Cover Blurb: "In her sizzling, award-winning novels of suspense, bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann delves into the adrenaline-rushed world of counterterrorism--and taps into the real passions of its brave men and women. Now, in her widely anticipated hardcover debut, she spins a story of action, intrigue, and romance, as a U.S. Navy SEAL and an FBI agent race to unravel a mystery-- while confronting their own unresolved feelings for each other... In his career as one of America's elite warriors, Lt.
Strange things happen to Lucy and Paul when they go on a school trip to Greenland. A ghostly Viking ship appears in a mirage and the two teenagers soon find themselves confronting the ghosts of Eric the Red and his daughter, Freydis. Are they imagining it, or are the ghosts real? What must the teenagers do to help the ghostly Vikings find eternal rest?
Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder
A fascinating and sobering look at why some men break all the rules and what makes them behave the way they do Whether called black sheep, sociopaths, con men, or misfits, some men break all the rules. They shirk everyday responsibilities, abuse drugs and alcohol, take up criminal careers , and lash out at family members. In the worst cases, they commit rape, murder, and other acts of extreme violence. What makes these men behave as if they had no conscience?
Confronting Metaphor in Use: An applied linguistic approach (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series) [
It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended to background the linguistic form of metaphor and have largely ignored how this connects to its role in the discourses in which our lives are constructed and lived.
Evie is different. Not just her upbringing-though that's certainly been unusual-but also her mindset. She's smart, independent, confident, opinionated, and ready to take on a new challenge: The Institution of School. It doesn't take this homeschooled kid long to discover that high school is a whole new world, and not in the way she expected. It's also a social minefield, and Evie finds herself confronting new problems at every turn, failing to follow or even understand the rules, and proposing solutions that aren't welcome or accepted.
