Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: hanging
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-01-05
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312980000
ISBN-13: 9780312980009
Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It’s a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows. As dedicated readers of the series well know, nob
Author: Margaret Bechard
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Keywords: max, hanging
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0689862687
ISBN-13: 9780689862687
It’s Sam Pettigrew’s last year of high school. And he’s spending it figuring out how, at age seventeen, he is supposed to care for his baby son, Max. Max wasn’t part of the plan. He wasn’t even part of the backup plan. But he’s here now, and Sam is attending an alternative high school with other teen parents like himself. Talk about a wake-up call. But Sam is determined to make it work, to show everyone -- his dad, his new girlfriend, himself -- that he has what it takes to be a good dad. Trading footballs for diaper bags and college brochures for feeding
Author: Lois-ann Yamanaka
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: hanging, blu
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0380731398
ISBN-13: 9780380731398
On the Hawaiian island of Molokai, life goes on for the three young Ogata children after the death of their mother and subsequent emotional withdrawal of their grief and guilt-stricken "Poppy." The eldest at 13, Ivah is now responsible for the safety and well-being of tiny Maisie, vulnerable and mute since their mother’s passing; and for Blu, her uncontainable brother whose desperate need for love has made him vulnerable to the most insidious of relationships.On the Hawaiian island of Molokai, life goes on for the three young Ogata children after the death of their mother and subsequent
Author: Duane Brown
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: hanging, dropping
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1998-07-11
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0844245372
ISBN-13: 9780844245379
Dropping Out or Hanging In * SELF-QUIZZES, EXERCISES, & OTHER ACTIVITIES. Help at-risk students think through the consequences of leaving school before graduation. * LIFE EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES. Help students develop life goals, evaluate their interests and beliefs, and gain some decision-making skills. * SPECIAL ALTERNATIVES CHAPTER. Alerts students to alternative high schools, GED programs, and other options available to dropouts who decide to "drop in" later. * CONVERSATIONAL LANGUAGE. Easy for students to read and relate to as they work through the text.
Author: Jillian Watkinson
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Keywords: tree, hanging
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0702234753
ISBN-13: 9780702234750
Twenty-five years later, Wilson’s nephew Bill decides to tell some of the stories hidden beneath his own family’s silence. He finds a letter, written before he was born, by a young woman who loved two of the charismatic Masters brothers. Seeking out the letter writer, Bill journeys into his family’s past and also begins to change the shape of the future. Set against a backdrop of social change in twentieth-century Australia, The Hanging Tree revisits people and places from Jillian Watkinson’s prizewinning novel, The Architect.
Author: Sara Douglass
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Keywords: wall, hanging
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-10-03
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765343770
ISBN-13: 9780765343772
A missing prince...A mythical creature...An age-old mysteryLike his physician father, sixteen-year-old Garth Baxtor is gifted with the Touch. By laying his hands upon his patients, Garth can sense the illness that dwells within and promote healing. But illness is not all he can sense, as he learns when he accompanies his father to the underground mines known as the Veins to minister to the criminals condemned to labor there, beyond the hanging wall. Applying his hands to the wound of one prisoner known only as Lot No. 859, Garth is stunned to discover that the man is no common criminal....With
Author: Fred H. Harrington
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: judge, hanging
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 1996-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0806128399
ISBN-13: 9780806128399
