Nancy Brooks

Something bad happened to Sylvia Rios a long time ago; it was something so bad, it turned the tempestuous teen into a whirlwind of trouble. With no memory of that fateful night, Sylvia's grown up to depend on herself, and accept the fact that no one could ever love her-especially not her upstanding father. With nothing to lose, and nothing to gain, Sylvia has lived her life on the outskirts of town with a yearning for more. A yearning for love. Mason Curran was a killer in the eyes of the small town where he'd been born. His mother had committed suicide, his father had died in drunken despair, and Mason had terrorized the town until the night he found himself savagely beating a man to death. Now, years later, with his life in control and his future looking bright, Mason finds himself the target in Sylvia's scheme to liven up her life. With every intention of giving her his heart, and every fiber in his being warning him of impending heartbreak, Mason eagerly falls into the insatiable whirlwind that only a girl like Sylvia Rios can create.

Tattered Shreds

Paul Howard

Holly Kothe

Richelle Goodrich

Graham Downs

Darren Worrow

Maria Miller

Cecily Magnon

Dave Derby

Here is the deal, we take 10 great authors, give them the freedom to write a story in their own style and genre as long as the general theme has children involved. Next we put them in a big pot (the stories not the authors) and mix them up a bit to see what comes out at the end. And here it is, a marvellous mixture of inspiring, entertaining, funny and thought provoking fables that will delight every grown up from here to the Land of Lorff ... Huh? What do you mean you've never heard of the land of Loff? Well my friend, read on..... Authors include: Darren Worrow, Maria Miller, James Cruickshank and James Penhaligon, Richelle E. Goodrich, Cecily Magnon, Holly M. Kothe, Nancy Brooks, Paul Howard, Graham Downs and David Darby. All proceeds of this book will go to the children's charity; The Devizes and District Opportunity Centre.

I am not Frazzle!

Gerrit-Jan Knaap

Kieran Donaghy

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focus on the interface between these two subdisciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship. Although economists were among the early contributors to the literature on urban planning, many economists have been dismissive of a discipline whose leading scholars frequently favor regulations over market institutions, equity over efficiency, and normative prescriptions over positive analysis. Planners, meanwhile, even as they draw upon economic principles, often view the work of economists as abstract, not sensitive to institutional contexts, and communicated in a formal language spoken by few with decision making authority. Not surprisingly, papers in the leading economic journals rarely cite clearly pertinent papers in planning journals, and vice versa. Despite the historical divergence in perspectives and methods, urban economics and urban planning share an intense interest in many topic areas: the nature of cities, the prosperity of urban economies, the efficient provision of urban services, efficient systems of transportation, and the proper allocation of land between urban and environmental uses. In bridging this gap, the book highlights the best scholarship in planning and economics that address the most pressing urban problems of our day and stimulates further dialog between scholars in urban planning and urban economics.

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning

Nancy Brooks

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