Unable to find anyone to play with, Mario agrees to help his Nana by watching cousin Gia, but caring for the toddler is challenging and Mario is near the end of his rope when he gets a reminder that spending time with family is a gift. Full color.

With a star that rose from unforgettable child acting roles, such as A. C. Slater in Saved by the Bell, to the forefront of today’s entertainment media, Mario Lopez is nothing short of a pop culture sensation. Now, as he turns forty, Mario looks back on his life with a newfound perspective and a humorous sensibility of how things have changed with age, divulging for the first time the endearing, surprising, and sometimes difficult experiences that shaped him into the loving father and husband he is today. In Just Between Us, Mario shares a behind-the-scenes look into his successes and disappointments in the entertainment business and how his tight-knit family and long-standing values helped keep him grounded, no matter what. With wit and candor, Mario reveals his most intimate never-before-told stories, including the details of his often tumultuous and largely public love life—giving readers a look at the ups and downs of his romantic past leading up to his happily-ever-after with his beautiful wife and their two children. This is Mario Lopez unfiltered, for the first time ever.

Mario and his younger sister make tacos out of mud and other things they find in their Nana's backyard.

Live extra lean. Transform your body for life. And never feel bad about food again. As one of today's most beloved personalities on TV and hailed by People as the country's hottest bachelor, Mario Lopez is arguably known as much for his glowing personality as he is for his rock-hard abs. In his first diet book, Extra Lean, Lopez imparts his fool-proof plan for permanent weight loss while eliminating the guilt from enjoying the foods you love. The Extra Lean plan trains your body to constantly burn fat by following three simple steps: 1) Balance your daily intake of carbs, protein and fat 2) Practice proper portion control and 3) Eat frequently throughout the day. Along with health physiologist and personal trainer, Jimmy Peña, and renowned nutritionist, Dana Angelo White, Mario clearly identifies optimal combinations of daily nutrients, transformative eating habits and invigorating mental conditioning tools that will truly redefine your approach to food. By following this plan, your metabolism will become a fat-burning machine allowing you to splurge on special days, weekends or vacations with little to no effect on the scale. With over 40 delicious and easy-to-follow recipes and a seven-week meal plan, Extra Lean is the complete program to change your body and the way you eat for life. Watch a Video

Learn idiomatic, efficient, clean, and extensible Go design and concurrency patterns by using TDD About This Book A highly practical guide filled with numerous examples unleashing the power of design patterns with Go. Discover an introduction of the CSP concurrency model by explaining GoRoutines and channels. Get a full explanation, including comprehensive text and examples, of all known GoF design patterns in Go. Who This Book Is For The target audience is both beginner- and advanced-level developers in the Go programming language. No knowledge of design patterns is expected. What You Will Learn All basic syntax and tools needed to start coding in Go Encapsulate the creation of complex objects in an idiomatic way in Go Create unique instances that cannot be duplicated within a program Understand the importance of object encapsulation to provide clarity and maintainability Prepare cost-effective actions so that different parts of the program aren't affected by expensive tasks Deal with channels and GoRoutines within the Go context to build concurrent application in Go in an idiomatic way In Detail Go is a multi-paradigm programming language that has built-in facilities to create concurrent applications. Design patterns allow developers to efficiently address common problems faced during developing applications. Go Design Patterns will provide readers with a reference point to software design patterns and CSP concurrency design patterns to help them build applications in a more idiomatic, robust, and convenient way in Go. The book starts with a brief introduction to Go programming essentials and quickly moves on to explain the idea behind the creation of design patterns and how they appeared in the 90's as a common "language" between developers to solve common tasks in object-oriented programming languages. You will then learn how to apply the 23 Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns in Go and also learn about CSP concurrency patterns, the "killer feature" in Go that has helped Google develop software to maintain thousands of servers. With all of this the book will enable you to understand and apply design patterns in an idiomatic way that will produce concise, readable, and maintainable software. Style and approach This book will teach widely used design patterns and best practices with Go in a step-by-step manner. The code will have detailed examples, to allow programmers to apply design patterns in their day-to-day coding.

An insider's look at the world of Broadcasting from the master of Career Choreography(TM). Are news and programming values and strategies changing? You bet they are! In The New Broadcasting Realities, Ken Lindner offers solutions to the complex issues and problems broadcasting professionals face in today's media landscape. Whether you're a media professional or an aspiring broadcast journalist, Lindner, who has guided the careers of hundreds of the nation's leading television newscasters and program hosts including Matt Lauer, Lester Holt, Elizabeth Vargas, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Mario Lopez, Robin Meade, Megyn Kelly, Nancy O'Dell, and Samantha Harris, provides insider tips on Choreographing the steps of your broadcasting career. With case studies and an experienced, critical perspective, Lindner offers detailed advice on making career-enhancing decisions, including how to: - Multi-platform your career to enhance your visibility, brand, and marketability, as well as exponentially increase your income; - Strategically Choreograph your broadcasting career so that you are able to achieve your most cherished goals and dreams; - Negotiate the clauses in your employment contract(s) so that you are able to achieve your short- and long-term goals; and - Create effective solutions for hot-button issues and challenges that broadcasting professionals will inevitably face in The New Age of Broadcasting. The worlds of news and hosting are ever-changing, but Lindner's highly insightful examination of the issues facing broadcast journalists and broadcasters today will help you rise above the pack and maximize your potential.

Offers tools for developing healthy eating habits for the family, including detailed food planning guides, over fifty recipes that can be prepared in twenty minutes or less, and nutritional guidelines.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina “Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re swimming under a big, sparkling night sky.”—Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You A PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICK AND AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Book Riot There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love—filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz. LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION

Describes and demonstrates the places of balance, standing and sitting in balance, structure, movement of the hands and arms, and other topics.

Sisters by Design turned out to be a bigger success than Gabriella or Nina ever anticipated. It was a lot more hectic than they expected of a new business, plus both sisters being busy and pregnant at the same time. It was not that they weren’t thrilled about their business, but they definitely needed to hire more help. As usual, with more help came more problems. Were Gabriella and Nina ready for a possible sabotage to their new business and to see everything they worked for be ruined? How would their pregnancies be for both sisters, and what surprises were in store for both of them during the months left of their pregnancy? How would they deal with a big project they were given by one of the most prestigious construction companies in the area? Would their work be in vain if one of their employees succeeded in ruining their business and the good name they were working so hard to build for their company? Which one of the sisters was in for a total shock after they had their 4D ultrasounds together? After both sisters delivered their babies, will one of the sisters decide not to come back to Sisters by Design? This final story about the Verducci sisters is filled with more suspense and surprises along the way for both of them. Please join the sisters and their family and find out what happens on this final story of their adventures together.