Following her lifelong dream, Hope Jones opens the Brontë Bookshop in the small town of Sweet Springs tucked away in the rolling, green hills of the Virginia piedmont. Her best friend Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter Stacey. Their tuxedo cat Nozy Cat, the bookshop mascot, likes to sleep by the cash register while he guards it.One summer morning, Hope opens up the bookshop and finds the town’s handyman Hugo Spangler lying dead i...

Hope Jones runs the Brontë Bookshop in the small town of Sweet Springs tucked away in the rolling, green hills of the Virginia piedmont. Her best friend Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter Stacey. Their tuxedo cat Nozy Cat is the bookshop mascot. Hope decides to get to bottom of the hit-and-run fatality of her husband J.D. from four year ago, which Sergeant Trogg and the police have ruled as a murder. The possible murder suspects include ...

Hope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs, Virginia. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter. Their tuxedo feline Nozy Cat, opinionated and outspoken, is the bookshop mascot. The piano teacher Bree Crensahw becomes a murder victim, and Sergeant Trogg asks Hope to join the police investigation. She and Peggy Sue along with Nozy Cat soon identify the three murder suspects...

Hope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs amid the rolling, green hills of the Virginia piedmont. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter. Their tuxedo feline Nozy Cat, always opinionated and outspoken, is the bookshop mascot. A local woman, Marian Hightower, is discovered murdered inside her farmhouse, and the puzzling mystery begins to unfold. The three murder suspect...

Hope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs, Virginia. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter. Their tuxedo feline Nozy Cat, opinionated and outspoken, is the bookshop mascot. The owner of the Tastes Like More Bakery reports the murder victim Jessica Grey in the kitchen, and Sergeant Trogg asks Hope to join the police investigation. She and Peggy Sue along with Nozy Cat ...

K-12 Teacher Inquiry and Reflections: A Pathway to Enduring Transformation features the key components of a five-semester graduate program with a focus on Reflective Practice (MARP) for K-12 classroom teachers. In this program, students focus on the study of their own teaching, action research implementation and analysis, reflective practice experiences, and transformations teachers experienced because of their participation in this program. The book is divided into three sections...

New, updated edition 2024. The whole truth about what really motivates people! We are all born with internal motivation, but life has a way of repressing our deepest desires and highest selves. Motivational speaker and coach, Dr. Lyn Kelley, takes you through the step-by-step process to get yourself (and/or others) motivated once and for all!Powerful exercises along the way provide the force you need to help you sustain your momentum and propel you forward.In order to get mot...

Talk is the medium through which children learn; and yet children may not realise why their contributions to classroom talk are so important. This book provides teachers with resources for developing children's understanding of speaking and listening, and their skills in using talk for learning.The Essential Speaking and Listening will:help children to become more aware of how talk is valuable for learningraise their awareness of...

Providing children with opportunities to talk about their learning enables teachers to hear what children are thinking. Talking with one another allows children to question, elaborate, and reflect on a range of ideas. Classroom talk can be motivating and involving, and helps children to think and learn. And yet it is difficult to organise such talk in a classroom. Children unaware of the importance of talk for learning may think of talk as ‘just chat’ – and learning falls away as they slip...