Portraits of white women and girls, many taken in Alton, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, as well as Connecticut, Tennessee, and other locations. The photographs evoke questions about gender and race against a backdrop of racial violence, both historic and contemporary.
Jump in the Pool in the Little Blossom Stories series uses curriculum based fiction to get children comfortable with reading--and excited about playing in the pool. This book uses a combination of sight words and short-vowel words in repetition to build recognition and confidence. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text. Text and format is created by Cecilia Minden, PhD, a literacy consultant and former director of the Language and Literacy program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Includes phonics and teachers' guide.
When graduate student Jennifer Cassidy approaches cave-diver Beck Easton with a 140-year-old mystery, they set out on a suspense-filled search for hidden treasure--and hidden truths.
"He didn't drop the gun," Noonan said calmly, as if killing a man was as routine as remembering to set the alarm before you left the house. Finding a corrupt, manipulative politician beneath a charming exterior is nothing unusual. Unraveling the connection to a twenty year old suicide and linking him to a string of present day bodies is another matter. Police Detective Bev Henderson of Verde Key, Florida doesn't care that rising star State Senator Warren Randall belongs to a wealthy and powerful family. What she does care about is a missing woman, a dead accountant and people who think they can paint the truth in shades other than black and white.
Dark, dangerous and romantic, Cecilia is the story of a detached assassin and a willful innocent, and their epic journey to save the dying Goddess of Light. Color map inside.
ONLY THROUGH TERROR CAN A SOUL TRULY APPRECIATE LIFE In the wake of her victory over the evil goddess Eifa and the Senators of Vitus, Cecilia is ready to focus on rebuilding, but where there should be peace and light, she finds uncertainty and dread. The Prophecy is incomplete. With dark forces growing in the south, the war to rid the world of evil has only just begun. Cecilia and Amalardh are forced onto separate journeys. While Amalardh travels to faraway lands in search of answers, Cecilia must discern who to trust and how to keep the world safe from a threat beyond anything she has faced before. The Cecilia Series is an epic love story between a headstrong young woman who refuses to accept the status quo of her fractured world and an emotionally bankrupt assassin struggling to find his humanity.
The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli -- tomb raiders -- who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the London Sunday Times and author of two previous expos's of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. Among the loot are the irreplaceable and highly collectable vases of Euphronius, the equivalent in their field of the sculpture of Bernini or the painting of Michelangelo. The narrative leads to the doors of some major institutions: Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among them. Filled with great characters and human drama, The Medici Conspiracy authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art.
The stories in this book bring to life characters and settings with precise realism.ᅠ Swimming or fishing in the ocean and having conversations, the people in the stories are so real that they come out of the pages.ᅠ Going out on a date or staying home, the men and women described find interesting activities that the reader will enjoy.ᅠ Watching sailboats race after eating a sandwich, a couple spend a day together providing a lifetime of reading. Two fishermen fish during the day and relax afterward eventually meeting two women.ᅠ An executive and his wife go on vacation when he has business troubles.ᅠ People and places come alive in A Nice Beginning.