Bestseller Marshall (The Straw Men) outdoes his own high standards with this potent blend of suspense, paranoia and just plain creepiness. Jack Whalen, a former L.A. cop, is pursuing a new career as a writer in an idyllic small town just east of Seattle when weird things start to undermine his pursuit of the American dream.
Students write every day and everywhere — for school, for work, and for fun. And nobody else in the field of composition understands the real world of student writing better than Andrea A. Lunsford. Her trademark attention to rhetorical choice, language and style, and critical thinking and argument — based on years of experience as a researcher and classroom teacher — make The Everyday Writer the tabbed handbook that can talk students through every writing situation.
A young country girl comes to live and work in Dublin. Jo is determined to be modern and independent, and to have a wonderful time. But life in a big city is full of strange surprises for a shy country girl ...Gerry Moore is a man with a problem - alcohol. He knows he must give it up, and his family and friends watch nervously as he battles against it. But drink is a hard enemy to fight ...These stories by the Irish writer Maeve Binchy are full of affectionate humour and wit, and sometimes a little sadness
Writer's Choice: Grammar and Composition, Grade 8 is an integrated language arts program that keeps pace with the current trends in the teaching of writing and related communication skills. Features in the Student Edition build on a solid foundation of instruction. The visuals and graphics throughout the textbook engage students' attention and illustrate key concepts and processes. Writer's Choice provides students with the tools for developing skills in writing, reading, researching, speaking, listening, critical thinking, and viewing and representing. Embedded audio support is provided for those pages with a speaker icon in the upper lefthand corner of the page.
