Belinda Bauer is a phenomenal voice in British crime fiction, whose work has won the CWA's Gold Dagger Award for Crime Novel of the Year and garnered rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Rubbernecker is a gripping thriller about a medical student who begins to suspect that something strange is going on in this cadaver lab. "The dead can't speak to us," Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy...

"This book aims to bring independence to the forefront of independent reading. The authors work with teachers along a wide spectrum of entry points into supporting independent reading in their classrooms, and they feel that many teachers they work with--if not most--could use some support centering the development of students' reading identities, no matter how they work independent reading into their days. Each chapter keeps student independence and...

Centers on an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered.

"At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light, Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces...