In the aftermath of Fifty Shades a cottage industry emerged around self-published romance novels. Once women who worked forty-hour-a-week jobs, living paycheck-to-paycheck, many of them are now New York Times bestselling authors with their own merchandise lines and die-hard fans. NAUGHTY BOOKS follows three such women who garnered thousands of fans and secured lucrative book deals with major publishing houses by writing about good girls and bad boys...

Librarian Molly McGrew introduces birds and beasts to the wonders of reading. And in no time, they are "forsaking their niches, their nests, and their nooks, and "going wild, simply wild, about wonderful books!"

The ability to select just-right books is a key element in developing confident, successful, independent readers. Gail starts this mini-lesson with Joan's K-2 multiage students by modeling how she picks a pair of shoes that are a good fit for her. Having engaged the class, Boushey and Moser show how to use a similar five-step process to select appropriate books: look at the book, consider the purpose and decide, am I interested in it? Do I comprehend...

Learn how to use FreshBooks accounting software to track time, expenses, and invoices, and generate reports for tax season. Get your organization's finances in order with FreshBooks and accountant Josh Zweig. This course shows how to get started with FreshBooks and set up everything from permissions to credit cards to sales tax. Josh, a FreshBooks Certified Accountant, will help you track time against projects and tasks, create estimates and invoices,...

Work smarter with QuickBooks. Learn how to efficiently approach a variety of common tasks using the popular business accounting software. QuickBooks was designed to make day-to-day business tasks—sending money, receiving money, and assessing your company's financial situation—easier to manage. This course provides concise, actionable tips for using the popular business accounting software to manage your daily operations and assess your company's...

Presents full-text literary criticism on writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, monographs, reviews, and scholarly papers.

Shows how to create, publish, and sell photo books using the Blurb self-publishing service. Creating Photo Books with Blurb presents three separate workflows for creating and publishing books that showcase photographs using the Blurb self-publishing service. The course starts with an exploration of photo bookmaking in BookSmart, Blurb's free desktop software, then shows how to make a simple photo book in Bookify, Blurb's online bookmaking service....

Efficiently manage your business finances and keep more accurate bookkeeping records by learning how to leverage QuickBooks Online. Get up and running with QuickBooks Online so you can manage business finances in the cloud, anywhere you go. Bonnie Biafore shows business managers who are new to QuickBooks—and QuickBooks veterans making the leap to the online edition—how to pay bills on time, collect the money earned, and run reports to see how...

Learn to manage and run company payroll with QuickBooks Payroll and these tutorials from Bonnie Biafore. Master QuickBooks Payroll with these tutorials from QuickBooks Payroll expert Bonnie Biafore. Start by learning how to set up an account and enter company and employee payroll data; then define federal, state, and local payroll taxes and work with various accounts and payroll items. If you're starting with Payroll midyear, she also explains how...

Learn everything you need to know to use QuickBooks Online, the popular bookkeeping platform for small businesses. Get up to speed with QuickBooks Online so you can manage business finances in the cloud, anywhere you go. Small business accounting expert Hector Garcia shows business managers who are new to QuickBooks and old hands making the leap to the online edition how to pay bills on time, collect the money earned, and run reports to see how the...