The teenage years are filled with sadness, madness, joy, and all the messy stuff in between. This collection includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allen Poe, W.B. Yeats, Dorothy Parker, and many more, including teenage writers.

The teenage years are a time filled with sadness, madness, joy, and all the messy stuff in between. Sometimes it feels that every day brings a new struggle, a new concern, a new reason to stay in bed with the shades drawn. But between moments of despair and confusion often come times of great clarity and insight, when you might think, like the poet Rumi, "Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!" It is moments like these that have inspired the touching, honest, and gripping poems found in I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy. After all, what's normal anyway? This collection includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, W.B. Yeats, Dorothy Parker, Jane Kenyon, and many more, including teenage writers and up-and-coming poets.--

The scene is set in Washington D.C., in the Supreme Court of the United States of America: One of the safest places in the country, with extreme security, the police, detectives and the sort. This is the same place where the slimiest and the toughest of criminals are straightened and everyone seeks to attain justice. Surely nothing fishy could ever happen here. When Supreme Court Justice Graham Norton goes missing minutes before a murder trial, it comes as a shock to everyone. The initial prime suspect for the kidnapping and possible murder is Dane Murphy, who possibly just missed getting a death sentence. However, as the plot unfolds, new people come under the shadow of suspect and the case becomes one that never seems to see its end. Not even when one of the best detectives, and old-time friend of the victim, Seth Cole is handling the case. Seth Cole is a man of great experience and prides himself in having solved the trickiest of cases. Everyone including his new-appointed intern Frank Mile, is in awe of him. If there is anyone who can possibly bring an end to this mystery, it has to be Cole.

Insurance adjuster Benjamin Chaze wakes up in Massachusetts General Hospital, severely beaten and drugged, with no recollection as to how or why. He soon discovers his apartment and car have also been burglarized. Someone has gone to great lengths and risk to get something from Ben. He and the police come to the initial conclusion that he must have seen something while working on a claim, or inadvertently included something incriminating in one of his claim files. Working with public adjuster, Katrina Peters, they increasingly realize the stakes are far more than originally thought, and far more sinister than either ever imagined. The race to find the answers holds the key to the prevention of their own demise.

One in every five Americans lives with at least one disability or disorder, including both the obvious, such as those requiring the use of a wheelchair, and the less evident ones, such as eating disorders or Asperger's syndrome. Those responsible for teaching disabled students and providing services and support for them need ready access to reliable and up-to-date resources. Disabilities and Disorders in Literature for Youth: A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12 identifies almost 1,000 resources to help educators, professionals, parents, siblings, guardians, and students understand the various disabilities and disorders faced by children today. This bibliography consists of four major headings_Emotional, Learning, Physical, and Multiple Disabilities_which are further categorized into works of fiction and nonfiction. Annotations provide a complete bibliographical description of the entries, and each entry is identified with the grade levels for which it is best suited and resources are matched with appropriate audiences. Reviews from recognized publications are also included wherever possible. Anyone interested in identifying helpful resources regarding disabilities and disorders will find much of value in this essential tool.

After three children stumble on dumped radioactive waste in a Murmansk forest, one of them dies from radiation poisoning. Outraged by such a tragic waste of a child's life, American doctor John Ross joins forces with a Typhoon class submarine captain (the father of one of the surviving children) and an undercover operative from the Russian Radiation Authority to hunt down those responsible. This puts them on a collision course with a Russian Mafia boss and an Al-Qaeda agent determined to acquire nuclear material. They find themselves entangled in a web of brutality, bribery and blackmail, where no one is who they seem and everyone is expendable ...

Was it medicine? Mercy? Or murder? For the sake of his conscience, Jake has to find out-before a paranoid stalker exacts his revenge.When pregnant Sarah Hampton dies suddenly at an alternative cancer treatment facility, an enraged community demands to know whether her physician-husband assisted her death. Suffering from traumatic amnesia, Jake Hampton would like to know too. He strongly opposes assisted suicide, and yet his wife was suffering such agony-is it possible he helped her die?After barely avoiding a murder trial, and hoping to regain his memory and unravel the questions he’s not sure he wants answered, Jake joins a medical practice in his former hometown. Once there, he not only continues to encounter public suspicion, but receives subtle and threatening clues from an unidentified stalker. Are his wife’s death and the stalker’s appearance mere coincidence? Or is someone trying to destroy him completely?In this medical thriller, practicing surgeon and accomplished novelist Harry Kraus uses complex characters, fascinating medical details, and depictions of spiritual warfare to keep readers riveted. This edition ofLethal Mercyfeatures a new cover design and is the follow-up to Kraus'sFated GenesandStainless Steal Hearts.