A beautiful fashion buyer is still in love with someone from her past -- and now, she must choose between him and the man she's planning to marry. Kathleen, a smart and sophisticated woman, is ready to marry the man of her dreams -- but she's in love with someone else. Erik is a talented videographer who finds women easy to love but doesn't want to settle down. And Seth, the wealthy heir to a department store fortune, could give Kathleen everything she wants . . . except the one thing that would make her happy. All three of them are about to get caught up in a web of lies so fragile that one fateful encounter could tear it apart -- and force Kathleen to choose between her family and the needs of her own heart.
From The New York Times bestselling author of Breath of Scandal and French Silk comes a classic tale--one of Brown's most sought-after love stories. Beautiful Erin O'Shea is distressed to learn that her missing brother is a suspected embezzler. What's more, the handsome treasury agent investigating the crime thinks she's involved as well. Previous editions from Dell and Berkley.
I met a man, a wonderful man. He kissed me, touched me like no other man ever has. I think I’ve fallen in love. What am I going to do about it? That’s the dilemma confronting Keely Preston upon meeting dashing Congressman Dax Devereaux. The attraction between them was like a lightning strike – hot and unexpected. But also terribly inconvenient. Keely is in Washington D.C. to appeal to a congressional committee on behalf of families of soldiers Missing In Action. Serving on that committee is Dax. Both are under close scrutiny. What has sparked between them is difficult to keep secret. After twelve years of living in limbo, married but alone, Keely is reawakened to desire by Dax’s passion. But he also touches her heart, where she has preserved the sweet memory of her husband. One love represents her past; another her future. Will clinging to one mean having to sacrifice the other?
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! What's more dangerous than scaling Mount Everest? For mountaineer Pete Athans, the answer lies in the ancient kingdom of Mustang, a remote part of the Asian nation of Nepal. Long-abandoned caves built high into steep cliffs contain amazing treasures—and pose incredible dangers. Reaching these "sky caves" safely takes guts, smarts, and luck. And then there's the question of what to do with a two-thousand-year-old human skull. . . From 2007 to 2012, Pete explored Mustang's sky caves with a team that included scientists, mountain climbers, and even two children. They found mummies, murals, manuscripts, and other priceless artifacts. Follow Pete on his dangerous trips to the sky caves and discover the secrets the caves revealed.
The journey up Mount Everest is never easy. Climbers risk their lives as they struggle around jagged towers of ice, over snow-covered boulders, and across gaping crevasses. Pete Athans knows these dangers well. He has climbed Mount Everest fourteen times and reached the summit seven times. What is it like to climb the highest mountain on Earth? In this book, you'll follow Pete to the top—and learn about his adventures along the way.
Motivation and literacy go hand in hand in this practical book of strategies for classroom teachers. It provides effective tips and tools to motivate and grasp the attention of even the most reluctant readers. With numerous classroom examples, case studies, and blackline masters, this book will help you to boost motivation and literacy in your classroom right away. Motivating Every Student in Literacy (Including the Highly Unmotivated!), Grades 3-6 provides an effective model for improving reading levels and increasing motivation. Under the guidance of Athans and Devine, classroom leaders develop their own Motivation Improvement Action Plans, where small-group instruction, end-of-unit assessments, and other practical approaches work to increase individual student effort. Woven throughout are process-driven and novelty strategies to address possible reasons for a child’s lack of motivation. In this guide, you’ll find illuminating case studies, quick-reference chapter summaries, reproducible student plans and contracts, and action plan tips.
The Common Core standards were created to help readers get the most out of every book they read, inside and outside of the classroom. Training students to understand how to read critically is highly important and will help prepare them for college, career, and life beyond that. This engaging volume asks readers to look closely at individual passages of text, analyze their meaning, and look at the evidence that supports their meaning. Quiz questions create an interactive experience for readers, allowing them to get the most out of what they read.
The Common Core is an important tool that schools use to help students get the most out of everything they read. The ability to summarize text is one that is needed from the earliest reading comprehension lesson up through high school, college, and beyond. Lengthy nonfiction passages are included in this comprehensive volume, along with expert reader advice, quiz questions, and charts that help to guide the reader through using his or her newly discovered skills at the highest level.
The ability to recognize and analyze the structure and ideas behind a piece of writing is an enormous part of the Common Core Standard for Reading. The Common Core was developed to give readers and students the tools they need to succeed in school and in a career situation. This volume contains poetry by Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe and science writing excerpts, with quiz questions and advice from experts on how to best read and interpret the work.
One important part of the Common Core Standards for Reading is the ability to read two (or more) separate pieces of writing and then find their similarities and differences. This volume, penned by two teachers, provides that important piece of the Common Core Standards by including several lengthy pieces of writing that students can read and enjoy and then study, with a new eye for comparing and contrasting, using the provided interactive quiz questions and tips from an expert reader.
The Common Core curriculum is designed to make students better readers, writers, listeners, and critical thinkers. This volume fulfills that mandate by teaching readers how to assess if an argument's reasoning is sound and the evidence presented is valid, relevant, and sufficient. Identifying both the strengths and weaknesses of an argument, along with an author's point of view and possible intentions or agenda, students become better able to separate fact from opinion and reality from spin. They form educated opinions and become better, more persuasive presenters of their own arguments.
The ability to read and evaluate multimedia content is a large part of the Common Core Standards for Reading. This comprehensive volume helps give students and readers the tools they need to study multimedia content more effectively, leading to better grades and greater success in high school, college, and a career. It includes excerpts of writing and quiz questions that allow readers to study and evaluate their work at a comfortable pace and then check their answers in the supplied bonus information.
The Common Core Standards for Reading were developed to help students read and analyze a piece of writing more effectively, giving them the tools they need to succeed on college applications, in college, and in the world of employment. One important factor of the reading standards is the ability to determine point of view and the purpose of a piece of writing. This volume provides guided lessons using excerpts from well-known pieces of writing, Core-focused quiz questions, and advice from an expert reader on how students can get the most out of their reading.
The Common Core Standards guide students through developing the skills they need to succeed throughout their education, whether it is in regular studies or on tests. This comprehensive volume includes lengthy passages from classic literature and historical documents, allowing readers to read, analyze, and understand the ideas, events, and individuals contained within each work. It includes some valuable hands-on tools, including quiz questions, expert guidance call-outs, and summaries that give readers a more interactive reading and learning experience that aligns with the Common Core.
The sensational New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster hardcover hit French Silk does it again with a steamy, sexy romantic thriller guaranteed to heat up bestseller lists this spring. The female doctor blamed for ruining a beloved Texas senator's career--leading to his suicide--stirs up anger and hatred when she accepts a position in his hometown and pursues his younger brother.
They didn't trust each other. But one thing was certain, after the plane crash that stranded Rusty and Cooper in the remote reaches of the north, they would have to depend on each other. Because there were predators in the dense woods--both animal and human--and the odds were against them. They could handle that. It was needing each other that was hard.
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