"This second practice test is designed familiarize you with the essay question found in the Missouri General Education Assessment (MoGEA) Writing (067) subtest. Like the official subtest, you will be asked to respond to an educational issue presented in two passages that offer opposing viewpoints on that issue. You can then grade yourself using a detailed scoring guide." --

This second practice test will help you prepare for the format, content, and timing found on the official Missouri General Education Assessment (MoGEA) Science and Social Studies (069) subtest. It includes 40 multiple-choice questions with detailed answer explanations and an instant score report that will help focus your studies." --

"On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy's fate will be the family's greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive-- and, ultimately, they will come to cherish...

"Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go--and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the...

"Betsy Huckabee has big-city dreams, but nobody outside of tiny Pine Gap, Missouri, seems interested in the articles she writes for her uncle's newspaper. Her hopes for independence may be crushed, until the best idea she's ever had comes riding into town. Deputy Joel Puckett didn't want to leave Texas, but unfair circumstances have made moving to Pine Gap his only shot at keeping a badge. Worse, this small town has big problems, and masked marauders...

Two humorous novels by Mark Twain in one volume.

After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

After her career and love life both lurch the wrong way, Mari O'Malley returns to the Missouri Ozarks, drafted by her bossy sisters to care for their mother. Boredom at the family's cabin on Lake Kesibwi has her poking her nose into the life of her sister's troubled adolescent son. Helping him lands her in the arms of her childhood playmate, former bad-boy Andy Eppelwaite. Soon their good-natured squabbling turns to love. But choices Mari made in...

Jeffery Deaver is the New York Times bestselling author of The Empty Chair and The Devil's Teardrop. Here his trademark ticking-bomb suspense (People) explodes off the page in another heart-stopping thriller. Hollywood location scout John Pellam thought the scenic backwater town of Maddox, Missouri, would be the perfect site for an upcoming Bonnie and Clyde-style film. But after real bullets leave two people dead and one cop paralyzed, he's more sought...

Beautiful and beguiling Florida Jones is a small-town Missouri Ozarks success, with her thriving business, spirited young daughter, and engagement to a wealthy sought-after bachelor who promises to give her the wider world she yearns for. Then an unexpected visit from the mother who abandoned her sparks a tragic accident, unearths family secrets, and leaves her dependent on the very woman she loathes-as well as the ex-lover who long ago threw her...