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Just what's going on? Does everyone have an agenda? Who can Roxanne Van Kurt trust regarding the dealings with the council? All she wants is to be a regular young adult. She wants to pursue her dreams and make her own life choices. The council's involvement is so constricting. Now the council feels like a dangerous place for her. Can her family keep her safe? Are the Sturm family trustworthy? Can she trust her own family? As her life continues...

When Tíbor is eleven, he receives his official first mission: kill someone. Raised in isolation in a space station laboratory, Tíbor would rather visit Earth and study the wonders of nature than serve as a weapon. But his father-the head of Russia's astral projection research-has other plans for him. Tíbor's genetically enhanced astral projection makes him the perfect spy for his father's studies of psychic children-and Tíbor wants to make Pap...

How to Become a Better Writing Teacher is a hands-on, practical guide for teachers looking to improve their writing instruction. Carl and Matt offer 50 high-impact actions teachers can take to level up key aspects of their practice, including: getting to know your students as people and assessing them as writersincreasing student engagement in writingbecoming curriculum decision-makersindividualizing instructionconnecting students to mentor au...

Victorian England... When her murderous father escapes from an institution, a young girl is forced to flee to safety with secretive pickpocket Anna. Disguised as a boy called Viktor, and drawn into Anna's mysterious activities, she is catapulted into a strange investigation, and learns that Anna may be able to help her uncover the mystery of her mother's disappearance. As she and Anna find friendship, Viktor's disguise brings empowerment a...

When her parents accept summer teaching jobs in Rome, talented, troublemaking, twelve-year-old Mia Moretti tags along. Eager to learn more about her surroundings, she drags her new friend, buttoned-up and straight-laced Grace, out to explore the Italian cityscape. But when they stumble upon a strange street carnival, Mia wins a mysterious prize: a fragment of a bone from an ancient conjuror, secured in a velvet pouch and strung on a necklace. ...

Aqueous Red explores the hidden aspects of water and love, through Kit Ingram's spellbinding poetic exorcism of violence, intimacy, dreams, and illicit liaisons which surface in fragments of interconnected lives. A boy watches his father pour scalding water onto his brother's hands, and later rescues a doll, promising to protect it with a kiss. A priest blesses a prostitute with holy water while a son drowns in a painful memory. In the sequenc...

As a woman of the Shadow Family, my only worth is in my ability to breed. Wanting me to create the next generation of soldiers to fight the werewolves and vampires of St Augustine, my father marries me off to a powerful witch called Caden Davenport. But on our wedding day, we're attacked by the werewolves, and I'm kidnapped by the alpha for killing his mate. After stabbing my hands to a tree, he begins to punish me... By the time I'm rescu...

In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle issues at multiple levels, understand interdependence, and embrace ambiguity. Insisting on our collective responsibility to confront the looming threats to humanity' s survival, she advocates change...

The long-overdue biography of one of Canada's most iconic Black politicians and activists, written with the country's former Parliamentary Poet Laureate. "Dr. Howard McCurdy is the author of this autobiography. Period, " writes George Elliott Clarke in the introduction to Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon. "But in July 2017, seven months before his decease, he requested that I edit this work, which was already progressing toward a co...

My Birthday Eve continues with the feel-good theme of celebrating Black and Brown children in their joy and curiosity. The main character, Ava, is overjoyed as she awaits her birthday. What an exciting time of the year!Everyone has a birthday eve, but have you ever thought about all the feelings and emotions that often arise before your birthday? Have you celebrated how much you've grown, learned, and the new things you've tried? Sit back, ref...

These selected terrors range from the speculative to supernatural horror, encompass the infernal and the occult, and include stories inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Aickman and Ramsey Campbell. Hasty for the Dark is the second short story collection from the award-winning and widely appreciated British writer of horror fiction, Adam L. G. Nevill. The author's best horror stories from 2009 to 2015 are collected here for the first time. The ...

An intense, high-energy, what-lurks-in-the-shadows tale of monster, both men and otherwise. Steve Diamond can make you shiver." - Terry Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of the Shannara Chronicles When Jack Bishop's father is abducted and a supernatural monster is let loose in his small town, Jack discovers he has the ability to see the psychic residue left behind by monsters and murder victims. Along with the mind-reading Alexandra...

Dewey Becker was contracted by Cardinal Medicine to invent things. He called his first creations Dewboxes, and Cardinal brought him on full time as a technician to maintain them. After a troubled past as a Sergeant Major in Vietnam, he thought the job would carry him softly into retirement... R-Aspecticyn, an experimental drug, unlocks a dormant part of the human brain suppressed by evolution. It allows one to see what the world actually loo...

This report presents the results of excavations undertaken ahead of construction of the A120 bypass and associated flood alleviation scheme. Evidence from the Mesolithic to the post-Roman period was found but the main results are later prehistoric settlements and a Roman farmstead that was involved in the large-scale production of spelt.

When Hattie and Richard Penrose take their family on a 'staycation' to the Cornish village of Bodhmall's Rest, cracks in their unsettled marriage start to appear, as does the truth about Hattie's fling with a co-worker and Richard's burgeoning money problems.

The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook is fully updated for Raspberry Pi in 2024. Packed with all the information beginners need to use their new Raspberry Pi computer. And the best projects from the year for long-term Raspberry Pi enthusiasts.

Satisfaction with democracy is a vastly studied research topic. In this Element, the authors aim to make sense of this context by showing that elections (electoral processes and outcomes) influence citizens' satisfaction with democracy in different ways according to the quality of a democratic regime. To do so, they leverage the datasets from the Comparative Study on Electoral Systems (CSES) and uphold the belief that social scientists must ta...

This Element looks first at the fundamental principle of modernity that is the functional differentiation of society, and the emergence of autonomous, positive law. The careful architecture of differentiation, balance, and mutual performance between the legal, political and economic systems is jeopardised with the hypertrophy of any one of the structurally coupled systems at the expense of the others. The pathologies are described in the secon...

Satisfaction with democracy is a vastly studied research topic. In this Element, the authors aim to make sense of this context by showing that elections (electoral processes and outcomes) influence citizens' satisfaction with democracy in different ways according to the quality of a democratic regime. To do so, they leverage the datasets from the Comparative Study on Electoral Systems (CSES) and uphold the belief that social scientists must ta...

Most Christians memorize the Lord's Prayer at a young age, before appreciating its significance. This prayer is read/recited by tens of millions each week. However, the richness of the gospel message embedded within this prayer is usually overlooked. Dr. Mathews' insightful elaboration of this prayer, revealing the way to the Father's Kingdom through salvation and sanctification, outlines the bedrock of Christian faith. This masterpiece that J...