Savannah Chopra doesn't believe in ghosts. They're dead people—with sheets for a fashion statement and who use blood in their interior decorating. If anything, they don't come back for family dinners. Hell, Savannah doesn't even come back for family dinners. As a lawyer-in-training, Savannah is too practical to see the supernatural. Jude Barnaby, however, Savannah's blind neighbor with a knack for flickering lights and paranormal activity, believes in ghosts exclusively. The ghosts believe...

Mitch hasn't had a nightmare since middle school. When a warped memory wakes him up in a cold sweat, he brushes off the remembrance. He has better things to worry about, like his potential tennis career and his little brother, Ridley. However, as nightmares continue to wake Mitch at odd hours of the night, he starts to think that soggy cereal isn't the culprit.Through his nightmares, Mitch meets the Reaver, a man with the ability to manipulate minds and reality, who wants to teach ...

Sous le second Empire, Constance grandit au bord de la Loire avec une liberté rare pour une jeune fille de l’époque. Choyée par son père, ingénieur et grand humaniste, et par son meilleur ami Gabriel, Constance rêve d’aventures et de sciences. Mais son oncle pense qu’à seize ans, il est plus que temps pour elle d’acquérir les manières d’une épouse modèle et convainc son père de l’envoyer dans un pensionnat. La jeune fille s’y lie d’amitié avec Susanne, héritière de l’une des plus grosses u...

"Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!" —Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American ModernismConstance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), who contributed to Henry James’s conception of his heroine Isabelle Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, was one of the most accomplished American writers of ...

Aristocrat and republican, socialist and artist, feminist and free spirit, Constance Markievicz née Gore-Booth was a pivotal figure in the revolutionary movement that culminated in the Rising of 1916, and in its long and painful aftermath leading to Irish Independence. She was also the first woman ever elected to Parliament and to hold a Cabinet position. From the privileged nineteenth-century world of her youth at Lissadell in Sligo and an artist's life in Paris, to the dramas and disappo...

Le Parquet européen devrait être opérationnel d’ici le 1er mars 2021. Chargé des investigations et des poursuites pénales en ce qui concerne les infractions portant atteinte aux intérêts financiers de l’Union, il est le premier organe de l’Union européenne à être équipé de pouvoirs contraignants vis-à-vis des autorités nationales en matière pénale. C’est un des éléments qui permet de le distinguer des deux principales agences européennes en matière pénale que sont Eurojust et Europol. Il i...

" City Kids, City Teachers has the potential to create genuine change in the learning, teaching, and administration of urban public schools." — Library JournalIn more than twenty-five provocative selections, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. Contributors including Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit, June Jordan, Lewis H. Lapham, Audre Lorde, and De...

Hypatia Cade—a headstrong, smart, and spunky 7-year-old girl—falls ill after contracting an alien virus that renders her a quadriplegic. Robbed of her mobility, Tia's only hope to be free of the prison of her body is to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, a brainship—a cyborg human being and interstellar spacecraft. Following her training, she must find the right partner to be her brawn, the human element every brainship requires. When the disease that debilitated Tia threaten...

Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary, this collection addresses the significance of Brown in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. Several authors describe their personal roles in the Brown case or similar cases, while others examine and illustrate events, performances, and exhibitions that were part of the anniversary commemoration. The book not only explo...

Romanen indgår i Gyldendal Nordisk-serienConstance er 19 år, da hun bliver gift med den ældre og livserfarne hr. Ring. Spændt på at forlade barndommen og begynde sit voksenliv træder hun håbefuldt ind i ægteskabet. Men livet med Ring er fyldt med ufrihed og utroskab, og da hun forsøger at frigøre sig, bliver hun konfronteret med sin tids brutale ulighed: En kvinde har brug for en mand for at leve og opretholde sin status. Constance er fanget i ægteskabet, og hver dag slutter mørket...

Nancia is her name, NX-928 her designation. Enter a future world in which brains are connected to computers to help run cities and ships; brainless bodies or brawn do the physical work. In the second book of the Brainship series, a new "shellperson"—someone born with grave physical disabilities that required her human body to be encased in a massive titanium column—is provided a direct link between her mind and the computer of her ship, XN-935. Nancia is now a brand new member of ...

From Anne McCaffrey comes a collection of captivating short stories that focuses on everything from spaceship adventure and shifting time-storms to ghosts and romance. The title story, set in the world of the Dragonriders of Pern series, tells of Aramina, a teenage girl who hears dragons and is relentlessly pursued for her ability. Aramina's mother fears losing her daughter completely to the life of a dragonrider, but McCaffrey has another fate in mind for her young heroine.