Download or read book Boomer At Your Service written by Vanessa Keel and published by Spork. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When disaster strikes at Boomer's Service Dog Graduation Day, he sets off to find a family on his own. Catastrophe after calamity leave him feeling hopeless until a furry feline changes his fate forever. Boomer discovers friendship, his happily-ever-after home, and his special purpose in life.

Download or read book Boy in Jeopardy written by Ryan Douglass and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unflinching honesty and emotional clarity, BOY IN JEOPARDY catalogs a queer Black millennial's journey through self-destruction, sex addiction, love, and self-acceptance.

Download or read book The Promise of Planning written by Philip Harrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Promise of Planning explores the experience of planning internationally since the global financial crisis, focusing on South Africa. The book is a response to a decade-plus in which state-led planning has re-emerged as a putative means for achieving developmental goals (as indicated in global initiatives such as the New Urban Agenda) and where planning in South Africa has consolidated in terms of its legal and policy basis. However, the return of planning is happening in an inauspicious context, with economic fragilities, technological shifts, political populism, institutional complexities, and more, threatening to upturn the "new promise of planning." The book provides a careful analytical account of planning in South Africa and how and why its promises have been difficult to achieve. Building on the authors’ previous book, Planning and Transformation, the book sheds light on planning as an increasingly complex and diverse governmental practice within a perpetually changing world. It can be used as a resource for planners who must make good on the new promise of planning while navigating the risks and threats of the contemporary world, as well as students and faculty interested in international planning debates and the South African case.

Download or read book Evan and the Skygoats written by Vanessa Vassar and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his sister passes away, Evan struggles to understand his own feelings and the sadness that envelops his family. Beautifully imagined and illustrated, Evan's journey to overcome his loneliness and uncertainty offers a compelling message about the power of the natural world to heal, to reassure, and to affirm our lasting connections to the ones we love. A wonderful, insightful and heart-warming story to comfort children of all ages. Based on her own personal experience healing from the loss of her daughter, the author also shares a list of Love Thoughts, useful advice for those grieving and for the family and friends helping them.

Download or read book Tales from the Gas Station Volume Two written by Jack Townsend and published by Jack Townsend. This book was released on with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet. With the newest crew of coworkers along for the ride and the resident psychopath out for his blood, our hero(?) must navigate the drama of small-town murder conspiracies, vigilante justice, and demonic summoning rituals...whether he wants to or not.

Download or read book The Hula Hoopin Queen written by Thelma Lynne Godin and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spunky African American girl has a hula-hooping competition with her friends in Harlem, and soon everyone in the neighborhood--young and old alike--joins in on the fun.

Download or read book Seeing Serena written by Gerald Marzorati and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer “a deep, satisfying meditation” (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women’s tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, and—by inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and others—changed, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams’s influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams’s return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter—from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women’s tennis greats, sports and cultural commentators—and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically—reflecting on her many, many facets. The result is an “enlightening…keen analysis” (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena’s singular status as the greatest women’s tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other.

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Download or read book Calling BS on Busy written by Andrew Mellen and published by First Line Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary system that gives you back 1 hour or more of lost time every day People think they can manage time the way they manage money and other tangible things. But Andrew Mellen, the “Most Organized Man in America,” has discovered that the only way to increase productivity sustainably is to change our relationship with time—our most precious and nonrenewable resource. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with common sense and compassionate tough love, Mellen will help you call BS on the cultures of FOMO and wearing “busy” as a badge of honor. By getting real about how you’re currently spending your time, you will learn how to quickly set yourself free from the stories that have kept you stuck—feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and stressed out every day. Transform your life as you learn the most effective ways to: • Break free from procrastination’s grip • Stop multitasking • Manage interruptions, distractions, and time wasters like social media • Unclog your email inbox fast • Avoid time-wasting meetings and run effective ones instead • Treat “no” as a complete sentence • Tame the other deadly time thieves, including poor planning and overcommitting Calling BS on Busy unleashes the power of a radically positive mindset paired with simple, practical actions you can take to instantly reclaim your life

Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures written by Robert C. Brears and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 2334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places. Rapid urbanisation is resulting in urban sprawl, rising emissions, urban poverty and high unemployment rates, housing affordability issues, lack of urban investment, low urban financial and governance capacities, rising inequality and urban crimes, environmental degradation, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and so forth. At the regional level, low employment, low wage growth, scarce financial resources, climate change, waste and pollution, and rising urban peri-urban competition etc. are impacting the ability of regions to meet socio-economic development goals while protecting biodiversity. The response to these challenges has typically been the application of inadequate or piecemeal solutions, often as a result of fragmented decision-making and competing priorities, with numerous economic, environmental, and social consequences. In response, there is a growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical in nature with people and communities interacting with one another and with objects, such as roads, buildings, transport links etc., within a range of urban and regional settings or contexts. This comprehensive MRW will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions.

Download or read book Cut Your Client s Tax Bill written by William Bischoff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many clients and businesses are highly focused on the impact of taxes and tax rates on their bottom line. President Trump and Congress's passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act brought unhappy surprises to many taxpayers accustomed to getting tax refunds. Make sure your clients are protecting themselves from higher taxes. Completely updated for tax law changes and Tax Court decisions, this book will bring you up to date on the latest strategies that will preserve your clients' wealth and ensure your role as a trusted adviser to your clients. Get the latest techniques for building and conserving wealth through proactive tax-planning and investment strategies. Key topics covered include; Sales of capital gain assets and real property Planning for employer stock options, employer stock held in retirement accounts, and restricted stock Maximizing tax benefits for personal residence transactions Tax-planning opportunities with vacation homes, timeshares, and co-ownership arrangements Planning for divorce Tax-saving tips for self-employed clients Tax-smart college financing strategies

Download or read book Vanessa s Niece written by H Horace Broomes and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psyche of Jacob Brougham, insofar as it concerns women, has been deeply affected by a certain type of characteristics seemingly possessed by each of his three grandmothers and his own mother (all of whom he loves and respects and mistrusts) and the wife of his favorite primary school teacher. He and Shirley Wilson, growing up in one of Tobago's numerous tiny littoral villages, at a relatively tender age, become lovers. Shirley is younger than he is, and he is at once delighted and alarmed at the skill and experience she displays. He asks her about it and discovers that it is a gift of her primary school teacher (a man who would, in time, rise to the heights of headmaster and senior member of the church board). She is open and honest about her sexual grooming, and even accepts it as a wrong done to her, but she is strangely forgiving of the man. This latter response troubles Jacob deeply. Still, he bears in mind that in the village – where sex and religion are the vital forces, but sex is never spoken of – he, too, has been groomed. More, Shirley must certainly know he has been groomed – and by whom! As hard as that would be, he must try not to be squeamish. As their relationship grows, Jacob finds that, whatever shortcomings Shirley may have, she is not devious–a characteristic with which his mind has come, willy–nilly, liberally to endow all women. To make matters worse for his head, she has proved to be loyal, trustworthy, loving, and industrious. Yet it is Shirley's pregnancy that settles matters. In its infancy, the marriage is, however, ruined before it can get time to find its feet. Even she, while professing her undying love for him, stoically agrees that the divorce is inevitable. Still, in a vow there and then whispered to herself, she determines that their next marriage will be a proper and well–planned one and will happen in a church. And Shirley keeps her vow.

Download or read book Seven Resources for Lifelong Wellbeing and Retirement Planning written by Vivian Weiqun Lou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Resources for Lifelong Wellbeing and Retirement Planning: The Golden Age Playbook redefines aging and retirement for the young-old generation. The book emerged as a result of the pioneering Jockey Club Golden Age Journey Project, a comprehensive initiative designed to empower individuals aged 50 to 74 in embracing their golden years with wisdom, vitality, and enthusiasm. Drawing from empirical evidence, the authors developed the Second Half Wellbeing (SHW) Framework, which ingeniously links seven essential resources that pave the way for a fulfilling and purposeful life. This book is a testament to their commitment to inspire and uplift the young-old generation.

Download or read book Lone Wolf Cowboy written by Maisey Yates and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates returns with this powerful romance. Will Gold Valley’s most reclusive cowboy finally find a reason to heal? As a former EMT and a wildland firefighter, there’s no one Jacob Dalton can’t rescue—except himself. Since his best friend’s tragic death, Jacob has isolated himself…until Vanessa Logan returns to Gold Valley. He saved her life during a medical call years ago, and he’s never forgotten her. The instant jolt of heat between them takes him by surprise, but he knows that giving in to it would only end in disaster… For Vanessa, returning home was about healing, not about exploring her attraction with Jacob. He is the guardian angel from her past—with strong, capable hands and an irresistible mouth. A temptation she knows she can’t afford. Until the chemistry between them explodes, and unites them in a way they could never have imagined… Don't miss Maisey Yates next book, Confessions from the Quilting Circle! An emotional and powerful look at the secrets that divide a family, and the love that can heal it. Read the entire Gold Valley series: 1. Smooth-Talking Cowboy 2. Untamed Cowboy 3. Good Time Cowboy 4. A Tall, Dark Cowboy Christmas 5. Unbroken Cowboy 6. Cowboy to the Core 7. Lone Wolf Cowboy 8. Cowboy Christmas Redemption 9. The Bad Boy of Redemption Ranch 10. The Hero of Hope Springs 11. The Last Christmas Cowboy

Download or read book The Secrets of Tenley House written by Patricia Dixon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thriller by the author of They Don’t Know, circumstance and heartbreak unite two troubled women in a house where evil stalks the halls. Ivy and Georgie have secrets and pasts riddled with shame and betrayal. On a cold February day, both women leave home hoping to rebuild their lives, not knowing their worlds will soon collide. When fate eventually brings them to Tenley House, the home of a bitter, domineering matriarch who controls her fickle son and terrorizes her adoptive granddaughter, the women find themselves in danger. Behind the facade of propriety, amidst secrets and lies, the truth will unfold when evil is awakened . . . Hiding in plain sight and sworn to avenge the wrongs of the past, someone stalks the corridors of Tenley. They listen and wait patiently, lurking in shadows, tormenting their prey and when the time is right, they strike down the occupants of Tenley, one by one . . . Previously published as Death’s Dark Veil. Patricia Dixon is the bestselling author of Over My Shoulder and They Don’t Know. The Secrets of Tenley House is a suspenseful and brooding psychological thriller that will appeal to fans of authors like Lisa Jewell, Lianne Moriarty, and Kerry Fisher.

Download or read book Smart Cities in Canada Digital Dreams Corporate Designs written by Mariana Valverde and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can measure and analyze the garbage collected from every household. Businesses can track individuals' movements and precisely target advertisements. Google's failed Sidewalk Labs proposal in Toronto, which drew sharp criticism over surveillance and privacy concerns, is just one of the many smart city projects which have been proposed or are underway in Canada. Iqaluit, Edmonton, Guelph, Montreal, Toronto and other cities and towns are all grappling with how to use these technologies. Some cities have quickly partnered with digital giants like Uber, Bell and IBM. Others have kept their distance. Big tech companies are hard at work recruiting customers and shaping – sometimes making – public policy on data collection and privacy. Smart Cities for Canada: Promise and Perils is the first book on smart cities in Canada. In this collection, experts from across the country investigate what this new approach means for the problems cities face, and expose the larger issues about urban planning and democracy raised by smart city technology. This is a valuable, timely, independent‐minded book for Canadians.

Download or read book The Wrong Spouse written by Tonjetta Turner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanessa James is a woman who is determined to not let her past decide her future. She has had a bad life filled with heartache and pain. She has the scars to prove what she has been through. With a need to survive and turn her life around, Vanessa makes changes in her life that will have her never feeling the same. When Vanessa takes a job at Kingston Inc. as a personal assistant to Maurice Kingston little does she know that her past was the least of problems but her feelings for her married boss was going to cost her some much pain. Maurice Kingston is a man who has it all. He owns a very lucrative ad company with his brother and he has a very stunning wife. But for Maurice what all that looks like roses on the outside surely doesn't smell like roses on the inside. Having Vanessa as Maurice’s assistant helps to open his eyes to his life and awakes some feelings deep down inside that could alter his need to grow his company and his family. Maurice finds out he may have made some bad decisions. Now he has to figure out where he went wrong. Did he choose the wrong life or just the "Wrong Spouse"?