Author: Alison Clarke-Stewart
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118425189
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Social Development, 2nd Edition provides psychologists with a comprehensive, scholarly, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of theoretical insights and empirical findings in the field of social development. It conveys the excitement of recent advances along with the accumulated knowledge that forms the basis of the field. Psychologists will gain a better understanding of cultural variation, both among societies around the world and within our own society.
Less of a Stranger
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1250775485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
What begins as a business proposal turns into a roller coaster ride through life and love in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’ Less of a Stranger. Megan Miller’s beloved grandfather has run Joyland Amusement Park her whole life. But he’s not as young as he used to be, so she agrees to help him keep their family playground going even if it means sacrificing her own dreams. So when David “Katch” Katcherton thinks he can just buy Joyland with a quickly scrawled check, Megan isn’t about to let some wealthy, attractive hotshot with a need for speed take her and Pops on a merry-go-round ride—no matter how much fun and joy he’s determined to bring her...
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1250775485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
What begins as a business proposal turns into a roller coaster ride through life and love in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’ Less of a Stranger. Megan Miller’s beloved grandfather has run Joyland Amusement Park her whole life. But he’s not as young as he used to be, so she agrees to help him keep their family playground going even if it means sacrificing her own dreams. So when David “Katch” Katcherton thinks he can just buy Joyland with a quickly scrawled check, Megan isn’t about to let some wealthy, attractive hotshot with a need for speed take her and Pops on a merry-go-round ride—no matter how much fun and joy he’s determined to bring her...
Not as a Stranger
Author: Morton Thompson
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774648970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
Powerful novel about a young doctor who lives for medicine and sacrifices everything for his career. Describes his years at medical school, his practice in a small town and his devoted self-sacrificing wife who works to make their marriage a success.
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774648970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
Powerful novel about a young doctor who lives for medicine and sacrifices everything for his career. Describes his years at medical school, his practice in a small town and his devoted self-sacrificing wife who works to make their marriage a success.
Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do?
Author: Linda Walvoord Girard
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 080759363X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Explains how to deal with strangers in public places, on the telephone, and in cars, emphasizing situations in which the best thing to do is run away or talk to another adult.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 080759363X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Explains how to deal with strangers in public places, on the telephone, and in cars, emphasizing situations in which the best thing to do is run away or talk to another adult.
Strange But Not a Stranger
Author: James Patrick Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Hugo Award-winning author offers fifteen tales ranging from contemporary fantasy and off-beat romance to science fiction and horror.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Hugo Award-winning author offers fifteen tales ranging from contemporary fantasy and off-beat romance to science fiction and horror.
At the Hands of a Stranger
Author: Lee Butcher
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786030461
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
I didn't kill them for any satisfaction. It was distasteful. It was dreadful. Of course, I was able to do it because of my general rage against society. Meredith Emerson was a recent college graduate who disappeared while taking her beloved dog, Ella, for a hike on Georgia's Blood Mountain on New Year's Day, 2008. Cheryl Dunlap was a nurse whose body was found in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest after she failed to show up to teach her regular Sunday School class in December 2007. Vibrant, beautiful, caring women, loved by their friends and families, with everything to live for. . .until they fell into the trap of Gary Michael Hilton, a former Green Beret paratrooper and expert outdoorsman with a twisted lust for violence. What they suffered at his hands was unspeakable. Even after two convictions, the question remains--how many innocent victims were prey to his evil designs? Includes killer's shocking confession and 16 pages of dramatic photos. Case seen on 48 Hours "Chilling true crime by a master storyteller." --Don Lasseter
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786030461
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
I didn't kill them for any satisfaction. It was distasteful. It was dreadful. Of course, I was able to do it because of my general rage against society. Meredith Emerson was a recent college graduate who disappeared while taking her beloved dog, Ella, for a hike on Georgia's Blood Mountain on New Year's Day, 2008. Cheryl Dunlap was a nurse whose body was found in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest after she failed to show up to teach her regular Sunday School class in December 2007. Vibrant, beautiful, caring women, loved by their friends and families, with everything to live for. . .until they fell into the trap of Gary Michael Hilton, a former Green Beret paratrooper and expert outdoorsman with a twisted lust for violence. What they suffered at his hands was unspeakable. Even after two convictions, the question remains--how many innocent victims were prey to his evil designs? Includes killer's shocking confession and 16 pages of dramatic photos. Case seen on 48 Hours "Chilling true crime by a master storyteller." --Don Lasseter
Home Is a Stranger
Author: Parnaz Foroutan
Publisher: Amberjack Publishing
ISBN: 1948705613
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"A thought-provoking memoir about the challenges of personal and national relations." —Foreword Reviews New travel nonfiction from a break-out novelist and recipient of a PEN Emerging Voice fellowship that speaks to the immigrant and female experiences of America and Iran Unmoored by the death of her father and disenchanted by the American Dream, Parnaz Foroutan leaves Los Angeles for Iran, nineteen years after her family fled the religious police state brought in by the Islamic Theocracy. From the moment Parnaz steps off the plane in Tehran, she contends with a world she only partially understands. Struggling with her own identity in a culture that feels both foreign and familiar, she tries to find a place for herself between the American girl she is and the woman she hopes to become. Written with the same literary grace and passion as her fiction, Home Is a Stranger is a memoir about the meaning of desire, the transcendence of boundaries, and the journey to find home.
Publisher: Amberjack Publishing
ISBN: 1948705613
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"A thought-provoking memoir about the challenges of personal and national relations." —Foreword Reviews New travel nonfiction from a break-out novelist and recipient of a PEN Emerging Voice fellowship that speaks to the immigrant and female experiences of America and Iran Unmoored by the death of her father and disenchanted by the American Dream, Parnaz Foroutan leaves Los Angeles for Iran, nineteen years after her family fled the religious police state brought in by the Islamic Theocracy. From the moment Parnaz steps off the plane in Tehran, she contends with a world she only partially understands. Struggling with her own identity in a culture that feels both foreign and familiar, she tries to find a place for herself between the American girl she is and the woman she hopes to become. Written with the same literary grace and passion as her fiction, Home Is a Stranger is a memoir about the meaning of desire, the transcendence of boundaries, and the journey to find home.
Eyes of a Stranger
Author: Sharon E. Heisel
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385322294
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Marissa, a shy self-conscious girl with a twisted leg, is attracted to a strikingly handsome visitor to her uncle's carousel but begins to suspect that he is a psychotic serial killer.
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385322294
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Marissa, a shy self-conscious girl with a twisted leg, is attracted to a strikingly handsome visitor to her uncle's carousel but begins to suspect that he is a psychotic serial killer.
Kill a Stranger
Author: SIMON. KERNICK
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781472270979
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781472270979
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me
Author: Ann Grifalconi
Publisher: Jump At The Sun
ISBN: 9780786818570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two Caldecott Honor recipients join to bring you the incredible journey of one man, as he recounts the story of his passage on the Underground Railroad to his granddaughter. His message is one of cheer, for although he and his family found troubles during their escape, he found that folks, black and white, "helped lift us up when we was down." How, then, could he ever turn his back on another human being?
Publisher: Jump At The Sun
ISBN: 9780786818570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two Caldecott Honor recipients join to bring you the incredible journey of one man, as he recounts the story of his passage on the Underground Railroad to his granddaughter. His message is one of cheer, for although he and his family found troubles during their escape, he found that folks, black and white, "helped lift us up when we was down." How, then, could he ever turn his back on another human being?
Social Development
Author: Alison Clarke-Stewart
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118425189
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Social Development, 2nd Edition provides psychologists with a comprehensive, scholarly, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of theoretical insights and empirical findings in the field of social development. It conveys the excitement of recent advances along with the accumulated knowledge that forms the basis of the field. Psychologists will gain a better understanding of cultural variation, both among societies around the world and within our own society.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118425189
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Social Development, 2nd Edition provides psychologists with a comprehensive, scholarly, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of theoretical insights and empirical findings in the field of social development. It conveys the excitement of recent advances along with the accumulated knowledge that forms the basis of the field. Psychologists will gain a better understanding of cultural variation, both among societies around the world and within our own society.