Exploring the Digital Library, a volume in The Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning series, addresses the key issue of library services for faculty and their students in the online learning environment. Written by librarians at Athabasca University, a leading institution in distance education, this book shows how faculty can effectively use digital libraries in their day-to-day work and in the design of electronic courses. Exploring the Digital Library is fil...

Urban Purdy knew everything about hypnotism.He knew how it could heal. How it could help. How it had long been a sinister sister of the sciences, a black-sheep brother of the arts. Knew it was both the most misunderstood and the most promising form of mind-control yet devised.Why then did he use his special power for his own personal pleasure? Why did he embark on a desperate sensual experiment with his beautiful young assistant? Why did he share this potent force for good ...

Escaping a plane wreckWas just the beginning…After surviving a crash landing and the killers gunning for them, Rafe Salazar and EMS paramedic Gwen Allen are on the run together. Hunted across treacherous mountain wilderness, Gwen has no choice but to trust her wounded patient—a DEA agent on a dangerous undercover mission. Vowing to keep each other safe even as desire draws them closer, will they live to fight another day?Fro...

Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance.HOSTAGE AT HAWK’S LANDINGBadge of Justiceby Rita HerronDexter Hawk’s search for the truth about his father’s death leads him to a homeless shelter where Melissa Gentry, the love of his life, works. Together, can they stop a dangerous conspiracy that has caused the d...

Laurel Woodall dreams of having a baby. But she can't let herself fall in love and will never again let a man in her life.-Without a husband or a loverCaleb Manes thinks Laurel is his future. When he hears she wants to have a baby on her own, he volunteers to be the father. Making a baby in this unconventional manner isn't the best way to further a relationship with Laurel, but it might lead to something more. Now he just has to convince her that this is what best friends a...

Adopting one child is challenge enough for a single woman like Suzanne Chauvin. Now that she has the chance to adopt a brother and sister who shouldn't be separated, she has to keep her life as simple as possible.Which means she doesn't have time for an added complication in the form of her neighbor Tom Stefanec. Tom knows too much about Suzanne's past…and she knows nothing about his.

USA Today–Bestselling Author: Bound by fate, a couple confronts danger and desire.Can she trust a stranger?The sole survivor of a deliberate plane crash, Maddy Kane has gone from protected witness to roaming target. Badly injured and lost in the wilderness, Maddy is forced to trust the stranger who came to her aid.No mere hiker, Will Gannon is former Delta Force. The battle-scarred medic knows he is Maddy's only hope in a desperate si...

An army ranger lays his life on the line to protect an orphaned murder witness in this romantic suspense thriller from a USA Today–bestselling author.And the killer won't stop until she's silenced, too. So when army ranger Gabe Decker is asked to protect the orphan and her psychologist, Trina Marr, he doesn't hesitate. Hidden in a remote cabin, Gabe experiences a taste of family life . . . something this brawny ranger never dreamed possible. When bullets s...

A kiss good-night…Could be deadlyJordan Hendrick has had her guard up for as long as she can remember. It was hard enough surviving an abusive past with the “hometown hero,” let alone the accusations and rumors that followed his death at her hands in self-defense. But someone wants revenge and Jordan is the number one suspect in a string of murders. Victims all connected to her—men whose only crime was going out with Jordan. So trusting her new next-door neighbor, ...

In this heartwarming and affecting Amish romance, a young woman has the chance to begin a new life in the Amish community after old betrayals come to light.Hannah Prescott was used to the transitory life—her mother had always been a wild child, and throughout her life, Hannah became used to taking care of someone who never settled down. But everything changes when Hannah receives the startling news that her mother stole her away from her biological father and the A...

A child is missing. The words chill Detective Mike Ryan and bring to mind memories of his own tragedy.He'll dedicate every resource he has until the girl Sicily is found, safe…and alive. His investigation hits a snag with Sicily's aunt and guardian, Beth Greenway. Beth's cool demeanor is at odds with the situation, making him suspicious. She's definitely hiding something. But the more time he spends with her, the less he believes that something is about the missin...

No emotional connection means zero risk of being hurt. DEA agent Conall MacLachlan has learned that the hard way. And it's been the key to his survival. So why is his latest assignment getting to him? Could be that he's back in the town he rejected years ago. But he suspects the real reason is Lia Woods.He's instantly and powerfully attracted to Lia-something that's never happened to him. And running a surveillance operation from her house has them too close-he can't catch his brea...