When Jessica asks her twin sister Alessandra for help with a blackmailer she gets more than she bargained for.
Decades after the gruesome murder of his parents, Luke learns of a forgotten inheritance; a rustic cabin buried deep in the Wasatch Mountains. The property rekindles Luke’s fragmented memories of that fateful night and unearths new horrors
Jokes are a perfect format for learning vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar. Jokes are also designed to be retold. If you learn a joke by heart and tell it to other people, then by doing so you will also learn the grammar and vocabulary involved.
The book also contains exercises designed to reveal whether you have understood the joke or not
This edited book promotes thinking, dialogue, research and theorisation on multiple ways of making connections in mathematics teaching and learning in early childhood education.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern financial modeling using Excel, VBA, standards of financial modeling and model review. It offers guidance on essential modeling concepts around the four core financial activities in the modern financial industry today: financial management; corporate finance; portfolio management and financial derivatives.
Economics has always had an unstable reputation in the academic world as well as in the public eye. Some consider economists to be scientists while others see them as disguised ideologues. The resulting insecurity of their discipline’s status has driven economists continually to redefine its scope, methods, and content.
A disgraced scientist develops a hair growth formula derived from pickled wolfsbane.
Don’t let the title fool you. The Sleeping Dictionary is the most seductive argument for foreign-language education a boy ever had and is by far one of the best romantic movies where love triumphs over the traditional hypocrisy of so-called civilized society.
Hugh Dancy is a young and idealistic colonial official posted to Britain’s deep-jungle Sarawak outpost in 1939, and Jessica Alba is the “sleeping dictionary,” a sexy tutor who proves that the fastest way to learn a language is through lovemaking. Guy Jenkin trades in old clichés for new ones in his revision of the exotic old melodramas of forbidden love between handsome colonial men and gorgeous, guileless native girls.
Two brothers’ relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competition for a mysterious young woman who arrives on their island. The entire family reaches a breaking point brought about by startling revelations about their mother’s fidelity, love, friendship and betrayal.
A singer-songwriter chasing fame and a journalism student researching his thesis are drawn into a sinister underworld as each attempts to discover the truth behind the curse of “The 27 Club”.
When Michele Chadwick’s best friend Sophia accidentally awakens the spirit of a malevolent witch that died centuries ago, Michele has to find a way to save her soul from eternal damnation.
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.