Il cielo è immenso sopra di lei ed è così blu da fare male. Janie stringe gli occhi per non rimanere accecata. Non è più abituata a tutta quella luce. Janie ha ventotto anni, ma gli ultimi dieci li ha trascorsi in prigione, in cella di isolamento. Proprio lei, ragazza bella e ricca di Beverly Hills, viziata reginetta del liceo. Accusata di aver ucciso sua madre Marion, una donna esigente con cui non aveva un bel rapporto. Perché Janie era un'adolescente ribelle e contestatrice e sua madre non faceva nulla per nascondere la delusione di non avere la figlia perfetta. Tutte le prove erano contro di lei. Dopo l'ennesima notte di baldoria, era stata trovata priva di sensi accanto al cadavere della madre. Le mani sporche di sangue e le sue impronte dappertutto. Incapace di raccontare cosa fosse successo. Ma Janie ha sempre creduto di essere innocente. Ricorda poco della notte dell'omicidio, lo shock le ha confuso la mente, ma sa di aver sentito sua madre avere un alterco con uno sconosciuto e rammenta un nome, Adeline. E adesso che il suo avvocato è riuscito a farla uscire di prigione, Janie non ha dubbi. Deve dimostrare, soprattutto a sé stessa, di non essere colpevole. Deve diventare la figlia che Marion ha sempre sognato. Adeline è una città dell'Illinois. E lì che Janie deve andare se vuole capire la verità. Una città piccola e sperduta in mezzo alla campagna. Una comunità chiusa che guarda con sospetto e ostilità la nuova arrivata. E che nasconde tutte le risposte che Janie cerca...

Engineers continue to turn to Engineering Design to learn the tools and techniques of formal design that will be useful in framing the design problems. Insights and tips on team dynamics are provided because design and research is increasingly done in teams. Readers are also introduced to conceptual design tools like objectives trees, morphological charts, and requirement matrices. Case studies are included that show the relevance of these tools to practical settings. The third edition offers a view of the design tools that even the greenest of engineers will have in their toolbox in the coming years.

This heavily illustrated, self-teaching guide to ASL--American Sign Language--is useful both for the deaf and for those men and women who teach or work among deaf people. E-Z American Sign Language presents ASL's 10 key grammatical rules and emphasizes the use of 'facial grammar' as an important supplement to manual signing. Most of the book's content takes the form of a presentation of more than 800 captioned line drawings that illustrate signs for their equivalent words and then show how to combine signs in order to communicate detailed statements. Barron's E-Z Series books are updated, and re-formatted editions of Barron's older and perennially popular Easy Way books. Titles in the new E-Z Series feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever. All are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide variety of practical and academic subjects, written on levels that range from senior high school to college-101 standards.

All children deserve a chance to learn to love reading. The Joyful Reading Resource Kit offers teachers an impressive array of tools, resources, and activities for getting students at all levels excited about reading while developing their proficiency in comprehension. Serving as a companion to Joyful Reading, the book offers teachers everything they need to implement the Schoolwide Enrichment Model in Reading (SEM-R), a differentiated instructional approach that encourages students to read independently for a period of time each day on books of their own choice. Implemented in three phases, the SEM-R program has been shown by research to improve fluency and comprehension among at-risk students. The Joyful Reading Resource Kit includes:

• Reproducible 'bookmarks' for scaffolding students in critical thinking and comprehension activities

• Extensive lists of recommended books

• Tips for supporting students in selection of appropriately challenging books

• Materials for managing independent reading in the classroom, including log sheets, five-minute conference tips, writing prompts, assessment rubrics, and a reading growth chart

• Exciting enrichment resources to develop students' reading interests, including a survey form, online books, Web-based activities, and Renzulli Learning resources

• Hands-On Creativity activities that help students elaborate ideas, develop fluency, brainstorm, and much more

• Reproducible X-ploration projects on varied topics that students can pursue independently at their own pace

The Joyful Reading Resource Kit is a vital compendium not only for classroom teachers but also for parents and after-school educators who wish to support students in discovering the rich rewards and delights of reading.

Joyful Reading offers teachers a differentiated instructional approach for motivating students at varied levels to discover the rewards and delights of reading appropriately challenging books. Authored by Sally M. Reis, an acclaimed scholar of gifted and talented education, the book describes the Schoolwide Enrichment Model for Reading (SEM-R), an easy-to-implement program that encourages students to read independently for a period of time during the school day on books of their own choice while supporting them in learning comprehension strategies. The program includes three phases:

• a Book Hook component in which the teacher reads aloud from a high-interest book while engaging the class in critical thinking responses
• a Supported Independent Reading component in which students are encouraged to select and read progressively challenging books while the teacher offers instruction through individualized confer-ences
• a Special Interest component in which students engage in reading-enrichment activities

The SEM-R program has been shown by research to improve students' fluency and comprehension as well as their attitudes toward reading and is praised by teachers for getting students excited about books. The book includes a DVD showing teachers using the program. A companion book, The Joyful Reading Resource Kit, is also available.

When Chinese shopkeepers tried to find a written equivalent of Coca-Cola, one set of characters they chose was pronounced “ke-kou ke-la.” It sounded right, but it literally translated as “bite the wax tadpole.”

Language, like travel, is always stranger than we expect and often more beautiful than we imagine. In Biting the Wax Tadpole Elizabeth Little takes a decidedly unstuffy and accessible tour of grammar via the languages of the world—from Lithuanian noun declensions and imperfective Russian verbs to Ancient Greek and Navajo. And in one of the most courageous acts in the history of popular grammar books, she attempts to provide an explanation of verbal aspect that people might actually understand. Other difficult and pressing questions addressed in Biting the Wax Tadpole include:

*Just what, exactly, the Swedish names of IKEA products mean

*Why Icelandic speakers must decide if the numbers 1-4 are plural

*How Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) was able to take an otherwise unexceptional pair of breakfast foods and turn them into literary fodder for generations

*Why Joanie Loves Chachi was Korea's highest rated television show ever

*Why Basque grammar seems downright kooky to just about anyone who isn't a native speaker

Subtitled, }Misadventures Of An Armchair Linguist{. A charming whistlestop tour of the more bizarre linguistic areas of the globe, which will appeal to all fans of Bill Bryson, Lynne Truss and }The Meaning Of Tingo{.