Bridget Whitlock, a limnologist and young widow, is determined to discover who was responsible for her husband's death, but instead of hiring a private investigator, she becomes acquainted with his former colleagues to determine who would have had a motive to murder him. With a strong bond to the outdoors and the keen observations of a scientist, she travels to the shores of Lake Michigan, Boston, and the Maine Allagash wilderness where the evidence starts to unravel. Included are 8 knitting and crochet patterns with a nautical theme: several tunics, a hat, a scarf, a cloche, and more.
With a focus on heroes, adventure, and the future...Kim-Lan Nguyen applies to the Astronauts for the Colonization of Mars Program thinking that she has one chance in a million of being selected. The problem is that Kim-Lan wins that chance in a million.
The #1 New York Times Bestseller! Return to the world of His Dark Materials—now an HBO original series starring Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, and Lin-Manuel Miranda—in the second volume of Philip Pullman’s new bestselling masterwork The Book of Dust. The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue’s youth are long behind her—or so she thought. Lyra is now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia’s College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their past. The more Lyra is drawn into these mysteries, the less she is sure of. Even the events of her own past come into question when she learns of Malcolm Polstead’s role in bringing her to Jordan College. Now Lyra and Malcolm will travel far beyond the confines of Oxford, across Europe and into the Levant, searching for a city haunted by daemons, and a desert said to hold the truth of Dust. The dangers they face will challenge everything they thought they knew about the world, and about themselves. Praise for The Book of Dust “It’s a stunning achievement, this universe Pullman has created and continues to build on.” —The New York Times “Pullman’s writing is simple, unpretentious, beautiful, true. The conclusion to The Book of Dust can’t come soon enough.”—The Washington Post
A collection of articles, comic strips, and photostories in the traditional Girls Annual style but for adult readers. Contributors include Roberta Gregory and Trina Robbins and others representing the female sub-culture. Erica wrapped up her Girlfrenzy publishing enterprise with a bumper-sized 'Millennial' at the turn of the century - like a feminist take on the girly annuals of the past.
By the authors of the bestselling 13th Gen, an incisive, in-depth examination of the Millennials--the generation born after 1982. In this remarkable account, certain to stir the interest of educators, counselors, parents, and people in all types of business as well as young people themselves, Neil Howe and William Strauss provide the definitive analysis of a powerful generation: the Millennials. Having looked at oceans of data, taken their own polls, talked to hundreds of kids, parents, and teachers, and reflected on the rhythms of history, Howe and Strauss explain how Millennials have turned out to be so dramatically different from Xers and boomers. Millennials Rising provides a fascinating narrative of America's next great generation.
People have been fascinated by merpeople and merfolk since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and the film Splash, myths, stories, and legends of half-human, half-fish creatures abound. In modern times “mermaiding” has gained popularity among cosplayers throughout the world. In Merpeople: A Human History, Vaughn Scribner traces the long history of mermaids and mermen, taking in a wide variety of sources and using 117 striking images. From film to philosophy, church halls to coffee houses, ancient myth to modern science, Scribner shows that mermaids and tritons are—and always have been—everywhere.
Mountain range of the Pyrenees, Iberian peninsula. A peasant dies under strange circumstances. Suspecting supernatural and evil nature of the event, father Isidro is sent to investigate the incident. But there are more ancient and dangerous secrets hidden in the heart of these cursed mountains, remembered by the last survivors of a time in which the fog was able to cover too discouraging truths... Now that veil has been torn and the threat is released. If no one would restrain it, the chaos will explode. The night is coming when the stories that fueled imagination of the little ones will turn into reality to frighten even the most skeptical men... Who will be able to maintain sanity when collapse the firm pillars that sustain the reality? Magic, witchcraft and ancestral secrets will shake the orthodoxy of Christianity. An adventure that will take us back to the depths of the Pyrenees, in a borderland, where the impossible seems more real than it's desired by the common sense of the majority. Would you be the one to challenge it, to pursue the most uncomfortable and archaic mysteries? Every tree, hill, lake, and cave belongs to two worlds; one of them we ignore. Its outlawed inhabitants have fueled the fantasies of popular folklore... until now. In front, the old paths that lead us towards them are outlined and are waiting for us.
~Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for the best LGBT YA novel of 2017~ An unforgettable story of two girls navigating the unknowable waters of identity, millennial anxiety, and first love, from the acclaimed author of The Mystery of Hollow Places. In Savannah Espinoza’s small New Mexico hometown, kids either flee after graduation or they’re trapped there forever. Vanni never planned to get stuck—but that was before her father was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, leaving her and her mother to care for him. Now she doesn’t have much of a plan at all: living at home, working as a performing mermaid at a second-rate water park, distracting herself with one boy after another. That changes the day she meets Leigh. Disillusioned with small-town life and looking for something greater, Leigh is not a “nice girl.” She is unlike anyone Vanni has met, and a friend when Vanni desperately needs one. Soon enough, Leigh is much more than a friend. But caring about another person threatens the walls Vanni has carefully constructed to protect herself and brings up the big questions she’s hidden from for so long.
“Dream, Believe, Dare, Do . . .” Though four simple words, this carefully crafted credo lies at the heart of Walt Disney’s enviable empire and has led The Walt Disney Company to prosperity for decades. As foremost experts on Disney, authors Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson return with an updated and expanded third edition of The Disney Way to show how organizations can incorporate this four-pillared credo to support any business, drive any team, and guide any leader to create immeasurable success. Profiling a new set of diverse organizations—such as TYRA Beauty, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Ottawa County, Michigan, and Science Center of Iowa—the authors show how companies of any size, whether an entrepreneurial startup or a Fortune 500, can reach their utmost potential by embracing Walt Disney’s techniques to create a consumer-centric culture. They provide step-by-step actions on how to: • Give every member of your organization a chance to dream • Stand firm on your beliefs and principles • Treat your customers like guests • Support, enable, and reward employees • Build long-term relationships • Dare to take calculated risks • Train extensively and constantly • Align long-term vision with short-term execution • Utilize storyboarding techniques • Pay close attention to details • Demonstrate “love” for product, employees, customers, and self Find out why Walt Disney’s Dream, Believe, Dare, Do principles continue to redefine the nature of business and revolutionize the art of management, while learning how to implement them in your own organization.
