BLOOD OF THE FIRST — SynopsisDavy Jones | Urban Fantasy | ~90,000 wordsAfter twenty-four years on homicide and the slow death of his wife Sarah to cancer, GABRIEL "GABE" JONES walks into St. Jude's Cathedral in a storm with a loaded service weapon and no reason to walk back out. He finds a dying vampire named MARCUS — the Queen's five-thousand-year-old second-born — bleeding out from a wound of Judas silver. Rather than let the Daywalker gift die w...

In the ruthless world of Manhattan’s shifter elite, power is everything—and weakness is fatal.To the public, Elena Vance is the untouchable Alpha widow who commands a billion-dollar empire with icy precision. Feared in boardrooms and admired across the North American packs, she has spent years protecting her late husband’s legacy while hiding a secret that could destroy her overnight.Because Elena isn’t an Alpha.She’s an Omega.In a society where Omegas are t...

Engines roar and tires spin when fast cars take to the track for a day of racing! What a way to spend a Saturday for the Serenity Acres Crew! As always, adventure follows them wherever they go. Given a chance to meet the racers up close, the crew takes full advantage of the chance to get to know them, as well as make some great new friends along the way! It seems like a spectacular weekend for the crew, until something goes wrong. See how the Serenity Acres Crew turns a day at the races in...

This book, first published in 1984, is a selective, annotated bibliography on women and deviance that includes historical, cross cultural, sociological, psychological, political, legal, philosophical, and social policy perspectives. This title is concerned with the origins, change, conflict, and consequences of deviant behaviour and "women’s adaptation to their changing roles." It encompasses monographs, journal articles, books, and government documents in English. This title will be of pa...

Skills lie at the heart of all actions of a social worker, and inform all aspects of practice – from drawing on vital theoretical and ethical frameworks to applying the law and research findings to particular situations. This user-friendly and logically organised text book brings together in one place all the vital skill sets which students need to acquire in order to qualify as social workers. It reflects current practice frameworks and addresses a wide range of skills including communica...

This book brings together an extensive and varied collection of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's written and spoken-word items for the first time. Spanning the composer's entire career, this compendium offers a balanced selection of Davies's articles and essays, speeches and lectures, interviews, radio broadcasts, programme notes, tributes and letters to newspapers. A number of items are published for the first time, including a new article from Davies himself (commissioned specially for this bo...

The year is 2323 and the location is an asteroid on the other side of Saturn where people are still doing what they have always done: they hold science fiction conventions. The annual sci-fi and fantasy event RinthCon is about to kick off when an accident involving an unknown piece of technology bridges alternate universes and brings characters from literature to the event.Just when the organizers thought they were ready for anything…

Education has become dominated by testing, standards, interventions, strategies and political policy. Yet while elements such as these are important, Exploring Education and Childhood contends it is childhood - including its sociology and psychology - that is the vital holistic context for teaching and learning.Written by a team of specialists who bring both experience of classroom teaching, teacher training, and of rigorous research and scholarship, each chapter examines ...

**As seen on Stranger Things, discover the ground-breaking, bestselling science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted readers for over 60 years!NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY**"A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg CabotThis audiobook includes an introduc...

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, ...

As the National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) extends into secondary schools this book for trainee and practicing mathematics teachers provides practical guidance on developing effective strategies for the teaching of numeracy at KS3 and 4 based on the DfEE requirements.The teaching and learning approaches suggested in the NNS are analyzed and explained using case-study examples from secondary schools. Many of these ideas were developed by teacher inquiry groups in the Raising Standards ...

"Davis confidently paints a magical world rich in detail where human trials unfold against a fairy-tale tapestry. Weaving a fresh legend from a mosaic of ancient stories, she creates a bold new world where wit equals witchery and kindness is as valued as courage." The downtown core of Toronto is being consumed by Elysium, a drug that allows its users to slip through the permeable edges of this world into the next, before consuming them utterly. Peddled by the icy Srebrenka, few have manage...