Gambling on the Goddess
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The goddess in DeeAnna Galbraith‘s Gambling on the Goddess is Pallas, named for Pallas Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and War, and the Queen of Spades.
She’s a financial genius and poker player extraordinaire. At Lake Tahoe to solve a family mystery and win the money she needs to launch her career, Pallas meets Danny Tarantino, a casino owner. Danny’s club is his whole life, and someone’s out to destroy it, a situation that threatens Pallas’ plans as much as her attraction to Danny threatens her peace of mind. He has enough to handle without worrying about the red-headed beauty he can’t seem to get out of his thoughts, especially when she’s determined to get involved. Together, they must find out who’s behind both the attacks on Danny’s club and a twenty-year-old murder, but can they stay alive long enough to answer the question: Can a goddess and a gambler live happily ever after?
Moonlight Bleu
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Written by Renee Munoz, Moonlight Bleu is the story of Saari Mitchell. Saari …
sees a psychologist in order to understand why – 500 years later – she’s still dreaming of her dead lover. Her shrink isn’t helping, the nightmares come every time she closes her eyes, and the lack of sleep is interfering with her job at Sacred Heart Hospital. With her psychic ability to heal the human spirit on the fritz, her auric radar becomes as reliable as her spotty cell phone service. By day, Dhelis Guidry works as a detective for the new Angeles Police Department investigating the missing or murdered women in the Full-Moon Killer case. In his spare time he hunts rogue vampires as a Tueri executioner. Brogan Vincent is a Tueri healer. Though he could offer his miraculous talents to the rich and powerful, he has chosen anonymity and peace by only using his psychic abilities among the Tueri. One look into Saari’s tri-colored eyes and both men realize she is Tueri. One touch tells them each she’s their soul mate. But can either of them protect her from the Full-Moon Killer?
Jiang Li, Warrior Woman of Yueh
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From Amazon. In Jiang Li, Warrior Woman of Yueh, Lenora Rain-Lee Good
… tells the story of one of the epic battles of Ancient China-between the enemy states of Yueh and Wu. Marked by the magic of White Tiger Mother and trained to use the staff by the great mountain ape, Grandfather Wang, Jiang Li grows into a beautiful woman, loved by all in Yueh who meet her. Faced with the choice of becoming concubine to the Prince whom she loves, or a warrior and savior of Yueh, she forfeits love of a man for love of her country. While Jiang Li trains to save the State of Yueh, another woman warrior, Brother Rat, trains to save her State of Wu. The two women meet in dreams, and by the time they meet in life, they have become friends who must fight to the death.
My Adventures As Brother Rat
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Here’s what one reviewer had to say about My Adventures As Brother Rat by Lenora Rain-Lee Good:
Orphaned after her village is massacred by bandits, young Lin Yao makes her way to the kingdom of Wu Shi-en. There she is taken in by the king’s elderly Healer and raised as his niece and protégé. But Lin Yao’s fate is not what it seems. One night she is visited in dreams by a mysteriously beautiful woman who calls her by her childhood nickname of Brother Rat and demands to fight her. Frightened by the nightmare, Lin Yao confides in her healer uncle, who deduces the identity of the mysterious woman as none other than the dreaded Jiang Li, a fierce female warrior of the enemy kingdom Yueh who may have mystical powers. The dream must be a warning.
Thus Lin Yao begins on her path of destiny. It is decided she must train as a soldier under the kingdom’s legendary General Sun Wu if she has any hope of surviving a future confrontation with Jiang Li. To keep her preparations secret, she assumes the male persona of Brother Rat during her military training, while maintaining her apprenticeship as the Healer’s niece Lin Yao. Through her adventures as Brother Rat, she becomes a trusted soldier who excels in healing arts on the battlefield and gains ties to a powerful family. As Lin Yao, she shows masterful diplomacy as a tactful ambassador, falls in love with a foreign prince and saves a kingdom. Andrea Green
Original Loss Revisited
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A follow-on to her earlier book, Original Loss, Donna Underwood revisits the topic of grieving. Original Loss Revisited: From Response to Integration delves into the problems caused by unresolved grief that can last for years or decades and ways to address these unresolved losses.
Grief Works
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This book by Donna Reutzel Underwood deals with the necessity of grief work when death comes suddenly, unexpected, uninvited and sometimes violently.
FrenchShip
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FrenchShip: An American’s One-Year Adventure on the French Mediterranean by Allen Johnson is the true, invariably funny adventure story of an American couple in Southern France – including all the confusion, faux pas, and laughter. Also included is an insightful comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of both American and French cultures.
Student Inquiry
Student Inquiry: Conducting Real World Investigations in Your Classroom by Maureen Doyle McQuerry …
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shows teachers how to create an inquiry classroom that allows individual or groups of students to actively pursue ideas using sound research skills. Maureen McQuerry provides an overview of the semester in 40 mini-lessons and presents guidelines for moving students from the brainstorming stage through thesis development and research to the product and presentation stage. Dozens of reproducible handouts allow teachers to implement an inquiry classroom (or inject inquiry learning into their current classroom curriculum) quickly and easily, and valuable tips help teachers find mentors, keep students to deadlines, oversee multiple student projects at once, find or establish a telecollaborative project with students from across the country or around the world, and much more. Teachers will be amazed at what their students can accomplish if allowed to explore their interests and pursue their passions!
Power Within
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The Power Within; The Five Disciplines of Personal Effectiveness by Allen Johnson describes how the five disciplines of love, responsibility, vision, commitment, and service work together to generate personal and organizational well-being.
Nuclear Legacy: Students of Two Atomic Cities
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Edited by Maureen Doyle McQuerry and Tetyana Gavrish, Nuclear Legacy was written by middle school students from the nuclear cities of Richland, Washington, and Slavutich, Ukraine, close to the Chornobyl disaster. In addition to nuclear background provided by the students of these important atomic cities, the book includes rich detail of the everyday life of these students.
Here’s what’s been said about Nuclear Legacy:
- 2001 Independent Publisher’s Award Winner for Young Adult Non-Fiction