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Sixteen historians, all members of the Society of Independent Southern Historians, have come together to write this truthful history of America specifically for home-schooled students. Herein is a history that is truthful, concise, yet comprehensive, written especially for students of middle school and high school age and for the parents who provide guidance through the home school educational approach. The 40 student lessons in this book present 278 years of our history.

The wizard, Dagan, is continually defeated in his attempts to rid the realm of a cruel master. Broke and desperate for new equipment, Dagan finds himself in the Unicorn-racing town of Mana Falls, where intrigue, murder, and suspicion lie around every corner. When a high profile member of the community is murdered, Dagan finds himself as the prime suspect. Will the wizard's mission be overturned by humanity's laws - and can Dagan determine his own fate before marauders, banishing charms, and goblins decide it for him?

Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from treatable illness merely because they can’t afford medical care. How did we reach this shameful state? You’ll be shocked to find out not only who’s to blame, but more importantly, how easy the solution can be. In this riveting book, Dr. Joseph Jarvis, MD, examines how our nation’s focus has radically shifted from the disease to the dollar. With unforgettable stories drawn from Dr. Jarvis’s 30-plus years in the medical profession, he gets you thinking about health-care reform in a big way

The race to save Hagwood has begun! Wicked queen Rhiannon, High Lady of the Hollow Hill, is more intent than ever on finding the enchanted casket containing her heart. Made immortal through evil sorcery, she has ruled the land of Hagwood heartlessly for far too long. If someone can discover the lost casket and destroy the beating heart within, her terrible reign will end. The werlings Finnen and Gamaliel - in possession of the golden key that will unlock the High Lady's casket - race to find it first.

This book shows that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic and sometimes false assumptions, these models often yield answers that support unwise policies. Writing for the general, nonmathematician reader, the authors begin with a riveting account of the extinction of the North Atlantic cod on the Grand Banks of Canada.

A contemporary Sherlock Holmes, the eccentric Bernie Quist is a consultant detective in the city of York. Christmas is days away, and once again, the reclusive sleuth will be quietly celebrating alone. His assistant Watson, a teenager from the Grimpen housing estate, has other ideas, mostly involving parties, girls, and beer. Yuletide plans are halted when three chemists die and the fiance of one hires them to look into her apparent suicide. After discovering the chemist wasn't engaged, they're drawn into the mystery.

Jarvis, a current resident of New York City, holds a bachelor's degree in psychology. She has been a case manager for human resources since 1979. In 1992, she was awarded a writing degree from the Institute of Children's Literature. Ms. Jarvis has won numerous awards for poetry, including the Editor's Choice award. Her publishing background also includes short fiction for young children. She is happily married to Ernst Rosemond.

Emmy thought she had the shock of her life when she learned that the bracelet she found at the backyard was actually Bella's - her trusted babysitter; the person she thought would never do her wrong. But life, as always, had other plans. And those plans are never really what she had in mind. Now's her one last chance to get to know the truth once and for all - and she sure wouldn't let Bella get away with this. Little did she know, something so grave was about to happen - and it could change her whole life if she couldn't fix it right away.

Emmy felt like she knew who was behind all of these, especially after how Wendy attacked Ashley. She knew that something was behind Wendy's anger - and she was determined to figure out what it is. Thrown into the world of Caleb and Ashley, she realizes there are far more dangerous things than what she thought were around - and she doesn't know if she's ready for them. Plus, a grave accident is about to happen - and it's going to change everyone's lives for good.

It's Emmy and Daniel's first wedding anniversary. They're having dinner at Sky Cornerstone, one of the best restaurants in town. Some people recognize Emmy for being in charge of the biggest change in Sky Valley's police department, courtesy of the sacking of Lena McMahon, the woman who almost destroyed Emmy's life during the past year. In the middle of dinner, everyone in the restaurant is shocked by a scream coming from the powder room: a woman has died.

After having to deal with the deaths of her old friends, Annabeth and Matthew, Emmy is asked to be the wedding coordinator of a certain Scarlet Levi. Everything seems to be perfect. But there's a catch, of course, there's a catch: Scarlet Levi is not who Emmy thinks she is. And as the day of the wedding approaches, Emmy will get to know a couple of things that will make a big impact on her life - and on the lives of the people around her.

Will Lucy the ghost be at peace, or will she haunt the paranormal investigators searching for her killer forever? Emmy and her friends, with the help of a psychic named Cassiopeia, find out that Laurel was behind Lucy's death, but find Laurel missing, allegedly in the neighboring town of Tallulah Falls.

Emmy thought that the dark days of her sleuthing were over...but now it feels like they're starting all over again. After a dinner party at the Byrnes' house because of a new business deal that Emmy's dad ventured in, Emmy and Daniel, alongside the rest of the guests, were surprised to find Wendy, their cat, jumping on a man named Caleb Roberts - Troy Byrne's new business partner. Is Wendy just being catty? Or is there anything else - something graver, crazier - that Emmy should know?

Almost a year ago, Annabeth Meyer died in front of Emmy and Matthew, Annabeth's husband. They didn't know what happened, and Emmy was thought of as one of the suspects herself until a man named Jimmy came forward and took the blame. But somehow things didn't seem right.

Welcome to Sky Valley, Georgia - a scenic town set in the heart of Rabun County, full of lush trees, greeneries, mountains, and nice people. It is paradise on earth; a place that you'd aspire to come home to. But gasp some of the people really aren't every nice and this seemingly serene place has secrets hidden within.

Emmy has been through the toughest things these past couple of months. First was the death of her old friend, Annabeth Meyer, whom she saw die right in front of her eyes. And then there was the wedding at the resort. It resulted in the death of Edward, the husband of Ruby, who was actually Daniel's ex. When Ruby died, too, Emmy felt even worse than she ever did before. Then she and Daniel broke up, and things haven't been the same since.

Today America stands at a crossroads. According to recent Rasmussen polling data, 53% of Americans don't believe that either political party represents their interests. And only 29% believe that their representative in Congress deserves reelection. Yet we continue to elect the same people over and over, with the same results. The United States of Dysfunction looks at the history of how this crisis developed and what can be done about it. Whether you’re involved in politics— or even if you're totally disgusted by what passes for politics today— you’ll find real solutions to the problems we face.

It was known as the Living Grave: A remote Hawaiian peninsula called Kalaupapa, housing the largest settlement for leprosy patients in the United States. Once it had been a forbidding place of exile, inhabited by thousands of the disease's victims who had been removed from their families and confined against their will, far away from a society that feared and misunderstood their condition.

It's Emmy and Daniel's first wedding anniversary, and they're having dinner at Sky Cornerstone, one of the best restaurants in town. Some people recognize Emmy for being the one in charge of the biggest change in Sky Valley's police department, courtesy of the sacking of Lena McMahon, the woman who almost destroyed Emmy's life in the past year. In the middle of dinner, everyone in the restaurant is shocked by a scream coming from the powder room. A woman has died, and people are left in shock because no one has any idea how it happened.

Emmy takes on the biggest challenge she's ever encountered yet - helping a ghost figure out the truth about the night she was killed.