Payne: 828 books

A timid teacher must save a child at risk from abusive parents. Violet lives a quiet, solitary life as a kindergarten teacher. But she worries about her student’s home life. When a handsome social worker talks at her school, she realizes her student’s parents are cooking methamphetamine. As...

Delilah and Hummingbird are twins, separated at birth in a most horrific and brutal fashion. Both girls born with extra-ordinary powers, able to inhabit and know the minds of the simplest of creatures to the most complex. Delilah grows up around people and is so powerful, she moves among them like...

Few if any of us forget our first love: for some it can remain an all-consuming obsession of a lifetime. My Lost Prize looks at the phenomenon of first love through the real-life stories of three of the worlds greatest writers, three geniuses who never got over their first loves and drew upon their experiences to create some of their greatest work.

Favorite Russian Fairy Tales, Irish Fairy Tales, Japanese Fairy Tales, Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales and North American Indian Legends.

Guard Your Core: 17 Life Lessons on Me, Myself & I provides a succinctly engaging yet revelatory roadmap for improving life balance. Your core type and your personality type dictate what and who you are. Your core is made up of mind, body and spirit (emotions). One of these outweighs the other two facets...

In 2013, Eli Mandel decided to recreate the 642-mile trek that John Keats completed in the summer of 1818, hoping to learn more about the famous poet who died at the age of twenty-five. As Mandel matches his “ghostly companion’s” journey step-for-step, the moments of discovery turn inward and Mandel is forced to face his own ghosts.

Addicted to gaming and looking for his next fix, Joe Denver hears of ultra-realistic games run by the mob underground. He finds hmself in the most popular game of them all, the zombie apocalypse game called Deadhead, with a huge money prize at stake. But Joe is about to get a lot more than he bargained for. Features character sheets, weapon stats, dice rolling and more.  

Dimensional Analysis for Nursing Students will help you understand why and how dimensional analysis is applied to medication calculations. This book has the “What You Need To Know” and more. There are explanations, examples, and practice problems for PO(By Mouth), Injections, and Flow Rates. It’s colorful, informative, and fun!

There was a voice of many waters--the bland musical tone of mountain streams singing as they wend their way over the smooth round pebbles of their hilly bed towards the sea. And the song of life, too, was heard from every field, and every glade, and every valley; the trilling of innumerable birds, the...

Merry England!--Oh, merry England! What a difference has there always been between thee and every other land! What a cheerfulness there seems to hang about thy very name! What yeoman-like hilarity is there in all the thoughts of the past! What a spirit of sylvan cheer and rustic hardihood in all the...

How strange the sensation would be, how marvelously interesting the scene, were we to wake up from some quiet night's rest and find ourselves suddenly transported four or five hundred years back--living and moving among the men of a former age! To pass from the British fortress of Gibraltar, with drums...

The professors at the American University of the Southern Balkans, AUSB, have become lazy, complacent and resistant to change, so when a new reforming departmental chair is appointed with a brief to shake them up, they mount a witch hunt to have him fired. At the same time the US president is trying...

His soul-mate predicted to come "from afar", will Logan, Earl of Davenport, aided by his friend Lord Byron—and Logan's favourite riding crop—find his destiny when the independent Esme Tyme finds herself transported from contemporary Boston, Massachusetts to Regency England? Esme Tyme,...

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic and cognitive tool that is frequently used...