This is a remarkable story. It will change the way you look at life.For a couple of weeks, Matthew Ames didn't feel well. The busy father of four young children knew things were not quite right but suddenly he was in Emergency, with a severe case of toxic shock syndrome – the common bacteria Strep A had entered his bloodstream and his body had gone into shutdown. He was put into an induced coma and the only way he could be kept alive was to have all his limbs amput...

Academic staff are appointed to teach, research, consult, manage, and learn new technology amidst increasing pressure and dissatisfaction with workloads. They must learn new techniques to engage students who study across different modes, often juggling life and work. This book aims to blend good teaching practice with good time management skills to help academics feel more productive, confident, and in control of their ‘teaching side’.Time Management for Academic Impact explores th...

This book is an essential resource for academics managing a large and complex research project. It provides important practical insights into the processes that inform such research projects and delivers insights into the delicate balance between industry, stakeholder and academic needs. It gives practical advice about developing relationships with diverse partners and colleagues and managing the expectations of the various parties involved and on avoiding pitfalls. This book uses examples...

When local television news anchor Katherine Kyle is thrust into the national spotlight, it sets in motion a chain of events that will change her life forever. Jamison “Jay” Parker is an intensely career-driven Time magazine reporter. The first time she saw Kate, she fell in love. The last time she saw her, Kate was rescuing her. That was five years ago, and she never expected to see her again. Then circumstances and an assignment bring them back together. Kate and Jay’s li...

Lynn Ames’s first novel, The Price of Fame, has been called “absorbing and filled with romance” (Lori L. Lake, Midwest Book Review).  Now Ames is back with the second installment in the lives of Katherine Kyle and Jamison Parker. Kate and Jay want nothing more than to focus on their love. But as Kate settles into a new profession, she and Jay are caught in the middle of a deadly scheme and find themselves pawns in a larger game in which the stakes are nothing less tha...

Lynn Ames, author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed novels The Price of Fame and The Cost of Commitment, is back with The Value of Valor, the third book in the celebrated Kate & Jay series.   Katherine Kyle is the press secretary to the president of the United States. Her lover, Jamison Parker, is a respected writer for Time magazine. Separated by unthinkable tragedy, the tw...

Kelsey Hawk, agent spécial du FBI, âgée de 30 ans, est mutée dans une petite ville du Dakota du Nord, au paysage désolé et impitoyable (où elle avait juré de ne jamais retourner), lorsque, dans une zone isolée, un corps est retrouvé mort de froid. Kelsey, ne disposant que de peu d'indices, soupçonne un acte criminel et se lance dans un jeu mortel du chat et de la souris. Elle se rend vite compte qu'elle est peut-être en train de tomber dans le piège d'un tueur...« Voilà un excellen...

Nearly three decades ago, Katherine Kyle and Jamison Parker saved the life of the President of the United States, in the process exposing an exceedingly dangerous, powerful shadow organization. The entire episode came at great personal cost and forever changed the trajectory of the couple’s lives. Now at the peak of her career as one of the preeminent novelists of the day, Jay is finally ready to put the past to rest in a fictional treatment...until powerful government forces inter...

Ma'ame Pelagie is a short story by Kate Chopin, an American author who is regarded as one of the pioneers of feminist literature. Her stories deal often with issues of sex, race and gender and her novel The Awakening was considered to be immoral because it dealt with female sexuality in a forthright manner.In addition to the story, this ebook contains a short biography of Chopin and a selected bibliography of books by and about her.

In “Ma’ame Pelagie”, two women inhabit the ruins of their coastal Louisiana plantation, hoarding their pennies so they can restore it to its pre-Civil war glory. Ma’am Pelagie and her younger sister, Pauline sip coffee on the veranda and share stories about the house’s glorious past and their own narrow escape from danger during the war. When their niece arrives from the city for a visit, the sisters are compelled to make a hard choice about the once proud Valmet estate.

Katherine O'Flaherty was born on the 8th February 1850 in St Louis, Missouri to parents of French and Irish descent.At age 5, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Academy and, apart from a 2 year period at home when her father died, remained there until graduating in 1868. Whilst there she began writing and became an avid reader of almost anything that crossed her path.Kate married Oscar Chopin in 1870 and the couple moved to New Orleans, and later to the rural setting of Clout...

Cet enregistrement a été produit numériquement par Kate Bold, en utilisant une version synthétisée de la voix d’un narrateur sous licence.Kelsey Hawk, agent spécial du FBI, âgée de 30 ans, est mutée dans une petite ville du Dakota du Nord, au paysage désolé et impitoyable (où elle avait juré de ne jamais retourner), lorsque, dans une zone isolée, un corps est retrouvé mort de froid. Kelsey, ne disposant que de peu d'indices, soupçonne un acte criminel et se lance dans un jeu mortel du chat...