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Far from being chivalric romances, these stories vividly illustrate real people in love, real people like all of us. The characters in this assemblage get by as best they can in often humorous and always poignant ways. Among the characters are: an idealistic eleven-year-old with a gift for pencil drawing and a crush on his teacher, a forty-seven-year-old real estate agent looking for another ego-bolstering bedpost notch, and a beautiful, lonel...

Genre: Young Adult Urban Fantasy/Horror (with elements of romance).Word Count: 55300Everyone knows about stranger danger. Never talk to a stranger. Don't take candy from a stranger. And no matter what, never, ever accept a ride from a stranger. In a moment of anger at her parents, eighteen-year-old Alyssa ignored these basic rules. Now she's facing the most terrifying situation of her life. A world of demons, sacrifices and swords suddenly bec...

Demyan and Ana have lived in privilege and protection as the children of Anton and Viviana Avdonin. With a Russian mob boss for a father and a mafia queen for a mother, they've got big shoes to fill. Love and life are messy games to play, especially when you're new at it. An attack on one Avdonin will leave the family stunned and hurting. Their retribution is brutal, but the repercussions for their revenge will be even more devastating. Becaus...

Laura Agar Wilson is the creator of keepinghealthygettingstylish.com, which was featured on British TV and in many Top 100 lists of blogs devoted to healthy living.Jodi Moreno's website whatscookinggoodlooking.com was a finalist in the 5th Annual Best Food Blog Awards.Sarah Caron writes for various magazines and runs sarascucinabella.com which was voted one of the Top 25 foodie blogs by FriendsEat in 2009.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. With a focus on structural and cultural violence, the volume also offers a cutting edge interdisciplinary reframing of the scope of scholarship in the field.

A work of literary history that redefines literary modernism's development in relation to the concurrent emergence of total war and the psychological effects it created between the two world wars.

Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society.

This practical, hands-on tutorial/reference/guide to MySQL is perfect for beginners, but it also works for experienced developers who are not getting the most from MySQL. As you would expect, this book shows how to code all of the essential SQL statements for creating and working with a MySQL database. But beyond that, this book also shows how to design a database, including how to use the graphical MySQL Workbench to create an EER model. It s...

This volume examines the national plans that ten Euratom countries plus Switzerland and the United States are developing to address high-level radioactive waste storage and disposal. The chapters, which were written by 23 international experts, outline European and national regulations, technology choices, safety criteria, monitoring systems, compensation schemes, institutional structures, and approaches to public involvement. Key stakeholders...

Developed from knowledge gained from the author's engineering career, this book was developed for anyone who requires a practical and solid mathematical approach to marine engineering. It will be of interest to master degree students of marine sciences and be of inspiration for teachers wishing to extend a course into more specialised areas.

Bella Moon features sweetly rhyming children's poetry. This fun poetry book offers a variety of both short and long poems for every reader's ability. Whether you're keeping company with fairies, watching a medieval tournament, or watching Santa glide through winter skies, Bella Moon offers poems that are sure to delight the imagination. I want a dog, but which is best? Let's put our knowledge to the test.A poodle is small, with hair that's cur...

Short stories about life in Texas: Miss Lillian's Revenge, Pie in the Sky, Goodbye to Buttercup, Angelita's Choice, Lucy's Next Task, A Good Man to Know, The Final Straw, Sundown, Uncle Eugene's Help, Sheriff Billy's Plan, The Santa Claus Robbery, The Precinct Election, The Annual Rabbit HuntNo matter what part of Texas you visit, you will find the people to be friendly, interesting, and maybe just a tiny bit eccentric.Each of these stories is...

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Twenty-fifth anniversary edition featuring a new Preface, invaluable for graduate students and researchers in general relativity and elementary particle theory.

Explores the rich evolutionary history of bats from multiple perspectives, presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries involving fossil bats.

Edward Mark "Tedy" Merrill grows up in the deep South surrounded by friends, bicycles, and baseball cards. A series of troubling and defining events throughout his life lead him to the field of medicine, where he eventually settles into a lucrative position as a top plastic surgeon. But after becoming terribly disillusioned with the state of the health care system in the United States, he and his brilliant wife move to Paris, France, where the...

Although Cortez was too young to remember the extravagant life style his father tried to provide for them He clearly remembers the last hour that he spent with his father covered in blood giving him principles to live by With tragedies after tragedies occurring in his life, will Tez as he's called stand firm upon those principles he was giving as he continue struggling forth through his young life Or will standing firm upon those principles ul...

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This version is created for classroom use. There is discussion section at the end of each chapter. This short story is written in a simple MSA, it might still be challenging for non-Arabic speakers. Therefore, the author is offering additional two aids methods for non-Arabic speakers: first, a vocabulary section at the end of the book. Second, online audio/ visual aids to follow the reading. This is a great opportunity to delve into the Arabic...