Shy twelve-year-old bookworm Lindsay, future superhero, spends a summer with her cousin/nemesis Phoebe learning BMX tricks, making new friends, and showing boys that girls can compete, too.

An empowering new series from the cyclist who runs Shred-Girls.com is guaranteed to give readers an adrenaline rush--and the confidence girls gain from participating in sports! It's time to ride and save the day! Lindsay can't wait to spend her summer break reading comics and watching superhero movies--until she finds out she'll be moving in with her weird older cousin Phoebe instead. And Phoebe has big plans for Lindsay: a BMX class at her bike park with cool-girl Jen and perfectionist Ali. Lindsay's summer of learning awesome BMX tricks with new friends and a new bike turns out to be more epic than any comic book--and it's all leading up to a jumping competition. But some of the biker boys don't think girls should be allowed to compete in BMX. Now it's up to Lindsay, Jen, and Ali to win the competition and prove that anyone can be great at BMX.

Lindsay lives in a world of superheroes-except, that world is in her head. She wants more than anything to become a hero, reading comic books as research materials and training by fighting her teddy bears for practice. She's even got the perfect arch-nemesis: her cousin, who pretty much has to be a supervillain. Will Lindsay be able to defeat Phoebe, or will her cousin's evil plan come to fruition? ...Or, will it turn out completely different? When Lindsay's parents take off for an archaeological dig-such a comic book cliche!-Phoebe takes her young cousin in for the summer. But instead of menacing the world and robbing banks, the punk rocker-turned bike racer brings Lindsay along and into the world of Joyride, a bike park where kids really can fly. Shy bookworm Lindsay will still have a chance to save the day, but only after meeting Ali and Jen and learning to ride-and how to make friends and stand up for herself.Everyone can be a superhero, but it's a lot more fun when you're not alone. And now, the Shred Girls are going to take the cycling world by storm. Pedal along for Lindsay's Joy Ride, and get ready for more action-packed adventures that don't stop when the bike race ends. Shred Girls is a new series written for middle-grade to early young adult girls that follows Lindsay, Ali and Jen as they navigate the perils and pitfalls of life while learning how to ride and race bikes.

Come along for a wild ride as the Shred Girls take on mountain biking! Readers are sure to feel like part of the team in this empowering read that features illustrations and training logs! In the follow-up to LINDSAY'S JOYRIDE, the Shred Girls reunite at Ali's home for a mountain-biking training trip that builds up to an elite competition! Even though Ali grew up on the mountain biking with her professional-biker older brothers, she's anxious. Her brothers always make her feel like she's not talented enough. Could they be right? She'll just have to find out. But it'll be hard to focus on training when Jen, Lindsay, and Lindsay's awesome older cousin Phoebe come to stay for two weeks. Ali's never had friends who are girls before, and now they're jumping into a long-term sleepover! Well, she's not sure that ultra-feminine Jen is actually her friend . . . yet. Ali's about to get a crash course on friendship! With everything going on, Ali's got a rocky road ahead--but she has the right bike for this ride!

The author of "Losing It" pens a captivating coming-of-age novel in which two unlikely best friends who have shared everything are speeding along the road of life--until a long-buried secret comes between them. Original.

Traces the chaotic breakdown of a friendship that shapes and unravels the identities of two rebellious girls in the wake of a stalker's predations.

In this uplifting, instructive book, Drs. Robert and Jeanette Lauer demonstrate that joy is an ever-present resource that can be tapped in order to create spiritually renewing experiences.

Self-proclaimed nobody CG Silverman sees her move to an upscale new school as her chance to be somebody different. Her devil-may-care attitude attracts the in-clique, and before CG realizes it, a routine game of truth or dare launches her to iconic status. While this rebel image helps secure CG’s newfound popularity, it also propels her through a maze of unprecedented chaos, with each new lie and every dare opening doors that, in most cases, were better off left shut. CG is on a collision course with disaster. Will she be able to keep up the façade? Or will the whole world find out she’s a fraud?

New York Times bestselling author J. A. Redmerski brings us the breathtaking sequel to her novel The Edge of Never. When everything falls apart, love remains . . . The Edge of Always Camryn Bennett has never been happier. Five months after meeting on a Greyhound bus, she and her soul mate Andrew Parrish are engaged-and a wedding isn't the only special event in their future. Nervous but excited, Camryn can't wait to begin the rest of her life with Andrew, a man she knows in her heart will love her always. They have so much to look forward to-until tragedy blindsides them. Andrew doesn't understand how this could happen to them. He's trying to move on, and thought Camryn was doing the same. But when Andrew discovers Camryn is secretly harboring a mountain of pain and attempting to numb it in damaging ways, there is nothing he won't do to bring her back to life. Determined to prove that their love can survive anything, Andrew decides to take Camryn on a new journey filled with hope and passion. If only he can convince her to come along for the ride...

Never has the World Bank's relief work been more important than in the last nine years, when crises as huge as AIDS and the emergence of terrorist sanctuaries have threatened the prosperity of billions. This journalistic masterpiece by Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby charts those controversial years at the Bank under the leadership of James Wolfensohn—the unstoppable power broker whose daring efforts to enlarge the planet's wealth in an age of globalization and terror were matched only by the force of his polarizing personality. Based on unprecedented access to its subject, this captivating tour through the messy reality of global development is that rare triumph—an emblematic story through which a gifted author has channeled the spirit of the age. This edition features a new afterword by the author that analyzes the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as Wolfensohn's successor at the World bank