For Katya Noskov, snuffing out lives was a cinch. Building friendships, however, is a more complex mission.

Katya Noskov always thought her career as an assassin would end in a violent death. She never imagined that the onset of age-related near-sightedness would force her into retirement.

Kat was comfortable with her solitary life, finding fulfillment in the work she did: eliminating the world of its very worst people. Now, faced with spending the rest of her years in stagnant boredom, Katya decides to take a risk into an arena she is completely unfamiliar with: long-term relationships.

But an assassin's life has left her floundering and confused about how to function in the real world. As she ventures out to build a new life, Kat quickly discovers her unique skill set is not conducive to forging relationships. When she finds herself swept up in a friendship with three other women, Kat has to learn to trust people, let go of control, and push aside a lifetime of keeping secrets.

When Kat uncovers a secret that will tear them all apart, she has to decide whether to reveal what she knows and risk it all or keep it to herself and risk losing the only friends she's ever had.

Katya Noskov's Last Shot is a feel-good cozy read about finding common ground and later-in-life friendships.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today--and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools.

[A] lively account. --New York Times Book Review

In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools--instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting elite graduates to teach--are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.

Can Dax Turn the Tide in Time to Save Our Oceans?

Dax Masters has everything he could wish for-great friends, a good handle on 7th Grade, and a science community to run. As head of the Earth Moves Project, Dax has inspired other kid scientists from around the world to share their observations. His schedule is full, but that doesn't stop him from signing up for a new extracurricular class, Environmental Studies.

Dax hopes he can sail through the new class by using Earth Moves to expand on what he's learned about tectonic plate movement. But when a new problem presents itself, Dax can't ignore his instincts. The planet's oceans are in trouble, and with the help of his classmates, Dax has once again identified a potentially catastrophic global crisis others have missed. This time, though, he has to prove to himself that he has what it takes to find a solution.

Join Dax and his fellow kid scientists on their mission to discover what's gone wrong with Earth's oceans and how humanity can stop it-before it's too late.

Will They Listen To a Child Before it's Too Late?

Meet Dax Masters, the coolest science whiz you'll ever come across! At just twelve years old, he's got it all-a passion for hanging out with his friends, dominating video games, and rocking the scientific world. Dax's dreams are as big as his brain, and he's determined to win the sixth-grade science fair and score an exclusive invite to the mind-blowing Innovative Science Convention, where the brightest young minds in the world gather.

The twist? Dax's project isn't your average volcano eruption-he's out to shake the world. Armed with undeniable evidence, he's on a mission to show that even the world's top scientists have missed a crucial change in the Earth. Who wouldn't be captivated by a young genius challenging the status quo?

Join Dax on his epic quest as he not only has to convince his father his science project is worthy but also take on the challenge of a lifetime to convince the world's best scientists they've got it all wrong. Hold onto your lab coats because Dax Masters is about to turn the scientific community upside down!

Menopause. Every woman walks through this hormonal lava pit of remorse and chicken wing cravings, yet few of us are offered a warning about the perils, let alone a survival guide. Following the success of The Girl in the Gold Bikini, author Dana Goldstein is throwing back the curtain on the most challenging years of a woman's life. Holding nothing back, the author brings her unique sense of humour to her menopausal journey, sharing stories of hair growing where it shouldn't, erotic dreams that leave her shaken for days and her struggle to stop herself from killing her beloved husband.

Murder on My Mind will make you laugh out loud while while making you feel better about the chaos of your own menopausal journey.

After 40 years of trying to find happiness at the bottom of a bag of potato chips, author Dana Goldstein finally snapped.

A lifetime of diets, denial, and bad relationship choices caused her weight to rise and fall, and challenged her confidence. Once she was in her 40s, Dana realized that HELL, YES people liked who she was, that she no longer had to listen to the hurtful words of others and that her weight issues were tied to emotions.

What started as an autobiography vilifying those who had tried to crush her dreams or tell her she deserved less in life, turned into an examination of her relationship with food.

Dana has some great stories to tell around her experiences with food: her great-grandmother's hidden candy stash; her Italian adventure with ordering off-menu; her successful weight loss while in a horrible relationship; her inability to stop eating her own fresh-baked cookies.

Join Dana on her journey through all the bad habits, culinary delights, and triumphs that tell the story of her life so far.

I thought I was destined for great things. Turns out, I was meant to sell blue jeans.

Dana Goldstein had dreams of being a foreign correspondent, covering the news from a far off land. When she graduated from journalism school into a recession, her visions of globetrotting were replaced by the reality of needing to pay her bills and eat.

Working in retail was meant to be a temporary measure, a stop-gap on the road to her future as a journalist. Ten years later, she had found herself accidentally well into a career, lured by the steady and reliable paycheck.

But she was a crap manager, at least from the corporate view. Dana put employees first, took risks with merchandising that did not always play by the rules, and opened her mouth to call out the stupidity that sometimes trickled down from head office.

Over the course of a decade, she witnessed fights among customers, stopped thieving employees, and blew the whistle on managers having sex on company time. Join her on the journey as she explores the best and worst of humanity, viewed from the sales racks and the sales floor.