Reluctantly doing commercial work to finance her training at a famous drama academy, Isobel is horrified when a product only distributed in Japan arrives in America, causing her image to appear on television and in ads throughout the country.
Discovering that her ex-husband was involved with gangsters and terrorists, Gwynn Taylor is not very surprised when she learns that she has become a target. In order to survive, she becomes part of an elaborate plan and goes into hiding back in her hometown. Escaping from one set of criminals, she ends up encountering another group of crooks and felons. Within days, she comes to realize just how dependent she is on the new chief of police, her sisters best friend, and her own judgment. Not only is the chief of police her protector, it soon becomes obvious that he just might be using her as bait in order to catch the criminals within his jurisdiction.
In 1868, Renee Devereux is shipped to California so that she can change her destiny. Hiding the facts of her birth, her benefactor arranges to place her with a distance relative who owns a vast Spanish rancho. She becomes embroiled in Spanish traditions, arranged marriages, killings and subterfuge. Soon hate, murder, old traditions and Spanish pride take their toll on her gentle, sweet soul before she discovers just how much she needs the one person, who not only understands her but loves her unconditionally.
San Francisco, 1969. Vampire Conrad Quintano has been around for centuries—long enough to know that falling for a human is a terrible idea. Much less falling for adventure-seeking hippie Desert Rose. An even more terrible idea? Agreeing to raise her babies and protect them with his life. Present day. Marc and Julie Fischer have always known they’re vampires. Raised in virtual isolation, they’ve never known their parentage or their unique status in the world. But once their uncle comes to take them home, the family reunion is nothing like they anticipated and they’re thrust into a world they’re completely unprepared for. Each story in the Children of Night series is a standalone story and can be enjoyed in any order. Series Order: Book #1: In the Dark Book #2: Old Sins, Long Shadows Book #3: Now Comes the Night Book #4: Ashes of the Day Book #5: Fallen Embers Book #6: To Curse the Darkness
The year was 2061. The country was going to hell in a handbasket because of a totalitarian government, and it appeared as if there is no one on the horizon able to turn it all around. Little did Harper Claybourne know that she was destined to play an important role in the deliverance of a new nation! As she muddles her way through hidden family secrets, clandestine personal subterfuges, and close involvement with the underground, she realizes that forgiveness releases the soul as much as love heals it.
We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? Indiscretions of Archie is a comic novel adapted from a set of short stories serialized in the Strand magazine between March 1920 and February 1921 in the United Kingdom and between May 1920 and February 1921 in Cosmopolitan in the United States. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom on February 14, 1921 by Herbert Jenkins and in the United States on July 15, 1921 by George H. Doran. The eponymous Archie is Archibald Moffam, a gaffe-prone but affable Englishman who has found himself living in New York City after the end of the First World War, in which he had served with distinction. After a whirlwind romance Archie marries Lucille, the daughter of wealthy hotel owner and art collector Daniel Brewster. Many of the ensuing events revolve around Archie’s attempts to win favor with his new father-in-law.
The field of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and hybrids is a vibrant research area. This book runs through all the potential unsteady modelling fidelity ranges, from low-order to LES. The latter is probably the highest fidelity for practical aerospace systems modelling. Cutting edge new frontiers are defined. One example of a pressing environmental concern is noise. For the accurate prediction of this, unsteady modelling is needed. Hence computational aeroacoustics is explored. It is also emerging that there is a critical need for coupled simulations. Hence, this area is also considered and the tensions of utilizing such simulations with the already expensive LES. This work has relevance to the general field of CFD and LES and to a wide variety of non-aerospace aerodynamic systems (e.g. cars, submarines, ships, electronics, buildings). Topics treated include unsteady flow techniques; LES and hybrids; general numerical methods; computational aeroacoustics; computational aeroelasticity; coupled simulations and turbulence and its modelling (LES, RANS, transition, VLES, URANS). The volume concludes by pointing forward to future horizons and in particular the industrial use of LES. The writing style is accessible and useful to both academics and industrial practitioners. From the reviews: "Tucker's volume provides a very welcome, concise discussion of current capabilities for simulating and modellng unsteady aerodynamic flows. It covers the various pos sible numerical techniques in good, clear detail and presents a very wide range of practical applications; beautifully illustrated in many cases. This book thus provides a valuable text for practicing engineers, a rich source of background information for students and those new to this area of Research & Development, and an excellent state-of-the-art review for others. A great achievement." Mark Savill FHEA, FRAeS, C.Eng, Professor of Computational Aerodynamics Design & Head of Power & Propulsion Sciences, Department of Power & Propulsion, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, U.K. "This is a very useful book with a wide coverage of many aspects in unsteady aerodynamics method development and applications for internal and external flows." L. He, Rolls-Royce/RAEng Chair of Computational Aerothermal Engineering, Oxford University, U.K. "This comprehensive book ranges from classical concepts in both numerical methods and turbulence modelling approaches for the beginner to latest state-of-the-art for the advanced practitioner and constitutes an extremely valuable contribution to the specific Computational Fluid Dynamics literature in Aeronautics. Student and expert alike will benefit greatly by reading it from cover to cover." Sébastien Deck, Onera, Meudon, France
Young love, old grudges, and a madcap insurance scheme collide in this charming British comedy by the author of the Jeeves & Wooster novels. John Carroll doesn’t have a shot at marrying the lovely lady Pat Wyvern, not while his Uncle Lester, the Squire of Rudge Hall, is feuding with Pat’s father. Meanwhile, John’s cousin Hugo might have a chance to open a nightclub, if only the miserly Lester would lend him the money. But truth be told, Lester can barely afford his stay at Healthward Ho, the health spa where he’s put himself at the mercy of the aptly named Dr. Twist. Thankfully, a plan emerges to help Lester get a little money for nothing, just enough to solve everyone’s problems. But when the not-so-legal scheme gets more twisted than a Healthward Ho exercise regimen, it may just open up a path down the aisle for John and Pat . . .
Benjamin is retired. Borell is drunk. Jackson Burns, a genius scientist and an old friend of Benjamin’s, is brutally robbed of an important and powerful device. The good news is only Jackson knows the secret to the device’s operation. The bad news is he’s now being hunted for this knowledge. Benjamin leaves retirement behind and returns to the secretive Society to protect his friend and recover the stolen device. Meanwhile, Borell, a talented thief and competent killer, is hired by a mysterious woman to find the same device. With his criminal past and immoral attitude, can he recover the device first, or have Benjamin and Borell been set on a collision course?
Ben Claybourne grew up dreaming of one day breeding and racing his own thoroughbreds. On his twenty-first birthday, he struck out to prove his own merit. During the first race of the 1886 season, he met his soul mate, he was betrayed by a friend, and he discovered his colt had been compromised. Discovering the possibility that he had been duped and used by a con man, Ben took it upon himself to surreptitiously investigate. By the end of the racing season, two deaths, five races lost, and a tragic engagement shattered his world.
The Battle for Galveston 1862 The island city of Galveston, a vital port where blockade runners bring key supplies into the Confederacy from abroad, is suddenly occupied by the Union, blockaded by navy vessels, cut off from the Texas mainland by the enemy. Jamie Russell, an artillery officer in the Valverde Battery and veteran of battles in New Mexico, has a personal stake in the safety of the city--his sister Emma and their Aunt May are trapped there. But Jamie also has the ear of General Magruder in Houston. If the Confederate army can retake the harbor, it will be a powerful victory for the South, and will enable Jamie's family to flee to safer quarters. If, on the other hand, the New Year dawns with the Yankees still holding Galveston and reinforcements on the way, it may be too late for Jamie's kin and for the hopes of the Confederacy's blockade runners. Jamie and his allies have but one chance, a daring attack on the Union ships. If it works, they are heroes. If they fail, all Texas may be open to invasion by the Yankees.
While attending a summer academy, Dorie decides to conduct her own social experiment and gives "cool" lessons to her overbearing lab leader, a geek named Igor, in order to set him up with her beautiful roommate, an actress named Tiffany.
The prominent and wealthy socialite, Gerri Fitzgerald, has reached the very pinnacle in the social world of New York City in 1909. Using each of her husbands as steppingstones, she secured what she had always considered her destiny—power and wealth. As she prepares for her fourth marriage, her eldest daughter gets another chance to rekindle an old relationship, her youngest son returns from the dead, her youngest daughter comes to the realization that she controls her own future, and her eldest son finally ascertains his own mettle. Being a very obsessive and psychotic individual, Gerri believes that the wealthy are impervious to the law, but because of her Pride, Power and Passion she does not believe that her own children could ever defy her.
Photographer Madison Morgan is commissioned to cover the 1965 Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery. Besides surprising her guardian by showing up at his home, delving into her past, and trying to solve the reoccurring nightmares, she becomes embroiled in deep Southern traditions, dark hidden family secrets, and clandestine subterfuge. Soon love turns hate, life dissolves into murder and traditions fall before pride. Through it all, she discovers how deep the connection goes that she has to one particular individual, who not only understands her but is also overly protective of her.
Magic, mystery and murder in a mystical small town setting. This volume contains books four through six: A Taste of Honey Touch of a Vanished Hand The Spirit of the Place Second Chances, Enemies to Lovers, Opposites Attract, First Love, Holiday Magic, Suspense, Angels.
A middle-grade fantasy and nonstop adventure, The Train to Impossible Places by debut author P. G. Bell is as fun as it is full of heart, and the first book of a trilogy. A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who’s about to go on the adventure of a lifetime. The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It’s a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to Trollville, to space. But when this impossible train comes roaring through Suzy’s living room, her world turns upside down. After sneaking on board, Suzy suddenly finds herself Deputy Post Master aboard the train, and faced with her first delivery—to the evil Lady Crepuscula. Then, the package itself begs Suzy not to deliver him. A talking snow globe, Frederick has information Crepuscula could use to take over the entire Union of Impossible Places. But when protecting Frederick means putting her friends in danger, Suzy has to make a difficult choice—with the fate of the entire Union at stake.
The renowned British humorist takes on his own early career in this fictionalized account of how he got his start in the publishing world. Wodehouse's alter ego "James Orlebar Cloyster" stumbles and fumbles his way through ignominious assignments and false starts, but ultimately achieves success on his own terms.
Rev. Thaddeus Lamb is in a world of trouble. A true believer and a man of God, he is having a terrible time protecting his small town, family, and church from the ravages of social change in the sinful ’70s. But like the mighty Don Quixote de la Mancha, he dares to dream the impossible dream: that a man of sufficient faith and fortitude can reverse the march of time. This, he believes, is his mission from God. Alas, it is a daunting quest. Satanic Steve, the station manager, torments him about his low TV ratings. His church is facing bankruptcy. His daughter is turning into a liberal feminist before his fundamentalist eyes, and then he is sorely tempted by a man on a crusade of his own. Roger Wright is a brilliant political strategist who intends nothing less than to reverse the direction of politics in America. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this meditation on the turbulent decade of Nixon and Carter examines forces that divide our nation today and provides a fictionalized account of the right-wing campaign to recruit evangelical ministers into politics.
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