The telephone's insistent ringing at three in the morning snatched Sam Workman from dreamless sleep. "Hello," he mumbled. "This is a warning," said a digitally altered voice. "Leave Betterton now! If you don't, you won't live long enough to regret it." "Who is this?" Sam angrily demanded to a dead line. "Unknown name, unknown number," blinked the call identifier. "Coward!" Workman growled and slammed down the receiver. The call was the first episode in a conspiracy to force Sam and his business, B&W Concrete, out of Betterton or destroy them. Followed were attempts to oust B&W from two construction projects, a hospital addition and an engine plant, totaling $400 million in construction costs to yield B&W $10 million profits. Sam retains attorney Penn Roman to stem the tide of disastrous actions drowning B&W in a flood of claims of incompetency and fraud and more threats and violence against Sam, Penn, and Penn's family. When a testing lab employee working on the projects disappears, and the newspaper prints libelous articles condemning B&W, Penn and Sam find themselves entangled in a web of greed, deceit, violence, and murder. Courageously, they face the schemers in an explosive and telling trial to the finish.

THE THUMBS DOWN METHOD. Get ready for some out-of-the-box thinking for improving your golf game. You probably never thought of Thumbs Down as a positive thing, but now it is. In fact, this negative expression is the best thing that ever happened to your golf game. It's not just another gimmick! Making a Thumbs Down motion while striking the golf ball squares the club and provides a power booster to your existing swing. Without trying to kill the ball, Thumbs Down releases the club and magically puts you in the correct finishing position. Good putters use their Thumbs for feel, also to visualize the line. Use your Thumbs to improve your ball striking too. Lower scores are not a guarantee; They are the natural results!

Since he is growing up little Brown Bear decides that it is time to give up sucking his thumb.

Scholastic thumbs down book introduces thumb art for kids to explore their creative side. They can use their thumbprint as a base and make simple pictures with a pen. A small beak, a tail and two legs will magically transform the thumbprint into a simple bird. Kids can scale up from simple figures to making complicated pictures - exquisite animals, people, household objects and even dinosaurs - using several thumbs at one go.

Although at first it is very difficult for him to stop sucking his thumb, Donald gradually substitutes other activities until he never even thinks about it any more.

She wasn't sure what she should do. She knew she loved Uncle Joey and that he loved her in a very special way. Why would this be happening to her if she was so special? Kelly enjoyed being treated special by Uncle Joey until the day he asked her to keep a secret. Then he touched her in her swimming suit area. In her latest release, Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down, author Joyce Holton Crawford accurately portrays the feelings of confusion, sadness, and fear that Kelly feels when Uncle Joey touches her. She has promised to keep the secret, but feels completely empty inside. What will she do? Will she confide in someone she can trust or will she keep Uncle Joey's secret forever? Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down is an excellent opportunity for discussion between parents and children about the basics of child abuse and offers hope to those who have already been victimized. Discover what happens to Kelly and start a healing dialogue with the children in your life. Thumbs Up should be in every child's classroom. It covers a very sensitive issue in a way that allows a child to process a potentially harmful situation. The greater good is that the story may end abuse before it begins in one child's life. Diane Niezwaag, RN BSN Elementary School Nurse