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In celebration of the Women’s Tennis Association’s 50th anniversary, this updated and expanded edition—based on the 1988 original We Have Come a Long Way: The Story of Women's Tennis—includes more than 33 years’ worth of stories about inspiring women and their achievements. The book arrives 53 years after King and eight other women players broke with the male tennis establishment and launched their own professional tour.

Musonius Rufus (c. AD 30–100) was one of the four great Roman Stoic philosophers, the other three being Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Musonius’ pupil Epictetus. During his life, Musonius’ Stoicism was put to the test, most notably during an exile to Gyaros, a barren island in the Aegean Sea.

Encuentra las plantas y los animales que viven en los 13 hábitats a lo largo de Norte América. Contado en rima narrativa, Veo, veo un hábitat invita a los niños a "espiar" las plantas, los invertebrados, los pájaros, y los mamíferos que viven en los hábitats de Norte América: el patio, la playa, la ciénaga, la cueva, el desierto, el bosque, la pradera, la montaña, el océano, las planicies, el estanque, el río, y el pantano.

Told in rhyming narrative, Habitat Spy invites children to find plants (or algae), invertebrates, birds, and mammals living in 13 different North American habitats: backyard, beach, bog, cave, desert, forest, meadow, mountain, ocean, plains, pond, river, and swamp. Children will have fun discovering the characteristics of each habitat as they "spy", identify, and count the resident plants and animals and learn about the interactions between living and nonliving things.

Never married Aimee Dunsmore hides her identity as a successful Gothic Romance ghostwriter. Happy to toil away in relative obscurity, a chance encounter with a man she meets at the grocery store causes her to reevaluate her priorities. For Aimee to take a risk on love in real life she has to take her head out of the clouds, put her heart in play and decide if Mitch is truly the one to go all in on. His unstable ex-wife is determined to make it impossible for Mitch to ever be happy again. She finds out about Aimee and goes to extremes to drive her away for good.

Josephine Anderson has one mess of a marriage to clean up. It would be easier if she knew where Ray, her AWOL husband went but he didn’t leave a forwarding address. She always imagined her retirement would involve a chaise lounge and a Pina Colada, but since Ray disappeared it sort of wrecked her vision. After giving him three wonderful kids and the best years of her life, he has the nerve to leave her now.