Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! COLTON 911: IN HOT PURSUIT (A Colton 911: Grand Rapids novel) by Geri Krotow Army paralegal Vikki Colton returns to Grand Rapids to investigate a suspicious death and must work with the suspect’s half brother, MP sergeant Flynn Cruz-Street. When attraction flares and they’re both in a killer’s sights, can she trust that Flynn isn’t protecting his mad-scientist sibling? COLTON CHRISTMAS CONSPIRACY (A Coltons of Kansas novel) by Lisa Childs Neil Colton and Elise Willis were once partners in everything: a law practice and a marriage. Now Elise is the mayor of Braxville—and a one-night stand has left her pregnant with Neil’s child. When someone targets both of them in an explosion, it’s up the them to narrow down the long list of suspects to protect their reunited family. THE COWBOY’S TARGETED BRIDE (A Cowboys of Holiday Ranch novel) by New York Times bestselling author Carla Cassidy They both had ulterior motives to marry. Jerod Steen wanted a family and Lily Kidwell struggled to save her ranch. When they agree to a marriage of convenience, neither expects to find love. But after their walk down the aisle, betrayal lurks at the Holiday Ranch and it’s about to turn deadly… AGENT’S MOUNTAIN RESCUE (A Wyoming Nights novel) by Jennifer D. Bokal When a lead points security agency Rocky Mountain Justice in the direction of a posh resort in the hunt for a serial killer, operative and single dad Liam Alexander and child psychologist Holly Jacobs work together to hunt the huntress, eventually posing as a family to trap their prey. But as their plan backfires, Liam will do anything to save his child—and the woman he loves.
A single dad starting over.Is this his second chance at love? Widowed former Green Beret Jaxon Pruitt comes home to face his toughest battle: reconnecting with his toddler son. He also makes an unwitting enemy of childhood friend Darcy Parks when he takes over the kayak shop Darcy hoped to buy! For little Brody’s sake, she’ll stay until summer’s end. But could a growing connection turn their temporary truce into an unexpected forever?
In New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas's Dream Lake, readers well enter the world of Friday Harbor, an enchanting town in the Pacific Northwest where things are not quite as they seem and where true love might just have a ghost of a chance... They say that opposites attract. But what happens when one of them has been devastated by betrayal and the other is so damaged and jaded that his heart is made of stone? Alex Nolan is about as bitter and cynical as they come. One of three Nolan brothers who call Friday Harbor home, he's nothing like Sam or Mark. They actually believe in love; they think the risk of pain is worth the chance of happiness. But Alex battles his demons with the help of a whiskey bottle, and he lives in his own private hell. And then, a ghost shows up. Only Alex can see him. Has Alex finally crossed over the threshold to insanity? Zoë Hoffman is as gentle and romantic as they come. When she meets the startlingly gorgeous Alex Nolan, all her instincts tell her to run. Even Alex tells her to run. But something in him calls to Zoë, and she forces him to take a look at his life with a clear eye and to open his mind to the possibility that love isn't for the foolish. The ghost has been existing in the half-light of this world for decades. He doesn't know who he is, or why he is stuck in the Nolans' Victorian house. All he knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoë hold the key to unlocking a mystery that keeps him trapped here. Zoë and Alex are oil and water, fire and ice, sunshine and shadow. But sometimes it takes only a glimmer of light to chase away the dark, and sometimes love can reach beyond time, space, and reason to take hold of hearts that yearn for it...
Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. THE WEDDING QUILT BRIDE Brides of Lost Creek Marta Perry Widowed single mom Rebecca Mast returns to her Amish community hoping to open a quilt shop. She accepts carpenter Daniel King’s offer of assistance—but she isn’t prepared for the bond he forms with her son. Will getting closer expose her secret—or reveal the love she has in her heart for her long-ago friend? THE RANCHER’S SECRET CHILD Bluebonnet Springs Brenda Minton Marcus Palermo’s simple life gets complicated when he meets the son he never knew he had—and his beautiful guardian. Lissa Hart thought she’d only stick around long enough to aid Marcus in becoming a dad—but could her happily-ever-after lie with the little boy and the rugged rancher? HOMETOWN REUNION Lisa Carter Returning home, widowed former Green Beret Jaxon Pruitt is trying to put down roots and reconnect with his son. Though he took over the kayak shop his childhood friend Darcy Parks had been saving for, she shows him how to bond with little Brody—and finds herself wishing to stay with them forever.
Alex has planned and executed her life with laser focus since she first met her future husband at the play-doh table on the first day of kindergarten. They have a terrific life, a gorgeous house on the bay, and fantastic careers they love. There's only one problem: Alex's husband has a secret. A big one. Now, Alex’s perfectly planned life has completely fallen apart, her biological clock is starting to feel like the timer on a nuclear device, and she finds herself drooling over her completely-dreamy-but-definitely-off-limits client, a star chef opening a hot new restaurant. Armed with dating guidance from her oddball collection of advisers—including her gay ex-husband, a foul-mouthed political consultant, a perkily masochistic yogi, and a pot-smoking octogenarian—Alex navigates the booby-trapped world of modern dating, in her search for a second chance at love.
Irish step dance takes a deadly turn in this Celtic cozy series debut, perfect for fans of Carlene O’Connor and Paige Shelton. Single-mom and police chief’s daughter Kate Buckley is all about family. After she receives an urgent text from her younger sister Colleen, she puts her life on hold and rushes to her Irish-themed hometown of Shamrock, Massachusetts, where her family owns and operates a bed and breakfast. With her two daughters in tow, she’s ready to fight if it means she can help her charming but hapless sibling. When they arrive, Colleen claims it was all a misunderstanding. But everything changes in an Irish minute when Colleen’s best friend, Deirdre, a dance show star, is found dead in the parish hall. With the discovery of a possible witness, a chilling motive, and a wee bit of incriminating evidence, Colleen quickly becomes a person of interest in Deirdre’s murder. Convinced her sister isn't a killer, Kate is determined to clear Colleen’s name. As Kate investigates, Colleen takes charge of Shamrock’s popular Irish dance show in honor of her late friend—with disastrous results. With the St. Patrick’s Week festivities in full swing, Kate must catch the killer before the celebrations are ruined and her sister’s Irish luck runs out.
Using the psychological concept called theory of mind, Lisa Zunshine explores the appeal of movies, novels, paintings, musicals, and reality television. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL We live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each other to think we know, and what we would dearly love to know but don't. Cognitive scientists have a special term for the evolved cognitive adaptation that makes us attribute mental states to other people through observation of their body language; they call it theory of mind. Getting Inside Your Head uses research in theory of mind to look at movies, musicals, novels, classic Chinese opera, stand-up comedy, mock-documentaries, photography, and reality television. It follows Pride and Prejudice’s Mr. Darcy as he tries to conceal his anger, Tyler Durden as he lectures a stranger at gunpoint in Fight Club, and Ingrid Bergman as she fakes interest in horse races in Notorious. This engaging book exemplifies the new interdisciplinary field of cognitive cultural studies, demonstrating that collaboration between cognitive science and cultural studies is both exciting and productive.
Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! Protecting Colton's Secret Daughters (A The Coltons of New York novel) By New York Times bestselling author Lisa Childs FBI special agent Cash Colton divorced his wife, Valentina, to keep her away from his dangerous job. But when his latest investigation brings him back to her and their—surprise!—twin toddler daughters, he’ll reckon with a serial killer out for vengeance…and protect the family caught in the crosshairs. The Cowboy Next Door (A The Scarecrow Murders novel) By New York Times bestselling author Carla Cassidy Joe Masterson would do anything to keep his young daughter safe, even give up his life and identity. But keeping his beautiful neighbor Lizzy Maxwell in the dark about his witness protection status threatens their fledgling attraction. Until the criminal he sent to jail escapes and vows retribution… Deadly Vegas Escapade (An Honor Bound novel) By USA TODAY bestselling author Anna J. Stewart With no memory of his identity or past, army investigator Riordan Malloy must rely on the kind woman who rescued him from a sinking car. But Darcy Ford isn’t sure if the handsome man she’s helping—and falling in love with—is on the run from danger…or a murderer on the run from the law. Down to the Wire (A The Touré Security Group novel) By Patricia Sargeant Not many people get the jump on cybersecurity expert Malachi Touré, but Dr. Grace Blackwell isn’t a run-of-the-mill hacker. She’s convinced Malachi’s latest client stole her valuable research. He’ll help the beautiful researcher uncover the truth…and spend passionate nights in her arms. But is Grace the victim…or the villain?
Harlequin® Intrigue brings you three new edge-of-your-seat romances for one great price, available now! This Intrigue box set includes Reining in Justice by USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen, Kansas City Cover-Up by USA TODAY bestselling author Julie Miller and Agent Undercover by Lisa Childs. Catch a thrill with 6 new edge-of-your-seat romances every month from Harlequin® Intrigue!
Teaching Diversity in Rural Schools: Attaining Understanding, Tolerance, and Respect Through Young Adult Literature aims to assist secondary English Language Arts rural educatorsand students regarding diversity education through the use of rural, small town-themed young adult literature. While appropriate for any rural educator, the Upper Midwestern states (IA, MN, MT, NE, ND, SD, and WY) are focused on because they are unique in their predominantly White residents, with few to no racial and cultural minorities in all locations, large or small. Teaching rural students about minorities and facilitating in developing understanding, tolerance, and respect toward those different from oneself is difficult when absent from communities and schools. However, this book helps in reaching these goals through the use of titles that consider specific topics of cultural and racial minorities, such as those who are LGBTQ+, undocumented, homeless, having exceptionalities, managing grief/loss, and more. Also addressed are rural communities and schools, the purpose and importance of young adult literature, and locating quality rural, small town-themed novels. Suggestions for using this literature, activities, discussion topics, and recommended titles are also provided.
Lisa Rowe Fraustino's dramatic tale of the Salem witch trials is back in print with a beautiful new cover design!Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers begin to realize that Deliverance is a clever girl who possesses the skills to read and write, the whispered accusations begin. Suddenly she has more to worry about than just the wrath of her uncle, her ill sister, and the fate of the other women in town. Within the pages of her diary, Deliverance captures the panic, terror, suspicion, and hysteria that swept through Salem Village during one of the most infamous eras in American history.
Dieses Lehrbuch entwickelt die Grundprinzipien der Umwelttechnik: Wasser- und Abwasserbehandlung, Luftreinhaltung und die Entsorgung von Gefahrstoffen werden ausgewogen dargestellt und anhand zahlreicher realitätsnaher Beispiele in die Praxis umgesetzt. Die Studenten lernen, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse im ingenieurtechnischen Alltag sinnvoll anzuwenden. (12/00)
As a hotel event planner at one of Crystal Cove's beach resorts, Meredith Prichard dreads the 1989 class reunion booked in Crystal Cove. Rumor has it Griffin Cole, the man who'd broken her heart by breaking their engagement to fight for his country during the Gulf War, will be there. The handsome, fun-loving man she'd fallen head over heels in love with in high school was now a decorated Colonel in the Air Force. Faced with the past and all the memories of their love, Meredith now questions returning to Crystal Cove when Griffin forces her to admit the love still between them and the past decision Meredith made to forget him that could destroy that love.
In this fresh and often playful interdisciplinary study, Lisa Zunshine presents a fluid discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of “strange” literary phenomena. From Short Circuit to I, Robot, from The Parent Trap to Big Business, fantastic tales of rebellious robots, animated artifacts, and twins mistaken for each other are a permanent fixture in popular culture and have been since antiquity. Why do these strange concepts captivate the human imagination so thoroughly? Zunshine explores how cognitive science, specifically its ideas of essentialism and functionalism, combined with historical and cultural analysis, can help us understand why we find such literary phenomena so fascinating. Drawing from research by such cognitive evolutionary anthropologists and psychologists as Scott Atran, Paul Bloom, Pascal Boyer, and Susan A. Gelman, Zunshine examines the cognitive origins of the distinction between essence and function and how unexpected tensions between these two concepts are brought into play in fictional narratives. Discussing motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, science fiction’s use of robots, cyborgs, and androids, and nonsense poetry and surrealist art, she reveals the range and power of key concepts from science in literary interpretation and provides insight into how cognitive-evolutionary research on essentialism can be used to study fiction as well as everyday strange concepts.
Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson s Clarissa, Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment, and Austen s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's Lolita, and Hammett s The Maltese Falcon. Zunshine's surprising new interpretations of well-known literary texts and popular cultural representations constantly prod her readers to rethink their own interest in fictional narrative. Written for a general audience, this study provides a jargon-free introduction to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field known as cognitive approaches to literature and culture.
In this stunning novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas one of the realm’s most powerful men meets his match-in his lovely, innocent new wife. A ruthless tycoon Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. And from the moment he meets the shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, he is determined to possess her. If he must take her virtue to ensure she marries him, so much the better . . . A sheltered beauty Helen has had little contact with the glittering, cynical world of London society. Yet Rhys’s determined seduction awakens an intense mutual passion. Helen’s gentle upbringing belies a stubborn conviction that only she can tame her unruly husband. As Rhys’s enemies conspire against them, Helen must trust him with her darkest secret. The risks are unthinkable . . . the reward, a lifetime of incomparable bliss. And it all begins with… Marrying Mr. Winterborne
An anonymous, old-fashioned love note -- a literature student's homework assignment -- has been misplaced by its author. Jason finds the love note and mistakenly believes his new employee, Nicole, is hopelessly infatuated with him. When Zak finds the note on his tool cart at the garage, he's convinced Ellen's snobby friends and wealthy parents no longer pose an obstacle and plots an all-out strategy to win her heart. A matchmaking sister uses the note to ignite romance between Samantha and friend Garrett. And the note causes a collision of mistaken identity for Callie and Darryl and results in true love for two lonely souls.
Here, in one encyclopedic volume, are the best scrapbook page ideas and tips published by Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Magazine since its inception--plus 60 all-new scrapbook designs that have never appeared in print! Book jacket.
Explaining the exceedingly driven, highly promiscuous behavior of dominant men in all walks of life--the movers, makers, shakers and takers--The Walrus Theory looks at these typically high-net-worth individuals and offers advice on both the dangers and the opportunities of winning the Walrus.
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