Sharp Evidence By Julie Miller History is repeating itself… Discovering a bloody knife from two unsolved murders reunites theatre professor Reese Atkinson with criminalist Jackson Dobbs. And the murder victims? Jackson’s own parents! But the shy, orphaned boy from her childhood is now an army veteran and fierce protector…of the evidence and of Reese. But who is weaving a deadly web that not only threatens their reunion…but their lives? A Detective’s Deadly Secrets By Anna J. Stewarts A lethal attraction… Detective Lana Tate’s convinced there’s only one man who can help untangle her husband’s mysterious death: Agent Eamon Quinn—an old friend who will stop at nothing to find the truth. Lara was the once-favourite colleague he’d secretly pined for. But as their long-buried attraction bursts into flame, so does the danger…

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aMeticulously researched, compelling written, Abandoned is a highly original study of an inexplicably understudied topic: child abandonment in the nineteenth-century American city. This important book provides a powerful corrective to excessively romanticized views of childhood in the past.a
--Steven Mintz, author of "Huckas Raft: A History of American Childhood"

aFrom Moses to Harry Potter, the stories of abandoned children have always intrigued us, even when we lack humane responses to their situation. In this well-written and insightful book, Miller provides access to the experience of children in the past, as well as the complex world of public and private charities, municipal reformers, clergy, and physicians who interacted with them in nineteenth-century New York City.a
--Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of "Kansas Charley: The Story of a 19th-Century Boy Murderer"

In the nineteenth century, foundlings--children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth--were commonplace in European society. There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. In American cities before the Civil War the situation was different, with foundlings relegated to the poorhouse instead of institutions designed specifically for their care. By the eve of the Civil War, New York City in particular had an epidemic of foundlings on its hands due to the rapid and often interlinked phenomena of urban development, population growth, immigration, and mass poverty. Only then did the city'sleaders begin to worry about the welfare and future of its abandoned children.

In Abandoned, Julie Miller offers a fascinating, frustrating, and often heartbreaking history of a once devastating, now forgotten social problem that wracked Americaas biggest metropolis, New York City. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories, Miller traces the shift in attitudes toward foundlings from ignorance, apathy, and sometimes pity for the children and their mothers to that of recognition of the problem as a sign of urban moral decline and in need of systematic intervention. Assistance came from public officials and religious reformers who constructed four institutions: the Nursery and Child's Hospital's foundling asylum, the New York Infant Asylum, the New York Foundling Asylum, and the public Infant Hospital, located on Randall's Island in the East River.

Ultimately, the foundling asylums were unable to significantly improve childrenas lives, and by the early twentieth century, three out of the four foundling asylums closed, as adoption took the place of abandonment and foster care took the place of institutions. Today the word foundling has been largely forgotten. Fortunately, Abandoned rescues its history from obscurity.

Crime Scene Cover-Up by Julie Miller Their passion was forged in flames Mark Taylor can put out a fire, but Amy Hall is a different challenge. He's determined to keep her safe-and although she's a target, she's certain that she doesn't need his protection. As they hunt down an arsonist, both Mark and Amy try to deny their red-hot desire...will they succumb before a madman burns down their world? Colton 911: Ultimate Showdown by Addison Fox Hunting a criminal brings danger...and passion When Lieutenant Tripp McKellar rescues crime scene investigator Sadie Colton from a kidnapper, she is eternally grateful. Yet as they work together to bring down the criminal who targeted her they discover a mutual attraction. But can true love bloom in the shadow of a deadly threat?

The 6th Edition of Beginning & Intermediate Algebra continues the Miller/O'Neill/Hyde author team's approach in addressing the needs of developmental level students to help them get better results. Content updates include new end-of-section activities, prerequisite review exercises, and new study skills videos. This new edition is available in ALEKS 360. In a single platform, ALEKS provides a balance of adaptive practice for skill mastery and homework, tests, and quizzes for application and assessment so that you can create the assignments your students need to have the best outcome in your course. In addition to content updates to the text, we are continuously adding new features to ALEKS 360-including new video assignments, an enhanced gradebook experience, end-of-chapter questions aligned to the text, and more.

Target on Her Back by Julie Miller Only she knows the answers. Only he can keep her alive. Discovering her boss has been murdered, Professor Gigi Brennan becomes the killer's next target. She quickly learns that her best chance at survival is counting on Detective Hudson Kramer. But can she and Hud uncover who's terrorising her...before their dreams of a shared future are over before they've even begun? Colton Cowboy Jeopardy by Regan Black On the run from a sociopath... And no one to trust Mia Graves is in danger-and so is her baby. Jarvis Colton is exploring a family mystery when their paths cross. After the trauma of losing his parents, he has no intention of making himself vulnerable ever again. Just this once, he can help a family, but can he protect Mia without falling in love?

The 6th Edition of Beginning Algebra continues the Miller/O'Neill/Hyde author team's approach in addressing the needs of developmental level students to help them get better results. Content updates include new end-of-section activities, prerequisite review exercises, and new study skills videos. This new edition is available in ALEKS 360. In a single platform, ALEKS provides a balance of adaptive practice for skill mastery and homework, tests, and quizzes for application and assessment so that you can create the assignments your students need to have the best outcome in your course. In addition to content updates to the text, we are continuously adding new features to ALEKS 360-including new video assignments, an enhanced gradebook experience, end-of-chapter questions aligned to the text, and more.

Aging Education provides educators in aging studies with a unique text that responds to the paucity of instructional strategies and teaching materials. Editors Nieli Langer and Terry Tirrito meet the challenge of educating and training students and providers of service to an aging population in all the various instructional programs (gerontology/geriatrics degrees) and non-credit workshops currently offered in different settings (hospitals, nursing homes, professional associations, in-service training, etc). By developing and explaining a multidisciplinary approach to working with older adults in areas related to health, education, ethics, law, cultural competency for a multicultural population, translating social policy into practice, spirituality, and human services, the editors provide an imaginative and thought-provoking unmet need for gerontology educators by providing them with teaching and practice strategies in aging education.

The 2nd Edition of Developmental Mathematics: Prealgebra, Beginning Algebra, & Intermediate Algebra continues the Miller/O'Neill/Hyde author team's approach in addressing the needs of developmental level students to help them get better results. Updates to the new edition include end-of-section activities, prerequisite review exercises, and new study skills videos. This new edition is available in ALEKS 360. In a single platform, ALEKS provides a balance of adaptive practice for skill mastery and homework, tests, and quizzes for application and assessment so that you can create the assignments your students need to have the best outcome in your course. In addition to content updates to the text, we are continuously adding new features to ALEKS 360-including new video assignments, an enhanced gradebook experience, end-of-chapter questions aligned to the text, and more.

The 6th Edition of Intermediate Algebra continues the Miller/O'Neill/Hyde author team's approach in addressing the needs of developmental level students to help them get better results. Content updates include new end-of-section activities, prerequisite review exercises, and new study skills videos. This new edition is available in ALEKS 360. In a single platform, ALEKS provides a balance of adaptive practice for skill mastery and homework, tests, and quizzes for application and assessment so that you can create the assignments your students need to have the best outcome in your course. In addition to content updates to the text, we are continuously adding new features to ALEKS 360-including new video assignments, an enhanced gradebook experience, end-of-chapter questions aligned to the text, and more.

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aMeticulously researched, compelling written, Abandoned is a highly original study of an inexplicably understudied topic: child abandonment in the nineteenth-century American city. This important book provides a powerful corrective to excessively romanticized views of childhood in the past.a
--Steven Mintz, author of "Huckas Raft: A History of American Childhood"

aFrom Moses to Harry Potter, the stories of abandoned children have always intrigued us, even when we lack humane responses to their situation. In this well-written and insightful book, Miller provides access to the experience of children in the past, as well as the complex world of public and private charities, municipal reformers, clergy, and physicians who interacted with them in nineteenth-century New York City.a
--Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of "Kansas Charley: The Story of a 19th-Century Boy Murderer"

In the nineteenth century, foundlings--children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth--were commonplace in European society. There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. In American cities before the Civil War the situation was different, with foundlings relegated to the poorhouse instead of institutions designed specifically for their care. By the eve of the Civil War, New York City in particular had an epidemic of foundlings on its hands due to the rapid and often interlinked phenomena of urban development, population growth, immigration, and mass poverty. Only then did the city'sleaders begin to worry about the welfare and future of its abandoned children.

In Abandoned, Julie Miller offers a fascinating, frustrating, and often heartbreaking history of a once devastating, now forgotten social problem that wracked Americaas biggest metropolis, New York City. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories, Miller traces the shift in attitudes toward foundlings from ignorance, apathy, and sometimes pity for the children and their mothers to that of recognition of the problem as a sign of urban moral decline and in need of systematic intervention. Assistance came from public officials and religious reformers who constructed four institutions: the Nursery and Child's Hospital's foundling asylum, the New York Infant Asylum, the New York Foundling Asylum, and the public Infant Hospital, located on Randall's Island in the East River.

Ultimately, the foundling asylums were unable to significantly improve childrenas lives, and by the early twentieth century, three out of the four foundling asylums closed, as adoption took the place of abandonment and foster care took the place of institutions. Today the word foundling has been largely forgotten. Fortunately, Abandoned rescues its history from obscurity.

Authors and educators Julie Miller, Molly O'Neill, and Nancy Hyde are pleased to announce the highly anticipated 3rd edition of their Prealgebra series. Create more lightbulb moments with this comprehensive set of valuable content and pedagogy, and insightful and intuitive digital learning tools. The text reflects the compassion of its experienced author team with features developed to address the specific needs of today's prealgebra students. Included alongside the highly-favorable Problem Recognition Exercises, readers will find added review material, aimed at assisting students with synthesis, summarization, and recognition of key mathematical topics so as to enhance their overall conceptual understanding. These types of exercises, along with the overall number of practice problems and group activities available, permit instructors to choose from a wealth of problems, allowing ample opportunity for students to practice what they learn in lecture to hone their skills.

Life or death FBI agent Ash Stryker would never speed-date. But that’s where he tracks down Claire Molenski, a computer programmer suspected of selling government information. When he rescues her from a kidnapping, he realises that she’s innocent, but also that the only way to protect her is to pose as her boyfriend. But will the pair survive long enough to find out how much of an act their relationship is? • Savannah Martell has no memory of how she ended up next to her womaniser ex-husband's dead body. Facing too many unanswerable questions, she turns to Connor Wells. Years ago, their romance burned hot and deep, and even now their flame still lingers. But when the death count rises and evidence leads back to Savannah, will Connor still provide an alibi for the woman he never stopped loving? • Carly Valentine never expected that she would have to pretend to be someone’s girlfriend, but when Ivan Mostek’s visit to Kansas City enrages his fiercest enemies, it’s the only way to keep him safe. Suddenly, the experienced cop is faced with a mission like none she has ever trained for. One in which fake feelings could turn into something all too real.

In Cry of Murder on Broadway, Julie Miller shows how a woman's desperate attempt at murder came to momentarily embody the anger and anxiety felt by many people at a time of economic and social upheaval and expanding expectations for equal rights. On the evening of November 1, 1843, a young household servant named Amelia Norman attacked Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant, on the steps of the new and luxurious Astor House Hotel. Agitated and distraught, Norman had followed Ballard down Broadway before confronting him at the door to the hotel. Taking out a folding knife, she stabbed him, just missing his heart. Ballard survived the attack, and the trial that followed created a sensation. Newspapers in New York and beyond followed the case eagerly, and crowds filled the courtroom every day. The prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child championed Norman and later included her story in her fiction and her writing on women's rights. The would-be murderer also attracted the support of politicians, journalists, and legal and moral reformers who saw her story as a vehicle to change the law as it related to "seduction" and to advocate for the rights of workers. Cry of Murder on Broadway describes how New Yorkers, besotted with the drama of the courtroom and the lurid stories of the penny press, followed the trial for entertainment. Throughout all this, Norman gained the sympathy of New Yorkers, in particular the jury, which acquitted her in less than ten minutes. Miller deftly weaves together Norman's story to show how, in one violent moment, she expressed all the anger that the women of the emerging movement for women's rights would soon express in words.

Decoding the Truth by Julie Miller This crime lab tech has an enemy that wants her dead... A vicious hacker has lab tech Chelsea in his sights, and Robert "Buck" Buckner won't let his personal heartbreak prevent him from keeping her safe. But the sparks between this reserved ex-cop and the kind-hearted Chelsea are as hot as the trail they're tracking. Can their mismatched skills outwit a killer - and help them risk their guarded hearts? Lost in Little Havana by Caridad Pineiro A brush with death makes their desire hard to ignore Detective Roni Lopez has been keeping a secret from Detective Trey Gonzalez her whole life. When his partner is gunned down in a Miami Beach nightclub, she has a new secret to keep. Trey can't know that she's working for Internal Affairs - just like he can't know that she's always loved him. But when their lives are on the line, she has to make some tough choices about what really matters...

Create more lightbulb moments with this comprehensive set of valuable content and insightful, intuitive digital learning resources! This new 2nd edition of the Miller/O'Neill/Hyde Prealgebra and Introductory Algebra text seeks to serve the changing dynamics of today's curriculum by thoughtfully interweaving the topics of two foundational building blocks in students' mathematical journey. The text reflects the compassion of its experienced author team with features developed to address the specific needs of today's prealgebra and introductory algebra students. Included alongside the highly-favorable Problem Recognition Exercises, readers will find added review material, aimed at assisting students with synthesis, summarization, and recognition of key mathematical topics so as to enhance their overall conceptual understanding. These types of exercises, along with the overall number of practice problems and group activities available, permit instructors to choose from a wealth of problems, allowing ample opportunity for students to practice what they learn in lecture to hone their skills.

We often expect to feel God's presence in joyous mountaintop experiences or when walking through the darkest valley, but we mustn't forget that God can surely be found in the ordinary moments of our lives. In this devotional, we seek to inspire you to find God in your everyday life, whether it's dropping your kids off at school, waiting in the checkout line at your local grocery store, or meeting a friend over coffee. Because here's the truth: God wants to invade every part of our lives, but sometimes, it's just a matter of us opening our eyes to see his hand moving all around us.

As we journey through this life of ours there will be times when we are tempted to think we walk alone. Wherever you may find yourself on the path of life, know that there is a Savior who walks beside you. He has been scattering little love gifts all along your path to remind you of His presence. Lift your eyes with me, my friend, and be reminded of His many journeying mercies.