Grace Davies is overwhelmed by a divorce she's kept secret for months. Afraid to face her friends and family, she runs away from her sorrow, her shame, and her life. She goes all the way to Rio and falls right into the arms of the handsome, flirty Meno. Meno Youkhana is more than willing to help a friend in need, especially one he's been smitten with since he first met her years ago. He offers her a job, a place to crash, and a shoulder to lean on. But he wants to give her so much more. Grace may have left her designer luggage on the carousel at San Francisco International Airport, but she shows up in Rio with a lot of mental baggage. Meno wants to help her unpack, but he'll have a hard time convincing Grace he's the man for the job.

Incorporating HC 999 i-iv, session 2006-07

From 2001 to 2006, Richard L. Cates Jr. interviewed senior members of more than 30 families living in and around Arena township, a small community in southern Wisconsin. He asked them about growing up in rural America and their connection to a way of life that is vanishing in the twenty-first century. The result, Voices from the Heart of the Land, is a collection of reminiscences, observations, and opinions celebrating the stewardship of the land and the values of the stewards. Of course, as Cates points out, these are nothing less than “our core human values—integrity, commitment, responsibility, citizenship, self-determination, decency, kindness, love, and hope.”

The cops get Sam and lock him up. A mate offers him a way out. Will Sam take it? On The Run is a phonic beginner reader for teenagers and adults. It comes as a sequel to Sam The Man.

"This is a story you’ll love and never forget."—Christopher McDougall, author, Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes Aside from her rock star looks, Catra Corbett is a standout in the running world on her accomplishments alone. Catra is the first American woman to run over one hundred miles or more on more than one hundred occasions and the first to run one hundred and two hundred miles in the Ohlone Wilderness, and she holds the fastest known double time for the 425-miles long John Muir Trail, completing it in twelve days, four hours, and fifty-seven minutes. And, unbelievably, she's also a former meth addict. After two years of addiction, Catra is busted while selling, and a night in jail is enough to set her straight. She gives up drugs and moves back home with her mother, abandoning her friends, her boyfriend, and the lifestyle that she came to depend on. Her only clean friend pushes her to train for a 10K with him, and surprisingly, she likes it—and decides to run her first marathon after that. In Reborn on the Run, the reader keeps pace with Catra as she runs through difficult terrain and extreme weather, is stalked by animals in the wilderness, and nearly dies on a training run but continues on, smashing running records and becoming one of the world's best ultrarunners. Along the way she attempts suicide, loses loved ones, falls in love, has her heartbroken, meets lifelong friends including her running partner and dachshund TruMan, and finally faces the past that led to her addiction.