The Black Sea region rarely hit the media headlines until the outbreak of war in Georgia in 2008, yet its importance as a focus of European Union (EU) external policy making had already been growing for several years. The area is fascinating and diverse, comprising both large and small states, with a mixture of democracies and more authoritarian regimes. Traditionally a central foreign policy concern for Russia and Turkey, since the end of the Cold War, the EU and the US have become increa...

The Black Sea region is a dynamic and complex area in which many national and international actors have key interests, including Russia and the US. The European Union stretches to the sea’s western coast where it meets former Soviet territory as well as EU candidate Turkey. Regional tensions include those over NATO enlargement, a US anti-ballistic missile system, access to the Black Sea, democratization, spheres of interest and the conflict zones of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabak...

The Prince of Avonar is in desperate straits.Betrayal devastates his plan to defeat the vile Lords of Zhev'Na without violence, and then a ruthless attack leaves his beloved wife near death.As frustration and anger shake the fragile joining of the Prince's body and soul, war engulfs his magical realm.Sixteen-year-old Gerick, half-crazed with nightmare visions, pursued by past horror and his father's wrath, flees beyond the boundaries of the known wo...

Light Weaver is a contemporary story with a fantastical twist set in the English Lake District. It’s a tale about love, transience, and the nature of reality. What if your world was no longer what it seemed? Strange and inexplicable things are happening in the Lakeland fells … light orbs dance over mossy crags, symbols miraculously appear in grassy lowlands, and Cali Silverthorn keeps disappearing into other worlds. Mobile librarian, Tom Philips, is captivated b...

Indulge yourself with the Winter Wonderland CollectionIncluding the titles:All I Want for ChristmasChristmas Nights with the ExChristmas with the CrownThe Italian’s Christmas PassionA Christmas Seduction

The Surprise Families and Billionaire Bosses Collection by Mills & BoonIncluding the titles:A Surprise Family: Against the OddsA Surprise Family: Proving their LoveA Surprise Family: Their Perfect SurpriseA Surprise Family: Written in the StarsA Surprise Family: The Perfect FamilyA Surprise Family: Baby Makes ThreeBillionaire Boss: The Billion Dollar DealBillionaire Boss: Her Unforgettable BillionaireBi...

Two recovery specialists.One murder.A hunt for the Dutchman's Lost Gold Mine becomes a race of survival.Former Army MP Landry Parker fell into the recovery specialist role quite by accident—to help her ailing father. Now that she’s on her own, she is determined to prove herself and honor her family legacy.After being shot in the line of duty, former police officer Nickolai Baptiste became a recovery specialist, and he’s good at his job—maybe even the best....

Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a Gun, and with an array of YA talent like the late great Walter Dean Myers, the poetic Joyce Carol Oates, the prophetic Elizabeth Wein, and the gritty Chris Crutcher, these are evocative voices that each has a different perspe...

The perfect gift for the romance lover in your life…the Complete Christmas CollectionIncluding the titles:Fake Dating: Home for ChristmasChristmas Nights with the TycoonRegency Rebels: A Christmas FlirtationTempted Under the MistletoeA Christmas DareAll I Want for ChristmasChristmas Nights with the ExChristmas with the CrownThe Italian’s Christmas PassionA Christmas SeductionChristmas Kis...

Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. The book is divided in three parts. In the first section, “Foundation,” several contributors reveal their Christian realist roots and discuss the prophetic origins and multifarious agenda of social ethics. Thus, the names of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich come up frequently. In the second section, “Economics and Justice,” the focus turns to the different levels at which economics has significance for social j...

Composer, conductor, activist, and icon of twentieth-century America, Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) had a rich association with Washington, DC. Although he never lived there, the US capital was the site of some of the most importantmoments in his life and work, as he engaged with the nation's struggles and triumphs. By examining Bernstein through the lens of Washington, DC, this book offers new insights into his life and music from the 1940s through the 1980s, including his role in building ...

Life forever changed for Summer Jackson when her husband, Dakota, died in an accident on an Oregon desert road. Now alone, always tired, and just a little bit mad at God, Summer is doing her best to manage their cattle ranch, raise their three children, and work as a trauma nurse. But when her emergency radio beeps one day to alert her of an accident at a local campground, Summer has no idea that her life is about to change once again.Tanner Greywolf, once the life of the party wit...