Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content and foster interactive learning and participation. Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom: Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube provides ideas and techniques for teaching music clas...

A judge's husband becomes a potential target for a serial killer in this "nail-biting, edge-of-your-chair legal thriller" (Faye Kellerman, New York Times –bestselling author of Mercedes Coffin )." The Cheater is a hard-hitting, very intense suspense thriller of lust, love, betrayal and revenge." —Nelson DeMille,

In her novels featuring California probation officer Carolyn Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author Nancy Taylor Rosenberg brilliantly fuses gripping plotlines with a razor-sharp portrayal of a single woman in a world of shattered lives, hard-core criminals and flickering hopes. In her new novel, Carolyn confronts the brutal death of her best friend--and the dark mystery that surrounds it.Carolyn knew everything about Veronica Campbell. She knew about the case of murd...

Following her success with The Cheater, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg returns to her most memorable character, Lily Forrester.Lily is a tough judge in Ventura County, California, who has overcome adversity and heartache to achieve a position of power to help those who can't help themselves. Like the current case before her, the sensational murder trial of a woman who tortured and killed her beautiful two-year old son.Lily is determined to see justice done b...

As a dedicated district attorney, Lily Forrester presents the perfect image of a defender of justice. Only she knows the dark secret of what happened six years ago, when a desperate crisis drove her to step outside the law and exact a horrifying personal vengeance. Now her ex-husband, faced with serious criminal charges, threatens to expose her unless she compromises her most cherished beliefs to help him. A violent rapist she put behind bars is back on the streets and looking for her. Her...

Someone is murdering unfaithful men and dismembering their bodies. To get to victims, the killer uses “alibi services,” companies that provide alibis to people who are having an affair.Special Agent Mary Stevens works in the Investigative Support Unit at the FBI, a unit that handles serial crimes, including those of serial killers. Can she stop the Alibi Murderer, when she doesn’t even know whether it’s a man or a woman?This tautly written thriller features a strong and sin...

Every picture tells a story. But sometimes, the ending is deadly.Ruby Blake is desperate for a fresh start. Uprooting her two children, Mory and Cameron, she’s convinced this move will finally be the one that sticks. The house is ideal, the neighbors seem friendly, and when she meets Justin, it’s everything she’s been waiting for.But the cracks soon appear. Her new home needs more than just a lick of paint. The woman next door is a living nightmare. And Jus...

District Attorney Joanne Kuhlman is struggling to put her own life together after the trauma of retrieving her children from her ex-husband who had kidnapped them. Now she must make a decision that could end her career. While trying three defendants for robbery, Joanne discovers a far more serious crime may be unfolding. One of the defendants is ignorant of the true nature of the crime. His attorney and mother insist he was cruelly exploited by his crime partners. When the young man disapp...

A selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book ClubAs a dedicated district attorney, Lily Forrester presents the perfect image of a defender of justice. Only she knows the dark secret of what happened six years ago, when a desperate crisis drove her to step outside the law and exact a horrifying personal vengeance. Now her ex-husband, faced with serious criminal charges, threatens to expose her unless she compromises her most cherished beliefs to help him...

Following her success with The Cheater, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg returns to her most memorable character, Lily Forrester. Lily is a tough judge in Ventura County, California, who has overcome adversity and heartache to achieve a position of power to help those who can't help themselves. Like the current case before her: the sensational murder trial of a woman who tortured and killed her beautiful two-year-old son. Lily is determined to see justice done, but she's thrown for a loop w...

Carolyn knew everything about Veronica Campbell. She knew about the case of murder and retribution that haunted her life and her career. About her stormy relationship with her husband, Drew. About the emotional darkness that was overwhelming Veronica’s fragile seventeen-year-old daughter, Jude. But seeing her friend laid out on a cold hard slab of steel in a morgue, and hearing the initial judgments of the investigators, Carolyn also knows this: there’s no way Veronica would have ever take...

Ten years ago, Carolyn Sullivan recommended a forty-four year sentence for vicious murderer and serial rapist Carl Holden. Cold, cunning, and without remorse, Holden was the kind of criminal the death penalty was made for, and the forensic evidence had him nailed – or so everyone thought. But when the evidence is discredited, Holden is a free man again, and Carolyn is his assigned parole officer.To the state, Holden is a man who has served his time. But Carolyn still remembers the ...