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Grade level: 7-12.
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Mick Cutler is a self-reliant young man recently separated from his special forces background and a past of fast-paced and dangerous clandestine activities he wishes to forget. Soon to be married, he now lives his dream enjoying a quiet small-town life, offering his sailboat and its captain for tourist cruises or fishing charters. His fiance, Kate, disappears leaving no trace and few clues. Mick begins a frantic search teaming with two strangers. Their travels lead from one shore to the other, upon secret military bases, into rural mountain seclusion, and peaceful coastal resorts to our divergent government operating within the shadows. If you enjoy a book filled with fast-paced action-adventure or a surprising mystery thriller, you will enjoy Operating Within the Shadows!
'The tall trees nearby called them up and red-tailed black cockatoos carried messages to them that they told no one else about.' Pushing Back is John Kinsella's most haunting and timely fiction to date. It is populated with eccentric, compelling characters, drifters, unlikely friendships, the silences of dissolving relationships, haunted dwellings and lonely highways, the ghosts of cleared bushland and the threats of right-wing nationalists and senseless destruction. A couple make love in an abandoned asbestos house, a desperate carpet cleaner beholden to the gig economy begs a financially distressed client not to cancel his booking, an addict cannot bear to see his partner without the watch...
This mission might be their last. Humanity can’t win. Lieutenant Daniel West and his soldiers will never overcome the crushing odds of a direct assault against superior alien forces. Every simulation test they’ve run ends the same way—in death. But, they have no other choice. The only option is to destroy the Gresians forever, or face Earth being overrun by alien forces. Forever. Good thing Daniel has no problem eradicating an enemy that shows no mercy. He won’t risk standing by and allowing the Gresians to enslave those he loves. So, when orders come down, he’s ready to take the war straight to the enemy’s home turf. But the Gresian’s planetary defense systems destroy half their platoon before they can even land on the alien world,nd when a counterattack is launched against Earth, the support ships are forced to pull back from Gresian space—leaving the team stranded, with orders to finish the mission. By any means necessary. In the end, there’ll be only one way to give his team a slim chance at survival and restore hope for humanity’s future. But it will require Daniel to make the toughest choice of all.
In the land of the Navajo, spirits and desire draw Ethan and Kate close, leading them deeper into the shadows and to each other. It’s been five years since a woman came between Ethan Barstow and his brother, Charley, and it’s high time they buried the hatchet. When Ethan travels to Arizona Territory to make amends, he learns that Charley has abruptly disappeared after breaking more than one heart in town. And an indignant fiancée is hot on his trail. When Charley Barstow abandons a local girl after getting her pregnant, Kate Kinsella pursues him without a second thought. She’s determined he set things right, and even more determined to end her own engagement to him, a sham from the be...
Lack of reading proficiency is a barrier to understanding the academic content of any discipline. Effective Practice for Adolescents with Reading and Literacy Challenges provides secondary teachers with the knowledge and the strategies they need to improve their students' reading skills. Editors Denti and Guerin present a comprehensive collection of articles by a selection of prominent literacy and education researchers that provide practical approaches to improving literacy and offer accounts of successful evidence-based programs and practices that can be tailored to the needs of teachers working with struggling readers. Each chapter includes questions for review, a list of web resources, and suggested small group activities to encourage implementation of chapter ideas and strategies, making Effective Practice for Adolescents with Reading and Literacy Challenges a valuable tool for all teachers, regardless of content area.