The Harper Effect

The Harper Effect
Author: Taryn Bashford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1510726705

A sizzling coming of age story set in the world of professional tennis about a girl who learns to win from a boy who has lost everything. Sixteen-year-old Harper was once a rising star on the tennis court—until her coach dropped her for being “mentally weak.” Without tennis, who is she? Her confidence at an all-time low, she secretly turns to her childhood friend, next-door neighbor Jacob—who also happens to be her sister’s very recent ex-boyfriend. If her sister finds out, it will mean a family war. But when Harper is taken on by a new coach who wants her to train with Colt, a cold, defensive, brooding young tennis phenom, she hits the court all the harder, if only to prove to Colt she has it in her to be a champion. As the two learn to become a team, Harper gets glimpses of the vulnerable boy beneath the surface, the boy who was deeply scarred by his family’s dark and scandalous past. The boy she could easily find herself falling for. As she walks a fine line between Colt’s secrets, her forbidden love, and a game that demands nothing but the best, Harper must choose between her past and her future and between two boys who send her head spinning. Turns out, the biggest battle she needs to win, is the one against herself.

Where Do Creatures Sleep at Night?

Where Do Creatures Sleep at Night?
Author: Steven J. Simmons
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1632898454

Animals sleep, just like you! But where? And how? Let's take a look at what creatures do / when you are asleep and the day is through . . . We're used to seeing animals during the day, but where and how do they sleep at night? From butterflies to bees and frogs to fish, from birds to horses and squirrels to bunnies, plus cats and dogs, this sweet book in rhyme shows kids where animals bed down while kids are also asleep. Following a brother and sister on a farm where all the animals can be found, this book teaches and delights!

The Harper Anthology of Poetry

The Harper Anthology of Poetry
Author: John Frederick Nims
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 888
Release: 1981
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

A collection of poems ranging from before 1400 to the present.

The Last King of California

The Last King of California
Author: JORDAN. HARPER
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780316581400

Jordan Harper's "darkly irresistible" novel, a tragic, Hamlet-esque noir for readers of S.A. Cosby and Don Winslow, now available for the first time in the United States. (Megan Abbott) This stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Luke's father is serving time for a brutal murder that Luke himself witnessed; now, his uncle vies for power and rival biker gangs encroach on the family's various criminal enterprises. A sensitive boy grown hard man, Luke navigates the vicious pressures of "home," and the loyalties to his old friend, Cassie, who has hatched a scheme with her boyfriend Pretty Baby to escape the control of the gang, the Combine. Hanging over these desperate, lonesome parties is the gang's motto, tattooed indelibly across the heart: Blood is Love. The Last King of California is a story of the West unlike any you will read. "When I say The Last King of California subverts the stereotypical American Outlaw Mythos, it's the highest praise I can give it. No one is thinking deeper about what crime fiction is than Jordan Harper."-- S. A. Cosby "Burns bright and fast"-- Peter Swanson "Darkly irresistible" -- Megan Abbott "Urgent and beautiful" -- Lauren Beukes

The Harper's Quine

The Harper's Quine
Author: Pat McIntosh
Publisher: Constable
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 184901860X

At the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross, Gil Cunningham sees not only the woman who is going to be murdered, but her murderer as well. Gil is a recently qualified lawyer whose family still expect him to enter the priesthood. When he finds the body of a young woman in the new building at Glasgow Cathedral he is asked to investigate, and identifies the corpse as the runaway wife of cruel, unpleasant nobleman John Semphill. With the help of Maistre Pierre, the French master-mason, Gil must ask questions and seek a murderer in the heart of the city.

The Harper Era in Canadian Foreign Policy

The Harper Era in Canadian Foreign Policy
Author: Adam Chapnick
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 077483322X

“Canada’s back” announced the victorious Liberal Party in October 2015. After almost ten years of Conservative Party rule, the Harper era in Canadian foreign policy was over, suggesting a return to the priorities of gentler, more cooperative Liberal governments. But was the Harper era really so different? And if so, why? This comprehensive analysis of Canada’s foreign policy during the Harper years addresses these very questions. The chapters, written by leading scholars and analysts of Canadian politics, provide an excellent overview of foreign policy in a number of different policy areas. They also offer differing interpretations as to whether the transition from a minority to majority government in 2011 shaped the way that the Harper Conservatives conceived of, developed, and implemented international policy. The analysis is gripping and the findings surprising, particularly the contention that the government’s shift to majority status was far less important to foreign policy under Harper than it had been under previous governments. The reasons why reveal important insights into the Harper decade of foreign policy.

The Harper's Stories

The Harper's Stories
Author: Marjorie Bowen
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Harper's Stories by Marjorie Bowen is about noble Cedric of the kingdom of Kent who comes across Roman missionaries trying to convert the English throne. Excerpt: "CEDRIC the churl looked up from the basket he was weaving of osier bands and listened. The thick woods of Kent lay to right and left of him; a path wound through the clustering trees, and, as it dipped to the distance, there was a flash of the vivid blue sea. The autumn foliage, faded to hues of gold and brown, rustled in bright sunshine; dead leaves strewed the ground, but grass of a clear green grew in patches beneath the trees."