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When Gulf War veteran Jim Asher joins the Senate campaign of a California business magnate, his all-American dream world begins to collapse as he must face up to his excesses, his indiscretions, and the person he has unwillingly become.
Drawing on scholarship as well as established practice, A Handbook for Student Engagement in Higher Education is a sector-leading volume that unpacks the concept of student engagement. It provides ideas and examples alongside compelling theory- and research-based evidence to offer a thorough and innovative exploration of how students and staff can work together to genuinely transform the higher education learning experience. Providing readers with evidence from successfully embedded schemes, the book uses case studies and practical, workable examples from a variety of international institutions. With the insight of world-leading contributors, it showcases what good practice looks like in hig...
After thirteen years as a homicide detective, his wife dead, and his best friend shot in a robbery, Sean O’Brien feels like he’s been through a war. He leaves the streets of Miami for a simpler life on the banks of the St. Johns River near the Ocala National Forest. What he discovers there, however, opens a dark door to something more frightening than anything he ever investigated in Miami. O’Brien has bought an old, rundown home and begun repairs when he sees a man walking chest-deep in the nearby alligator-infested river. The man is holding a pole, searching for something. Soon afterward, O’Brien finds a young woman hidden near the river, and she’s clinging to life. She whispers ...
Caroline Harper still thinks of him every day. For more than fifty years, not a day goes by when Caroline doesn't think of her brother Andy. The last time she saw Andy was when he left home to spend thirty days at Florida's largest reform school. Caroline's family was told that Andy ran away in the middle of the night. Fifty years later, Sean O'Brien receives a letter from a dead man. A year earlier the man had hired Sean O'Brien and chartered his boat for a fishing trip. Now the man is reaching from the grave to hire him again. But this time it's to find a killer. Jackson County-the location of the old reform school, still carries smoldering baggage from the Civil War, and after a half-century, there are those who don't want a forensics investigation on the property, because to do so will reveal one of the nation's darkest secrets.
"Forget Me Not will stay with your forever. It is a beautifully written story of great love, great daring, great loss, and great recovery. Most of all, it is a story of great courage." - Tom Brokaw High in the Himalaya, a world-class adventurer dies, leaving a wife, three young sons and a best friend to cope with their grief... In 1999, well-known mountaineer, Alex Lowe, died tragically in an avalanche on the remote Himalayan Mountain Shishapangma, leaving his wife Jennifer alone to raise their three children. Alex was widely considered one of the greatest modern climbers of our time, and the world mourned his loss. Tom Brokaw interviewed Jennifer Lowe and Conrad Anker for Dateline, and Stin...
When Courtney Burke appears at Ponce Marina on a humid summer morning, she leaves Sean O'Brien with a haunting tale. Her story could lead O'Brien down a path that began with a brutal rape forty years earlier and hidden family secrets spawned from the desecration of the innocent. O'Brien learns that Courtney is linked to a series of carnival murders. Police are convinced she's a serial killer, and all of her victims are men. But like the illusions found in the carnival's House of Mirrors, nothing is as it appears. Just beyond the looking glass is where evil watches from a one-way mirror. When the Courtney faces a conviction for murder, O'Brien remembers something she told him, something so strange he'd originally dismissed it. To alter the future, to save Courtney's life, O'Brien must penetrate dark deeds that began in a church forty years earlier.
In the world of maritime treasure hunting, former college professor Walt Baker is about to hit the lottery. More than 300 years ago, legendary Spanish galleon, Santa Ramona, sank in a hurricane somewhere off the coast of Florida. The ship was carrying gold, silver, jewels, and artifacts worth an estimated 10 billion in today's dollars. With ten billion at stake, the best criminal minds will scheme to take what's not theirs. When they try to frame Sean O'Brien's friend, Nick Cronus, for the murder of one of Walt Baker's divers, O'Brien begins to put the puzzle pieces together and sees a frightening picture ... not only for Nick but also for Walt, his daughter, and every member of the salvage crew.When one of the richest treasures in nautical history is found on the ocean floor, the sharks start to circle. And as they come closer, they begin enclosing around one man, because the only thing standing in their way to recover billions is Sean O'Brien.
What Happens to the Moon? This is the story of Louie the Loon and his pursuit in trying to find out why the moon changes shape in the nighttime sky. Join Louie the Loon and his pal Ollie the Owl in their adventures around Lake Satchakoon. "About the author: " Tom Lowe is a resident of Gloucester Township, New Jersey, and is a high school history teacher. He is the father of three children, Douglas, Samantha, and Christopher. Tom has written a book on genealogy, and is an avid canoeist on the waterways around his South Jersey home.
Two of the best food writers working today tackle a subject that has been in need of a definitive and fresh guide for many years. In this book, the authors share a knowledge on game cooking that is unrivalled in print form. They show how game offers so many wonderful and affordable choices for the home cook and just how easy it is to source, prepare and cook ‚ something that precious few people seem to realise. They set out to completely demystify their subject and offer expert advice on how to joint, prepare, cook and enjoy every possible aspect of the foods that are hunted from the lands, skies and waters of Britain. Written with extreme clarity, insight and passion, and divided into chapters on four legs, two legs and no legs, this book really does explore every possible part of the world of game that you could ever wish to know. A true tour de force from a writing team at the height of their powers. Voted one of the Sunday Telegraph's Books of the Year
This is a stirring collection of photographs, many of them never-before-seen, by Jacques Lowe, who chronicled Camelot as JFKUs personal photographer.