"Heiraten? Im Leben nicht!" Mit 26 hat Amber Bates den Glauben an das Gute verloren. Zu schmerzhaft wurde sie von Menschen und Beziehungen bitter enttäuscht. Wahre Erfüllung findet sie in ihrem Job als jüngste Rangerin im Los Padres National Forest vor der Carmel Bay in Kalifornien, "Tiere belügen dich niemals." In das schon lange leerstehende Haus gegenüber zieht eines Tages Reid mit seiner kleinen Tochter Hatty ein. Der hübsche Mann verhält sich eigenartig, Amber bekommt ihn so gut wie n...

Sparking Change to Promote Equity illuminates the skills and practices that campus and district-level leaders of gifted and advanced programs need to encourage and support minoritized and marginalized student success in today’s classrooms.Designed to empower leaders and other educational stakeholders to build a more equitably represented student population within gifted and advanced programs, Sparking Change chapters offer a discourse on the benefit of incorporati...

Summary of The Hunger Games — The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsEnter a gripping dystopian world where survival is the ultimate prize. This concise summary of The Hunger Games follows Katniss Everdeen, a courageous teenager who volunteers to take her sister’s place in a deadly televised competition. Forced to fight against other young contestants in a brutal arena, Katniss must rely on her instincts, intelligence, and resilience to stay alive.This summary highlights the no...

The “enormously entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that “artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off” (The New York Times)AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME • “Fascinating . . . won’t disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.”—The Washington PostOn Long Island, a farmer finds a...

Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics in critical political economy studies are well represented here: market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, technological impacts on particular media sectors, informat...

Have you ever wondered how to recover that magical connection you once shared with your partner? Do you feel that, with the passage of time, routine, misunderstandings or past wounds have begun to overshadow the love that once united you? "The Spark of Your Relationship" is much more than a book, it is an intimate and practical guide to rediscover that spark that can transform your relationship and give it back life, joy and depth.This book has been designed with a clear purpose: t...

Think you know a lot about space and the universe? Prepare to know even more about amazing galaxies, stars, planets, and space exploration. You’ll be surprised by how much you’ll discover in this totally terrific book of space trivia.

Think you know a lot about Earth’s natural wonders? Prepare to know even more about the world’s biggest deserts, tallest mountains, and deepest canyons. You’ll be surprised by how much you’ll discover in this totally terrific book of trivia about natural wonders.

When the mighty and cruel must be brought low, it's the killers and the schemers who emerge from the shadows. As plans twist and change, and our protagonists are foiled and beaten, one thing remains true: no matter the cost, the king must fall.The King Must Fall is a dark fantasy anthology featuring 19 titans of the dark and grimdark fantasy genres writing about rogues, assassins, mages, blackguards, and warriors on quests to kill their kings, rulers, captains, and leaders....

Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. Homelessness is unequivocally devastating. In the UK, people affected by homelessness are ten times more likely to die than their peers in the general population, yet we still miss important opportunities to adequately address the issue.The Centre for Homelessness Impact brings together this urgent book gathering the insights and experiences of leaders in government, academia and the third sector to present new evidence-based strategies...

In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime were turning up all over New York, but the police were baffled: there were no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives he...

How to operate in the Supernatural!How to develop your Spiritual Gifts!Holy Spirit Baptism!How to work with the Holy Spirit!How to Heal the Sick!How to Cast out and imprison Evil Spirits!How to Free People from Spiritual Prisons…including Yourself!How to Raise the Dead!How to do High Level,Ground Leveland Occult Level Spiritual Warfare!How to recognize and deal with the Wolf!What a real Christia...