Belinda Williams

They've got no time for love. But what if love finds them first? Em Georgiou looks like the sort of girl you take home to your family. But she's got a PhD to finish and a career to kick-start first. And besides, Em likes men too much to settle down-much to her father's exasperation.Joel Scott doesn't do relationships. He's too focused on his architecture business. So when his hard-to-please, cut-throat developer client suggests that he 'gets to know' his daughter Em, Joel is prepared to add the spoiled daddy's girl to his to-do list for the sake of his career. Except Em is way more capable than her father gives her credit for. And she's certainly not the type of woman you strike off your to-do list. Can Joel convince Em that he's not just trying to impress her father? Or that you can fall in love when you don't want to... even if it involves facing up to a dark past you'd rather forget?

She's got three months to make him a better man... but what if he's perfect already? Jessica Jinks has got it made-as the face of her online fitness brand, her business is going from strength to strength. Especially if she can transform Ant Monticello, comedian and co-host of an evening current affairs show, from unfit to ripped in three months. Ant knows he's not Jess's type. Not surprising when he considers walking down the street to pick up fast food to be cardio exercise. But he does make her laugh, and he's determined to turn himself into the man she wants. With the whole country watching, Jess knows Ant is strictly off limits and the success of her business relies on keeping things professional. Even if he makes her pulse race in the best way possible . . . But when Ant starts to change-and not in a good way-Jess finds herself questioning not only her business, but her heart, too. Was Ant perfect just the way he was, even if he didn't think so?

ARE SOME SECRETS TOO GOOD TO KEEP? Kat Chalmers is a high achiever. As the co-host of a leading current affairs program, she's earned nationwide acclaim for her interview skills. And now she plans to use those skills to find out more about her mysterious neighbour, Matt Goodridge. Matt works long hours as an obstetrician and doesn't like talking about his past. He's also intrigued by his famous neighbour, although getting to know her is difficult when she prefers to be the one asking the questions. But Kat can't seem to stay away. Matt's like no one she's ever met and she finds herself letting her guard down. Meanwhile, Matt is discovering that the woman behind the carefully crafted television persona is entirely different to who he thought she was. When Matt learns Kat has secrets of her own to hide, he begins to wonder if some secrets are too good to keep . . . even if it means risking your heart and your professional reputation.

This timely volume reveals in great detail how educators closed the ""performance gap"" for low-income students by linking expectations and results. Drawing heavily on the words and experiences of students, teachers, and parents, this book describes how students who traditionally had not succeeded academically in school began to do so. Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms demonstrates just how this was done by including in-depth descriptions of classrooms and schools where students began succeeding when educators assumed the responsibility for their success, data-based discussion of teachers' views on parental involvement in schools and parents' views of teachers' and schools' actions on behalf of students, identification of the kinds of support that schools and districts must provide if educators are to be successful, and an unrelenting emphasis on how educators enabled students to be motivated and to produce high-quality work