 25% over individual purchase!🔥 ✨ Why Readers are Obsessed: Edge-of-your-seat action, tangled loyalties, and searing passion fuel this addictive saga. Perfect for fans of OUTLANDER, THE BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD, and dark historical fantasy. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Addictive, dark, and beautifully written...” — Reader Review Step back into the unforgiving world of The Savage Series—a dark historical fantasy bestselling series with love, power and survival. ...

A New York Times Best Seller "Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To America An award-winning...

Seventeen years ago, Andre "Dre" Bennett broke Jasmine Carter’s heart and left Philadelphia without looking back. Now a fiercely independent New York executive who has built an armor-plated life of control, ambition, and carefully guarded boundaries, Jasmine returns to her old block for the holidays with zero intention of dwelling on the past. But the neighborhood holiday committee has other plans. Trapped together in a setup orchestrated by the very community that raised them, Jasmine is forced face-to-face with the boy who once broke her heart—and the grown man who still holds an ...

When four abandoned bunnies turn up in a city park, the community rallies to save them in award-winning, bestselling author Dashka Slater's unforgettable middle grade nonfiction debut. No one knows how a bunch of pet rabbits ended up in a San Francisco park—but one thing is clear: they don’t...

A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States “Candid, unflinching . . . Her thorough excavation of the painful history that gave rise to rigid enrollment policies is a courageous gift to our understanding of...

Love is a dangerous game when your fated mate is a dark fae prince—so dangerous, in fact, that trust could be your deadliest enemy. Falling for him was the easy part. Staying alive? That’s where the real trouble begins. Met’s real mother—the Queen of the Underworld—wants him to walk the path of darkness, leaving me with a choice: embrace evil or perish. But evil isn't me. Meanwhile, Moros—Jax’s blood father, a demon and succubus—wants me as a lure to bring Nightmare back into his grasp. Now, I must dance between two worlds of darkness and deception, staying on my toes if I ...

Danger, intrigue, and the power of family combine in The Winterhouse Mysteries, the fast-paced conclusion to Ben Guterson's enchanting Winterhouse middle grade trilogy. It’s springtime at Winterhouse and Elizabeth is settling into the joyful chaos of her new home. But it isn’t long before...

The complete series! All four books of the Arcane Academy series now in one volume! Follow Izzy's adventures in a prestigious magic academy. Plenty of drama, trouble, four hot guys, and a happily ever after! ~ Welcome to Arcane Academy ~ Growing up among non-magical folk, I never thought I was anything special. Sure, I had magic, but the powers had diluted over the generations. I never even dreamed of going to a magic academy – I didn’t have the money or the power. Not until I was granted a scholarship. But Arcane Academy isn’t exactly welcoming for someone like me. Old magical ...

Principal leadership studies have indicated that leadership can play an essential role in augmenting students' achievement scores. One significant influence that can affect achievement scores is the leadership style of the principal. This study focuses on fourth grade achievement scores within urban elementary schools and explores the relationship between the principals' leadership styles and fourth-grade achievement scores. This study also examines the relationship between teachers' and principals' perceptions of leadership and school climate in order to determine whether significant ...

As a young teacher, I'm fairly popular amongst the freshman college girls entering my writing class. At first I resisted their advances, but it wasn't long before I indulged myself in their youthful sex drives. But I've started to get bored of all the free, easy lays. That is, until I set my eyes on Millie. She was nothing like the girls who threw themselves at me. Quiet, shy, and smart, she gave no hint of sexual provocativeness. There was something about her that set me off. I devised a plan in my head, a special course just for her. In the end, I wasn't entirely sure if I was the seducer...

With more than a quarter million copies sold, award-winning teacher Hal Urban outlines twenty lessons that answer timeless questions about how to make the most of your life. Life’s Greatest Lessons is a wise, wonderful book. In it, Hal Urban, a parent and an award-winning teacher, presents...

Ashworth Academy tightened the leash. And this time, they went for my heart. I was never meant to be more than a stabilizer, an anchor for four monsters the Covenant can’t control. But after I broke a bond that should’ve been unbreakable, the Council decided I was too dangerous to trust. So they put me in a cage. Severed from my bonded. Locked in isolation. Stripped of the only thing keeping my power, and my sanity, intact. Caine’s cold restraint is gone. Ronan’s careful masks are cracking. Dagon’s fire is burning out of control. Bastian’s shadows are hunting answers I’m not ...