Karen L : 267 books

A Shock to the System is a guide to the decisions that will be faced by electricity providers, customers, and policymakers. Produced by a team of analysts at Resources for the Future, this concise and balanced work provides background necessary to understand the increasing role of competition in electricity...

For many women around the globe, health has become the central intersection of the personal and the political; women's bodies are the arena for policy debates about population, poverty, reproduction, and morality. Women's Global Health: Norms and State Policies is a comprehensive assessment of health...

Fantastic detectives come in many forms, from dogs to elves to eggs. (Yes, eggs.) And fantastic detective stories come in all mystery subgenres, from cozy to hard-boiled. (Remember. Eggs.) All of these forms and subgenres combine to create one of the most delightful additions to the Fiction River...

A murdered caravan merchant, a threatened city, and a forbidden magick that could start a war. As Marshall of the City of Dreams, Marcellus deim Lazar must solve the murder of a half-breed deim merchant discovered in a place no deim should be. The death could ignite a fire that will ravage...

Step through the portal and enter the world of Faerie. What if you followed a path through a city park, and found yourself in another land? What if the archway you just passed is really a portal to Faerie? What if the guardian of an opening into our world has perished, and left the doorway...

Life happened. I had a marriage of almost twenty years, two wonderful sons, a successful but unfulfilling career in corporate America, and a divorce. I needed a change. Who would have thought that a New Years resolution to Live somewhere else and do something different would have been so life changing?...

This exciting new book is for school leaders who are interested in transforming their school and district practices. Discussing issues that impact students, teachers within their classrooms, and the larger school community, Formative Assessment Leadership explores how leaders can implement effective...

Suspicion falls perilously close to home, when someone steals Rachel Wilkes’ Great Grandmother’s heirloom ring right before the museum show that will celebrate the grand lady’s contributions to the town. In this story of what it means to be family, will solving the crime bring peace to the Wilkes household, or will it further drive a wedge between Rachel and her sons?

When bandits take fifteen-year-old Ravi captive in their stilted town, he knows he has to get free and find his father before something bad happens. But then the sharp toothed, tattooed man arrives and the ‘something bad’ becomes something far worse than he could ever imagine.

An Affair Of The Mind deals with the three sides of a love affair: the thoughts, the feelings, and the truth.

Two years ago Rebecca Murray lost her husband and her laughter. She began living life by going through the motions. On a blizzard night, her sixteen-year-old son goes missing from the family ranch. Rebecca must brave the snow storm in order to find him. But the night and the wilderness bring dangers....

A dead girl, an empty British police box where one shouldn’t be and a school full of suspects with too many unusual powers. When student, Vallon Drake discovers the dead body of a girl and a British police box standing outside the American Geological Survey Preparatory Academy, she knows someone...

Loner.Bad Girl.Secret Agent. In this mystery thriller Vallon Drake, investigator and agent of the ultra-secret American Geological Survey, finds her latest partner entombed in the wall of a parking garage that didn’t exist just a few hours earlier.  The AGS, an arm of Homeland...

When someone moves the Canada/US border along the flooding Red River, the American Geological Survey assigns freshman agent Vallon Drake to find the culprit and repair the damage. If she doesn’t it could destroy the peace between the two nations.   But solving a crime in the...