New Releases by Kate Stewart

She is a five foot seven long list of things he can''t have. He is a determined cop, desperate to keep his heart sealed behind his badge. Michelle is a survivor. With a fresh perspective on life, she trades her tragic past in California for the coastal waters of Charleston. Fueled by a new career as a dispatcher, she''s determined not to let her scars weigh her down. She apologizes for nothing, especially her insatiable need for a certain police officer. Rowdy is a newly minted sergeant dedicated to his job, but the life of a Charleston police officer has never been more dangerous. With his need to take order of a city spiraling out of control, the last thing he wants is an entanglement with a mouthy dispatcher. But, there''s just one problem. He can''t get enough of her. As the heat rises between the unlikely pair, so does the tension. Three months of summer was all it took to shake their foundations, rattle their walls, and bring them crashing down. It was lust. It was love. It was real. And it would have been perfect . . . if it wasn''t already over. Note to reader: This book has several elements and explores topics that some may consider triggers. For mature audiences only. Explicit sex, violence, and language.

In this true story of a series of obstacles, both physical and metaphorical, Kate prepares herself for a life''s work of summiting Everest. Born into a close-knit and happy family and raised in the Lake District, she struggled throughout school with dyspraxia: a lack of fine motor control, poor coordination, balance, and trouble staying organised. Kate, her brother and parents were then presented with the challenge of understanding their youngest family addition, a profoundly autistic girl named Martha. In this epic, Kate explores the social and material struggles of coping with bullying, heartbreak, finding employment following graduation, with a bereavement, and with struggling to accept herself. This is a narration of the consequences and the rewards of deciding to choose one''s own unconventional path in a world and a society that does not automatically welcome its fledglings. It is also a story of mud, sweat, tears, hills and miles. Kate vividly chronicles how striving to achieve through adventure can bring enlightenment, peace and a tremendous sense of freedom.

"I met her at an all-time low . . . the worst night of my life-a time I never wanted to remember." "It was a night I could never forget." "When it came to women, I swore I was done with wishful thinking. Ball and my coaching career were all that mattered." "I reminded him it wasn''t." "She was everything I was afraid of." "He was everything I''d ever wanted." "She was fire-an irresistible piece of southern heaven that I couldn''t stay away from." "He was smoke that clouded me in every imaginable way." "And the sex . . ." "Dear God, the sex . . ." "I fell hard, and she gave me hell at every turn." "I made a promise I was hell bent on keeping." "And you kept it." "Hell yes I did." "F*ckin'' A." Major Love is a book #2 in the Balls in Play series, but can be read as a stand-alone novel. Balls in Play Reading Order #1 Anything but Minor #2 Major Love #3 Sweeping the Series (Novella)

"She''s a nerd." "Heyyyy!" "Okay, she''s a flight instructor." "Better." "He''s a ballplayer." "The best that ever was." "Technically, you aren''t according to MLB stats." "See? Total nerd. She also has no filter." "He''s no southern gentlemen." "I had one last season to prove my worth." "I''d never seen a game." "He told me he was a player." "She told me she was a lesbian." "But you fell in love with me anyway." "Yeah, baby, I totally did."

We fell in love in a lightning strike. He knew right away, yet I was hesitant. I could have never prepared myself for a love like ours. No one could. As a child, I had conjured an amazing story in my mind. It was a story I could retell about a man that would move me like no other; a story about the way we met and how he had swept me off my feet. But, the ending to that fairytale was so far from the reality. No one will want to hear that story now, but for Grant, I will always tell it. The Reluctant Romantics Reading Order #1 The Fall #2 The Mind #3 The Heart *All books in the series must be read in order. Companion Books to The Reluctant Romantics Room 212 - Prequel to The Reluctant Series Never Me - Cameo appearances of Never Me characters in Book #3 The Heart

Previous experiments demonstrate that college students benefit academically from learning that early challenges in college are common and impermanent, rather than diagnostic of a lack of belonging. The current project expanded this focus by examining interpersonal functioning -- namely, relationship goals and responsiveness -- as one mechanism underlying the academic benefits of social belonging. A large-scale experiment (N = 604) utilizing a social belonging intervention for first-year college students tested this possibility. The intervention increased two measures of course credits completed (but not GPA) among socially and economically disadvantaged students. Among participants who also completed the relationship questionnaires in the spring (N = 288), the belonging intervention increased responsiveness but did not affect compassionate or self-image goals with roommates. None of the relationship variables mediated the effects of the intervention on academic outcomes. Findings pertaining to relationship outcomes are discussed in light of missing data on the follow-up relationship measures. Results suggest that social belonging interventions may increase credit completion among students from marginalized backgrounds, and associations of compassionate and self-image goals with academic achievement depend, in part, on students'' cultural backgrounds. Limitations of this study and future directions are discussed.

Dallas He was the beginning of my heart . . . and the end of it. I was only fifteen years old when he claimed it and twenty when he took it with him. They say what is meant to be will find a way. But when you have changed to the point of no return, how can anything ever be the same? Seven years later, Dean Martin waltzed back into my life in hopes of resuming what I had fought so hard to forget, but he was in for a wake-up call. I was no longer the naïve woman he had left . . . and I was no longer his. I met the love of my life and my soul mate when I was fifteen. I knew that; he knew that. He wanted that girl back. I wanted to forget she ever existed. Dean What I thought was my pre-destined path was very much an illusion. Living seven years with regret, I realized too late that I was broken, and that I only had myself to blame. I thought love could wait . . . but it didn''t. We''d had it all those years ago, and then I foolishly left it behind. She was all that mattered. She was all there ever was. There was no life without Dallas, no reason . . . except her. No matter how hard she tried to convince me, I knew I had to once again make her mine, to make her remember . . . the fall. Mature audiences only. Explicit sex and language

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream representations of animals in children''s culture - whether in terms of the selective exposure of children to animals as ‘pets’ or as food in the home or in school, or the representation of animals in mass media and social media - Our Children and Other Animals reveals the interconnectedness of studies of childhood, culture and human-animal relations. In doing so it establishes the importance of human-animal relations in sociology, by describing the sociological importance of animals in children''s lives and children in animals’ lives. Presenting a new typology of the various kinds of human-animal relationship, this conceptually innovative book constitutes a clear demonstration of the relevance of sociology to the interdisciplinary field of human-animal relations and will appeal to readers across the social sciences with interests in sociology, childhood studies, cultural and media studies and human-animal interaction.

I was a thief of men¿a whore. Not the conventional type that got paid for sex. I was the girl you talked about in your sad inner circle. The girl you shielded your boyfriend from as you cleverly covered him with your body when I came near. I was a threat to you. Keeping him safe in your grasp was smart. One week...one incredible week was all it took to forever change me. I was NEVER going to be you¿until I met HIM.

In every life there is always that...one. Twenty-one year old Laura Sedgwick is a rebel without a cause. Her only plans for life are to make no plans She revels in her fascination of the unexpected as she navigates her way through mid-nineties'' Dallas nightlife. One very bad night brings her face to face with the one man likely to change her mind about¿well...everything. Twenty-three year old Seth Whitaker has every intention of seeing through with his well mapped out life. He is a hard working over-achiever that has no intentions of slowing his pace for anyone. With a fierce determination to not let life pass him by without taking a huge bite, he finds himself inexplicably drawn to the one distraction that could keep him from his best laid plans. Little did he know his determination to keep his life on track would be the very thing to trigger the events that change the course of both their lives. In this life she had only done one thing right...and she was his only chance at salvation. **Room 212 is the prequel to The Reluctant Romantics Series- The Fall, The Mind, The Heart. Suggested reading order Room 212 The Reluctant Romantics Series The Fall The Mind Never Me- (Stand alone novel with character crossovers in The Reluctant Series, book #3 The Heart) The Heart

In this sequel to Commander You You and the Imperial Diamond, His Imperial Overcookedness returns and has stolen the Time Penny, a magical penny. King Ufa Gufa sends best friends Commander You You and Abby on another quest - this time through time and space. The girls must retrieve the Time Penny and rescue the king''s nephew before His Imperial Overcookedness takes over the cosmos. With their heroic space cat Fluffy and beloved dragon Albert, the girls discover a planet made of cheese, a grickle and other unusual places and creatures.

The present research sought to explain recent findings that mentally subtracting a past positive event increased one aspect of well-being -- namely, positive affect -- compared to simply reflecting on a past positive event and to an affectively neutral reflection (Koo et al., 2008). Based on evidence that both the emotion of gratitude and counterfactual reasoning create meaning, I hypothesized that imagining the ways in which a good thing might not have occurred would increase positive affect by increasing the meaningfulness of the event. Contrary to predictions, participants who only reflected on a past positive event, in addition to participants who also reflected on the absence of a past positive event, reported increased positive affect compared to participants who engaged in an affectively neutral task (i.e. reflected on what they did the previous day). The increase in positive affect among participants in the gratitude conditions was mediated by the meaningfulness of the events they described. The implications of these findings for understanding the emotion of gratitude, gratitude interventions, and the role of meaning in each are discussed.

Commander You You and Abby must find the Imperial Diamond in less than five days. With the Imperial Diamond comes the power to rule the galaxy. As they travel through space, the girls find and lose the diamond, meet up with strange and interesting characters and almost get stuck on a planet made of pasta forever. Will they find the diamond and make it home safely?

Die junge Tess heuert als Sommeraushilfe in Liberty Hall an, einem Haus mit äußerst zweifelhaftem Ruf. Ihre Absicht: undercover für einen Artikel zu recherchieren. Schnell spezialisiert sie sich auf die Gäste, deren erotische Wünsche besonders ausgefallen sind - und erlebt eine Überraschung.

A user-friendly, at-a-glance guide for parents to what their children are taught at primary school. It gives a brief description of the more modern teaching methods so that parents can gain a familiarity with, and an understanding of, the processes that their child will go through in primary school. Covers the development of numeracy, literacy and the wider curriculum from when children enter school in Reception at age 4, through Key Stages 1 and 2 until the move to secondary school at age 11. Also provides a wealth of ways to support children at home.

Vicar''s daughter and wannabe journalist Tess Morgan is willing to do anything to pay off her student overdraft. Luckily for Tess, her flatmate Imogen is the daughter of infamous madam, Liberty Hall, who owns a pleasure palace of the same name that operates under a guise of respectability as an hotel. When Tess lands herself a summer job catering for ''special clients'' at Liberty Hall, she sees an opportunity to clear that overdraft with a bit of undercover journalism. But when she tries to tell all to a Sunday newspaper, Tess is in for a shocking surprise.

A chilling debut novel--as terrifying as Rosemary''s Baby--but with an intriguing twist for the ''90s. The dark forces of chaos and destruction await the arrival of Dorothy Kite''s child. They stand poised and ready--and no one is safe now. For so desperate was Dorothy to bear a child, that she made a deal with the devil. And now it''s time for the evil one to collect.