SHE WAS THE WOMAN HE’D ALWAYS WANTED BUT COULDN’T HAVE… Old and forbidden desires began to reemerge when Brock Warner returned to Wyoming to help Kylie run his family’s ranch. He hadn’t pursued her years ago because she’d been too young and achingly innocent—and then his brother had claimed Kylie for his own. OR COULD HE? Kylie’s failing marriage had ended with her unfaithful husband’s death. Now she was left only with bittersweet memories, an empty bank account and a baby on the way. Brock’s homecoming had her thinking back to the kiss they’d once shared. And had her wondering about what could have been….
In Laguna Beach, California, sixteen-year-old Kendra Dimes is preparing for the 2010 USA Surfing Prime West. She’ll be competing this year in honor of her brother, who was a surfer too, but who died from a drug overdose. Kendra has suffered anxiety attacks ever since her brother’s death, and surfing is what’s been helping her heal. Brock Parker is the new bad boy at school; he deals drugs to the high school clientele for his parents, who work for a Mexican drug lord. Though Brock and Kendra come from two different worlds, sparks fly when they meet at the homecoming dance—their attraction is magnetic. When they start a game of 21 Questions one night, they begin to learn more about each other—and, surprisingly, about themselves too. But some questions aren’t answered with the whole truth; after all, Brock can’t tell Kendra what his parents do for a living. As Kendra and Brock experience all of life’s most exciting firsts, they prove that even when life throws you the perfect storm, you can make it through and come out stronger than before. 21 Questions is a coming-of-age journey packed with passion and heartbreak, risk and romance.
From the #1 international bestselling author of the Baltimore series comes a suspenseful novella featuring Assistant State’s Attorney Daphne Montgomery and Special Agent Joseph Carter. After a traumatic kidnapping, Daphne’s boss insists that she take time off. But she refuses to sit on the sidelines when she meets a six-year-old girl who the police call Angel. Angel hasn’t spoken a word since they found her four days ago next to a burned out car, frozen with shock, not far from the bodies of two adults who may or may not have been her parents. Joseph knows that helping Angel is exactly what Daphne needs right now. But when Daphne gets Angel to talk, a mysterious and chilling crime begins to unravel—one that drives Daphne into the darkest corners of her past as she and Joseph track a ruthless killer. Includes a preview of Watch Your Back
This book focuses on the role of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans had long viewed productivity as a spectrum that varied by age, gender, and ability. But as Sarah F. Rose explains in No Right to Be Idle, a perfect storm of public policies, shifting family structures, and economic changes effectively barred workers with disabilities from mainstream workplaces and simultaneously cast disabled people as morally questionable dependents in need of permanent rehabilitation to achieve "self-care" and "self-support." By tracing the experiences of policymakers, employers, reformers, and disabled people caught up in this epochal transition, Rose masterfully integrates disability history and labor history. She shows how people with disabilities lost access to paid work and the status of "worker--a shift that relegated them and their families to poverty and second-class economic and social citizenship. This has vast consequences for debates about disability, work, poverty, and welfare in the century to come.
A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.
Synopsis for Five Stethoscopes, 6 Secrets by Rose Mary Stiffin, PhD Six women's paths cross in medical school as five of them strive to become medical doctors, sometimes against all odds. Each one must succeed, and their mentor must ensure their success. But each one of them carries a secret. Everyone has a secret. Some are innocuous; others are far-reaching and can cross both moral and ethical lines. Meet six women living in Lincoln, Nebraska, five of whom are attending a new medical program. Their mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Hoslin, encourages them and loves them as if they were her little chicks under her wings. But she has a secret that even she is reluctant to admit. Connie keeps her secret hidden in a drawer. Glory's past shaped her dark secret. Candi's secret is haunting and unbelievable, crossing both ethical and moral lines. Amaryllis has a secret that could eat at her like a cancer. Will true friendship and love enable her to share her secret? Jo doesn't even know she has a secret. When she discovers it, will it destroy or strengthen her? Five Stethoscopes, 6 Secrets is Stiffin's sixth novel. If you like discovering secrets that are both warmhearted and frightening, getting to know characters you will not soon forget, then you will love this saga.
A call from Aunt Mels attorney informed Rose Jameson that her Aunt Mel had taken a fatal fall in her book shop. Rose, as Aunt Mels favorite niece, was named both heiress and executrix. Rose takes leave from her job and heads to a small town in New Mexico. What she finds on her arrival makes her question if Aunt Mels death was truly accidental. What was actually going on in this small town? Who could possibly want to see her Aunt Mel dead? Delving into Aunt Mels life takes Rose on a path of discovery and danger.
An account of poor relief in Guernsey from the Reformation to the twenty-first century, incorporating a detailed case-study of the St Peter Port workhouse and an outline of the development of Guernsey's modern social security system.
Have you found some exciting images that you want to explore but don’t know how to start your research or what methods to choose? Do you have a question about an aspect of visual culture that you want to answer? Whatever level of experience you have, this classic text will provide you with the key skills you need to complete a visual methods research project, understand the rationale behind each step, and engage with the contexts and power relations that shape our interpretation of visual images. With a clear step-by-step approach that is easy to dip in and out of, the book features: •Key examples in every methods chapter to demonstrate how the methods work in practice and with different visual materials •‘Focus’ and ‘Discussion’ features that help you practice your skills at specific parts of the methods and understand some of the method’s complexities •Guidance on researching using digital visual media, such as Instagram and TikTok, integrated throughout the book This bestselling critical guide is the perfect companion to visual methods projects for undergraduates, graduates, researchers and academics across the social sciences and humanities.
From Book insert: Promo 1 is an indispensable showcase for the best self-promotion from America's most innovative graphic designers and illustrators. Promo 1 presents outstanding work from 72 design and illustration groups-all in over 200 full-color photographs. The self-promotion pieces represented in this volume show how designers and illustrators set goals and develop self-promotional campaigns-and suggest how well these particular self-promotions met those needs. The projects in PROMO 1 reveal that there are as many ways to promote yourself or your business as there are designers and illustrators, and as many solutions as there are needs. Still, some generalities can be drawn. The most effective self-promotions, be they lavish or restrained, are clearly conceived, and come from a unique point of view. They celebrate the individuality of the artist or designer, and reflect his or her own working style. SO what you see here may involve stretching the envelope a bit, pushing creativity beyond what a client would normally buy-to reveal what's possible with the right effort.
One girl can change the outcome of a war that has been fought for millennia. Ryder must keep his identity a secret and discover who that girl is at the same time. This means working with the enemy he loathes for destroying his family. But when he gets to a small town called Lorna and meets a girl named Ava, he unexpectedly falls in love.Ava is a small-town girl who is perplexed by strange dreams and the mystery of Ryder. When she is asked to leave her family, friends, and the life she's known forever, will she have the courage to do the right thing?
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