By the Sea: Your coastline companion, from beautiful beaches and marine miscellany, to stunning seashells, seaweed, and sealife (Hidden Nature series)

Kelly, Susan

Religion & Spirituality

William Collins

Kid's Stuff (Fiction - Crime & Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Constable

Trail of the Dragon

Liz Connors, a writer and occasional amateur sleuth, is asked by a professor to help him track down a female colleague who conned him out of some money, but the woman turns up dead, and Liz herself becomes a target

Mystery

Ballantine Books

"[O]ffers creative ways to build alliances with families…using language and motivational interviewing to help parents focus on problem-solving….a valuable resource." --Virginia Child Protection Newsletter How does one change the attitudes and practices of child protective services (CPS)―a statewide bureaucracy often overwhelmed and understaffed? First, take an outsider to the system, Insoo Kim Berg, who has a vision and a solution-focused model. Add an insider, Susan Kelly, who understands the system. Spend many hours with CPS workers in the field, learning from them and helping them make the shift from a deficit perspective to a collaborative model that emphasizes strengths and solutions. Envision and implement change throughout the system. Celebrate small successes on the way to building family self-sufficiency and integrity. This recipe for reforming child protective services is being followed in many public child welfare agencies, with growing success. In Building Solutions the authors explain how to conceptualize, implement, and sustain this hopeful and positive frame in a daily practice for dedicated frontline workers as well as for those in supervision, management, and administration. The book has two parts. In the first, the authors put child protective services in context, introducing the system and their new approach, giving a brief history of child protection in the United States, and setting the stage for change. In the second part, the authors walk readers through the nuts and bolts of implementation, from the first phone call to case closure―including discussions about placing a child out of the home. Berg and Kelly also discuss supervision, consultation, and ongoing training, as well as their vision of the future of CPS. This book is not a manual; it is a challenge to step out of the traditional CPS "box" and think differently―to create client-driven services that make sense. The authors challenge CPS administrators, supervisors, and workers to begin conversations about how the system can be more helpful and respectful to the families so that the parents can get what they need to care for their children. Building Solutions should have a place on the desk of everyone involved in child protective services.

Building Solutions in Child Protective Services (Norton Professional Books)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Berg, Insoo Kim

Psychology & Counseling

W.W.Norton&Company

Investigative reporter Liz Connors goes into action to save her lover, Boston detective Jack Lingemann, who has been framed for murder

Until Proven Innocent

Literature & Fiction

United States

Villard

We always kill the thing we love. An ex-college professor turned freelance journalist, Liz Connors used to make a good living writing about true crime. But the recession has visited Liz with a vengeance. The magazine that is her main source of income has folded, and her financial future looks grim. So when Griffin Marcus, an extraordinarily successful true-crime writer, asks her to work with him on a book about a series of grisly slayings known as the Merrimack Valley killings, she's game. Someone out there is killing good Catholic girls and posing their mutilated bodies at various scenic points along the Merrimack River in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, with decorative green ribbons tied prettily around their necks. Marcus and the police are certain they have their man - a sleazeball named Henry Kmiec with an unsavory penchant for dead prostitutes. But Liz isn't satisfied. Something doesn't feel right about the case, and besides, it's never been her nature to leave well enough alone. Pulling on a few loose threads, Liz comes upon some evidence that points her in a whole new direction. What happens next is a series of startling events that lead Liz deeper and deeper into the dark psyche of a serial killer into a world where pain is the currency and death the ultimate price. Here is a realistic and truly frightening mystery thriller from one of the major up-and-coming masters of the genre.

Out of the Darkness

Jennifer Donleavy leads an enviable existence: married to handsome actor Andrew 'Don' Donleavy, living in a picturesque Suffolk village, tending her lovely garden and the owner of two dogs; what more could she want? A friend, perhaps. And when novelist Suza Darc comes to live in the village, she becomes Jenny's companion and confidante, the sister she always wanted.
Then strange accidents begin to occur: or is someone doing these things deliberately? And who is it who sends Jenny the anonymous letters warning her to take care of her husband? Surely it's just a coincidence that Don and Suza both have business in London on the same days -- and Don's new-found desire to combat middle age by diet and exercise is only natural for an actor ... isn't it? Where -- and how -- will it all end? Will Jenny wake up to the truth in time? And what, indeed, is the truth of this curious affair?

Quick Brown Fox

Severn House

<div>When bestselling author Zoe Kean hires handsome young escort Matthew Groves for an evening out, she has no idea what to expect. But it quickly becomes clear that one date won't be enough. When Matthew confesses that he has fallen in love with her, Zoe is delighted but sceptical. Can a relationship that had such an unorthodox beginning ever really work?</div>

For Love or Money

Romance

Contemporary

When bestselling author Zoe Kearns hires a handsome young escort for an evening out, she has no idea what to expect. But it quickly becomes clear that one date with Matthew Groves isn't enough...for either of them. When Matthew confesses that he has fallen in love with her, Zoe is delighted but sceptical. A twelve-year age-gap is only the first of her many concerns. Is Matthew really in love with her...or with her lifestyle? And can a relationship that had such an unorthodox beginning ever really work?

For Love or Money (Severn House Large Print)

Superintendent Gregory Summers is co-operating with the National Crime Squad on Operation Cuckoo, intended to crack down on illegal immigrants. The Thames Valley is a prime target for modern day slave traders, who make the unfortunate slave pay their own fare to the promised land. Meanwhile, Antony Lucas tracks down wealthy widow Elise Weissman, the mother who gave him up for adoption thirty years ago. He is cautiously welcomed into the family, despite the initial hostility of his half-sister, Cressida, who has always believed herself an only child. What the Weissmans don't know is that Antony was badly abused by his adoptive parents, a trauma that has left him incapable of human affection and looking not for reconciliation but revenge. And what Antony doesn't know is that Elise is not the genteel, middle-class lady that she appears. Her background is more colourful and she will not sit quietly by and let him destroy all that she has built up. A spiral of violence and devastation ensues, violence that must end in death for one member of the family. But whose motive was strongest? And where does the sudden death of an elderly man in his luxury hotel room fit into the picture?

Killing the Fatted Calf (A & B Crime)

Allison & Busby LTD

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