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Forever Entangled (Forever Bluegrass, #1) | Ryan Parker had always loved Sienna Ashton, but gave up on his fantasy years ago.
After working as an undercover FBI Agent in Los Angeles, Ryan gets a phone call telling him to come home to the small town of Keeneston, Kentucky. The woman he thought he was over is now in serious trouble.
Sienna Ashton fell in love with Ryan Parker too late. He was gone from her life before she realized what he really meant to her. Now working as a sports psychologist, Sienna finds herself helping others figure their lives out. She thinks her chance of happily ever after is long gone until a murder brings Ryan back into her life and entangles them in a battle for their heart and their lives.
Ryan and Sienna discover there is more going on than originally thought and now the two are in the fight of their lives. It doesn't take long for fireworks to ignite as passion and danger drive the couple toward a fate they never saw coming. |
When Dimple Met Rishi | Now that Dimple Shah has graduated, she's ready for a break from her family - especially from Mamma's inexplicable obsession with her finding the Ideal Indian Husband. Ugh. But Dimple knows that her mother must respect that she isn't interested in doing that right now - otherwise she wouldn't have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers, right? Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic, so when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him - during which he'll have to woo her - he's totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself. Although their parents hadn't planned suggesting the arrangement so soon, when their kids signed up for the same summer program, they figured Why not? |
Oh, Come All Ye Frightful: An Upton Holiday Story | Tania and her husband Mark make new friends at the Upton Swingers Club Saints and Sinners party. |
Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality | Have you ever had an itch and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to scratch, great peace and happiness is available.
On Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron introduces a rare Tibetan teaching she received from her teacher, Dzigar Kontrul Rinpoche, and one that has become critical to her practice. Here, she unveils the mystery of an ineffable quality: a pre-emotional feeling that arises in us, brings us discomfort, and causes us to react by escaping the discomfort often with harmful habits.
With Getting Unstuck, she offers us a first look at both the itch and the scratch, which Tibetan Buddhists call shenpa.On this full-length recording, Pema Chodron, bestselling author and beloved American Buddhist nun, shows us how to recognize shenpa, catch it as it appears, and develop a playful, lively curiosity toward it. Join Pema Chodron to discover more about:
Critical mind how to recognize this fundamental shenpa, and approach yourself and others with a sense of humor and loving-kindness
Ways to unravel the patterns of self-denigration, and develop the fundamental maitriloving-kindness toward yourself
How to cultivate acceptance of your irritability, insecurities, and other simply human traits
Recognition, Refrain, Relaxing, and Resolve: the four R's of working with shenpa, and more
An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger, teaches Pema Chodron. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and addictions by giving in to them repeatedly. On Getting Unstuck, Chodron guides us through this sticky feeling, exploring the moments when we get hooked, and offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward ourselves and others, and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment.
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Ophelia: Queen of Denmark | Following on from I AM JULIET (August 2014), this is the second title in a proposed new series for young people that focuses on the reinterpretation of Shakespeare's classic and enduring plays. Ages: 10+
She is the girl who will be queen: Ophelia, daughter of Denmarks lord chancellor and loved by Prince Hamlet.
But while Hamlets family stab, poison or haunt one another, Ophelia plans a sensible rule, one filled with justice and the making of delicious cheeses. Even if she has to pretend to be mad to make it happen, Ophelia will let nothing, not even howling ghosts, stand in her way.
This is Shakespeares play, but with what might also have happened behind the scenes. And this story has a happy ending.
From Jackie French, one of Australias most respected and awarded authors and the Australian Childrens Laureate and 2015 Senior Australian of the Year, comes a book that reimagines the life of one of Shakespeares most intriguing female characters. |
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire; tho he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune & Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of 18th-century life, spiced with danger & intrigue, bawdy exuberance & good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jonesis one of the greatest & most ambitious comic novels in English literature. |
Shadows on a Wall | A journalist/screenwriter offers a major novel of moviemaking excess and disaster that is at once dark and hilarious. Filmed on location thousands of miles from Hollywood, a brilliant, inspired, vibrant catastrophe of a movie about Napoleon is the focus of this epic story--probably the best novel about moviemaking ever written (Sunday Express). |
AlphaOops: H Is for Halloween | H gets top billing -- but a stubborn B has something scary to say -- as the inside-out alphabet gives a howl-arious Halloween performance.
Ack! It's time for the show, and A isn't ready. But then again, Halloween can only start with one letter, no matter how the A-B-Cs normally go! The misbehaving alphabet is back, and there's no telling who will take the stage next. Z for zombie? P for pirate? Will X think of something good in time? Neon-bright, comically detailed illustrations show a cacophony of costumed letters, each with a mind and personality all its own. Along the bottom, tiny pumpkins arrange the players in proper order, making this alphabet story letter-perfect for Halloween. |
LOVE ON STRANGE DAYS | A little 10 pages tail that describes one night in the life on a young couple during allie bombings in the II world war. They redescover their love in a war destruction backgroung. |
This Shit Called Life: Can we stop meditating and go grab a beer? | After spending a couple of years blogging, Alden told himself, "Screw this". He started out being a typical I-want-to-inspire-you-personal-development-blogger, but that just turned him into a cynical bastard. He's had it with the cliche hypnosis crap, the meditation, the paradigm-shifting and the world-class, ground breaking whatever.
And he's also sick of other entrepreneurs, you know, the ones who actually told him not to use words like, "Fuck" and "Shit" in his writing; the ones who told him to work hard, and then conveniently said he didn't work hard enough when things didn't work out.
Thus, This Shit Called Life was born. Pure, unadulterated stories of breaking up with your best friend, disallowed sex with your first girlfriend, losing a loved one, betrayal and other juicy bits like being punched over a working girl.
No bullshit. Just stories. Grab a beer. |
A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine | Bursting with comedy and peculiarity, this collection of short stories explores the world of those living their Generation-X lives on the fringes of society. From a loner who uses mosh pits as a confessional to a cross-dresser prowling the aisles of the local supermarket, this work follows these characters as they navigate the universe in refreshing and unexpected ways. |
Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging (Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson, #1) | Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Likes to stalk Mr. and Mrs. Next Door's poodle. I used to drag him around on a lead, but, as I explained to Mrs. Next Door, he ate it.
Thongs: Stupid underwear worn by old Swotty Knickers, Lindsay. What's the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell.
Full-Frontal Snogging: Kissing with the trimmings, lip to lip, open mouth, tongues...everything (apart from dribble, which is never acceptable). As taught to me by a professional snogger.
In this wildly funny journal of a year in the life of Georgia Nicolson, British author Louise Rennison has perfectly captured the soaring joys and bottomless angst if being a teenager. In the spirit of "Bridget Jones' Diary," this fresh, irreverent, and simply hilarious book will leave you laughing out loud. As Georgia would say, it's "fabbity fab fab!" |
Puzzle in Petticoats | Mystery featuring the diminutive detective Jason Emory who investigates a murder in the fahion industry. |
Turkey and Europe in History | From the midst of the fifteenth century on the Ottoman-Turkish Empire played a crucial role in shaping European history. This factor has not been weaved into Western historiography to its detriment, because explaining concepts such as raison d'etat, realpolitik, balance of power or even European identity remain somewhat shortchanged without according the Ottoman-Turkish Empire a role in the evolution as well as functioning of these concepts. Mutual systemic influences are a foregone conclusion however overlooked. This volume comprises nine research articles on the basic characteristics of the Ottoman Empire and its political/economic relations with Europe, published previously, but updated with further evidence.
The Ottoman Empire is generally depicted and perceived as the adversary and antithesis of Europe and Europeanness in Western historiography because of certain historic reasons such as the Christian crusading tradition, public hostility due to long lasting warfare, cultural estrangement and perhaps because the Ottomans remained outside the Enlightenment process. However, there is much more to it than confrontation. Our research findings presented in this compilation point to the impact of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire in shaping modern Europe, specifically as of the 16th century and socio-cultural exchanges between the two realms through five hundred years of encounter. |
Manners That Matter for Moms | Corporate trainer and mentor Maralee McKee turns her attention to the home and shares the simple, savvy, and sincere skills kids need in order to flourish in today's culture.
Skills for each stage of life make this the go-to book for moms with children of any age. Readers will learn how to impart the basic tools that empower kids to relate to others well, as well as...
gain self-confidence by learning to make conversation pleasant, not painful
overcome self-doubt by mastering new etiquette for today's on-the-go, casual, techno-savvy families
develop the interpersonal skills that will help them become the best version of themselves they can be in any setting
Fun, practical, and thoroughly up-to-date, this manual offers everything moms need to equip their kids to flourish in their relationships. |
The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock | The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; produced staggering, unequal casualties (13,000 Federal soldiers compared to 4,500 Confederates); ruined the career of Ambrose E. Burnside; embarrassed Abraham Lincoln; and distinguished Robert E. Lee as one of the greatest military strategists of his era.
Francis Augustin O'Reilly draws upon his intimate knowledge of the battlegrounds to discuss the unprecedented nature of Fredericksburg's warfare. Lauded for its vivid description, trenchant analysis, and meticulous research, his award-winning book makes for compulsive reading. |
Just...Breathe (The Broken Series #1) | The nightmares never stop. Love and happiness is just an illusion, a Fairy Tale. Men, all men, want one thing, sex and then they leave.
At least that's how it is for Jaden Smith. She lost her father at the age of 9, the only man who truly loved her. Her mother used and manipulated her while teaching her younger sister how to trap a man.
At the age of 20, she finally escaped. She started to believe in love and happiness again. Until her mother and sister took it all away, again. Jaden now believes she is broken and beyond repair. Yet, she prays that maybe, just maybe, one day... Just Breathe
Nightmares for Chase Daniels occurred during the day. Money hungry woman coming at him, all day every day. Love and happiness is just an illusion, a Fairy Tale.
Samantha broke him. She crushed his heart and world. He swore that he would never let any woman close enough to hurt him again. Yet, he prays that maybe, just maybe, one day... Just Breathe |
Feeding the Fire (Rosewood, #2) | Pepper has no interest in Grant Chamberlain...until she accidentally wins him at a school auction and finds the mega-hot firefighter impossible to ignore. Find out what happens next in the second playful and sexy ebook romance in the Rosewood series!
Living in the small town of Rosewood, Alabama, hairdresser Pepper Anthony has one rule--never date a Chamberlain. She's always said, "the only thing worse than being ignored by a Chamberlain is being dumped by one." But Grant Chamberlain, town fireman, isn't used to rejection, and Pepper has consistently turned him down since high school. She isn't intimidated by his family; she's one of the few who refuses to take their crap.
When Grant volunteers at the charity bachelor auction, to his surprise, Pepper buys him. She hadn't meant to, but Adelia Chamberlain dropped a cold drink in her lap, sending her leaping into the air at precisely the wrong moment. Suddenly she had a massive bill to the town and Grant at her disposal. Since the money has to come from her "restore the house" fund, she decides to use Grant for manual labor instead of romantic dinners. Grant is happy to help, sweaty and shirtless, because one way or another, he's going to get Pepper to admit she's attracted to him. All it takes is a small spark, and soon they'll be fanning the flames. |
Mythology; Myths, Legends & Fantasies | The classical era. Greek and Roman mythology --
European mythology. Celtic and Irish mythology ; Germanic and Norse mythology ; Finnish mythology ; Slavic mythology ; Romance mythology ; Arthurian mythology --
Egyptian and African mythology. Egyptian mythology ; African mythology --
Middle East and Asian mythology. Mesopotamian mythology ; Middle Eastern mythology ; Indian mythology ; Chinese mythology ; Japanese mythology ; Tibetan mythology --
Mythology of Oceania. Oceanic mythology ; Australian Aboriginal mythology ; Maori mythology --
Mythology of the Americas. North American mythology ; Mesoamerican mythology ; South American mythology. |
The Polar Express | Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeer's harness. It turns out to be a very special gift, for only believers in Santa can hear it ring. |
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Vol. I (in Two Volumes) | The battle between science and religion in American popular life is as old as America itself. By the late 19th century, it had reached a fever pitch, culminating in the two-volume 1896 work A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. The result of thirty years of research by historian and educator ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1832-1918), a founder of Cornell University, this is White's attack on intellectually stifling religious dogma and his explication of the "conflict thesis" of outright warfare between science and religion. While scholars today generally see the situation as more nuanced, the conflict thesis remains a popular metaphor in the mind of the general public, and White's work continues to speak to us today. H.L. Mencken called this "one of the noblest monuments of American scholarship," and it will fascinate anyone who is troubled by the ongoing influence by religious authorities into secular science. In Volume I, White looks at the transformation of our understanding of the world from a primarily religious one of divine creation to a primarily scientific one informed by evolution, astronomy, and biology. |
From Pink Bows to Red Stilettos | From Pink Bows to Red Stilettos is a rich portrayal of the seductive tongue of a little girl who once danced around with pink bows in her hair and now slips on her red stilettos, tantalizing the desires of the men she meets. Through written word that leaves one craving for something more, From Pink Bows to Red Stilettos unleashes raw, sexual, provocative, taboo style poetry to appease your sexual senses and fundamental sexual literary cravings. From Pink Bows to Red Stilettos proves that a woman's sexual provocative nature is nothing to take lightly and that a sweet little girl can grow up to have a burning tigress nature. Whether enjoyed in private or shared with friends, lovers, or partners, this girl's tongue will paint a vivid picture of the nights she's lived and the simultaneous joys she has experienced from his mouth to hers. |
The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire, #1) | A thrilling new series soars above the competition and redefines middle-grade fantasy fiction for a new generation!
The seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations, locked in an endless battle over an ancient, lost treasure. A secret movement called the Talons of Peace is determined to bring an end to the fighting, with the help of a prophecy -- a foretelling that calls for great sacrifice.
Five dragonets are collected to fulfill the prophecy, raised in a hidden cave and enlisted, against their will, to end the terrible war.
But not every dragonet wants a destiny. And when the select five escape their underground captors to look for their original homes, what has been unleashed on the dragon world may be far more than the revolutionary planners intended . . . |
Hedging Her Bets (Shifting Hearts Dating Agency, # 1) | Natalie Erinaceus is a woman on a mission: find her own mate. Enter Shifting Hearts Dating Agency. Lucas runs Scarlet Ink, a tattoo shop across from Ventures, a sexy as hell BDSM club. Jonathan is a bear shifter looking for love. When he finds Lucas, it's one step in the right direction. He has one mate but can he convince a stubborn hedgie she's ready to be claimed by not just one mate, but two? |
The Natural Pet Food Cookbook: Healthful Recipes for Dogs and Cats | You Want The Best For Your Pets
After the massive commercial pet food recall in 2007, you're probably concerned about why to feed your dog or cat. The Natural Pet Food Cookbook: Healthful Recipes For Dogs And Cats gives you great ways to supplement your pet's primary diet with nutritious meals that you prepare; that way, you're sure your dog or cat gets healthy variety. With nn emphasis on natural ingredients and lots of colorful, fun illustrations, this cookbook gives you:
* More than 50 vet-approved, pet-tested recipes, ranging from basic kibble to casseroles to stews
* Tips on cooking techniques, food selection, and more
* Info on storing and freezing your homemade pet foods
* Details about the nutritional requirements of dogs and cats
* Warnings about potentially harmful foods |
Joe Cinque's Consolation | In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of Rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder.
Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as 'evil'; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care. |
The Ring Went Zing!: A Story That Ends With a Kiss | Once upon a time, once and never again, a frog fell in love with a chicken, and so he bought her a golden ring. But when he drops that ring? Well, that's when the real fun starts. From the swan in sports gear to a skateboarding rabbit, from a tricycling goat to a dachshund on a motorcycle, the antics get faster and funnier with each new page turn. The frog finally does get the ring back, teamwork prevails, and the story ends with a kiss (just not the one you might expect!). Sean Taylor?s boppy rhythms and a ringing refrain will have kids anticipating lines and shouting along. Of course, a great read-aloud is made even better by great illustrations, and award-winner Jill Barton delivers with comically attired animals and a variety of kid-appealing vehicles. A perfect ?every kid? book in the classic mold. |
Abandoned Prayers: The Shocking True Story of Obsession, Murder and "Little Boy Blue" | On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue", unclaimed and unidentified - until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.
Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, was by all appearances a dedicated farmer and family man in the country's strictest religious sect. But behind his quiet facade was a man involved with pornography, sadomasochism, and drugs. After the suspicious death of his pregnant wife, Stutzman took his preschool-age son, Danny, and hit the road on a sexual odyssey ending with his conviction for murder. But the mystery of Eli Stutzman and the fate of his son didn't end on the barren Nebraska plains. It was just beginning... |
Someone Else's Summer | About a sister who is lost when her older sister dies, until she stumbles upon a bucket list and decides to honor her sister by having the best summer ever. Publication is scheduled for spring 2017. |
The Keeper (Keeper, #1) | Susan Marley is beautiful, disturbed, and living in squalor. She wanders around the town, mute and accusing, an object of lust, fear and derision. When she dies, betrayed by life one final petty time, a hail of destruction is unleashed on the town that is more terrifying than any dream. |
The Ghost Notebooks | A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become live-in caretakers of a historic museum.
When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, New York, they aren't running away, exactly, but they need a change. Their careers have flatlined, the city is exhausting, and they've reached a relationship stalemate. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic House, a museum dedicated to an obscure nineteenth century philosopher, and she and Nick move into their new home--the town's remoteness, the speed with which she is offered the job, and the lack of museum visitors barely a blip in their considerations. At first life in this old, creaky house feels cozy--they speak in Masterpiece Theateraccents, they take bottles of wine to the swimming hole. But as summer turns to fall Hannah begins to have trouble sleeping and she hears whispers in the night. One morning Nick wakes up to find Hannah gone. Now, in his frantic search for her he will discover the hidden legacy of Wright House: a man driven wild with grief, and a spirit aching for home. |
Where We Have to Go | Named NOW Magazine's Best Emerging Local Author
Where We Have to Gois a luminous and sassy first novel about the last days of childhood in a family coming apart at the seams. At once wryly humorous and deeply affecting, this sparkling novel follows the irresistible Lucy Bloom as she searches for her place in the world.
When we first meet Lucy, she's an imaginative eleven-year-old dreaming of a taste of freedom -- and only beginning to grasp that all is not well between her parents. In the years that follow, Lucy's journey to adulthood will see her question the limits of unconditional love, grow "criminally thin" as she stops eating, and discover complicated truths about what it means to be a young woman. Through it all, the central figure in Lucy's life remains her mother, Joy, whose larger-than-life stories and boisterous voice belie a deep disappointment. As their relationship is tested again and again, Lucy comes to understand the resilience of the bonds that tie us to the ones we love.
Among the characters we meet are Lucy' s father, Frank, a failed glamour photographer turned travel agent who's never been out of the country; her best friend, Erin, an artist whose outspoken iconoclasm will inspire and challenge Lucy; and Crashing Wave, Frank's lover, a former exotic dancer and the woman Lucy comes to imagine as the ideal of all that is feminine.
Set in Toronto throughout the 1990s, Where We Have to Gois a novel of self-discovery, family, and love. It introduces Lauren Kirshner as one of our most striking new voices, and reminds us that sometimes the most difficult journey is the one that takes us home. |
Lucci The No Smoochie Poochie | Imagine adopting a dog to find out that he doesn't give smoochies, kisses, lickies-nothing. Well, one family adopted a brother and sister pair of Dachshunds to find out just that; little Lucci (pronounced-loochy) was a no smoochie Poochie! Smile and giggle reading how this family, along with 2 other rather unique resident pups, tries everything to the point of exhaustion and still never gives up to get Lucci to give smoochies. |
Peter Pan and Wendy | The boy who refuses to grow up teaches Wendy and her younger brothers how to fly. Then it's off to magical Neverneverland for adventures with mermaids, Indians, and wicked Captain Hook and his pirate crew in this illustrated, easy-reading adaptation of the classic fantasy. |
Prince Magnus and the Carpenter (Royal Mates, Love's Diamond #2) | [Siren Allure ManLove: Erotic Alternative Fantasy Romance, M/M, light bondage, HEA] Prince Magnus Sorenson is a warrior who is used to the isolated life of a soldier. He is responsible for the safety of his royal family and their subjects and is haunted by his failure to protect his parents. Magnus never expected to find his aheri-his beloved mate. He didn't deserve him. Archer Stockton is a humble carpenter who plays baseball with his buddies on the weekends. Archie is a gentle giant with a pure heart who was beaten by his father for being gay, causing him to have to learn to talk, read, and walk again. He knew he wasn't much of a catch. Mag deserved better. Magnus knows Archer is perfect for him. Archer brings love and gentleness into his life. Miraculously, Archer can see through the glamour of Mag's world. He also sees the beauty of their future and the babies they will have together. Magnus is a soldier who is afraid. Afraid to hope. ** A Siren Erotic Romance |
God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #4) | 4th in Dune Chronicles Series With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent DUNE books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. Of them all, GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE, the fourth, is the greatest and the grandest. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto II, the son of Dune's savior, is still alive but far from human. He has become a human-sandworm creature, ruling over his angry and frustrated empire with his vast legions of Fish Speaker soldiers, enforcing peace for dozens of generations to teach the universe a lesson, while also waiting for the right time to turn Dune back into a desert planet. The fate of all humanity hangs on Leto's awesome sacrifice.
"GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE seizes the glittering loose ends of empire, ecology and mysticism and weaves them together into a seamless, brilliant tapestry of a human ecology evolving to transcend worlds and time." (Baltimore Sun) |
Paul and Union with Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study | Paul and Union with Christfills the gap for biblical scholars, theologians, and pastors pondering and debating the meaning of union with Christ.
Following a selective survey of the scholarly work on union with Christ through the twentieth century to the present day, Greek scholar Constantine Campbell carefully examines every occurrence of the phrases 'in Christ', 'with Christ', 'through Christ', 'into Christ,' and other related expressions, exegeting each passage in context and taking into account the unique lexical contribution of each Greek preposition. Campbell then builds a holistic portrayal of Paul's thinking and engages contemporary theological discussions about union with Christ by employing his evidence-based understanding of the theme.
This volume combines high-level scholarship and a concern for practical application of a topic currently debated in the academy and the church. More than a monograph, this book is a helpful reference tool for students, scholars, and pastors to consult its treatment of any particular instance of any phrase or metaphor that relates to union with Christ in the Pauline corpus. |
Sheltered by the SEAL (H.E.R.O. Force #2; Inheritance #12) | He owes her two people.
She's only taking back one.
Jessa McConnell conspires to get pregnant by Jax Andersson, commander of HERO Force and the man she holds responsible for the death of her husband and unborn child. She assumes a new identity to make sure her secret isn't discovered, but ends up fighting for her life when she inherits a book intended for the other woman. |
More Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s: Activities to Expand Children's Favorite Books | 450 all new teaching ideas using 90 more of the most popular children's books. 18 different curriculum units have been created, including Classics; Cats, Dogs, and Other Pets; Transportation; and Tall and Funny Tales--all designed to instill a love of learning and a fondness for good books. |
Make Your Own Soda: Syrup Recipes for All-Natural Pop, Floats, Cocktails, and More | Sweet-tart lime. Bright cherry. Creamy vanilla.
Natural sodas are vibrantly flavored with the zing of just-squeezed citrus juice, the sweetness of ripe berries, or the subtle perfume of fresh herbs. And with the popularity of countertop appliances that turn tap water into sparkling water, it's easier than ever to make the real thing in your own kitchen: simply mix a fresh soda syrup with bubbly water for a drink that's as sweet (or not) as you like--minus any artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners.
In Make Your Own Soda,you'll find 70 recipes for all-natural syrups with unique, artisanal flavors like pineapple, lemongrass, and hibiscus, as well as old-time favorites like ginger, sarsaparilla, and grape. You'll also find great ways to use homemade syrups to create soda fountain classics (Chocolate Egg Cream), great cocktails (Lovage Gin Fizz), and hot drinks (Hot Apple Spice Cup), all as delicious as they are distinctive. |
Don't Turn Out the Lights (Commandant Martin Servaz, #3) | "You did nothing."
Christine Steinmeyer knows the suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve has nothing to do with her. But the man calling in to her radio show seems convinced otherwise.
"You let her die..."
That's only the beginning. Bit by bit, her life is turned upside down. But who among her friends and family hates her enough to want to destroy her? And why?
Commandant Martin Servaz is on leave when he is sent a key card to a hotel room - the room where an artist committed suicide a year earlier. He soon uncovers evidence of a truly terrifying crime. Could someone really be cruelly, consciously hounding women to death?
Both he and Christine will find out...but it may not be in time. |
Command Authority | The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team.
There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan. |
The Betrayed Series Ultimate Companion Collection (Betrayed #1-3.5) | The Betrayed Omnibus Collection includes Ambush, 30 Pieces of Silver, Targeted, Havoc, Shiva, Covert (bridge short story between Havoc and Shiva), and Mayhem (post-Shiva short story). |
Beneath the Gathering Storm: The Creepers Saga Book 3 | The survivors--these warriors of an awful, dead world--are broken and divided. Pursued by the relentless Infected, they have fled into the wasteland to pay penance for all their foolish schemes: the schemes that have broken their once-strong bond, the plans that have cost them their friends, and the choices that they have paid for in blood.
But still the warriors refuse to surrender, and in that determination they rediscover the thing that has driven them throughout their journey--hope.
The Infected, however, are not the only dangerous mysteries of this new world, and safety is no longer a place to be found; it is something they must fight for.
So they turn, once more, to face the Infected--to do battle for their lives and for the hope of all humankind. They will throw the last of their strength against the Creepers. They will stand together, willing to sacrifice all that is left of themselves as they again meet the infected horde. . . beneath the gathering storm. |
Fresh Start: The New You Begins Today | Bestselling author Joel Osteen offers practical insight and encouragement for a new beginning with God--essentials about who he is, who we are, and how with him we can fulfill our destiny.God loves to give people fresh starts. He wants everyone to see his blessings in new ways so we can reach our full potential and achieve extraordinary levels of success. In this truly one-of-a-kind guide, Joel Osteen encourages growing Christians with a "How to Study the Bible" and "Bible Promises" feature to help everyone find the courage to start over and live their best lives now. In Fresh Start, listeners learn what it takes to rise to a new level of honor, a new level of influence, and a new level of favor. |
The Billionaire's Plus One | Rhea Jackson had always enjoyed working as personal assistant to billionaire Barrett Mahoney but it was always business rather than pleasure with a man who came across as being very, very serious. All this changed when Barrett found himself without a date for a business function and with no one else to turn to he asked Rhea if she would be his "plus one" for the night. It was at this function that Rhea saw a different side to the billionaire and it soon became apparent that he might soon be her "plus one" in more ways than one... |
Keep It All Year (HearthLand #12) | Taking a step back in time-deliberately.
After a trip to Walden Farm and an afternoon talking to Chad and Willow Tesdall, Ralph Myner caught a vision for what life could be like. Against the advice of his nephew, Ralph sinks his entire retirement account into an incredibly risky venture.
Harlan Walker thinks his uncle has gone crazy. With the project in motion, all he can do is try to find people to invest their time, money, and even their lives into Ralph's project before the man ends up broke and without means to survive.
People come from all walks of life as they embrace a new world-the world of HearthLand.
Episode 12: Harlan returns home and learns that Ralph's attempts to help Annie were anything but helpful. Josh and Becca's enterprise looks promising, and the HearthLand dinner is coming together. All seems well on the HearthLand front. |
Merlin (The Pendragon Cycle, #2) | An enchanting tale of love and loss, glory and grandeur, set in the twilight of Rome's power . . . where the Celtic chieftains of Britain battle to save their land from an onrushing darkness . . . In this modern classic, Stephen Lawhead presents a majestic retelling of Western literature's most compelling epic. Merlin. His golden eyes saw the shape of a world yet to be. His wisdom would light the path of the coming King. Born of a union between druid and faery, he was trained as a bard and schooled in the ways of battle. But his heart and calling were greater than a warrior's. Son of the great Taliesin, the song of his father coursed through his soul. Yet his life and mission were to be his own. And though sovereignty was his, he would lay it aside to serve a king of his own choosing. As his powers transcended those of mortal men, so, too, would his trials, his griefs . . . and the dark might of his most fearsome enemy. In the twilight of Tome's rule over the Island of the Mighty, as smaller men vied for ascendancy, his would be the hand to lay the foundations of a new order -- the Kingdom of Summer . . . and Arthur, Pendragon of Britain. Merlin is book two in the Pendragon Cycle. |
The Nightmare Girl | When family man Joe Crawford confronts a young mother abusing her toddler, he has no idea of the chain reaction he's setting in motion. How could he suspect the young mother is part of an ancient fire cult, a sinister group of killers that will destroy anyone who threatens one of its members? When the little boy is placed in a foster home, the fanatics begin their mission of terror.
Soon the cult leaders will summon their deadliest hunters--and a ferocious supernatural evil--to make Joe pay for what he's done. They want Joe's blood and the blood of his family. And they want their child back. |
The Portal (Museum Mysteries, #1) | The Portal, a chapter book, is a science fiction mystery for children ages 6 to 10. Where is Santa and his head elf Herbie? Three little girls, Claira, Ariel, and Kimberly, go on an incredible adventure on Christmas Eve to save Santa and Herbie. They meet a black cat who talks and changes shape and ride on the back of a large black dog with a bionic eye. Will they find Santa in time for him to pack his sleigh for Christmas? |
Daylight Starlight Wildlife | In amazingly lifelike, luminous paintings, Wendell Minor, one of America's finest wildlife and landscape painters, reveals the variety of animals that surround us when we are awake and when we are sleeping.
Minor's vivid introduction to diurnal (daytime) and nocturnal (nighttime) creaturesinvites readers to experience the movements, sounds, colors, and textures of nature. By day a red-tailed hawk soars through sky, and by night a barn owl silently swoops through it. In the daylight a family of fluffy cottontail rabbits hops into a field to forage for food, and under starlight a family of pink-nosed opossums does the same. As day turns to night and night to day, amazing critters large and small come and go. Children will enjoy comparing and contrasting the roaming habits of the wonderful wildlife that surrounds us. |
The Sound of No Hands Clapping | Young is back with the eagerly awaited follow-up to his account of a hilariously failed attempt to conquer the Manhattan social and professional scene in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. All the elements that turned Toby's earlier memoir into a bestseller from coast to coast and on both sides of the Atlantic are back, too. Well, some things have changed for Toby-he has married his girlfriend from How to Lose Friends and Alienate Peopleand now has two kids, and he has moved from the Manhattan that treated him none too kindly to London. But Toby remains Toby, and what Graydon Carter of Vanity Faircalled Toby's "brown thumb" continues to work its magic, transforming opportunities into cringeworthy debacles and leading to situations that are classic Toby Young territory. Toby gleefully recounts such dubious journalistic assignments as posing as a patient at a penis-enlargement clinic and as a greeter at a Wal-Mart. He has misadventures in Los Angeles as a screenwriter for films that never quite get made, he's been a contestant on an abysmal reality show that absolutely no one watched, and he has acted in a one-man play that was utterly savaged by the critics. Yes, Toby has become a dutiful husband and a devoted dad, but he's as relentlessly self-sabotaging as ever, with a demonstrated knack for attracting misfortune, publicity-and devoted readers. |
Elements of a Broken Mind (Book 1 in the Clear Angel Chronicles) | Grant Anderson is a small-town detective
whose job was quiet and easy, until three
girls end up dead. A serial killer is stalking the young ladies in his town. Without the high tech equipment of big cities at his fingers, Grant must rely on good old-fashioned police work; but with no discernible pattern
and no clues to follow, the case seems to be grinding to a halt.
Then Grant gets a visit from a mysterious young woman. Who is Clear Angel? What is her connection to the case? If Grant is to believer her, then he must accept that she has "seen" these things. But Grant is a professional. He cannot believe in psychics! Yet when another girl goes missing, and Grant's search is yielding nothing he is desperate enough to try.
Clear Angel has always been special. Seclusion has kept the nightmares at bay. Then the nightmares begin again. Are they premonitions
of events to come? Are they the sick fantasies of a madman?
Then one evening she runs into a stranger
and finds out that not only are they real, but they are happening here in her home town. After a lifetime of running and hiding from what she can do, she is now forced to reach out to the most unlikely person in an effort to save innocent girls and perhaps the world. |
A House Divided (The Russians, #2) | As the war in the Balkans draws to its bitter and devastating close, Prince Sergei returns to St. Petersburg and to his love, the young servant Anna Burenin. But the battle still rages--both within Sergei's heart and in the revolution that threatens to overthrow the tsar's tenuous control over his vast empire.
Anna's brother Paul, disillusioned with a peasant's lot in tsarist Russia, joins with his revolutionary friends. Yet even as he seeks to make a difference for the future of his beloved Motherland, his violent actions may endanger the life of the sister he loves so well.
Torn between love for her family and devotion to the Fedorcenko family, Anna faces life-changing decisions. Her faith in God and His intervention is all that supports her as she stands in the gap to keep her loved ones--and all of Russia--from becoming...
A HOUSE DIVIDED |
Music for the Third Ear | Seeking asylum from distant conflict in Eastern Europe, Zheljka and Mesud are given refuge in Norway at the home of Hans Olav and Mette. Their arrival has profound consequences. Apparently settled into a childless middle age, Mette revisits her own unresolved family history in her frantic desire to establish a connection with Zheljka. All the while, Mesud and Zheljka try to reinvent their love for each other in the aftermath of a brutal war.
Both families struggle to acknowledge the unspoken pain in their lives as Zheljka's child, unwanted but not unloved, becomes the focus of a drama in which each of them will share.
Powerful and compassionate, Music for the Third Earis a deeply moving novel about war and its consequences. |
Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science (Atomic Robo, #5) | 1930's#58; A young ATOMIC ROBO yearns for adventure and excitement beyond the lessons of his creator, Nikola Tesla. Meanwhile, a mad scientist's quest for immortality puts the entire island of Manhattan in danger! It's up to ROBO's forbidden moonlighting team-up with vigilante gunfighter / incredibly reluctant mentor JACK TAROT to put a stop to it. Features a man with two skulls, a massive behemoth robot, vampires (a little) and first love. |
Charles Towne (Keepers of the Ring #5) | ALT Cover ASIN: B001Q3KT2O
In this Keepers of the Ring title, Rachelle boards a ship for Boston in her quest to locate her father, but the ship is attacked by pirates. Finding herself face-to-face with a notorious renegade, she does the unthinkable and is caught up in the unimaginable. |
The Trouble with Aliens | Humans on the space frontiers may have enough problems with befuddled bureaucrats, rules that don't fit the realities of very dangerous situations, and general rear-echelon incompetence without bringing in unfriendly aliens, but it's that kind of universe. On the other hand, as master satirist Christopher Anvil makes clear, the aliens are anything but omnipotent and have plenty of problems of their own. * Here for the first time the stories and short novels of the war with the Outs are collected into a novel-length chronicle. The Outs had mental powers they could use to make humans see illusions and convince them to change sides. Obviously, they were unbeatable-until some troublesome humans found their Achille's heel. * Another set of aliens arrive to conquer the Earth with the promise of eternal youth and healthfulness, and might have won, if some humans weren't too plain ornery not to be suspicious. * Who's the best human envoy to deal with aliens who can read minds and learn anything their opponents know-the man who knows little or nothing, of course, including why he was sent there. * When an investigator was hired to find out the reason for the strange events in a palatial mansion, he quickly solves the case-until he wakes up and finds that his solution was only a dream and the case is still unsolved. And the same thing happens again every night. * These and other stories of human/alien conflict fill this large volume by the master of wryly sardonic science fiction adventure. |
Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday | A book to make you dream. A book to take your breath away. A book not just for the dancers among us, but for the dancer inside each of us.
The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. The art of a moment--a moment of joy, love, silence, grief,effort, life--captured.
In one thrilling photograph after another, Dancers Among Us presents professional dancers from across the country--leaping, spinning, lifting, kicking, while in the midst of daily living.
There's no photo manipulation here, no trampolines, no gimmicks, no tricks. Just a photographer, his vision, and the serendipity of what happens when the shutter clicks. |
Hellfire, Texas (Hellfire, #1) | Becket Grayson, rancher and volunteer firefighter assists a damsel in distress when her car catches fire on a dry country road near Hellfire, Texas. When he discovers she was his little brother's classmate and is running away from an abusive ex-boyfriend, he offers to help.
Kinsey Phillips is desperate to get away from her ex-boyfriend who is a mean drunk with a habit of beating her whenever he feels like it. When she heads back to the only home she's ever known, her old high school crush comes to her rescue. With the help of Becket and the entire Grayson family, they struggle to keep Kinsey safe when her ex-boyfriend comes to reclaim her.
Warning: Things are heating up in Hellfire, Texas. |
Sink, Drift, or Swim | When dreams drown, hope floats
Coffee-addicted Valerina has more reason to head to CafE Legato than the fact they make a great latte. There is that perfect barista--Josh.
When did this childhood friend become the centre of Rina's every thought? When did his voice become so smooth, like velvet chocolate? When did the breeze from his insanely long lashes begin to fan the fire in her heart?
At CafE Legato, Rina can escape from her loving and lively family. In the cool breeze of Josh's lashes, she is able to momentarily forget her role as big sister to four-and-a-half siblings. Drowning in latte and Josh's warm smile, she can set aside her fear that some things at home are not quite right. At CafE Legato, Rina can daydream in tongue-tied bliss.
But some dreams come true. Did Josh really invite her to hang out the next day? Did those words fall from his perfectly luscious lips? If he did, Valerina would be there, come hell or high water, but first she had today to get through.
Today was Dad's "special time," with a fishing trip acting as the cover for a father to daughter heart-to-heart. Rina was changing, and so was life in her family. Did she really want to get deep and meaningful with her father? Did she want to share her fears for her brother Zach? Would Dad want to talk about her wavering faith?
Valerina will face the day, one wave at a time. Until the storm hits, and Rina finds herself completely out of her depth. Will her father's faith be enough to keep them afloat?
And through it all, one thought remains ... Josh.
Sink, Drift, or Swimis a young adult novel written in free verse. |
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development | Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development was a paper read by Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar at an anthropological seminar of Dr. Alexander Goldenweiser in New York on 9 May 1916. It was later published in volume XLI of Indian Antiquary in May 1917. In the same year, Ambedkar was awarded a Ph.D. degree by Columbia University on this topic.[1] In 1979, the Education Department of the Government of Maharashtra (Bombay) published this article in the collection of Ambedkar's writings and speeches Volume 1; later, it was translated in many languages.
In the paper, Ambedkar made a presentation a social phenomenon that emerged from the strategy of the Brahmins who adopted a strictly endogamous matrimonial regime, leading the other groups to do the same in order to emulate this self-proclaimed elite. He said that "the superposition of endogamy on exogamy means the creation of caste". |
Magonia (Magonia, #1) | Aza Ray is drowning in thin air.
Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak--to live.
So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.
Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who's always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world--and found, by another. Magonia.
Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power--and as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war is coming. Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. And in Aza's hands lies the fate of the whole of humanity--including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie? |
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business | The role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution. The managerial revolution, presented here with force and conviction, is the story of how the visible hand of management replaced what Adam Smith called the 'invisible hand' of market forces. Chandler shows that the fundamental shift toward managers running large enterprises exerted a far greater influence in determining size and concentration in American industry than other factors so often cited as critical: the quality of entrepreneurship, the availability of capital, or public policy. |
The New Zed Order: Survive | The dead have come back and they are hungry. They are strong, they are tough, and they are everywhere. Savage packs of undead wander the world, feeding on the living. And they are getting stronger. Brattleboro Vermont was a small, quiet town filled with good people and small town charm until something brought the dead back to life and turned them loose on an unsuspecting world. John Mason and his lovely young wife Sara believe that family can survive anything. Together, along with their brave little puppy, they take to the mountains of John's youth and build a stronghold against the encroaching darkness, protecting not only themselves but their families and others lucky enough to SURVIVE in THE NEW ZED ORDER. |
Star Wars: Kanan Vol. 1: The Last Padawan | Collects Kanan - The Last Padawan #1-6.
In Star Wars: Rebels, Kanan Jarrus is a cocky, sarcastic renegade fighting the Galactic Empire alongside the ragtag crew of the Ghost. But years before, during the Clone Wars, he was known as Caleb Dume, a Jedi Padawan training under Master Depa Billaba. Neither master nor apprentice ever suspected that their "loyal" Clone Troopers would turn on them upon the issuing of Order 66 -- the Emperor's directive to execute all Jedi. How did Caleb Dume escape the Jedi purge? How did he learn to survive on his own after his master fell? And how did he become the man we know as Kanan Jarrus? What can a Padawan do when being a Jedi makes him a target? Join young Caleb for a tale that bridges the years between the Clone Wars and Rebels! |
The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5) | When an eleven-year-old girl is found murdered, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, gets another chance at stopping one of the most heartless and horrifying serial killers of her career: the demented Temple Gault. |
Mr. Sammler's Planet | Mr. Artur Sammler is, above all, a man who has lasted, from the civilized pleasures of English life in the 1920s and 30s through the war and death camps in Poland. Moving now through the chaotic and dangerous streets of New York's Upper West Side, Mr. Sammler is attentive to everything, and appalled by nothing. He brings the same dispassionate curiosity to the activities of a black pickpocket on an uptown bus, the details of his niece Angela's sex life, and his daughter's lunacy as he does to the extraordinary theories of one Dr. V. Govinda Lal on the use we are to make of the moon now that we have reached it. Beneath this novel's comedy, sadness, shocking action, and superb character-drawing there runs a strain of speculation, both daring and serene, on the future of life on this planet--Mr. Sammler's planet--and any other planets for which we may be destined. |
Year of Yesh: A Mutts Treasury | Just say "Yesh" to Mutts as it celebrates the special bond between pets and their people, as well as the endearing friendship of Earl, the dog, and Mooch, the tuxedo cat.
It's the year of 'yesh we can,' as we follow animal pals Mooch and Earl on their heartwarming adventures.
In this chronological collection of Muttsstrips, a year's worth of color Sunday strips and black-and-white daily strips are included, along with pop-art splash pages that highlight McDonnell's imaginative artwork and distinctive style. |
Rape In Holding Cell Six, Part 1 | Antony Patric St. Lazarre was gay and proud and halfway through obtaining a degree in Communications when he met Collier, a professor at his University. They became lovers and Antony felt his life was complete. But then one of Collier's students falsely accused him of rape, and he was arrested and brutally attacked in the county jail by a group of thugs - and wound up dead. And Antony's life threatened to spin into chaos. It wasn't until a chance comment jolted him out of his grief that Antony began to realize what happened in Holding Cell Six was not "a horrible tragedy that no one have prevented" but was just the latest in a series of vicious sexual assaults visited on innocent men in that room. And the more he dug into its history, the deeper the conspiracy grew until it threatened to destroy not only him but the one person in his life he desperately wanted to protect. Problem is - Antony was far too lost in his hate to see that - or even be able to stop himself before it's too late. |
The Second World War, Volume 6: Triumph and Tragedy | With Triumph and Tragedy Sir Winston Churchill brings to a dramatic close panoramic history of the Second World War. With all his brilliance, penetration, gusto, and firsthand knowledge, the only leader who in a position of power fought the war from beginning to end writes the history of this most exciting last year, from the landing on the Normandy beaches to the atom bomb and the overpowering of Japan. |
All or Nothing (The Lonnigans, #2) | In this game of love, winning is not an option.
Lucas Lonnigan thinks he's finally gotten the best of his twin brother, until he discovers his half of a date-swap is none other than metal artist Belinda Riggs. A leather-dipped Goth queen who considers him a cross between a pin cushion and a science project--and the woman he's loved forever.
Belinda isn't exactly overjoyed to see him, either. In her opinion, love means becoming a punching bag, and she won't be anyone's doormat. Lucas is too dangerously tempting to allow within striking distance of her heart, but that doesn't stop her from wanting.
After one blazing night of passion, Lucas finds himself locked out of Belle's life with seemingly no chance to get back in. With nothing left to lose, Lucas makes a final play and appeals to the one thing Belle can't say no to--a dare. Winner take all.
Lucas may think this crazy game will decide their relationship, but she sees it as her chance to finally set him free--and maybe indulge in the sexiest goodbye of her life...
Warning: Story may sizzle your undies off. Includes pigheaded hero with a cranky heart of gold, bitchy heroine with a flamethrower, massively inappropriate behavior, make-up / break-up sex of the sinful kind...and a puppy! |
The Mystery of the Dead Man's Riddle (Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators, #22) | Three young detectives go on a high-stakes treasure hunt in order to restore a fortune to the rightful heirs. |
Raiders of the Nile (Ancient World, #2) | In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus--a born-and-raised Roman citizen--is living in Alexandria, making ends meet by plying his trade of solving puzzles and finding things out for pay. He whiles away his time with his slave Bethesda, waiting for the world to regain its sanity. But on the day Gordianus turns twenty-two, Bethesda is kidnapped by brigands who mistake her for a rich man's mistress. If Gordianus is to find and save Bethesda, who has come to mean more to him than even he suspected, he must find the kidnappers before they realize their mistake and cut their losses. Using all the skills he learned from his father, Gordianus must track them down and convince them that he can offer something of enough value in exchange for Bethesda's release.
As the streets of Alexandria slowly descend into chaos, and the citizenry begin to riot with rumors of an impending invasion by Ptolmey's brother, Gordianus finds himself in the midst of a very bold and dangerous plot--the raiding and pillaging of the golden sarcophagus of Alexander the Great himself.
New York Times bestselling author Steven Saylor returns, chronicling the early years of his detective, Gordianus, before he assumed the title of The Finder. Raiders of the Nile is the latest in his much-loved series of mysteries set in the late Roman Republic. |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey | This novel, which brought Wilder his first Pulitzer Prize, tells the story of a monk's quest to find meaning behind the deaths of five people killed in the collapse of a Peruvian bridge. |
After I Fall (Falling #3) | Her entire life has been a lie. Being with Eli is the most honest thing she's ever done.
Parker Hauser lives the perfect life and knows exactly where she's been and where she's going. Parker has to be perfect. Perfect grades, perfect body, perfect life.
Until she meets Eli Winter.
Eli throws her entire life into chaos when he denies her the one thing she wants from him.
One chance encounter stokes her desire for the man who refused to touch her and left her questioning everything.
When Parker tries to help his new business, the spotlight turns on Eli's military record. And sins from the war he's tried to forget may come back to destroy them both. |
The Empress Emerald | Leo Kazan is half Russian and half Indian, an orphan (or so he believes) and a talented linguist. He is also a thief, attracted like a magpie to everything which glitters. He becomes the protege of Sir Lionel Pinchcoffin, the District Political Officer in Bombay, who recognises Leo's talents and turns him into a spy. From an early age, Leo is immersed in the seedy world of international espionage, revolutionary politics and diamond smuggling. He travels from India to Europe and Russia, but the most meaningful time in his life are a few stolen days when he meets and falls in love with Davina Dymond in London.
As the drums of war reverberate around the world for the second time in their lives, Leo begins to understand his history and Davina, trapped in war-torn Spain, turns to crime to survive. Both must unshackle themselves from the ways of the old world, and those who seek to manipulate them, before they can find true happiness - and each other.
'An epic and enthralling novel of love and separation, betrayal and treachery, which sweeps the reader across continents from India and Russia to Spain and England. Individual lives are torn apart by the flood of war and political manipulation, yet even as they struggle in that drowning tide, Leo and Davina discover their own identities and place of belonging. Cinematic, with a rich tapestry of colour and characters.'
Karen Maitland - author of 'The Falcons of Fire and Ice' |
Ylesia (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order #14.5) | BONUS: This original novella includes an exclusive excerpt from Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnantand an interview with the author.
RIPE FOR THE PLUCKING
That's Jedi Knight Kyp Durron's opinion about the planet Ylesia, home base of the so-called Peace Brigade, a group of traitors dedicated to hindering the war efforts of the New Republic and hastening the ultimate victory of the merciless Yuuzhan Vong. Kyp's plan calls for a lightning-fast strike, backed with overwhelming force, to destroy the Brigade's offensive capabilities and teach prospective traitors that betrayal carries a heavy price. But young Jacen Solo, still bearing the scars of his imprisonment by the Yuuzhan Vong, has a better idea: a daring raid into the heart of Ylesia's capital, with the objective of capturing the Brigade's top leaders--including the newly sworn-in President, Thrackan Sal-Solo, cousin to Jacen and his twin, Jaina.
But unknown to the Jedi and the New Republic forces, Supreme Overlord Shimrra of the Yuuzhan Vong has dispatched reinforcements to the Ylesia system. Instead of a swift surgical strike, Jaina, Jacen, Kyp, and their comrades are about to find themselves locked in a desperate battle for survival, with the odds stacked against them and time running out. . . .
No Star Warsfan will want to miss this exciting eBook exclusive adventure from Nebula Award-winner Walter Jon Williams, author of the forthcoming Star WarsThe New Jedi Order hardcover novel, Destiny's Way. |
Italian Surgeon, Forbidden Bride | "Who can resist St. Piran's deliciously sexy new Italian surgeon?"
Talented neurosurgeon Gio Corezzi's deliciously dark good looks turn the heads of every female at St. Piran's Hospital--except quiet beauty Jessica Carmichael's. And Gio can't help but notice that Jess flinches away from anyone getting too close.
With no one to turn to...and nowhere for Jess and her bundle of kittens to live while her dilapidated cottage is being patched up...she knows Gio's offer of a roof over her head is one she can't refuse.
Now the devastatingly charming Italian has a week to claim the vulnerable Jess's heart....
"St. Piran's Hospital
Where every drama has a dreamy doctor...and a happy ending." |
Dark Waters (Cragg & Fidelis Mystery #2) | The setting for the second Cragg and Fidelis mystery is again Georgian Preston, with the time moving forward a year to 1741.
When the pair are called to the drowning of the landlord of the Ferry Inn, whose corpse has turned up entangled in the River Ribble's salmon traps, a complex investigation begins in which love, greed and politics all take a hand. A national general election campaign is on, with Preston's two parliamentary seats being contested, and the town in a ferment of political debate punctuated by sporadic violence. The outbreak of deadly sickness that strikes a week before voting looks like a natural epidemic, but Dr Fidelis is convinced it is man-made and the possibility opens up that someone is trying to disrupt the vote. Is the mysterious political agent Denis Destercore part of the plot? And what of the role played by the town's rat-catcher, and his beautiful grand-daughter Maggie, as she wins an election of her own as Preston's May Queen?
As the investigation proceeds Fidelis is led to conduct a strange forensic experiment, while Cragg seeks inspiration in his library, from writers as varied as Chaucer, Aesop and Izaak Walton.
http://us.macmillan.com/darkwaters/Ro... |
Lifesaving for Beginners | An accident on the motorway. One woman dies. One woman lives. Nothing will ever be the same again. Kat Kavanagh works in Dublin as a technical writer. She has no children and is fond of her man-friend, Thomas. She never thinks about what happened when she was fifteen. That's Kat's story. None of it is true. Milo is ten and lives in Brighton. He's pretty busy trying to keep things together. Lots of stuff is still the same. Like school. Lifesaving class. Library duty with Carla. Cutting worms in two with his bestfriend Damo. But some things are different. Like his mother not being around anymore. And his sister Faith, looking after him. Then Faith finds some of her mother's old papers and discovers a secret she was never meant to know. Suddenly everything changes. As Milo struggles to come to terms with what has happened to his family, Faith is determined to uncover the truth. Kat thinks the truth is overrated. But you can only run so far before your past catches up with you ... |
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The Secrets of Heavenly | Olivia's marriage to an African-American man was unacceptable to her mother Emma, Southern-bred descendant of prominent South Carolina slaveholders. Olivia assumed that bigotry was the product of her mother's loyalty to long-dead relatives, an allegiance to maintain the family's white blood line. After Emma's death though, Olivia finds a letter and an old journal among her belongings. Soon she discovers the secret that prompted Emma to irrationally blame an entire race -- a secret that had nothing to do with family history, although it strongly paralleled another tragic event from the past. 1846, Marianne Witherell's journal: Before Lincoln and the American Civil War, slavery is at its peak in South Carolina. A young slave girl named Willa suddenly arrives at Heavenly Plantation with her mother Heddie, destined to serve the wealthy plantation family as house servants. Right away, two of the Master's children-Marianne and Seth-forge a bond with Willa, in spite of their older brother Foster's warnings about the evils of mixing with the "darkies." Although she grows up in the "big house" treated like family by her pair of white friends, Willa cannot forget that she is still a slave. Never is that fact made clearer than when Foster cruelly taunts and threatens her in secret. As it threads through the lives of its diverse characters, this novel captures the complicated and often violent nature of life in the antebellum South. As Willa's story is told, a dramatic tapestry is woven, binding the Witherell family to a web of secrets that include forbidden love and faithful friendships alongside dangerous obsessions, mental instability, and even murder. |
The Effective Pastor | In over thirty engagingly written and illustrated pieces Peter Jeffery applies the good news of the Christian faith and teaching in a way you and others will love reading about it. These tracts are supplied on three formats PDFs US letter size for folding and UK A4 size for folding and as HTML text so you can load them on your website. Purchase of this CD licenses you or your church or your Christian organization to print and distribute as many of these tracts as you wish and to publish and circulate them electronically by email or on the world wide web. |
A Mighty Fortress: Lead Bomber Over Europe | A Mighty Fortress is the personal account of the Captain and crew of a lead bomber in the enormous formation raids made by the 8th Airforce during the last few months of the Second World War. It is an extraordinary tale of heroism and bravery on the part of the entire crew of just one B17 amongst hundreds - but the one B17 that meant most to them. Flying a total of 27 missions before the war came to an end in May 1945, Alling tells, with great restraint, the story of what it was like to be there, over the skies of enemy territory, constantly on the look out for German fighters; of the enormity of some of the raids they were part of and the consequences for those on the ground; of the planes around them that fell out of the sky under enemy attack, the horror and the determination to succeed. The book gives a unique insight into the lives of one crew of one plane as the War neared its end. Charles B. Alling received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters during the Second World War. He graduated from Yale University in 1947. In 1988, he retired and studied Ethics at Oxford University Graduate School in England. In 1989, he founded the Alling Institute for Ethics. The institute is affiliated with The Foundation for Leadership and Ethics in New York City of which Alling is Chairman Emeritus. Alling serves on the Board of Visitors of the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, an appointment by former Secretary of Defense, Bill Cohen. He lives in Kennebunk, Maine. "In a fascinating way, Chuck Alling recalls his days as a pilot flying B-17's over Germany. He is truly a member of 'The Greatest Generation' and from his book, written from the heart, people can learn a lot about the laughs and the tears of World War II." - Former President George H. W. Bush |
Dirty Like Brody (Dirty, #2) | He was all she ever wanted. Then she broke his heart...
As longtime manager of Dirty, the hottest rock band on the planet, gorgeous and brooding Brody Mason has had his share of beautiful women. Yet the only one he's ever wanted is the one he never had--the one who tore his heart out.
Beautiful and elusive Jessa Mayes appears to have it all. Talent, money, and a glamorous life. But she also has a secret. Six years ago, she ran away--from her dream career as a songwriter with Dirty, and the only man she's ever loved--without telling anyone why.
Now Jessa's doing the one thing she swore she'd never do. She's coming home--to be a bridesmaid in her brother's rock star wedding... and face the mistakes of her past.
It won't be easy.
Love this intense never is.
Dirty Like Brody is the second full-length novel in the Dirty series--a rockstar romance series about the members of the rock band Dirty and the women and men who love them.
Novels in the Dirty series are interconnected standalones, each with an HEA. (There are ongoing storylines that develop throughout the series, so reading them in order is not crucial but is recommended.)
Reading order:
Dirty Like Me (Dirty #1)
Dirty Like Us (Dirty #0.5) (novella)
Dirty Like Brody (Dirty #2) |
Last Guard Out: A Riveting Account by the Last Guard to Leave Alcatraz | The Last Guard Out is the fascinating true story of one man's life as a guard behind the merciless concrete walls of Alcatraz.I was newly assigned to the infamous island penitentiary of Alcatraz. Reporting to Alcatraz required me to uproot my wife Cathy and young son Kenny from Colorado to California. As we approached San Francisco via of the Oakland Bay Bridge we got our first foreboding glance of Alcaraz Island with a dense circle of fog surrounding it. A strange sense of dread came over me. I looked at our young son asleep in the back seat, then turned to my wife next to me and I whispered "What The Hell Did We Do."After moving on to Alcatraz our thought on Island life quickly changed and we decided not to apply for a transfer out, which consequently left us there until the Island closed in March of 1963.Because of our newly born daughters foot problem they left us there until June of 1963 making me The Last Guard Out. |
Sword of Fire and Shadow (The Chronicle of Fionn mac Cumhal, #3) | The aging Fionn mac Cumhal, the fabled lord of Almu who is sworn to defend his land, faces an ultimate confrontation with his enemies, who seek to overthrow him as the end of his life draws near. Reprint. PW. AB. |
A Canterbury Crime | The ancient walled city of Canterbury has held many secrets over the centuries.
But none are more mysterious than the death of Professor de Gray.
When the amateur detective Belinda Lawrence is called in to evaluate the contents of the Professor's Tudor Manor House, she suspects foul play.
But why would anyone murder a harmless academic?
De Gray was about to publish a book that he promised would re-write the history of St Thomas Becket, who was murdered in the Cathedral in 1170.
Could that be a motive?
As she starts to investigate, Belinda uncovers an intricate web of secrets that leads to the killer - but which also threatens her life.
'A Canterbury Crime' is a brilliant re-invention of the classic English village murder mystery, following on from the best-selling 'Capable of Murder'.
Belinda Lawrence is a lively young heroine who pits her intellect against cold-blooded and ruthless killers - a character who is among the most memorable and engaging in modern detective fiction. |
Return to Me (The Burke Family #2) | When Roxy Burke left home for Nashville, she swore she wouldn't come back until she was a star. But it's desperation that drives this prodigal back to her family, and no one is prepared for what happens next.Roxy has crashed and burned. She's squandered an inheritance, lived a wild life, and wasted her talent. Desperate and ashamed, she now must return to her father and sister, neither of whom she's talked to in seven years.Roxy's father welcomes his daughter with love and tenderness. But his easy acceptance is hard on Roxy's sister. After years of being the dutiful daughter, Elena feels resentment and anger toward her wayward sister.Even more problematic is the reaction of Roxy's former boyfriend. Once a rebel, Wyatt has given his life to Christ and plans to enter the ministry. He and Elena are engaged, but Roxy's return raises questions that could mean the end of Elena's perfect future.The Burke family faces the return of the prodigal and must reach out for healing. Will they each be able to accept God's grace? |
Revolucionarios Cibernéticos: Tecnología y política en el Chile de Salvador Allende | In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized--Allende's government ended with a violent military coup; the system, known as Project Cybersyn, was never completely implemented--but they hold lessons for today about the relationship between technology and politics. Drawing on extensive archival material and interviews, Medina examines the cybernetic system envisioned by the Chilean government--which was to feature holistic system design, decentralized management, human-computer interaction, a national telex network, near real-time control of the growing industrial sector, and modeling the behavior of dynamic systems. She also describes, and documents with photographs, the network's Star Trek-like operations room, which featured swivel chairs with armrest control panels, a wall of screens displaying data, and flashing red lights to indicate economic emergencies. Studying project Cybersyn today helps us understand not only the technological ambitions of a government in the midst of political change but also the limitations of the Chilean revolution. This history further shows how human attempts to combine the political and the technological with the goal of creating a more just society can open new technological, intellectual, and political possibilities. Technologies, Medina writes, are historical texts; when we read them we are reading history. |
Sonnets from New England: Love Songs | The origin of the sonnet means "little song." These sonnets are about deep abiding love grounded within the quietly charming landscape of the villages, mountains, coastline and lakes of New England. What power connects us more as human beings than love? The love songs of "Sonnets from New England" were written to connect lovers to their heart's content. These little songs and rich, color photos inspire the hearts and souls of those who dare to embrace life's epic quest for enduring, authentic love. |
The Golden Dynasty | Circe Quinn goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire--and she is one of them. She soon finds out that she's not having a wild dream, she's living a frightening nightmare where she's been transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people and in short order, she's installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their Queen.
Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, The Horde of the nation of Korwahk and with one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together they will start The Golden Dynasty of legend.
Circe and Lahn are separated by language, culture and the small fact she's from a parallel universe and has no idea how she got there or how to get home. But facing challenge after challenge, Circe finds her footing as Queen of the brutal Korwahk Horde and wife to its King, then she makes friends then she finds herself falling in love with this primitive land, its people and especially their savage leader. |
My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People | The 'World's greatest living explorer' as described in the Guinness Book of Records, writes about the people who have inspired him, 'from a London policeman hacked to death by a local mob to the bravest, boldest, parlour maid in the world'.
Ranulph, or Ran as he likes to be called, gives lectures all over the world and the question he is asked more often than not is 'who are your heroes?'
In this book he describes the extraordinary and often horrific events that led to twelve ordinary people becoming his personal heroes. They include the man who dared all to execute Hitler, the community who suffered the agonies of the Black Death to save others, the victor of the Murder Wall, the Genocide Protector and the journalist who defied Mugabe's Terror Police.
These twelve highly descriptive chapters will make you both ashamed of human cruelty and proud of human courage. |
Power (Mafia Ties : Brandon & Carly, #2) | Carly O'Reilly never wanted the powerthat came from being the head of her Irish mob family. With her father's well-deserved death and Brandon DeLuca by her side, she's ready to shake things up in her new role. But what happens when Brandon has another position in mind for her--as his wife?
Please note: Brandon & Carly's romance is a three-part story, but there are no relationship cliffhangers. Their story can be read as a standalone separate from Nic & Anna's books. |
May I Cross Your Golden River? | An eighteen-year-old boy tries to cope with the realization that he has a fatal disease. |
A Trip to the Beach | Married for nearly thirty years, Melinda and Robert Blanchard divide their time between Norwich, Vermont, where they built their own home, and Anguilla, where they operate Blanchard's Restaurant. Together they have started eight businesses, including Blanchard & Blanchard, the award-winning line of specialty foods. Bob is a seventh-generation Vermonter, and Melinda was born and raised in New York City. |
Ideas Are All Around | As an author and his dog, Wednesday, walk through their neighborhood, they look at sunflowers, say hi to Frank, a turtle, who makes quick for the water and disappears, and watch a train rumble by as they walk uphill to a big purple house that belongs to their friend Barbara. Wednesday chases squirrels while the two friends discuss fishing and war and how back before the neighborhood was there enormous woolly mammoths roamed where houses now sit.
Thoughts open up to other thoughts, and ideas are born and carried forward, often transforming into other ideas until he finds that ideas really are all around, you just have to know what to do with them. |
Can You Survive the Wilderness? | Describes the fight for survival while exploring wilderness regions |
2Do Before I Die: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Rest of Your Life | What's on your list? Do you dream of writing a novel someday? or of recording an album of your own music? Would you spend a month backpacking through China if you could? Have you always secretly wanted to try skydiving? or snorkeling? or snowboarding? Whatever your personal goals or aspirations, no matter how humble or highfalutin, this revolutionary interactive handbook will help you jump-start life changes, and experience this world to the fullest. Perhaps your life is in transition-and, after all, whose isn't? Whether you're changing careers, planning for retirement, or just starting out after graduating from school... Whether you're plotting to make your mark on the world, contemplating how you might best contribute, or simply wondering what's next in your life... 2Do Before I Die will help you set personal priorities, identify life goals, and realize your dreams. Less "how to" than "why not," 2Do Before I Die features eye-opening true stories of people who've changed their lives significantly in small ways (by learning to swim, growing a beard, working in a soup kitchen) or taken great, life-altering leaps (by starting a business, having a baby, traveling the world). With its provocative brainstorming exercises and ingenious practical tips, 2Do Before I Die encourages and enables you to create your own ultimate 2Do list-one that can serve as your personal road map toward a uniquely rich life. |