Author: Kevin M. Hazzard Publisher: Mercer University Press ISBN: 9780865548121 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
But after a summer of watching the waves and making drinks in the alien South, Will can no longer pretend that he's found what he's looking for.".
Author: Thomas Perry Publisher: Ivy Books ISBN: 0307781348 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there's been a price on his head. Now, after a decade, they've found him. The Butcher's Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him . . . until the Mafia, the cops, the FBI, and the damn Justice Department want his hide . . . until he's locked into a cross-country odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces . . . "Exciting . . . Suspenseful . . . A thriller's job is to make you turn the pages until the story's done and your eyes hurt and the clock says 3 a.m. . . . I wouldn't try to grab this one away from somebody only half-way through. No telling what might happen." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World
Author: Sonya Hartnett Publisher: Penguin Group Australia ISBN: 0140385355 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 117
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The Willows own a decaying caravan park. When trusting Oliver befriends an outsider intent on uncovering the secrets of their family, the Willows' world is blown apart in a shocking climax. Published to much acclaim, Sleeping Dogs was the winner of both the 1996 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Sheaffer Pen Prize and the 1996 Miles Franklin Inaugural Kathleen Mitchell Award.
Author: Richard Lederer Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429906383 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 228
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For years Richard Lederer has enthralled fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty presentation. Now Lederer has teamed up with Richard Dowis to take readers on another journey through the world's most wonderful, albeit perplexing, language. How many times have we all heard the word viable used in company meetings? Lederer and Dowis show us how "viable," somewhere along the line, was extracted from medical books, where it literally means "capable of living," and placed into the business lexicon, where it means...well, who knows? The authors clear up once and for all the confusion between lay and lie and put to rest some common myths about language. The book's finale is a ten-minute writing lesson from which everyone, from rank amateur to seasoned pro, can benefit. These and dozens of other features make this book pure pleasure for language buffs, writers, and teachers. Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay is useful and authoritative as well as fun to read, with humorous touches often popping up where least expected and most needed.
Author: Mirjam Pressler Publisher: Boyds Mills Press ISBN: 9781932425840 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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YA. Age 12-14. When Johanna discovers that her grandfathers company--and her familys wealth--was founded on injustice due to the anti-Semitic laws of the Third Reich during the Nazi regime, she must make a life-altering decision.
Author: Arianne Struik Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317743938 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 224
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Professionals working with traumatized children are often asked whether it would be better to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’, because the child may not be ready to discuss their experiences, and out of fear that they may become further distressed or disturbed. In Treating Chronically Traumatized Children, Arianne Struik presents the case for waking those ‘sleeping dogs’ in a safe and structured environment, in order to allow the healing process to begin and prevent trauma later in life. Struik has developed a method for those cases labelled most difficult to treat, involving deregulated, traumatized children who refuse to talk about their memories, or claim to have ‘forgotten’ them completely. It incorporates factors in the child’s environment and network to ensure that they are safe and secure before beginning the process, and stable throughout treatment. Downloadable worksheets enhance the book’s content and make each section straightforward to work through, supporting the child through the stabilization, processing and integration phases of treatment. Illustrated throughout by case studies and comprehensive explanation of the theory and the treatment method, Treating Chronically Traumatized Children is clear and accessible and is ideal for psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and counsellors, as well as parents and anyone working with chronically traumatized children and adolescents.
Author: Luc Vors Publisher: ISBN: 9780578555706 Category : Languages : en Pages : 398
Book Description
Psychologist Dr. Alan Greene is no stranger to stepping across the line with his students, but when he sleeps with a patient, the results are deadly. Alyson was the perfect test subject for a treatment that uses multiple personalities to cure PTSD. Placed in a hypnotic world called "The Valley," her memories are stored in the minds of "The Sleeping Dogs" - 9 alter egos created to help her remember at a clinically controllable pace. Trouble arises when Alyson and Dr. Greene find themselves in a forbidden love affair, loosening Alyson's already fragile grip on reality. New "unauthorized' personalities emerge, and The Sleeping Dogs must fight to prevent them from taking over Alyson's consciousness. Their efforts, however, fall short.A monster awakens, the slaughter begins, and a secret is revealed in the details of the crime scenes. Alyson is a killer the FBI has been chasing for years.A mind-blowing thriller with twist after twist, Where Sleeping Dogs Lie is a trip into the psychotic wonderland of a killer whose innocense somehow remains intact.
Author: Samantha Downing Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593547780 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 80
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From the internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife and For Your Own Good comes a twisted, entertaining novella about a dog walker swept into a criminal investigation when her client winds up dead. Shelby works as a dog walker in northern California, and she’s just finished up her bi-weekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner—Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company—lying on the bathroom floor, dead. A detective arrives on the scene. As she interviews Shelby, the body is inspected by a medical examiner, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.
Author: Thomas Perry Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1588362965 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
The Edgar Award–winning novel by the “master of nail-biting suspense”(Los Angeles Times) Thomas Perry exploded onto the literary scene with The Butcher’s Boy. Back in print by popular demand, this spectacular debut, from a writer of “infernal ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), includes a new Introduction by bestselling author Michael Connelly. Murder has always been easy for the Butcher’s Boy—it’s what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of police specialists who watch the world of organized crime, but though everyone knows that something big is going on, only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in the Justice Department, works her way closer to the truth, and to the frightening man behind it. Praise for The Butcher’s Boy “A stunning debut . . . a brilliantly plotted thriller.”—The Washington Post “A shrewdly planned and executed thriller.”—The New York Times Book Review “Thomas Perry has hit the mark.”—Houston Chronicle “Totally enthralling.”—The New Yorker
Author: John R. Erickson Publisher: ISBN: 9781591887065 Category : Dogs Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
Who - or what - has been killing the chickens? And, more importantly, what is Ranch Security going to do about it? These are the critical questions in the sixth adventure of Hank the Cowdog. A fiendish murderer is loose on the ranch, and never before has Hank followed so many clues or interrogated more suspects. Every character in the book turns out to be a suspect - including Hank himself. Can he solve the crime and prove his innocence before he is relieved of his command ... and condemned?
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