Publisher Annotation: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can?t stand the judgmental and arrogant...

Grace needed an out. The Canadian big cat sanctuary offered it. She didn't quite get to the sanctuary, but she would soon find her hands overflowing with big cats. Now, she just had to find her footing around a whole new world she never knew existed, a war she never realized she had entered, and the one thing that stands between her and death? The Alpha who lights her blood on fire. Pogue liked control. He liked things in boxes and neatly separated....

What starts as a case to follow a wandering spouse soon turns into a deadly race to justice. Charity Deacon, Private Investigator, agrees to follow a client's husband. Prove if he's cheating or not, that's the gig. It's the 'or not' that puts her on a collision course with the dangerous world of gangsters and human trafficking. To protect her client and the woman's child safe, Charity must face down the biggest mob in Vancouver. If you like stories...

Simple text describes pride and what it means to be proud of something or someone. Francis Scott Key's pride in America and the resulting 'Star Spangled Banner' anthem he wrote is given as an example of the effects of pride. An end section offers suggestions on how readers can show pride in their own lives. The highest-level Nonfiction Readers encourage more advanced students to extend their skills by instilling the confidence that they can read to...

Luke Miggs wants more than small-town life: the grind of chores on the family farm, playing footy, drinks with friends. Like maybe doing something about his crush on Amanda Hunt, a barmaid at the local pub who's smart, funny, and ambitious. Or playing footy in the big league. At eighteen, it can't be too late, can it? There's the Ravens, at least, although the team's little more than battlers. If only they could take their footy seriously, like the...

Pride, the second installment in the deadly Sins Series, continues the fast-paced action which surrounds derring-do FBI Agent Jake Chase as he is pushed to the limit by a deadly psychopath known only as "The Artist". The killing spree begins with the brutal murder of a Hollywood superstar and if Jake is not careful, could end way to close to home. The clock is ticking and Jake must find a way to thwart the killer before it's too late.

Revenge is never the answer. Until it is. Banished by her Alpha, who happens to be her father, Amari learns how to survive without help. Driven by revenge, she discovers there are a few things in life she's good at, but none of them are skills normal society would find acceptable. Rogue shifters that were only without a clan because they were hiding from the organization hunting and caging their kind are responsible for the death of Tripp's father....

During the Depression, a 10-year-old boy befriends a carnival stuntman and his lion cub and learns about the meaning of family, loyalty, love, and survival.

Based on the true story of inner city Philadelphia swim coach Jim Ellis. From his roots in Salisbury, North Carolina, Ellis goes on to build a swim team in one of Philly's toughest neighborhoods in the 1970s.