Laura Mills: 6 books

Seeds of love are being planted on a Colorado farm, but will love grow and blossom between a rebel bookkeeper and a devoted farm girl as they are forced to weather the storm of an emotional past? It takes dedication and hard work to run a farm, and Susan Rhinehart can attest to that since every...

In 1820 England, Melissa Howard disguises herself so she can participate in racing thoroughbreds. Focused on winning she doesn't think twice about participating in a sport traditionally banning women, and is quite confident that she won't be noticed. But she is noticed, and not for the reasons she...

Caroline Bradley’s dreams of having a family are shattered when she loses her husband to a horrific accident. On his deathbed, he’d written her a letter, pleading with her in a shocking request. Now she’s torn between honoring her late husband’s wishes and her most secret feelings. Elijah...

In 1945, faculty and students at Chicago�s Central YMCA College walked out to protest admission quotas on race and religion and created one of the nation�s first institutions to admit all qualified students. Despite having no endowment, library, or campus, Roosevelt College attracted more than 1,000...

The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...

This report reviews the literature on how assessment affects teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship. The authors identify a wide variety of effects that testing might have on teachers' activities in the classroom and a number of conditions that affect the impact that assessment may have on practice.