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Author: Joan Hess Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250011965 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 301
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"With her bookstore, the Book Depot, being run by a competent graduate student, Claire Malloy is at loose ends. Her attempt to learn French cooking meets with dismay, so when her daughter, Caron, and Caron's friend Inez sign up to tutor English-as-a-second-language students to beef up their college applications, Claire offers to help tutor. After being turned down as a tutor since she missed the training session, Claire is roped into becoming a board member of the Farberville Literacy Council. She soon learns there are problems with the council's books, and then an elderly Polish student, Ludmilla, is murdered at the council's office. The unpleasant Ludmilla's death is not even mourned by her own grandson, so there are plenty of suspects. As Claire investigates, she uncovers other nefarious deeds that have transpired among the employees of the literacy council, and she becomes a target." --
Author: Joan Hess Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250011965 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 301
Book Description
"With her bookstore, the Book Depot, being run by a competent graduate student, Claire Malloy is at loose ends. Her attempt to learn French cooking meets with dismay, so when her daughter, Caron, and Caron's friend Inez sign up to tutor English-as-a-second-language students to beef up their college applications, Claire offers to help tutor. After being turned down as a tutor since she missed the training session, Claire is roped into becoming a board member of the Farberville Literacy Council. She soon learns there are problems with the council's books, and then an elderly Polish student, Ludmilla, is murdered at the council's office. The unpleasant Ludmilla's death is not even mourned by her own grandson, so there are plenty of suspects. As Claire investigates, she uncovers other nefarious deeds that have transpired among the employees of the literacy council, and she becomes a target." --
Author: Camille Bordas Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0451497554 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent. Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects a great career as a novelist—she's already put Isidore to work on her biography. The only time they leave their rooms is to gather on the old, stained couch and dissect prime-time television dramas in light of Aristotle's Poetics. Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation. But he notices things the others don't, and asks questions they fear to ask. So when tragedy strikes the Mazal family, Isidore is the only one to recognize how everyone is struggling with their grief, and perhaps the only one who can help them—if he doesn't run away from home first. Isidore’s unstinting empathy, combined with his simmering anger, makes for a complex character study, in which the elegiac and comedic build toward a heartbreaking conclusion. With How to Behave in a Crowd, Camille Bordas immerses readers in the interior life of a boy puzzled by adulthood and beginning to realize that the adults around him are just as lost.
Author: P.D. James Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743219589 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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Adam Dalgluish is called to the elegant Steen Psychiatric Clinic to investigate why the head of the clinic, Enid Bolan was found with a chisel through her heart.
Author: Neal Snape Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1137367075 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 246
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Exploring the canonical topics in second language acquisition, this book introduces different theoretical perspectives and explores the types of research carried out in the field. Individual chapters have been written so that they can stand alone, giving instructors and students total control over the pace and order of study, and the book is written in an accessible conversational style, inviting engagement with this dynamic topic. Second Language Acquisition: - Surveys key studies in the acquisition of morphology, syntax and phonology - Features a whole chapter dedicated to bilingualism, tying together two closely-linked fields - Examines the role and implications of pedagogy in language teaching contexts - Employs end-of-chapter questions, concept practice and suggestions for further reading to encourage deeper engagement with topic
Author: Roger W. Shuy Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190203226 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 289
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The Language of Murder Cases describes fifteen court cases for which Roger W. Shuy served as an expert language witness. Investigations and trials in murder cases are guided by the important legal terms describing the mental states of defendants: intentionality, predisposition, and voluntariness. Unfortunately, statutes and dictionaries can provide only loose definitions, largely because mental states are virtually impossible to define. The meaning of these terms, therefore, must be adduced either by inferences and assumptions, or by any available language evidence-often the best window into a speaker's mind. Fortunately, this window of evidence exists primarily in electronically recorded undercover conversations, police interviews, and legal hearings and trials, all of which are subject to linguistic analysis before and during trial. In this book, Shuy explains how vague legal terminology can be clarified by analysis of the language used by suspects, defendants, law enforcement officers, and attorneys. He examines speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, conversational strategies, as well as smaller language units such as syntax, lexicon, and phonology, and discusses how these can play a major role in deciding murder cases. In his analysis, Shuy draws on his personal experience testifying at fifteen fascinating murder trials, focusing on the role that language played in each. He concludes with a summary of how his analyses were regarded by the juries as they struggled with the equally vague concept of reasonable doubt.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime Publisher: ISBN: Category : Assassination Languages : en Pages : 116
Author: Lee Hollis Publisher: Kensington Cozies ISBN: 1496744268 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
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Crisp Christmas weather is made for mittens—and some mittens are made for murder in this delectable holiday cozy mystery anthology! DEATH OF A CHRISTMAS MITTEN KNITTER by LEE HOLLIS The church’s annual Christmas bazaar is an unqualified success until the local jeweler realizes a valuable diamond ring has been stolen. Food writer Hayley Powell joins the search but discovers something shocking—the dead body of a local knitter with a homemade mitten stuffed in her mouth . . . TWO CHRISTMAS MITTENS by LYNN CAHOON Magic Springs, Idaho, is decked out in its sparkling holiday best, but Mia Malone is almost too busy to notice. Taking a second job at the Lodge to save Mia’s Morsels doesn’t leave her much time for festivities—until she finds a dead body near one red mitten in the snow . . . MURDEROUS MITTENS by MADDIE DAY A quiet Christmas in Colinas, California, at her twin sister’s charming B&B is exactly what Cece Barton needs during the holiday hustle of Los Angeles. But the morning after a lovely evening at the local wine bar, Cece learns that the bar’s proprietor, who sells mittens in her spare time, has been found dead . . .
Author: Mitchell F. Jones Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 146027475X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 158
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This wasn't right. Mike had started teaching to get away from seeing dead bodies. Now there he was, staring at the corpse of a colleague slumped at his desk. All the signs point to Gil, a nervous undergrad with a bone to pick with the late Dr. Clerkwell, but something doesn't add up. When a stack of blank diplomas goes missing, Mike realizes there's much more going on at his quiet rural university than he could ever have imagined. Pushed from his peaceful sanctuary, he's forced to call on the military training that he had hoped was all behind him. Full of twists and turns, Murder in Old Main is a thrilling whodunit full of pride, greed, and lust for money that will keep you wondering if anyone can really be trusted....
Author: Daniel F. Solomon Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 1977222374 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 365
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It may have been the best of times. But during the holiday season in Miami in 1990, having a good time was risky. Meet Raquel and her friend Suzy and their biology class, as they take on the US, Florida’s and even Cuba’s criminal justice systems. Meet the diverse city with a mysterious huge backlog of random killings. Meet:
• Foreign intrigue, spies and espionage. • Cultural assimilation and hostility. • Generational and inter-generational conflict. • Dog-napping and animal rights. • Fire bombings. • Riots. Abstract and symbolic cultural art. • Public corruption fraud and Medicare fraud. • Jury trials and administrative hearings involving DNA and other scientific subjects. Foreign and domestic intelligence. • Smuggling, illegal guns, drugs and illegal immigration. • Remittances to Cuba. • Grifters. • Terrorist gangs. • Unscrupulous police and politicians. • Interaction between the State Department, Justice Department and other agencies. • Social Security hearings. • Greyhound racing. • Advanced placement. • PETA. • Comparative religion. • Non-violent direct action. • Religious proselytization and conversion. • Parochial vs. public education. • Religious persecution. • Santeria and Voodoo. • Spells and trances. • Gangsters and ganiffs. • Eugenics, genetics, forensic evidence and expert testimony. • Lukumi. Melungeons. Moors and Christians. Babalus and Rebbes. Meet the exciting diverse cast of characters who populate Miami ’90.
Author: Joan Hess
Author: Joan Hess
Author: Camille Bordas
Author: P.D. James
Author: Neal Snape
Author: Roger W. Shuy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Author: Lee Hollis
Author: Mitchell F. Jones
Author: Daniel F. Solomon
Author: Claire Lefebvre