Most Popular Books by Joan Clark

Penny befriends another troubled young lady, Amy Coulter. Amy''s sculpture, the Black Imp, was the best entry in an art contest, but the prize went to an inferior work of art. Even worse, Amy is now accused of stealing a valuable Rembrant painting from the museum!Penny is certain that Amy is innocent and even helps Amy evade the police. After Penny chances to see Amy accepting a payment from a man connected with the museum, Penny worries that she may have acted rashly in helping Amy maintain her freedom

A fully updated and expanded edition of a weight loss program that readers can count on. This fully updated and expanded edition clearly explains just how and why a glycemic index diet works by showing readers how to eat the right kind of foods: more complex carbohydrates, fibre, grains, and fruit. The glycemic index diet is a solution for many people at of Type II diabetes or those with insulin-sensitivity or resistance. - Includes information on supplements, easy recipes, food lists, and sample meal plans. - Includes an appendix with glycemic index counts and loads for all sorts of food. - Features a new study on how eating certain foods cold can make a big difference.

Shed those pounds the healthy way. This brand-new edition of The Complete IdiotÂ''s Guide to Healthy Weight Loss not only gives readers critical information on nutrition and health—it also delivers everything they need to know about the mental and exercise pieces of the weight-loss puzzle. In addition, it presents a comprehensive overview of todayÂ''s most popular diets, chapters on such major diet types as low-fat, low-sodium, low-carb, and low-cal, as well as chapters on dieting for kids, dieting for diabetics, dieting for heart health, and more. Best of all, readers will find five unique diet plans to help them lost weight—and keep it off—starting today! -Features new research on how nutrition and certain foods affect body weight -Expanded information on surgical and pharmaceutical options for weight loss, plus the skinny on supplements and over-the-counter remedies -Upload exercise chapters with more fat-burning exercises and updated charts for calorie burning (including suggestions for meeting the U.S. GovernmentÂ''s new exercise recommendations)

Moranna learns that one of the daughters taken from her years earlier is about to be married and determines to attend the event.

"From a High Thin Wire" introduced a powerful new voice into Canadian fiction. The ten frank yet subtle stories in Joan Clark''s debut collection explore how childhood experiences shape adult choices. A woman rages against the "eye of God" that has seen the miner''s son she once loved reduced to a mute old man; sisters come home to bury their mother, whose sudden death plunges them into confusion; a minister''s daughter deals summarily with marauding dogs. In every story, Clark peels away the skin, exposing the network of influences that make people act as they do.

Knowing only that the Trout Tree is a work of art, a young city girl visits several different artists in her search for it.

Madeleine is eager to visit her cousin Selena in Calgary, but when she arrives, she finds a Selena self-assured, aloof and unfriendly. One moonlit night Madeleine dons a mysterious moon mask and is transported to the Moon World. Her activities there and in the real world allow her to come to terms with her cousin and herself.