Most Popular Books by Carolyn Meyer

In today''s fast-paced, multi-tasking work environments, successful communication means more than getting the message across: it means getting noticed and getting results. Communicating for Results: A Canadian Student''s Guide offers practical, classroom-tested instruction not only in grammar but in the rhetorical techniques and persuasive strategies that students need to become effective writers and speakers. Its hands-on, skills-based approach uses models, organizational plans, workshops, discussion forums, quick-reference guides, and checklists to simplify the writing process while banishing writer''s block and easing fears about public speaking. Designed to make effective communication achievable in even the most demanding workplace environment, Communicating for Results is equally suitable for classroom use and personal desktop reference.

Describes the experiences of a troubled teenager at the Vitam Center in Norwalk, Connecticut, a therapeutic community where teenagers with problems help each other get better.

When her convict father, on the run from the law, takes fifteen-year-old Andy into a remote wilderness area where they must fight to stay alive, he tries to explain to her what prison was like and they both make some shocking discoveries about each other.

Torn between youthful rebellion and their traditional heritages, two boys from very different cultures--one Amish, one Orthodox Jew--discover just how similar they really are.

Instructions and patterns for making a number of items by crocheting, knitting, weaving, and by macramé.

A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching in the formation of a cross.

Information on how masks have been used by various peoples over the centuries and directions for making similar masks out of easily available materials.

Traces the history of spinning and weaving, patchwork and quilting, silversmithing, jewelry making, glassblowing, pottery, woodworking, and bookbinding and examines the lives of two or three artisans working in each craft.

In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother''s cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of a boy she has grown up with, William Shakespeare.

Emily Rose has always felt comfortable growing up in Connecticut with her African American mother and her "French American" father, but when they spend some time with her great-grandmother in Texas, Emily Rose learns about her black heritage and uncovers some new and exciting parts of her own identity.

Drowning her unhappiness in luxurious parties and scandalous fashions when she falls short of impossible court standards and expectations, Marie-Antoinette incites the wrath of her impoverished French subjects and her disapproving mother. By the award-winning author of Doomed Queen Anne.

A study of the contemporary Yupik culture in an Alaskan village as seen through the eyes of a typical family.

Originally published in 2000 as: Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess.

In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.

Discusses the growth, cultivation, processing, and uses of coconuts. Includes thirty coconut recipes.

A guide to woodworking with directions and diagrams for numerous projects ranging in difficulty from a cheese board to a desk.

Describes the equipment, stones, and procedures used in rock tumbling and gives instructions for making the polished stones into jewelry and other items.

Describes the way of life of an Amish family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, including their work, beliefs, and customs.