USA Today bestselling author MJ Fields brings you a swoon-worthy, small-town, standalone sports romance that will have you catching feels and eventually fire. She lost all hope, and he found it standing amongst the wildflowers. Phoebe Moving to a new place is not something a girl like me is unfamiliar with. My beat-up old suitcase has more miles than good memories. I have long since given up hope that changing schools will somehow change my life. I just want to blend in and get by until I age out. Alex No one ever told me silence sounds like crushed metal and mournful tears. I lived in that hell for far too long. The day I broke that silence, I realized just how powerful our voices can be and how much those we love need to hear them. My senior year will be different. I’ll be back on the field, playing for those who no longer can. I’ll be living again.
Held captive since birth, I never knew normal. As a child, I took comfort in reading. It was my escape; my only glimpse at what life and love could be like outside the walls that I had been hidden behind. When I was finally freed, the world I entered was something I never could have imagined. Then I meet Harper Abraham, and my heart’s very beat … changes. But, can I?
The Blue Valley series is not your typical love story. It is a journey through one’s past … maybe even a story resembling someone close to you. It’s our story. A walk through hell ended in defeat when Lucas and Tessa decided it’s best to remain friends. A decision made for the betterment of all. But is it possible to walk away when they share a love as deep as theirs? Can they remain friends as Lucas tries to be the man, he realizes he wants to become when he fell in love with Tessa, and Tessa goes through loss, life, and new love? This is love, not a fairy tale. Warning: Highly Emotional! This book contains volatile characters in real-life situations that may be triggers to some readers.
My dreams were always in black and white, once in a while, I'd be gifted something gray. Until her.Then, I broke her. I tore her up. I shattered her. But she was breathing, living, and I knew damn well, she was on the verge of loving, but it couldn't be me.I turned from her for the red white and blue. Because war, destruction, hell even death was more welcome than the possibility of hurting her.I didn't deserve her, and she sure as f*@^ didn't deserve me.
The Blue Valley series is not your typical love story. It is a journey through one’s past … maybe even a story resembling someone close to you. It’s our story. He’s the boy you hate to love, and love to hate. Lucas, the star quarterback, seems to have it all—super star athletic abilities, expensive clothes, cars, and women who will stop at nothing to be his, if only for a night. Tessa is a young woman who lives her life always doing what is right. She tries desperately to hold herself accountable to the demanding expectations of her family, and everyone around her, while remaining virtuous. However, when two worlds collide, sparks fly and ignite in a fiery passion that neither Lucas nor especially Tessa are ready for. A troubled home life is exposed. Past flings fight for attention. Exes wreak havoc. And the odds continue to stack up against them. Will the fire and passion of first love win, or will it destroy them? Warning: Highly Emotional! This book contains volatile characters in real-life situations that may be triggers to some readers. PLEASE NOTE: this series was previously released as The Love series (MJ's very first works) and has been through a complete rewrite, which consists of a change from narrative to first person/ dual POV and forty thousand words worth of new content.
Wrapped In Armor is book two in the highly emotional, steamy story about second chances at life and love. Past secrets have been revealed, yet no questions have been answered. In an instant our lives have irrevocably changed. But one thing remains… love. But is love truly enough?
I let my inhibitions go, and they fell in the wrong place. I didn't know he would be my unraveling. I didn't know he was twenty-five." A single mother often lives by certain rules, and Angela Petrov has made certain to adhere to hers: Mom first, career second, and no man will meet her child unless they will be in her life long-term. However, with her daughter now in college, the company she has worked at for over a decade facing major changes, and no lover in sight, Angela's life has lost all its carefully construed and configured organization. When news that the annual, employee, Labor Day party in the Hamptons will still be held, Angela tries to bail out. However, her best friend and coworker, Autumn, convinces her otherwise. Turns out that, while attempting to enjoy the elite Hampton nightlife with her coworkers, she meets a much-younger, tall, dark, and sexy man who offers her an escape for the long weekend. So, throwing caution to the ocean breeze, she accepts his offer of a true time-out in life, focusing only on time between the sheets with no ... strings attached. What happens when you allow yourself to let go of life's stresses, release inhibitions, and embrace desire? You chase regret. "An exceptionally written novel about a woman with a neglected but golden heart an a man who deserves it. I loved this book for so many reasons, for the message, for the heart, the swoon, but if i had to sum it up in one word, Bass. This book is not just one of my favorites of 2018 but one of my all time favorites." - Kate Stewart- USA Today Best Selling Author of Drive "Cinq a Sept is the romance independent women everywhere have been aching for. Bold, sexy and intriguing, MJ Fields brings her ultimate A-game in this beautiful love story filled with swoon and heat."- Jessica Ruben Author of Rising (Vincent and Eve)
This textbook covers the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics in a modern and unified way, using quantum field theory in the functional-integral approach. The book highlights symmetry aspects in acknowledging that much of the collective behaviors of condensed matter systems at low temperatures emerge above a nontrivial ground state, which spontaneously breaks the symmetry.The emphasis is on effective field theories which provide an efficient and powerful description that is valid at long wavelengths and low frequencies. In conjunction with the emphasis on effective theories, a modern approach towards renormalization is taken, whereby a wavenumber cut-off is introduced to set a scale beyond which the microscopic model under consideration ceases to be valid.The unique and innovative character of this presentation, free of historical constraints, allows for a compact and self-contained treatment of the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics.
Dylan and Emily are back in book #2 of this series. This time, someone stole the bases from the baseball field. Can they track down the culprit in time for practice? Dylan and his little sister, Emily, don’t go anywhere without Dylan’s detective kit. Their trusty dog, Theodore, is always by their sides, ready to lend a helping paw. One sunny Saturday, the trio heads to the ball field for some practice, only to discover a puzzling problem—the bases are missing! Determined to crack the case, Dylan, Emily, and Theodore set off on a mission to locate the missing bases. Parents & Educators: For reluctant readers or newly independent readers, books in this series can be read in any order and are packed full of reading-level appropriate text, interesting content, and fast moving plots. This story includes 20+ illustrations to keep readers engaged. The Hunt for Home Plate includes a QR code for educators with downloadable curriculum-aligned ELA/Math activities (22 in total!) that are ideal for 1st or 2nd grade classroom use. ELA activities focus on developing vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills. Each chapter includes a Tier 2 word and discussion prompts. Math activities focus on developing fact fluency.
This textbook covers the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics in a modern and unified way, using quantum field theory in the functional-integral approach. The book highlights symmetry aspects in acknowledging that much of the collective behaviors of condensed matter systems at low temperatures emerge above a nontrivial ground state, which spontaneously breaks the symmetry.The emphasis is on effective field theories which provide an efficient and powerful description that is valid at long wavelengths and low frequencies. In conjunction with the emphasis on effective theories, a modern approach towards renormalization is taken, whereby a wavenumber cut-off is introduced to set a scale beyond which the microscopic model under consideration ceases to be valid.The unique and innovative character of this presentation, free of historical constraints, allows for a compact and self-contained treatment of the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics.
This text is a first attempt to pull together the whole of semiconductor science and technology since 1970 in so far as semiconductor multilayers are concerned. Material, technology, physics and device issues are described with approximately equal emphasis, and form a single coherant point of view. The subject matter is the concern of over half of today's active semiconductor scientists and technologists, the remainder working on bulk semiconductors and devices. It is now routine to design and the prepare semiconductor multilayers at a time, with independent control over the dropping and composition in each layer. In turn these multilayers can be patterned with features that as a small as a few atomic layers in lateral extent. The resulting structures open up many new ares of exciting solid state and quantum physics. They have also led to whole new generations of electronic and optoelectronic devices whose superior performance relates back to the multilayer structures. The principles established in the field have several decades to go, advancing towards the ultimate of materials engineering, the design and preparation of solids atom by atom. The book should appeal equally to physicists, electronic engineers and materials scientists.
Using Computers in History is designed to introduce students to historical computing through practical workshop exercises. With topics such as the pattern of nineteenth century emigration from the UK, the performance of the American and German economies in the 1930s and the Lancashire cotton industry, Lloyd-Jones and Lewis explain and illustrate the possible uses of the computer for the historian. Using Computers in History: * raises awareness of the use of computers as an important tool for the historian * provides a practical introduction to basic computer terminology * includes high quality diagrams of the screen displays which should appear at each stage * examines the use of spreadsheets and how to design and work with them * discusses the different software packages available, concentrating on Microsoft Excel 4 * includes spreadsheet exercises based around a range of historical data sets * explores the use of databases * shows how to construct them * gives guidelines for further study * prompts students to apply the skills they have learnt to a number of examples
The 7th International Workshop in the series LASER INTERACTION AND RELATED PLASMA PHENOMENA continued the high standards established by the earlier meetings in this series. It was organized under the directorship of Heinrich Hora and George H. Miley at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, with Fred Schwirzke as the local organizer. These workshops have presented many "firsts" in laser plasma interactions and especially in laser fusion. Some presentations provided continuity with the past, most represented advancements; however, in some workshops, progress did not appear to be occurring as rapidly as in others. Therefore, it was a special pleasure that in the present workshop when, on October 30, 1985, Chiyoe Yamanaka disclosed a breakthrough in the generation of fusion neutrons with laser fusion targets. The 7th Workshop also continued to represent other new fields of laser-plasma interaction. The progress reported was most pronounced in the fields of X-ray lasers, laser acceleration of particles by electrostatic double layers in plasmas, and a particle beam technique to solve the geometric problem of muon-catalyzed fusion. The development of laser-plasma interactions at medium to high laser intensities may be seen in its whole complexity from a brief review of prior conferences. At the first Workshop in 1969, a comprehensive review of the field was presented by the speakers with the opening address by N.
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