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Mochi Magic: 50 Traditional and Modern Recipes for the Japanese Treat By : Kaori Becker READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Mochi ? the traditional Japanese treat made of chewy rice dough ? is a popular and versatile vehicle for all kinds of sweet and savory fillings, and easily molded into adorable shapes and characters that define Japan?s culture of cuteness. Food writer Kaori Becker?s easy-to-follow techniques for creating and cooking with mochi deliver the perfect mix of fun and tradition. Each colorful page brims with recipes for hand-pounded, steamed, and modern microwave mochi; fillings like rosewater, Nutella, black sesame, Oreo Cream Cheese, and Japanese plum wine; mochi-focused goodies like Bacon-Wrapped Mochi, Ozoni Soup, baked goods; and inspiration for shaping irresistibly charming mochi flowers, baby chicks, pandas, and more. Kawaii!! Book Detail : Author : Kaori Becker Pages : 192 pages Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC Language : ISBN-10 : 1635862949 IS...

Mother Grains: Recipes for the Grain Revolution By : Roxana Jullapat READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : As the head baker and owner of a beloved Los Angeles bakery, Roxana Jullapat knows the difference local, sustainable flour can make: brown rice flour lightens up a cake, rustic rye adds unexpected chewiness to a bagel, and ground toasted oats enrich doughnuts. Her bakery, Friends Family, works with dedicated farmers and millers around the country to source and incorporate the eight mother grains in every sweet, bread, or salad on the menu. In her debut cookbook, Roxana shares her greatest hits, over 90 recipes for reinventing your favorite cakes, cookies, pies, breads, and more.Her chocolate chip cookie recipe can be made with any of the eight mother grains, each flour yielding a distinct snap, crunch, or chew. Her mouthwatering buckwheat pancake can reinvent itself with grainier cornmeal. One-bowl recipes such as Barley Pumpkin Bread and Spelt Blueberry Muffins will...

Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day: Fast and Easy Recipes for World-Class Breads By : Peter Reinhart READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day distills the renowned baking instructor' s professional techniques down to the basics, delivering artisan bread recipes that anyone with flour and a fridge can make and bake with ease. Reinhart begins with the simplest French bread, then moves on to familiar classics such as ciabatta, pizza dough, and soft sandwich loaves, and concludes with fresh specialty items like pretzels, crackers, croissants, and bagels. Each recipe is broken into "Do Ahead" and "On Baking Day" sections, making every step--from preparation through pulling pans from the oven?a breeze, whether you bought your loaf pan yesterday or decades ago. These doughs are engineered to work flawlessly for busy home bakers: most require only a straightforward mixing and overnight fermentation. The...

Grain Bowls: Bulgur Wheat, Quinoa, Barley, Rice, Spelt and More By : Anna Shillinghaw Hampton READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Master the techniques of making your perfect grain bowlAncient grains are making their way back into the modern-day diet, which is great news for health-inspired home cooks. They have always been around, but now you can find bulgur wheat, freekeh, buckwheat, quinoas, rices, barley, farro, kamut, wheatberries, and spelt at your local market.Here are recipes for every appetite, including lighter fare such as salads, filling vegetarian (even vegan) meals, as well as heartier bowls with meat and seafood. There are one-pot recipes such as stews and risottos, as well as classic assembled grain bowls topped with dressings and sauces. All of them can be prepared in advance for quick, healthy weekday meals that are far from boring.Many of the dishes use gluten-free grains, such as buckwheat and rice. And grain bowl additions, such as fruits, vegetable...

Flour Lab: An At-Home Guide to Baking with Freshly Milled Grains By : Adam Leonti READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Adam Leonti started a movement--now, with Flour Lab, he puts fresh flour within reach for all home bakers with this informative and authoritative guide on making, baking, and cooking with flour milled from whole grains, which includes 20 tentpole recipes.In Flour Lab, the new definitive book on flour, chef Adam Leonti shows you the best tools and techniques for making flour that is better-tasting and more nutritious than pre-ground flours. He gives expert tips on where to source wheat, how to mill at home, and how to work with different grains. Here, too, he specifically addresses the idiosyncrasies of working with freshly milled flour as opposed to what's found on supermarket shelves. Twenty recipes for breads, pasta, pizza, cakes, and pastries serve as a practical instruction for using fresh flour in a variety of ways. Book Detail : Author : Adam L...

Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and More By : Sara Pitzer READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : This invaluable guide shows you exactly how to grow, harvest, process, store, and cook nine of the most common whole grains: wheat, corn, barley, millet, oats, rice, rye, spelt, and quinoa. Cultivating these crops is surprisingly easy, and it takes less space than you might imagine ? with just 1,000 square feet, for example, you can grow enough wheat for 50 loaves of fresh bread. The book includes delicious, simple recipes for cooking with whole grains (whether you grow them yourself or not) and features a gorgeous cover by renowned artist Nikki McClure that makes the book a wonderful gift for all the gardeners and cooks on your list. Book Detail : Author : Sara Pitzer Pages : 168 pages Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC Language : ISBN-10 : 160342153X ISBN-13 : 9781603421539   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HT...

Wild Bread: Sourdough Reinvented By : MaryJane Butters READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Is the world ready to rethink bread making?MaryJane Butters thinks so. Wild Bread completely reinvents the concept of healthier-for-you, naturally fermented sourdough.Until now, sourdough was perceived as too much work and sour-tasting, artisan-style-only loaves. In Wild Bread, her quick and easy 1 minute 2x/day technique demonstrates the use of eight different types of flours for each bread featured--everything from gluten-free brown-rice flour to quinoa to common white to heirloom whole wheat--for a whopping 295 recipes and 475 photographs.Using her step-by-step method, every style of bread imaginable, including gluten-free, will loft with wild abandon without the purchase of a single packet of not-so-healthy, store-bought yeast. In nutritionally superior wild-yeast bread, fermentation triggers the release of vital nutrients and breaks down carbohydrates. In MaryJane's worl...

Build-a-Bowl: 77 Satisfying Nutritious Combos: Whole Grain + Vegetable + Protein + Sauce = Meal By : Nicki Sizemore READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Build-a-Bowl is a fun and healthy way to put good food on the table! Popular food blogger and teacher Nicki Sizemore?s fuss-free method starts with a grain base, whether it?s a popular favorite such as brown rice or an ancient grain like farro. Add a layer of fresh vegetables and herbs, follow that with a lean protein, and then finish it off with a flavorful sauce for a delectable super-powered meal.? Sizemore?s 77 creative combinations range from the Chicken Sausage Meatballs Bowl to the Crispy Fish Taco Bowl and the vegan-friendly Double Broccoli Power Bowl. Suitable for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the beauty of the bowl is that every combination can be customized, making it a perfect solution for feeding everyone at the table with their favorites ? happily and easily. Book Detail : Author : Nicki Sizemore Pages : 19...

Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds, and Legumes By : Abra Berens READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Make grains the easiest, healthiest, and most exciting stars on your table.Grist is the only grain and legume cookbook you need. Abra Berens, a James Beard semifinalist for Outstanding Chef: Great Lakes and the author of Ruffage, shares more than 300 recipes and variations, plus substantial reference information to help you discover the next great grain.Grist includes more than 125 recipes for 29 different types of grains, legumes, and seeds that, in combination with vegetables and lean proteins, are the stars of the healthiest, most variable, and most satisfying meals?many of them gluten free.New and seasoned home cooks will want to reference this guide to start building a repertoire of approachable, big-on-flavor recipes. Home cooks will be attracted to the reference quality of the book, its beauty (more than 100 photos and 30 illustrations) and h...

101 Quick & Easy Chicken Recipes By : Victoria Steele READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : This quick and easy collection of chicken recipes contains 101 recipes ranging from simple chicken nuggets that are perfect for toddlers to dinner entrees that will impress and delight guests at any special event.Chicken is a versatile ingredient that's well suited for any kind of meal, so whether you're planning a school-day lunch, Saturday night get-together or a special Sunday dinner, you'll find a recipe here that will fit your time schedule and budget.This cookbook covers a wide diversity of chicken recipes, from boneless chicken to bone-in, including quick recipes for the skillet, baked chicken, salads, chicken on the grill, soups and slow cooker recipes.Prep time can turn off even the most enthusiastic cook. That's why these recipes are so popular. They don't have dozens of ingredients or contain complicated preparations, so you'll have your meal...

Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) By : Victoria Aveyard READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : This is a world divided by blood?red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power. Fearful of Mare's potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime. But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance?Reds ...

Ace of Spades By : Faridah ?b?k?-?y?m?d? READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah ?b?k?-?y?m?d? about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully. When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school?s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too.Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures.As Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards sta...

Code of Honor By : Alan Gratz READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Live by the code. Die by the code?Kamran Smith has it all. He?s the star of the football team, dates the most popular girl, and can?t wait to enlist in the army like his big brother, Darius. Although Kamran?s mother is from Iran, Kamran has always felt 100% American. Accepted.And then everything implodes.Darius is accused of being a terrorist. Kamran refuses to believe it. But Darius has been filmed making threats against his country, hinting at an upcoming deadly attack. Suddenly, everyone in Kamran?s life turns against him and his family.Kamran knows it?s up to him to clear his brother?s name. In a race against time, Kamran must piece together a series of clues and codes that will lead him to Darius?and the truth.But is it a truth Kamran is ready to face? And is he putting his own life at risk?Acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087) takes readers on a heart-pounding, nonstop adventure through unde...

The Sleep Experiment (World's Scariest Legends, #2) By : Jeremy Bates READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas. The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness. None survived.In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment during the summer break in a soon-to-be demolished building on campus. He and two student assistants share an eight-hour rotational schedule to observe their young Australian test subjects around the clock.What begins innocently enough, however, morphs into a nightmare beyond description that no one could have imagined--with, perhaps, the exception of Dr. Roy Wallis himself. Book Detail : Author : Jeremy Bates Pag...

The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3) By : Jennifer Lynn Barnes READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Avery?s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her. But as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help?and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player. Secrets upon secre...

Legend (Legend, #1) By : Marie Lu READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths?until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets. Bo...

The Obsession By : Jesse Q. Sutanto READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A classic sort of love story... except somebody might wind up dead.Nobody knows Delilah like Logan does. Nobody. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can through her social media and watching her through a hidden camera he has trained on her house. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called ?romantic.?But after Logan sees Delilah killing her abusive stepfather, he realizes there?s still more about her to discover. His sweet, perfect Delilah isn?t so perfect after all.Delilah knows she should feel guilty, but all she feels is free. She?s so over the men in her life controlling her. Except Logan saw what she did, and he won?t let her forget it. Delilah is done being the victim. And she refuses to be a character in Logan?s twisted fantasy. If Logan won?t let her go? she?ll make him. Book Detail : Author : Jesse Q. Sutanto Pages : 304 pages Publisher : Language : ISBN-10 : 172821...

Thunderhead By : Neal Shusterman READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : ?Intelligent and entertaining.? ?Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ?Even better than the first book.? ?School Library Journal (starred review) Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe from New York Times bestseller Neal Shusterman, author of the Unwind dystology.Humans learn from their mistakes. I cannot. I make no mistakes. The Thunderhead is the perfect ruler of a perfect world, but it has no control over the scythedom. A year has passed since Rowan had gone off grid. Since then, he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. His story is told in whispers across the continent. As Scythe Anastasia, Citra gleans with compassion and openly challenges the ideals of the ?new order.? But when her life is threatened and her methods questioned, it becomes clea...

The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) By : Jennifer Lynn Barnes READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Don't miss this "impossible to put down" (Buzzfeed) novel with deadly stakes, thrilling twists, and juicy secrets - perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Knives Out.Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: Survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch - and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: Dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up ...

The Inheritance Games (Inheritance Games, #1) By : Jennifer Lynn Barnes READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A Cinderella story with deadly stakes and thrilling twists, perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch--and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir appa...

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space By : Stephen Walker READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : ?Beyond?has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War, and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically, and sometimes tragically, to life.??Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union?s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile?originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead?and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history.?Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour?ten times faster than a rifle bullet?Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing it...

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire By : David Remnick READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving illumination . . . Remnick is the witness for us all." ?Wall Street Journal. Book Detail : Author : David Remnick Pages : 624 pages Publisher : Vintage Language : ISBN-10 : 0679751254 ISBN-13 : 9780679751250   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal By : Ben Macintyre READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Master storyteller Ben Macintyre?s most ambitious work to date brings to life the?twentieth century?s greatest spy story.Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain?s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War?while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby?s best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.?But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to M...

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin By : Masha Gessen READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics.??????? In 1999, the ?Family? surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience?he?d been deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and briefly, director of the secret police?nevertheless seemed the perfect choice: a ?faceless? creature whom Yeltsin and his cronies could mold in their own image. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see in him the progressive leader of their dreams?even as Putin, with ruthless efficiency, dismantled the country?s media, wrested control and wealth from the business class, and destroyed the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Within a few brief years, virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was remove...

The Russian Revolution: A New History By : Sean McMeekin READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution.In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin?s program of turning the ?imperialist war? into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later, over twenty million people had died, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that communism had t...

Gulag By : Anne Applebaum READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century. Book Detail : Author : Anne Applebaum Pages : 678 pages Publisher : Anchor Books Language : eng ISBN-10 : 1400034094 ISBN-13 : 9781400034093   Suppor...

The Sleep Experiment (World's Scariest Legends, #2) By : Jeremy Bates READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas. The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness. None survived.In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment during the summer break in a soon-to-be demolished building on campus. He and two student assistants share an eight-hour rotational schedule to observe their young Australian test subjects around the clock.What begins innocently enough, however, morphs into a nightmare beyond description that no one could have imagined--with, perhaps, the exception of Dr. Roy Wallis himself. Book Detail : Author : Jeremy Bates Pag...

The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3) By : Jennifer Lynn Barnes READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Avery?s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her. But as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help?and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player. Secrets upon secre...

Legend (Legend, #1) By : Marie Lu READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths?until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets. Bo...

The Obsession (The Obsession, #1) By : Jesse Q. Sutanto READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A classic sort of love story... except somebody might wind up dead.Nobody knows Delilah like Logan does. Nobody. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can through her social media and watching her through a hidden camera he has trained on her house. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called ?romantic.?But after Logan sees Delilah killing her abusive stepfather, he realizes there?s still more about her to discover. His sweet, perfect Delilah isn?t so perfect after all.Delilah knows she should feel guilty, but all she feels is free. She?s so over the men in her life controlling her. Except Logan saw what she did, and he won?t let her forget it. Delilah is done being the victim. And she refuses to be a character in Logan?s twisted fantasy. If Logan won?t let her go? she?ll make him. Book Detail : Author : Jesse Q. Sutanto Pages : 304 pages Publisher : Languag...

Thunderhead By : Neal Shusterman READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : ?Intelligent and entertaining.? ?Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ?Even better than the first book.? ?School Library Journal (starred review) Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe from New York Times bestseller Neal Shusterman, author of the Unwind dystology.Humans learn from their mistakes. I cannot. I make no mistakes. The Thunderhead is the perfect ruler of a perfect world, but it has no control over the scythedom. A year has passed since Rowan had gone off grid. Since then, he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. His story is told in whispers across the continent. As Scythe Anastasia, Citra gleans with compassion and openly challenges the ideals of the ?new order.? But when her life is threatened and her methods questioned, it becomes clea...

Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths By : Marcus Buckingham READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The 20th anniversary edition of Now, Discover Your Strengths comes with an access code to the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment. This updated assessment includes reports and resources that go far beyond the standardized reports of the older assessment by providing you with personalized insight statements unique to your specific combination of strengths.Many people have little sense of their talents and strengths, much less the ability to build their lives around them. Instead, they are raised and taught to become experts in their weaknesses ? and spend their lives trying to fix them ? while their strengths lie dormant. Led by Don Clifton, the Father of Strengths-Based Psychology, Gallup created a revolutionary program to help people identify their talents; develop them into strengt...

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) By : Seth Godin READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller In this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt--until they commit to beating the right Dip.Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun...then gets really hard, and not much fun at all. You might be in a Dip--a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it's really a Cul-de-Sac--a total dead end. What really sets superstars apart is the ability to tell the two apart.Winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. If you can beat the Dip to be the best, you'll earn profits, glory, and long-term security. Wh...

The End of Bias: A Beginning By : Jessica Nordell READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age.Implicit bias: persistent, unintentional prejudiced behavior that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. We know that it exists, to corrosive and even lethal effect. We see it in medicine, we see it in finance, and as we know from the police killings of so many Black Americans, bias can be deadly. But are we able to step beyond recognition of our prejudice to actually change it?With fifteen years' immersion in the topic, Jessica Nordell digs deep into the cognitive science, social psychology, and developmental research that underpin current efforts to eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination. She examines diversity training, deployed across the land as a corrective but with inconsistent results. She explores what ...

Co-Active Coaching: The Proven Framework for Transformative Conversations at Work and in LIfe By : Henry Kimsey-House READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : This extensively revised 4th edition of Co-Active Coaching now offers leaders, managers and other business professionals practical guidance for embracing coaching as a core competency to drive greater workplace engagement.The flexible Co-Active Coaching model showcased in the book has stood the test of time as a transformative communication process that co-workers and teammates, managers, teachers, and students can use to build strong and collaborative relationships.In this highly anticipated new edition, the authors capture their broader experience in applying the Co-Active approach to leadership and human development. The book reflects today's reality of how coaching has moved beyond its initial focus on life skills to become an integral aspect of successful leadership development. It provides the latest terminol...

Performance Conversations: How to Use Questions to Coach Employees, Improve Productivity, and Boost Confidence (Without Appraisals!) By : Christopher D. Lee READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : There are three universal truths about traditional performance management. They are widely used, universally despised, and are known to be ineffective. These reasons are cited in the recent spate of announcements from dozens of major corporations who have abandoned their appraisal systems. As a result, many organizations are grappling with what to do instead. They have adopted many interesting and innovative practices, but most are a random collection of activities that are not bound together by a sound theoretical framework.This new approach is built upon a sound theoretical foundation, uses proven management techniques, and offers a novel framework and tool for managers for regulating and enhancing the performance of their staff.Dozens of ready-to-use templates and accompanying ...

Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works By : Lynne R. Dorfman READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman warmly welcome you to experience writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome toWriting Workshop. Through strategic routines, tips, resources, and short focused video clips, teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop where: ? both students and teachers are working authors ? students spend most of their time writing?not just learning about it ? student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers, not compliant ones ? students are part of the formative assessment process ? students will look forward to writing time?not dread it. From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and minilessons, this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers. Book Detail : ...

Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution By : Sherine Hamdy READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : As young girls in Cairo, Anna and Layla strike up an unlikely friendship that crosses class, cultural, and religious divides. Years later, Anna learns that she may carry the hereditary cancer gene responsible for her mother's death. Meanwhile, Layla's family is faced with a difficult decision about kidney transplantation. Their friendship is put to the test when these medical crises reveal stark differences in their perspectives...until revolutionary unrest in Egypt changes their lives forever.The first book in a new series, Lissa brings anthropological research to life in comic form, combining scholarly insights and accessible, visually-rich storytelling to foster greater understanding of global politics, inequalities, and solidarity. Book Detail : Author : Sherine Hamdy Pages : 304 pages Publisher : University of Toronto Press Language : ISBN...

Digital Photography Complete Course By : David Taylor READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Digital Photography Complete Course will help you build your photography skills step-by-step, with an independent photography course that guides you through every aspect of digital photography. Digital Photography Complete Course uses a combination of tutorials, step-by-step demonstrations, practical assignments, and Q&As to help you understand and use your camera to the max. Choose your own pace to work through the modules ? the program is totally customizable to your schedule. As you work through the lessons, test your new knowledge and troubleshoot common issues.With the aid of helpful text and innovative graphics in Digital Photography Complete Course, you'll explore a wide range of genres: Find out how to create landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and action shots as you discover the full range of your camera and learn how to take professional-looking pictures yo...

Art Of Candle Making Business Startup: How to Start, Run & Grow a Million Dollar Success From Home! By : Suzanne Carpenter READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Art Of Candle Making Business StartupHow to Start, Run & Grow a Million Dollar Success From Home!In this book, I don't tell you how to make beautiful candles in few steps and then give you a few recipes to try, so you can start your own Candle making business. You can find that information anywhere, don't have to buy my book to learn that. Wait! Oh! I did that in this book. I did explain how to make Beautiful Candles, I also did give you a few simple recipes too. But I hope that is not why you bought this book.In this book my goal is to explain to you in simple terms how to CREATE great natural and organic candles and not just MAKE any candles, there is a difference. You will get to see and understand that difference when you understand each ingredients and how they interact and react with each oth...