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Do your kids hate math? Many students fail to understand the value of math, and some grow to hate it. Want proof? Read genuine letters students wrote to math, compiled by the authors in this Dear Math book. Discover the root of this problem. 15-year veteran math teacher, Sarah Strong, and her high school student, Gigi Butterfield, address concerns about negativity around teaching and learning math and why kids hate math (at least some of them). Digging into the feelings math evoked in hundreds of middle and high school students—that math is unnecessary, oppressive, and intimidating—the ...

Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband, Trevor, is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they’re living a picture-perfect celebrity life. But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn’t cover divorce, which is the way Agnes’ life is headed after she comes home one day to find her credit cards cancelled and the security passwords to get into her enormous LA home changed.

I'm turning nineteen and still a virgin Because I've saved my V-card for Alex. He calls me Jelly Bean and Treats me like a kid. But this is about to change Because I'm spending a week at Alex's house. I'll show him I'm not a kid, And let him taste my jelly beans.

She’s eighteen, she’s hot, but she’s also his best friend’s little sister. Leo made Ruby a promise three years ago without the intention to fulfill it, and now he wants to get away with it... When Ruby sets her mind on something, she’ll find a way to get it. Leo is what she wants and she wants him bad. There’s no way in hell she’ll let him off the hook.

China: 1200 AD. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in three trials to win her hand in marriage. But now, along with his sworn brother, Zhou Botong of the Quanzhen Sect, and his shifu, Count Seven Hong, chief of the Beggar Clan, he has walked into a trap. Tricked by Huang into boarding an unseaworthy barge, they will surely drown unless Lotus - who has overheard her father's plans - can find a way to save them.

L.A. is no place for widows. This is what 44-year-old Hannah Bernal quickly discovers after the tragic death of her handsome and loving husband, John. Misery and red-rimmed eyes are little tolerated in the land of the beautiful. But life stumbles on: Hannah's sweet three-year-old daughter, Ellie, needs to be dropped off at her overpriced preschool, while Hannah herself must get back to work in order to pay the bills on "Casa Sugar", the charming Spanish-styled bungalow they call home. Fortunately, Hannah has her "Grief Team" for emotional support....

How to make sense of the astonishing upheaval of Spring 2020 and following? Normal life – in which expected rights and freedoms were taken for granted – came to be replaced by a new society as managed by a medical/ruling elite that promised but failed to deliver virus mitigation, all in the name of public health. Meanwhile, we’ve lost so much of what we once had: travel freedoms, privacy, a democratic presumption of equality, commercial freedoms, and even the access to information portals. Something has gone very wrong. To make sense of it all, the Brownstone Institute is pleased to ...

Welcome to Adult Bedtime Stories – Are you ready to experience Nocturnal Emissions. Join us in a Sex-Positive Awakening adventure to help create a sex-positive world. Become part of a movement and start living a sex-positive lifestyle free of sexual shame and guilt. Adult Bedtime Stories is A Raven’s Lair Production. Adult Bedtime Stories is a show dedicated to bringing sacredness back to our sexuality and to learn about everything sexual. Allow the beautiful sexy creature within you to emerge. Each week the focus of the show will be on different sexual topics designed to enlighten you so ...

I'm not supposed to Feel that way toward My dad's best friend But I can't help it Derek is hot And he's always there When I need him I want no one but him I want him to be My first and only But how could I Make it happen If he wouldn't kiss me?

In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father's death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart, Lotus Huang. Torn between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, he journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus, encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the struggle for the supreme martial text, the Nine Yin Manual. But his past is catching up with him. The widow of an evil man he accidentally killed as a child has tracked him down, intent on revenge.

50 Ways to Worry Less Now offers four life strategies and 50 eclectic tools to dissolve the whispered lies of negative self-talk. Although many books address negative thinking, very few give the listener step-by-step directions on how to defeat it. Others simply advocate a single approach. With candor and humor, Langer describes a wide variety of strategies that helped her, and others, defeat dysfunctional relationships, perfectionism, addiction, and worry about loved ones.

Matthew Hale, billionaire CEO of Hale Properties, is drop-dead gorgeous. I mean hot, but he demands obedience from his employees. I’m his brand-new assistant, and I’m no exception. When Mr. Hale instructs me to pack for a three-hour hike to a remote cabin, I know I have no choice. Go or be fired. The snow pours from the sky, stranding us in the cozy, secluded cabin in the middle of the mountains. As the snow deepens, so do our feelings. He opens up to me in ways I never thought possible. I’m playing house in my head, and I need to stop.

Gracie believed she and Kenny were different from other Hollywood couples. She never thought she'd be a starter wife. With her signature wit, sassy style, and cameos of the rich and famous - and wannabe rich and famous - Gigi Grazer tackles the most delicious and dastardly details of a divorce and recovery, Hollywood style.

Ignacio: That girl everyone saw me fake kissing is not my girlfriend. Somehow, a small favor turns into a recipe for disaster, and the only way to fix it is to add a little spice, let it simmer, and serve it hot. We might be cooking up a fake relationship, but even pretend kissing Olive is muy delicioso.

The pitchforks are out again. Shocker, I know. This time, it’s not just the paparazzi or trolls on social media. Sigh. It’s my ex. And my dad. And even my new limo driver, Enrique. But wait a minute, what's this? Enrique is a total hottie—with eyes black as sin, swagger for days, and dimples that could melt a girl's heart. And...he hates me.

Damian Black, billionaire CEO and owner of BlackJet Sportswear, just hired me to nanny his daughter. Rough around the edges, demanding, and bossy, he's got his smoking hot good looks going for him, anyway. I'm not sure what he was expecting from me, but he doesn't look happy with me most times. My heart holds a deep secret so painful that I cry myself to sleep at night, but outwardly, I put on a mask of sunshine. I'm a little too happy for Mr. Grumpy-Dad, but his daughter sure seems to adore me.

Magnetic billionaire, Isaiah Wentworth, made me a tantalizing offer. Pretend to be his girlfriend for the world to see. He had to prove to his powerful grandfather that he was a man who could settle down. I yearned to show my cruel ex that I was more than the plain Jane girl he’d dumped. What could go wrong? We were perfect strangers and it was a perfect plan.

The moment Kate stepped into Noah Beaumont's office, she never expected to feel the sparks that she did. As she was hired to be his personal assistant, the two were expected to keep a strictly professional relationship - no matter how attracted they were to each other. But when a work trip to the tropical paradise of Malaysia strands them on a deserted island, they are faced with a forbidden love that threatens to break their resolve.

When Jack Power, the titan of real estate in New York City, decides to divorce his wife, Cynthia, former ballerina and Princess of Park Avenue, in order to marry his mistress, Lara, America's favorite morning news anchor, all hell breaks loose. He's got to come up with a plan, and fast - including finding a suitable boyfriend for his wife so that she will let him go.

Everything Clarissa Alpert wants, Clarissa Alpert gets. But with her thirty-second birthday looming, our heroine is starting to panic. Who on earth could possibly make Clarissa Alpert an honest woman? Enter Aaron Mason, the latest, hottest new producer in town. From the moment Clarissa sees him, she sets her sights on making him the future "Mr. Alpert."