Jane Marie

"With its use of multiple variables, functions, and formulas, algebra can be confusing and overwhelming to learn and easy to forget. Perfect for students who need to review or reference critical concepts, Algebra I Essentials For Dummies provides content focused on key topics only, with discrete explanations of critical concepts taught in a typical Algebra I course, from functions and FOILs to quadratic and linear equations. This guide is also a perfect...

Presents an easy-to-follow review of the most important concepts of elementary algebra, including exponents and root factors, linear and quadratic equations, and using algebra in everyday calculations.

After a painful breakup and too few acting gigs in Manhattan, Piper Donavan returns home to Hillwood, N.J., where she's assisting her mother, Terri, at the family bakery, the Icing on the Cupcake. Piper is pleased to be preparing the cake for the upcoming wedding of her friend Glenna Brooks, the star of A Little Rain Must Fall ... but then a cyanide poisoning of one of Glenna's co-stars and her former lover, Travis York, threatens to derail the wedding....

The second edition of Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman transports students into the bohemian section of New York City known as an epicenter of rebels, artists, and seekers of personal transformation. Assuming roles as residents of "the Village," students gather at Polly's restaurant to re-create discussions about feminism, marriage, family, work, and community. A faction of students in suffragist roles seek the community's...

Wedding cake decorator and maid of honor in her beloved cousin's wedding, Piper Donovan must save the day when the impending nuptials are threatened by the disappearance of a bridesmaid, the discovery of a body on the wedding beach and the arrival of the lecherous, ex-drug dealer best man.

This novel enters the mind of a sociopath--a place where the rules don't apply. Where anything is fair game. And where murder is the ultimate means to an end. Film and theatre critic Caroline Enright thinks her trip to a theatre festival in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts will be as easy as a summer breeze--until her complicated relationship with her stepdaughter, Meg, grows even more tense, and two of Meg's friends are killed in...

After a daring escape from the animal shelter, Pearl, Peppy, and K-10--so named because he is one step above all the other canines--explore the outside world while moving from one adventure to another.

Presents a guide to the characters, settings, and mythologies of the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series, including descriptions of Camp Half-Blood, beasts Percy encounters in his adventures, and the gods and goddesses featured in the series.