Learning to love is the best hack of all.Three hundred and thirteen days ago, Veronica Allen was a fierce and independent woman ready to kick life's ass and take names. Fear wasn't even in her vocabulary. Three hundred and twelve days ago, she shattered like a china doll under a sledgehammer.What a difference a day makes.Clayton Briggs was building his perfect life. A successful business, check. Dream home, check. Dog named Roscoe P. Coltrane, check....

Martin Davies and Della Rose are more interested in having fun playing detective in their golden years than being detectives. Their team of enthusiastic blue-hairs is a treasure trove of unexpected skills and employ unconventional tactics.Behind the sweet wheelchair-bound grandmother facade, Estelle is a master hacker with the online handle MeatGrinder56. Wendy, a semi-retired actress, lives her dream of being a superspy while scrapbooking fingerprints...

Discover the culinary heritage of America's capitol with this guide to Washington, D.C.'s historic restaurants and storied local eateries. While today's foodies enjoy the latest culinary trends of Logan Circle and the H Street corridor, Washington's first true restaurants opened around 1830. Waves of immigrants introduced a global mix of ingredients to the capital's eager palates by opening eateries like the venerable China Doll Gourmet and Cleveland...

"Thirty diverse and award-winning authors and illustrators capture frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem"--

Can a simple thank you note turn into something more? A woman searching for independence. A man searching for education. In 1881 at the end of the Oregon Trail, coddled and protected Cassandra Parsons has set her cap for the local lumber camp owner. Her parents fear losing their only surviving child. She wants to prove she's not the china doll everyone thinks she is. But each attempt ends up in disaster. Sy O'Malley, an educated-but-lonely orchard...

Digging for Treasure could possibly have been titled Memoirs of a Dump Digger, as although it is a practical book packed with know-how gained by the author over a number of years, all the information passed on through the book is from the authors own real-life experiences. Digging into Victorian and Edwardian rubbish dumps may seem a crazy way to earn a living, but many thousands of people in Britain alone have been involved in such a hobby part-time...

The nineteenth-century American humorist, Mark Twain, offers alternatives to little girls who sass their teachers, hurl mud at their brothers, or covet their friends' expensive china dolls.

Through the changing seasons on Hairy Bear Mountain and her father's illness, Hallie continues to wish for her father's health and a china doll's head from a store window in town.