Books with author L. Oliver

When Charlie compromises her values to help one of the popular girls cheat on a test, Sammie is inadvertantly pulled into the mess. Written from Charlie's point of view, this story will let readers experience the lengths that wanting to be popular in middle school can take you to, the conflict it can cause, and the tough moral stands a girl sometimes has to take.

After double-crossing her friends to support her twin sister, Charlie is out of the popular group. But now her school has announced that they are accepting applications for a new school Junior Booster club--one in which members will get to shadow the Senior Boosters, receive tickets to all the high school football games, and of course, get to meet the cute football players. The popular kids need Charlie to fit the requirements: good grades, an interest in sports, and community service. Charlie's flattered, but are the girls just using her to get what they want?

After double-crossing her friends to support her twin sister, Charlie is out of the popular group. But now her school has announced that they are accepting applications for a new school Junior Booster club--one in which members will get to shadow the Senior Boosters, receive tickets to all the high school football games, and of course, get to meet the cute football players. The popular kids need Charlie to fit the requirements: good grades, an interest in sports, and community service. Charlie's flattered, but are the girls just using her to get what they want?

When Charlie compromises her values to help one of the popular girls cheat on a test, Sammie is inadvertantly pulled into the mess. Written from Charlie's point of view, this story will let readers experience the lengths that wanting to be popular in middle school can take you to, the conflict it can cause, and the tough moral stands a girl sometimes has to take.

A fun, exciting young-adult supernatural adventure, The Brujita of Washington Heights takes you inside the fantastical world of a sixteen-year-old Latina girl living in the Washington Heights area of New York City.Sofie Rios has grown up listening to the stories of how her family was once tied to a clan of powerful witches. But to Sofie the stories so often shared were exactly that, stories with nothing remotely real about them.That was until she experiences her very first awakening—an awakening prompted by the return of Salazar Montenegro, the demon responsible for the family’s magical demise.With the lives of her loved ones hanging in the balance, Sofie—along with the help of Sebastian, her crazy cousin Leslie, and her newly discovered witch friends—must reclaim her family’s power and stop Salazar in his tracks. These young witches will take you on a supernatural journey through many of the Washington Heights landmarks, such as the Cloisters museum, the Little Red Lighthouse, and so much more. They will transform uptown Manhattan into nothing less than a supernatural sanctuary.

There's a new set of twin boys on the scene, and like Sammie and Charlie, these twins are almost identical. Charlie's friends, and the popular kids, are quick to accept the cuter boy. But when a bonfire on the beach gets out of control, Charlie's group blames it on the other twin. Both Sammie and Charlie know he isn’t the boy to blame, but will they have the courage to come forward to tell the truth and double-cross the popular kids?

There's a new set of twin boys on the scene, and like Sammie and Charlie, these twins are almost identical. Charlie's friends, and the popular kids, are quick to accept the cuter boy. But when a bonfire on the beach gets out of control, Charlie's group blames it on the other twin. Both Sammie and Charlie know he isn’t the boy to blame, but will they have the courage to come forward to tell the truth and double-cross the popular kids?

The gang is finally back!As evil once again strikes the Washington Heights area of uptown Manhattan, Sofie and her friends will hold the fate of humanity and all they hold dear in the balance!After defeating the demon Salazar Montenegro almost an entire year ago Sofie, Bas, along with the rest of the young witches- find themselves in a similar predicament- except this time the power of the witches might not be enough to stop the evil that has been unleashed. As destinies unfold, new friendships will be made, truths will be revealed and promises will be broken. Join them on their supernatural journey as they search for magic of the old, in hopes of saving the world as they know it.In this new adventure, follow right along, as these young witches continue to transform uptown Manhattan into nothing less than a supernatural sanctuary.

Today, most trial lawyers and consultants accept the fact that all legal decision makers decide cases by first making up their own version of the case story. Yet, few have yet to fully adjust their practices to meet the demands of that reality. Facts Still Can't Speak for Themselves offers specific methods for trial professionals to increase their reach into the full range of potential stories decision makers can construct (and will construct) during any single case, and then shows you how to refine those stories into the one most compelling presentation for any legal decision maker to judge, in any legal decision-making venue. What you'll find inside: How the stories decision makers imagine affect verdicts as much as their backgrounds and beliefs or the attorney's presentation in court Which focus group method reveals the real range of stories decision makers can build from your case How to profitably apply focus group results in negotiations and mediation equally well as in trials How to run voir dire like a focus group (and a focus group like voir dire) improving both in the process and how to avoid common misleading mistakes How focus group deliberations are the least valuable part of the process How asking focus group participants which side in a case they ""like"" could be a major mistake Why you should think twice before ever again asking a ""why"" question or using the word ""any"" during voir dire or in focus groups How to establish immediate rapport with decision makers and to manage how they build their perceptions of your client's case story in time to affect their final judgments In this new edition, Eric Oliver dives deeply into cutting-edge research in communication, human judgment, perception, and influence and breaks down the process of turning theoretical abstractions into effective persuasive practices that help legal decision makers hear and see the case story from your client's point of view. Each chapter is now supplemented with some of the most relevant developments in the science of decision making, as well as with the decade of additional experience Eric has acquired working with trial lawyers and their clients since the first edition was published in 2005.

A fun, exciting young-adult supernatural adventure, The Brujita of Washington Heights takes you inside the fantastical world of a sixteen-year-old Latina girl living in the Washington Heights area of New York City. Sofie Rios has grown up listening to the stories of how her family was once tied to a clan of powerful witches. But to Sofie the stories so often shared were exactly that, stories with nothing remotely real about them. That was until she experiences her very first awakening—an awakening prompted by the return of Salazar Montenegro, the demon responsible for the family’s magical demise. With the lives of her loved ones hanging in the balance, Sofie—along with the help of Sebastian, her crazy cousin Leslie, and her newly discovered witch friends—must reclaim her family’s power and stop Salazar in his tracks. These young witches will take you on a supernatural journey through many of the Washington Heights landmarks, such as the Cloisters museum, the Little Red Lighthouse, and so much more. They will transform uptown Manhattan into nothing less than a supernatural sanctuary.