Going home is rarely a good idea, until you discover what home really means.After the disaster of Westland's steroid scandal, Chuck Mathis knows his baseball dreams are kaput; so he decides to focus on his other dream: psychology. He'll graduate from Westland University, then he'll leave Madison to earn his master's and PhD. Nothing is going to stand in his way. Not his overbearing father. Not even baseball.Except maybe Sophie Tipton.Chuck ...

Andrea Hoffpauir can’t do anything right. But she’s ready to prove to everyone that she’s up to any challenge.She’s never been good enough for her father. Her trophy-wife mother is so self-centered that she often forgets Andrea exists. And her best friend Vicky hasn’t forgiven her for the monumental mistake she made.Life keeps kicking her down, and quite frankly, she’s over it.When her older brother Brendan backs out of the father son golf ...

She’s not interested…Deidre Bennington is only at Ridder University to appease her demanding mother. After two years volunteering in Costa Rica, she’s fulfilling the agreement she made with her parents: to get her degree and go to med school. It doesn’t matter that she has no real interest in medicine, that she doesn’t want to live up to her mother’s expectations or her sister’s life. All that matters is to be good enough for them.When the volatile...

Two worlds collide when Kenzie’s world of muscle cars and motorcycles accelerates into Austin’s life of particles and formulas.Kenzie would rather nurse a hangover than pick up a wrecked Audi, but her dad’s garage needs every tow they can get. The searing kiss from the driver is a surprise but giving him a ride back to the garage and agreeing on a date is typical Kenzie. Bad ideas are her middle name. Or to let him ride back to the garage with her. Or to a...

Girls of Summer: The Complete YA Sports Romance TrilogyThree girls. Three sports. One summer that changes everything.In this heartfelt and empowering YA romance boxset, follow Victoria, Rachel, and Andrea; three determined athletes fighting for their place on the field, on the court, and in their own lives. Friendship, first love, and fierce competition collide as each girl discovers what it truly means to play for keeps.Book One:

Chicago detective Joe Erickson returns to the force following medical leave, and right away a high-profile murder falls in his lap. The body of a graduate student, the son of a prominent Jewish attorney, washes up on the shore of Lake Michigan with a swastika cut into his back. The hate-crime investigation leads Joe and his partner to suspect neo-Nazis, and as he digs deeper into the young man's death, he uncovers a conspiracy that nearly gets him killed.

Chicago Detective Joe Erickson arrives at an apartment where a young woman, an up-and-coming model, has been found murdered. Discovered at the scene are dead roses, along with a card reading "Sic semper scortilla," Latin for "thus always to bitches." A week later, another young woman, also a model, is found murdered in her apartment. Dead roses and a card with the same message are found at this scene as well. Who killed these women? And what is the significance of the dead roses and the ca...

Founded in 2013 by Steven Lynn, dean of the South Carolina Honors College, this annual writing contest was designed to engage the state's future leaders and thinkers. Each year the Honors College invited South Carolina high school juniors and seniors to respond to the question "How can we make South Carolina better?" in 750 words or fewer, in the genre of their choice.The finalists, selected by a panel of preliminary judges, were invited to the University of South Carolina campus f...

Jim Beddly, is a Texas Ranger sent to investigate a murder in Mafia, Texas which leads him to Alpine, Texas and more murders. He meets many people that could be guilty. Where a young woman tries to kill him not knowing who he is. There are all kinds of twist and turns throughout the story that leads to the conclusion with two falling in love.

A Comprehensive, Systematic Evaluation of Treatment Effectiveness for Major Psychological DisordersWith over 500 types of psychotherapy being practiced in the field today, navigating the maze of possible treatments can be daunting for clinicians and researchers, as well as for consumers who seek help in obtaining psychological services. Evidence-Based Psychotherapy: The State of Science and Practice offers a roadmap to identifying the most appropriate and ...

Provides students and scholars with a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental philosophy and ethicsMitigating the effects of climate change will require global cooperation and lasting commitment. Of the many disciplines addressing the ecological crisis, philosophy is perhaps best suited to develop the conceptual foundations of a viable and sustainable environmental ethic*. This is Environmental Ethics* provides an expansive overview of the ...

The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and offers an innovative model of how we mentally organize concepts and how we perceive contrasts between them. The authors use corpus and experimental methods to build a theoretical picture of the antonym relation, its status in the mind and its construal in context. Evidence is drawn from natura...