Be Kind


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A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.





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From Zero to Four Figures


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Starting out as an indie author can be daunting, especially if you don't have much money to invest in marketing. If you've published one or more books but are struggling to get sales, this is the book for you! In From Zero to Four Figures, USA TODAY Bestselling Author Paul Austin Ardoin shows you the strategy that helped him build an audience and grow his self-published fiction business to $1,000 a month within two years. Increasing your sales requires the right books, mindset, and marketing—many new authors lack one or more of these pillars. This book helps identify the gaps and mistakes that are holding you back. These guidelines are repeatable, proven, inexpensive, and attainable—and will help get your self-published fiction business off the ground. ------------- "Finally! A book that approaches an often overwhelming task with a genuinely realistic and yet hopeful approach to writer success. This is a book I'll be highly recommending not just to new authors, but also ones with some experience under their belts because it's authentic, comprehensive, and approachable. Highly recommended!" —Mark Leslie Lefebvre, author of Wide for the Win




Stalked (An Opposites Attract Romantic Suspense)


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USA Today Bestselling Author Lisa Hughey has a new series! What do you do when you’re the victim of a crime but no one believes you? Adams-Larsen Inc and Associates, ALIAS, helps ordinary citizens in danger when they need to disappear. Stalked: Opposites attract, unfortunately. Rule follower, Federal US Deputy Marshal Alex Saunders has been assigned to protect a federal judge after the judge receives death threats. This detail is standard until the judge insists on his son’s PR firm provide backup security, which isn’t even in the rule book. But because Alex is already in hot water, he follows orders to keep the judge happy. Rule breaker, and former CIA analyst, Kita Ferguson reluctantly agrees to go undercover, posing as the judge’s aide slash girlfriend, but in return she expects her boss at ALIAS to help her protect an abused woman and her nieces even though technically keeping the children from their father is against the law. From the very start, Alex and Kita disagree about everything. But their sizzling attraction continues to grow as the threats against the judge escalate and put them all in danger. Can these two opposites find enough common ground outside the bedroom, or will their diverse philosophies result in disaster?




Performance Plus, Bk 1


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Ten titles, including: Barcarolle (from The Tales of Hoffman) (Offenbach) * Intermezzo (from Cavalleria Rusticana) (Mascagni) * La Ci Darem La Mano (from Don Giovanni) (Mozart) * March of the Toreadors (from Carmen) (Bizet) * Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) * The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) and more.







Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers


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Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way contains over 1,000 diverse, original, fun, creative, absurd, challenging questions on reading that will inspire adolescent reading lives from the inside out. The four books of questions contained in this volume are designed to help kids help themselves find their ways to a desire to read.




Strangers To Superfans: A Marketing Guide to The Reader Journey


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From the author of Let's Get Digital and Amazon Decoded, this book will change how you think about marketing. Strangers to Superfans puts you in the shoes of your Ideal Readers, and forces you to view your marketing from their perspective. *Learn the five stages in the Reader Journey. *Identify where your blockages are and how to fix them. *Optimize each stage to increase conversion. *Boost sales by making the process more frictionless. *Build an army of passionate readers who do the selling for you. It's not enough to know who your Ideal Readers are, you also need to imagine how they feel when a recommendation email arrives containing your cover. You must figure out why they hesitated before clicking the Buy button. And it's crucial to determine why they liked your book enough to finish it... but not sufficiently to recommend it to their friends. The Reader Journey is a new marketing paradigm that maps out the journey your Ideal Readers take in their transformation from strangers to superfans.




Teaching Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction


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At heart, learning to read and write analytically is learning to think well For Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction, renowned teacher Leslie Blauman combed the standards and her classroom bookshelves to craft lessons that use the best nonfiction picture books, biographies, and article excerpts to make writing about reading a clear, concrete process. Students learn to analyze and cite evidence about main idea, point of view, visuals, and words and structure. And best of all, your students gain a confidence in responding to complex texts and ideas that will serve them well in school, on tests, and in any situation when they are asked: What are you basing that on? Show me how you know.




The Independent


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