Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father’s life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia’s little sister, Katie-Ann. Georgia desperately needs to keep her new job as paralegal for Lumina Software so she can provide a California haven for her sister before it’s too late.While she’s still living in her car, Georgia real...

Welcome to the Silicon Valley law firm of Tweedmore & Slyde, where multimillion-dollar deals are the order of the day, ambition runs high, and stabbing a colleague in the back could be taken all too literally.T&S is a hot firm making a bid to be a major national player when Leo Slyde—the company’s chief rainmaker, its king of the “billable hour”—is found stabbed to death in his corner office. It falls to T&S’s brightest, most unjustifiably insecure young associate Howar...

WolfeAs one of the grittiest, most talented hockey players in the NHL, my take-no-prisoners approach on the ice helped me to not only survive, but conquer. And I have plenty to conquer. I don't have time for frivolous things like relationships or expressing feelings that are nobody's business.So why does a boss cupcake baker seem to have me wound tighter than the apron strings around her narrow waist? I don't even eat sweets, and yet I find myself in her ba...

If James Patterson and Janet Evanovich had a love child... meet Jessica James.She knew she’d have to defend her thesis.But she didn’t think she’d be defending her life.Is the professor’s weird note the final nail in her coffin?Is the hot art dealer putting the moves on her for real? Or is he the killer?And why is the Russian janitor forging masterpieces in the broom closet?Armed with only h...

A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of love for objects that we righ...

A groundbreaking look at one of the great song composers of the late Romantic periodIn the virtual cottage industry of works on fin de siècle Vienna, Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) has been somewhat neglected, perhaps because he was the master of a small genre—the late Romantic lied—and never truly made his mark in the larger forms that command greater public attention. But in the realm of song, he is among the greatest inheritors of Schubert and Schumann, one who was both ...

Buch 1 in der Serie - Den Schleier hebenKris Ellis dachte, die Zeit arrangierter Ehen wäre lange vorbei – aber das war, bevor die Große Enthüllung bewies, dass mythische Wesen unter den Menschen leben. Nun hat ein medizinischer Routintest gezeigt, dass Kris einen Gefährten hat, einen Werwolf namens Rafael King.Kris hat gerade seinen Collegeabschluss gemacht und hat Pläne für sein zukünftiges Leben. Für immer an jemanden gebunden zu sein, den er nie...

Guidebook to Community Consulting provides advice for people interested in starting or growing a career in community consulting. Drawing on the authors' years of experience as community consultants, it offers a wealth of practical guidance to anyone considering or establishing a successful career serving and empowering communities. It includes guidance about the personal qualities, values, and technical skills needed; how to start a consulting practice; how to collaborate with colleagues, ...

Branded an outcast by the noble branch of his werewolf clan, Cort Renier had come to San Francisco seeking fortune-and revenge. What he found was a mysterious beauty who could not-or would not-reveal who she truly was. At first glance she seemed vulnerable and afraid, like so many girls caught up in the debauchery of the city's whiskey-soaked gambling dens. But one look into her stunning turquoise eyes and he knew he'd found the winning hand.Aria di Reinardus had reasons of her own...

Geoecology is a fruitful interdisciplinary field, relating rocks to soils to plant and animal communities and studying the interactions between them. Modern geoecology especially concentrates on showing how geology and soils affect the structure, composition, and distribution of plant communities in a certain research area. This book applies the principles of geoecology to Western North America, and to a specific kind of rock, the fascinating serpentine belts that run along the continental...

Be swept away by this fan-favorite story of love, healing, andfamily in 1800s Montana from New York Times bestselling author SusanMallery.Caleb Kincaid has always carried a secret torch for the beautiful RuthWhitefeather, who lives on the nearby Cheyenne reserve, but thingsnever quite worked out between them. And when Caleb learns that hisgirlfriend is pregnant he does the honorable thing and marries her,even though the love between them has long faded and Caleb c...

Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an excellent starting point for both law and non-law students encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time. Topics covered include administration and enforcement, waste management, EU environmental law, pollution control, environmental permitting, contaminated land, environmental torts and private regulation.The book is supporte...