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When private investigator Justin Wade takes on socialite Susan Berns as a client, he doesn't anticipate falling in love or jumping deep into a murder investigation. Originally hired to find Susan's missing husband and jewelry, he discovers one piece is the famous Romanov Star, designed by Peter the Great and among the missing jewels the famous Romanovs owned at the time they were murdered. The investigation volleys between Naples, Florida and ...

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Stephen Bennett has just lost his lover to the ravages of AIDS while below him, the Castro District of San Francisco is alive with revelry. It's November of 1992 and Bill Clinton has just been elected President. HIV positive himself, and with a fourteen year old stepson to raise, Stephen makes an impulsive decision. He buys a house in Minneapolis. He and stepson Caden move there in an attempt to reconnect with the family Stephen left behind fi...

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Shocked by an act of bravery, and intrigued by a stranger's good looks and demanding demeanor, Emily Stewart agrees to let a man walk her to her car. She had no idea at the time that this was exactly what Jackson Shephard had hoped for. Jackson "Big Jack" Shephard rides with the Hell's Fury MC. He's big, not afraid of any man, and goes to great lengths to provide protection to his club brothers and those he loves. He lives by a code most men c...

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After the British withdrawal from Aden in 1967 the war in Dhofar was a major step in the fight against the spread of communist domination in the Gulf. Dissidents in rebellion against the feudal rule of the old Sultan of Oman exploited the poverty and want in the countryside in order to win converts to their cause and found backing from the communist Yemen. With the help of the British, alarmed by such a threat, the Sultan's son Qaboos deposed ...

Henry Gereighty (playwright, pain junkie, self-loathing homosexual) flees the city of New Orleans to Pass Christian, Mississippi in the wake of a violent hate crime. In his reclusion he finishes his final play, falls into 'like' with a bartender, battles with a neighborhood eccentric, laments to the ghost of Jayne Mansfield, and sparks a friendship with a lawyer in a bar who charges Henry $20.00 to listen to him complain, all the while maturat...

This book is an incredible true story of the healing power of God's love after Superstorm Sandy-and a fresh look at how the Holy Spirit works in our lives today. David Gregory shares his personal testimony that God is alive and well and still uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Through reading about David's journey, you can: * Learn about the miraculous events that occurred following Superstorm Sandy * Understand how activities of...

Ten years after 2, 977 Americans died on September 11, 2001, the outrage has dissipated and Americans are looking for ways out of a Middle East slipping back into medieval chaos, no longer a proving ground for the American Way. Tribal warlords and religious fanatics flourish as Western powers lose their appetite for state building. Walter Morrison is an old-fashioned patriot with a plan to rekindle American commitment. He has considerable weal...

Monrovia. Bali. Bombay. Cayman Islands. Hollywood. The names of faraway places dot the pages of Queer and Alone like thousands of islands in a deep blue sea. Indeed, the hero - or is he an ironic anti-hero? - of this novel is a man literally at sea. He is Desmond Farrquahr who boards a steamer bound for Hong Kong by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Looking for experience, taking in the sights, hoping. For what? Queer and Alone is a wildly exubera...

A slam-bang thriller born of today's headlines. No Mercy will take your breath away." Award-winning author, Kathryn Johnson, introduces new characters in Book 3 of her popular series, Affairs of State. Kate Foster, Chief Scientist for NASA's Heat Wave Project, works late into the night with her team. The last thing she expects is three terrorists breaking into her laboratory. Then things get worse. The intruders kill one of her people, kidnap ...

After the British withdrawal from Aden in 1967 the war in Dhofar was a major step in the fight against the spread of communist domination in the Gulf. Dissidents in rebellion against the feudal rule of the old Sultan of Oman exploited the poverty and want in the countryside in order to win converts to their cause and found backing from the communist Yemen. With the help of the British, alarmed by such a threat, the Sultan's son Qaboos deposed ...

Although it is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men, prostate cancer is highly misunderstood. The disease has little effect on many, yet it is deadly to others. The book is a form of expedition-an expedition to explore the scientific wildernesses of biology, chemistry, and physics of the mechanisms that promotes and fuels the deadly form of Prostate Cancer. Readers will journey through the modern understanding of the disease that physic...

For most Mondays stink! But, for one 8-year-old boy, Theo, Monday is the most awesome day of the week, because Monday is Art day. Reminiscing about his kindergarten experience with an unexpected blob of paint, Theo along with the guidance of his teacher, discovers there are no mistakes in art, only other possibilities. This revelation changes everything for him.

Afghanistan is where empires go to be rebuked for their arrogance, a harsh land peopled with fiercely independent warriors for whom honor and revenge are one and the same, and family is sacred. NATO has downgraded to "a training mission", leaving the countryside as a lethal playground where militias, religious zealots and corrupt politicians ply their trade. A conflicted American military advisor Slater Crosby and Malik, a war-weary tribal lea...

Gothic is a culture of alterity: it explores the Other and it posits itself as an Other. It found its roots in the concerted efforts of eighteenth-century authors who longed for the simple and exciting plotlines of mediaeval romances. At the same time, they were careful to populate other countries and/or other eras with ghosts, vampires, and monstrous villains. More recently, Gothic studies have flourished alongside a plethora of Gothic fictio...

*Student edition *Lightly annotated *The final version of Oscar Wilde's classic with a new introduction by specialist Avishek Parui

*A long overdue study of the social, political and cultural context of Bram Stoker's Dracula * A welcome addition to Dracula studies, using British and Romanian sources * A postcolonial look at Dracula * The book argues that Stoker was at least in part inspired by the marriage of Vlad Tepes' descendant, Mary of Teck, to the future king George V.