The Phoenix Girls return to Aurora Hollow to learn more powerful, more difficult magic. Their strange companion and teacher, Ronan, increasingly demands more of them, even as he tracks down dangerous magical relics to close doors on trouble before it ravages Dogwood. But closed doors never remain closed.  Ready or not, the girls must defend Aurora Hollow and themselves.  New friends, new enemies, and new monsters join the mystical mayhem as an old threat returns to Dogwood with a new goal: to destroy The Phoenix Girls.

This is the story of John Law, the most controversial yet visionary of financial heroes, who founded the first national bank in France. He formed the Mississippi Company and sparked the world's first major stock-market boom, in which many became rich and the word "millionaire" was coined to describe them. Read about this heroic figure, his life, achievements and tragic failure towards the end.

The Booker Prize-winning novel-now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent-a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms-could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.

He’s a young doctor with a kind heart… In a busy London medical clinic, Ben Stein meets a pretty girl in a whole lot of trouble. There are strict codes of conduct that forbid any kind of relationship between a doctor and his patient – but Ben has missed out on love before, and he’s ready to believe the reward is worth taking the risk.

A second collection of poems based on familiar themes.....

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Many are asking, what is wrong with teaching, learning, schooling, and education, and what can be done? You will get the answers (panacea) from the letters of a mad public school teacher: intrepid, irascible, cantankerous, provocative, passionate, thought-provoking, iconoclastic, and enhanced with vitriolic demagoguery. As a grad student / colleague said, "Thanks for an enjoyable class on education issues in society. I also enjoyed your letters to the editor. I've been told that I say what other people think. Well, you write and publish what we're all thinking."

Sh!tty Mom is the ultimate parenting guide, written by four moms who have seen it all. As hilarious as it is universal, each chapter presents a common parenting scenario with advice on how to get through it in the easiest and most efficient way possible. With chapters such as "How to Sleep Until 9 A.M. Every Weekend" and "When Seeing an Infant Triggers a Mental Illness That Makes You Want to Have Another Baby," as well as a Sh!tty Mom quiz, this is a must-have, laugh-out-loud funny book for the sh!tty parent in all of us.Praise for Sh!tty Mom:"A totally hilarious and uncensored look at some of the impossible situations we mothers find ourselves in." —TheBump.com"Smartly, brashly, nearly criminally funny. It also—no small thing—carries a powerful message to all parents, but especially moms, that distilled to its essence is this: chill." —Time.com"As the attachment parenting craze has hit a zenith in American culture, four very...