New Release Books by Judy Bagshaw

Everything was perfect in socialite Gillian Faraday’s charmed life until her father died and left her destitute. Businessman Jack McLaren had his world under control until he took on the care of his troublesome preteen niece and nephew. Gillian needs a job. Jack needs help. The solution seems simple. The problem is, Jack is the major creditor who got the bulk of her father's estate and Gillian is not impressed. It will take overcoming a mountain of misunderstanding before Jack and Gillian dare to believe everyone deserves a second chance.

BBW high school teacher Julie McClure lives a quiet life in the small Canadian town of Port Henry after a tragic summer led her to abandon dreams of working in professional theater. Coach Nate Sanderson has just arrived in town after leaving a successful teaching/coaching career in Toronto—and the ex-wife who broke his heart. When the local community theater's resident director falls ill and the leading man lands in hospital, Julie is coerced into directing a contemporary take on The Taming of the Shrew and Nate is recruited for the lead. Their initial clash makes way for friendship, and attraction blossoms into love. But a series of vandalisms threaten to close down the show—and gets personal for Julie.

Big beautiful―and in some cases mature―heroines grace the pages of this collection of romantic short stories by Judy Bagshaw. Among the offerings: Jen believes fat girls like her don't find love—but at her best friend's wedding her beliefs are put to the test. Middle-aged widow Tricia thought she had to be content living solo. Then she met Harry. Bev ran away with the "bad boy" as a teenager, only to find out that fantasy and reality are vastly different. Twenty years later, can she recapture the love she threw away? Lori has long fantasized about meeting sexy-voiced Dan, one of her clients at the answering service. Will she break the rules and find true love? Karen has kissed a lot of frogs, but not yet met her prince. A chance encounter might change her life―if she's willing to throw caution to the wind. "These are heroines you'll recognize because they are real women like you and me," Bagshaw says. "They have busy lives and character flaws. They make mistakes and have regrets. They long for long and have suffered hurts. But they persevere. And in the stories in this collection they find the love they've been looking for, sometimes where they least expect it."

Love at Large is a courageous book of charming romantic stories; each one a celebration of the lives and loves of full-figured women. It is a book of fiction featuring real women searching for real love and finding that men to indeed send long-stemmed red roses to women with double digit dress sizes.

Four Corners provides you with a vast bank of highly motivating non-fiction resources across a wide range of themes. With 100 carefully graded titles to choose from, Four Corners is a fantastically flexible classroom resource - perfect to help you deliver key curriculum topics and encourage independent reading.

At Long Last, Love is a collection of seven contemporary romances that explore the experience of losing a dream and finding it again. The heroines are very different, but all share the same hope. Trisha is a widow in her late fifties who put herself on the shelf after her beloved husband's death, until she met Harry. Jenna, a supersized BBW is convinced that fat girls don't find love, only to be proven wrong at her best friend's wedding. Bev, at sixteen, threw her life away for the wrong guy. Now in her thirties she longs to find the high school sweetheart who's heart she broke. For Cathy, it's winning the lottery twice.once for money and the second time for love. Marcia, supersized and resolving not to let anyone step on her heart, almost misses being rescued by her tow-truck driving knight . Middle-aged writer, Vivian, has lost her muse. While searching for it, she finds the love of her life. A voice on the end of a phone line won Lori's heart. Will the feelings remain when she meets him in person? All the women think that happiness is out of their grasp, only to find that at long last, love has arrived.

Susan Shaw, a tall full-figured teacher, accepts a tutoring job in the Caribbean arranged by her fraternal twin fashion model sister, in order to escape the embarrassing publicity arising from an attack and arrest by her alleged stalker. Her student is chubby nine-year-old Becca who sports a large chip on her shoulder. But Susan wins her over and helps her accept and like herself. Becca's father falls for Susan and after many misunderstandings, wins her heart. But danger follows Susan to the islands in an unexpected guise and Susan and Steven must face nature's fury and a madman's rage before they can be together at last.

Sandra Reese, full-figured and shy, soon learns lessons at college that she never anticipated - she finds that big can be beautiful - that life is to be boldly lived and enjoyed - and that love can take you by surprise. But when danger threatens Michael Santorelli, the man she adores, can she rise above her safe, sheltered past to take a desperate risk for love and life?

"Learn about people who live and work on mountains all around the world."--Page 4 of cover.

In April 2007, a group of men pulled seventeen-year-old Du'a Khalil Aswad into a mob. They proceeded to stone and beat her to death, a supposed "honor" killing for allegedly falling in love with a man of a different faith. Several camera phones recorded the entire incident from the front row, and videos later surfaced online. One month later, popular filmmaker Joss Whedon expressed his despair and outrage at the misogyny in all cultures on a fan-run blog. "Because it's no longer enough to be a decent person," he wrote. "It's no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. I've always had a bent towards apocalyptic fiction, and I'm beginning to understand why. I look and I see the earth in flames. Her face was nothing but red." The arts anthology Nothing But Red was conceived as a way to raise both awareness of the issues he spoke of, as well as money for the charity Equality Now.