Questions can be dangerous. . .Seventeen-year-old Alysse's senior year was stressful enough with exams, a harpy teacher, and a long time crush falling for her best friend Tori. Then she starts questioning what she's taught about the enemy living right outside the city walls. Alysse soon finds herself dealing with guerillas, a seismic bomb, and a genocidal plot that could spark a war. Alysse must decide who to trust as she and her friend Pete ask questions everyone ...

The Rolling Stones perform a free concert in London's Hyde Park. Flying high on grass and LSD, Peter, Barnard, Bree, and Tristan rock along with nearly a quarter million people as The Stones make history. With them is Pandora, the once-famous fashion model whose downward spiral into addiction made international headlines, now clinging desperately to the belief that only a power greater than herself can restore her to sanity.After the concert, these five fr...

How much would you suffer to save the ones you love?After rescuing her brother, Alysse and her family are on the run. Before they can complete their escape, an attack separates them. Alysse is captured by the very people who were supposed to protect her. Treated and tortured like an enemy, Alysse must win over her captors, or Chrome wins and all of Oasis could pay the price."A fun and action-filled dystopian YA novel that packs a punch! 'If you enj...

Do you believe in fairies?For thousands of years they have lived with us in our fables and in our forests. They have crept from beneath beds to frighten our children and tormented our travelers unmercifully on the road at dusk. They have infested our gardens and spoiled the milk in our barns and smashed the crockery in our kitchens. They have bewitched and bedeviled young lovers and drugged us and caused our sleep to be filled with fantastic dreams.In the summer of 1921, ph...

Tensions between religious freedom and equality law are newly strained in America. As lawmakers work to protect LGBT citizens and women seeking reproductive freedom, religious traditionalists assert their right to dissent from what they see as a new liberal orthodoxy. Some religious advocates are going further and expressing skepticism that egalitarianism can be defended with reasons at all. Legal experts have not offered a satisfying response—until now.Nelson Tebbe argues that the...

Conflicts involving religion and equality have been salient in many countries in recent years. Although such conflicts are far from new, they have taken new forms. This novelty is partly due to the rise of conservative populism and the way it correlates with religious affiliation, and partly due to local specificity. Whatever the cause, courts and lawmakers have developed new approaches to free exercise as clashes have shifted and intensified. And experts - in law, politics, religion, and ...

Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented is a comprehensive and meticulously researched work by William Tebb, first published in the late 19th century, that delves into the chilling and often overlooked subject of premature burial—the accidental interment of individuals who are not truly dead. Drawing upon a vast array of documented cases, medical reports, and historical accounts, the book exposes the alarming frequency with which people have been mistakenly declared dead and subsequen...

The essays selected for this volume address topics at the intersection of religion and equality law, including discrimination against religion, discrimination by religious actors and discrimination in favor of religious groups and traditions. The introduction provides a conceptual guide to these types of inequality - which are often misunderstood or conflated - and it offers an analysis of different species of discrimination within each broad category. Each section of the volume contains b...

Donald V. “Doc” Tebbe rolled into the town of Fort Recovery, Ohio, in June 1962 ready to get work as a veterinarian. More than fifty years later, he’s still practicing his craft. It’s a career he knew he’d embark on as a young boy, when his prized cow, Shirley, suffered complications while giving birth. He watched on in horror from a hay chute as the veterinarian, Dr. Steinke, began cutting off the calf’s legs, head, and ribs, yelling to no one in particular, “I hate to do this, but it’s o...

“The Art Of Bobbin Lace” is a detailed guide to producing lace, a decorative, open-work fabric formed by looping, interlacing, braiding or twisting threads of various fibres. This vintage guide contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of as much use to needlework enthusiasts today as when first published, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “Important Hints”, “The Art Of Bobbin Lace”, “Preparing The Bobbins”, “The ...

This book, based on a recent German publication, offers an overview of basic data and recent developments in the groundbreaking field of molecular allergology. It comprehensively explores the origin and structure of single allergen molecules ("components") and their utility in improving the management of type I, IgE-mediated allergic reactions and disorders like allergic respiratory diseases, food allergies, and anaphylaxis.Highly specific testing, called component-resolved diagnos...

Surviving a recent breakup and the impending anniversary of her parents’ unsolved murder, Perla Fae resists the advances of a sexy as hell, bad boy billionaire in an effort to protect her heart.Jax Maddox - wealthy, powerful, and a force to be reckoned with - has set his sights on the elusive beauty, but it’s not her heart he’s after. Or is it?Note: Previous title of this book was Tragedy and Desire.