Best Selling Books by Elizabeth Bennett

In the mysterious town of Redwater Glen, rumors of witchcraft and dark secrets linger, and seventeen-year-old Alex Monroe is determined to uncover the truth about her mother's tragic death. As she delves into the town's dark history, she uncovers unsettling secrets that threaten to unravel everything she thought knew. With danger lurking around every corner, Alex must navigate the treacherous path of uncovering the town's secrets while facing her own demons. But the more she discovers, the more she realizes that some mysteries are best left buried. After all, curiosity may have killed the cat, but it's the unknown that buries the searchers...

Clifford is a great friend. He's big, red, good fun and he'll help young children learn important life values. This book features 32 pages of games and puzzles.

"...All of the supernatural creatures you read about in fairytales are real. A lot of the facts are twisted, but the species themselves? Real. Always have been, always will be. There's no sense in being afraid of something that you've been exposed to probably more than you think..." Emersyn "Emery" Cain never had an easy life. Developing Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder (PTSD) at thirteen, her life seemed to be swirling down the drain. Trouble seemed to find her. As an adult, Emery was now the girl who refused to wear her heart on her sleeve. Any time she let people in, she got hurt. Such was true three years ago when she believed she had found Prince Charming in her now ex-boyfriend, only to realize that not all love stories end in happily ever after... Running from the ruins of her old life, Emery Cain now has three monsters she's running from: Her past, her present, and her future. She survived running from her captor and starting a new life, but will she escape everything else the universe throws at her when the world as she knows it changes forever?

Purpose - This paper aims to explain why Fairtrade International (FI), an organization committed to empowering the producers of Fairtrade certified products, at times (paradoxically), excluded them from its highest bodies of governance. A within-case study of Fairtrade's inclusive and exclusive reforms over 25 years, along with insights from the social enterprise, hybrid governance and political sociology literatures, is used to generate several propositions about how voluntary sustainability standards-setting organizations (VSSSOs) engage stakeholders - especially producers - in governance.Design/methodology/approach - This study uses process-tracing methodology, which focuses on the sequential, intervening processes that link potentially important variables within a single case. It draws on data from over 100 interviews and nearly 6,000 archival documents collected from FI and its member Max Havelaar Netherlands. Causal process observations were extracted from the documents and compiled to create a 68,000-word chronological narrative used to evaluate six potential explanations of Fairtrade's governance reforms: legitimacy, resources, identity, oligarchic tendency, leadership and producer mobilization.Findings - This study finds that Fairtrade's inclusion/exclusion of producers reflected its desire to increase its moral legitimacy among external actors and understanding of how to signal legitimacy. The discussion proposes that VSSSOs, especially in times of heightened competition, leverage their comparative advantages to differentiate themselves from other organizations. In cases (like FI) in which the advantage is legitimacy, changing notions of legitimacy may have a destabilizing effect on governance.Originality/value - This evidence-based account of FI's governance decisions should help resolve some debates about the nature of FI's relationship with producer groups. The broader propositions offer guidance for future cross-case research aiming to explain VSSSOs' governance structure and hybrid governance, more generally. Because FI includes producers in governance to a much greater extent than most VSSSOs, it is an important case.

Ostracods are a diverse group of arthropod crustaceans with a geological record from the Ordovician. Their radiation from marine to non-marine environments is a key step in the evolution of the group. The nature and chronology of this transition is examined, and proxies for non-marine environments determined. The Mississippian of the Midland Valley of Scotland contains a wide range of marine to non-marine ostracods, macrofauna and sediments that make it an ideal study area. This study documents the evidence for early Mississippian freshwater ostracods, 20 million years older than previously recorded. Twentyfive ostracod species from the orders Myodocopida, Palaeocopida and Podocopida are described, four of which are new species. Macrofossils are used to interpret the environmental tolerance of the ostracods. Important brackish to freshwater macrofauna are the bivalves Carbonicola, Curvirimula and Naiadites, the vermiform microconchid "Spirorbis", conchostracans and fish. Eurytopic ostracods are species of Cavellina, palaeocopes and Shemonaella siveteri n. sp. Key brackish to freshwater ostracods are species of Geisina arcuata, and Paraparchites circularis n. sp. Freshwater ostracods are species of Carbonita. Non-marine sediments contain three new types of algal palynomorph, Botryococcus sp., and arthropod fragments. The algal palynomorphs are interpreted as freshwater. Brackish to freshwater habitats identified include estuaries, lakes, temporary pools and swamps. A protocol for the examination of diagenetic alteration of ostracods and macrofossils is proposed, which is essential prior to any isotope analysis. Diagenetically altered ostracods may be mistaken as pristine specimens, without a study of the carapace ultrastructure. This is assessed by comparing Carboniferous and Recent specimens. The Carboniferous ostracods have undergone seven diagenetic stages: 1. neomorphic calcite; 2. dissolution and pitting; 3. euhedral pyrite; 4. ferroan calcite; 5. ferroan dolomite; 6. iron oxide; 7. sphalerite and barite. The carbon and oxygen stable isotope data from the ostracods reflect these stages of diagenesis.

Hello Kitty's class is having a Secret Santa gift exchange. She'll have to wait for the Christmas party to find out who's been leaving her special surprises.

Minnie Mouse enjoys making bows for all her animal friends.