Laura S : 183 books

Without Marco’s protection, Liam becomes a target for other inmates’ jokes and insults. While he tries hard not to pay attention to anything happening around him, Regina seems to be the only one realizing the danger he really is in. Good deeds never go unpunished, though, and the redhead is soon...

Liam Anderson feels like his life is going down the drain. A former priest sent to prison for double murder, clinging to his beliefs that are slowly fading from his heart, he is given another chance when a young man, Nick Donovan, asks for his help so that he would not get raped by other inmates....

Karl Thorne’s life is comfortably dull. Secretly in love with his straight boss, he prefers working as Dick Chamberlain’s personal assistant, despite his otherwise impressive educational background. What he doesn’t expect is his life being turned upside down by Dick’s brother, Gordon, who...

Life has not been nice lately for Colt Andrews who has to deal with family problems more than what others have to deal with on a regular basis. The last thing he needs is a sexy as hell mafia kingpin walking into his shop and asking for protection money. While his finances are too much at odds to...

There are many things in life people regret and there are things they just cannot let go. Blake Everton wants to cut all the ties with his past, but there is just one thing he cannot seem to forget about so he can have a clean slate and start the life his family wants for him. Getting a male escort...

Jake is young, wild, and runs with his brother's bad-ass gang. But he has a secret he needs to hide. When he is saved from a rival gang by a guy with eyes blue as the summer's sky, all dressed up in an Armani suit and moves like Bruce Lee, the walls he carefully built around him start to crumble.

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Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools,...

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Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBASs' effectiveness at achieving their performance goals. This document explores the design...

Politics pervades every link in the food chain from the farm to the fork. It influences what foods we eat, how much they cost, what we know about them, and how safe they are. This book brings the point home by focusing on the vexing issue of dietary fat content - known to be a health menace but also...

This report examines Pittsburgh Public Schools' implementation and outcomes of the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program from school years 2007-2008 through 2010-2011, how principals and other school staff have responded to the reforms, and what outcomes accompanied program implementation.

Given the focus on accountability in education, stakeholders are interested in evaluating whether efforts aimed at improving school leadership show results; the key criteria are student outcomes. This report describes challenges that states, districts, and other entities can expect to encounter as they...

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.