Heidi Davis had a loving husband and five beautiful children, but also she loved to drink. She justified her alcohol dependency until it was too late, and she woke up to find herself lost and full of despair and loneliness. Then a light shone in the darkness. It was her teenage daughter Ariel, who pulled her back from the ledge and inspired Heidi to be the mother she had always wanted to be. But just seven months into her sobriety, tragedy struck and the unthinkable happened. Ariel's Light is the true story of Heidi's road to redemption amidst a mother's unimaginable heartbreak. This is not just another story about alcoholism, not just a testimonial, but an inspirational testament to the fact that truly anything is possible when you are willing to listen to the quiet yet powerful voice from within.

Ariel sees the most magical sticks on a human's birthday cake and tries to recreate them for her father's birthday. Five panels of press-out figures, costumes, and accessories are featured in this softcover storybook, with a pocket for storage. Full color.

"Irritating, insufferable, admirable, stimulating, disappointing Rodó: . . . you are part of our family quarrels, and must bear with your disrespectful, equally disappointed, intuitive, incomplete nephews, living in a world that you helped define for us, and offered unto our revolt." —from the Prologue by Carlos Fuentes First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing its teachings or in reacting against them. This edition of Ariel, prepared especially with teachers and students in mind, contains a reader's guide to names, places, and important movements, as well as notes and a comprehensive annotated English/Spanish bibliography.

Mr. Samson is not one of those superhero teachers that people make movies about. Neither is he an oblivious foil to the antics of a classroom of hilarious teenagers. Rather, Mr. Samson, who was once Yuba County Teacher of the Year, has turned to alcohol to deaden the pain caused by his school's insistence that he focus on raising student test scores instead of engendering a love for literature. As Mr. Samson sinks deeper into a well of whiskey, a student throws him a rope and lifts him out. Mr. Samson regains his teaching mojo and puts himself on a collision course with the school's vice-principal. While he's confident enough to take on the school admin, he's absolutely petrified by another development: a spark between him and his student rescuer.

The story of Ariel. A hunter turned into a vampire. She joins Valentino and becomes a defender of the city.

Lake Ontario is changing. Now discover how these changes are altering local environments and the lives of people in a new book by sailor-naturalist Susan Peterson.