“In Quarry Steps To, Tony Quarry faces the dilemma of his life – to use karate in a circumstance other than to defend himself or to help someone else, a key element of his morality.Protecting a retired teacher from teenage vandals, Quarry runs afoul of their embittered parents. They’re residents of Sligoville, a rural hamlet eroded by lost jobs and governmental indifference. Filled with the resentment of whites left behind, survival mode has witnessed a fraying of their moral fiber...

Never wanted…Anya Volkov was adopted from Russia as a child, only to be rejected a year later, deemed difficult. After a lifetime of bouncing from foster home to foster home Anya is living in the East Village and scraping by playing gigs in small clubs, and facing eviction. She’ll do whatever it takes to keep a roof over the head of herself and her one year old son. Including making nice with the twin she doesn’t remember and stealing baby food from a grocery store.Always n...

When Tony Quarry finds a young Mexican runaway hiding behind his barn and decides to help him, there's no going back. The boy, Primo Estrada, separated from his mother during a tumultuous border crossing three years earlier, has been under the control of the treacherous Tercero Colina since. At first, Quarry's reluctant to get involved in Primo's plight. He's rebuilt his life in a small North Carolina town after serving a prison term for the accidental death of a college student in a barro...

This book has dual purpose offering both an entertaining and an educational approach to relationship self-help. Most of us can identify with the busyness and stress of life. And we know it detracts from our romantic relationship and the need to better nurture it. Author Dr. Tim McCarthy holds that few of us are educated or trained enough in how to have a successful relationship in our society. So his goal is to better enlighten couples as he goes beyond ordinary self-help books to offer a ...

The Rainbow Warriors is a colourful, educational, and entertaining story about a family of King George whiting, who travel with their ocean friends the migrating Southern Right and Humpback whales, as they make their incredible journey from Antarctica to the Great Barrier Reef where time began! Discover, along with Bianca, Patrick, Rory, and Ricky Australias amazing Southern and Eastern Coast. And... that even in the most beautiful places... danger still lurks.

"Engrossing . . . A lengthy review of the events of the final days of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the road to Appomattox" (Mark Silo, author of The 115th New York in the Civil War).The Battle of Five Forks broke the long siege of Petersburg, Virginia, triggered the evacuation of Richmond, precipitated the Appomattox Campaign, and destroyed the careers and reputations of two generals. Michael J. McCarthy's Confederate Waterloo is ...

Aesthetic Surgery of the Craniofacial Skeleton is a unique atlas presenting specific procedures for aesthetic craniofacial surgery in a comprehensive and easily understandable style. With over 190 fine line drawings specially created for this volume, this book will have multifaceted applications; as an operation manual for the aesthetic craniofacial surgeon, a reference source for the general plastic surgeon, and as an introductory text for residents in craniofacial, recon...

Incorporate genomics into every applicable area of your clinical practice with this complete how-to guideA Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2021!Precision Medicine: A Guide to Genomics in Clinical Practice is a comprehensive, yet succinct overview of the practice of genomic medicine. It is written for general healthcare practitioners, specialists, and trainees with the goal of providing detailed guidance on how to incorporate...

Management by Agreement (1973) examines the ramifications of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act and industrial relations in Britain. It looks at the threats of Government legal action against trade unions and the reform of collective bargaining, and concludes that the Act fails to deal with management’s crucial problem: the interaction of two opposing pressures from the workforces and the economic climate.

Mum and Grannie rush about and pack our things … but I don’t want to leave our island home!The girl in this story is immigrating with her family from Jamaica to Canada. On this last day before they leave, she chews one last sugar cane stalk, and inhales the sweet smell of roast corn one last time. She takes one last walk to the beach and paddles in the ocean. Can this really be the last time she will see her home?When their plane lands in Toronto, big build...

After unexpectedly losing her husband, Hope Herring and her daughter, Cori, leave their home and move away to start over in a new town. With a heavy heart, a new house, a new job, and a new community, Hope is trying to settle in when she is reluctantly drawn into two mysteries. Will Hope and Cori find the clues to a killer before he or she strikes again?

It is spring in North Carolina and Hope is planning new gardens for the yard of her century-old house. Teaching at the middle school, working part time in a bakery, and raising her daughter, Cori, leave little time for her to do research on two mysteries.But Hope and her resident ghost keep searching for clues to his hundred-year-old murder while she continues to look into the suspicious accident that took her husband's life.Hope has one more thing to worry about. Her frien...