Most Popular Books by Jane Harrington

Brady is going to Europe—with her mother! It''s a family coming-of-age tradition, so there''s no way out of it. To make the trip more interesting, Brady''s best gal pal, Delia, has written four things Brady must do while she''s in Europe—and Delia used permanent marker so Brady can''t chicken out. Brady would never do these things without some encouragement (AKA pressure) from Delia.

Who knew that non-boy-crazy-jock Brady would return from Europe with an Italian boyfriend? in this sequel to Four Things My Geeky-Jock-of-a-Best-Friend Must Do in Europe, Delia launches a sneaky plan to grab Giulio the very moment he and Brady break up, which, according to all Delia''s research, should be in about 41 days.

Describes the characteristics and behavior of various animals arranged into the categories of cold-blooded, pocket pets, insects, and slimy pets.

"The present study examines the rhyparochromine tribe Myodochini at the generic level on a world basis. A key to 56 genera is provided and diagnoses and brief summary descriptions of salient morphological features are given for all genera. Thirteen new genera (Ashlockaria, Bacacephalus, Ereminellus, Froeschneria, Humilocoris, Megacholula, Neopamera, Paracholula, Paraparomius, Pseudoparomius, Slaterobius, Stalaria, and Stridulocoris) and the new species Megacholula englemani are described. The following new synonymies are made: Exptochiomera with Prytanes; Neocattarus with Cholula; Sphaerobius with Erlacda; and Sphaerobius gracilis with Erlacda arhaphaeoides. New combinations include: Ashlockaria sobrius; Bacacephalus globiceps; Cholula firmus, C. irrorandus, C. maculatus, C. parvus, C. vigens; Ereminellus arizonensis; Froeschneria infumatus, F. multispinus, F. oblitus, F. piligerus, F. vicinalis; Horridipamera bergrothi, H. ebenaui, H. inconspicuus, H. perlongus, H. pullatus, H. rusticus, H. spinicrus, H. subsericeus; Humilocoris cephalotes; Ligyrocoris occultus; Neopamera albocinctus, N. bilobata, N. brachialis, N. costalis, N. crassicornis, N. honduranus, N. insularis, N. intermedius, N. mumfordi, N. neotropicalis, N. paganus, N. platanus, N. procerulus, N. recinctus, N. serripes, N. sororculus, N. tineodes, N. tuberculatus, N. vicarius, N. vividus; Orthaea consuta, O. procinctus ; Pamerana punctulatus, P. scotti, P. sinae; Paracholula thoracicus, P. vegetus; Paraeucosmetus albofasciatus, P. crassiceps, P. gemmatus, P. harimaensis, P. malayus, P. mimulus, P. nervosus, P. sladeni, P. vitalisi, Paraparomius lateralis, P. leptopoides; Paromius limbatus; Prytanes albomaculata, P. caeca, P. confusa, P. dissimilis, P. foeda, P. formosa, P. fusicornis, P. intercisa, P. minima, P. oblonga, P. plebeius, P. tumens; Pseudopachybrachius basalis, P. capicolus, P. nesovinctus, P. pacificus, P. reductus, P. undulatus, P. vinctus; Pseudopamera ater, P. institius, P. setosa; Pseudoparomius linearis; Remaudiereana africana, R. andrewsi, R. annulipes, R. boninensis, R. castanea, R. flavipes, R. horvathi, R. inornatus, R. kydippe, R. nigra, R. nigriceps, R. noctuabundus, R. octonotata, R. puberulus, R. robustus, R. sidnicus, R. sobrina, R. tibialis; Slaterobius insignis, S. quadristriatus; Stalaria ferruginosus, S. kisseis, S. nysias; Stigmatonotum afrus, S. geniculatus; Stridulocoris gracilis. A cladistic analysis of the myodochine genera is presented with emphasis on the valuable character system of the male genitalia. Plesiomorphic and apomorphic states are designated for all characters employed, and only synapomorphic character states are employed to infer relationship and to construct a generic cladogram for the tribe Myodochini. The phylogeny shown in the cladogram is viewed against the current known distributions of the various living myodochine species and used to propose a broad zoogeographic hypothesis about the origins of the tribe and major monophyletic assemblages within the Myodochini. Almost total lack of transoceanic sister groups at the generic level suggests a post-Gondwanaland origin and evolution for the tribe, and the distributional patterns also attest to the isolated evolution of two major lineages in North America"--P. 49.

Forced to protect the very thing she swore to destroy... Crown-hater Kiriana Ithinar is on her way to devastate the monarchy, when the monarchy inadvertently stumbles right to her. A convenient deception finds Kir magically bound as Guardian to Vann, the exiled and hunted Crown Prince of Septauria. In the shadow of a dark prophecy, Vann must be escorted safely to the Crown that Kir so vehemently despises, through a sea of enemies that share in her hatred. With the addition of two more Guardians to Vann''s entourage, Kir begins to discover that family ties are not bound in blood, but in who will wash it off her hands. Tormented by an elusive stranger and faced with the ever deepening mystery surrounding the intentions of the Crown, will Kir and her brother Guardians succeed in delivering Vann to safety, or will the prophecy consume them all?

In this contemporary novel set in the southern Appalachians, the lives of two young women-Leda and Shannon-are knit together when one is left alone on a farm after the loss of her partner and the other is displaced by mountaintop removal coal mining. "Book One: Way Out Farm" finds Leda trying to tease an existence out of her land. Her goats and a rescue dog are among her only contacts until she becomes close to Shannon, a single mother who has fallen on hard times due to environmental destruction of the hollow in which she lives. When Shannon takes to an RV with her children and moves away, Leda begins spending time with Shannon''s troubled Gulf War veteran cousin, but the relationship reawakens the demons of her husband''s struggle with mental illness. In "Book Two: Sullivan''s Holler," Shannon has taken up anti-coal activism, joining forces with a woman who she and her children now live with as a family. Shannon''s son misses the hollow, and so she distracts him with stories-woven with magic realism-of their ancestors'' exodus from Ireland during the Great Hunger and the settling of the homeplace. Through these tales of oppression and migration that mirror their own circumstances, they wend their way back to the mountains and those they''ve left behind. In Circling Flight is as much a story of love and loss of the human kind as it is a treatise to the elemental relationship between people and their land.

A story about an adorable little owl named Henry and the love he has for his parents... Henry grows and learns to fly. He meets birds, bees, cows, squirrels, chickens and a raccon but he ultimately decides that the family tree is where he belongs.

Delighted with her new computer, Lucy starts writing about everything she is going through in her e-journal, including her parents'' insistence that she go to summer camp and her fear that her biggest enemy will soon move next door.

Written in theform of letters to her best friend, Dalia, back home, Brady tells of her adventures while on a Mediteranean cruise with her mother and of her progress on Dalis''a list of things she must do, including the search for a "code-red" Euro-hottie."

Stories of women convicts who were incarcerated in the New Norfolk Lunatic Asylum

"The NSW Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is the lead State Agency developing a new environmental flow regime for Tallowa Dam, on the confluence of the Kangaroo and Shoalhaven Rivers, upstream of Nowra. Flow regimes downstream of Tallowa Dam may change as a result of Government plans to increase water transfers from the Tallowa Dam to the greater Sydney Metropolitan region. This report identifies and assesses Aboriginal and historic cultural heritage values downstream of the Tallowa Dam. The study area is located along a distance of around 70 km of the lower Shoalhaven River ... Discussions with various members of local Aboriginal community groups show that the river is a defining element of country for the Aboriginal people of the Shoalhaven River."--p. 1.

"The Shoalhaven Scheme is operated by the Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) as a source of water supply for Greater Sydney Metro region during periods of extended drought. As part of Metropolitan Water Plan (February 2006) the SCA is required to investigate additional transfers of waters from Shoalhaven River by changes to the pumping rules and minor modifications to the existing transfer network, in order to increase the supply of water to Sydney by 30GL/a. The Sydney Catchment Authority has commissioned the Department of Commerce to coordinate the environmental impact assessment for Shoalhaven Transfer Project. This desktop review was originally commissioned to identify potential constraints and options relating to impacts on Aboriginal and historic cultural heritage values along the Wingecarribee and Glenquarry run of river flows of the Shoalhaven Transfer route ... Subsequent to this, five alternative transfer options have been proposed ... This report is to be considered with a series of other investigations. In particular the geomorphology and hydrological data for the Wingecarribee River System - Wingecarribee Reservoir to upstream of Berrima - has been considered ..."--P. 2.

This overview of limeburning in Victoria provides geological and chemical information about limestone, its early history and uses, the development of cement and limeburning methodologies and kiln types, as well as discussing limeburning activities on the Mornington Peninsula, the Geelong, the Warrnambool and Sale regions, and in Lilydale, Walkerville, Portland, Heywood and Dimboola. Includes a bibliography.