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Jane Doe lives in the shadows under an assumed name. A once-promising anthropologist and an expert on shamanism, everyone thinks she's dead. Or so she hopes. Jimmy Paz is a Cuban-American police detective. Straddling two cultures, he understands things others cannot. When the killings start -- a series of ritualistic murders -- all of Miami is terrified. Especially Jane. She knows the dark truth that Jimmy must desperately search to uncover. As their...

The ultimate guide to improving SAT scores with practical strategies and examples, comprehensive subject reviews, practice tests and explanations, and much more! Every college-bound student wants the best test scores possible. But with a wide variety of test-prep books available, how do you know you're choosing the right one to help you most? Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber's life's work: rather than rote memorization of...

Lloyd Gruber is an Assistant Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. The last few decades have witnessed an extraordinary transfer of policy-making prerogatives from individual nation-states to supranational institutions. If you think this is cause for celebration, you are not alone. Within the academic community (and not only among students of international cooperation), the notion that political institutions...

Karim ist zwölf Jahre alt und lebt mit seinen Eltern in Syrien. Sie führen ein bescheidenes, aber glückliches Leben. Dann kommt der Krieg und nimmt ihm den Vater, Karim und seine Mutter müssen aus Syrien fliehen. Die beiden haben verschiedene Stationen auf einer beschwerlichen Reise zu bewältigen, die oft angstbesetzt und entbehrungsreich ist-aber auch voller Hoffnung. In dieser Zeit treffen sie auf hilfsbereite, aber ebenso bedrohliche und intolerante...

In the 1970s, a young man, eager to experience life like Thoreau and Walden, takes his wife and moves to a rural Idaho log cabin in this memoir. When Bill Gruber left Philadelphia for graduate school in Idaho, he and his wife decided to experience true rural living. His longing for the solitude and natural beauty that Thoreau found on Walden Pond led him to buy an abandoned log cabin and its surrounding forty acres in Alder Creek, a town considered...

The ultimate guide to helping your child succeed on tests both now and as they grow up, with practical strategies and examples, comprehensive subject reviews, practice exams and explanations, and much more! All parents want their children to be as successful as possible and to reach their fullest potential, and, in today's education climate, test taking is more important to a student's success and growth than ever before. So how can you make sure...

The ultimate guide to improving ACT scores with practical strategies and examples, comprehensive subject reviews, practice tests and explanations, and much more! Every college-bound student wants the best test scores possible. But with a wide variety of test-prep books available, how do you know you're choosing the right one to help you most? Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber's life's work: rather than rote memorization of individual...

Adrienne Gruber's third full poetry collection, Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.

Der Killer und die alte Dame: Mallorcas Top-Detektivin jagt einen Serienmörder. Ein skrupelloser Mörder versetzt Mallorca in Angst und Schrecken. Seine Opfer: junge Touristinnen. Inspector Héctor Ballester verfolgt die Spur des Täters – unterstützt von Top-Detektivin Johanna Miebach und ihrer Enkelin Gemma. Doch während das ungleiche Trio verzweifelt weitere Morde zu verhindern sucht, erlebt die Baleareninsel ihre dunkelste Stunde: Eine harmlose...