On the third night, Dara. I know about Aidan. Come to me if you value your life." Dara O'Shea-Neilan stared in disbelief at the muscle-bound stranger as the words left his mouth. A swim teacher based in Oregon, Dara is still getting over the loss of Aidan, her husband, three years ago. She sure didn't count on her forgotten Irish roots popping up so.startlingly. Yet, there that perfect stranger stood, giving her a sizzling once-over. Rowan Mackey. Six-and-a-half feet of fiery-haired Irishman. Mackey insists that Dara is his long-destined lifemate. He wants to take her to Ireland, to visit some.dick-shaped stone. Rowan Mackey sized up the hot, wee package confronting him. Night-dark hair. Chocolate-brown eyes. Killer attitude. A small body that he wanted to explore with his tongue, inch by slow inch. Dara. He liked how her name tasted. She was his Chosen lifemate by the ancient Law, and he was determined to make her his own, the Kanjali way-by mating with her against Lia Fail, the Stone of Destiny, upon the Hill of Tara. But first, he needed to save her life.
Dream Lovers of Gargoyle Castle By Sally Painter As if renovating a crumbling castle isn't enough, Tessa and Amy have to contend with two gargoyle statues that just won't stay in one place. But the dreams at night are erotic bliss. Convinced the dreamy orgasmic encounters with the sexiest bit of tall, dark and delicious to ever utter a Scottish brogue are a product of her sex-starved waking hours, Tessa is shocked to discover that Amy has her own nocturnal visitor. But as Halloween draws near, a time when all things are possible, Tessa discovers what goes bump in the night isn't necessarily all in her dreams.Every Witch Way But Loose By C.S. ChatterlyFor police sergeant Brogan O'Halloran, life is about as simple as it gets in the sleepy English village of Oak Glen. That is, until Halloween night, when a call to investigate a prowler at an abandoned castle leads him to a beautiful witch named Laura Moonwind. Before they can say "enchanted", the castle comes alive and holds them hostage. Brogan and Laura are showered with magic as reality takes a back seat to a bizarre and sensual broom ride into - and beyond - their wildest fantasies.Full Moon in Virgo By Dawn MadiganGypsy witch Aniki Sándor is determined to track down a Sex Magician who's been kidnapping virgins, always on Halloween. Smarting from being turned down for the FBI's Criminal Thaumaturgy Division, she'll prove to the Bureau that they're a Federal Bunch of Idiots for rejecting her!For years, FBI Agent Rick Spade has been after the kidnapper himself. He's more than surprised to discover Aniki working the case. In order to protect her, Rick must teach her sex, discipline and magic-before the kidnapper finds her.And Halloween is just two days away.
Second in the Coopers' Companions series Michelle Cooper has strong standards. Although she's a third owner of Coopers' Companions, a successful male escort service, she never dates any of the escorts. Mixing business with pleasure always leads to a mess. Her convictions are put to the test when two men apply for jobs as escorts. Nathan Turner and Andre D'Amato send her hormones into overdrive. Andre and Nathan have been friends and lovers for years. They love each other, yet both enjoy sex with women. Neither has been interested enough in one woman to pursue her until they meet Michelle. Pursuing Michelle isn't easy. She makes it clear to the two men that she doesn't date any of the escorts. Andre and Nathan want Michelle and come up with a simple solution: she should date both of them. That isn't even a possibility as far as Michelle is concerned. She can't possibly become involved with two men at the same time. Can she?
Book 2 in the series Bloodlust Serge Dumont, vampire latent, has never met a woman who wasn't his for the taking-until he meets Derri Morgan. One look at the sexy, beautiful defense attorney and it's bloodlust at first sight for Serge. Undaunted, and confident of his attraction to the opposite sex, Serge sets out to capture his prize...
Cognitive Psychology: Theory, Process, and Methodology introduces readers to the main topics of study in this exciting field through an engaging presentation of how cognitive processes have been and continue to be studied by researchers. Using a reader-friendly writing style and focusing on methodology, authors Dawn M. McBride and J. Cooper Cutting cover such core content as perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning and problem solving, and cognitive neuroscience. Updates to the Second Edition include a reorganization of long-term memory topics to improve readability, revised pedagogical tools throughout, a refreshed visual program, and additional real-life examples to enhance understanding.
Machine learning is currently one of the most rapidly growing areas of research in computer science. In compiling this volume we have brought together contributions from some of the most prestigious researchers in this field. This book covers the three main learning systems; symbolic learning, neural networks and genetic algorithms as well as providing a tutorial on learning casual influences. Each of the nine chapters is self-contained. Both theoreticians and application scientists/engineers in the broad area of artificial intelligence will find this volume valuable. It also provides a useful sourcebook for Postgraduate since it shows the direction of current research.
The characters you loved in Hot Chocolate are back with more escapades of life in Houston’s wealthy River Oaks. Be sure to check out the new family tree. Lila Mae is in a tizzy over the Chocolate Ball, a huge event that benefits Off the Streets, that rescues homeless dogs and cats. If it weren’t for Julian Gillespie of Event Is King, the Chocolate Ball would have melted. Bernie, the Alcott sisters’ 92-year old father, decides he wants his Bentley back. Joseph’s cousin Chewie is hired as Bernie’s new chauffeur. Bambi is so happy to finally be expecting a child. However, Dorothea is at war with the world over being pregnant at 55. No one is exempt, especially Henry, her husband who she now refers to as “Mr. Responsible”. Suzanne and Gray show up on Zoe and Walter’s doorstep. She’s left Paul and wants Walter to handle the divorce. Cissy has dumped Georgio, the tattoo artist, to Madge’s delight. Mage wants a pedigreed husband for her granddaughter and Roger Bainsworth III, has just the right family background. Amelia makes a grocery run. When she returns home, her kitchen door is slightly ajar. She toes the door open. Three things catch her attention: a new vase of flowers, her marble rolling pin covered with blood… and a dead body on her kitchen floor. Amelia freezes – is there a murderer still in the house? She hurries outside. She slips back inside and snaps a picture. Then she calls Detective Chance Walker, Lila Mae and finally… 9-1-1. Once again, Tilly is questioned. She wants to know why everyone thinks she runs around killing people! Dorothea is happy that no one is pointing the finger at her. Louie and Scooter’s truce ended in a bad way. * Bernie and Chewie get into a situation that requires Chance bailing them out of jail. * Uncle Tito psychically investigates the murder and helps Amelia overcome her fears. * Loved ones are accused of the murder and the family wrings their hands. Secrets are no longer safe; the family has more shocks to deal with than the San Andreas fault line! One thing stands firm: the Alcott clan puts family first no matter what the outcome of any situation.
Taking medicine just got a whole lot sweeter! Honey is well known for its healing properties. When infused with the additional benefits of medicinal herbs and fruits, it turns natural remedies that can be unpleasant tasting into a treat to take. Author Dawn Combs makes these traditional herbal honeys — called “electuaries” — and has created her own formulations for addressing a variety of common health ailments. With Sweet Remedies, readers will learn her methods for making electuaries in their home kitchens, using recipes that range from Ache Ease and Sleep Well to Heartful and Calcium for Kids, along with instructions for making simple honey infusions and oxymels — a combination of herbs, honey, and vinegar. Additional recipes offer creative ways to get a daily dose of healing by using herbal honeys in no-bake cookies, smoothies, cocktails, candies, and more. For those with access to the hive, Combs includes an overview of other bee-produced products with healing properties — including pollen, propolis, and royal jelly — and offers advice on how to harvest them sustainably.
In a world that doesn’t understand or want to talk much about grief, losing a sibling changes someone forever. Grieving siblings often feel very alone, as much of the focus and support is geared toward their parents. With limited vocabulary to express grief, people can be left with the feeling that a piece of them has died too.
In 2004, clinical psychologist, Dawn DiRaimondo, suddenly lost her 22-year-old brother, Michael, who was serving as a flight medic in Iraq when his helicopter was shot down. This life-altering event compelled Dr. DiRaimondo to build a practice specializing in helping her clients through the most difficult of losses: children, young parents, siblings, and spouses. Surviving Sibling Loss interweaves both her story of losing her own brother with clinical insights into the impact of significant grief and loss in one’s life. This book will help surviving siblings feel validated and understood, as well as provide a number of ways to both cope, and honor their sibling. Surviving Sibling Loss is powerful, raw and heartfelt. It’s a must-have resource for anyone who has lost a sibling and for the people in their life—partners, friends, parents, even clinicians—who want to better support them.
Some things are permanent. Indelible. And they cannot be changed back. Joy Malone learns this the night she sees a stranger with all-black eyes across a crowded room—right before the mystery boy tries to cut out her eye. Instead, the wound accidentally marks her as property of Indelible Ink, and this dangerous mistake thrusts Joy into an incomprehensible world—a world of monsters at the window, glowing girls on the doorstep and a life that will never be the same. Now, Joy must pretend to be Ink's chosen one—his helper, his love, his something for the foreseeable future…and failure to be convincing means a painful death for them both. Swept into a world of monsters, illusion, immortal honor and revenge, Joy discovers that sometimes, there are no mistakes. Somewhere between reality and myth lies…
Catholic social teaching guides us in how we are to live the Gospel in today’s world. Liturgy forms us in these teachings and sends us out into the world to give witness to the Gospel. Organized by the seven themes of Catholic social teaching as developed by the United States bishops, this resource explores the intimate connection between liturgy and Catholic social teaching. It provides insights for parish teams on how Catholics might better live what it is we celebrate each time we gather to worship God and express more fully, consciously, and actively what it means to be in right relationship with God and the world. With questions for discussion and reflection following each thematic chapter, worship teams, parish councils, and peace and justice committees will be able to evaluate and improve parish liturgical practices and ministerial outreach as rooted in Catholic social teaching. With penitential services organized by each of the seven themes, this resource also provides parishioners with the means to examine their own consciences, make acts of reparation, and resolve to be more committed to following the teachings of the Church. Liturgy and Catholic Social Teaching is sure to help build a world that more closely reflects the love and mercy, justice, and peace of God. The prayer services found in this book may also be downloaded as a PDF. Additional questions for discussion are also provided online for young adults.
Some students are just not comfortable with sharing intimate details about their thoughts, feelings, and lives— at least, not with others in a class or group. Unjournaling, Second Edition is brimming with playful writing prompts that are entirely impersonal, easing the way for hesitant writers while still offering creative challenges for those who are more experienced. This edition updates existing prompts while introducing 50 brand new ones. It includes sample responses— a helpful tool for anyone who gets stuck with a topic and wants to see how it can be done! Two examples of the 250 writing prompts include: Somebody’s sitting behind you on the bus. You hear only one side of an odd cell phone conversation, but it is intriguing and alarms you. What do you hear? Igor could hardly wait to get his new special license plates for his car. He paid extra for these plates: BIM- BB1. Explain the meaning behind this very special license plate. Suited for seventh grade to adulthood, Unjournaling is a flexible, varied, interesting, and, most of all, fun approach to creative writing.
This book considers how post-secondary chemistry education can be advanced in developing countries, in order to respond to emerging global, regional, and local needs. Taking Guyana as a case study, it pays particular attention to local challenges facing such territories, including human and financial resource shortages, tension between quality and quantity of graduates, cultural inequalities, unequal access to increasingly important Information and Communication Technology or Technologies (ICTs), and increasing competition from international universities in the developed world. Written by a team with over 70 years in combined teaching experience, it asks whether these challenges can be met and overcome and considers how tertiary chemistry education can better meet the rapidly changing needs of society. The authors examine the status quo of tertiary chemistry education in Guyana against the introductory backdrop of the internal and external stresses on the education system, before exploring selected best practices grounded in a three-pronged model focused on pedagogy, programming, and people. Advancing diversity on each of these levels, the book ultimately shows how this framework can support better learning and teaching, and the development of a better equipped and more diverse Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce. It will appeal to scholars, researchers, graduate students, and tertiary level curriculum developers in chemistry education, interested in an innovative, holistic approach for transforming chemistry teaching that focuses on pedagogical diversity, strategic co-curricular programming, and accommodating diversity and diverse learning styles in the classroom.
Focusing on California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, this travel guide is for dogs (and their friends) who don't want to rough it! Two-page reviews are based on author visits that offer an insider's perspective on pet policies, room decor, amenities, staff attitude, and dog-oriented activities. Extensive appendices.
Featuring comprehensive listings on pet-friendly accommodations, this guide allows travelers to share their vacations with their favorite canine companions.
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