Father James Ennis's life is fulfilling enough. He's content to tend to the concerns of his aging parishioners at St. Patrick--including the Brennans, whom he suspects are being swindled--and be a loving, if remote, uncle to his sister Lizzie's two children. There's also the matter of coping with the growing insistence of the sinister, unseen presence that has inhabited his life for two decades now. Twenty-seven-year-old Emily Bell is desperate to fit into the rarefied world of her colleag...

When Pat cannot find his shoes before a big game, he carefully cleans up his messy room.

"Leo, Detective" is a heartfelt mystery driven by a queer and compelling teen sleuth. On his first day at a new high school, Leo Merser—a transgender seventeen-year-old struggling to find his place—is helped through a panic attack by a kind custodian named Colleen Winters. Weeks later, when Colleen reveals she has found a mysterious document hinting at shady financial dealings inside the school, Leo agrees to help her investigate further. But before he can help find what Colleen is searchi...

Want to be healthier? "Defend Your Life" explains how you can empower your life by taking a safe and inexpensive daily dose of vitamin D. This book addresses recent medical research -- in easy-to-understand language -- on vitamin D3's wide range of potential health benefits including: decreasing the risk of arthritis, autism, cancer, contagious illnesses, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, and thyroid disorders. Adequate vitamin D3 in your body also may improve your athletic abil...

Smart implementation of the Common Core State Standards requires both an overall understanding of the standards and a grasp of their implications for planning, teaching, and learning. This Quick-Start Guide provides a succinct, all-in-one look at* The content, structure, terminology, and emphases of the Common Core standards for English language arts and literacy at the high school level.* The meaning of the individual standards within the four ELA strands--Reading, Writing...

Smart implementation of the Common Core State Standards requires both an overall understanding of the standards and a grasp of their implications for planning, teaching, and learning. This Quick-Start Guide provides a succinct, all-in-one look at* The content, structure, terminology, and emphases of the Common Core standards for English language arts at the middle school level.* The meaning of the individual standards within the four ELA strands--Reading, Writing, Speaking ...

This volume celebrates and examines the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s past, present, and future by providing a backdrop for the not-for-profit’s beginnings and highlighting key accomplishments in research, education, and American Indian initiatives over the past four decades. Specific themes include Crow Canyon’s contributions to projects focused on community and regional settlement patterns, human-environment relationships, public education pedagogy, and collaborative partnerships w...

Professional Reasoning in HealthcareA guide to decision-making and critical thinking in diverse healthcare practice contexts.Professional reasoning is an essential component of health practice. To thrive in a world that demands constant change where there is not necessarily a right or wrong answer, strong frameworks are needed to support effective decision making. Critical to safe, ethical and culturally responsive practice decisions is the...

***Brainstorm***is an adventure,a treasure hunt, a Job-like tale of "one thing after another." It's a story of discoveries about migraine and migraine treatment told with pithy humor.Most importantly for the reader, author Susan P. Ryan provides hard-earned insights into confronting migraines and offers hope to fellow migraineurs. She arms readers with information to make them better advocates for themselves and for loved ones who suffer from migraines.From the Forewordby D...

From New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a sizzling suspense about the romance that blossoms between two strangers during a snowstorm and the stalker who threatens them both.Riggs “Chappy” Chapman didn’t expect to be disrupted at his remote cabin in the woods. But when a stray dog arrives on his porch, he winds up finding a stray woman, too, trudging through the snowstorm in search of shelter. His military days may be behind him, but Chapp...

A flying monster bedevils Morgan Carter in the latest intriguing entry of this USA Today bestselling mystery series.Morgan, along with her boyfriend/new partner Jon, is called to Washington Island off the coast of Door County, Wisconsin, to investigate a particularly baffling mystery. A man’s body has been found at the bottom of a cliff. A fall from a height like this is tragic but not shocking. What is stunning are the reports of a weird screeching sound ...

This century's major disasters from Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown to devastating Nepalese earthquakes and the recent crippling volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in Tonga have repeatedly taught that government institutions are ill-prepared for major disaster events, leaving the most vulnerable among us unprotected. These tragedies represent just the beginning of a new era of disaster – an era of floods, heatwaves, droughts, and pandemics fueled by climate change. Laws a...