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ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mallo, Ernesto / Silver, Katherine, PUBLISHER: Bitter Lemon Press, Praise for Ernesto Mallo's "Needle in a Haystack" "A vivid and compelling picture of a society riven by corruption, social breakdown, and casual brutality. A pacy, intense, and thought-provoking read."--"Guardian" "Martin Cruz Smith and Philip Kerr fans will be rewarded."--"Publishers Weekly" "A gritty, painful portrait of a dystopian culture spinning further and further out of control. A compelling, blood-stained document of tyranny and brutality told with skill and passion."--"Crime Time" In the second book in the Superintendent Lascano series, Lascano is drawn into a war between the Buenos Aires chief of police and the Apostles, drug-dealing cops who want to control the city. When the chief of police is murdered, Lascano becomes the Apostles' next target. His only way out of the country is to retrieve the loot from a bungled bank robbery. Ernesto Mallo paints a scathing portrait of Argentina, where the Junta's generals are paraded in court in civilian clothes and treated like mere petty thieves. Corruption and violence continue to rule, but at the center of the novel lies a touching portrayal of two broken men, a cop and a robber, whose humanity is sorely tested by the troubles racking their beloved country. Born in , Ernesto Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is a former militant, pursued by the dictatorship as a member of the guerilla movement.
Assessment and Learning in the Secondary School
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wragg, E. C. / Wragg Prof, E. C. / Wragg, Prof E. C., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Assessment is now regarded as a 'high stakes' issue: schools, teachers, and individual pupils are often judged by the results of national tests and public examinations. This book addresses both formal and informal ways of assessing children's work and progress. Pupils' learning is often neglected in the debate, so this book puts what children actually learn right at its centre and involves them sensibly and appropriately in the improvement of teaching and learning. The book is divided into six units where Ted Wragg address topics such as: * principles and purposes of assessment * written, oral and practical evaluation * self-assessment the 'whole school' approach * staff development and appraisal. The inclusion of tried and tested practical activities, discussion topics, photographs, cartoons and case examples makes this a very user-friendly book for both trainee and experienced teachers in secondary schools. This is one of a set of eight innovative yet practical resource books for teachers, focussing on the classroom and covering vital skills for primary and secondary teachers. The books are strongly influenced by the findings of numerous research projects during which hundreds of teachers were observed at work. The first editions of the series were bestsellers, and these revised second editions will be equally welcomed by teachers eager to improve their teaching skills.
Richard Aldington Il duca di Wellington Mondadori I Record
Richard Aldington Il duca di Wellington Mondadori I Record n. 7 77° Migliaio Traduzione: - Introduzione: - Anno: febbraio I edizione Pagine: Introduzione + 467 + Bibliografia + Indice del Testo + Collana Codice ISBN: - Copertina: cartoncino editoriale illustrato. Stato: Buono stato. Molto buono. Non letto. Peso del libro: gr. 305 Misure del libro: cm x cm La fotografia riproduce il libro. NOTA: Richiedete il catalogo per usufruire della promozione. NOTA: Della stessa Collana editoriale sono disponibili altri Titoli. Per alcuni esempi guarda le foto in allegato. Contenuto: Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duca di Wellington, guidò la coalizione che sconfisse Napoleone a Waterloo, mettendo fine alle mire egemoniche della Francia imperiale sull'Europa. Sarebbe tuttavia un errore ridurre la complessa personalità del generale al ruolo che svolse in quell'epocale battaglia e al freddo esercizio della strategia militare. Richard Aldington, poeta e intellettuale tra i maggiori del Novecento inglese, racconta senza pregiudizi la vera vita del "Duca di ferro" che, dopo aver guidato le truppe inglesi in India e in Spagna, fu per due volte Primo Ministro per il partito conservatore. Quello che emerge non è il grigio antagonista di Napoleone e nemmeno un politico reazionario, ma un uomo di potere, implacabile nel controllo delle emozioni, che tuttavia cercò sempre di ascoltare la voce della propria coscienza. Autore: Richard Aldington (Portsmouth, 8 luglio â€" Sury-en-Vaux, 27 luglio ) è stato un poeta, scrittore e saggista britannico. Ã??^ stato uno dei principali esponenti dell'imagismo. Fu anche autore di alcuni saggi critici. La sua biografia sul Duca di Wellington (A Life of Wellington: The Duke) del fu premiata con il James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Prezzo: euro 3,00 + spese di spedizione (euro 2,00 piego di libri ordinario, euro 4,00 raccomandata piego di libri). Si fanno spedizioni multiple e, si ricorda, che la merce viaggia a carico del destinatario. Richiedendo il catalogo nel formato excel hai le promozioni 4 x 3, 20 x 13. I più economici sono in omaggio. Per consultare il catalogo indicate il vostro indirizzo e-mail personale.
Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kramer, Clara / Glantz, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Harperluxe, This heart-stopping story of a young girl hiding from the Nazis is based on Clara Kramer's diary of her years surviving in an underground bunker with seventeen other people. Clara Kramer was a typical Polish-Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, Clara's family was taken in by the Becks, a "Volksdeutsche" (ethnically German) family from their town. Mrs. Beck worked as Clara's family's housekeeper. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic, a womanizer, and a vocal anti-Semite. But on hearing that Jewish families were being led into the woods and shot, Beck sheltered the Kramers and two other Jewish families. Eighteen people in all lived in a bunker dug out of the Becks' basement. Fifteen-year-old Clara kept a diary during the twenty terrifying months she spent in hiding, writing down details of their unpredictable life--from the house's catching fire to Mr. Beck's affair with Clara's neighbor; from the nightly SS drinking sessions in the room above to the small pleasure of a shared Christmas carp. Against all odds, Clara lived to tell her story, and her diary is now part of the permanent col-lection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Monte Carlo Methods, Basics
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kalos, Malvin H. / Whitlock, Paula A., PUBLISHER: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, This introduction to Monte Carlo Methods seeks to identify and study the unifying elements that underlie their effective application. It focuses on two basic themes. The first is the importance of random walks as they occur both in natural stochastic systems and in their relationship to integral and differential equations. The second theme is that of variance reduction in general and importance sampling in particular as a technique for efficient use of the methods. Random walks are introduced with an elementary example in which the modelling of radiation transport arises directly from a schematic probabilistic description of the interaction of radiation with matter. Building on that example, the relationship between random walks and integral equations is outlined. The applicability of these ideas to other problems is shown by a clear and elementary introduction to the solution of the Schrodinger equation by random walks. The detailed discussion of variance reduction includes Monte Carlo evaluation of finite-dimensional integrals. Special attention is given to importance sampling, partly because of its intrinsic interest in quadrature, partly because of its general usefulness in the solution of integral equations. One significant feature is that Monte Carlo Methods treats the "Metropolis algorithm" in the context of sampling methods, clearly distinguishing it from importance sampling. Physicists, chemists, statisticians, mathematicians, and computer scientists will find Monte Carlo Methods a complete and stimulating introduction.
How Well Does Your Child Read?: A Step-By-Step Assessment of
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cook, Ann, PUBLISHER: American Accent Training, Wouldn't every parent like an accurate assessment of their child's reading ability? How Well Does Your Child Read? not only provides an accurate assessment, but the assessment itself takes only twenty minutes Author and English teacher Ann Cook's own second-grade son couldn't read. To solve the problem, she came up with an easy way for any parent to know what grade level their child reads. "School report cards give an indication of some of the broader categories of a child's reading ability", writes Cook, "However, they neither specify which areas need strengthening, nor do they guide a parent in making up any deficiencies or in maximizing a good reader's assets". There are two sections in this book: a simple method to assess a child's reading level, and an easy guide to direct you through each step of helping your child become a better reader. -- Parents will learn how to: Identify Weak Areas, Develop New Skills, Chart Progress -- Reading level assessment in only 20 minutes -- Appropriate for kindergarten - fifth grade -- One of every two Americans have a serious reading problem and one in four cannot read at all -- First book of The 20-Minute Series
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The Powers That Be
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wink, Walter, PUBLISHER: Doubleday Books, In our fast-paced secular world, God and theology are second-class citizens. Money, politics, sports, and science seem better suited to the hard realities of our world. As the church steeple has been eclipsed by the skyscraper as the centerpiece of the urban landscape, so has the divine realm been set aside in favor of more immediate human experience. One sad consequence of this shift is the loss of spiritual and theological bearings, most clearly evident in our inability to understand or speak about such things. If the old way of viewing the universe no longer works, something else has to replace it. "The Powers That Be" reclaims the divine realm as central to human existence by offering new ways of understanding our world in theological terms. Walter Wink reformulates ancient concepts, such as God and the devil, heaven and hell, angels and demons, principalities and powers, in light of our modern experience. He helps us see heaven and hell, sin and salvation, and the powers that shape our lives as tangible parts of our day-to-day experience, rather than as mysterious phantoms. Based on his reading of the Bible and analysis of the world around him, Wink creates a whole new language for talking about and to God. Equipped with this fresh world view, we can embark on a new relationship with God and our world into the next millennium.
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Seattle Children's Theatre: Six Plays for Young Audiences
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Frockt, Deborah Lynn, PUBLISHER: Smith & Kraus, The plays contained in Seattle Children's Theatre's second Smith and Kraus anthology are appropriate for professional and non-professional companies. Though all SCT productions feature adult Equity actors, community and school groups across the company have found these plays excellent choices for young actors. The anthology contains four original stories for the stage as well as re-imaginings of two classic pieces of literature. The collection represents a variety of styles and themes; but the thread that ties the anthology together is the high quality of writing, so well deserved by young audiences. Seattle Children's Theatre is a national leader in the field of theatre for young audiences. Celebrating its 25th year of professional theatre for young and family audiences, SCT has premiered over sixty new plays, and has commissioned and produced plays by nationally recognized playwrights like Constance Congdon, Steven Dietz, Jon Klein, Kevin Kling OyamO, Y York and Suzan Zeder. SCT has also had collaborations with some of Europe's leading theatres for young audiences including Blauw Vier and Speeltheater-Holland. SCT has garnered numerous awards and grants, many of which had never previously been given to a theatre for young audiences including the AT&T Onstage Award, The Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, The Pew Charitable Trust/ Theatre Communications Award, and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award.
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Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Swanton, John R. / Tanner, Helen H. / Tanner, Helen Hornbeck, PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press, First published in , John R. Swanton's "Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians" is a classic reference on the Caddos. Long regarded as the dean of southeastern Native American studies, Swanton worked for decades as an ethnographer, ethnohistorian, folklorist, and linguist. In this volume he presents the history and culture of the Caddos according to the principal French, Spanish, and English sources. In the seventeenth century, French and Spanish explorers encountered four regional alliances -- Cahinnio, Cadohadacho, Hasinai, and Natchitoches -- within the boundaries of the present-day states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. Their descriptions of Caddo culture are the earliest sources available, and Swanton weaves the information from these primary documents into a narrative, translated into English, for the benefit of the modern reader. For the scholar, he includes in an appendix the entire text of three principal documents in their original Spanish. The first half of the book is devoted to an extensive history of the Caddos, from De Soto's encounters in to the Caddos' involvement in the Ghost Dance Religion of . The second haft discusses Caddo culture, including origin legends and religious beliefs, material culture, social relations, government, warfare, leisure, and trade. For this edition, Helen Hornbeck Tanner also provides a new foreword surveying the scholarship published on the Caddos since Swanton's time.
Romanzo di David Ignatius - Nessuna verità
Vendo romanzo di David Ignatius - Nessuna verità. Da questo romanzo il film di Ridley Scott con Leonardo Di Caprio e Russel Crowe Roger Ferris è un agente della CIA impegnato nella lotta al terrorismo. Reduce da una missione in Iraq che gli ha procurato una grave ferita alla gamba, viene incaricato di infiltrarsi nella rete di Suleiman, un pericoloso terrorista attivo in Medio Oriente e pronto a colpire obiettivi americani. Il piano di Ferris per stanare Suleiman si ispira a un capolavoro di intelligence messo in atto dagli inglesi durante la seconda guerra mondiale: Ferris utilizza come esca un cadavere, attribuendogli un falso nome e un falso passato. Spera così di seminare la confusione tra i terroristi, di istillare dubbi e sospetti, fino a costringere Suleiman a venire allo scoperto nel tentativo di identificare i traditori. Ma anche Hani Salaam, il capo dell'intelligence giordana, ha i suoi piani segreti per catturare il terrorista, e la collaborazione con la CIA diventa di ora in ora più spinosa. Nel frattempo, Ferris intreccia una relazione con Alice Melville, un'americana che lavora per una ONG palestinese. Ma il loro amore esporrà entrambi a mortali pericoli. Nessuna verità è un thriller ricco d'azione e di colpi di scena, in cui ogni dettaglio della situazione internazionale è riprodotto con inquietante realismo, ogni mossa, anche la più piccola, è gravida di temibili conseguenze e la tensione è una bomba a orologeria pronta a scoppiare da un momento all'altro. David Ignatius è un editorialista del «Washington Post», su cui tiene una rubrica di politica globale, economia e affari internazionali. Si è occupato della copertura giornalistica dell'invasione del Kuwait da parte dell'Iraq, un lavoro che ha fatto vincere al giornale il Premio Pulitzer. Ignatius ha ricevuto due volte l'Edward Weintal Prize per il giornalismo diplomatico nonché il Gerald Loeb Award per la cronaca. È autore di diversi romanzi di successo, tra cui Nessuna verità, pubblicato in Italia dalla Newton Compton, e definito uno dei libri migliori del dal «Publishers Weekly». Il regista Ridley Scott ne ha tratto un film interpretato da Leonardo DiCaprio e Russell Crowe. Anche Attacco a Teheran diventerà presto un film.
The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bauer, Susan Wise / West, Jeff, PUBLISHER: Peace Hill Press, This read-aloud series is designed for parents to share with elementary-school children. Enjoy it together and introduce your child to the marvelous story of the world's civilizations. Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives--and our children need to learn about the other countries of the world and their history. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a captivating guide to the history of other lands. Written in an engaging, straightforward manner, this revised edition of "The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages" weaves world history into a story book format. Who discovered chocolate? What happened to the giant Fovor of the Mighty Blows? Why did the Ottoman Turks drag their war ships across dry land? "The Story of the World" covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. Africa, China, Europe, the Americas--find out what happened all around the world in long-ago times. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents and children to share together, "The Story of the World" includes each continent and major people group. "Volume 2: The Middle Ages," is the second of a four-volume series and covers the major historical events in the years 400 to CE, as well as including maps, illustrations, and tales from each culture.
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Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Revell, Keith D., PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, In , the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this new scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked by millions of gallons of raw sewage. Economists experimented with new approaches to financing urban infrastructure. Architects and planners wrestled with the problems of skyscraper regulation and regional growth. These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell details the ways that technical values -- distinctive civic culture of expertise -- helped reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City. Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city.
Text and Context: Document Storage and Processing
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jones, Susan, PUBLISHER: Springer, Text and Context: Document Storage and Processing describes information processing techniques, including those which do not appear in conventional textbooks on database systems. It focuses on the input, storage, retrieval and presentation of primarily textual information, together with auxiliary material about graphic and video data. There are chapters on text analysis as a basis for lexicography, full-text databases and information retrieval, the use of optical storage for both ASCII text and scanned document images, hypertext and multi-media systems, abstract document definition, and document formatting and imaging. The material is treated in an informal way with an emphasis on real applications and software. There are, among others, case studies from Reuters, British Airways, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Sony, and HMSO. Relevant industry standards are discussed including ISO for CD-ROM file storage, CCITT Group4 data compression, the Standard Generalised Markup Language and Office Document Architecture, and the Postscript language. Readers will benefit from the way Susan Jones has brought together this information, in a logical sequence, to highlight the connections between related topics. This book will be of interest to second and third year undergraduates and MSc students in computer science, to B/TEC HTD final year computing and information science students either specialising in IT or taking an IT option, and to students taking courses in IT and in business computing systems.
Photoshop Fotoritocco & Restauro di K. Eisman + PS MiniGuida
Vendo 2 testi validissimi per apprendere ad utilizzare Photoshop, come nuovi e con le copertine protette da incarto trasparente. Photoshop. Fotoritocco & restauro by Katrin Eismann Editore Apogeo Collana: Guida completa Pubblicato: Pagine: 360 Lingua: Italiano Titolo Originale: Photoshop Restoration & Retouching - Second Edition Isbn o codice id: Prezzo di Copertina: € Descrizione: Come rimuovere un graffio, un colore di sfondo indesiderato, un riflesso da una fotografia? Fra le molte applicazioni di Photoshop quelle di ritocco e restauro fotografico sono certamente le più comuni, e la loro utilità va oltre il mondo del design e della grafica pura, ma raggiunge tutti i settori, da quello del fotografo dilettante fino a quello delle immagini scientifiche. Esempi passo passo evidenziano gli strumenti e le tecniche usate dai professionisti per restaurare immagini antiche, ritoccare ritratti e foto di moda. + Photoshop CS mini no problem by Enrico Zonca Editore: Mcgraw Hill Companies Collana: Mini no problem Pubblicato: Pagine: 174 Lingua: Italiano Isbn o codice id: Prezzo di Copertina: € 9,99 Descrizione: Ecco la guida per chi va di fretta. Non avete tempo da perdere, avete poche ore a disposizione per imparare l'uso di Photoshop CS: vi serve un efficace concentrato di informazioni chiare e utilizzabili istantaneamente. Photoshop CS Mini No problem vi aiuta a impadronirvi subito e bene di tutte le nuove funzionalità del programma.
A Discourse, Delivered in the Synagogue in New-York, on the
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Seixas, Gershom Mendes, PUBLISHER: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W Two states noted by Rosenbach. In the first the imprint date is given as ; in the second it has been corrected to . Errata note, p. 32. New-York: Printed by William A. Davis & Co. for Naphtali Judah, bookseller and stationer, no. 47 Water Street, p.; 8
TCP/IP Explained
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miller, Philip, PUBLISHER: Digital Press, TCP/IP Explained concentrates on how each protocol works within the Internet Protocol Suite and discusses the addressing, delivery, transport and routing protocols. Many books on this subject concentrate on why protocols are designed in a particular way. This book concentrates on how they actually work. The approach is practical, and the reader can see how network changes affect overall operation. Ignored by many writers on the subject, but none the less important, are the Link Layer protocols that enable both interoperability between vendors and remote access to networks. This book describes these protocols in detail and includes the very latest enhancements. Equally, network managers must think about security when considering networks of this type. By providing useful examples of how such systems can be applied, this book discusses exactly what is needed to create a secure environment. TCP/IP Explained can be broadly split into four sections. The first section deals with the basics of the TCP/IP suite and how data is transported between two systems. The second section discusses routing principles and protocols. The third section deals with applications, and the fourth section discusses miscellaneous areas, such as common protocols used across wide area networks, securing networks, and the future of IP. 7 Covers all aspects of TCP/IP and includes internetworking in the wide are and remote access 7 Combines self-study with reference material
The Course of American Democratic Thought
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gabriel, Ralph Henry, PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press, In this third edition of The Course of American Democratic Thought, Ralph H. Gabriel, with the assistance of Robert H. Walker, brings his seminal study up to date by taking into account the complicated and fascinating interplay between the events of the past thirty years and the American democratic faith. Although many of the trends had been anticipated in the earlier editions of this work, those discussions only paved the way for the present chronicle of democratic faith in an era that combines nostalgia for traditional values with an almost incredible rate of technical innovation. Gabriel argues that the values he first summarized in the foreword to the first edition, written thirty years ago, are still a basic point of reference for social and political argument. But, he asks, are they the same basic values? The title he chose for the final section of the second edition, "The American Democratic Faith Survives in a Time of Revolution and Violence," still seems appropriate, he believes, but there is no doubt that this faith has changed both in context and meaning since that time. This third edition traces this evolution during the last thirty years. Only minor changes and corrections have been made in the first twenty-eight chapters; the bibliography has been updated, but the documentation stands. The last five chapters of this edition represent the addition of considerable new material and the revision and rearrangement of what was already there.
Forensic Science: The Basics
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Siegel, Jay A. / Mirakovits, Kathy, PUBLISHER: CRC Press, Now in its second edition, this tremendously popular text explains every aspect of crime scene investigation, moving from basic areas of criminalistics to pathology, anthropology, and engineering. It also explores new and emerging areas such as forensic entomology. The text requires no previous knowledge of either science or law. The information is self-contained and conveyed at the lowest possible non-scientific level, making it suitable for both lower level students as well as for a general audience. It also offers a complete package of ancillary material for instructors. This forensic primer works well in conjunction with current CRC laboratory manuals. New to this edition: New co-author who is high school teacher of forensic science Computer forensic science Engineering with an emphasis on accident reconstruction and failure analysis Mini-glossary and list of acronyms Comprehensive and simple hands-on laboratory activities at the end List of websites in 'further readings' throughout that include free videos, demonstrations, etc. More end of chapter questions More figures and pictures Crime scene scenarios and how to set them up at the end of each chapter More case studies and existing case studies set off in boxes New boxes: on the Internet New boxes: a bit of history New boxes: forensic science and the law Embedded and highlighted references to material in other chapters.
The Summerhouse
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Deveraux, Jude, PUBLISHER: Pocket Books, "Have you ever wanted to rewrite your past?" Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating at a summerhouse in Maine, Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them expect the gift that awaits them at the summerhouse: the chance for each of them to turn their "what-might-have-beens" into reality... Leslie, a suburban wife and mother, follows the career of a boy who pursued her in college wonders: what if she had chosen differently? Madison dropped a modeling career to help her high school boyfriend recover from an accident, even though he'd jilted her. But what if she had said "no" when her old boyfriend had called? Ellie became a famous novelist, but a bitter divorce wiped out her earnings -- and shattered her belief in herself. Why had the "justice" system failed her? And could she prevent its happening the second time around? Now, a mysterious "Madame Zoya," offers each of them a chance to relive any three weeks from the past. Will the road not taken prove a better path? Each woman will have to decide for herself as she follows the dream that got away...and each must choose the life that will truly satisfy the heart's deepest longings.