She was born on the streets and would pass her knowledge to her daughter… Yolanda Yates’ life has been one of hardship and despair. She finds a new lease on life when she discovers an abandoned baby behind a dumpster in a back alley. She will do everything in her power to love, protect, and teach her daughter that families aren’t always born together, sometimes you have to find and make them. Find out how powerful a mother’s love can be in this heartfelt novella from The Girls from the Street series! A NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, the internationally acclaimed S.E. Smith presents a new story with her signature humor and unpredictable twists! Over TWO MILLION books sold!

Algebra is a foundational concept in the study of mathematics, and readers will delight in learning the principles of operations and algebraic thinking in a relatable and engaging way. Topics such as adding and subtracting within 20, using algebraic principles to solve equations and word problems, and understanding the relationship between addition and subtraction will give beginning math students a firm grasp on basic math concepts. Yolanda's family is having a yard sale, and by selling items from her home, she can demonstrate her ability to fluently subtract within ten. This volume meets CCSS Math Standard 1.OA.C.6. This book should be paired with "At the Block Sale" (9781477721575) from the InfoMax Math Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

"Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy" by Charles Major is fast-paced and exciting from beginning to end. The mystery of who Yolanda is, whether she's a princess or a lowly girl, keeps readers and the protagonist Sir Karl guessing. Lives intermingle through wars, romance, jousting, secret adventure, the saving of lives from road bandits, and all other adventures capable during the castle-living days. A fun story with lots of twists and turns as over the battlements and through the moat to Yolanda.

First translation into English of the medieval German Leben der Graefen Iolanda, making it accessible to a wider audience. Brother Hermann was a cleric in the region of Luxembourg in the last quarter of the thirteenth century; evidence from his Life of the Countess Yolanda suggests that he was a Dominican with, perhaps surprisingly, knowledge of the Middle High German courtly epic and the poetry of other contemporaries such as Walther von der Vogelweide. The Life, written shortly after Yolanda's death in 1283, concentrates on her struggle from childhood to free herself from secular society, principally by avoiding a contracted marriage, and to enter the cloister of Marienthal, of which she became Prioress. Although Brother Hermann's epic is hagiographic in tone, the fact that he wrote itin German, not based on a Latin vita suggests that he did not regard Yolanda as a candidate for sainthood; his heroine's attempts to find fulfillment have a strong contemporary resonance. Professor Lawson's translation, thefirst ever into English prose, makes this work accessible to a more general readership.

The Mexican Mafia had just lost the protector they had in the highest echelons of the government. Dr. Jurez could whisper in the right ears, put a good word wherever necessary, grease the right palms, even threaten on occasions, in order to cover up for the Mafia's corrupt operations. He had just died in the arms of one of his lovers. He had to be replaced. The head of the organization had made up his mind that General Carranza should be the man who would be the best replacement for Juarez. To the delegates present at the meeting, that seemed an impossible task. Carranza was a model of virtue. He was patriotic to the core, a practicing Catholic, a family man, a moral straightlaced soul from way back. How could he be made to accept and cooperate with the illegal and immoral deeds of the Mafia? The don was given one year, 365 days, to accomplish this feat. The answer: YOLANDA How does the head of the Mafia convinces her to cooperate? Does she realize the mess she is getting into? Does she remain loyal to the cause? Does she fall in love with the General? Does the married and ever faithful General fall for her? Does he finally accept the Mafia's contract?

Reproduction of the original: Yolanda of Cyprus by Cale Young Rice