Eccentric billionaire Shira Brazille founded the super-exclusive Alpha Academy to nurture the next generation of exceptional dancers, writers, musicians, and inventors. It's a dream come true for one hundred lucky girls, but those not measuring up will be sent home at any time, for any reason. The one left standing will win worldwide fame. Who will it be? -- p. [4] of cover.

When their parents abandoned them ten years ago, Carlotta Wren raised her younger brother, Wesley. Now a teenager in trouble, Wesley is ordered to get a job--and finds one moving bodies from crime scenes to the morgue. Carlotta is soon dragged into the sordid business herself.

Eleven entrepreneurial women share their stories of balancing motherhood with starting their own businesses in this inspiring anthology.

Motherhood is a full-time job—and so is starting a business from the ground up. Attempting to do both at once can seem daunting, but as these firsthand stories of success demonstrate, it really can be done. In their own words, eleven mom-entrepreneurs tell their stories of transforming their

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Simple text and detailed illustrations with see-through pages introduce the characteristics and functions of various machines that move earth.

Liar liar, pants on fire... Carlotta Wren is dazed and confused--everything she thought she knew about her life has been a lie. How can she ever trust anyone again? And where does she go from here? She hopes a business trip out of town will help to clear her head... instead it lands her in the middle of a murder, as the prime suspect! While Carlotta works frantically to prove her innocence, she's also forced to confront the lies she's been telling...

It will be the happiest day of her life... Carlotta Wren has been looking forward to her wedding day since she was a little girl, and she wants it to be perfect. But even as she plans a blowout wedding, she has other worries on her mind. In the process of trying to prove her former coworker was murdered, she may have stumbled onto a coverup with national implications--not to mention learning she's blood related to someone with whom she has, um, unpleasant...

"A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades"-- Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona...