Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

A Premarital Guide for Blended Family Couples If you want to enter a blended family marriage well, this is the book for you. Aimed at engaged or pre-engaged couples who have at least one child from a previous relationship, Preparing to Blend offers wise counsel on parenting, finances, establishing family identity, and daily routines for your new life together. Within these pages you will learn how to: · predict common issues · define expectations · create solutions You, your soon-to-be-spouse, and your children will benefit from exercises designed to accelerate family bonding and help you better understand each other. There is even a chapter to help you plan your wedding with your children in mind, so you can build a strong future together. Preparing to Blend is also an ideal premarital counseling tool for marriage coaches, mentors, and pastors wanting to prepare couples for complex blended family dynamics. If you are considering forming a blended family, Preparing to Blend is the resource you've been looking for.

Landmark coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi has served her share of New York’s rich and famous, but even she is surprised by her explosive introduction to a mysterious Internet billionaire… When a car bomb nearly kills tech whiz Eric Thorner, Clare comes to his aid and receives a priceless thank you. Not only does the billionaire buy her a barista’s dream espresso machine, he hires her to create the world’s most expensive coffee blend. As Eric jets Clare around the globe on a head-spinning search for the world’s best coffee, she gets to know his world—a mesmerizing circle of money with rivalries that could easily have turned deadly. But is this charming young CEO truly marked for termination? Or is he the one making a killing?

Learn how to redesign lessons with technology to individualize and personalize instruction, transforming what learning looks like for your students. Many blended learning initiatives start from the top down and are designed for specific populations or make drastic changes to a school’s learning structure. But any K-12 classroom teacher can find ways to leverage blended learning, regardless of the constructs of their learning environment. All they need is a willingness to rethink their role — moving from content deliverer to architect of learning. In The Perfect Blend, you’ll learn how to create a “homemade recipe” for effective blended learning for your students. Rather than focusing on finding and implementing a specific established model, author Michele Eaton shows teachers how to embrace the flexibility of blended learning to take an active role as a designer of learning and, in the process, help students become advocates for their education. This book: • Provides an accessible resource for teachers beginning to use technology, as well as master blended teachers who are looking for new ideas or strategies. • Includes templates and planning tools that can be used as is or modified to fit the needs of your students. • Focuses on understanding and reflecting on your role as a designer of learning experiences, and creating and using digital content in the classroom. You’ll gain practical skills, strategies and lesson ideas for various types of blended learning thanks to examples from real classrooms and educators. Along the way, you’ll discover how to build on the skills you already have to support blended learning.

The Perfect Blend is a Valentine's themed romance novel that celebrates family, community, and the power of love. Minnie Logan is the owner of Logan’s Coffee Shop, a staple in a small New England town. Struggling to maintain her grandfather's legacy and rent payments, Minnie has less than a month to creatively preserve and renew her family business. Robert Vaughan, the CFO, of a giant coffee conglomerate, arrives in the small town in pursuit of a takeover of Logan’s Coffee Shop. Unbeknownst to Minnie, she falls for the mysterious newcomer while she uses the magic of love and the miracle of faith to give back to the community that has given so much to her.

Jason Vale, the world's number one name in juicing, is back with his first ever protein-based blending plan. It's Jason's quickest and easiest programme to date, and has been specifically developed for people who want to get super lean, super healthy and super fast ... but don't want to clean a juicer! Super Blend Me! has been designed with everyone in mind. It doesn't matter if you have an enormous amount of weight to lose, or just want to get a little healthier and shredded - Super Blend Me! is the perfect plan for all. Due to its rich, plant-based high-protein recipes, it has also been designed with physical exercise in mind. So whether you're an athlete or just someone who likes to exercise daily, you can run or lift to your heart's content on this programme. Super Blend Me! has also been designed with satisfaction, speed and convenience at its forefront. Jason has ensured that each recipe not only tastes amazing and fully satisfies on the hunger front, but is also super fast to make and its ingredients easy to get hold of! All of the ingredients can be conveniently found in any major supermarket and are all recognisable, so there's no need to forage for "designer" berries that can only be found in an Amazonian rainforest! You can choose from either a 7-, 10-, 14- or full 21-day Super Blend Me! Challenge depending on your goals, and Jason has even included a handy working journal as part of the book, so you can log your progress and keep on track. This unique and exciting plan has already been put to the test by a trial group of over 50 people, and the results were incredible.

Be your own barista, bartender, & smoothie maker with these 50 original plant-based recipes specially formulated for use with BlendJet 2 portable blender! Use them to reinvent your dinner routine, boost your workout, breakfast faster, or simply create the fuel to feel good. Happiness & healthiness are yours for the making! Enjoy the freedom to create whatever you like, wherever you are, with the easy and delicious recipes featured in our first official BlendJet recipe book.

A combination of cookbook and discussion ideas for popular book club selections features an assortment of recipes for masterful culinary creations that tie in with a variety of literary masterpieces, including "Honey Cakes" to go with The Secret Life of Bees or "Shrimp Flautas" for Richard Russo's Empire Falls. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Though forms of the Blending Board have been around for a couple of centuries, modern spinners need a guide to the plethora of possibilities available with this tool. With the reincarnation of the carding board into Blending Boards the demand has risen for instruction on all the possibilities of fiber preparation on these boards. Want to repeat design elements in your yarn? Do you want to blend long and short fibers together? Have trouble keeping inclusions in when spinning? Blending Board Basics and Beyond will walk you through woolen and worsted fiber preparation techniques on the Blending Board. In this century fibers from all over the world are readily available. Gwen Powell includes preparation techniques for a common and unusual fibers.

Say goodbye to boring lectures and tired, one-and-done activities! In Blended Learning with Google, bestselling author and experienced educator Kasey Bell shows you how to use Google tools to design and support dynamic blended learning experiences whether you're teaching in-person, online classes, or both! With so much of life and learning happening online, we have to think differently about lessons and assignments. We can't rely on worksheets or one-and-done activities. They don't cut it anymore! To better serve our students, we must go beyond traditional methods-and beyond the walls of our classrooms. We need Dynamic Learning, and Google's powerful and easy-to-use suite of tools can help! Kasey Bell is your personal Google guide, but don't let the southern charm fool you. She packs this book with practical ideas and meaningful strategies that you can implement right away. Here is a peek at what you'll find in Blended Learning with Google A practical framework for meaningful Blended Learning Digital learning strategies for every classroom Google templates, lesson plans, pro tips, remote learning tips, and more! This book is not about Google; it's about how to use Google tools to support Dynamic Learning for your students every day! Shake Up Learning with Google tools to design Dynamic Blended Learning experiences in your classroom!