The story is set in the United States during the late 18th century and follows the experiences of Constantia Dudley, a young woman who faces a series of challenges and dangers after her father's financial ruin and subsequent death. Orphaned and destitute, Constantia becomes the central figure around whom the novel's events unfold.Constantia's life takes a dramatic turn when she encounters Ormond, a mysterious and charismatic figure with a complex and morally ambiguous character. Ormond bec...

The story is set in the United States during the late 18th century and follows the experiences of Constantia Dudley, a young woman who faces a series of challenges and dangers after her father's financial ruin and subsequent death. Orphaned and destitute, Constantia becomes the central figure around whom the novel's events unfold.Constantia's life takes a dramatic turn when she encounters Ormond, a mysterious and charismatic figure with a complex and morally ambiguous character. Ormond bec...

The story is set in the United States during the late 18th century and follows the experiences of Constantia Dudley, a young woman who faces a series of challenges and dangers after her father's financial ruin and subsequent death. Orphaned and destitute, Constantia becomes the central figure around whom the novel's events unfold.Constantia's life takes a dramatic turn when she encounters Ormond, a mysterious and charismatic figure with a complex and morally ambiguous character. Ormond bec...

Years of bad jobs have the crew of The Vaughn on the verge of destitution. Things finally seem to be turning around when they find a system of untapped resources ready to mine. The city-sized ship nestles upon the sickly yellow surface of a desolate world, and far below the planet's crust, something shudders in anticipation at their arrival.Now Aki is caught in the midst of a cataclysmic encounter with an alien terror. He has to escape, has to find his friends, a route to safety th...

"Quick Reference to Child and Adolescent Forensics most assuredly needs to have a prominent place in the library of any forensic nurse or health professional and have very worn pages from its frequent use."--On the Edge, Newsletter of the International Association of Forensic Nurses"Muscari and Brown have written a great reference work for anyone who works with either child or teen victims or perpetrators of violent crime...Highly recommended."...

2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Gerontologic Nursing!"[This book] is a wonderful guide to adult and elder forensics, and an important reference for all health care providers who care for adults and the elderely...Highly recommended."--CHOICE"It's about time this book was written! While excellent instructional texts exist, this book fills a niche for the nonspecialty health professional encountering victims of viol...

Empower, Innovate, and Lead Change—Essential Competencies for Modern Nurse Leaders.About This TextAn acclaimed, interprofessional roadmap for translating evidence into practice in clinical and nonclinical settings. The fourth edition guides you from planning through implementation, evaluation, and dissemination—serving both as a scaffold for the DNP project and a practical resource for improving outcomes. Awarded 2nd place in the 2024 A...

First contact didn’t go as planned…Time Gate 8, one of humanity’s portals between the stars, has been overrun by a mysterious alien intelligence, and the planet Luddeccea is now cut off.Haunted by those she left behind, Commander Noa Sato is on a desperate mission to save her homeworld. Navigating the ancient Ark, she seeks a hidden gate that will transport her ship to Earth and the Galactic Fleet. But the Luddeccean system harbors dangers, and so does her ...

The day of reckoning is coming …Commander Noa Sato has almost reached the Kannukah Cloud. Within hours her crew may be able to reach Sol System through a hidden time gate. If they make it, she and her crew won’t just save their own lives--they’ll save millions from genocide at the hands of Luddeccean fanatics.But the Luddeccean "fanatics" may not be as mad as Noa believes.If the Ark reaches Sol, Professor James Sinclair will be revealed as the impos...

Commander Noa Sato doesn’t believe in aliens. She’s wrong.Imprisoned on her home planet, accused of aiding an alien invasion, Noa witnesses the beginning of a genocide—however, the murderers are not aliens, but her own people. Launching a daring attempt to reach the Galactic Fleet, she makes an unlikely ally in stranded professor, James Sinclair.But James is not all that he seems.James is not the man he once was. He has technological augments that g...

Can a sci fi story alter the course of something ponderous, like the space program? Perhaps. "Tank Farm Dynamo" sure tried! What if we found the nerve, the spirit and daring to use every resource - including those that NASA simply threw away? An unabashedly old-fashioned hard SF story with science and technology as central, problem-solving players... plus a real twist.

Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this collection of stories, available in ebook for the first time!Baxter's future history, known as the Xeelee sequence, is an exemplar of the form: it comprises his first four novels - Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux and Ring - and these marvellous linked stories, as well as those in the new collection XEELEE: ENDURANCE.Contains 21 short stories, all set in the XEELE...