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A wayward yacht came crashing into his secluded dock. Thomas Griffin, a retired tough and gritty New York City Homicide Detective, is faced with a challenging new mystery. His chosen new life is cast aside to prevent a local sheriff from arresting the wrong person. Many entanglements along the way make this case far more engaging than Thomas could expect. Throughout his search for the killer Thomas moves forward in many directions before he is able to identify the motive for the murders.
Designed to facilitate professional development and critical reflection in the leadership of services for children and families, this book will enhance the understanding of readers from a range of disciplines and at varying levels of study. Packed with case studies depicting the experiences of children and their families in transition and exploring a wide range of scenarios, the chapters: - explore transitions from a range of perspectives - discuss the value of developing collaborative practice in deepening awareness of children′s views and experiences - look at examples of contemporary practice - consider the ethics, policies and law relating to current issues - enrich the reader′s understanding of professional responsibility Each chapter contains a chapter overview, a case study and suggestions for further reading. This book is relevant to all practitioners working with young children and their families and to all those studying early childhood. Lyn Trodd is the Head of Multi-Professional Education at the University of Hertfordshire
Alpha C Chiang, a renowned economist, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Connecticut, is best-known for his classic textbook — Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics.In this memoirs, he tells the entertaining, scary, embarrassing, glorifying and surreal tales that colored his life.On the academic side, Alpha describes in detail his scholastic journey, including why and how he created one of the most popular books on mathematical methods in economics, as well as the experiences of his teaching career. On the nonacademic side, he describes his ventures into his many hobbies, the spices of his life, including Chinese opera, ballroom dancing, painting and calligrap...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soak up the sun—and the intrigue—with the first novel in John Grisham’s beloved Camino series. “A happy lark [that] provides the pleasure of a leisurely jaunt periodically jolted into high gear, just for the fun and speed of it.”—The New York Times Book Review A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people k...
“High stakes, big heart, and lots of Black Girl Magic…unputdownable.” —Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys A rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love—she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him. After years of waiting for her Calling—a trial every witch must pass to come into their powers—the one thing Voya Thomas didn’t expect was to fail. When Voya’s ancestor gives her an unprecedented second chance to complete her Calling, she agrees—and then is horrified when her task is to kill ...
Two women have a passionate interest in the same piece of land... Elaine Thomas has a sworn duty to protect National Forest Service land, especially from vicious and destructive poachers. About to cite a thoughtless squatter for an illegal campfire, she's flummoxed when she's the one who gets a lecture about tromping on precious seedlings. Botanist Devon McKinney has permission to be camping in the protected area as part of her report on recovery from a toxic spill. Her deadlines are personal and professional and she's not going to let anyone slow her down, even if Ranger Elaine is far from the ham-fisted voice of authority she'd expected. Neither woman has any professional intention of tolerating the least deviation from her assignment. Fortunately, working together gets easier and easier, though both may learn that a fire running wild will burn. Newcomer Lynn James tells a fascinating story of women working to preserve the wilderness wrapped in a sizzling romance that smolders with passion.
To visiting geologists, Black Rock, New Mexico, is a basaltic escarpment and an ideal natural laboratory. To hospital workers, Black Rock is a picturesque place to earn a living. To the Zuni, the mesas, arroyos, and the rock itself are a stage on which the passion of their elders is relived. William A. Dodge explores how a shared sense of place evolves over time and through multiple cultures that claim the landscape. Through stories told over many generations, this landscape has given the Zuni an understanding of how they came to be in this world. More recently, paleogeographers have studied the rocks and landforms to better understand the world as it once was. Archaeologists have conducted ...
The testimonies that you will read on the following pages are personal stories of courage, hope, faith and strength in the face of adversity. Some will make you cry, some will make you laugh and some will simply bring home the fact that God is. A Book of Triumphs and Impossibilities There is definitely a higher power up there in the heavens. My co-author Andreka Eberhart and I know this first hand because I was brought back from not being able to see at all, to being able to see; not being able to walk at all, to walking with confidence to being on the brink of certain death to doing things I once did before and sometimes better than before and Andreka's bout with MS had her brain ravished, ...