The classic and still authoritative grammar guide gets a quirky, lovely makeover by acclaimed artist Maira Kalman, whose flat, colorful artwork illustrates several of the sentences used as examples in the book. A two-page spread featuring a couple observing a lush vista and a traveler walking along a mountain trail demonstrates the sentence, "The ...
A brilliant, chilling series debut, "The House on Tradd Street" features a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses--and the secret histories inside them.
NEW! MyPsychLab edition available October 2007! Text comes automatically with MyPsychLab for no additional charge! Includes end of chapter study tips directing students to MyPsychLab for further study! No changes to pagination from Cicccarelli/Meyer Psychology 1e. For undergraduate introductory psychology courses at both two-year and four-year ...
Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him. After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for ...
Rebecca Estelle, an old woman who has hated pumpkins ever since she was a girl and her family had nothing else to eat, finds herself with a full crop of them.
Wilbur, the runt of a litter of pigs, is doomed until Fern, the farmer's daughter, saves him. Happy with his life, Wilbur seems to have all he needs, until he discovers he is destined for the dining room table. The innocent pig is befriended by a wise spider named Charlotte, who, by spelling words in her web, brings fame to Wilbur and thus ...
Intended for physiotherapists, occupational therapists and students, this book examines the measurement of joint motion. Range-of-motion tables presenting the ROM needed for the performance of functional activities are included for all the joints. Range-of-motion tables comparing average ROM from various researches are also included for all joints ...
For course review on a specific topic, e.g., pediatric nursing, review for NCLEX-RN, and review for specialty training. This resource provides a core content review of the subject in outline format. Each chapter opens with a brief outline, objectives, key terms with definitions, media box with summary of CD and CW content, as well as a pre-test. ...
Daniel Defoe was nearly 60 years old when he published ROBINSON CRUSOE, his first novel, in 1719. The story of an English mariner, sole survivor of a shipwreck, who manages to survive for 28 years on a deserted island in the South Pacific, ROBINSON CRUSOE is a stirring depiction of loneliness and isolation as Crusoe builds a house, teaches himself ...
Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is threatened with blackmail. Ford soon finds that the woman responsible is an agent of corruption unlike any he has ever encountered. Now in a tall Premium Edition.
It's instant relief - for when your 2-year-old is on the floor of the toy store, throwing a fit. Or when brother and sister discover that they can't stand each other. Or when your son can't say no to video games. THE POCKET PARENT is, literally, a pocket-size book of tried-and-true advice, common sense, parental wisdom, and sanity. Written by two ...
Written from the point of view of a young passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic, this title combines an award-winning series with the "disaster of the century".
When a former girlfriend shows up on his doorstep, Doc Ford is a little confused since she is now married. It turns out that her husband has vanished and she wants Doc's help in finding him. As the investigation stretches deep into the Everglades, Doc uncovers more and more sinister plots and people on his quest for closure and, if need be, ...
On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, love, and hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night--secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood.
Living with the burden of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This work shows how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South.
"The Film Experience "is a comprehensive introduction to film that treats students as the avid movie fans they are while surpassing all other texts in helping them understand the art form's full scope, breadth, and depth. Like other introductory texts, it offers strong coverage of film's formal elements, but goes further by situating this formal ...
The award-winning author of "The Memory of Water" delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and forgiveness, in which a young woman discovers the truth of her grandmother's past from a long-buried scrapbook, a necklace, and its three charms from the 1920s.
When Doc Ford saves a controversial former president from assassination, he has no idea what hes let himself in for. J.C. Wilson knows he has only a short time to live, and he has a full agenda. His wife was killed in a plane crash while carrying medical supplies to Nicaragua a tragic accident. Except that Wilson is sure it was no accident, and he ...
Years ago, a teenage girl who found an ancient gold medallion off Florida's Gulf Coast was later found hanging from a tree. Now, the girl's mother asks Doc Ford for his help when she is terrorized and her daughter's grave is dug up. Doc goes into a world of ancient ritual and modern corruption to find out who wants that medallion.
Doc Ford is called to Havana to rescue a hippie friend named Tomlinson. But when Doc gets to Cuba, he finds his friend has disappeared, leaving Doc in a dangerous situation.
This collection of humorous essays is down-home storytelling designed to evoke the American rural South, filled - as it is - with odd relatives, precocious children and half-tame alligators, and redolent with the scents of fried catfish and artemisia.
The "New York Times"-bestselling author whose novels have won praise for their remarkable imagination, intrigue, and some of the best characters in suspense fiction presents the chilling new Doc Ford novel.
Doc Ford, a marine biologist who lives in the Florida Keys, is intrigued by the sexy enigmatic widow of Jimmy Darroux. Darroux was killed in a mysterious explosion. Everyone from land developers to drug runners want to get near the nonmournful Hannah Darroux who hated her husband. In the meantime the voodoo-practicing widow is keeping Doc ...
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