Best Selling Books by Nancy Kay

Henry remembers the dream of his father to own land and provide for his family. Henry and Katherine embark on a journey that takes years to complete. Along the way, love blossoms. Hard work and perseverance rewards them with strong sons and pretty daughters. Henry acquires land enough to provide for his children, as they plan for their futures. Henry lives his father''s dream.

Sometimes in life you find a special friend - someone who changes your life just by being part of it. Someone who makes you believethere really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you there is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it. This is forever friendship.

Shugart weaves together real-life stories with care and passion to prove that anything is possible when one believes in himself or herself. She profiles 20 people who as children were told they didn''t belong, were too different, or that they couldn''t achieve their goals.

readers came --to remain dependent upon her family as an "old maid" or to attempt to earn a meager salary as a governess-we might conclude that the novel is, at least in part, a tract urging all to marry. But Austen is, in fact, ambivalent about marriage. This ambivalence is present in Emma''s thinking about marriage. Although Emma is eager to do what she can to facilitate the marriages of others, she resists the idea that she should marry. When the novel opens, Emma''s observations of the marriages of others have led her to the conclusion that none of the couples have what she would want for herself in a marriage. This ambivalence is, no doubt, partly the result of Emma''s self-delusions. But it also owes much to the problems which Jane Austen saw with the institution of marriage. If, as I shall argue, Emma''s conclusions are accurate reflections of Austen''s own opinion of marriage and most marriages, why does Austen nevertheless end the novel by having Emma marry Mr. Knightley? The reader of the novel might well like to ask Jane Austen a question similar to Emma''s when she asked her father, "My dear papa, you are no friend of matrimony and therefore why should you be so anxious to pay your respects...

A dead body... A female suspect... A detective on vacation. Can he separate duty from desire? Can she trust his mind-blowing kisses? Or will her unknown past end their future together? When homicide detective Nick McGraw encounters upscale spa owner Cassi Burke standing over a dead body gripping a bloody knife, Nick''s much-needed vacation slams to a halt. Instincts tell the seasoned officer she didn''t kill the man at her feet, but he''s duty bound to deliver her to local police never suspecting Cassi''s brief moment of fame will make her a target. Cassi denies involvement with the murder, and Nick strives to distance himself from the case, but sizzling attraction between the detective and the suspect escalates, putting their feeling for one another, the ongoing investigation, and the threat to Cassi''s life on a collision course.

Ten years ago their lives took separate paths. Delilah sought a career in New York City; Kevin entered the state police academy, but when Delilah Wyeth inherits Cocoa Treats Chocolate, danger trails the cool city ad exec back to their hometown and draws State Police Corporal Kevin McClain into her unraveling life. Kevin admires the cool, professional woman she''s become, and misses the feisty girl he once knew. Though he vows to uncover why fear lurks in Lilah''s stunning eyes, his less than stellar ancestry haunts Kevin, and he struggles to keep his hands off her tempting body. Lilah faces life-altering choices. Precious memories pull her to stay and convince Kevin he deserves more in his life than a badge and a gun, but if she abandons her smooth-talking, manipulative New York supervisor, will she trigger a deadly reaction? Her decision turns Lilah''s fear to reality, and more than duty drives Kevin as he races to save her life.

Brief history of the Palos Verdes Peninsula from 1935 to 1950.

This thesis explores the life of Grenville Clark (1882-1967), a complicated and important yet virtually unknown American. Clark was a lawyer by profession and a public servant by avocation. He was called "Statesman Incognito" for his preference to work behind the scenes, saying: "There is no limit to the good a man can do if he doesn''t care who gets credit." He was born and raised in a wealthy New York "establishment" family, educated at Harvard and Harvard Law, founded a premiere Wall Street law firm, served on the elite Harvard Corporation, and in his "spare time" designed military preparedness programs for both World Wars, and vigorously defended civil liberties, academic freedom, and civil rights.

The focus of this study was to determine the difference between teaching the 6+1 Trait Writing Model to fifth graders and the traditional writing workshop method of teaching writing on overall student writing achievement according to the data supplied by a writing rubric. The study involved 8 classes of fifth graders in 2 different schools. One school provided instruction according to the 6+1 Trait Writing Model, and the other school provided instruction using the traditional writing workshop method of teaching writing. It was hypothesized that students receiving instruction using the 6+1 Trait Writing Model would exhibit greater gains in writing achievement and quality according to the data supplied by a writing rubric. Significant differences were found in two out of four component areas on the rubric used for scoring student papers. Results indicated that the type of method used to teach writing is not as significant as providing structured instruction as well as time for student writing. Suggestions for further research are also included.