New Releases by Kirsten Miller

‘There’s no escaping this one,’ he says, but not to me. He says it to the ground and the sky and the thin arms of the waiting trees, but not to me. A film-maker by profession, Catherine has the perfect family: a supportive husband and a bright ten-year-old daughter. But Catherine’s beloved father is deteriorating. As he slips away into dementia, so too does a guilty truth they share: they both know what happened to Devin, Catherine’s sister, a shadow in a beautiful skin. Catherine’s adult success has come at a price. Now she has to come to terms with the silences in her past. Sister Moon is a story of love and growing up, of exclusion and abuse. Moving, and emotionally charged, Kirsten Miller’s second novel renders the insidious consequences of family secrets.

A meth dealer. A prostitute. A serial killer. Anywhere else, they’d be vermin. At the Mandel Academy, they’re called prodigies. The most exclusive school in New York City has been training young criminals for over a century. Only the most ruthless students are allowed to graduate. The rest disappear. Flick, a teenage pickpocket, has risen to the top of his class. But then Mandel recruits a fierce new competitor who also happens to be Flick’s old flame. They’ve been told only one of them will make it out of the Mandel Academy. Will they find a way to save each other—or will the school destroy them both?

In the third installment of bestselling author Miller''s Kiki Strike series, the Irregulars, a delightful group of delinquent geniuses, jump feet first into a fast-paced international pursuit, going underground in Paris to pursue a pair of treacherous royals who have killed Kiki''s parents.

NYC''s hottest underground superspy is back--in a brand new package!

Vor einem Jahr sind Haven und Iain nach Rom geflohen und haben so alle Probleme hinter sich gelassen. Doch das unbeschwerte Leben ist nicht von Dauer, denn Havens bester Freund Beau ist plötzlich verschwunden. Kann es sein, dass er in eine Falle gelockt wurde? Sofort brechen die beiden nach New York auf, um ihn zu suchen. Dort machen sie Bekanntschaft mit den Horen, einer Gruppe geheimnisvoller Schwestern, die seit Jahrhunderten versuchen, den teuflischen Adam Rosier zu zerstören. Um Beau zu retten, muss Haven Adam verführen und ihn in das Versteck der Horen locken. Aber der Plan ist äusserst gefährlich und je näher Haven ihrem Feind kommt, desto mehr verfällt sie seinem Zauber ... Wie weit wird sie gehen für die Menschen, die sie liebt?

With Beau''s life at stake, will Haven have to forsake Iain for good? Find out in the stunning sequel to The Eternal Ones. Haven Moore would like to believe that Adam Rosier and his sinister Ouroboros Society are a distant memory. But then her best friend, Beau Decker, disappears, and a cabal of women known as the Horae claim that Adam is responsible. The Horae have spent centuries scheming to destroy Adam. They tell Haven that she alone holds the clue to Beau''s disappearance--and they''ll help her only if she promises to lure Adam into their clutches. It''s a plan the Horae believe may save the world, and one Haven and Iain fear may destroy the happiness they''ve been chasing for two thousand years. Because when Haven gets closer to Adam, he proves more alluring than she ever anticipated.

"If Harry Potter lived in New York City, he''d have a mad crush on fourteen-year-old Kiki Strike." -Vanity Fair There''s a secret part of New York City that no one knows about. It''s protected by a mysterious group of girls known as the Irregulars, led by the alluring Kiki Strike. Inside the Shadow City introduces us to Ananka Fishbein, a regular girl whose life becomes anything but after venturing underground to join Kiki Strike and her friends, the Irregulars.

Haven Moore can''t control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother''s house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was. In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves, before all is lost and the cycle begins again.

C''est une nouvelle aventure qui débute pour les Irrégulières. De Chinatown aux belles demeures de Manhattan en passant par les tunnels infestés de rats de la Cité Clandestine, voilà les six justicières embarquées dans une affaire de trafic humain, d''impératrice félonne et de fantômes surgis du passé. Leur amitié survivra-t-elle à ces nouvelles épreuves ?

Provides a look at Iowa State University from the students'' viewpoint.

A teacher''s personal story.

Research increasingly points to the relationship between effective leadership and increased student achievement. But just what constitutes effective leadership-and how to best support school leaders-has been a matter of both study and speculation. This policy brief draws on McREL''s leadership research and an analysis of the needs in McREL''s Central Region service area to provide suggestions for districts on ways to support principals and other school leaders in realizing the goal of enhanced learning for all students.