New Atlanita, #1Both danger and sex are inescapable in the Amber Zone.Jaci Harmon was born a Sapphire, but after she's summoned to receive her final designation, the testing reveals she carries a gene slated for eradication. Within a day, she's sterilized and dumped in the Amber Zone, where the damaged are corralled away from the rest of New Atlanta. Scared and alone, Jaci would rather die than face her future as an Amber.Born in the Amber Zone, Xander Dimos is a pr...

BDSM never gets old.Before kids and the responsibility of life, Levi and I shared a spontaneous, erotic, and deliciously deviant marriage. Years transformed what we had into something comfortable and worn. It hurts me to think his desire for me has cooled. I miss that look of his. Slightly evil and totally hot, like he wanted to devour me. Haven't seen it in ages.When I first married Mia, she submitted to every one of my erotic needs. Then came the children. With little com...

[Menage Amour: Erotic Contemporary Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, light BDSM] Survival…that's all Julia was hoping for when she set off alone. The EMP left nothing working, and civilization crumbled rapidly. Her plan to flee to safety failed and she lay dying when Arden found her. He brought her home and saved her life. Julia has no choice but to wait out the winter with sweet, sexy Arden and his seductive best friend, Ben. She tries to ignore the sexual tension and constant temptation of ...

They’ll escape New Atlanta or die trying.Brave, beautiful, and not easily controlled—even within a dictatorship—Laila Lewis has finally attained the prestige of an Emerald designation. Now only one thing is keeping her from her life’s goal of retrieving the Declaration of Independence and other priceless artifacts from the wild unknown of the Onyx Zone: the six weeks of training necessary to ensure her survival outside the city walls. But she won’t be going it alon...

New Atlantia, #2Torn between two zones. Torn between two men.Patrick O'Connor is a soldier in the army that keeps the Zones separated. Though he does his duty, he is one of many who do not agree with how the Gov is operating. His twin is ripped from the family and dumped in the Amber Zone, but Patrick finds a way to join the Resistance to reconnect with his brother. Once he's in the Zone, Jordan Ford runs straight into his arms. Instead of arresting her for setting off a bo...

[Menage Amour: Erotic Menage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M, bondage, spanking, HEA] Grace Hunter is trained in survival and doesn't need anyone to protect her from the anarchy that results after the EMP. But still, she is stuck confined in an underground shelter with three menSteven "Sarge" Connelley, Van Goodwin, and Luke Eversall totally different, all powerfully sexy. Together, the group faces the threats of the deadly city above ground. Individually, each man succeeds in seducing her. And ...

Das neue Standardwerk über Mafia, Syndikate, Gangs und KartelleDie organisierte Kriminalität ist ein weltweites Milliardengeschäft. Die internationalen Aktivitäten der Kartelle als Drogenhändler, Waffenschieber, Kapitalanlagebetrüger, als Geldwäscher oder Betreiber von Prostitutionsringen sind weitreichend. Von den zuständigen Behörden sind sie kaum zu fassen. Waren die kriminellen Machenschaften zunächst noch sehr lokal ausgerichtet, entwickelten sich nach dem 2. ...

As societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants: Seen but Not Heard addresses this lapse by presenting analyses of child refugees and migrants. This comprehensive overview considers the challenges facing young migrants and refugees through richly varied academic perspec...

Generosity Stories to Touch Your Heart and Lift Your SpiritsGratitude and generosity go hand in hand. The more we appreciate our lives, the more we want to give to others. In Radical Generosity, best-selling author M. J. Ryan provides tools for expressing thanks. In a series of short, heart-felt essays, Ryan encourages us all to stop living from what she calls "the ledger sheet mentality" of obligatory gifting and to begin giving from th...

Teaching is an essential skill in becoming a faculty member in any institution of higher education. Yet how is that skill actually acquired by graduate students? Teaching as if Learning Matters collects first-person narratives from graduate students and new PhDs that explore how the skills required to teach at a college level are developed. It examines the key issues that graduate students face as they learn to teach effectively when in fact they are still learning and being taugh...

Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them: Turning the Table examines early draft manuscripts and published poems by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in order to uncover the compositional approaches that they held in common. Both poets not only honed the minutiae of individual poems but also reworked the shape of overall sequences in order to cultivate unique theories of an ars poetica. The book incorporates drafts of their work from Indiana University’s Lilly Library, Emory U...

How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults?The Canadian population is growing older and is reshaping the nation’s economic, social and cultural future. However, the built and social environments of many communities, neighbourhoods and cities have not been designed to help Canadians age well.Bringing together academic research, practitioner reflections and personal narratives from older adults across Canada, this cutting-edge text provides a r...