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Author : T. L. Haddix
Publisher : T L Haddix
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Fiction
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Can a second chance at a first love work? Or will the agony of the past be too much for them to overcome? Ben loved Ainsley with his whole heart, but she married someone else and left him shattered. Five years later, he still hasn't healed. His heart still aches for her, but he's determined to move on and build a life without her. Ainsley has had her own struggles to overcome. After years of addiction, she's finally found stability and is determined to put the past behind her. But returning to the small town where she lost so much brings back memories she's been trying to forget. When Ben and Ainsley run into each other, the old spark is still there. But the pain of the past is still raw, and their love seems impossible. Yet they can't stay away from each other, and their second chance at love proves to be more intense than they ever imagined. But past betrayals threaten to tear them apart once again. Can they find a way to build a future together, or will their love be doomed to fail once again? Dragonfly Creek is the fourth book in the Firefly Hollow series.

Author : T. L. Haddix
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945445026

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Book Three in the Firefly Hollow series. When Ben Campbell returns home to Hazard, Kentucky after a five-year absence, the last person he's expecting to run into is the girl who broke his heart - the girl who left town and married someone else. He's done his best to move on, but he knows he's only been going through the motions of living. Determined to exorcise Ainsley's ghost, he approaches the young widow with an offer for a steamy liaison to do just that. Ainsley Brewer Scott carries a lot of weight on her shoulders, weight that's left deep emotional and physical scars. Her dreams of an everlasting love with Ben were dashed thoroughly, thanks to her malicious and conniving mother. Back in town to wrap up the old woman's estate, Ainsley's world is turned upside down when she sees Ben. And when he propositions her, he lights a match to her temper that flames into a burning attraction just as strong as what they shared years earlier. When the truth behind Ainsley's leaving comes out, the long-held secrets shatter the fragile trust they've started to build. She and Ben have to decide to either walk away from each other for the second time or stand together and fight for their future.

Author : T. L. Haddix
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2013-08-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780615869476

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When Ben Campbell returns home to Hazard, Kentucky after a five-year absence, the last person he's expecting to run into is the girl who broke his heart - the girl who left town and married someone else. He's done his best to move on, but he knows he's only been going through the motions of living. Determined to exorcise Ainsley's ghost, he approaches the young widow with an offer for a steamy liaison to do just that. Ainsley Brewer Scott carries a lot of weight on her shoulders, weight that's left deep emotional and physical scars. Her dreams of an everlasting love with Ben were dashed thoroughly, thanks to her malicious and conniving mother. Back in town to wrap up the old woman's estate, Ainsley's world is turned upside down when she sees Ben. And when he propositions her, he lights a match to her temper that flames into a burning attraction just as strong as what they shared years earlier. When the truth behind Ainsley's leaving comes out, the long-held secrets shatter the fragile trust they've started to build. She and Ben have to decide to either walk away from each other for the second time or stand together and fight for their future. "Dragonfly Creek" is the third book in the "Firefly Hollow" series. Other titles include "Firefly Hollow," "Butterfly Lane," "Cattail Ridge," and "Cricket Cove." Set in Appalachia, the series follows the Campbell family from generation to generation. Also available from this author: The Shadows Collection, a series of Romantic Suspense novels. Titles include: "Secrets in the Shadows," "Under the Moon's Shadow," "Shadows from the Grave," "Hidden in the Shadows," "In the Heart's Shadow," and "Deception in the Shadows."

Author : Linda-Dianne Willis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811612641

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This book presents and theorises research findings into why and how school principals play a critical role in engaging parents and their school communities to enhance student learning and wellbeing. It highlights the imperative of parent engagement as evidenced by clear, consistent findings from research over the last fifty years and government reforms, policies and frameworks internationally and nationally in Australia which have been driven by the weight of this evidence. It focuses on a research project conducted from 2016 to 2017, titled 'Principal leadership for parent-school-community engagement in disadvantaged schools'. This project investigated four principals identified as successful in parent engagement based on findings of state-wide survey research of principals and presidents of parents and citizens’ associations in 2014 in Queensland, Australia. This book offers theoretical and empirical evidence based on literature for the qualities successful principals in parent engagement exhibit, and the strategies they take to achieve parent and community engagement. It shows how the concept of agency as achievement can be used by educators and public policy makers to enable school leaders and teachers to adopt qualities and strategies that will engage parents in their child’s learning and wellbeing, so that improved outcomes for their child and schools can result.

Author : S.T.A. Pickett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2013-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400753411

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The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s population now residing in coastal urban zones, many of which are vulnerable both to floods originating inland and rising sea levels, making urban areas more robust in the face of environmental threats must be a policy ambition of the highest priority. The complexity of urban areas results from their spatial heterogeneity, their intertwined material and energy fluxes, and the integration of social and natural processes. All of these features can be altered by intentional planning and design. The complex, integrated suite of urban structures and processes together affect the adaptive resilience of urban systems, but also presupposes that planners can intervene in positive ways. As examples accumulate of linkage between sustainability and building/landscape design, such as the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park and Toronto’s Lower Don River area, this book unites the ideas, data, and insights of ecologists and related scientists with those of urban designers. It aims to integrate a formerly atomized dialog to help both disciplines promote urban resilience.