Sylvia: 1490 books

The follow-up to Sylvia Waugh's award-winning debut, The Mennyms. The Mennyms are faced with a crisis when plans to build a motorway straight through their home are announced. They've successfully survived living on Brocklehurst Road for forty years, carefully keeping the secret of their rag...

All Thea wanted was to buy and sell vintage clothing but a fire destroyed almost all her stock. Then her Aunt Althea died and left her two houses. She thought her only option was to sell both houses. But one held a shocking secret. Frankie longed for her own home, but what she got was an old abandoned...

O amor surge onde menos se espera.São o casal mais escandaloso de Londres. Isabel, Lady Pelham, e Gerard Faulkner, marquês de Grayson, são iguais em tudo: nos seus apetites sexuais, nos seus amantes constantes, na sua inteligência, nas reputações provocadoras e na recusa absoluta de arruinar o...

Sylvia Day, autora bestseller do NewYork Times, é uma das escritoras de literatura erótica mais conhecidas dos Estados Unidos. Com Afterburn inicia a série Cosmo Red-Hot Reads da Harlequin. Aperceber-me de que continuava apaixonada por Jax foi uma surpresa. Só tinha feito parte da minha...

Nunca a rendição foi tão doce. Numa noite quente de verão, a apenas algumas horas do seu casamento, a discreta Lady Jessica Sheffield testemunhou uma cena da qual nunca irá recuperar. Vê o jovem Alistair Caufield numa cena ferozmente íntima com uma mulher muito mais velha. Chocada, mas estranhamente...

People may seek revenge in different forms for a perceived or actual wrong done to them or a loved one. Angie's boss seized the first opportunity to get rid of the secretary she despised. But when a bank key was misplaced, Angie saw a street bum hide his bottle in the vacant lot next to the bank and...

Better than going out for Mexican food! Mexican food—by which most of us mean Tex-Mex—is a favorite from Los Angeles to New York and everywhere in between. And the heart of great Tex-Mex cooking comes from home kitchens along the Rio Grande. In THE ENCHILADA QUEEN COOKBOOK, Sylvia Casares...

Jessica is leaving for vacation and her boss, Eric, asks her to stay on a few days longer under false pretenses. Tensions mount between the coworkers and come to a boiling point inside of an elevator.

The Medicalization of Psychotherapy: Practicing under the Influence is an ethnographic account of the practice of clinical psychology under the reductionist auspices of biomedicine. Using Peircean semiotic analysis focusing in particular on modes in meaning-making, Sylvia Olney proposes that consciousness...

The third edition of Children's Literature in Action provides an activity-oriented survey of children's literature for undergraduate and graduate students seeking licensure and degrees that will lead to careers working with children in schools and public libraries. Author Sylvia M. Vardell draws on...

What can we do to help ELL students understand English? In Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction for English Language Learners, Grades K–4, Sylvia Linan-Thompson and Sharon Vaughn provide over 60 field-tested classroom lessons for ensuring English fluency among young nonnative speakers....

Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle's ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appeal that is thought to be intended to provide both substantive ethical advice and justification for the demands of ethics. Sylvia Berryman argues that this...

Why is the colonization of space important? Why has the general public lost interest in space since the Apollo era? What does pop-culture science fiction reveal about our society's attutudes toward space? And what other future developments, such as growing understanding of "paranormal" human...

Sweet, succulent, cooling, and often with a beguiling floral fragrance, a ripe melon can be one of the most delicious things you sink your teeth into. As Sylvia Lovegren shows in this book, the melon’s complex flavor profile is matched by an equally complex history. Cutting into the melon’s past,...