New Releases by Kirsten Miller

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

Pese a estar de regreso con su amado Iain, Haven intentará seducir al diabólico líder de la Sociedad Ouroboros, Adam Rosier, para salvar a su amigo Beau Decker. La popular autora de Kiki Strike, Kirsten Miller, presenta la continuación de la saga Eternos. ¿Qué tan lejos llegará Haven por la gente que ama? Hace año y medio que Haven Moore descubrió la verdad de las extrañas visiones que la acosaban. No eran alucinaciones ni fantasías, eran memorias, escenas de las que había sido testigo en vidas previas. Y fue hace un año ya que Haven huyó a Roma, dejando atrás a la Sociedad Ouroboros y a su diabólico líder, Adam Rosier. Ahora su mejor amigo, Beau Decker, ha desaparecido. Las Horae, un grupo de hermanas místicas, guardan la llave de su destino. Planean encerrar a Adam Rosier para siempre y Haven Moore representa su única debilidad. Para salvar a Beau, Haven deberá seducir a Adam y conducirlo hacia la guarida de las Horae. Pero Adam Rosier siempre ha tenido una manera muy particular de seducirla. Y cuanto más cerca se encuentra Haven de su enemigo, más sucumbe ante su encanto. La vida de Beau está en juego pero esta vez Haven no puede confiar ni siquiera en ella misma. Cada decisión que tome cambiará su destino.

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.

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.

With Oona taking the lead this time, the latest adventures follow the Irregulars as they protect New York City and its secret underground world, doing battle along the way with Manhattan''s gangsters, rodents, diamond merchants, society figures, and assorted forces of evil. Some of the Irregulars will have to come to terms with deadly secrets from their own pasts, and each of the girls will find her unusual skills and her friendships put to the ultimate test.

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 ?

Join Kiki and the Irregulars in another underworld - and underground - adventure. With Oona taking the lead this time, the Irregulars band together to protect New York City and its secret subterranean world, doing battle along the way with Manhattan''s gangsters, rodents, diamond merchants, society figures, and assorted forces of evil. Some of the Irregulars must come to terms with deadly secrets from their own pasts, and each of the girls finds her unusual skills and her friendships put to the ultimate test.

At the center of this poignant novel is Simon, a successful Johannesburg businessman whose carefully constructed life is rapidly falling apart. Trying to make sense of his misfortunes, he returns to his childhood home in beautiful but uncosmopolitan Zululand, where reminders of his boyhood lead him on a journey of recovery. Joining forces with twins, Jonathan and Sarah, two old friends who have been scarred by a crushing tragedy, Simon begins to respond to the watery beauty of the landscape, which is described with poetic images of marine life and embryology. Gradually, as they watch the teeming animal life around them, these three remarkable characters begin to imagine new births for themselves, finding strength in the knowledge that they are inextricably linked by fate, birth, and the difficult but enriching bonds of love.

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.