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In this engaging and heartfelt novel, Libby Parker, a normal, happy fourteen-year-old girl, finds her life dramatically changed on September 25th, 2006, when her school bus is hit from behind by another bus. Libby is left with near-total amnesia and traumatic brain injury. Her struggle to find her new "normal" takes place as her family confronts the local school district over liability. When Libby Lost Her Smile accurately, and with great sensitivity, details how even mild brain trauma can change the life of the injured person, and their entire family, and addresses the guilt felt by Libby's parents when they have to learn to love their new daughter all over again. The story shows the family's battle to not only survive, but to learn to live anew. Will Libby be able to succeed? Will her determination and perseverance endure? Will Libby smile again?About the Author: Naomi Parker lives in the Southern Tier of New York State. She is currently working on her next book, the story of four baby boomer sisters who learn that life doesn't always go according to plan. Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/WhenLibbyLostHerSmile.html

When Julia Maltby, a wide-eyed girl of British stock, leaves New York to return to her ancestral castle on a remote island off the coast of Northumberland, she is seeking romance and adventure; but finds more than she bargained for. The British aristocracy closes ranks and Julia is soon at the center of a murder investigation and suspected of planning to steal the family jewels. Will she be able to solve the murder case, clear her name, and inherit the jewelry left to her by her grandmother? If she does, there just may be a chance for her long-time admirer to trust her again and win her heart.Barbara J. Williams hails from Kansas City, Kansas, and now resides near Boise, Idaho. She realized she wanted to be a writer when she began reading mystery novels at the age of 10. Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/DeathAtGorlachen.html

In the not so distant (and nowhere near as bright) future, young Chantal Kiffer grew up, a 'latch key kid,' in a 'Cold Zone;' something that could best be described as a lawless modern day slum district. Orphaned before her teens, Chantal was adopted by her only aunt, who threw her out when she was sixteen. At eighteen Chantal was abandoned by her cowardly boyfriend when she told him she was carrying his child. Faced with the virtual death sentence of homelessness in the Cold Zone, Chantal is forced to turn to prostitution. Rescued from a considerable beating from a marauding rape gang by an escaped 'lab experiment', Chantal settles down to share her home with her mysterious rescuer for the winter.Erika is a highly illegal 'project,' a cloned human, modified with cybernetic implants and technology to be an assassin, with a dark secret in her past. Erika looks after, and nurses, a badly beaten and helpless Chantal, in exchange for nothing more than an uncomfortable couch to sleep on and some cast-off clothes to wear; the best deal that anyone had offered to the jaded street prostitute in a long time. Chantal becomes Erika's first friend, and then later, her first lover. Becoming a highly successful upper-class call girl, Erika takes her one true love away from the life she knew in the lawless Cold Zone, and shows her what life could be like in a more civilised area, where the police still dare to go.David Young lives in northeast England and enjoys playing war games. He is devising the rest of the trilogy.

If you want to start an argument in a teachers' lounge, bring up the topic of how best to teach grammar. There is a wide spectrum of opinion. Traditionalists claim that we must explicitly teach grammar. Students drill the basics and diagram sentences. Sometimes their study and drills take the place of writing, but these teachers claim that good writing demands good grammar. At the opposite end of the spectrum are teachers who claim that the best way to learn grammar is to write, thereby being forced to use grammar in writing and editing. They reason that students will learn grammar in the context of actually using it, without all the drills and worksheets. They trust the writing process to instill an appreciation for grammar, instead of actually teaching it. Teachers on the write-to-learn-grammar side claim that students who are only taught grammar rules might pass tests, but since they didn't learn in the context of writing, they typically don't apply the rules when they write. Grammar traditionalists say students in writing classes never learn grammar at all, because it is not explicitly taught. In Tools, Not Rules, authors Tommy Thomason and Geoff Ward take the middle-ground position that grammar should be taught as part of the writing process. Tommy Thomason is a veteran journalist and university journalism professor at TCU. Geoff Ward is a well-known Australian professor and associate dean from James Cook University in Townsville. Both have written several books and work extensively with American teachers.Publisher's website: http://www.eloquentbooks.com/ToolsNotRules-TeachingGrammarInTheWritingClassroom.html