Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace explores changing understandings of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It points to new questions and dilemmas to consider in planning and teaching workplace education. By taking a social perspective on literacies in the workplace, this book challenges traditional thinking about workplace literacy as functional skills, and enables readers to see the complexity of literacy practices and their embeddedness in cult...

ONE BY ONE, THEY’LL DIE . . .Twenty years ago, wild child Jessie Brentwood vanished from St. Elizabeth’s high school. Most in Jessie’s tight circle of friends believed she simply ran away. Few suspected that Jessie was hiding a shocking secret—one that brought her into the crosshairs of a vicious killer . . .UNTIL THERE’S NO ONE LEFT . . .Two decades pass before a body is unearthed on school grounds and Jessie’s old friends reunite to...

A real estate agent fears she’s killing others with her mind in this supernatural thriller by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Something Wicked.The Greatest TerrorsElizabeth Gaines Ellis is an ordinary suburban wife and mother. That’s what she tells herself as she flits between her realtor job, yoga class, and caring for her daughter, Chloe. But for months now, Elizabeth has worried that she’s far from normal . . ...

A pregnant woman is on the run from an escaped serial killer plotting revenge in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Wicked Game.If At First You Don’t SucceedFor two years, Justice Turnbull has paced his room at Halo Valley Security Hospital, planning to escape. Justice has a mission—one that began with a vicious murder two decades ago. And there are so many others who must be sent back to the hell t...

**A pregnant detective investigates murders tied to a strange group of women in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Wicked Lies.You Sense Him**Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it’s a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live here, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic abilities, don’t know a...

On the wild Oregon coast, tucked between the mountains and the sea, stands Siren Song, home to a group of women known as The Colony. Their aunt hoped the isolated lodge would be a sanctuary, a place where she could protect them and their special gifts. But nowhere is safe from the man who has marked them for death . . .The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge’s phone number and the words “Next of Kin.” R...

**A clique of popular girls is haunted by the tragedy that marked their high school friendship fifteen years before in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling Sisters of Suspense.“An increasingly tense race to find who’s doing the killing—and who’s going to survive.” —The OregonianFirst they were five. Then they were four…Who will be next?**In the Portland suburb of West Knoll, Delta and her friends were Bristol High Scho...

A society wedding interrupted by deadly violence sends the bride into hiding in this romantic thriller by two New York Times bestselling authors.Rory Abernathy’s wedding to Liam Bastian was supposed to be the event of the season. Instead, it was a bloodbath. Rory fled after stabbing a masked intruder, just before a gunman opened fire on the wedding party. Five years on, Rory still has no idea who was behind the attacks. Fearful she and her daughter remain ...

A secret from their youth plunges three adult women into a deadly nightmare in this suspense thriller by three New York Times–bestselling authors.NO WARNINGIn the photograph, three teenaged girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows—and the vow of secrecy ...

New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, and Rosalind Noonan unite their talents in this riveting Wyoming-set novel of family secrets, obsession, and murder . . .A KILLER’S PATIENCETwenty years ago, a fire ravaged the Dillinger family's old homestead, killing Judd Dillinger and crippling his girlfriend. Most people blamed a serial arsonist who'd been seen around town. But strange things are happening in Prairie ...

Drei Freundinnen – eine fatale Entscheidung – eine Bestie, die auf Rache sinnt: Nach »Greed – Tödliche Gier« folgt mit dem Thriller »Diabolic – Fatales Vergehen« der zweite Band der Wyoming-Reihe von den amerikanischen Thriller-Queens und New-York-Times-Bestseller-Autorinnen Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush und Rosalind Noonan.Ein kleines nächtliches Abenteuer wird für die Teenager Shiloh, Kat und Ruth aus Prairie Creek in Wyoming zum Albtraum: Die wilde Shiloh, deren Stiefvater sie misshan...

Get your heart racing…This starry-night collection is full of toe-curling kisses. So good, you won't be able to stop at just one.Take It Easy by Susan Johnson - They had nothing in common but trauma. Together, can love make their lives worth living again?Mercury Falling by Tracey Cramer-Kelly - She wants nothing to do with a bad boy biker. When a crash brings them together will opposites attract?Cour...