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61) Killer Heat
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Ottawa is in the middle of a summer heat wave-and PI Anna Sweet takes on her hottest case yet. Brent Rose secretly dated three women at the same time. One of them wants to make him pay for his cheating ways. Will Anna stop Brent's tormentor in time? Or will he meet his end in the killer heat?
62) No Trace
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a second language (ESL) readers. Ryan Green disappears one day after school without a trace. His family is caught in a living nightmare. Six months later, the police have no leads. Desperate for answers, the parents contact private investigator Anna Sweet. The trail has gone cold, but Anna doesn't give up without turning over every clue. When a body...
63) To Keep a Secret
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Anna Sweet's PI business partner, Jada Price, has gone missing. Anna and new hire Nick Roma team up to find her. The trail leads them to a teenage girl's murder and a secret internet dating site. Anna is about to discover how far people will go to keep a secret, and who they will betray. She must work quickly to uncover...
64) A Model Death
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Against her better judgment, Anna Sweet accepts a date with the secretive Nick Roma, office manager for Storm Investigations. But before they can meet up, the body of Nick's ex-girlfriend is found near a lake. Rumors swirl that Nick was hounding his ex to get back together...and he wouldn't take no for an answer. The...
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Anna Sweet, ex-cop turned waitress, is bar-hopping her way across the U.S.A. But a middle-of-the-night phone call to Anna's hotel room in Kermit, Texas, is about to end her life on the road. The brakes on her sister Cheri's car have failed, and she's lying banged up in an Ottawa hospital. Cheri warns that unless Anna...
66) Shipwreck
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English
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. A retired police detective tells a story from his family's history. On a cold winter morning in 1873, a crowd gathers on the shore of a Nova Scotia fishing village. A stormy sea has thrown a ship onto the rocks. The villagers work bravely to save the ship's crew. But many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local...
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Sometimes home is not a safe place to be. PI Anna Sweet is hired to look out for Max, a troubled teenage runaway. For Max, the woods provide safety and shelter. Until he is discovered. Max's parents declare him mentally unfit and try to lock him up. But Anna holds the secret to his freedom.
Anna agrees to take on...
68) The Hard Fall
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English
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Paul Taylor, a wealthy business man, is in jail for the cold-blooded murder of his lover Laura Flint. She is found dead in his bed one hot August morning. Taylor's wife, a former swimsuit model, is the only one to stand behind him, but even she has doubts. Taylor is about to go on trial-and he is the only suspect.Anna...
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This book was created with the listener in mind. Purchase the audiobook version of this book for the best and most effective learning experience!
If you are looking to learn Medical Spanish in a fast, simple way without entering a classroom then you have chosen the perfect book. Spanish For Medical Professionals With Essential Questions And Responses Vol 2 is a comprehensive and simple program for learning the perfect Cheat Sheet Of Medical Spanish...
71) Korean
Pub. Date
℗2005
Language
English
Description
Presents a beginning language learning program designed to teach the listener Korean in progressive steps.
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"[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events...
73) Nature and Virtue Themed Exercises for Relaxation and Concentration: Guided Imagery, Visualisations
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Whether you have five minutes or an hour to spend with your group, you will find useful exercises in this book. Use them in silence or with quiet music, either indoors or outdoors in nature. Write or project the instructions onto the classroom board, let your group relax, and take part in the calming moment. The exercises involve sitting, lying down, standing, or walking. There are also coloured pencil drawing tasks, which include nature observation...
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The advent of the 24-hour news cycle, citizen journalism and an increased reliance on social media as a trusted news source have had a profound effect not only on how we get our news, but also on how we evaluate sources of information, share that information and interact with others in online communities. When these issues are coupled with the "fake news" industry that intentionally spreads false stories designed to go viral, educators are left facing...
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Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
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It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach students that American history is nothing more than a litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation.
Zinn's history is popular, but it is also massively wrong.
Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in her stunning new book Debunking Howard Zinn, which demolishes Zinn's Marxist talking points...
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A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular commencement speech-a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on YouTube-You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to students and parents as well as a guide to a truly fulfilling, happy life.
Children today, says David McCullough-high school English teacher, father of four, and son and namesake of the famous historian-are being encouraged to sacrifice...
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Are you ready to get your songs published?
This book is for anyone, young or old, who hears the call from God to write songs. I will help you discover and declare your purpose in songwriting and show you a path forward.
This manifesto shows the outline of a blueprint for writing songs for church.
You will use specific and custom song craft education tools to get your songs heard in local churches and around the world by learning the ways of congregational...
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