Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools, everyone was surprised by how difficult it was to assess charter school performance. The first part of this book focuses on how to improve estimates of charter schools' performance, especi...

From a blue egg to a soaring bird, learn all about the different stages in a robin's life cycle. Told from the robin's perspective, early readers get a first-hand experience into its life stages. Simple sentences help develop word recognition and improve reading skills. Each book in this series includes a table of contents, glossary, index, and an author biography.

The Chain O' Lakes region has been one of Chicago's premier vacation spots since the 1880s. The nine major lake basins'Catherine, Channel, Grass, Bluff, Marie, Fox, Nippersink, Petite, and Pistakee'are all connected by the Fox River waterway and have for over 100 years been northern Illinois's leading destination for inland boaters, fishermen, picnickers, or those just hoping to relax and play at the beach. Luxurious mansions and swank resorts once dotted the more than 6,000 acres of shore...

A sexually explicit novel for female and male readers who appreciate intellectual erotica. A middle-aged wife goes up to the cabin at the lake with a college student handyman. The husband was going to go, but had to stay for work. She decides that she deserves the experience of seducing the young stud and enjoying a fling, and she is confident that in return she can tutor him in the sexual arts. (She accomplishes both goals.)Other erotic books by Robin J. Kingsley: Fantasztikus...

Who says love can’t show up on your doorstep, completely unexpected?QuincyI have a plan, and it doesn’t include falling for the older, hot single dad who convinced me to be his short-term nanny. So, I will leave my small town and my broken heart behind and go back to college.Or so I told myself.But now I’m starting to wonder if my plan has room for an unexpected happily ever after…Knox

Falling in love was never part of the plan—but neither was becoming a single dad. In this swoon-worthy collection of contemporary romances, devoted dads juggle diapers, teenage drama, and second chances at love, only to discover that the right woman might be exactly what their little families have been missing.From small-town charm to unexpected sparks, each story delivers swoon-worthy heroes, heart-tugging emotion, and the kind of love that proves families are built in more ways t...

Colt's memory is returning after the accident that ended his career. Now he wants to take over his family's inn, but he'll have to partner with his former fiancée to be able to afford it. He'll need forgiveness to make that happen. Tia's goal is clear: to return the inn to its former grandeur. And she'll even work with Colt to do so. But like the inn, their relationship needs a lot of work. He broke her heart...can she ever trust him again?

The small town of White Oak Lake, Louisiana, is home to a group of colorful characters, three of whom take their Cupid duties seriously. Their pet project is Jaclyn Wyatt, a single mother who, in their opinion, needs a little help in the romance department. Jaclyn doesn't agree, but the trio secretly springs into action when a newcomer arrives.Morgan Chassion retreated to White Oak Lake to mentally and emotionally recover from losing her father, being dumped by her girlfriend, and ...

Love's potion is once again being brewed in the next installment of the White Oak Lake series. The matchmakers have found a new project in Leslie Parker when she rents Morgan Chassion's cabin. As always, the intentions are good when Clarice Minden and her cohorts begin to work their magic, but sometimes things just don't go as planned and the results are disastrously funny.All the while Morgan and the love of her life, Jaclyn, are on hand to smooth out the wrinkles.The Magi...

We packed up our ghost-hunting gear—EMF meters, thermal cameras, recorders, the whole nerdy arsenal—and the four of us piled into the Forester for another weekend chasing shadows. Just me and the three guys, my friends, the only woman on the team. I didn't mind. We were scientists, after all, or at least trying to be.This time we were headed to Siult Lake to make contact with the spirit everyone called Lisa Smith, the promiscuous ghost who supposedly roamed the shore and left campe...

They were from opposite sides of the tracks: the wealthy Nortons and the working-class Michaels. Yet Gray Norton and Charlie Michaels had become the unlikeliest of best friends, thick as thieves and utterly inseparable. Consumed with guilt after Charlie's untimely death, Gray fled his hometown to work as a doctor in a war zone. But Charlie's demise isn't the only thing that haunts Gray. For years, Gray and Romey, Charlie's sister, had been lovers—and Charlie never knew. Now a single mom, R...

This book is the first comprehensive account of the modern Kenya Rift Valley lakes and their precursor lakes preserved in the sedimentary record. The first part gives the broad geological and environmental background to the Kenya Rift and a history of research. In the second part, each modern lake is described from perspectives of geology, limnology, ecology, sedimentology and late Quaternary history. The fossil lake sediments, some linked to hominin sites, and their paleoenvironmental his...