Control is the only thing Eliza Hayes trusts.At thirty, she has built a life in Manhattan far removed from Willow Creek, Georgia-the place she left behind without looking back. She works corporate acquisitions, keeps her distance from anything personal, and avoids the past she never fully dealt with. But when her grandmother passes away, Eliza must return to Willow Creek, Georgia, to dismantle the last anchor tying her to her childhood: the home where her grandmoth...

Ever since their mother vanished, the silence inside their house has been deafening for twins Leo and Addie. It's not just the empty space where she used to be. It's the terrifying reality that her face is getting harder to picture with each passing day. Watching their dad carry a crushing, invisible weight every morning only makes things worse for the siblings. He looks like he's constantly on the edge of breaking down, keeping the entire home walking on eggshells. Instead of bringing Leo...

Streamlined ID presents a focused and generalizable approach to instructional design and development – one that addresses the needs of ID novices as well as practitioners in a variety of career environments. Highlighting essentials and big ideas, this guide advocates a streamlined approach to instructional design: producing instruction that is sustainable, optimized, appropriately redundant, right sized, and targeted at continuous improvement.The book’s enhanced version of...

A moving portrayal of loss, consolation and solidarity in a remote Mexican community‘It seemed that even the jungle fell silent for a moment as if it wanted to help save a little child’In the depths of the Mexican jungle, American traveller Gerard Gales is hunting for alligators, when he comes across a small village along the banks of the Huayalexco. Invited into the local community, Gales joins a huge party, held just across the river. But tragedy strikes ...

The cult novel of three desperate prospectors embarking on a perilous quest for gold, and the inspiration for John Huston's classic Oscar-winning film‘Gold is a very devilish sort of a thing, believe me, boys’Deep in the wild heart of Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains lies treasure beyond reckoning, just waiting to be found by those who know where to look. Or so believe three Americans – Dobbs, Curtin and Howard – down on their luck and desperate for a way ou...

A cult masterpiece and a darkly comic tale of survival on the high seas, inspired by the mysterious author B. Traven's own life‘Whoever survived the Yorikke could never be frightened any more during his lifetime by anything’Stateless and stranded after he loses his passport, sailor Gerald Gales flees arrest and persecution across Europe, until he finally finds work on the Yorikke, a decrepit ‘death ship’ bound for destruction. Condemned to...

“Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer of her time and an overlooked leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Her voice seemed born of heaven.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.If Americans today still recognize the name Mahalia Jackson, they might recall that she was perhaps the greatest gospel singer who ever lived. But for many people, there is no awareness at all, not even for an entertainer whose “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold eight million copies, who headlined ...

For more than 25 years, Research on Educational Innovations has helped readers distinguish between truly innovative educational programs backed by credible research evidence and the faddish policy trends of the day. Innovation should be a facet of school life, but improvement should be a continuous process grounded in sound evaluation, not a cycle of fashionable reforms.Using current and emerging topics as practical case studies, this fully revised and expanded sixth editi...

**A young child journeys toward independence in this award-winning picture book, "visual narrative of the highest level."*With richly evocative art by a two-time winner of NY Times’ Best Illustrated Books, here is a story of separation and return.**After a young boy unties the knot anchoring his small boat near his mother, he slips away from her on a gentle tide, floating off on a quiet and peaceful journey through town, jungle, and city. When he floats back to the...

In a crumbling village of ghosts and grief, an assassin and a necromancer are drawn into a dangerous, intimate experiment to defy death—and loneliness.A gothic horror story about losing the love of your life, So Beats a Hollow Heart follows a nameless assassin—a member of the feared Bloodcloaks—sent to rid a village of the necromancer who has been stealing its young women.What the assassin finds is not the monster she expects, but a woman deep in g...

In Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s severe justice Angelo urges the problems that might arise from a static conception of the law: ‘We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey and let it keep one shape till custom make it their perch and not their terror’ (2.1.1–4). Despite Angelo’s temporary authority and corrupt nature, the play illustrates literature’s ability to scrutinise the boundaries of legal power. Yet Shakespeare’s contemporaries al...