Shred Girls Ali S Rocky Ride

Come along for a wild ride as the Shred Girls take on mountain biking! Readers are sure to feel like part of the team in this empowering read that features illustrations and training logs! In the follow-up to LINDSAY'S JOYRIDE, the Shred Girls reunite at Ali's home for a mountain-biking training trip that builds up to an elite competition! Even though Ali grew up on the mountain biking with her professional-biker older brothers, she's anxious. Her brothers always make her feel like she's not talented enough. Could they be right? She'll just have to find out. But it'll be hard to focus on training when Jen, Lindsay, and Lindsay's awesome older cousin Phoebe come to stay for two weeks. Ali's never had friends who are girls before, and now they're jumping into a long-term sleepover! Well, she's not sure that ultra-feminine Jen is actually her friend . . . yet. Ali's about to get a crash course on friendship! With everything going on, Ali's got a rocky road ahead--but she has the right bike for this ride!

An empowering new series from the cyclist who runs Shred-Girls.com is guaranteed to give readers an adrenaline rush--and the confidence girls gain from participating in sports! It's time to ride and save the day! Lindsay can't wait to spend her summer break reading comics and watching superhero movies--until she finds out she'll be moving in with her weird older cousin Phoebe instead. And Phoebe has big plans for Lindsay: a BMX class at her bike park with cool-girl Jen and perfectionist Ali. Lindsay's summer of learning awesome BMX tricks with new friends and a new bike turns out to be more epic than any comic book--and it's all leading up to a jumping competition. But some of the biker boys don't think girls should be allowed to compete in BMX. Now it's up to Lindsay, Jen, and Ali to win the competition and prove that anyone can be great at BMX.

Lindsay lives in a world of superheroes-except, that world is in her head. She wants more than anything to become a hero, reading comic books as research materials and training by fighting her teddy bears for practice. She's even got the perfect arch-nemesis: her cousin, who pretty much has to be a supervillain. Will Lindsay be able to defeat Phoebe, or will her cousin's evil plan come to fruition? ...Or, will it turn out completely different? When Lindsay's parents take off for an archaeological dig-such a comic book cliche!-Phoebe takes her young cousin in for the summer. But instead of menacing the world and robbing banks, the punk rocker-turned bike racer brings Lindsay along and into the world of Joyride, a bike park where kids really can fly. Shy bookworm Lindsay will still have a chance to save the day, but only after meeting Ali and Jen and learning to ride-and how to make friends and stand up for herself.Everyone can be a superhero, but it's a lot more fun when you're not alone. And now, the Shred Girls are going to take the cycling world by storm. Pedal along for Lindsay's Joy Ride, and get ready for more action-packed adventures that don't stop when the bike race ends. Shred Girls is a new series written for middle-grade to early young adult girls that follows Lindsay, Ali and Jen as they navigate the perils and pitfalls of life while learning how to ride and race bikes.

In the third Shred Girls adventure, ultra-perfectionist Jen has to make a big decision: Should she stick with the Shred Girls, or join the team that promises to make her faster? She'll have to decide soon, since the clock is ticking down to the next race... But first, Jen, Ali and Lindsay will need to make it through their first ever bikepacking trip, riding big miles and camping in the mountains.

UNPAVED ROAD is about an Iranian woman named Niki and her real-life story about living through the Islamic Revolution in Iran. With political tension building, and the mindset of the people shifting, Niki chooses to go against the system as well as her protective family and stand up for herself. After falling for a wanted journalist, Niki decides to follow her heart as she is forced to escape the country with him in order to save their lives. This book recalls all of the action, romance, and deception that ensues on her journey. Shes determined to find a way to safety by traveling through an underground network of people across many borders. She has to quickly figure out if she can trust anybody, including the man shes with. This is a true life or death story that will keep you guessing what happens next.

First published in 2013. An unabashed and accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete in four volumes.

First published in 1986. An unabashed and accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete in four volumes.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together