Feeling stuck? Veteran journalist and cancer survivor Lu Ann Cahn was feeling angry and frustrated. The economy was tanking. Her job was changing. In a word, she felt “stuck.” Something had to change. Her daughter helped convince her to start a “Year of Firsts.” For the next 365 days, Cahn made a point of doing something she had never done before, every day. Before she knew it, her whole perspective on life had changed. In this inspiring book, Lu Ann recounts how a new “first” everyday brought excitement and wonder back into her world. And more than that, she helps readers see how they can do it too. • Participate in a Polar Bear Plunge • Speak to a complete stranger on the street • Zip-line across a crocodile-infested Mexican lake • Spend a day in a wheelchair • Learn to Hula Hoop

Provides advice on etiquette and modern social graces, covering the art of being oneself in any situation, ways to make other people comfortable, and the art of seduction.

Luann Budd offers to help you get started journaling, and she introduces you to the power of writing as a spiritual discipline through helpful tips and examples from her own journals.

This book is mostly about two sisters who could get along with every other always trying to compete with each other. The oldest sister was named Rite and is married to a doctor they have one son two and years old. The oldest brother name is Danny he is married also and has one son that is four years old. Then comes Ray, LuAnn, Betsy and Bettys the baby .Luann went with Al all through high school then she decide to join the army. Trying to make Al jealous of her but, Al just set back and let her go. A month after she was gone Al started to come around and asked Betsy to go out with him. Betsy said yes but, she didnt know she was going to fall in love with him but she did. Al is a very handsome man Al dated Betsy about three mouth then he asked her to marry him. Everything was going all right until LuAnn came back to town thats when all hail broke loose. Thing started to happen all around but, by then Al was already in love with her sister Betsy, but LuAnn wasnt going to give up that easily on Al. He was her first love and that made him very special. She tried everything to get Al back nothing seemed to work. She really got upset when Betsy came up pregnant. She even went to his best friend and told him that she was going to try and kill Betsys and Als unborn child. Your just going to have to read the book and find out what is going to happen. Wrote by Ivanell Mcguire

Large city school districts and their personnel have been under scrutiny because of poor academic performance by their students. In TEACHING BABY GANGSTERS, author Marilyn K. Gifford communicates the realities and obstacles teachers face in todays inner-city classrooms. Using her personal experiences as a teacher of at-risk middle-school students, Gifford explains how the social fabric of society has changed and examines how those changes may limit students ability to learn. She discusses the students lives and how many overcame difficult circumstancessuch as special education needs, gang membership, drug and alcohol use, and povertyto succeed in school. She also relays the sad stories of those students who gave in to their environmental influences and failed to get an education. TEACHING BABY GANGSTERS proposes a pragmatic approach to fixing failing inner-city schools by reviving student consciousness and limiting the drama of drugs and gangs. Gifford takes a strong stand for inner-city school reform that is based on the needs of the students reform that makes a difference in the lives of young people.

Luann is that lovable pre-teen seen battling the day-to-day problem of boys, school and an older brother with amazing aplomb.

At sixteen, Dakota Dunn was America?s Pop Princess. Now twenty-five, she?s all grown up?and definitely washed up. She decides to head to her parents? lakefront retreat in Tennessee, fixing to write songs and transform her image from squeaky clean to kickin? country. Turns out her folks have handed things over to sexy, if cranky, cowboy Trace Coleman?a former bull riding champion benched by injuries. He?s none too happy about Dakota?s arrival?and makes no secret of it. But though Trace is rough around the edges, Dakota feels a pull of attraction she can?t quite shake. For all his brooding, Trace has an animal magnetism that may just lead Dakota to dig in her heels and hold on tight...

In this acclaimed early novel New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice takes readers on an intensely moving journey through the intimate terrain of a rapturous marriage in sudden jeopardy–and follows one woman’s courageous search to find her way when everything, even her heart, seems lost.… Georgie Symonds didn’t think anything could shake her perfect marriage. She and Nick were meant for each other, everyone said so, and their life on the Connecticut shore, among Georgie’s close-knit family, is picture-perfect. But lately Nick has been consumed with his job on Wall Street, and Georgie finds herself plagued with suspicions too awful to contemplate. To distract herself, she plunges into her work with the Swift Observatory, examining the stories of people whose lives have been changed by unexpected tragedy. But it’s when a handsome stranger arrives on her doorstep that Georgie learns firsthand that when your dreams are in danger of collapsing, it’s time to create new ones.…

In Baby Bones, Author Donan Berg's latest, newly elected Sheriff Jonas McHugh dashes up the embankment to avoid contaminating the skeleton with his vomit. On the day the Silver County, Iowa, Auditor certified his special election victory, Jonas would've never envisioned, in all of his thirty-five years, the challenges--his K-9 partner eats poison; picket line violence strikes Jove Foods, a major employer; a Jove employee fishing discovers a skeleton with fetus remains; a booby-trap puts him on crutches; the coroner fears abortion vigilantism; and two women emerge as marital prospects for bachelor Jonas who lives with married sister. The fledging sheriff can't afford to alienate a close-knit county electorate and must battle office personalities and four influential townspeople. Events intertwine to present obstacles to his solving a multiple crime spree. Any failure will expose him as ineffective, and doom re-election chances. The twists and turns provide an exhilarating reader's page-turning ride, bumps included. More than a thriller, although it is that, Author Berg in his Third Skeleton Series Mystery adds compelling characters, any one of which could be your neighbor. He's the author of previous five-star rated full-length murder mystery novels with romantic subplots, all of which involved different skeletons: A Body To Bones, The Bones Dance Foxtrot, and Abbey Burning Love.