Best Selling Books by Jodi Lee

The Giant Cookie is taller than the tallest skyscraper and bigger than a whole city block. His heart is even bigger than his size and he is the nicest cookie you would ever want to meet. He enjoys spending time with boys and girls and on this day, he wants to join them on the playground. Except there is one rather serious problem: the Giant Cookie cant fit! He is too big! The children are having so much fun on the jungle gym, swings, merry-go-round, and in the sandbox, too. However, the Giant Cookie cant participate due to his enormous size. What if the kids can find a solution to his problem? Working together, they think up a wonderful idea that will get the Giant Cookie on the playground.

Are you ready to visit a town where cursed lives are the norm? There is nothing quite like sharing a nightmare or two, and that is exactly what author Jodi Lee intends to do with her collection, Into a Long Ago Future. Take a walk through New Bedlam''s streets, sail through time and space with an alien-raised human, get locked in a zombie-proof safe house, discover new faery tales, new futures that will change the past. A bit of advice though. Watch what you eat. Don''t drink the water. And definitely make sure you watch where you step. You wouldn''t want to get lost in the galleys between.

Eerie rest stops, ghostly passengers, a journey to hell...Road Trips will take you on a wild ride. But we warned: not all travelers will return from this trip.

This book tells five stories of a three-year leadership capacity building program designed for residents of government housing estates in Sydney''s Eastern suburbs. It tells its stories through the voices of the project leader and four participants. While the project leader explains the workings of the project each of the participants tells how it fitted into their life-story. They talk of their childhood and growing up and sometimes precarious survival at the poor end of town. The four insider stories are set beside the program''s intentions as seen by government funding body and program managers, and the philosophical understanding that underpinned the program leader''s actions. In so doing the book explores the relationship between: one person''s theory; a community development program in practice; and real life experience. It does this not through a voice of authority commenting on people''s lived experience and attempting to relate this to the theory, but by showing what the program meant to the project leader and what it meant to each of the four participants. It tries to demonstrate, but not explain, how these disparate meanings connected, or otherwise, with the theory that the project leader believed she was applying; and how in the end all knowledge is personal, built up over a life time and stitched together with the threads of our relationships in whatever environment we happen to inhabit.

In an attempt to escape constant arguing, Jonah Gray wanders away from the family cabin deep in the West Virginia wilderness. But he wanders too far, over the borders to a Faerie land that could only exist in Appalachia. Faerie-napping, cold knives, underground oppressors, horror stories, and unwilling affections threaten to suck him forever into their desolate Company Town. If they do, he''ll lose himself in every way possible. You might escape the fae, but you can never go home. Not really.

Some time in 2006, two writers spoke in hurried whispers... what could cause the wretched insomnia that had taken them over, compelling them to write words of horrors never seen, only imagined? What could keep them from finishing their works, from containing the monsters within, from binding them with one simple word? How could they find their way out of the darkness they called home...into a darkness of release at Morpheus'' hands? An idea was born that night. It grew into one monster after another until finally it has broken free.

This study is one component of a national initiative that provides research information to help strengthen community capacity to make informed decisions about policies & programs to serve families with young children. It focusses on the results of the Community Mapping Study, conducted in Winnipeg School Division no. 1 in spring 2000. The study gathered information about the following: the community (where the children live, the proportion of families with young children, areas of green space & industry); the social environment (population mobility, education, employment, income, family structure, diversity); the physical environment (including traffic patterns & neighbourhood physical condition); and neighbourhood resources such as schools, health services, recreational facilities, and cultural resources. Where applicable, information is included on the kinds of programs & services available to young children (age six & under) & their parents, where they were located, and how they were being used. The final chapter summarizes key findings for use in informing community action.