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Dead Cold

By: Claire Stibbe

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The truth is dead and buried. Or is it? When two bodies are recovered from a house fire, Detective Temeke is called in to investigate what he believes is a routine case. The tragedy takes a more sinister turn when a post mortem reveals that one victim was beaten to death. House owner Flynn McCann appears to have the perfect life, married to the woman he loves. His life is quiet - even ordinary. Until the fire reduces all he knows to ashes. Consumed with grief, and fleeing suspicion, he must unravel the events leading up to that terrible night to prove his innocence. But time is running out. As the dead prepare to reveal their secrets, he realizes his future is about to unfold in ways he could never have imagined. In a house with a history of betrayal and revenge, how many lines is Temeke willing to cross to uncover the truth and bring in an elusive killer? With taut and brooding prose, Dead Cold is a twisty new thriller from the author of The 9th Hour and Night Eyes. "A crisp, confident and roundly satisfying novel, the characters simply sparkle with life. This is a meaty police procedural I couldn't put down." Jenny London, Ebony Press. "Claire Stibbe has written another corker of a crime thriller that takes hold and won't let go. Slick and exciting with tons of twists and turns, it kept me riveted until the end. I sincerely hope this series keeps on coming." Celia Markham, Booksage. "This is an addicting read. I rarely give a book a five star rating unless it consistently hits the bulls-eye. Dead Cold is all that and so much more." Southwest Book Reviews

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0998202703

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9780998202709

The Multilingual Instructor

By: Claire Kramsch,Lihua Zhang

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The Multilingual Instructor

By: Claire Kramsch,Lihua Zhang

Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang use an ecological approach and a complexity thought model to examine the identities, experiences, and practices of foreign language teachers as native or non-native speakers, multilingual instructors, and professional educators. What is their sense of legitimacy? How do they bridge the historical and cultural gaps between them and their students? What stories do they share in the classroom? Which do they not share? How do they view their ethical responsibility? Drawing on primary research with teachers at the college level in the US, the book explores some of the key issues related to teaching languages in an era of increasing global mobility, institutional control, and educational uncertainty. “In this landmark publication, Kramsch and Zhang show us the challenges facing the multilingual instructor and the importance of understanding their experiences in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning as transformative practices. The ecological framework provides a very useful model for future studies, while the attention to the ethical role of the multilingual instructor is a timely reminder to us all.” Li Wei, Chair of Applied Linguistics, UCL Institute of Education, University College London Claire Kramsch is Emerita Professor of German and Professor of the Graduate School of Education at University of California, Berkeley Lihua Zhang is Lecturer of Chinese and Chinese Language Program Coordinator at University of California, Berkeley Oxford Applied Linguistics Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen-Freeman

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Oxford University Press

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0194217353

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Easy Prey

By: Claire Stibbe

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Easy Prey

By: Claire Stibbe

Two best friends. One deadly secret. Something dark and brooding stalks the mysterious Bosque nature reserve. Bird watchers fall prey to the menace and thefts of rare falcons are on the rise. But it is the body of a murdered girl discovered on the banks of The Rio Grande River that eventually brings Detectives Temeke and Santiago onto the trail. During a camping weekend, Jessie Bowman's best friend, Bree, has disappeared. Guilt ridden, yet determined to do the right thing, she tracks the man she believes is responsible and begins to unravel a mystery that tests every ounce of her resilience. She has only two choices - fight or flight. And Jessie is done with running. Now Detectives Temeke and Santiago must locate Jessie before the madman snares his final prey. "Claire Stibbe is back with Easy Prey, the fifthnovel in the award-winning Detective Temeke Series. Dramatic, engrossing in itsrich details and characters, Easy Prey draws you into a world offalconry, mystery, suspense, family secrets, and the undaunting courage of ayoung woman intent on bringing her best friend's killer to justice.Stibbe gets the details right, from the New Mexican setting to policeprocedure, to a nail-biting hostage negotiation with a dramatic twist. A worthyentry in a fascinating series that keeps getting better and better." Robert D Kidera, Tony Hillerman Award-winning author ofthe Gabe McKenna Mysteries. 'Stibbe handles the latest mystery in the Detective Temeke series with the dexterity of a master falconer. The climax will swoop down and seize you when you least expect it, leaving you feeling as if you too have become 'easy prey'. Dr Maurice Singleton, PhD in Narrative Theory, Author and Lecturer 'A gripping story with some of the most vivid writing I've read this year. Unpredictable and absorbing, it was one of those books that hooked me right from the start.' Bonnie's Books 'If there is a crime fan who hasn't discovered the Detective Temeke series yet, go and read them all immediately. I love books with that extra-special something, where the author puts you at every scene and doesn't let go until the last heart-pumping chapter.' 23rd Avenue Book Club.

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099820272X

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9780998202723

Into the Silent Sea

By: Claire MT Stibbe

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Into the Silent Sea

By: Claire MT Stibbe

Dangerous is one thing. Deadly is something else. When Clodagh Shepherd's curiosity gives way to obsession, her thoughts turn to revenge. In the wake of her husband's affair and subsequent disappearance, Clo makes an impulsive decision to befriend the beautiful stranger who has stolen her life. Answering an ad for a home help, she moves into the home of her husband's mistress and is immediately drawn into the chilling reality behind the idyllic façade of Hamptons Life. Central to her terrifying nightmare is a deadly secret--a secret someone will kill to keep. In this dark and twisting thriller, Clo proves the adage 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' with shocking consequences.

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0998202746

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Writing Great Dialogue

By: Mark Stibbe,Claire Stibbe

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Writing Great Dialogue

By: Mark Stibbe,Claire Stibbe

Claire Stibbe lives with her husband and son in New Mexico and has written two historical fiction novels about Ancient Egypt and is currently writing a series of crime thrillers based in her home city of Albuquerque. The first of these, The Ninth Hour, is published by Crooked Cat. Claire is part of the team at Kingdom Writing Solutions. Mark Stibbe lives with his wife and Labrador in North Yorkshire and is an award-winning, bestselling author. He is now collaborating with New York Times bestselling novelist G.P. Taylor to write a series of Napoleonic spy thrillers. He leads writing workshops in the UK and abroad and is CEO of Kingdom Writing Solutions. Mark and Claire are adopted twins. They started telling stories to each other when they were very young and have both become full-time published authors in recent years.

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1518808689

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9781518808685

A Life of My Own

A Memoir

By: Claire Tomalin

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A Life of My Own

A Memoir

By: Claire Tomalin

Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literature “[An] intelligent and humane book…There is genuine appeal in watching this indomitable woman continue to chase the next draft of herself." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times In A Life of My Own, the renowned biographer of Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, and former literary editor for the Sunday Times reflects on a remarkable life surrounded by writers and books. From discovering books as a form of escapism during her parents' difficult divorce, to pursuing poetry at Cambridge, where she meets and marries Nicholas Tomalin, the ambitious and striving journalist, Tomalin always steered herself towards a passionate involvement with art. She relives the glittering London literary scene of the 1960s, during which Tomalin endured her husband's constant philandering and numerous affairs, and revisits the satisfaction of being commissioned to write her first book, a biography of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. In biography, she found her vocation. However, when Nick is killed in 1973 while reporting in Israel, the mother of four put aside her writing to assume the position of literary editor of the New Statesman. Her career soared when she later moved to the Sunday Times, and she tells with dazzling candor of this time in her life spent working alongside the literary lights of 1970s London. But, the pain of her young daughter's suicide and the challenges of caring for her disabled son as a single mother test Claire's strength and persistence. It is not until later in life that she is able to return to what gave her such purpose decades ago, writing biographies, and finds enduring love with her now-husband, playwright Michael Frayn. Marked by honesty, humility, and grace, rendered in the most elegant of prose, A Life of My Own is a portrait of a life, replete with joy and heartbreak. With quiet insight and unsparing clarity, Tomalin writes autobiography at its most luminous, delivering an astonishing and emotionally-taut masterpiece.

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Penguin

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0399562923

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9780399562921

Streetscapes of War and Revolution

Prague, 1914–1920

By: Claire Morelon

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Streetscapes of War and Revolution

Prague, 1914–1920

By: Claire Morelon

Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation-state, Czechoslovakia. Claire Morelon explores what this transition looked, sounded and felt like at street level. Through deep archival research, she has carefully reconstructed the sensorial texture of the city, from the posters plastered on walls, to the shop windows' displays, the badges worn by passers-by, and the crowds gathering for protest or celebration. The result is both an atmospheric account of life amid war and regime change, and a fresh interpretation of imperial collapse from below, in which the experience of life on the Habsburg home-front is essential to understanding the post-Versailles world order that followed. Prague is the perfect case study for examining the transition from empire to nation-statehood, hinging on revolutionary dreams of fairer distribution and new forms of political participation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009335324

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9781009335324

The 9th Hour

By: Claire Stibbe

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The 9th Hour

By: Claire Stibbe

When the ninth young girl falls into the clutches of a serial killer, maverick detective, David Temeke, faces a race against time to save her life. The Duke City Police Department in Albuquerque, New Mexico is no stranger to gruesome murders, but this new serial killer on their block keeps the body parts of his eight young victims as trophies and has a worrying obsession with the number 9. The suspect is incarcerated in the state's high security penitentiary but Unit Commander Hackett is faced with a dilemma when another teenage girl goes missing. Detective Temeke and his new partner, Malin Santiago, are sent to solve a baffling crime in the dense forests of New Mexico's Cimarron State Park. But time is running out. Can they unravel the mysteries of Norse legends and thwart the 9th Hour killer before he dismembers his next victim? This is the first in the Detective Temeke Crime series.

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0990600440

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9780990600442

Book's by Claire Stibbe

Dead Cold

Dead Cold

The Multilingual Instructor

The Multilingual Instructor

Easy Prey

Easy Prey

Into the Silent Sea

Into the Silent Sea

Writing Great Dialogue

Writing Great Dialogue

A Life of My Own

A Life of My Own

Streetscapes of War and Revolution

Streetscapes of War and Revolution

The 9th Hour

The 9th Hour

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