Cozy up with this page-turning ski town mystery as a band of determined journalists uncover the truth behind an eco-terrorist plot.“Crisp prose, sharply drawn characters, and keen and often humorous observations of mountain town life make this a compelling read. I LOVED THIS BOOK.” —Gwen Florio, author of Best Laid Plans and The Least Among UsIt’s 1993, and the ski company that runs Franklin, Colorado, plans to build a mas...

Trent Wolfer has blown it, in every possible way, over and over and over. And now he's blowing it again. Fresh out of rehab, he's back in his hometown working a dead-end job at a fast food joint and cutting out on his breaks to sneak airplane bottles of vodka and gin, when he looks up from his register one day to see Suze Randall, his closest friend from high school, now a radiant blonde single mother of two. Set in a small, sun-drenched Northern California town shifting from hippie haven ...

A CAPTIVATING SMALL-TOWN MYSTERY AND A BAND OF JOURNALISTS DETERMINED TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH.The endangered lynx is at the center of an eco-terrorist plot gripping a small ski town, but newspaper publisher Tish Threadgill's insider information about a local literary malcontent leaves her upstart newspaper in a unique position to crack the case."We Bring You an Hour of Darkness is my favorite kind of thriller — one that combin...

The same military base where Oz was created witnesses the birth of another AI.The only problem? The military is the one who sets the ground rules.So, what is a new daddy AI supposed to do?Meanwhile, others are attacking the college, and Giles has to get his game on to protect his students - space archaeologist style.And Molly is faced with the biggest and most dangerous meeting of her whole adult life.She is going to meet her parents.What cou...

A practical ePub to motivating people which will give you the information and skills to succeedFind out how to maximise the effectiveness of your business by motivating your staff and enabling them to flourish. You'll learn how to encourage teamwork and deal with de-motivated staff.Tables, illustrations, 'In Focus' panels on what to do in a particular situation, plus real-life case studies demonstrate how to help create the right motivational environment. Dip in an...

Practical tools for men’s mental health, no couch required.Life throws curveballs. Stress piles up. Anger flares. Work gets intense. Relationships get messy. And most guys feel like they have to “tough it out.” That approach? Not exactly working.Man Therapy gives men straightforward tools for dealing with real-life challenges, without the lectures, jargon, or awkward therapy speak. Powered by the wildly popular Man Therapy ® brand and including con...

Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and oppression. For postmodernists, the world is fragmented, history is ended, and all struggles are local and particularistic. Written by internationally renowned British and American educational th...

Nothing is ever a coincidence in LaLa Land. When a friend's ex-wife is murdered, the city's guardian Drow, Ellis Burton suspects something more is going on. But what?The clues say the police cannot be trusted in this case. The question is, who can be? And who is covering up the truth, and why?Someone in L.A. has been tracking Ellis and she soon finds out it's the senior Drow, her father.It's not a fun family reunion. But is ther...

The Earl of Bourne wanted no part of married life. After years of danger in foreign wars, he was eager to plunge into a campaign of Conquests among the long lists of London lovelies who would give their all to please a man as well-born well-financed, and well-favored as he. Miss Jane Maitland wanted to be wed even less than did the libertine lord. As proud as she was beautiful, she would never let any man enslave her — much less claim her body, and woe to any foolhardy enough to try. But n...

There is a nest of Drows living in hidden caves just outside of Los Angeles. The dark side of LaLa Land knows them well.Young Drows come out of the shadows at nightfall, looking for trouble and it always finds them. But then there's Ellis Burton. Half Drow, half human and searching for an identity in either world. Her father, Connor Burton is the leader of the Drow clan and the overseer in their underground drug traffic. It's all medicinal mushrooms. Nothing to see...

Ellis has been sold short by her family all her life, living in the shadows. That didn't stop our favorite Drow from finding her own path, even when it led straight into danger on the dark streets of the city of angels.It started out so simple, watching over the night dwellers in the big city, including her misguided brother. But the mystery deepened around her family's tangled web in the drug business, pulling in Ellis.Then she found at least some of t...

A dead ally. A stolen cure. A legendary artifact.Ellis's world is turned upside down when her friend Marusya is killed, and Ellis is rescued by a mysterious group of half-Drow vigilantes. Aboard their ship, the Violet Eel, Ellis learns of a powerful ring that only she can wield—but only if she regains her lost shadow magic.To make matters worse, her friends are captured by the U.S. military, and the cure for Connor's condition is taken. Ellis must navigate ...