TempestHe's rude, mean, and looks at me like he hates me.And I've only just stepped into his house.Spending a year of travelling through impoverished places, trying to help people, should make handling Sargent Wolf—yes that's his name—a piece of cake.But even Maddox can't deny that his father is an absolute douche. I'm only here for six months maximum before I get my arse back on the road.I'll just have to stay out of his way, and never suggest that he le...

This is a book about the discovery of macroeconomic ideas and concepts long before the term macroeconomics had been coined. The cast of authors varies from doctors and physicians (Sir William Petty and François Quesnay), to philosophers (David Hume and Adam Smith), to bankers (Richard Cantillon and Henry Thornton) to Prime Ministers of France (John Law and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot). These authors had very rich and varied careers and the book invites readers to imagine specific moments in...

Rose Sinclair counts through life in sixes. It's how she gets by when she's not in the company of her best friend and Tourette's sufferer, Laurie, or focusing on her busy work schedule as the personal assistant and office manager for the extremely attractive and extremely married, Ezra Conti.Everything has a place and Rose likes it that way. It must be that way.But even her quirks aren't enough to keep her in her lane and away from temptation. No matter how hard she tries to ...

This book provides a unique overview of oncology nursing care in a new health environment, one in which oncology nurses play an increasingly important role. In this regard, it addresses not only the biomedical aspects of new drugs but also the challenges they pose in day-to-day nursing practice. It also highlights the new skills that oncology nurses will need to develop in light of the changing care setting.Drawing on evidence-based practice in Europe and around the globe, the book...

Alisha MacAleer left the spy game months ago to settle into a normal life, but when treacherous, brilliant Brandon Parker appears on her doorstep, Alisha is forced to draw on old skills and contacts to give him the help he needs. His latest artificial intelligence project has taken an exponential leap toward self-awareness, and every agency and organization on the planet wants a piece of it. Furthermore, they don't care who they go through to get it—even if that includes Alisha's family.

Fantasia on the life and works of W.B. Yeats set as a dream during his last days in the south of France. Captures the symbols, the quest for magic, the Celtic folklore and the tremendous creative drive of the greatest Irish poet in his twilight years. All this in a story of a young man's quest to rescue his girl transformed into a swan, a journey full of perils and trials. The worst enemy is time. Can all this be truly complete before the dreamer awakes?

The Christmas Miracle comes to Dracula's Castle via a newly installed cable dish. A crisis of fear, dissatisfaction and dwindling finances lead to a special haunting of the old demon himself. Three Night Visitors using the large TV screen show Vlad Dracul his Christmas past, present and future, but can the Christmas spirit itself prevail? An incredible and scandalous challenge, a war of mismatched stereotypes, comedy, and satire that would have both Dickens and Stoker clutching crucifixes ...

Small town, small-minded people, small expectations, and big A-holes.Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense, not. Already she hates it despite its beautiful landscape.Between riding her dirt bike through the sacred lands of the natives, plotting against those she meets, and holding greasy truckers at gunpoint, Lilith makes no time for love or friendship. Forever the walking myste...

Since 1990 Roland Murphy's Tree of Life has been a standard introduction to the wisdom literature of the Bible. Now The Tree of Life is available in a third edition, complete with a new preface by the author and a special supplement that surveys the latest developments in wisdom research.This superb study thoroughly explores the wisdom writings of the Bible, interpreting this literature in a way that illumines the development of Israel's search for wisdom throughou...

A light-hearted old style OZ book with an ocean of humor and rich plot. Dorothy is swept from the Emerald City along with stolen flowers into a spiral rainbow sea of petals. She is rescued by an odd duck, Captain Tuckerdown Bufflehead Drake III, and his crew, Motley and Powwy the Parrot. Set on a course to find the source of ancient magic by Queen Belizabuzz of the Undersea Hive, they are accompanied by beople drones and a Mingwing Hummer. Island adventures, more transformed characters, in...

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE—IF IT DOESN’T KILL YOU FIRSTLara Jansen is a truthseeker, gifted—or cursed—with the magical ability to tell honesty from lies. Once she was a tailor in Boston, but now she has crossed from Earth to the Barrow-lands, a Faerie world embroiled in a bloody civil war between Seelie and Unseelie. Armed with an enchanted and malevolent staff which seeks to bend her to its dark will, and thrust into a deadly realm where it’s hard to distinguish friend from foe, ...

This "riveting account of one of history's greatest blunders" chronicles Russia's tragic mishandling of Nazi Germany's invasion during WWII (William L. O'Neill, The New Leader).On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa was launched against Russia. Within days, the invading army had taken hundreds of thousands of Soviet captives while the Luftwaffe bombed a number of Russian cities, including Minsk. Though accurate intelligence about the plan ha...