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Midwife Kayla Morgan decides to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother. However, there is a slight snag. She is newly divorced and has no desire to take the marriage path again. What's a gal to do? Why, ask her childhood friend, Chase McBride, to help her, of course. No intimacy, no strings, and with today's technology the former Wall Street tycoon can be vacationing in Maui when she conceives. It sounds simple, except for one small detail. Ch...

Jubilee Day is a page-turning thriller ripped from today's headlines. Set in November 2011, a mysterious group calling itself Jubilee is assassinating prominent conservatives-the chief justice of the Supreme Court, a former, but still powerful, vice president, several of the bankers who profited from the crash of '07-with a simple warning: Six will die, every day, until you start sharing your wealth and power. As the Jubilees make good on thei...

Lola Haskins takes readers on a tour like no other. Travelling to Florida's most interesting cemeteries, she visits Napoleon's nephew, tells the gruesome story of a man who dug up his love and lived with her for seven years, and even shares a murder mystery. Whether the final resting places of Civil War soldiers killed in battle or of the four-hundred-year-old remains of nuns peacefully interred by their shell-studded chapel, each plot has a u...

Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor expl...

The Poison King describes a life brimming with spectacle and excitement. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a g...

The tale of a young boy who travels from Alabama to Texas in search of work on a cotton farm. He finds a ranch owned by a couple where he learns many important life lessons.

In this experimental study two methods of pretreatment of effluents from dyeing processes were investigated. The main objective was to reduce the colour strength of the effluents. The first method was chemical pretreatment using oxidation and reduction to destroy the conjugate double bonding system of the chromophore structure. The other method was the physical pretreatment using activated carbon to adsorb the colourant. The parameters studies...

The livelihood of selling goods on street corners began centuries ago, but as the social needs, cultural relevance, and economic needs of individuals and groups involved in these sales changed from rural to urban and from a homogeneous to a heterogeneous population, so did the face of individuals referred to as "street hawkers". The purpose of this study is to bring attention to and to carefully examine the lives of those persons living and se...

Soil moisture values derived from remote sensing platforms only accounts for the near surface soil layers, generally the top 5cm. Passive microwave data at L-band (1.4 GHz, 21cm wavelength) measurements are shown to be a very effective observation for surface soil moisture retrieval. An optimization model is developed for the Backpropagation Neural Network model. This optimization model utilizes the combination of the mean and standard deviati...

This novel takes place in the thrilling years of the Weimar Republic in Germany, a time when the first modern queer movements and feminist movements were converging with radical political movements of various stripes--from monarchism and fascism to socialism, communism, and anarchism. This story centers round two lovers, a working class young man named Theodor Priser who at first espouses Communism as a way to fight against the reaction of his...

Writing is like breathing to me - even if I want to stop for a while, have a break, regroup, I simply can't. I find I can't stop the ink running across blank sheets. When I went to Cornwall to write this novel, it took me over. I'm so thankful it did." - Laura May 'The Letterbox Man' is a tale of love and loss in the life of Beth Spencer, set in the beautiful, haunting village of Polruan, Cornwall. Returning to Polruan for one week to clear h...

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Sundown is a Story of the Wild West. Cowboys, Indians, wagon trains, cattle drives, and stampedes. Brave men ride through the American Southwest in search of adventure and a better life. One riveting adventure after another!

Return to the Old West where brave men and fast horses blaze a trail of glory. Feel the excitement of riding for you life and setting wrong to right in these fast paced adventures.

With 78 pages of additional articles, references, and bibliographies of recommended reading. Great Britain is an island nation, which means it is critical that it control the waters around it in order to keep invasions at bay. In the last book published before his death, George Henty takes us to several of the key sea battles of the Napoleonic Wars-battles that kept those kinds of sea-based invasions from happening. Will Gilmore is a young man...

This study focuses on the teaching and learning of Shona novels at ''O'' Level with specific reference to three selected secondary schools in the High-Glen District, Harare. The main aim of the research is to determine means of making teaching and learning of Shona novels at ''O'' Level more effective and meaningful. The attitude of students and teachers towards Shona novels as well as approaches being used in teaching the novels were establis...

Donald Featherstone has revised his classic book on various battles. The book describes 15 key battles with the solo wargamer in mind. Including the enemy forces, terrain, enemy orders and other factors leading to surprise

The focus of this book is to establish the importance of servant leadership for organizational success. Due to the recent successes of servant leaders in some organizations, this book suggests that effective leaders in this century and beyond should practice servant leadership. The curriculum designed in this book provides information that would promote servant leadership in the Methodist church in Kenya and any other organization that might b...